Another CIO sweats it for 48 hours, then back to collecting C-suite salary regardless of if the company gets slapped with a small fine.
Posts by Phil Kingston
928 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jan 2008
Australian airline Qantas reveals data theft impacting six million customers
Glasgow City Council online services crippled following cyberattack
Australia finds age detection tech has many flaws but will work
Janet's 2010 Darwin Knitting Forum site isn't going to go retro-fitting some age-verification tech. Straight to jail.
As mentioned, some parents will decide they'd rather have their kids exposed to some online interactions before they hit driving/voting/smoking/shagging/Facebook/credit-card age all in quick succession. I'm aware of several parents who'll be self-hosting Mastodon (or similar) instances for their tweens.
Doomed UK smartphone maker Bullitt Group finally liquidated
Chinese memory-maker YMTC sues US rival Micron for defamation instead of the usual patent breaches
Single passenger reportedly survives Air India Boeing 787 crash
Microsoft's plain text editor gets fancy as Notepad gains formatting options
X's new 'encrypted' XChat feature seems no more secure than the failure that came before it
Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves
I asked an AI what it thought of this article. The summary:
"In short, the article is partly accurate in spotlighting a real challenge, but it leans toward alarmism by not sufficiently accounting for the sophisticated safeguards and ongoing innovations aimed at preventing such collapse. It’s a provocative perspective that points to important issues even as it leaves out the full picture of current mitigation efforts."
Sounds like something an AI would say to protect itself.
IT chiefs of UK's massive health service urge vendors to make public security pledge
Brewhaha: Turns out machines can't replace people, Starbucks finds
Starbucks are having yet another crack at Western Australia and have recently opened a couple of stores. The queues of "influencers" was embarrassing (or "cringe" as I believe they say).
Hopefully we'll chase them out the state again and carry on with decent coffee. Especially if they try an automated shit.
Now if we can work on Coles and Woolworths backtracking on whatever they're calling the way they're reducing their humans to a handful per store.
'Copilot will remember key details about you' for a 'catered to you' experience
Windows 11 adds auto-recovery, kills offline setup loophole
HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'
Jesus. The only times I've had to ring HP are because I've exhausted everything else, have made myself comfy, been to toilet and generally settled in for a 1-hour plus experience where my entire aim is to get past 1st line support to someone without a script. Adding a mandatory 15 minutes to that would see me just raining ProLiants down on to the street below.
FuriPhone FLX1: A Debian-powered brick that puts GNOME in your back pocket
Re: get away from using Android
Pretty much. The phone was compatible with the network changes. But it was an import and didn't exist on the incomplete IMEI database they came up with to decide which ones to block. They had years to sort it all out, then got the legislation in place with just a few weeks to go.
I went and got an FLX1 and was pottering along quite happily. Then Optus blocked it. Literally hours on the phone with them just politely trying to see if they could confirm it had been blocked for that and not some other reason. It was genuinely painful. They can tell you it's blocked, but not why. At one point they tried to sell me an iPhone instead (nice try) and also asked me to send them a screen shot of the audio announcement that gets played when trying to place a call.
As you point out, Telstra seem to be not not complying with their legistlative obligations and blocking IMEIs (yet). I suspect it may be their own incompetence that's stopping them. Anyway, I'm trying to move to them. But I have duplicate customer details or something in their systems so no SIM can be activated for me. Their customer support has performed to exactly the level I'd expected. And I kind of felt sorry for the girl in the local Telstra store who I got sent to see. Got to play the game though, if their call centre supervisor person says that going and having my driving licence verified at a store will somehow unscrew their database records of me then I'll give it a go. Sadly she ended up with me politely explaining that of course this wasn't going to work and now she'd wasted quite a lot of my time. We're at 2nd level TIO escalation now and case may get looked in to further in nine weeks lol.
I've had a long-standing rule - work stuff stays on a work-provided phone. If they don't provide one, then <shrug>. I'm not going to sit on the bus and read 4 mails about how wonderful the retiring CEO is. If something is on fire, they'll call me (on my secondary number they have for that purpose).
Try Linux WhatsApp
https://itslinuxfoss.com/install-whatsapp-ubuntu-22-04/
I too had that Contacts issue. I'm told Evolution works well as a quick way of syncing them to wherever. I can't remember what I did in the end and don't have it with me. Pretty sure I used davx in some way and all my contacts are on my mail provider of choice.
Hardware barn denies that .004 seconds of facial recognition violated privacy
Anyone know the specs/systems they used? Because, as I understood it, a lot of the privacy concerns were that Shane and Kylie could be accessing the unsecured video feeds and storage while snaffling sangas and xxxx at lunchtime.
Maybe now they could get back to looking at their website and "app". It's been so slow as to be unusable for several years now. Quicker to drive to Mitre10 and get something than search on the Bunnings site.
Microsoft rolls out AI-enabled Notepad to Windows Insiders
Google reportedly developing an AI agent that can control your browser
US contractor pays $300K to settle accusation it didn't properly look after Medicare users' data
Trump campaign arms up with 'unhackable' phones after Iranian intrusion
SAP CTO bows out over 'incident' at company shindig
31.5M invoices, contracts, patient consent forms, and more exposed to the internet
Lego's Concorde is the only supersonic jet you can build for the price of a fancy dinner
China's chip tech still lags the West – by up to five generations
Twitter must pay over half a million to unfairly dismissed Irish exec
Need to move 1.2 exabytes across the world every day? Just Effingo
HPE's $14B bid for Juniper waved through by UK regulator
VMware sends vSphere 7 into extra time by extending support for six months
CrowdStrike update blunder may cost world billions – and insurance ain't covering it all
Microsoft 365 remains 'degraded' as Azure outage resolved
Sam Altman sues builder over $27M flooded, sewage-hit 'lemon' of a mega-mansion
Car dealer software slinger CDK Global said to have paid $25M ransom after cyberattack
Hong Kong's Furi Labs shakes up smartphone scene with dash of Debian
Re: Why low-end?
There's a couple of guides online on how to get Lineage on there. Most out of date so you'll have to freestyle for a bit. Note that once you get Lineage on there and you spend an evening putting all your apps on it etc and go to put an actual SIM card in, you'll want to be sure your network doesn't require VoLTE as that won't work.
Most (all?) networks in Australia require VoLTE so you may be left with a nice Wi-Fi-only device and a bunch of swear words.
Change Healthcare finally spills the tea on what medical data was stolen by cyber-crew
Contrary to its fine print, Google says it won't confiscate repair returns that have unapproved parts
Can you prove that Pete down on his stall at the mall didn't break the screen connection whilst hamfistedly replacing the headphone jack with no manual, training and using a dodgy 4th party part that doesn't fit quite right?
That's kind of their issue, should they be attempting to repair items that _may_ have been damaged by unofficial repairs?
Bet a car analogy will be along soon.