They clearly stated that they would increase the cost for AI embedded in Office 365. They also mentioned there was an option to keep the same price in the enrollment page if accomplished before the end of the current session. Now trying to find the no AI option was not as straight forward as I would expect. But it did work.

1. Should Microsoft be sued for people not reading their renewal message? Not sure.
2. Should Microsoft make it easier to switch plans? YES!

Store and decrypt later has been happening for a decade or more. That is the suspected use of the NSA large data center in Utah.

Even if quantum computers can factor numbers in 20-30 years, what use is the ancient data? The passwords for the VPN would be long expired, the passwords for accounts that may not exist. Symmetric encryption is not susceptible to quantum computer threat, so what is there to be gained?

Actually, the Last-Pass databases can be decrypted, due to the tyranny of the default, and the low loop counts were never updated for the oldest users. The databases that are owned by known crypto holders were the first ones to be cracked.

Quantum computers can't factor 15 without cheating (use classical computer to pre-calculate the problem, using the answer, into a physics problem that the quantum computer solves, less than 100% of the time). There is no possible way any RSA key (even the 1024 bit ones) are at all vulnerable to this mythical quantum computer that isn't even close to existing. The entire post-quantum encryption movement is a massive waste of time and money. Billions in the US alone.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.auckland.ac.nz%2F...

Or at least quantum computers haven't factored 15 (or any other number) without cheating (using a classic computer to pre-calculate the answer using the answer, then the quantum computer "solves" it), making the threat non-existent. Peter Gutmann wrote about this: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.auckland.ac.nz%2F... showing all the hype about quantum factoring of integers is all smoke and mirrors. Well, at least we have jobs implementing post-quantum cryptography for the next 20 years, and profit from the results.

Walmart's 3rd party sellers are shady at best. High shipping prices, elevated product prices, slower than should be expected.

These should be avoided, and find the product elsewhere for less, faster shipping and lower shipping costs.

Using the answer to generate a compiled Shor's Algorithm for 15 and 21 with a classical computer, failing for 35.
Picking numbers with lots of 0s in binary to get large values that are easy to factor.
Picking 2 numbers that are within 2-3 bits difference, using a square root and iterating to get the factors.

None of these are valid cases for quantum factorization. The entire fact that no quantum factorization has ever been successful, yet the news is full of these trick success stories.

There needs to be a closer look into these "success" stories, showing how the numbers used are valid, the methods used are not smoke and mirrors!

This needs to become a new headline: "Quantum Computers can't break into anything" or "Quantum Computing is still a toy" or "All our crypto is safe from quantum computing". Then we need to revisit the need to add expense to our existing systems with larger key sizes and post-quantum cryptography.

Companies are NOT going to pay more to retrofit their office space with expensive updates to lighting to bring people in.
If they want employees back in the office, they will mandate it, and the lighting will be exactly the same as before.

Source: In the office 2 days a week in a "closed" floor they are currently reopening. Same old lights, no heat, same cubes, still cluttered from the closing, slowly being cleaned up.

Unions should be avoided from my view. The few unions we have to deal with in a right to work state show that they just collect part of your income, and drive up costs of things that need to be done.

Installing a shelf on a wall in a closet was quoted at $8,000 by the union we are required to use for "construction". That does not include the shelf costs. They said they needed 4 people to do the job. We bought a free standing shelf for a heck of a lot less than that.

You also have to look at what a union states they can do vs. what they can actually do. They say they can get you increased wages (only if the employer agrees) which of course a percentage of that goes to the union. They say they can collectively define job roles and responsibilities (only if the employer agrees).

People should look at what the union can actually do before giving them a percentage of their paycheck (try getting out of that later...almost impossible) and working where there is a union causes tension and pressure for those that don't belong.

The proposals are to make Daylight Savings Time permanent. This means all of you (I am in AZ where we ignore DST, but have our lives jumbled because all of you can't stay on a single time zone) would leap forward some spring and stay there until the next law is passed changing it again.

Even though the "majority" wants DST abolished, the answer seems to be going toward permanent DST.

Quantum is still a toy that can't even factor 143 into 2 primes 11 and 13 in under a week. There is no fear to having 2010 symmetric crypto (RSA 1024) broken, let alone current (RSA 2048) or future (RSA 3096+) any time soon.

This seems like an effort to drive interest in the tech field, not solve any sort of actual potential problem.

If I need my PC and the cable network is down, then the Lightning/USBC to network connection can be useful to get to the Personal Hotspot. Though the wireless interface has been good enough, though the USBC connection on the Pro may provide better connectivity.

I doubt there is a need for the faster connection at that that time. The wireless is good enough.

The issue is that if you have the personal hotspot enabled, every time you sync the phone with the PC (After re-entering the iTunes password twice just to open iTunes, entering the iPhone passcode twice, the first to allow file access, the second to allow sync -- thanks for the inconvenience Apple) then the computer disconnects from the cable network and connects via the Lightning/USBC connection. Everything network slows to a crawl. Ugh! Let us disable this network connection permanently!

Yeah, I know Apple is making syncing more inconvenient to get us to use more iCloud space and pay for it.

The need to provide access to all encrypted communication and the messaging services like Signal, Apple Messages, ProtonMail, and WhatsApp refuse to alter their service to allow this kind of access, means that if the Online Safety Bill is enforced they will disable their services in the UK.

Whenever the government decides that it is "technically feasible" to "safely" monitor end to end encrypted communications, all these apps will need to decide if they will stick to the privacy road and leave the UK, or open up their services.

Making higher interest rate loans for minorities, creating fake accounts for their existing customers to inflate numbers, enabling transactions for the Nigerian Prince scams for years, fake interviews for minorities they never intend to hire, fines against the Wells Fargo in the billions....

Who ignores all this publicly available news and uses this bank?

Run away, far away from Wells Fargo....