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Starlink’s method of dodging solar storms may make it slower, for longer

meh

so my internet connection didn't go down and latency went up a bit for a few days. If I was playing Fortnite or whatever in an RV I might have a cow, but apart from that....

Project Kuiper becomes Amazon Leo as satellite network trickles into orbit

can we fill them with...

AI and chuck them at the sun. Things have changed a lot in the last few years. 2 years ago Starlink was great for the woods, but now I can get a solar powered outdoor router for 70€, a 64Gb a month sim for 7.90€ a month, a 1km HaLow bridge with WiFi hotspot for 69€, so I don't need Starlink at 40€ a month anymore. As for speed 300mbps was fast enough, so I don't see any need to gigabit. Any industrial use case will use cable, so unless this is for Amazon flying their drones I can't see who would use it. All starlink has to do is go full direct to cell and amazon is pretty much stuffed.

Microsoft is building datacenter superclusters that span continents

Given it's MS...

are they going to call the whilole shebang The Clusterfuck?

Networking students need an explanation of the internet that can fit in their heads

Show them a picture of a bald, fat bloke with high BP...

with the caption "you in 10 years".

London left buffering as Hyperoptic backup link refuses to boot

Feeling smug...

just had 1Gb symmetrical fibre installed in my village house in Spain.

19.99€ a month.

Rocket Lab's Neutron slips to 2026: 'Our aim is to make it to orbit on the first try'

hate to be the pedant but ..

lbf? Last boyfriend, last before first? Will the thing be carrying bushels of corn and rivets?

Windows 11 26H1 is coming ... for new processors only

MS clusterfuck....

They've just buggered "move to folder" in their Outlook email app on Android so I wouldn't trust this bunch of idiots to cut my toenails... oh yeah and you need Android 10 to run it from January 2026 so bye bye. I'm not changing an OS because they can't code anymore.

China uses Mars orbiter to snap interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

Re: Oh gawd is there no escape..

09 Nov, a friend took these snaps of it

https://medium.com/@liena.dreams/3i-atlas-after-perihelion-phenomenal-images-tell-a-different-story-f8f3d9481048

it's a comet.

Re: Oh gawd is there no escape..

yeah but the uni of Arizona and JPL are still functioning and the uni has a state law up it's ass to make stuff publically available with 24 hours unless it's been classified.

Oh gawd is there no escape..

massed zombie scientists all going "it's a comet, it's a comet" vs Avi Loeb and his "might be ALIENS!!!" bitch fest. Anyhoo, anyone got the snaps that NASA took on the 3rd Oct? They're still missing as are the Chinese pix. At least ESA doled out a couple of snaps of a white dot but apart from that tumbleweed since the Mars pass until last night.

UK military looking for tactical comms, systems suppliers in deal worth up to £9.6B

You can get WIfi HaLow stuff...

with a 3km range inc your own personal wifi hotspot for 250$ for hub and receiver... you can get anything from China ... oh wait.

Black Hawk chown: DARPA takes helicopter pilots out of the air for $6M

So....

flappy bird was useful for something.

Azure stumbles in Western Europe, Microsoft blames 'thermal event'

It's all getting a bit silly

It's becoming obvious that the architecture cannot support the required level of corporate greed. Clouds are a bit smelly.

Microsoft apologizes for not explaining cheaper no-AI M365 plans, and all it took was a government lawsuit

Bunch of runts

feel press to change the first consonant.

UK agri dept spent hundreds of millions upgrading to Windows 10 – just in time for end of support

Maybe....

they were waiting for win 10 kit to become old stock so they could get them cheap.

pmsl.

Keeping the lights on takes up nearly all police IT spending in England and Wales

including knife detection technology,"

didn't that used to be called cops?

Win10 still clings to over 40% of devices weeks after Microsoft pulls support

I keep a win 10 laptop

for state admin purposes. digital certs, electronic signing crap etc because the state software is so shit. Yesterday on one state website help page I read that their customer facing web stuff when you actually want to do something serious only works under Internet Explorer and I had to install that!

If it's a "modern" website it works on windows with edge or chrome.

So today I'm away to install Edge on Mint .Wish me luck.

Alaska Air phones a friend to find out what caused massive October outage

inadvertent tenant configuration change

That's got to be up there with involuntary conversion in terms of spoken suit shite

Robotic lawnmower uses AI to dodge cats, toys

These are much more fun

no AI but you get rc

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009040612419.html

Europe preps Digital Euro to enter circulation in 2029

at the end of the day...

the taxman will see all transactions ( in and out) against your digital id and I understand those tax types can count.

OpenAI tells Trump to build more power plants or China wins the AI arms race

Just saw a thing on the news here...

US AI data centres chew through more power in an hour than France uses in a day or something.

Those meeting summaries had better be worth it.

Twist in Tesco vs. VMware case as Computacenter files claim against Broadcom, Dell

Broad con

They're not really doing themselves any favours are they?

Australia sues Microsoft for misleading M365 users about Copilot subscription options

Consumer trust and transparency are top priorities

My arse

Microsoft threatens to ram Copilot into Exchange Server on-prem

Must admit I'm confused...

you would have thought by now that copilot would have worked out that the the highest probability words that come after "copilot" are "fuck" followed by an "off" .... and did just that.

Grounded jet engines take off again as datacenter generators

I'd better start breeding more hamsters

This is getting ridiculous. If you're waiting 3 years for a gennie, AI will have taken over the planet by the time you get it and Ai will feed you to it to keep itself alive.:-)

AWS admits more bits of its cloud broke as it recovered from DynamoDB debacle

The more I read about this the...

more I think Jesus H Christ... spaghetti architecture.

AWS outage turned smart homes into dumb boxes – and sysadmins into therapists

Re: Cancer

I wonder if The Donald went dim and lost his colour

Lloyds Banking Group claims Microsoft Copilot saves staff 46 minutes a day

Might save them 46 mins but...

everytime I contact the bank it takes at least 46 minutes off my life.

Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet

17:16 CET

Still up and down like a hooker's knickers.

Re: Building cross region resiliency is fairly easy

nice typo...clod based

'Fax virus' panicked a manager and sparked job-killing Reply-All incident

I photocopied my bum once...

I got a spot but no virus.

Windows 11 update breaks localhost, prompting mass uninstall workaround

err...glass houses, throwing stones etc

Dear Reg....

Much as I love reading about another MS clusterfuck, can you please do something about the manic survey infesting your pages?

The more you scroll, the more it scrolls. Quite fun for a little bit but then it gets tedious real fast.

Feeling lonely? Microsoft Copilot can now listen to your every word, watch your screen

Re: The Horror

my thoughts wxactly

AI is the flying car of the mind: An irresistible idea nobody knows how to land or manage

Ooh wordsmith, you're being so kind...

"AI" is just a flim flam show to yank (no pun) cash out of the gullible and that's not because we're dumb and "aren't holding it properly"; it's because it's mostly shit.

EU biometric border system launch hits inevitable teething problems

I'm very upset...

Jim Moore, an employee relations expert at HR consultancy

couldn't they have kept him waiting for 90 years? It's what HR deserves.

Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily

C'mon this could be fun...

Uploading AI generated photos of Trump with Epstein, with Prince Andrew, with Tilly Norwood, with The Pope and maybe BigFoot in it.

End of Windows 10 support is the perfect time for the Windows 11 installer to fail

PMSL

nuff said

Microsoft 'illegally' tracked students via 365 Education, says data watchdog

Re: When is El Reg

for anyone under 900, it was a film about an internal combustion engined car that could fly and was piloted/driven by a guy called Caractacus Pott (Crackpot...geddit?)

Workload written by student made millions, ran on unsupported hardware, with zero maintenance

Re: Is anyone surprised?

Proof of concepts are final solutions until they need to be expanded with more features.

Amen to that... POC to production in the time it takes management to tick a box.

Britain eyes satellite laser warning system and carrier-launched jet drones

Dumb question but ..

shouldn't military necessary satellites have laser jammers like the kind you can buy for your car (a friend told me about them)

EchoStar secures rights to spectrum it plans to sell to SpaceX

Meh...

I've just been playing around with forest wifi and 2 years ago you were pretty stuffed, needed Starlink and big assed batteries and panels. Today I installed a 4G solar wifi router (from China obvs 70€) and bypassed Starlink. The SIM is 7.99€ a month for 68GB a month. I can reduce that to 1€ a month for unlimited throttled data if I want. +there are loads of othe cheap plans.

I still need Starlink for streaming, but the costs of data are now so low, the kit so cheap that you've got to wonder how all these billions are going to be paid for.

Next week WiFi HaLow...

Big money is nervous about AI hype, but not ready to call it a bubble

Just spent the day looking for a big dumb tv. I think I'm going to go backwards until after the smart shit hits the smart fan.

Apple ices ICE agent tracker app under government heat

Sorry but....

I'm just trying not to imagine some "illegal" with an iPhone. Is that why they call Apple users Fashionistas?

Microsoft declares bring your Copilot to work day, usurping IT authority

can't we ask for a Tilly Norwood making the sign of the wanker?

Microsoft confirms it found a way to make Crocs even uglier – with Windows XP and Clippy

ffs...

do they come with copilot, telemetry and autoupdate?

Do you put the left one on your left foot and vice versa until an update changes the order around and do you need an M365 licence to wear them?

Hundreds of orgs urge Microsoft: don’t kill off free Windows 10 updates

Re: Nothing In The UK News About This

They probably all use macs at the BBC. Clarissa from Cla'm would never be see dead touching an oik pc.

Microsoft moves to the uncanny valley with creepy Copilot avatars that stare at you and say your name

Gonna make for a noisy office...

I might go back to windows if I can have a really sexy woman avatar with a very suggestive voice.

grumble, grumble

UK's digital hospital plan meets analog reality check

Every private health co offers this..

here in Spain. It's considered normal practice and a sales benefit... and doctors can concentrate on those who require a bit of reassembly or new parts.

Seems to work fine and the software exists so it should be a COTS deploy.

Britain's policing minister punts facial recog nationwide

Funnily enough....

just bought a Chinese no name, exterior, solar powered, wifi router. Came with an eSIM built in and just connected to the internet when I switched it on, no harm, no hoo-ha.

Bit easier than the bureaucratic hell of trying to activate a SIM these days. Great British wall or Great Chinese wall....mmmm. Well at least there's less chance of the Chinese police rousing me at 4 in the morning.

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

Re: Nope.

shock! people still go into shops? I thought that old pagan tradition had died out years ago.

If you can't get it on Amazon and your local instant delivery company can't get it, what is the point in living!

BTW, do underage teenagers buy booze via your local delivery comp or give the bloke a fiver to prove to an online site that you're over 18? Just askin'