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Expect more data leaks as bad actors adopt AI and quantum computing to obtain data, crack encryption and guess passwords.  

More concerned about the data stolen from several medical records breaches over the past year.  
Also, the huge uptick in spam telephone calls and phishing emails.  
Lastly, computer generated voices have become more convincing.  
If I don't recognize a number, the caller will have to leave a call back number, name and pitch for a return call (after 7 rings and a message).  
If the message is at all fishy, the voice message is deleted with no action taken.  

Had a land line and internet with AT&T 10+ years ago, no emails yet from AT&T.  
Have changed email address several times in 10+ years, so contact by email would be difficult for AT&T.  
Maybe I should change email address again, as well as changing telephone numbers (both would require updating a bunch of folks).  

Years ago (1999), the CEO of Sun Microsystems (now owned by Oracle) said something like "You have zero privacy.  Get over it."  
https://www.techspot.com/trivia/127-who-tech-ceo-1999-you-have-zero-privacy/#:~:text=Learn%20why%20this%20is%20the,Get%20over%20it.%22  

Sone research was done on a "moose" a few decades ago.  
The "moose" was foot controlled and moved in three dimensions.  
Allowed hands to stay in the touch typing position.  
Believe the target customer was high end 3D engineers and designers.  

Prefer trackpads.  Believe Apple trackpads are better than what I've seen on Dell or HPQ laptops.  
Wondering about possible point and click uses of a future Apple ring (or similar devices).  

Apple and Microsoft should cross-license their inventions.  Better yet, they should form a joint venture Apple-Soft.  

Microsoft has a new solid state lithium-sodium battery that drastically reduces need for lithium.  
Combine patent in this article with the lithium-sodium battery, and they can corner the battery market.  
Bye-bye Duracell, Rayovac, Panasonic, LG, Tesla, Johnson Controls...  

Grampa, why did you spend $100k+ for an obsolete iPhone? You could have bought an annuity, and used the proceeds to buy new Apple stuff every year or two for the rest of your life.  

Seriously, collectables like this have been known to drop 10-20% over a 10-20 year period.  Would be difficult to authenticate the unit inside had never been used, and that it was in good condition.  How much would value drop if someone tore off the plastic cover, or someone sealed a used unit within a counterfeit plastic cover?  How much would insurance for such a collectable cost?  I'd be afraid to have such an expensive thing around the house, or in storage.  Could buy several cars for the same amount.  In some parts of the country, could buy a house or two for the same amount.  

Attacks based on behavior of pre-fetching processes go back nearly as long as pre-fetching itself (well over a decade).  

If patching attacks on Intel server chips back around a decade ago, performance would drop 25-50%.  

Build a better mouse-trap, and the miscreants will build a better mouse.  

Malicious code has been hidden in spreadsheet macros, various graphics and video images (including advertisements) and just about anything else you can imagine.  Among the more dangerous is use of social engineering to convince you that a boss wants certain work done, causing you to open a document that then infects the corporate servers and encrypts the data, followed by a bitcoin ransom request, possible sale or disclosure of the data, and a report to the government if you do not report the ransom attack by the government imposed deadline (4 days, if I remember correctly).  A large number of pharmacies and mostly small medical groups are suffering financially from such an attack on a company that processes payments for those insured by Tricare (including retired military), Medicare, and a host of insurance companies.