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Ex-US pres Bill Clinton has written a cyber-attack pulp thriller. With James Patterson. Really

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Ex-Pres writes book on "cyber", wheres the tech angle?

Thanks to all those tax dollars, humans can now hear the faint sounds of earthquakes on Mars

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Might we hear them methane farts that the rovers wiffed?

They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station

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Hidden Figures

A good time to (re)watch Hiden Figuers.

Microsoft says it found 1,000-plus developers' fingerprints on the SolarWinds attack

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Re: Oh those Russians!

I see what you did there

'Millions' of Dell PCs will grant malware, rogue users admin-level access if asked nicely

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Re: Windows 10

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Any relation to @technoking?

NASA to return to the Moon by 2024. One problem with that, says watchdog: All of it

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Re: Get real.

until China are about to do it

Blue passports, French service provider: Atos bags £21m UK Passport Office deal

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Re: backdoor identity card

don't mix identification and authorisation.

Sealed, confidential IBM files in age-discrimination case now public to all

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Re: Experience

Perhaps the wrong forum for expressing agist sentiment?

MS advises drastic measures to fight hellish Trojan

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wot no recover

replacing the mbr is not that redical surely?

Node.js sees Windows compatibility as key to success

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it does work now

its worked on windows for a while.

Heart of darkness: Inside the Osówka underground city

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Re: Phah. Poor effort.

Good candidate for worst ever oncall job.

You won't believe this: Nokia soars back into phone-flinger top 3

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ace

Will that box of old nokia phone chargers still work?

Waymo robo-taxis to accept fares in Arizona in 2018

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Its great that car jacking just became a non-violent crime.

Google's Fuchsia OS Flutters into view: We're just trying out some new concepts, claims exec

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Re: IDE & SDK & Libraries

I notice java support was not mentioned.

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna needs new business cards already after appointment as board chair

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One wonders how long RHEL will continue to relevant under IBM.

Dangerous flying car drone zoomed into UK's Gatwick Airport airspace after killswitch failed

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Re: Bloody cowboys

They put gaffer tape over the Boeing logos.

Remember those wacky cyberpunk costumes in Hackers? They're on display in London this week

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Re: Horrible movie

shame the franchise ended with hackers 2: takedown

It's safe to leave your bunker: Blame that Chinese nuclear plant alarm on fuel rod faults

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Re: 3.6

xenon leaks are invisible, but so is methane.

How data on a billion people may have leaked from a Chinese police dashboard

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If you go to

http://haveibeenpwnd.cn

It just says

YES

The next deep magic Linux program to change the world? Io_uring

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Re: Perfect for hackers :)

No more so than read() and write()

Ballmer: Windows Phone can win third place in mobile!

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used to be number one

better than aiming for third I suppose.

Office Software Checkpoint

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why download the whitepaper

shouldnt this one be available to view online ;-)

Get READY: Scientists set to make TIME STAND STILL tonight

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Re: Why in the first place?

Agreed, leap seconds make no sense.

Yes, I took Putin's roubles to undermine Western democracy. This is my story

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I love in when right-wingers try to blame Brexit on Corbyn.

FBI raids home of spy sat techie over leak of secret comms source code on Facebook

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Re: Time line

AI in Facebook that scans fotographs looking for code?

GitHub to Pythonistas: Let us save you from vulnerable code

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Re: What?

Github underestimated how much the OS community dislikes Micro$oft.

UK Home Sec kick-starts US request to extradite ex-WikiLeaker Assange

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You gotta love a legal system where one politician makes the law.

Satellites with lasers and machine guns coming! China's new plans? Trump's Space Force? Nope, the French

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Re: I wonder how they will overcome Newtons 3rd Law

Fire first

Ex-director cops community service after 5,000-file deletion spree on company Dropbox

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Re: So... the headline should be

Company learned nothing. It went bust.

Google isn't even trying to not be creepy: 'Continuous Match Mode' in Assistant will listen to everything until it's disabled

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Re: Oh mighty one...

Even Goolge needs a name you can google.

You wait ages for a neutron star and black hole to collide, then two pairs come along at once

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Re: GW200105 and GW200115

Congrats, you managed to express that in 7bit. :)

We have redundancy, we have batteries, what could possibly go wrong?

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Re: Single point of multiple failures.

AWS is getting close to that.

Always read the comments: Beijing requires oversight of all reader-generated chat

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Re: That would be a huge change

This furum moderates before posting.

Now-frozen crypto-lending biz Celsius accused of devolving into a Ponzi scheme

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Re: Reap what you sow...

And it's called "Proof of work"

Leaked IT contractor files detail Kremlin's stockpile of cyber-weapons

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Unfortunately they might do better out of the deal than Snowdon did.

Health pros: Alcohol is EVIL – raise its price, ban its ads

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price control just dont work

Some of my best alcoholics are rich friends.

Google, Bing, Yahoo! data hoarding is like homeopathy. It doesn't work – new study claims

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in some domains targeted advertising at dearch quality are one and the sameth

Brit military wants a small-drone-killer system for £20m

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or short range, small, targeted, chemical rockets. doubles up as a fireworks display.

Container ship loading plans are 'easily hackable'

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Healf n safety mate, you'll av yer eye out with that software.

Huawei joins Android elite with pricey, nocturnal 40MP flagship

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Hold your horses

Top feature of Huawei phones is it comes without Facebook.

Twenty years ago today: Windows 98 crashed live on stage with Bill Gates. Let's watch it again...

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Re: " Still funny, even after all these years"

I must have been unlucky.

Musk loves his Starlink sat constellation – but astroboffins are less than dazzled by them

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who ever the greedy corp

It wouldbe a shame if we lost GPS

Trump: Huawei ban will be lifted!
US Commerce Dept.: Yeah, about that…

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Re: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt

Nobody was ever fired for selling off IBM.

London cop illegally used police database to monitor investigation into himself

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systemic flaw

Who watches the watchers watching to see if they are watched.

From attacked engineers to a crypto-loving preacher with a questionable CV: Yep, it's still very much 5G silly season

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"obedience drug" ??, you cant even get a Toker to pass the ash tray.

Franco-German cloud framework floated to protect European's data from foreign tech firms slurpage

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Re: OVH?

Indicative of the problem, there is no good eu cloud provider.

A bunch of apps will be able to bypass Microsoft's new store and use own update methods

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don't see why not

it would save downloading Firefox to download Ubuntu.

Apple quietly deletes details of derided CSAM scanning tech from its Child Safety page without explanation

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Mebbe

Maybe Apple just decided to stop telling people what they are doing.

Epson payments snafu leaves subscribers unable to print

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Re: The problem is easily solved

Try second hand websites, Wallapop has 'em

Review: ASUS dual-screen laptop may warm your heart, will definitely warm your lap

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I much prefer a dedicated power port and to free up USB sockets.