Posts by JugheadJones

M&S warns of £300M dent in profits from cyberattack

Re: A £300million reduction in profits

no ,they never do, if you look at the occurences of these attacks they keep going on because it's the last place the company invests in, it's more about website functionality first. From a hacking perspectivie evey company with an online presence should have "what happens if we have a ransomware attack" in the their business plan. this might be a DR or built-in redundancy testing etc. So far I worked for 4-5 online companies and this isn't in their remit when I asked.

Also the number of law companies using these attacks to get compensation for personal data loss, to them it's a great opportunity to get some additonal legal fees.

Microsoft open sources Windows Subsystem for Linux – well, most of it

I wonder

if they made some of the WSL engineers redundant to get open source community to update it ?

Trump says he has a problem if Apple builds iThings in India

manufacturing in poorer countries

The shift of manufacturing in the 70's,80's,90's allowed more services (thinking jobs) to come about in the west and allow people to use their brains to design them instead of standing on manufacturing lines doing repetitive tasks, which most of know is better done by machines, I'm not saying at all the other countries don't have thinkers, they do and some excellent ones but they do have a major advantage here lots of cheaper labour useful to any corporate. These desicions continue the theme of dumbing down, what's the point of getting a degree/master's/PHD if the only jobs available are manufacturing ones.

Also as mentioned in various posts do the locals want to go back to standing on production lines , a job is a job and if it's the only job going , then there isn't much choice?

British govt agents step in as Harrods becomes third mega retailer under cyberattack

security , no it's in the way

been working in this area for years and for a number of online services. The last thing considered is security - the first thing is the api working - no - give it admin rights - it's working yes. right now we go live with it but I said it's not secure take away the priviliedge. Don't be stupid , it's working man, the last thing that will happen is we get attacked online, it's very rare. - agile for you

my previous company got hacked through a redis vunerability and managed to startup bitcoin server's in EC2 and my current place got a ransomware attack.

When I started at my current workplace their opionion (even the CEO) said all their websites should be online, even though they had explicit customers for specific api's , I said whitelist thier IP's. The answer, "No, don't be silly that's too inflexible and restrictive"

I got asked to enable WAF rules, some of these rules broke the API but just needed exclusions, they said too complicated, leave some of the rules out.

Almost all of them do yearly pentests, these are total bollocks, they get given a fixed environment with little exposed and don't do internal pen testing, i.e. all the middleware services/load balancers on the internet which don't need to be and s3 buckets - this is usually number 1 of the list. What they should get is every endpoint exposed externally and tests these for all types of attacks. Also internally they should check security patches are either auto or manually patched regularly as they come out to be thorough but how to maintain this , dunno, some companies won't pay for full time security engineers when I guess they need to spend more money on functionaility. It's a question of "what happens if we do get hacked"

I still remember my first job in a large investment bank in 1997, there was an audit by a large well known auditer and I was asked to install some sophos software on some Unix servers. When the audit finished , I was asked to remove the software.

Maybe the government should have legislation to any commercial businesses that online presence means security first and the prviledge of least acess to do whats required and regular patching , exposing only the required services and nothing else should be part of the mandate and they should get a thrid party to do end-to-end testing.

Nationwide power outages knock Spain, Portugal offline

GPU working overtime

Could be a number of cloud providers turned on clusters of GPU's all at once to test the power grid. There's your answer

Team Trump readies national security card to justify taxing Americans for foreign chips

i want my own chips

Even thought I don't agree with the current totalitarium US gov, this is exactly what I would do, world powers should never rely on chips whether cpu/gpu .... made elsewhere. Doesn't matter how hard or easy it is to spot any spyware, the number one goal would be only trust what YOU make and nothing else.

The levels of sophistication required to add spyware are going to get easier and being able to spot it probably harder, so best to avoid the situation. Then again I guess if it's home made you have to trust the people making it as well, first thing don't let it fall into foreign hands.

For all major world leaders this is not a choice , it's a neccessity and should be given highest mandates and budgets , going into the future this will lead into much faster, better and more accurate AI/AGI/ASI/ML espeically , where it gets deployed first - in the military.

System builders say server prices set to spike as Trump plays customs cowboy

Re: Strategy

it will either make it or break it, even with his level of narcissim he must be bricking it at the moment.

JCB creating a factory in the US , this is what he wants, seems to be going his way for now

James Webb Space Telescope to size up asteroid 2024 YR4 before it rocks our world

MEGA

make earth great again!

Man who binned 7,500 Bitcoin drive now wants to buy entire landfill to dig it up

value

in 2013 a bitcoin was about $13 , wouldn't have been too painful but today it like losing your lottery ticket if you win, very painful

Trump's Dept of Transport hits brakes on Biden’s EV charger build-out

maybe he should use the money to fund high performace gasolene hot rods for everyone at least 1000 horsepower with fumes going up 30ft , thundering noise and skids marks everywhere

Musk torches $500B Stargate AI plan, Altman strikes back

great news

The fallout has started already , I knew it wouldn't take long, it could start like his first term did with 43% of senior white house positions being turned over, historically one of the highest. Let the diagreements begin!

Tim cooking up the dough as his Apple pay rises 18% to $74.6M

RAM upgrade

He might be able to buy all those macbook pro's but he will need another pay rise to double the RAM on them and then they might be useable state.

Telemetry data from 800K VW Group EVs exposed online

security holes

smart & Ai enabled doesn't just mean what it says it could also have "assumed" location tracking services. We know by using phones/desktops they love to track we're doing on them, same with cars I guess. 1984 as always becoming more and more of a reality. The EU should step in here and ask for incognito buttons in cars or service should be disabled by default until user says they want it on. Sometimes it is used by insurance companies to look at someones driving to get lower insurance premiums but they normally give you a device to do this.

I've been moving jobs for the last 10 years and it's interesting how many holes I find when starting a new role, legacy open S3 buckets which no-one could be bothered to find out and clamp down, open 22 access, albeit needs a correct key but this is simple for bods that leave and the keys are never really rotated or even updated. Similar with AWS access credentials, these are very rarely changed and simple for people that come and go and yet they do a pen test every year and get a clean bill of security health. I suppose checks are limited to certain areas and they also asusme these issues don't exist ?

Jimmy Carter set the solar, space, and environmental pace

timing was everything

Timing was unfortunate for Carter during his first term and this is where Ronnie came in at the right time. Thing is, Carter could have got a second term after Ronnie first one, becuase he was suffering from late stage parkinsons, I remember his wife standing on stage as he spoke to tell him what he needed to say. Unbelievelably alot of people knew that and still gave him a second term, I suppose he was the muppet relay for their cabinet and just followed what eevryone told him to do, very much unlike the forthcoming incubent will be doing in 2025.

India spending $170M to take its tax system paperless by rebuilding three legacy systems

Pan

Isn't this the tobacco stuff they chew and spit out and causes mouth cancer ?

Good choice of name.

Infosys founder calls for 70-hour work week – again – claiming it creates jobs

Re: scrooge

Forgot to say

Ghost of past: it's been shit working here

Present: yep still shit

Future: nothing to look forward to , nothing changes except the ones above filling their socks with money.

scrooge

timing is interesting, conjures up a picture of some indian equivalent of ebenezer scrooge waiting for the three ghosts of christmas to sort it all out! Wait some bollywood producer might pick this up.

I think for some it's never enough what you do for them, if you put them in charge of a country they would probably prefer to be a dictator/ruler or similar.

Work is generally meant to be enjoyable , meeting , socialising, spining off ideas, learning and also some hard work. Working in a sweat shop for a bunch of hard batting scrooges is definately not enjoyable, just a hard lesson in life not to go there again.

How Chinese insiders are stealing data scooped up by President Xi's national surveillance system

Re: Chinese hollowing out our educational system?

looking forward to see if this will happen in the US over the next 4 years

Billionaire food app CEO wants you to pay for the privilege of working with him

Re: What a dick head

here's anotherrecent one

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/elon-musk-wants-super-high-iq-revolutionaries-to-work-80-hours-weekly-with-no-pay-for-doge/ar-AA1u77IA

Re: What a dick head

He's not the only one, there's a pile of them in the US making the news all the time, in fact it wouldn't surprise me if this is where the desease started :)

Japan looks to nuclear energy to power AI-powered datacenter boom

fault planes and nuclear power

with about 4 fault planes in and around Japan and the events of Fukashima (although it could've been alot worse) I'm not sure this is a good idea. Although the amount of power they need I'm not sure solar/wind/wave will meet it so there's not much alternative I guess.

Apple drops soldered storage for 2024 Mac Mini

Re: Who remembers the bad old days

my first home computer, 16k BBC micro , eventually added a 16k sideways RAM board for a whopping total which for 1985 wasn't bad.

Google Gemini tells grad student to 'please die' while helping with his homework

AI Farm

Similarly to the animal farm book, AI is coming to take over humans, if the ML models are working , then in theory they should self learn and become like human brains. Gemini is more advanced than the others ?

Undergrad thought he had mastered Unix in weeks. Then he discovered rm -rf

recursive chown

I gave access to a trusted developer once and he accidentally did a recursive chown -R from top level. He forgot he was sudo'ed to root and owned everything from / instead. I tried but this again was as bad as a rm -rf /, and would take too log to fix, although most thing are owned by root:root, there are some nobody,tty etc there as well (solaris days). Rebuild required. this was prior to zfs , if that had been around, you could easily rollback to a snapshot in single user mode

Amazon's nuclear datacenter dreams stall as watchdog rejects power deal

fusion

waiting for fusion to come, just need something to contain that 100 million deg C.

Major publishers sue Perplexity AI for scraping without paying

Re: "great" Americans like Elon Musk

or I think judgements in the US are biased towards Americans who are mostly , high net worth coporates. Outside of the US, guilty or not it would be more fairer system.

Look at ridiclous supreme court ruling on Trump, how he has managed to avoid prison and ordinary people with lesser crimes do, is just unreal. If Trump can get away with it then Musky can as well, and has so far.

America needs a magna carta amendment

India, Nvidia, discuss jointly developed AI chip

infrastructure investment

With all this growth in DataCenters let's hope the power stays on and more is spent on improving the infrastructure.

Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete

well done

They did well, they got the OS down to 8GB of cached junk!

Severe solar storm could disrupt power, communications

Re: watch your ECC memory

I think you're right, I was confused since it was so long ago, it was eCache on the CPU which was usually L1,L2 and L3 caches which was impacted. I think , also based on your note, the ECC comes in and corrects it

watch your ECC memory

going back a bit in time when Sun SPARC chips were around we would often find ECC memory correction errors in the logs, opening a case with Sun would yield the result that cosmic ray radiation from solar flares causing the issue. Working mostly in financials, this could, potentially, cause big problems. I'm guessing ECC is better proctected these days and less of an issue.

Elon Musk's X mashed by Australian court for evading child protection reporting

regulation!

Taking this service on is going to prove a total headache for him eventually, if not already. The amount of regulation current and being added to socail media is increasing and rightly so in my opinion but someone has the take the stick for anything that goes wrong and it's either the country regulator for the service or the one at the top or even both.

Every country has their own rules , some are similar but complying with them all and as they add more is hard work. But he doesn't really give a sh*t about regulators like the gobsh*te he is.

Fujitsu teams up with Supermicro on Arm-based server CPU

Lol!, always something coming through the Post

Bank of America app glitch zeroes out people's balances

wrong one

it's debts you want to zero out not the balances, try again

Infosys scores deal to write code for EV-maker Polestar

don't trust any of them

a few years ago I was driving my wife's lexus and coming off a slip road it braked really hard, my wife screamed at me saying "what are you doing", I said wasn't me, was your car which had pre-sense braking turned on. There was no traffic for over 100m. I has similar experiences with pre-sense on my audi as well, if I swing the car into the left to avoid an island in the middle, and there is a car parked on the left, the pre-sense slams the brake on, only if it thinks the velocity and distance I'm going to hit the car, but I know it's not. The algorithm they used here doesn't match what a human can do within the time period.

The other one I used to use the cruise control and lane detect on the motorway but stopped after reading this

https://www.rushlane.com/car-cruise-control-jammed-12215785.html

Quote> "My car is not coming out of the cruise control"

Now I just want a car without a computer!

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund throws cash at FreeBSD and Samba

The best bit about W10 & W11 is they added WSL to it.

Elon Musk's assassination 'joke' bombs, internet calls for his deportation

Re: AI vetting

not featuring on the front cover of time magazine might have something to do with it ?

AI vetting

How come his post by-passed the AI hate speech filters ? filter name musk, skip checks and just publish

If posts like these (not the first) ,can make him a triliionaire , then what am I doing wrong ?

Lebanon: At least nine dead, thousands hurt after Hezbollah pagers explode

nothing new

next rocket-firing cigarettes ? JB 007 YOLT

US spends CHIPS Act cash to explore Indian chipmaking collabs

another world order

In my view any form of chip making facility should not go abroad, these components are fundamental to governments and companies. It also means locally made chips would be less scrutinised in terms of compliance and security.

Also all this outsourcing has made some countries very rich and able to throw their weight into any policitcal issue going, starting from humble beginnings to becoming a world order. Do we really need another one ? Keep it in house doesn't matter if it costs a bit more, long term does less damage