It's not even a legal stretch to do so. If I encourage a 6 year old to drive a car and there is an accident, I'm legally on the hook for the lot of it with criminal charges on top. Why shouldn't the AI companies face the same liabilities?

Moving from 1024 to 2048 when 768 is broken is one thing. But so far, quantum computers have only managed 6 bits and had to cheat a bit to do it. It took longer than a child with pencil and paper would take. The new improved quantum computers that were going to do better than that some 6 years ago just kinda didn't happen. We'll get 'em next year?

The fact that this RSA weakness is not based on quantum computation is irrelevant

It's extremely relevant. An actual computer that we can build today can exploit the new RSA weakness. We have no computers today that can run Shor or Grover and the timeline for one that can on a useful scale is somewhere between years and never.

Also how we got to post-quantum when quantum computers have yet to factor anything faster than a 6th grader with pencil and paper.

You are both done laughing and not done laughing.

It's unfortunate. The Orange Pi 5 Plus on paper is nice. When I bought all the bits for about US$300, that got me 8 fairly fast RK3588 ARM cores, 16GB RAM, dual 2.5GB ethernet, decent video, decent npu (for then), native nvme, 256GB emmc storage, 1TB nvme ssd and a small case with active cooling. It would be a LOT more expensive to roll that together today, but it's working ok as a headless home media server. I suspect it would also be fine for a desktop device for many people (no gaming, but it plays 4k video just fine and is perfectly acceptable for consuming web content).

http://www.orangepi.org/html/h...

A great opportunity missed by those folks.

It'll be interesting to see if it gets more enthusiastic support from Qualcomm than we saw from the various Chinese arm variants that took YEARS to get anything more than the basics working without a lot of mystery kernel blobs on an older kernel. It'll also need to arrive at a sane price point.

I've had an Orange Pi 5 plus for almost 3 years and it only JUST now works without a lot of hand holding on current Debian/Ubuntu and I think the npu is still not quite there yet.

Like spending that same money to build vocational schools for the skilled trades that are in short supply. I know...not as cool and exciting, but I think we need 10,000 more welders a lot more than we need 10,000 more tech bros.

If they would reprocess it, much of that 3.6 million pounds would become either valuable nuclear fuel or totally inert scrap.

The rest would only last 200-500 years before becoming totally inert.

Who wizzed in your wheaties?

And I stand by what I said. Practically no phone that still works at all does it at the low level of a capacitor anymore.

Exactly. For example, spreadsheets were often used day to day but the accountants kept the actual books as books and had the final word. That changed over time, only after spreadsheets proved out (and got the bugs out).

Also, humans stayed in the loop. Sure there were occasional funnies like a medical database claiming a few male patients had a history of pregnancy, but humans were in the loop and cited those as obvious errors. There were still backup paper records to fall back on.

But a lot of people when they hear someone say "it's nowhere near ready for prime time" will claim the person is saying "It'll never work".

Back in the day when the "Board of Education" was an actual wooden board.

If they really wanted to serve the user, it would understand "Hey Google, lockdown now" and would power off and require a PIN to restart.

Long press doesn't do anything so low level anymore, it just signals the management processor in the radio that it should force the application processor off. The management processor keeps running.