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One more reason for Apple to dump Intel processors: Another SGX, kernel data-leak flaw unearthed by experts

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Re: More arguments for AMD, thus?

Probably not, or AC also did not notice that the mitigations do not have perf impact.

Beanstalk loses $182m in huge flash-loan crypto heist

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And gold and reserves in other currency.

And a central bank whose job it is to keep the value consistent over time.

First successful Hyperloop test module hits 100mph in four seconds

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Re: Snake Oil

There is no reason "pods" can't be as large as planes. Or trains. Or chained together.

Look, look, we've done a driverless AI hype paper thingy, says Mobileye

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Re: BMW

Software that automatically blames the other driver. That opinion is going to sell better than the skiis rack.

Free supported Java turns up in latest SQL Server 2019 preview

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Re: Paying Oracle

Its the other way around. People do want to pay for Java support. Just not to Oracle.

Tech ambitions said to lie at heart of Britain’s bonkers crash-and-burn Brexit plan

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Invest?

Let's be clear about this, Cummings wants to hand out money to his chums, this is not investing.

84-year-old fined €250,000 for keeping Nazi war machines – including tank – in basement

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Re: WTF?

"The guy collects military hardware. So what?"

So death is a likely consequence of misappropriation of his collection.

Look to insects if you want to build tiny AI robots that are actually smart

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Re: The largest multicellular organisms on earth.

Largest? I think nelly the elephant would have some to say about that.

A $4bn biz without a live product just broke the record for the amount paid for a domain name. WTF is going on?

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Re: Money, money, money

Its more like a stupid crook buying a flashy car.

Russia drags NASA: Enjoy your expensive SpaceX capsule, our Soyuz is the cheap Kalashnikov of rockets

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Re: Roomy

Very trek, but is it an improvment? Tesla driver's attempts to replace the steering wheel with a touchscreen have not always been successful.

Robocar tech biz sues Nvidia, claims stolen code shared in Teams meeting blunder

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Re: Oh FFS.

N ida have been fully busted on this one. Culprit has admitted it. Question now is, like Trumps case, just about the damages

Autonomous driving in a city? We're '95% of the way there'

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who's saftey

can someone living in the UK please explain why the pointless wetware inside autonomous vehicles need to wear hi viz jackets?

The Google Home Mini: Great, right up until you want to smash it in fury

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Hi this is Kieren McCarthy, I'm not available right now please leave a message after the beep.

beep

"OK Google, phone 0898 333666"

HTC U11 Life: Google tries to tame the midmarket

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"although I wonder how tolerant midrange buyers are of a phone with no audio jack."

*scrolls to bottom of article, hits forum*

Deal breaker.

Stop using that MacBook Pro RIGHT NOW, says Uncle Sam: Loyalists suffer burns, smoke inhalation and worse – those crappy keyboards

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Re: Customer service?

Which is clearly proposterous because audi drivers drive down the middle of the road no matter what country they are in!

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

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The behoodied one

The hoody is a reference to Zuck who pwnd all you private data ten years ago.

I think it should stay.

Linux 5.3 kernel bundles new, cuddlier, swear-free Torvalds with AMD Radeon Navi graphics support

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Re-read Starship Troopers for a lesson in shouting at people for their own good.

Move it you useless bug hunters, on the bounce!

Astroboffins capture video of Mercury passing across the Sun's surface

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Re: 22nd century kiddies terrified by theregister cobweb

Presuming, of course, that everyone stays on earth or near its orbit for all that time.

US is best place to be a software engineer, salary survey finds

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I used to work on a London wage and live in Manchester. Housing was a tiny fraction of my spending (many years ago mind)

US warns losing access to Taiwanese chips could break the economy

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Re: Chips with everything

It's not polite to mention democracy on a UK website while the Brexit party electing itself a new leader.

Paul Allen's six-engined monster plane prepares for space deliveries

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500,000lb

Whats that in one of the el reg standard units.

500,000 packets of sugar means nothing to me.

Tech jocks headed for White House powwow on 'economic matters' (read: Huawei ban)

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Re: Security...

Seems to me almost all new cars are a security threat. Sticking to my mechanical vehicle for the moment.

Chicago: Why I just grin like a dork... It's my kind of Bork

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Re: Jumped up quiche?

I would not be happy if i found bits of Loraine in my flan of a morning.

Microsoft promises it's made Teams less confusing and resource hungry

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Re: "On average, a typical user switches ten thousand times per month"

Re: "did I miss something"

Just a few meetingsthatcouldhavebeenemails.

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

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Re: "Three words: Cheap, reliable, power"

Germany is very much aware that this is not good, but there is a war in Europe.

A stranger's TV went on spending spree with my Amazon account – and web giant did nothing about it for months

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Re: The list of compelling reasons

The device was a "Samsung Huawei" presumably the physical device does not exist.

Samsung's graphene batteries promise to charge five times faster – without exploding

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Re: Still not what customers really want

I seem to be regularly a couple of days parted from the bloody type c usb charger this phone needs.

Want to get $1bn from Apple? Step 1: Move to China. Step 2: Copy Uber

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bit of a Ballmer move

Spend a billion on arriving late, eyeing up someone else's billions, unrelated industry.

Seen that before.

Peak Apple indeed.

Radio Frequency fingerprinting of aircraft ADS-B transmitters? Boffins reckon they've cracked it

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Re: uniquely fingerprint aeroplanes

silent doesn't help unless you are off the radar.

borrowing a unit from a registered/known commercial aircraft might work.

International Space Station actually spun one-and-a-half times by errant Russian module's thrusters

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Re: Like a broken record, baby, round round

Don't stop.

That's super-calous: the frequent existance of expected puns is really quite delicious.

Plugging end-of-life EV batteries into the grid could ease renewables transition

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Plugging in all EV batteries is going to be the best approach. Not only do you get storage but you energy transport for free too.

Phone fatigue takes hold: SIM-onlys now top UK market

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Not missed replaceable battery? I have my eye on the battery level all the time. You get used to having one leg. :)

Dump ur mobile provider via txt by 2019: LMFAO cu l8r

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Re: Alternatively...

website use is presuming that your data plan has not run out again and that's why you're swapping.

NHS: Thanks for the free work, Linux nerds, now face our trademark cops

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silly name I'll grant...

But if ever there was an org that needed an

apt-get upgrade

It was the NHS

VMs: Imperfect answers to imperfect problems, but they're all we have

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Re: Slightly myopic

Re: "I don't think I've ever seen anyone use VMs for security by isolation;"

Errr Amazon perhaps?

The Year Of Linux On The Desktop – at last! Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 brings the Linux kernel into Windows

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Re: I looked at the MS link provided

I think npm has just pipped windows update for most resource intensive update mechanism.

Can I get a RHEL yeah? Version 8 arrives at last as IBM given go-ahead to wolf down Red Hat

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Re: Cant get it work in Vmware Workstation 15 correctly, any ideas

Network manager still. Could be worse, could be systemd-networkd

Super-antique-fragile-and-it's-XP-alidocious, even though the sight of it is something quite atrocious

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Re: To be fair...

Showing the boot screen for ten mins to the public counts as "working" and "doing what is required"?

Popular open-source library SDL moving development to GitHub despite 'calamitous design choices' in git

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Re: Is big better?

You don't have a full copy of history and you never will if anyone pushed a rebase.

Severe bug in Libgcrypt – used by GPG and others – is a whole heap of trouble, prompts patch scramble

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Re: eliminating the entire class of errors.

rust is not as fast as c. not by a long way, in my experience.

Singapore releases the robot hounds to enforce social distancing in parks

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Re: The important questions...

Your really pushing the "think of the children" angle there. This thing travels at a snails pace.

Worry about joggers.

It's 2020 and a rogue ICMPv6 network packet can pwn your Microsoft Windows machine

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Re: IP6 is the second thing I turn off

I love it when people get upset by far-side cartoons, sorry, but I do.

IT systems still in limbo as UK.gov departments await Brexit policy – MPs

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Re: Who smashed up the house?

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It wasn't a joke - it's called irony.

And it's perfectly acceptable.

It's Baaaaaack (or is it?): Microsoft Teams suffers a Tuesday totter

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Re: We're number two!

Err no. Everything else is working. When its broke its not second best. Its worst.

Symantec cert holdout sites told: Those Google Chrome warnings are not a good look

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Re: That Chrome error message is dangerously misleading.

Agree. This message is really to site owners, "Toe the line. We pwn your users."

Ad network ransomware crook to flog £5k Rolex after court confiscates £270k in ill-gotten gains

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Re: Happy crooks

He did get 6 - 8 years locked up as well as the "fine".

He might consider a job after that.

Apologetic Audacity rewrites privacy policy after 'significant lapse in communication'

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the mechanics of data transmission and storage

I.e. they have no plans to remove the phone home features that everyone objects to.

Suspected Chinese spies break into cloud accounts of News Corp journalists

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Probably credential stuffing

It must be hard coming up with a password policy in a company where the staff struggle with long words.

Semiconductor sales forecast to hit $676b in 2022

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No shit sherlock

"Pandemic supply chain and war in Ukraine has potential to disrupt recovery, warns Gartner"

Gartner predicting the predictable is predictable.

Microsoft reassures Teams freebie fans: We're not going to delete all your data, honest

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two bugs

if tier = free...

is going cost them

it should be

if tier == free.