mFixman

The US, which already centralises the internet by running .com and developed most of the software using these certificates?

It's not like they cannot introduce a bad certificate right now. We would be just be taking the ability from all other countries from doing the same.

Question for people who know about this: why do we have hundreds of root certificate authorities, when a vulnerability on a single one can break encryption?

Wouldn't it make more sense to have 5 or so that can be more closely monitored, so something like the eMudhra certificates would probably be found before the certificates are deployed?

I assumed all new breakthroughs in advanced complexity theory would be theoretical and non-constructive, as in "we prove that this algorithm must exist but we do not provide it".

I'm genuinely shook at today's results, specially at the fact that there _is_ a constructive algorithm.

> We give a deterministic algorithm that multiplies two n-bit integers in O(n (log n)^(1−κ)) worst- case time, with κ = 2^(−182).

LMAO, I don't think I ever saw such a small number in a CS result.

The US government and most large companies drank the kool aid, and they will be the ones blaming Big AI if things go very wrong.

Any strong enough model with weak enough safeguards can cause an AI Chernobyl event that will make people and governments against AI development and deployment, just like Chernobyl did for nuclear energy.

You could say the same of PE, maths, literature, or almost anything learned in school. Few adults need them in their lives, but they provide good habits and virtue to students. People who don't read and write anything outside social media are a loss to themselves and to society.

Disabilities don't disappear after school, and children who struggle with motor control in school will continue struggling with it on adulthood. Half the point of school is finding out your weaknesses and learning to overcome them in a safe and controlled environment.

And now instead of teaching disabled students how to improve their handwriting to improve their lives regardless of their circumstances, we lowered the bar and made all students have bad handwriting.

Removing AI watermarks is still easier than doing a school assignment.

The only way to prevent AI cheating is to make the assignments in class in pen and paper. To be honest, I don't understand why schools moved away from that in the first place.

Lumon is currently hiring new candidates willing to undergo severance :-)

I wouldn't be surprised if the EU and ISPs are funding fibre to remote locations _because_ of Starlink competition.

Taxis and minicabs all over the world were unreliable, expensive, and unsafe before Uber came along with some healthy competition. The same dynamic is happening here between Starlink and rural fibre.

The killer feature of Organic Maps and OSM is the POI markers for small things. If you are cycling, knowing where the nearest bike rack is to your location is crucial.

Google Maps is very good at showing car parking spaces, which is the requirement if you live in a suburb in California like its developers.

What's the status of banking apps, Google / Microsoft authenticator, and Google Wallet? Those were the things preventing me from abandoning stock Android.

Nobody in the chain of command thought this was a real emergency situation.

The point of turning Bluetooth off or having to turn around the aircraft was to follow the airline's rules on terrorism, which likely tell them to abort a flight route if there's any symbol that could be interpreted as a bomb.

The captains were risking their jobs if they didn't follow this stupid request. This is a good case for getting common-sense exceptions to checklist-style rules.