What do you mean? I’m sure the minister of artificial intelligence will do a fine job, working closely with the minister of cryptocurrency and the minister of cloud experiences to engage transformative leverage in a way that will enhance governance innovation.

The real story, such as it is, appears to be that someone made an MS Word macro which can load and execute malicious code from other files such as a jpeg, supposedly to make automated detection of it less likely.

Well, going with Github wasn’t quite as stupid a decision when they made it, which iirc was so long ago that it hadn’t yet been acquired by Microsoft. As with other typical corporate problems, once they got started down that road and had some sunk costs they couldn’t find the strength to turn back even long after it became apparent that it was a mistake.

In some places it was already corrupt in the 1990s, and just steadily got worse since then.

In Ottawa it’s in August but wanting to be different than the USA in every possible way isn’t a great reason for wanting to go through the hassle of trying to change it.

Sometimes it seems to me that just maybe it could be possible that the same two or three companies controlling the entire supply of a crucial component for decades at a time is not really enough to enable the magic hand of capitalism to provide a healthy competitive market.

They don’t sell computers

You seem to have written a whole lot of words about it for someone who doesn’t know that Microsoft has been telling people to buy new computers.

Speaking of Talos, I have been continuing my quest to discover every Skyrim mod that adds big new locations to explore by playing The Gray Cowl of Nocturnal (10th anniversary edition which was released earlier this year.) I feel that over the years I have got to the point where I know a thing or two about Elder Scrolls lore and yet I have no idea what’s up with the ancestral cheetahs, where they come from or whose ancestors they are.

The outlets of the French river on Georgian Bay are full of wonderful places to visit if you ever get the chance. Try splashing around in the water there and imagine a giant port with ocean-going freighters.

The linked article provides no support for the insane idea of “revisiting” this interesting but now-obsolete plan. It mentions that the St. Lawrence Seaway was built instead.

if patents are meant to protect new inventions, how come Nintendo is asserting patents for which it applied months after Palworld launched?

The answer, it turns out, is ridiculous legal bullshit that makes no sense. Just like most of patent law.

https://thecoaltrader.com/canadian-coal-exports-on-the-rise-in-2024/

Taler does use crypto, aka cryptography, to make sending payments securely anonymous. That is the main point of it.

Target audience: People who want to pay for stuff anonymously through the Internet. It’s a large and underserved market.

It’s a big part of why people got so excited about bitcoin, and why it was so disappointing when it spectacularly failed to be any good at that application.

Well, I got around to reading it although I didn’t look too closely at the actual mathematics of quantum annealing. The sensationalist tone of the headline dominates much of the text as well, unfortunately. But they did factor a 2048 bit number, taken as representative of a class of such numbers which have two factors that differ from each other in only two of their bits. So a space of roughly 2^1000 numbers I guess.

California State University previously factored a 1061 bit number. It’s reference 27, which says “https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/44” where it should be “https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/444.pdf”.

This marks the first successful factorization of RSA-2048 by D-Wave quantum computer, regardless of employing mathematical or quantum techniques, despite dealing with special integers, exceeding 2^1061−1 of California State University.

That’s a lot of California State University. If I’m guessing correctly as to what they’re trying to say it’s an impressive result, but it is not a successful attack on RSA-2048 and it’s made somewhat less plausible by the misleading title.

People still care about Starfield in 2025? I thought everyone went back to Skyrim a year ago.

If you’re suspecting the youtube comments of being manipulated in ways that are contrary to the interests of Canada, you’re not nearly paranoid enough. You should be suspecting the youtube video recommendations algorithm.

More importantly, run an operating system you can trust.

Imagine spending four years plotting and scheming about how you’ll do everything better next time, and this is what you come up with.

It’s perfectly simple really. They’ll add a small AI module designed to detect Chinese language being spoken, levels of air pollution, and the scent of Chinese food, which will detonate an appropriately-sized self-destruct charge when a certain threshold is reached.

Nvidia products are just the start. Cars, sneakers, Coca-Cola — eventually every consumer product made in the USA will come with one. They’re just working out how to stop them accidentally detonating in certain parts of San Francisco and New York.