https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/07/ibm-completes-successful-field-trials-on-fully-homomorphic-encryption/ this is huge news for apps that want to be what i’d call “provably non-evil”

It was an interesting article partly because it taught me about encrypted virtualization, where a hosting provider can guarantee to customers that they can't peek inside their VMs: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/08/a-detailed-look-at-amds-new-epyc-rome-7nm-server-cpus/2