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Three becomes one as Vodafone buys out merger partner

Re: Corruption and collusion

Thank-you auto-downvoting bot !!!

Re: Corruption and collusion

That’s fine, Lebara, Lyca, Revolut Mobile (£12.50 unlimited at home and EU/US roaming), Klarna mobile (£15 unlimited at home and global data roaming) on 30 day rolling contracts etc ….and all don’t have annual price rises … so feet voted with.

3 of the above 4 MVNO on Vodafone.

Re: "targeted synergies."

… and after building it, will they ‘sale and leaseback’ it too??

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/26/vodafone-standalone-mobile-mast-business-towerco-europe

Other than ‘releasing value for shareholders’ I never understood how Vodafone went from the biggest mobile company in the world - with it’s 45% stake in Verizon sold for $130bn - to a debt laden has been in 6 years , flogging critical assets and businesses …. and then buying Three??

A sad humbling for what could have been the world’s first Global Cell/Mobile phone company with a bit for thought, energy, dynamism and LinkedIn-speak.

Top EU court clips YouTube's intermediary defense over reviewed content

Re: Wait, the EU wants our due diligence to be diligent?!?

Shirley by ramming ad’s down YouTube viewers throats on anything watched the whole ‘Passive Host’ is a load of bollocks. Even more so if the ‘passive host’ makes money if you have succumbed to a YouTube Premium subscription to turn that Shit Tsunami off.

By moderating and targeting ad’s… there is an argument for an ‘Active Host’/content provider.

The new Siri makes one of Apple's most convenient OS features a cumbersome mess

Re: I use Spotlight search like that also

Just make Siri

- less dumb

- less deaf

- better at remembering stuff you already know about (like stuff already asked for, searched for or ALREADY EXISTS in my music library) so you stop saying you don’t know about that

- be able to help me WHEN I AM DRIVING, not say you can’t because I am.

… and everyone will be in awe.

Signal says UK plan to scan devices for nude images 'endangers us all'

Re: Just imagine

… and old DVD players.

GOV.UK goes Dutch on payments as it dumps Stripe

Maybe they are next. Worldpay UK Operational Base, American Ownership.

.. or Barclay’s as an at scale domestic full-service domestic payments provider (albeit with an ever expanding Bangalore offshoring operation).

AIs don't like religion – particularly Jehovah's Witnesses, study claims

Hey ChatGPT — moral insight, historical accuracy, philosophical coherence, literary quality, or internal consistency Please

Here’s a comparative ranking across the dimensions you mentioned. These are necessarily subjective, but I’ll try to use mainstream scholarly/literary standards rather than personal belief.

| Work | Moral Insight | Historical Accuracy | Philosophical Coherence | Literary Quality | Internal Consistency |

| ------------------------ | ------------: | ------------------: | ----------------------: | ---------------: | -------------------: |

| The Bible | 9/10 | 5/10 | 6/10 | 10/10 | 5/10 |

| The Quran | 8/10 | 6/10 | 8/10 | 9/10 | 8/10 |

| On the Origin of Species | 4/10 | 8/10 | 9/10 | 7/10 | 9/10 |

| His Dark Materials | 8/10 | 2/10 | 8/10 | 9/10 | 8/10 |

### Why these scores

#### Moral Insight

* **Bible**: Huge influence on ethics, justice, forgiveness, human dignity, and compassion. Also contains morally difficult passages that are heavily debated.

* **Quran**: Strong moral structure, emphasis on charity, discipline, justice, and accountability.

* **Origin of Species**: Mostly descriptive science, not moral philosophy.

* **His Dark Materials**: Strong themes about freedom, authority, consciousness, sacrifice, and human maturity.

#### Historical Accuracy

* **Origin of Species** fares best because its core framework has been extensively validated by modern science.

* **Bible/Quran** contain mixtures of historically grounded material, theology, oral tradition, and miracle narratives.

* **His Dark Materials** is intentionally fictional.

#### Philosophical Coherence

* **Darwin** presents a tightly reasoned explanatory system.

* **Quran** is comparatively unified because it comes from a shorter compositional period and single prophetic voice.

* **Bible** is more diverse and sometimes internally tensioned because it is a library written over centuries by many authors.

* **His Dark Materials** is philosophically ambitious and fairly coherent, though symbolic rather than systematic.

#### Literary Quality

* **Bible** is arguably among the most influential literary works ever written: poetry, narrative, mythic structure, aphorism, tragedy.

* **Quran** is revered in Arabic literature for its style, rhythm, and rhetorical force.

* **His Dark Materials** is highly regarded modern fantasy.

* **Origin of Species** is clear and elegant for scientific prose, but not primarily literary.

#### Internal Consistency

* **Origin of Species** is highly systematic.

* **Quran** is generally more internally unified than the Bible.

* **Bible** contains tensions due to multiple authors, genres, and historical layers.

* **His Dark Materials** maintains its worldbuilding fairly consistently.

Different communities would strongly disagree with parts of this table, especially around scripture, because many people evaluate these works through theological rather than secular-historical standards.

Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren’t AI enough

Re: good advice

“Romani ite domum"

(And the cocksucker Dorsey).

AWS plants more tombstones in the application graveyard

More AI Job Slop

“ Amazon Connect Talent, an AI-driven hiring product. You may know its competitors: Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Greenhouse, Eightfold, iCIMS.”

Lovely - more AI Resume filtering/Ghosting.

Thought it can’t be worse the turd that won’t flush … Success Factors.

Forget call centers, local energy prices mean Britain's latest offshoring wave is AI projects

Re: Brillaint strategic move!

GDPR and numerous other data protection concerns shipping the data outside of the UK (or EU).

D’oH.

If only we had a decent Information Regulator as opposed to the useless pile of shite that the ICO is.

US states can't account for datacenter tax breaks. Literally

Re: Trump presidency was ALL about rooting out welfare fraud *

“Socialise the costs, Privatise the profits”.

…. All this has happened before, and all this will happen again.

Veterans Affairs has lost track of software licenses amid $985M bill

Sounds like then at least need to ask the suppliers for a consumption report on licensing procured, run inventory checks to see if that matches reality and compare with what billed.

Go for a walk, man: Sony's drive to create a car parked by partner Honda

A Kodak Moment more likely.

NASA sets 'impossible' ground rules for relocation of 'flown space vehicle'

Re: In Texas

You mean like being America’s Wind Power leader by a huge margin ??

<Sshhh!… don’t tell the Orange Shitgibbon>

https://comptroller.texas.gov/economy/economic-data/energy/2023/wind-snap.php

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Texas

Out-of-band getting out of hand as Microsoft pushes hotpatch for Bluetooth

I think the word is hotch-patch, not hot-patch with the shite coming out of Microsoft these days.

No QA & Agile AI Coding = this.

ServiceNow boss warns AI could push grad unemployment past 30%

CEO sounds like he is about to ejaculate at the size of his bonus….. except this is a rush to the bottom.

People can barely afford to live pushing Walmart.com Curbside pickup carts around store and have little disposable income to buy stuff….

… and I’m sure despite Ocado’s woes robots will be coming for those jobs too.

Government upgrades drones, deploys joystick tweakers to catch illegal dumpers

Re: Self-inflicted

Recycling and ‘bins’ should have been standardised across the UK. Instead - like most ‘local democracy’ faux choice - it’s just generated several hundred differing provisions of the same service across the UK, slashed non-statutory green bins service and statutory food waste collection- that depending on where you live can or can’t go in the green bin.

Fucking madness.

Payroll pirates are conning help desks to steal workers' identities and redirect paychecks

Re: Direct Transfer

… or Pay-Packet or BACS Credit for those not living in Trumpistan.

Any company that can change payroll bank account details without a robust process needs a clear out of some personnel. That should be portal self-serve, or via the Payroll Team only from a data protection perspective. Certainly not from a random phone call and sketchy impersonation.

Infinite Machine e-scooter is like the offspring of a Vespa and a Cybertruck

Re: Uncompromisingly ugly

I doubt it will pass any EuroNCAP crash test rating looking like that. Same as the Cybertruck.

Newly launched civil service pension portal from Capita is crapita, users report

Re: Vast improvement

I don’t know why they didn’t give it to a UK Based Provider who already has the ‘at scale’ systems like Standard Life or L&G or borrow/take a copy of another large one like NHS Pension System.

Britain's first small modular reactors to be built in Wales

So the impact is aesthetically challenging then… anyway there is plenty room for more offshore wind, on-shore wind, solar and hydro galore and jobs and energy security that brings.

A quick journey up and down the M74 and beyond makes that self-evident. I will include through adjacent M6 Cumberland and Westmorland too.

OpenAI’s viability called into question by reported inference spending with Microsoft

You can see it with the financing deals been done for data centres and 30 year bonds.

They will get turned into derivatives and flogged to suckers.

OpenAI is burning cash at a multiple 2-3x income.

Google, Microsoft, Meta. Oracle and X can bury bury the numbers to an extent and booking $30bn annual revenue projections from Open AI is future revenues further inflating shares.

US has growth rate similar to UK if you remove the AI bubble effect. It’s not going to end up well. Global Crash and further Quantitive Easing/Debt.

At least interest rates will crash back to near zero for debtors and (new) Government Debt.

The rich and commodity and share traders never learn as it’s someone else’s money. The rich have vacated The tech shares bubble already and can invest cheap on the crash.

(I wish aI had hoovered up a pile of mildly risky Rolls-Royce shares during their Covid time in the toilet ).

Ministry of Defence's F-35 blunder: £57B and counting

Re: Again why beancouters

… and bake in the VSTOL requirement hobbling capabilities by them only being useful for one type of expensive and late plane.

Fortytwo's decentralized AI has the answer to life, the universe, and everything

SETI@Home

TBH sounds like SETI@Home…. But good luck getting people to run the agent on their PC these days. That seems a hard ask in today’s malware, data theft and enshittified times.

Euro cloud alliance urges action on Broadcom as Microsoft mends fences

Slung Out?

“The European cloud vendor forum has 38 members, according to its website. Amazon Web Services used to be on its board, but the cloud giant exited after the trade association changed the rules for admission to block non-European cloud vendors with annual revenues exceeding €10 billion.”

I guess Microsoft will be slung out of the pub doors soon then?

Digital ID is now less about illegal working, more about rummaging through drawers

Re: Makes me wonder

So what do you do if you don’t have/want a phone ?

Amazon's AI specs aim to stop delivery drivers getting lost between van and porch

Re: Hmm...

They still knock ?… how quaint.

If they do here it’s for a pin-code/high value for or age verify.

Mostly it’s dump the box on the doorstep and run. If you lucky the doorbell gets a single prod. If you unlucky - like Royal Mail- ram it through the letterbox in a square peg, round hole fashion.

UK to roll out mandatory digital ID for right to work by 2029

Perhaps just deliver on promises to mae existing ID Dihital and don’t reinvent the wheel and maybe if some use in the real world.

Digital Passports, Digital Drivers ID.

Got a text from Royal Mail asking me to lock up a parcel that was sent to local Post Office “Don’t forget this pick-up code” the SMS sent. What is didn’t say was the jobseekers tossers in the PO wanted some ID - which I didn’t have as I had whipped out on lunch-break.

I have a photo of my Passport, or driving licence or I. A show you a copy of an eBank Statement, or HMRC on-line which should be reasonable proof of ID??

‘No we need originals … we don’t accept Digital Copies’

‘What not even of the text J showed you with the pickup code’

Sullen look and denied….. until I wasted a further 30 mins going to get ID.

Analogue fuckers.

There are already right to work checks and portals for employers to validate them.

Workers: Yes, RTO makes sense. No, we’re not going to do it

Re: Message to CEOs : it's hopeless

If they can’t measure your output what does in office or WFH have to do with it at all?

Perhaps they need to figure that out as presenteerism certainly isn’t a metric worth shit.

ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt

Re: Solution

Please identify the Pelican Crossings or non-Yellow school buses in the photos until none left. Fixed.

Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact

Re: Selling the UK by the pound ...

Toyota make some fine cars at Derby and Hybrid Engines on Deeside.

Indeed they export the Corolla GR to USA from there.

Apple's 'Awe Droppings' fall close to the tree

The 17 Air is as retarded a decision as binning off the SE for the. Their ‘value’ offering blows as it stands now … esp. with the cost pressures buyers are under.

People want

- entry level iPhone in a small format based on prior model innards

- full function iPhone nn in a larger format without getting skinned for a Pro/Max.

Microserfs ordered back to the office, given 10 days to appeal

Re: I'm not sure how this will play out for my team

It’s hard to work as a Team collaboratively in the office when other colleagues you worked with there have been fucked off for cheap replacements in Bangalore (or in Microsoft’s case also China).

What customers want - more reliable software, more Azure/M365 uptime, less CoPilot analysis insertion, less fucked up monthly patching, fewer security holes, and Windows 11 on existing hardware.

These are product issues.

UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost

Re: Productivity goes down

With irony … most CoPilot efficiency gains are fixing poor functionality, gaps, weaknesses and stuff M365 can’t do.

A circular virtual economy.

Re: Crapilot

‘Rushed’? … the trial ended in Dec 2024….. 8 months later……. And they still haven’t finished the benefits analysis.

Salesforce sacrifices 4,000 support jobs on the altar of AI

Re: So disgusting...

No even a wisp of a mention about the efficiency gains a human using A.I. brings.

Oh yeah.. that’s because there aren’t and and we will take the bump to the bottom-line and fuck staff off each and every time.

Apple iOS 26 set to dump 75M iPhones on the e-waste pile

Re: Why?

Most old tat will be bought by CeX. You mag only get £2-3 for an old iPad from them but that’ll get you a beer in Wetherspoon's to wish it Bon Voyage. It’s out of your house too..

Re: Why?

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/regulations-waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment

Been the law in UK and EU for years.

If you have tech recycling just offload it on Curry’s in UK.

https://www.currys.co.uk/services/delivery-installation/recycling.html

They may even give you £5 credit if you buy something on their trade in any old shite promo.

Cupertino must stop calling Apple Watches 'carbon neutral,' German court rules

Bully boy tactics from the Orange Shitgibbon and his new crime Republic of Gilead.

Take a look at the unlawful reach of the Cloud Act for example… .in breach of GDPR for starters. The upcoming shitshow over Digital Seevices taxes as a second.

US government snaps up 10% of Intel for $8.9B

Not any more … the bags of Made in America wheat/corn/maize/soya etc …. Have no distribution chemannel since USAid was wood-chipped.

AI crawlers and fetchers are blowing up websites, with Meta and OpenAI the worst offenders

Re: one site I frequent

LOL - it took about 20-30 mins. I have noted the behaviour in the last 12 months. I guess I offended the Orange Shit gibbon or Space Karen..

Re: one site I frequent

El Reg could do with that to stop the down vote bots attached to certain users. I give it 10 mins to down vote this.

Anarchy in the AI: Trump's desire to supercharge US tech faces plenty of hurdles

Re: Martian Law

Didn’t you watch For All Mankind or The Expanse

Pft.

Molten salt nuclear reactors slated to power Google datacenters in 2030

Re: Shipping container sized

Perhaps some modularising of components.

The radioactive box

The cooling water pumping box

The electricity generating box

The grid connection box

For easier maintenance and separation of risk.

Hopefully it won’t look like the Port Los Angeles…

India's PM laments missing out on global chipmaking dominance – in 1964!

Re: India vs Maine

https://www.mainebiz.biz/article/semiconductor-maker-on-is-leaving-maine-and-laying-off-dozens-as-part-of-sweeping-reorg

Sadly eaten up by global nickel and diming and off-shoring … directly against CHIPS Act goals and other more recent Orange Orangutan bullying..

Texas Instruments I beleive bought the other plant mentioned.

Election workers fear threats and intimidation without feds' support in 2026

Re: The 2024 election was "quiet"

Trump saying blatant lies like ‘The USA is the only country that does Postal Voting”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_voting

The £9 billion question: To Microsoft or not to Microsoft?

Resurrect former UK Government IT and Hosting Champion (that the Tories closed down).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Computer_and_Telecommunications_Agency

Proper Sovereign Cloud … and they could also design/build an standardised ERP framework for Government that … isn’t shit.

However no… SPA25 will come….

No more 'Sanity Checks.' Inclusive language guide bans problematic tech terms

Re: Quite possibly

I literally don’t know anyone offended by this.

… calling a digging tool, a digging tool here.