* Posts by excperr

43 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2023

Apple plugs security hole in its iThings that's already been exploited in iOS

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upto 21G of AI goodness / utter rubbish switched on by default in 18.3

Switch it off.

Russia gives life sentence to Hydra dark web kingpin after seizing a ton of drugs

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Notice how low the fines are... thats so corrupt officials can steal the rest.

Google sues Pixel engineer who allegedly posted trade secrets online

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Re: "Keep going man"

Think of him as a martyr mabye that will help the hard of thinking here?

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lol at the gimp downvotes, that terrible phonecian corp needed to be decimated decades ago... have a nice day CONformists :)

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Any action against google is to be applauded. Keep going man

The only thing worse than being fired is scammers fooling you into thinking you're fired

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Re: Dead giveaway

Yes but its amazing how many people don't know that nor their rights.

NHS to launch 'real-time surveillance system' to prevent future pandemics

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Re: "prevent future pandemics"

Is behind a paywall.

French govt finance panel mulls nationalizing Atos

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Amazing isn't it? Too big to fail..? NO.

Brazen crims selling stolen credit cards on Meta's Threads

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lulz speak?

Campaigners claim 'Privacy Preserving Attribution' in Firefox does the opposite

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Re: So how does one turn it off?

Apparently it was too much to include simple instructions in the article...

Capita wins £135M extension on much-delayed UK smart meter rollout

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What could possibly go wrong?

Incredible really. Open corruption.

Cybercrooks strut away with haute couture Harvey Nichols data

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Doctor Syntax... being doctor Syntax. Good catch.

WHO-backed meta-study finds no evidence that cellphone radiation causes brain cancer

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Re: Dr WHO

The badge crowd...

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Dr WHO

Not sure I trust them at all now after the past few years...

UK tech pioneer Mike Lynch dead at 59

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Cue a billion downvotes...

Been following this for years. Its the Phonecians - the worlds oldest cartel - showing that you don't 1) pretend to be one of them or 2) steal from them.

UK health services call-handling vendor faces $7.7M fine over 2022 ransomware attack

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Re: Justice to come?

"Jail time for the directors might focus their attention a bit better."

Never.

Going.

To.

Happen.

Amazon, you will do a total recall of bad stuff sold through your site, watchdog barks

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Leaving Amazon?

Do what I did when they stole a £1300 puter I ordered....

If you have pay monthly payments enabled - then make sure you get what you can from them - its not a credit agreement so will not affect your credit score.

After being refunded, I helped myself to £5k of stuff, paid the 20% then they can swing for the rest.

Make sure you leave in style!

On one Prime Day, Amazon warehouse workers endured '45% injury rate'

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Its the CONvenience.

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Amazon = scum. end of.

Intel interrupts work on $25B Israel fab, citing need for 'responsible capital management'

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Big Brother

hasbara here? on el reg?

oh yes they are everywhere!

Microsoft Research chief scientist has no issue with Windows Recall

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I see

no ships...

Court accepts Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim's insider trading settlement

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Look at him...

Why would you trust anything he says?

70% of CISOs worry their org is at risk of a material cyber attack

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Its a similar huge liability in Digital Forensics around CSAM. Don't handle that poison correctly and you will be charged with possession and with the current laws as they stand convicted.

Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight

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Can you imagine the aggravtion of this in say a Bank?

Those places are already terrible. Can you imagine being responsible for the Phreaks money?

Amazon boss receives tap on wrist for statements breaking labor laws

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Amazon = criminal organisation https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.amazon.co.uk?sort=recency

Fujitsu set to be preferred bidder in UK digital ID scheme

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Big Brother

Sleepwalking bit by bit, into a new world order...

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Contract for a million = peanuts. Long game shite with them, as usual.

Virgin Media sets up 'smart poles' next to cabinets to boost mobile network capacity

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Re: color matched with the street cabinet beside it

Surely you mean "Gray"?

Filipino police free hundreds of slaves toiling in romance scam operation

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Just because you get paid doesn't mean its not slavery.

They call me 'Growler'. I don't like you. Let's discuss your pay cut

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Depends on your definition of growler I guess.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Growler

Palantir boss says outfit's software the only reason the 'goose step' has not returned to Europe

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Big Brother

Terrible Person

Like so many of his type. You shouldn't listen to anything he says.

Dumping us into ad tier of Prime Video when we paid for ad-free is 'unfair' – lawsuit

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Re: "Contract"

CON-tract

Fujitsu will not bid for UK.gov business until Post Office inquiry closes

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not so strange...

Are we living in the upside down - again?

Brit borough council apologizes for telling website users to disable HTTPS

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If your still experiencing problems please disable your firewall and anti-virus too.

Mid-contract telco price hikes must end, Ofcom told

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Re: Hands

used to. It was withdrawn for new customers I think last year.

Amazon unveils new drone design, plans liftoff of aerial delivery in UK, Italy

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I'm suprised amazon has to abide by airspace rules... no other rules seem to apply to them.

Meta Quest 3 is a virtual reality of repair insanity

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Life in the old dog yet

Quest 2 peformance +20% since the june 21 V55 firmware update.

"Quest performance improvements

We're continuing to move VR forwards by pushing the boundaries of what Quest Pro and Quest 2 are capable of. With v55, we're enabling higher clock speeds for the CPU and GPU for all Quest Pro and Quest 2 headsets, giving you smoother gameplay and a more responsive UI. This update also adds more power for developers to take advantage of for both existing and upcoming apps.

These performance improvements include:

Up to 26% increase in CPU speed for Quest Pro and Quest 2

Up to 19% increase in GPU for Quest 2

Up to 11% increase in GPU for Quest Pro "

https://www.meta.com/en-gb/help/quest/articles/whats-new/release-notes/

SpaceX accused of paying less to women and minority engineers

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One of the usual suspects

Techies at Europe's biggest council have 8 weeks to pull finance reports from Oracle system

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Never let a good crises go to waste.

iPhone 15 is too hot to handle – and not in any good way

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Have apple ever responded to el reg?

Alibaba boss steps down to become boss of Alibaba Cloud

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Intel

Cloud Intelligence Group. Indeed.

Can noise-cancelling buds beat headphones? We spent 20 hours flying to find out

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Re: I can't wear buds/in-ear headphones for long.

Wireless are active = warmer.

Wired - passive = cooler.