Iran International has confirmed Khamenei's death

Reza Pahlavi has issued a tweet declaring the end of the islamic regime. Iran will gain a new transitional authority in the next few days

Iran's internet had been cut off in mid January, before the massacres on January 8-9th. Since then, it had never been even majorly restored, due to the cascading dependencies w/ which Iran's internet was laid out. Therefore, this story about 90 million Iranians - essentially the entire population - losing their internet access is false. They haven't even had it since January

Hopefully, under the new regime, Iran establishes a completely meshed network w/ no single gateway to the external world, so that in future, no Iranian strongman can shut down their people's sources of information

Yeah, I'm sure it's a great substitute for not just the Pentagon but also the entire US government. Maybe Anthropic can go public once you buy their packages

If you're suggesting that Anthropic move to Europe, then it would seem that they'd be more at home in countries like Britain, Germany, Netherlands.... than in Russia. As for China, had Anthropic been a Chinese company, they'd have been ordered to facilitate the launching and use of autonomous weapons against Beijing's enemies. Oh, AND facilitate mass surveillance!

Isn't that just what they did? The government has 6 months to phase out their use, at which point, I suppose both sides would be happy

The DoD is supposed to follow orders of their chain of command. If the ToS comes in the way, then they would be violating the constitution by disobeying the chain of command by adhering to the ToS. That's what this means

True. But that said, the Federal Government, like any other customer, can choose to not do business w/ Anthropic, or any other company that doesn't agree to its T&C

Another thing. Let's say that the Feds agreed w/ Anthropic, but once it was in, they break the terms on the question of having human overseers of target selection. What's Anthropic then going to do - sue the Feds? That process will be more of a punishment for them than for the Federal government

Besides, the maps would be useful for people looking for directions. Google Maps doesn't have to show the details of strategic military installations. It's bizarre that South Koreans don't have what Indians have in terms of detailed street maps

Also another pretext to increase the number of working hours per day, even as more jobs are at risk thanks to AI and other automation

Whooosh!!!

I foresee that embedded memory will become more common as this shortage continues, since vendors who make embedded CPUs and microcontrollers will need to sell them, and can't afford to let memory shortages sabotage their sales. That trend could spread to budget CPUs and GPUs as well

However, having watched the memory industry since the 90s, I don't see this shortage lasting. Inevitably, supply catches up w/ demand, resulting in a drop in demand and then a contraction of suppliers. Also, once the AI bubble bursts, everybody selling insanely into AI datacenters will scramble to clear inventory before they plan more realistic production pipelines

Yeah, why bother knowing at all how things that we humans invented work?

Not just that: how about operating systems that do not require account creation - such as FreeDOS? And why should government dictate account creation in the first place?

The parental controls that exist in most operating systems are adequate, and place the power and responsibility where it belongs - in the hands of parents/guardians. It's not the job of OS admins to police any of that

Is there any reason that macOS would be less secure than iOS or iPadOS?

I was thinking more about non-volatile silicon memory, rather than optical storage. Today, we have high capacities using 2-4 bits/cell, but even using 1 bit/cell and a one-time programmable PROM, we should be able to get a 128GB storage, which could store an entire encyclopedia - texts, images and videos