Given it was revealed that CIA specifically targeted 200million deals and above, it was political naivety amounting ti gross negligence on behalf of Airbus executives that it took them 10 years. Same for many other large organisations and countries, unbelieveable.
Why did it have to be Trump to make them take action?
If apple really wants to (and put their money where their mouth is when it comes to those stupid "Pro Privacy" ads they run), they can start by filing a CFAA lawsuit against said agencies.
The same Apple whose CEO actively kisses the ass of the president buying tickets to be close to him and making him fancy gifts? The same Apple that voluntarily gave the CCP control of all the HSMs controlling the supply chains of all apple hardware in China?
Any claims of privacy or consumer advocacy at Apple are completely just marketing to gullible consumers.
If Apple actually cared about accountability, which is a prerequisite for privacy, they would open source everything so security researchers could reproduce all binaries and easily inspect their sources.
Many open source are not core business but supporting layers of overall organisations getting free PRs. Others are pet projects that tried to do too many things and overextended themselves for little additional value failing any sort of sustainability logic. Others had a larger range of features required than the original dev was aware of.
The trick is to put sunscreen on the most exposed areas of the body face and upper surfaces, the rest through one layer of clothing e.g. tshirt for enough for vitamin D. It only needs 30mins to one hour exposure arms and legs per week
The hype is that there is a meaningful AGI discussion that affects today’s decision making. Valuations mirror the sentiment that current llm AI will decrease costs by limiting white collar jobs and perhaps bring in a few new revenue streams taking advantage stale unstructured information.
Other academic and self aggrandising discussions on the advent of AGI do exist, but even cold fusion might arrive earlier.
Memory prices have always been a racket. In the good old days news of a memory factory burning periodically raised the memory prices. Nowadays price fixing cartels don’t need something so elaborate.