The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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Lob would be rich if this happened in the US.
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I use bitorrent semi-regularly but only for open source software downloads - why overload the software provider’s server when you can get it P2P and usually much faster? I’d be fucking furious if they fucked around with me just because I’m using a p2p protocol that is also used by people sharing pirated content.
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Exclusive: Gemini's data-analyzing abilities aren't as good as Google claims
New research shows that Google might be overstating its generative AI's ability to reason over long documents.
Tested on one book around 260,000 words (~520 pages) in length, the researchers found that 1.5 Pro answered the true/false statements correctly 46.7% of the time while Flash answered correctly only 20% of the time. That means a coin is significantly better at answering questions about the book than Google’s latest machine learning model.
Ouch
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Posting for the headline:
China to ramp up brain chip program after teaching monkey to control robot
I vaguely remember the above website from my crypto days; got no idea why Google News includes it in its feed.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Posting for the headline:
China to ramp up brain chip program after teaching monkey to control robot
I vaguely remember the above website from my crypto days; got no idea why Google News includes it in its feed.
Central tech to a lot of cyberpunk devices, including bionics, thought driven vehicles especially fighter craft, full sensory experience override virtual worlds and criminalized versions of same for hacking AIs for data gold.
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The mind chipped monkeys controlling robots sounded like a unique combination to me.
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@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
thought driven vehicles especially fighter craft
about 40 years ago i kicked around the idea that, since birds have superior vision, balance, and spatial awareness, perhaps one day computer-linked bird brains could offer superior control of robot drone aircraft. this headline about chinese-monkey-brain-controlled robots makes me think my idea’s time has come, or at least is much nearer.
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There goes our FPS
Multiple nations enact mysterious export controls on quantum computers
Identical wording placing limits on the export of quantum computers has appeared in regulations across the globe. There doesn't seem to be any scientific reason for the controls, and all can be traced to secret international discussions
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
There goes our FPS
Multiple nations enact mysterious export controls on quantum computers
Identical wording placing limits on the export of quantum computers has appeared in regulations across the globe. There doesn't seem to be any scientific reason for the controls, and all can be traced to secret international discussions
i expect they all got too accustomed to carte blanche spying on their populace to allow secure quantum communication.
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or maybe machines with more than 34 qbits become self-aware?
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Tech stuff for Kyle. 1970s should be fairly modern for him.
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@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
i expect they all got too accustomed to carte blanche spying on their populace to allow secure quantum communication.
this and it really wouldn’t be awesome if Iran, China, Best Korea, etc had the ability to instantly brute force AES-256 encryption. Or the Houthis.
The spying, yeah that sucks but actual terror organizations having the ability to idk open the flood gates at all the dams on the eastern seaboard … decidedly worse.
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@madrebel said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
i expect they all got too accustomed to carte blanche spying on their populace to allow secure quantum communication.
this and it really wouldn’t be awesome if Iran, China, Best Korea, etc had the ability to instantly brute force AES-256 encryption. Or the Houthis.
i think you are looking at this backwards. my thought was that quantum communication is secure, unhackable, and cannot be spied upon without the principals overtly granting access.
such being the case, the powers that be don’t want their peoples free from surveillance.
The spying, yeah that sucks but actual terror organizations having the ability to idk open the flood gates at all the dams on the eastern seaboard … decidedly worse.
hmmm. hard for me to get worked up over ‘terror organizations’.
i could elaborate but you wouldn’t like it much.
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@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
my thought was that quantum communication is secure, unhackable, and cannot be spied upon without the principals overtly granting access.
yes, quantum comms are all sorts of Schrodinger’s cat … however a true Quantum computers ability to blast through existing X86_64 systems is the problem as it is in theory, trivial.
The world isn’t going to switch to Quantum computers instantly or perhaps ever. The likelihood you and I would ever own a quantum computer in our lifetime atm is extremely slim. Now this statement is one major breakthrough away from being a Gates like “nobody will need more than X memory” but as it stands, Quantum computing is extremely niche and requires multiple PHDs to even play pong.
A country with a significantly worse ideology to any/all Western nations having one though is, depending on who you believe, worse than a Nuclear exchange because, well, if existing key pair exchange encryption can be instantly broken it could involve a Nuclear exchange … remember Superman and The Office? What is stopping a bad actor from just taking everyone’s money? Forget about siphoning fractions of a penny, you could just move all the money and it would appear as a legitimate request. Shutting off power plants. Hacking into Teslas and sending cars off over passes. Hacking into autopilot systems, air traffic control, etc etc etc.
Anything that uses non quantum encryption may as well be unprotected.
@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
hmmm. hard for me to get worked up over ‘terror organizations’.
So you’re not aware of the issues occurring in the Red Sea atm and how that is impacting trade? You can’t imagine how having the ability to break into port control systems, boat control systems, radar systems, etc etc could make this worse?
How about this, imagine what the CIA could do if their false flags appear as legitimate traffic originating from Iranian systems using legitimate Iranian users accounts that were broken into via brute force. All access and traffic logs would appear as legit.
You’re grossly missing the mark if spying is what you’re worried about here. They’re already spying on you.
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@madrebel said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
i expect they all got too accustomed to carte blanche spying on their populace to allow secure quantum communication.
this and it really wouldn’t be awesome if Iran, China, Best Korea, etc had the ability to instantly brute force AES-256 encryption. Or the Houthis.
The spying, yeah that sucks but actual terror organizations having the ability to idk open the flood gates at all the dams on the eastern seaboard … decidedly worse.
I doubt terror orgs will have the ability to do that in the short term, but state actors likely will. And they can hang the threat of cyber attack over our head like they did nuclear missiles in the 20th century. Pretty sure the government, or what’s left of it, is analyzing the scenarios though now and moving toward a plan to recover in case such an attack happens.
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
I doubt terror orgs will have the ability to do that in the short term, but state actors likely will.
Who’s funding the Houthis? Again, when you can break into existing X86_64 systems via brute force, instantly, you can’t reliably be tracked or stopped.
Iran could do a thing and pin it on anyone. Iran could make it look like the Democrats or Republicans were literally attempting a coup triggering a civil conflict. Y’all lack imagination as to what could be done if/when existing encryption is no longer an impediment. Now throw in AI and Deep Fakes. What if one of our boomer subs received an authenticated message from the President, they picked up a phone and called to speak to ‘the President’ to verify and it all checked out?
The possibilities are endless.
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Amusing…
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Concerning
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Stroking
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@madrebel said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
… the ability to instantly brute force AES-256 encryption.
I’m confused by this. It can’t be this elaborate troll?
Korean ISP Hacks Customers Using Torrent Software
