The way i see it, there are really only two possible outcomes, either he did divulge secrets to a spy, and that’ll be a big problem for him, or he didn’t divulge any secrets but still shows he got played by a spy. Either way, he’ll probably step down as CEO, but the big issue is there’s no clear line of succession in the org, so it’s all a bit messy.

I am not a lawyer but statements from Nvidia from a week ago were clearly false. When this started to come to light, there were official press statements which we now know were known to be false: https://abcnews.com/US/nvidia-responds-report-ceo-allegedly-targeted-chinese-spy/story?id=137704250

In a statement to ABC News, a Nvidia spokesperson said Jensen Huang “talks with thousands of customer executives every year.”

“Jensen’s interactions with Ms. Huang are not unusual or unexpected,” the statement read. “Meetings with customers are part of a CEO’s job.”

At the very least, anyone who bought shares of Nvidia stock after this statement was made and now was deceived by the company’s statements, and is probably going to be part of a class action case.

The problem is that booking a private cab for your hotdog without exploiting workers and paying a fair wage to the drivers ends up being very expensive. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for drivers getting a living wage, but IMO the Doordash / UberEats business model only works if you exploit the drivers, and the best thing we can do is to not use those services (or use services that pay a fair wage and don’t complain about inflated prices).

Quite the opposite of what Nvidia said in a statement just a week ago.

https://abcnews.com/US/nvidia-responds-report-ceo-allegedly-targeted-chinese-spy/story?id=137704250

In a statement to ABC News, a Nvidia spokesperson said Jensen Huang “talks with thousands of customer executives every year.”

“Jensen’s interactions with Ms. Huang are not unusual or unexpected,” the statement read. “Meetings with customers are part of a CEO’s job.”

Considering the impact to the stock price, I wonder if the SEC will get involved since Nvidia provided a false statement.

Bitcoin has Layer-2 (aka Lightning) transactions which happen off chain. The off chain transactions aren’t recorded individually, just the gross amounts to set up funds to go off the chain and then to record the funds coming back onto the chain. Its possible to infer transaction information from timing of amounts going off chain to reconstruct the history, but I;m not sure how practical that is in a real world situation. Other crypto like Monero was designed with more privacy in mind, and is more immune to these types of forensics.

I mean apparently it’s a good way to irreversibly move $6.3 billion very quickly, if you’re into that.

I don’t think that in that case the tentacles made Doc Ock a reverse centaur necessarily, but I see the similarities. The tentacles weren’t doing the thinking, and IIRC the neural link increased Otto’s rage and aggression, and suppressed his emotions and compassion (plus his wife died so he had little to care about). Maybe there needs to be a third term where using the machine as a centaur changes the behavior and brain of the operator?

I like Cory Doctorow’s take on it differentiating the two different classes of machine:

In automation theory, a “centaur” is a person who is assisted by a machine. You’re a human head being carried around on a tireless robot body. Driving a car makes you a centaur, and so does using autocomplete.

And obviously, a reverse centaur is a machine head on a human body, a person who is serving as a squishy meat appendage for an uncaring machine.

Obviously, it’s nice to be a centaur, and it’s horrible to be a reverse centaur.

The AI trend has been pushing all of us to be reverse centaurs which is the problem with machines you’re talking about.

Right, I guess as more DoH servers become available, it’ll be harder to track, but you could intercept and blackhole any HTTPS traffic to one.one.one.one and other popular servers to have them fallback.

Could you block DoH entirely on the network level and cause it to fallback? I guess you’d have to have a list of common DoH IP addresses to block.

It’d be interesting to see a different world where Jobs were still alive and what Apple would have done differently. Jobs did have a history of hypocritical statements which basically boiled down to “Feature X sucks, no one wants it” until Apple would come out with the same feature, and then he’d say “Now that Apple re-engineered Feature X, it’s perfect, buy it from us”. I could see him selling the iPhone Duo but the difference would be he’d push for better app integration over the last 10 years ahead of launch so that it’s not so janky.

Apple usually do the software more integrated than Android shipping phone companies.

And yet the software rollout has been very bungled, and added more fragmentation into the app store, adding a “designed for iphone duo” label and poor support for existing apps. About 10-15 years ago, this is something which Apple fanboys made fun of Android about.

I’d be more concerned with him and people of that generation aging out maintaining the project first, and newer generations not having the skills to begin with to carry it forward.