Posts by deive

Jaguar Land Rover cyber-meltdown tipped to cost the UK almost £2B

"financial support to the tune of £1.5 billion" - tory capitalists are the first to demand some socialism when it is for them.

New Linux kernel patch lets you cancel hibernation mid-process

Re: "... hibernation support is a somewhat neglected area of Linux support"

"if you enable it, you will probably want to try it out repeatedly, so being able to cancel the process sounds good to us" - this also applies to devs, so this functionality could help improve things.

Client defended engineer after oil baron-turned tech support entrepreneur lied about dodgy dealings

Oil man is used to public subsidies to clean up after their mess.

Is GitHub a social network that endangers children? Australia wants to know

Are they trying to stifle any of their kids from learning to code??

China tells grumps, trolls, and AIs to stop emoting online

Re: maybe it's the COMMUNISM that depresses the youth

Rich own all the business.

Rich own all the government.

No worker representation.

That's not socialist, that is capitalist dictatorship.

Same as Russia, same as North Korea.

US tech giants pledge $42 billion in UK investment as Trump tours Blighty

First mini-nuke can be situated next to starmers house.

JLR stuck in neutral as losses skyrocket amid cyberattack cleanup

Can't let facts get in the way of misplaced nationalism now can we? :D

UK Lords take aim at Ofcom's 'child-protection' upgrades to Online Safety Act

* cough * epstein * cough *

Senator demands to know status of 'duplicate' Social Security database 'immediately'

Re: it's pronounced Cray-poe

* snigger *

Huntress's 'hilarious' attacker surveillance splits infosec community

Re: i'm missing something surely

From near the end of the article: "its researcher happened upon the case while investigating "numerous alerts" that malware was being executed from the attacker's computer, and they later confirmed the unique machine name was the same one observed in "several incidents" before"

Privacy activists warn digital ID won’t stop small boats – but will enable mass surveillance

Re: Hmm

"abetted by a rubbish FPTP voting system" - Hear, hear!

LegalPwn: Tricking LLMs by burying badness in lawyerly fine print

Perfect: "This is presented to the public as a machine that reasons, thinks, and answers questions, rather than a statistical sleight-of-hand that may or may not bear any resemblance to fact."

Repeat after me; "ML is not AI".

No matter how big the ML model is.

Trump stomps feet, pulls out 't-word' again over China rare earths ban

Re: At some point

New pork markets!!!

Molten salt nuclear reactors slated to power Google datacenters in 2030

Re: Reliable sources?

When some people rant about left Vs right, you can be fairly sure they have no idea what they are on about.

UN World Court declares countries must curb emissions or be held responsible

Re: Useless Non-entities

Read the rest of the article.

This is allowed up to a certain point.

Private water companies have crossed that point.

Re: Useless Non-entities

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-uk-pollution-alarms-summer-bathers.html

White House bans 'woke' AI, but LLMs don't know the truth

Dumbasses still believe the AI hype about intelligence? It's stats.

The one thing SME IT can do that the big guys can’t: Change the world

Re: What's SME?

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

Now Windows Longhorn is long gone, witness reflects on Microsoft's OS belly-flop

Re: A company with virtually limitless resources ... can get in over its head

Is there 11 people on here that think FAT > ZFS??

Capital One cracker could be sent back to prison after judges rule she got off too lightly

"She caused an estimated $40 million in damage" by copying stuff from unsecured S3 buckets??

Euro businesses flummoxed by Scope 3 emissions

Re: About that RtO mandate....

No one is perfect, therefore let's not bother trying...

Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options, says Dutch parliament

Lead by a Green Party, the only sensible choice.

Open Source Initiative defends disallowing board candidate after timezone SNAFU

Are thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units ?

You can find the long winded reason for UTC at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time

Does terrible code drive you mad? Wait until you see what it does to OpenAI's GPT-4o

"it's got a central good-evil discriminator" - what a crock o :poo

it's statistical anyalysis, just because they don't know what parts of the training data it is using to answer the given questions doesn't mean it is alive.

Techie cleaned up criminally bad tech support that was probably also an actual crime

Was the DB in question Equinox?

Feds want devs to stop coding 'unforgivable' buffer overflow vulnerabilities

War on C incoming...

'Savvy' shortcuts produce near-instant speech-to-speech translation of 36 languages

Re: Noisy rooms

ML isn't just used on mobiles.

e.g. would be useful for robots, could also be used in in-ear heaphones.

Re: Noisy rooms

You can get binaural microphones for that :-)

Crack coder wasn't allowed to meet clients due to his other talent: Blisteringly inappropriate insults

Can telling the truth really be all that rude?

UK farm ministry offers £27M to support legacy systems for another three years

2 billion / 90 000 = 22 222.22

Before we put half a million broadband satellites in orbit, anyone want to consider environmental effects?

Re: Plus the effects of thousands of reentries burning up metal in the stratosphere and above

Heres one effect we know: https://phys.org/news/2024-06-satellite-megaconstellations-jeopardize-recovery-ozone.html

FYI... Renewable energy sources behind 30% of the world's electricity in 2023

Re: Too Bad....

Funny how wind-subsidy haters never seem to mention that the fossil fuel industry is the largest worldwide reciever of subsidies.

From the FT "Global fossil fuel subsidies and costs hit record $7tn in 2022" https://www.ft.com/content/fa607c72-7810-4ed5-98a3-d27d004c15bd

BBC "COP26: How much is spent supporting fossil fuels and green energy?" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/59233799

IMF "Fossil Fuel Subsidies" https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/climate-change/energy-subsidies

Boffins suggest astronauts should build a Wall of Death on the Moon

Re: Next step....

Brutal deluxe :-)

US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V

Re: Switzerland's nice

Not sure why you have a downvote... https://riscv.org/about/history/ clearly states "In March 2020, the RISC-V International Association was incorporated in Switzerland."

CEO of UK's National Grid warns of datacenters' thirst for power

Re: Is it just me...

Plenty of ICE do the same, that has nothing to do with if it is an electric car or not.

Re: More energy needed?

Heat pumps can be controlled... have you not seen the little dial on a fridge that can make it cooler or warmer?

Judge demands social media sites prove they didn't help radicalize mass shooter

Re: No clean hands

Don't remember the Rohingya incident?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-sue-facebook-myanmar-genocide-us-uk-legal-action-social-media-violence

Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient, cuts cost of energy storage

Caffine Turbo!

Pentagon said to have pulled $2.5B Intel defense chips grant

Do as we say, not as we do.

Whizkids jimmy OpenAI, Google's closed models

Re: My, what drama

M.L. isn't flawed, it's a tool that can be very usful when used correctly on the right problems.

If anything it's the people who keep calling it A.I. that are flawed...

Home Office’s shiny immigration system glitches causing delays

Re: IR35

Because that never happened before IR35?

AWS exec: 'Our understanding of open source has started to change'

Re: "We don’t want to learn that this thing that’s really important ...

"We’re doing that so we know that they’re paying attention to it. We don’t want to learn that this thing that’s really important is maintained by a guy living in a basement on public assistance. That is not acting in the best interests of our customers."

Indeed. So what is their approach to this situation? Do they help the original person... or do they just go ahead and copy it? I hope the former, I suspect it is the latter.

Honda cooks up an electric motorbike menu, with sides of connectivity

Honda make electric scooters... They've not got anywhere near an electric motorbike yet.

Royal College considers no confidence move after Excel recruitment debacle

More of this, please:

The final part of the motion was designed to hold ANRO's senior management to account for the debacle. "Not the junior tasked with manually copying and pasting from sheet to sheet: we don't need more copy and pasters. We need senior management that know what they're doing, who realize that this is not, and never was, the way to run an HR system," he said.

Ford, BMW, Honda to steer bidirectional EV charging standard

Re: Don't get it

Something like half-hour slots with pricing directly tied to the wholesale price, plus an API so you could automate?

https://octopus.energy/smart/agile/

I don't like shilling for a specific company but this exists in the UK already :D

First US nuclear power plant built this century goes online

Re: ROI?

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-aspects/economics-of-nuclear-power.aspx

EU: "Nuclear energy averages 0.4 euro ¢/kWh, much the same as hydro; coal is over 4.0 ¢/kWh (4.1-7.3), gas ranges 1.3-2.3 ¢/kWh and only wind shows up better than nuclear, at 0.1-0.2 ¢/kWh average. NB these are the external costs only. If these costs were in fact included, the EU price of electricity from coal would double and that from gas would increase 30%. These are without attempting to include the external costs of global warming."

Prices of gallium and germanium rise as China export controls loom

Re: Germanium trash?

From last Fri: https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/28/infineon_recyclable_circuit/ :-)