Trump will be asking to duel with pistols next, except only he gets bullets.

Quantum states are incredibly fragile and can be disturbed with even the slightest interaction with the environment (called decoherence). These devices are cooled and isolated to the most extreme degrees possible and still at present decoherence severely limits the computations that can be performed.

In other news: we have lawyers to protect our copyrights, you don't. Suck it.

How is it a breach if data was shared intentionally? This is a violation of confidentiality.

Every year California is becoming more like Night City. Cyperpunk is supposed to be a dystopia, not an aspiration.

How could this man bring the republic so close to ruin? Our democracy must be in a perilous state indeed.

If Summers was really serious about "protecting" trans children, he should have said he was going to place the child into state custody. If there was an actual threat against the child, that's what he should do, but there is not and Summers knows it.

If there are commercials, why should someone need an Amazon Prime membership at all? It becomes just like broadcast TV then, and they should just allow anyone to watch to maximize revenue. They have all this AWS infrastructure to deliver video, why not maximize the use of it?

This is like a day's worth of artillery shells for them. Every bit helps.

This is the behavior the maximizes short-term shareholder value, not building a long-term profitable, innovative enterprise. When some other company temporarily discovers a money spigot like Google did, there might be a brief resurgence of such an environment, but generally no one values or wants to protect innovation, as dollars are easily quantifiable and future potential is subjective. This is why 99% of the time people keep their head down and collect their paychecks.

He's ok with it as long as the machines are all running Windows, and he gets his fair share.

Yeah, this is the chaebol system at work. The Faustian deal between these megacorps and the citizens of South Korea means that it is impossible for Samsung to fail or to be accountable for their bad business decisions. South Korea is the most developed cyberpunk technofeudalistic society.