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Microsoft offers vintage Exchange and Skype server users six more months of security updates

Re: end of exchange oh noes!!!

Notes is like shagging an 80 year old. Everyone know where it is but no one wants to go there. :-)

Ukrainian hackers claim to have destroyed major Russian drone maker's entire network

Skinny Pete...

If there's one thing I know, it's never to mess with mother nature, mother in-laws and mother fucking Ukrainians.

The Italian Job. :-)

Large Hadron Collider data hints at explanation for why everything exists

IMHO...

Antimatter is slightly in the future. The offset is variable and is dependent upon the velocity of the piece of matter it is tied to.

Thought I might invest 2 cents to see if I could score a million krona. :-)

Meta used AI to concoct low-carbon concrete it poured for a datacenter floor

greener concrete

Nice pun. Anyway you try telling building control that you had AI knock up the batch specs or getting an engineer to sign off on the structural strength. I'm presuming that's why they used they word "designer".

If you want a picture of the future, imagine humans checking AI didn't make a mistake – forever

I oft ponder...

Why the cost of call centre staff is so high that we need to spend billions on AI to make customer service cheaper. These call centre people must be paid a fortune! :-)

Starlink says SpaceX targeting 2026 for launch of Starship-ready terabit satellites

All I know is....

I'm in a Spanish forest, eating my lunch and watching TV via Starlink... Oh and typing this.

One thing to point out in all this GEO, LEO talk is... for example having 200 ground stations in the US, Starlink like any other Internet sat service links to local ISPs, so spreading it all out is good. SKYDSL for example has its/a ground station in Germany and is shit on a Sunday due to cat video contention.

Hegseth signs flying memo to expand military use of cheap drones in oddball video

Psst Pete...

You can get 'em off Amazon. Just search DJI.

The price of software freedom is eternal politics

It all sounds...

Judean People's Front / People's Front of Judea to me.

Write-back to aging UK health systems lessens benefits of Palantir-based platform

Re: Good practice in BRITISH trusts is trashed

Down vote for the use of British. It's NHS ENGLAND (and Wales). Scotland and NI are the placebos in all this.

I've only one question... If this is "federated" why are they writing back to old systems? Surely they could write back to new systems and then do "federated" reads combining old and new.

I mean it’s not as if they are updating the underlying patient data is it? Eek!

Microsoft says regulations and environmental issues are cramping its Euro expansion

Re: Oh dear, what a shame...

I had my teeny weeny violin out for the poor wee Microsoft lamb.

Maybe Nigel Farage can have a word with the EU about how good it would be for MS to slap up a data centre or 10 without all that red tape nonsense.

Massive browser hijacking campaign infects 2.3M Chrome, Edge users

Err..

>But in addition to providing these legitimate functions, they secretly surveil users' web browsing activity, capturing URLs, sending this info to a remote attacker-controlled server along with the victim's unique tracking ID, and even redirecting people's browsers if instructed,

Sounds like it was made by Google and Microsoft. Isnt that their day job?

Google Cloud lands gig to make 100,000 UK civil servants tech-literate

Ooh this'll go well...

Lesson 1

We are your friends.

Buy our stuff, buy our stuff, buy our stuff.

Repeat.

Financial 'stretch' for UK to join Europe's Starlink rival, says minister

I'm baffled...

England (and I mean England) never has a pot to piss in even though taxation is really high. EU countries always seem to have a bit o'cash lying around. My local council here in Spain is up to its ass in staff, the streets are cleaned daily, bins emptied, grass cut, big parties organised and my council tax is less than 200€ a year, my car tax about 150€ etc etc. High speed trains offering cheap fares shoot about all over the Spanish countryside whereas England can't even build a railway between Birmingham and Central London without fucking it up and spunking money all over the place. Mystified.

Massive spike in use of .es domains for phishing abuse

The reason....

Is that (for example) gov websites tend to divert you to stupid domains which have to obvious connection to the domain you are on. It's a minefield. Also they tend to have silly domain formats like...

bigAssedGovDeptName.WtfIsThisShit.es which on any click leads you to

EffinRabbitHole.XxxyyyzzPQ7775.es/someplace which is still a correct gov domain but you've no idea if it is or not.

Cold without the compressor: Boffins build better ice box

Isn't this the plot of The Matrix?

CHESS materials are also able to convert temperature differences, like body heat, into usable power,”

Kawasaki and Foxconn build robot nursing assistant to tackle hospital scutwork

Hello nurse!

... Is never to be said again. If I woke up next to that thing I'd think I'd had a psychotic episode.

AI models just don't understand what they're talking about

Students in Brazil are cheaper than an LLM so give 'em a break.

Microsoft's next Windows 11 update is more 'enablement' than upgrade

Re: illegally your's, Microsoft

Mine does the same. I don't even switch it on when there is WiFi nearby. Remember whispernet that came with a kindle... I think the same thing is happening.

There's no international protocol on what to do if an asteroid strikes Earth

The Plan...

Be rich

Say nothing

Start wars to keep the gen pop distracted

Get yer mate to build fuck off spaceships

Leave and watch the fireworks from orbit.

Starlink helps eight more nations pass 50 percent IPv6 adoption

Re: IPv6

IPV6 is like fusion... It'll be here in 20 years

New GitHub Copilot limits push AI users to pricier tiers

So....

You now need an AI to work out your bill for using an AI. Won't be long before the AI is giving you coy responses to keep you hooked... Kinda like an actual hooker really.

Microsoft brings 365 suite on-prem as part of sovereign cloud push

A canned quote from Microsoft executive veep and chief commercial officer Judson Althoff states

Look, how were we supposed to know that Europe wasn't part of America and that we couldn't do what we damn well felt like without some bunch of pencil pushers sticking their oars in. If it wasn't for that orange asshat pissing people off we might have gotten away with it too. Anyway, here's onprem cloud... Enjoy.

Microsoft adds export option to Windows Recall in Europe

Recall gets stinkier by the minute...

Glad I moved to a different OS.

Google Cloud goes down, takes Cloudflare and its customers with it

IKEA went titsup and...

I was saved from my girlfriend buying more cushions! Thank you Google > Cloudfare > IKEA whoever. The internet was supposed to survive a nuclear war but can seemingly now be fucked by a perms issue... Yay for progress.

Enterprises are getting stuck in AI pilot hell, say Chatterbox Labs execs

Nooooo...

Enterprises don't want to waste money on useless shit.

As Europe eyes move from US hyperscalers, IONOS dismisses scaleability worries

IIRC BT offered space for sale on its cloud way back in the later nineties but obviously the price was way too high.

Anyhoo. Ionos is a joke but the one thing to consider is a sort of butterfly effect...

If a redneck in a Wisconsin wood, casting a vote, can control your IT strategy, you've got the wrong IT strategy.

Everyone back to onprem and string up the cloud salespeople!

Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars on board catch fire

Re: Tesla that burned so hot, it melted part of the road

Thank you... I had no idea. I just use the old "floor it and marvel at the black cloud" method to clean shit out.

Windows 11 market share stalls ahead of Windows 10 cutoff

Re: Has anyome seriously tried Zorin OS

Confused... Garuda always crashes. Usually in Indonesian jungles.

Odd homage to '2001: A Space Odyssey' sees 'Blue Danube' waltz beamed at Voyager 1

I had a similar thought... Imagine receiving that on Trumpistar 9. His High Wonkness of Orange would have a crisis.

Barclays Bank signs 100k license Copilot deal with Microsoft

Look on the bright side....

I only had one run in with a bank chatbot before I realised it's excellent for dealing with your problems. You just open the bank app and go absolutely bat shit crazy on the thing and all you get back is "good to know" or "good to hear".

I address mine as Fuckwit (Bank of Scotland/Lloyd's if you want to get something off your chest)

Microsoft is opening Windows Update to third-party apps

Re: Suggestion #1

Yeah but it's a great idea to hide MS update screw ups... Just blame someone else's update.

OpenAI model modifies shutdown script in apparent sabotage effort

Re: Bollocks

Isn't this the one that also wrote to the "made up" PTB for clemancy and when that didn't happen tried to blackmail a trap in which a made up engineer could be implied as having an affair.

Or it could all just be bollocks as noted above.

Elon Musk's xAI pays $300M to born-in-Russia messaging app Telegram to push Grok

Form an orderly queue...

Signal to the left and signal to the right.

WhatsApp straight on and over the cliff.

Three ways to run Windows apps on a Linux box

Re: Some Of This Sounds Like Heavy Lifting!

Ok not a laptop but I bought a micro pc (8gb ram, 256gb ssd) from amazon a few months back. Had win 11 on it which got nuked and mint installed but it was 100 euros or so and works a treat. I just used an old TV which had HDMI ports for the display and had a mouse and keyboard lying around.

Hardware is now so cheap that you can cobble pretty much anything together without having to raid the piggy bank.

Trump threatens to add formal Apple Tax on top of the 'Apple tax'

F-47

I see that Boeing is going to name its new fighter the F-47 in honour of Mr President. Well we all know what the F stands for.

AI ain't B2B if OpenAI is to be believed

Meanwhile...

Here in Catalunya the tv news has just announced that the Catalan gov is introducing AI to make the usual massed bureaucracy more efficient and simpler.

They didn't say who would benefit, but I'm guessing not me.

How Java changed the development landscape entirely as code turns 30

Brrrrrr...

Java: Mastering the AWT. It was a book that I had. Still sends a shiver down my spine.

One of Britain's largest health trusts says 'no ta' to Palantir-run data platform – for now

If Manchester ICB has done the heavy lifting...

Would it not be more sensible to roll that out across England and Wales. Costs calculated, tech identified, training done etc.

What would a Microsoft engineer do to Ubuntu? AnduinOS is the answer

Begs the question...

If a bloke in China, working part time from his "kitchen table" can nail a win 11 UI to a Linux distro, what the hell have Nadella's Ninjas been up to since win 10?

Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold in Redmond

My copilot shopping list...

Banamanas

Bodge rool

Mink

Stargate to land its first offshore datacenters in the United Arab Emirates

Ahh...

The Abu Dhabi bar and grill in downtown Athens.

I sometimes think we're being sold a pup with this AI malarkey, but I could be wrong. Pmsl.

Can we have a scale for AI accuracy... I'm thinking it should be in Farages.

The lower the Farages the more accurate it is.

Eg 1 Farage is pretty sound but 10 Farages is mad.

Signal shuts the blinds on Microsoft Recall with the power of DRM

Re: Queue MS Update

Trump will get Qatar to pay for it. :-)

Trump announces $175B for Golden Dome defense shield over America

Re: Golden

Rats... You got in first with the golden shower jokes.

Ransomware attack on food distributor spells more pain for UK supermarkets

This is just the beginning...

I'm waiting for the physical DDoS attacks to start... E. G. Lock out bank accounts instead of trying to access the accounts and use the massed panic created as a weapon, as people try to reactivate their accounts in an age of chatbots and other "fuck off you oik " customer "aides."

Microsoft revives DOS-era Edit in a modern shell

Bait and switch. I'm sure AI will be along shortly to "help" you.

Trump signs TAKE IT DOWN law meant to stop revenge porn

It's Trump..

It'll be to stop people taking the piss out of him with online AI images. Orange children must be protected!

Boffins devise technique that lets users prove location without giving it away

Seemingly I'm in Madrid...

Never been there though. not within 450kms of the place + no mobile signal! Yay, I'm a data broker's worst nightmare.

No-boom supersonic flights could slide through US skies soon

It'll still take ages to...

Go through security and baggage though

Good luck to Atos' 7th CEO and its latest biz transformation

Translated from the original bullshit...

"Our competitive advantage lies in our highly skilled and committed colleagues (redundancies), the depth of our technical expertise (esp. for the coffin dodgers), our global capability with deep local roots (shut down branch offices) and our proven track record of delivery to a worldwide loyal customer base (subscription model coming soon).

I might be a tad jaded.

Whodunit? 'Unauthorized' change to Grok made it blather on about 'White genocide'

GPU... German Panzer Units?