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Alibaba launches collaboration suite for smart glasses

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Re: Forget work...

My guess is because they look lame/confusing/warped/broken without a projection screen equivalent behind where you are looking.

IT for service providers biz Kaseya defers decision about SaaS restoration following supply chain attack

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Re: Laughing

If you want peace between nations you want to do more business not less.

Open-source Kubernetes tool Argo CD has a high-severity path traversal flaw: Patch now

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Attack vector

What's the attack vector, how do you get a malicious helm file executed?

Boffins eschew silicon to build tiniest-ever transistor, just 1nm long

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molly valley

I think molly valley is already apt.

SAP point-of-sale systems were totally hackable with $25 kit

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once on the network...

be interesting to see how many companies post snowden have implemented 100% S-Protocols inside the lan.

Outlook.com looking more like an outage outbreak for Europe

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Re: "The Cloud" is SO overrated!

I've never not had cloudy email.

before Hotmail, is was your isp's job.

Linus Torvalds says new Linux lands next week and he’s sticking to that … for now

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Re: As for every release

Hotplugging network cards in vms sounds handy.

Pretty good firewall to take away the network device :)

Java-aaaargh! Google faces $9bn copyright bill after Oracle scores 'fair use' court appeal win

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Re: Irony

Java is GPL. Google have every right to use Java. They are arguing over 11,000 loc: because Oracle.

How Google's Smart Compose for Gmail works – and did it fake its robo-caller demo?

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swiftkey

Swiftkey is great for that. However it requires near-human input to come up with something original sounding like cofefe.

Google Fiber experiment ends with Choc Factory paying Louisville $3.8m to clean up its mess

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Re: Scorched Earth

Gmail invented reading your private emails to work out what to advertise. Not sure that is "better" email.

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

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Re: making the signal ring...

Agreed, it typical to "scatter" audio sources with diffusers in recording studios makes them ring less.

Linux fans thrown a bone in one Windows 10 build while Peppa Pig may fly if another is ready in time for this year

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Re: Windows awoke to discover it had metamorphosed into...

Why on earth would you want explorer.exe when you have mlocate

Everything OK with Microsoft? Windows giant admits it was 'on the wrong side of history' with regard to open source

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Micro$haft was spent incorrectly throughout that article. I thought we had all ageed at least the "Microsoft" was technically incorrect.

Israeli authorities investigate NSO Group over Pegasus spyware abuse claims

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Re: NSO caught with its pants down

European sanctions perhaps, then the UK and the US don't get a vote.

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

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Re: IBMs business process.

Love that. Why pay for cables when WiFi is free!

Gonna try that out on some colleagues.

Removing an obsolete AMD fix makes Linux kernel 6 quicker

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Re: The older the OS...

You never know, some of that code could have been written to make it run faster!

Removing an obsolete AMD fix makes Linux kernel 6 quicker

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Re: That's weird...

Perhaps Mr AMD doesn't have a way to regression test a bunch of old Intel cpus?

Why can't datacenter operators stop thinking about atomic power?

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Re: Judging from the way micros~1 dump crap upon Windows users

It'll be fine, just build it in Utah.

Jeff Bezos rolls up another $437m, lights Amazon's cigar with it

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11 9's

S3 designed for 99.999999999%* durability.

* For as long as we are in business.

'Here are 400,000 smut sites. Block them' says Pakistani telco regulator

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Re: "... 429,343 banned-smut Websites."

429,343 X 12 min is ten European standard wank-years

Queen's shooting star was actually meteor, not SpaceX junk

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Re: I saw two shooting stars last night

It's OK if it's military space hardware

Criminals go full Viking on CloudNordic, wipe all servers and customer data

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Re: Where are the backups?

Read the article.

It states clearly that backups were encrypted with ransomware.

Facebook to extend bug bounty to cover data leakage, sever ties to data brokers

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misuse of data, is it going to ban itself?

One rule for... oh never mind its all a cia plot anyway.

Just stay away.

Microsoft commits: We're buying GitHub for $7.5 beeeeeeellion

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Re: How can it possibly be worth that much?

I think those are revenue figures, not profit. Microsoft is assuming a lot of growth.

Chrome's default-on ad blocker – which doesn't block adverts on 99% of websites – goes global

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Re: The new definition of pointless

Imho google should be banned from making a browser. Dangerous vertical, and here they are abusing it again.

AWS gave Parler a chance, won't say if it talked to NSO before axing spyware biz's backend systems

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Re: Is that good enough for mission-critical operations?

too easy to spot and firewall off the IPs if you use your own kit

Microsoft warns: Active Directory FoggyWeb malware being actively used by Nobelium gang

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Re: We need a modern OS that is secure by default and no it isn't your favourite Linux distro.

Written in rust please.

Red Hat says staff can stay away from the office forever

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Re: Will this be applied to the rest of IBM?

A completely empty office fits perfectly with IBMs grey socks and clean desk policy.

Google mistakes the entire NHS for massive cyber-attacking botnet

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fake news

come on reg, this is surely just that captcha popup that I have seen loads before.

Not even slightly "blocking".

Hotel, motel, Holiday Inn? Doesn't matter – they may need to update their room key software

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All this and "no evidence of the hack being used in the wild." Has that term got some specific legal meaning nowadays?

You've been dying to know. Here's the answer: The Milky Way tips the cosmic scales at '1.5tr' times mass of the Sun

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Re: Does this Oort Cloud look big on me?

Way off. Its friday there are 3500kg of dunks on each London bus.

You can't say Go without Google – specifically, our little logo, Chocolate Factory insists

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Re: Go away

If this is true, sounds like a fork might be able to get ahead of the Google controlled Go?

Big Tech trade association warns Uncle Sam against knee-jerk national security measures that harm industry

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Unintended 'negative consequences' = your not intelligent enough to see the economic and social damge caused by your ranting.

'National Security' = 'Otherwise Unjustifiable'

Chinese chip designers hope to topple Arm's Cortex-A76 with XiangShan RISC-V design

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Re: Is it really super dumb and paranoid ...

nsa hooks in to the tor browser should be a lesson to us all

No more DRM-free downloads as Amazon's ComiXology app set to disappear inside Kindle

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While we still let market leaders buy up the competition they can do what they like, because no alternative lasts very long.

Teen dream team reboots Rolling Rhino into Rhino Linux

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Go team

Ubuntu so needs one of these. There regular pain of upgrades is getting to me. Even at two year LTS.

How can you kill that which will not die? Windows XP is back (sorta... OK, not really)

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Re: Linux 1.79 per cent (was 1.55 in Jan)

did you include android in that stat?

Take that, America! Huawei flips Trump & Co the bird after reporting double-digit % rise in sales and profit

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If you believe...

Competition makes buisinesses better.

Making life difficult in this way for a successful competitive biz like Huawei will only make it stronger.

Version 252 of systemd, as expected, locks down the Linux boot process

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Re: Systemd or not....

Let me guess you are a Microsoft / Azure user and don't have any choice ever anyway.

Rest of us care.

AWS Location Service aims to rescue devs from lock-in with 'business and programming models of a single provider'

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Who pays that? People with no alternative. , Google is asking to be broken up with price hikes like that.

Sucks to be you, any aliens living anywhere near Proxima Centauri's record-smashing solar flare

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"An illustration of the Proxima Centauri flare."

Possibly last remaining acceptable use of photoshop 5's lens flare effect.

Mozilla: Windows 7 browser bungle cost us nine MILLION downloads

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still upbto their old tricks

f*ck the law, bundle bad software, delay legal proceedings till its too late.

The Microsoft business model. ®

A Hughes failure: Flat Earther rocketeer can't get it up yet again

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Re: No need to fly

@teknopaul:

That could also be from the Hipster devops dude with the candycane mocha latte vape goning on.

OSIRIS-REx space probe catches a whiff of water on asteroid Bennu

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Re: Still a mystery?

TAGSAM is an uninspired name. The "Noodly apendage" would have been better if we can find an appropriate backronym

Everything OK with Microsoft? Windows giant admits it was 'on the wrong side of history' with regard to open source

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Re: So...

Side note: 15 years from now they will be saying one particular MS exec was on the right side of history.

JavaScript developers left in the dark after DroidScript software shut down by Google over ad fraud allegations

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Re: Nobody works at Google anymore

You have no rights because its free, is not a valid argument for a monopoly to make.

Singaporean minister touts internet 'kill switch' that finds kids reading net nasties and cuts 'em off ASAP

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Re: This is Singapore

When the government say kill switch, they probably mean it, these guys will kill you for smoking a bifta.

If you want less CGI and more real effects in movies, you may get your wish: Inflatable film studio to orbit Earth

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Re: Breathtaking

"boundless entertainment possibilities" is also a bit rich given you have to fit cast and crew in a six meter sphere.

Arm's tiny Cortex-M52 packs AI punch for small devices

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Yeah but can it run

Stable Diffusion

That's the only bit of software that would persuade me tobuy new hardware right now

Fed-up graphic design outfit dangles cash to anyone who can free infosec of hoodie pics

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Re: A more realistic image...

Perhaps a little icon of Bob screwing Alice with Eve looking thru the window having a wank.