Wednesday, December 11
Daily News Stuff 11 December 2024
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- Microsoft has officially confirmed that you can install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware just days after saying that this will never be an option. (Tom's Hardware)
However, while it officially works, it's not officially supported, though less officially not supported than Windows 10 will be in a year's time (two years if you pay for the extended support).
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- Hackers stole AWS keys from misconfigured websites and stored them all in an open S3 bucket. (The Register)
It's an Ouroboros of incompetence.
- Google says it may have found parallel universes and stolen their computers. (Google)
Willow’s performance on this benchmark is astonishing: It performed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 1025 or 10 septillion years. If you want to write it out, it’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. This mind-boggling number exceeds known timescales in physics and vastly exceeds the age of the universe. It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch.
Which is just fine until the other universes send the bill.
- The Rivian Joshua Tree EV charging station is how Rivian Joshua Tree EV charging stations should be. (The Verge)
Bleeding cash and $6 billion in dept to the federal government?
Disclaimer: Yes.
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If it would take a regular supercomputer 25 septillion years to compute an answer, how do we know that the quantum computer got it right after only five minutes, and isn't pulling some openAI style make-things-up?
Posted by: Karl Drexler at Thursday, December 12 2024 01:40 AM (PKL0q)
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Quantum computers are, engineering wise, also RF engineering. Not every EE you talk to is one of those. In principle, I can imagine trusting an RF engineer, a physicist, a mathematician, and computer scientist to collaborate on validating such a system in a persuasive way. In practice, Google is a bit too much of a delusional criminal conspiracy. Right now, I distrust a lot of the fundamental tools for validating systems of quantum circuits. This is a new enough area that we should not just trust that previous generations of RF engineers have explored quantum circuit designs enough to have exposed most of the failure modes. Partly because it is physicists exploring the design space. "Cool promising technology Bro", but I certainly would not stake my reputation on this or that aspect being 100% correct. (See also quantum radar at microwave frequencies. The leading authorities there recently released a paper indicating that the predicted larger sidelobes are probably just an artifact of the way that they did their original theory. No criticism of them, or the rest of the people working on that, risks needed to be taken to get started working on the idea.)
Posted by: PatBuckman at Thursday, December 12 2024 02:10 AM (rcPLc)
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Russian military priorities: We need hypersonic missiles to strike targets behind heavy air defenses.
Western military priorities: We need to break RSA encryption so we can spy on everyone's private business and really make them feel that Eye of Sauron in their hearts.
Western military priorities: We need to break RSA encryption so we can spy on everyone's private business and really make them feel that Eye of Sauron in their hearts.
Posted by: madrocketsci at Thursday, December 12 2024 10:43 AM (hRoyQ)
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Karl - it's an asymmetric mathematical problem. Very hard to solve, very easy to check that the answer is correct.
Well, "very easy" meaning it takes a few hours at most on a normal computer, not that you can do it in your head.
Well, "very easy" meaning it takes a few hours at most on a normal computer, not that you can do it in your head.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, December 12 2024 06:06 PM (PiXy!)
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