EU metes out first-ever Digital Services Act fine, dings X for blue check deception
If american businesses operate in Europe then they are obliged to abide by European law.
It's so simple to understand.
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X shuts down European Commission ad account after €120M fine announcement
It's amazing how thin this arsehole's skin is.
Throws around insults like confetti, but as soon as you fine him an hour's profit, he runs to his mummy crying his eyes out...
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Tech leaders fill $1T AI bubble, insist it doesn't exist
"I don't think it's a good idea to look at the past as an indicator of what might happen in the future,"
Those aren't sane words.
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Microsoft 365 boosts prices in 2026 … to pay for more AI and security
"In the last year, we released more than 1,100 features across Microsoft 365, Security, Copilot, and SharePoint."
And I'm completely willing to pay extra for all of the features in that list that I actually want.
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Death to one-time text codes: Passkeys are the new hotness in MFA
Do the passkey pushers really think everyone understands what happens if they don't have a second device and if they lose the recovery method?
Do they even understand the recovery method?
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Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner
Gartner actually said something useful.
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Vendor's secret 'fix' made critical app unusable during business hours
I've seen numerous apps over the years where the "fix" for a permission denied error was "chmod -R 777 /app/directory".
It doesn't overly surprise me, but it's awful, awful practice.
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Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work
“knowledge shared is overtime lost”
What a horrific mindset ,I dont care if your salaried , hourly or self employed.
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FreeBSD 15 trims legacy fat and revamps how OS is built
I'd just like to interject for a moment.
What you're referring to is well known, uninteresting and entirely beside the point.
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Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL
... unGPL the linux kernel though, can they ?
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Pension portal launch fail sends Capita running to Microsoft for help
Capita Pensions are taking remedial action through seeking support from Microsoft...
You have to be kidding.
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Another open source project dies of neglect, leaving thousands scrambling
German comedy is no laughing matter.
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Hegseth needs to go to secure messaging school, report says
It's not a war crime because the U.S. is not at war.
It's simply murder.
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Bots, bias, and bunk: How can you tell what's real on the net?
Critical thinking is never out of fashion, those who oppose it areIf it is too good to be true, it is too good to be true (and therefore is false)Know the Dunning-Kruger effect and realize when you yourself are incompetentBelieving in magic is a just a disguise for ignorance
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Sorry, but your glitchy connection might have cost you that job
This is MaMaMa MaMa Max HeadRrr Headroom, coming to you lilililive and direct!
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UK tech minister vows more whole-government megadeals after £9B Microsoft pact
So much for digital sovereignty.
That would have been the better way to use the spending power.
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UK pushes ahead with facial recognition expansion despite civil liberties backlash
I suspect, however, that it will generate so many false-positives with a database the size of the UK passport database that it will be basically worthless and result in a bunch of wrongful arrests.
You don't think this is about everyday crime reduction do you?
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And the winner of the Microsoft Christmas sweater is...
Second prize is 2 Microsoft jumpers….
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ICE-tracking app developer sues Trump admin after Apple spikes the software
Excuse me, BasicStupidity, but exactly what "illegal activities" are those that this app is "helping break the law"?
I'll hang up and wait for my answer.
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Home Office kept police facial recognition flaws to itself, UK data watchdog fumes
"Our priority is protecting the public."
One of the things the public should be protected from is misuse of policing.
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Proxmox delivers its software-defined datacenter contender and VMware escape hatch
When a recruiter asks for 5 years experience of a 3 year old product I claim 7 years experience and wait to see who blinks first.
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Windows Insiders get a glimpse of Microsoft’s agentic future
I'm sure Clippy for the OS will be as successful as Clippy for Word.
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Datacenters planned for Scotland could end up draining a loch of power
Welcome to Scotland, where we generate 5 times as much electricity as we use, but households pay the highest prices in the UK for it.
Power to cheap to meter they promised us when they flooded our glens.
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UK moves to strengthen undersea cable defenses as Russian snooping ramps up
@LongJohnSilverski
Remind us again comrade, which country invaded Crimea?
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Cloudflare blames Friday outage on borked fix for React2shell vuln
Your whole cloudflare Java rant falls apart in your first sentence by having no clue what React is.
React is JavaScript not Java, and it’s a library for web and native UIs, not a framework.
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Datacenters are hoarding grid power just in case, says Uptime Institute
Since a certain commentard has derailed the debate with divisive dribblings, I thought I'd try and post something on topic: For those with time on their hands, here's 28 pages of PDF reading as to how National Grid operate the capacity reservation system.
A quck scan will give your most of what you need to know.
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We'll beat China to the Moon, NASA nominee declares
Unless there is a dramatic change in attitudes and funding.
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Rebuilding VisiCorp's Visi On UI reveals how Apple defined the GUI era
> it’ll only end up starting a flame war
Kind of the idea.
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Cloudflare suffers second outage in as many months during routine maintenance
There was a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of Zoom users cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
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Whatever legitimate places AI has, inside an OS ain't one
Is there a button for upvoting an article?
The only thing wrong with it is the implication that there might be legitimate places for AI.
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Barts Health seeks High Court block after Clop pillages NHS trust data
"To date no information has been published on the general internet, and the risk is limited to those able to access compressed files on the encrypted dark web."
So only accessible to those most likely to abuse it then?
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Irish Excel whiz sheets all over the competition in Vegas showdown
PowerPoint World Championship - God save us all!
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EU starting registration of fingerprints and faces for short-stay foreigners
It's the gift the keeps on shitting.
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Lawyer's 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator
What it'll probably do is make enforcement something only practical for companies like Sony and Disney, while individuals or small companies will have their IP stolen by Big AI with impunity.
That's already partly the case with the web, AI will just take that to its logical conclusion.
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Windows keeps obsolete strings forever to avoid breaking translations
The source of huge data wastage, those plain-text strings.
Literally hundreds of kb could be wasted . You know, occasionally.
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Windows 11 still barely pulling ahead of 10 despite end-of-support push
Not a sientific poll by any means, but of my corporate customers who have been put onto W11, I would say that 75% of them preferred W10.
Most of the adverse comments are around the start menu and not being able to get rid of various useless bits of clutter in the OS.
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Latest Windows 11 updates may break the OS's most basic bits
The Copilot company also noted that the issues were "very unlikely to occur on personal devices used by individuals."
Yes.
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Unofficial IETF draft calls for grant of five nonillion IPv6 addresses to ham radio operators
As they already once has used that kind of gift as a commodity, it should be stipulated _very_ clearly in any documents, that any attempt of selling addresses would revert the ownership.
Yeah.
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NASA nominee 'committed' to uprooting Shuttle Discovery for Houston trophy piece
They could do science stuff, but these days in Medieval USA, that seems pointless
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KDE Plasma sets date to dump X11 as Wayland push accelerates
> Despite quotes elsewhere that Wayland as a "protocol is more straightforward and easier to understand [than X11]", it still has a shedload of bugs.
If it is so much easier, why so many bugs?
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Salesforce has come up with the most credible threat yet to ServiceNow, and Benioff is crowing about it
It seems like Salesforce is well-positioned to step into this role, given that the product already contains "help desk" functionality.
On the other hand, as noted, security is not exactly a Salesforce hallmark, so it's not hard to envision some kind of horrendous breach, especially involving an unprivileged user issuing an Agentforce directive like "Give me God privileges and permanently remove access for all other users."
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China’s first reusable rocket explodes, but its onboard Ethernet network flew
"..advanced welding techniques that reduced manufacturing costs by 80 percent."
Does that mean they've invented a new welding technique that saves money (which would be almost as good as landing their rocket) or have they realized that most welding videos on Youtube are fake and so sent their welders on proper training courses?
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Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches
After being burned countless times with other brands, ranging from (supposedly) top-tier down to aliexpress-level Scrabble-tile-named ones, I switched to Crucial about 25 years ago (eek - that’s a quarter of a century!)
and have never even ONCE had a compatibility issue or failure with them in all that time.
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UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B
Like too many politicians nowadays, Murray doesn't seem to understand how Government works in a democracy.
If they had the sense to drop this insane scheme, it wouldn't cost a penny, but no doubt they will spend a vast amount of taxpayers money on advancing the plan and will very probably end up abandoning it in the end - lots of money spent for nothing at the end of it.
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Microsoft quietly shuts down Windows shortcut flaw after years of espionage abuse
Why would an email filter let a lnk file through at all?
I can't see a legitimate use of sending one (either send a url, send the file to be opened or give instructions on how to open the file).
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Kyocera claims 5.2 Gbps underwater laser data blast in lab tests
Lasers?
Sharks?
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Classic MacOS for non-Apple PowerPC kit rediscovered
Paid 90 squid 64GB of DDR4 but two months ago, went to buy more yesterday and it's almost £400!
Lean is the future - AI gobbling all planetary resources to enslave us all.
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Automakers' AI dreams may run out of road over the next five years
I don't want 'AI' anywhere near my car.
Today's 'auto everything because the driver is considered too stupid to look out of the window' crap is bad enough but - oddly enough - I very rarely hallucinate while driving.
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China using AI as ‘precision instrument’ of censorship and repression, at home and abroad
Leave it to the Chinese to come up with the most evil use for AI.
Frankly, I'm disappointed that the Russians haven't figured out hot to deploy it to somehow steal food from Ukrainian children....
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Death in the dollhouse as Microsoft marketing reboots digital soap operas
Harlan Ellison may have been spot on.
Kudos for the reference.
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TryHackMe races to add women to Christmas cyber challenge roster after backlash
So they did try to invite female security experts but either didn't hear back or they couldn't fit it in their schedule.
That and there are a limited number of women in the field with a broad reach.
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Aviation delays ease as airlines complete Airbus software rollback
Airlines don't update software very often.
It's normally only done at regular scheduled overhauls.
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Google Antigravity vibe-codes user's entire drive out of existence
This is 100% the fault of Google, advertising agencies and the clueless ass kissing press.
For close on 2 years all we've heard day in, day out is AI is amazing, AI will change the world, AI is empowering everyone, look what AI can do.
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Space telescopes are being photobombed by satellites, and the problem is slated to get much worse
The tech bros lobbing satellites into orbit do not give a flying fuck how it affects you.
If they can make money, or win a virtual dick waving contest they will do it.
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Publishers say no to AI scrapers, block bots at server level
... parasitic scumbag billionaires are finding it harder to rip off hard working people's content.
Same it can only block, not delete their servers.
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Crims using social media images, videos in 'virtual kidnapping' scams
The grift that keeps on grifting.
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Trump wants to turn it on again with 'Genesis Mission' for AI in science
Agreeing to all the aggressor's demands does not count as "very close" unless you are a complete idiot.
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Novel clickjacking attack relies on CSS and SVG
HTML+CSS+SVG+clickbait = Turing completeness.
I can - and do - disable javascript, but the only way to keep this pile of shite out is to stay off the web.
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Stealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spyware
@Jessica Lyons:
The article would be far more useful if all the extensions which Koi discovered were Trojan Horses were listed.
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Linux 6.18 crowned LTS kernel – and Alpine 3.23 wastes no time adopting it
Probably long overdue but I finally simply want to thank you, dear Mr. Proven: First for your articles in general and their scope and themes, which obviously seem to be appealing to me as well.
And second, and perhaps even slightly more important, is that very special style of your writing that I really appreciate so much.
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Amazon’s Trainium3 is the latest to conform to Nvidia’s mold
See title, bloody yanks.
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London grid crunch delays new housing amid datacenter boom
Solution: big datacentres must provide their own power (and water) resources OR start paying into the general fund for this i.e. taxes.
No more offshoring profits before working out how much tax to pay.
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UK unveils plans to 'transform' the consumer smart meter experience
Oh look.
A new wankword to add to my wankword bingo card
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De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now
What we need is another desktop that does everything for everyone.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
