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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.

It's official: BlackLotus malware can bypass Secure Boot on Windows machines

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Re: Someone explain to a novice

Chill, someone just found you a way to upgrade.

Adobe will kill Flash by 2020: No more updates, support, tears, pain...

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lets not be rude

some of those Flash

loading....

things were better than the content at the end of the wait.

NASA to tear the wings off plane in the name of sustainability

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Parking problems

Need supersized Parking bays or everyone ion the busses to get to the terminal

Apple races to patch the latest zero-day iPhone exploit

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Re: new to IT

Seems reasonable that pegasus would be careful.

At the same time I'm sure Apple have spyware as a service available for uncle Sam.

Intel teases Optane DIMMS, but you may need a new Xeon first

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Re: more info needed

Agreed.

Not much of an announcement.

Its like saying someone will produce cheaper faster SDs.

That will work on some computers.

Someday.

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

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How can you down vote "cheese eating surrender monkeys".

Did you not try googling "French military Victories" and hitting "I Feel Lucky". (Back in the day)

What the &*%* did you just $#*&!*# say about me, you little &%$#*? 'AI' to filter Xbox Live chat

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Re: I know it's possible to have fun ...

Those four filter options seems like the right approach.

Ability to turn off ai nanny is key.

Facebook iOS app silently turns on your phone camera. Ah, relax – it's just a bug, lol!?

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Re: Listening

Same as the permissions on his wife and childrens phones.

They never talk about who, inside Facebook, has access to user data do they?

Unsecured Azure blob exposed 500,000+ highly confidential docs from UK firm's CRM customers

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Re: No more Mr Nice Guy

That defence does not work for _not_ doing something. You have to prove with meeting minutes you were told otherwise.

Missile systems software dev leaker has sentence almost doubled after UK.gov says 4½ years was too soft

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Re: It's all about the presentation

I am sure 1 year will always sound like a light sentence until its you that is doing it.

Fujitsu confirms end date for mainframe and Unix systems

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Re: Oh dear what will the Post Office do now?

"Where will they find another supplier willing to perjure itself?"

Let's make them a list.

How experimental was Microsoft's 'experimental banner' in File Explorer?

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Re: Usual answer

Choice, happiness, and happy that others are happy: congrats you've reached nirvana!

Many people see bitch-about-it as the only option.

Huawei pays $9.65b dividend to its workers

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Coops have been around for ages

US is not happy that Huawei is a co-op.

Plenty of others exist and function well at all scales.

Parity calamity! Wallet code bug destroys $280m in Ethereum

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Re: And that's why cryptocurrency is not and won't become a replacement for money

Big banks swallow the millions and hope one notices

Australia's Lion brewery hit by second cyber attack as nation staggers under suspected Chinese digital assault

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Re: If China has nothing to hide...

You dont have to choose a side.

Not going to war was an option.

Ending it still is.

Huawei sales director nicked in Poland on suspicion of 'spying'

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I have huawei kit. I prefer to be hacked by the chinese govt than by the US.

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

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Re: Get real.

getting to space is not the same as getting to the moon and back.

F5 DROWNing, not waving, in crypto fail

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Did I miss something, seems like an F5 misconfigured to permit downgrade attacks is vulnerable to downgrade attacks.

Unicorn adopts rainbow as logo

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rainbows

Proof, if anyone needed it, that it is impossible to make an icon look too garish or out of place on an iPhone.

Heart of darkness: Inside the Osówka underground city

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Re: "A clear mandate for destroying the British economy, then."

Internet rule 50: if it exists someone blamed it on Brexit in the comments.

Spectre haunts Intel's SGX defense: CPU flaws can be exploited to snoop on enclaves

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Re: big news:

If you own the tin, in a bofh scenario, can you provide a broken sgx api anyway? With or without spectre?

MailChimp 'working' to stop hackers flinging malware-laced spam from accounts

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Re: Unsubscribe is legally required

Surely only ones that are sending automated email. We certainly dont have to put unsubscribe in a normal email.

China's cloud market jumps 58%: OK Alibaba, you've lost your Ma but you're still leading

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Joke

Re: "Tencent Cloud, which jumped 88 per cent …"

If you have _incoming_ traffic that goes to russia you have bigger problems than your firewall.

Mayflower, the AI ship sent to sail from the UK to the US with no humans, made it three days before breaking down

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Re: Trollface "With no one onboard to fix it"

Don't worry in most states it will be illegal for machines to repair themselves.

Ukraine asks ICANN to delete all Russian domains

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Please not yet, I have a .ru email address and tutanota takes 48 hours to complete sign up before I can start to migrate.

Police arrest suspect in murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO, with grainy pics the only tech involved

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Re: I wonder

I'd guess he's not a nut job.

Presumably his days are numbered and he wants everyone to know why.

Hack probing poodle sacrifice cuffed for public crap

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Xmas

So darling, would you like another pet poodle for Xmas.

No mum, I'd like another t-shirt.

What if tech moguls brewed real ale?

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Served by the 228ml

DEAD BEEF - 09/FF ABV

OOP5 - 0C/FF ABV

OFF5 - 0F/FF ABV

Good news: Twitter fell over. Bad news: It's working again

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Where I live, the bots are doing that a hell of a lot these days. Probably more likely to het a human response than on twitter.

Oxford researchers pull off quantum first with distributed gate teleportation

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Re: Physics A Level

86% fidelity is irrelevant: the young boffins have proved they know their stuff, and are guaranteed a job as a result.

Congrats.

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

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Re: Erm...

I dont think a wiseguy with you phone and ability to send messages would turn _off_ the flow of free data. You have bigger problems.

Totally Subcontracted Business: TSB to outsource entire IT estate to IBM for a cool $1bn after 2019 meltdown

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Re: New TSB slogan

I think the "nobody got fired for buying IBM" set will be secretly happy that its actually going to be implemented by redhat.

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

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Attacks from US ip addresses are not necessarily run by an American, you may just have a lots of ip cameras turned to bots in the states.

Report: World's population of developers expands, JavaScript reigns, C# overtakes PHP

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Re: Ermm. nope!

I have 64 threads locked on a log mutex here and servers falling over to remind me that procedural/async languages do have benefits.

Leaked Uber docs reveal frequent use of 'kill switch' to deactivate tech, thwart investigators

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Man those guys are crooks

Mad to think 10% are still working and not behind bars.

Happy I live in a place that kicked the buggers out.

Just take a look at the carnage on Notepad++'s GitHub: 'Free Uyghur' release sparks spam tsunami by pro-Chinese

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Re: Why do businesses try to avoid politics?

The world is a lot smaller these days. One national border does not get you off running sweatshops, in my book.

US Commerce Dept says China has brain-control weaponry

Clausewitz 4.0
Devil

Re: Brain Control, Havana Syndrome, Microchips, USA and China

@teknopaul

Please take a look:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

To see how waves works

Node.js sees Windows compatibility as key to success

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event based java is complicated

node is kind of a one trick pony. but what it does it does well.

Google puts Chrome on a cookie diet (which just so happens to starve its rivals, cough, cough...)

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Re: Looking forward to "the Facebook brwoser", "the Amazon browser" and friends

Word. FireFox is our only hope.

Shame its such a bitch to fork.

It's a no to ZFS in the Linux kernel from me, says Torvalds, points finger of blame at Oracle licensing

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When you say connected I presume you mean compiled including gpl parts. I don't think Oracle do much kernel Dev they resell redhat patches.

They think it's all over. It's not now: US judge rejects HPE motion to have Oracle's Solaris sueball dismissed

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Shame Oracle ended up with Solaris, it was good for a while.

It's clearly dangerous to be anywhere near Oracle these days. Including Java.

Dealing with the pandemic by drinking and swearing? Boffins say you're not alone

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re: no safe level

This has been disproved time and time again.

a bottle per person is safe, two is not.

Intel's net positive water use only tells part of the story

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Yes! Burn petrol to make water!

Doh!

We need to all walk around in Dune's stillsuits.

With pee collectors producing nitrates to replace the fertiliser stocks.

Azure VMs ruined by CrowdStrike patchpocalypse? Microsoft has recovery tips

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On a serious note

Is it safe to turn on Windows machines that have been down while this was going on?

Does anyone at CrowdStrike work weekends?

Bookstore sells some data centre capacity, becomes Microsoft, Oracle's nemesis

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Re: Since it wasn't mentioned by name in the article

Windows™, because good managers know that the only cure for FUD is a bonefide certified support contract.

From Vega with love: Pegasus interstellar asteroid's next stop

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What about these interstellar mini spacecraft thingamabubs being proposed, could you fire one of these with lasers towards it to ger a close up. Be good target practice.