You can't really, as others have pointed out, but I like Philip K Dick's definition of reality: "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away."

The attached picture says 133 qubits, so whatever that chip is (edit: Heron) it's not this thing.

IBM's post (that the article links) says:

Breaking the 1,000-qubit barrier with Condor

We have introduced IBM Condor, a 1,121 superconducting qubit quantum processor based on our cross-resonance gate technology. Condor pushes the limits of scale and yield in chip design with a 50% increase in qubit density, advances in qubit fabrication and laminate size, and includes over a mile of high-density cryogenic flex IO wiring within a single dilution refigerator.

So, it sounds like this is actually another fridge sized system.

This story may be amusing, but it's actually a serious issue if Apple is doing this and people are not aware of it because cellphone imagery is used in things like court cases. Relative positions of people in a scene really fucking matter in those kinds of situations. Someone's photo of a crime could be dismissed or discredited using this exact news story as an example -- or worse, someone could be wrongly convicted because the composite produced a misleading representation of the scene.

電気あんま

pressing one's foot on the genitals of a supine person while pulling on their feet (usu. as a prank); electric massage​

-- https://jisho.org/word/%E9%9B%BB%E6%B0%97%E3%81%82%E3%82%93%E3%81%BE

復活

1. revival (of an old system, custom, fashion, etc.); restoration; return; comeback​
2. resurrection; rebirth​

-- https://jisho.org/word/%E5%BE%A9%E6%B4%BB

Still WTF, but at least the label matches the picture...

Edit: the lower left probably says something about black pepper and salt (ブラックペッパー＆ソルト) -- I can't tell what the rest of the characters are though through the JPG compression. Probably (\ included) for the parenthesis bit?

There are two US antitrust cases against Google right now:

• U.S. and Plaintiff States v. Google LLC (2020) (in trial; list of many documents)
• U.S. and Plaintiff States v. Google LLC (2023) (Complaint PDF)

The first is related to things like paying to be the default search engine on iPhone, Firefox, etc. The second is related to ad tech. Neither really directly addresses the issues that average people have with Google's behavior though, so keep filing complaints!

It's a small wonder that people can travel into space at all. I mean, the problem is hard enough already for us squishy humans, but just imagine how much worse it would be if we were merpeople... Air's about 1.2kg/m^3 at sea level; liquid water is about 1000kg/m^3! Or, if we were the size and weight of blue whales? We'd probably never get off the planet -- let alone to the moon.

Do you have systemd-initiald configured correctly? :-)

Rule 9 from Agans's Debugging: If you didn't fix it, it ain't fixed

Intermittent problems are the worst...

I've used Wireshark when I want to inspect the traffic going through my computer. I've found it particularly handy for debugging my own networking code. I've also used netstat to see active connections and programs listening for traffic when I don't care about the packet contents specifically.

For anyone who just wants to know what component: they want to drop the influenza B/Yamagata variant of the flu virus since it appears to have gone extinct in the wild.

This is totally going to turn into another JBIG2 lossy compression clusterfuck isn't it...

For those who are unfamiliar, JBIG2 is a compression standard that has a dubious reputation for replacing characters incorrectly in scanned documents (so 6 could become an 8, for example) leading to potentially serious issues when scanning things like medical and legal documents, construction blueprints, etc.

Adding a summary to this: the article has some history about OpenOffice (which is a zombie project that was essentially replaced by LibreOffice after Oracle bought Sun) followed by a description of patterns of weird commit history recently (e.g. regular changes that are entirely or almost entirely just fiddling with whitespace), and a request to email the Apache foundation to ask them to make it clear that the project is dead.