Erich, is that you? I knew you didn't really die earlier this year, but just went on a trip with some Aliens in a flying saucer...

Technically, that is probably true. But remember that even for the Covid-19 shots, "mRNA-printing" was deemed too expensive, so each iteration of the mRNA based Covid-19 vaccines was mass-produced in a more conventional way using microbes... and so the "adapted" versions all arrived at the market at times when the variants they targeted were already way past their maximum.

I doubt that for a generic flu shot this will be different, and apart from the economics & competition situation of the mRNA vaccine, this also means that for a more realistic measurement of its effectiveness we would need to wait for statistics from a population that has been vaccinated with such a mass-produced mRNA vaccine at the time when this actually becomes available.

They probably didn't want to to speak the quiet part out loud, that once their AI data center does all the working, those nearby living carbon units will no longer be required, and their demand for water therefore irrelevant.

Even those scientists who do not assume that Covid-19 resulted from a lab-leak never denied that the "EcoHealth Alliance", under their head Peter Daszak, financed and worked with researchers in the Wuhan lab on "gain of function" experiments with viruses from bats: https://theintercept.com/2021/... - and EcoHealth had originally planned to finance that research in the US, which they were not allowed to.

This is not a "conspiracy theory" but well documented fact.

They probably were inspired by the greatest of science, like the ones keeping the "demon core" from becoming critical by manipulating a screw driver, or the ones moving gain-of-function research on human viruses to Wuhan, or the ones keeping unsuspecting Syphilis victims away from treatment "for science".

There absolutely will be a "new age of discovery and wonder". The question is just whether those discoveries will be pleasant, and whether people will just wonder how it all came to this.

Yes, games like "Archon" were legendary. But EA has not produced anything worth my time or money for at least 2 decades. I hope they relocate the EA headquarter to Rhiyad, including the current management, then find something "haram" in their office, and apply the strictest of Sharia-suggested beatings on them.

Remember when HP touted "The Machine" as a revolutionary architecture using persistent main memory?

(Which was just before they entirely focused on selling overpriced ink.)

- Without physical media, even if they are used just as "dongles" not containing the actual game, you own nothing - you are at the mercy of some remote server to exist and be willing to approve of you playing what you already bought and installed. For "Sony", "digital" implies that they can take away your "bought" stuff anytime they want (or automatically if they go out of business).

I'd say "governments" instead of "countries", given that it is only those in power who see an enemy in everyone allowing conversations they cannot read and/or manipulate. Whether this means "Telegram has no backdoors", I would not be certain of that, as Telegram is still a centralized, for-profit service, the owner of which may just sell the data to whoever pays the most, without the users being able to notice.

They probably did not contribute a positive return on investment for the next quarterly budget, and probably had not laid out a business plan yet how to make a profit margin at least as high as Google's advertisement and data broker business. Also, somebody noticed that robots and AI agents contain no folded proteins, so their work was of no future relevance anyway. Such disappointment!

The phrase "vetted researchers at credible institutions" rings all kinds of alarm clocks.
If a government wants transparency about some commercial activity, there are many examples of existing specific reporting or auditing obligations that have been created over centuries. And making data resulting from such reporting/auditing public, via some sort of "freedom of information" act, is also just fine.
But having some "vetted researchers" appointed who decide what they want to look for and what they want to find sounds like the opposite of a dependable, democratically legitimated setting of rules for commercial operations.

... blocks, which will just make the response claim "no no, this is not really author X style", while the generated text will likely not much different than before such part of the system prompt existed.

If "AI" is used "successfully" to make a large part of previously well-off humans unemployed, then it will not matter whether Apple invested into "AI" or not, because their former customer base will have no money to buy their products. Apple is not prepared for a future where humans as customers do not matter anymore - unlike some of the companies now gambling Trillions on data-centers.

... have a look at this entertaining video showing comparisons of such pictures with the reality of products sold with them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (Corridor Crew).