Posts by Snowy

Starlink bags US defense contract to keep war-torn Ukraine connected

Re: No good deed goes unpunished

True but defence contractors like Boeing and Lockheed never said they where giving their weapon for free.

Does this now make Star link satellites military targets?

Meta tells staff to return to office three days a week

and then for only half the time.

Minnesota governor OKs broad right-to-repair tech law

The loophole will be price and bundling of parts.

I wonder

Now that smart phones play games can they be considered to be a "video game consoles" for this act and therefor not repairable?

Social media may harm kids. US Surgeon General says so

Not sure

It is safe for adults either!

Microsoft and Helion's fusion deal has an alternative energy

Burning the press release.

Will create more energy than this deal will!

UK government prays that size doesn't matter as it chips in £1B for semiconductor sector

Re: Surely one of these things is not the same as the other?

Size grabs the headlines but it is how it is used that is far more important ;)

Sonatype axes 14 percent of staff, reminds them not to talk to the press

Shorter and easier to update keep a nice list?

WordPress plugin hole puts '2 million websites' at risk

Re: Really?

Yes stable doors are not much use once the horse has bolted!

Of course Russia's ex-space boss doubts US set foot on the Moon

Re: Rogozin isn't well

Is it a phobia if the fear is real?

Telcos need another $3B in Uncle Sam's cash to remove Chinese network kit, says FCC

I wonder

How much of that kit was installed after the American government started to dislike Chinese Tech?

Eta Aquariid meteor shower peaks this weekend, and will be one for the ages

Re: Aye, right !

Meanwhile in England

Cloud cover -High

Light pollution - High

Chance of seeing meteors -Low/Zero

Microsoft cries foul over UK gaming deal blocker but it's hard to feel sorry for them

Meanwhile

Sony does what it likes?

OpenAI's ChatGPT may face a copyright quagmire after 'memorizing' these books

Re: Is copying large amounts of text or images for training the model fair use?

It may or may not be "fair use" but if it starts to reproduce large portions of it I'm quite sure that is not covered by "fair use" and your breaking copyright but I'm not a lawyer.

No more feature updates for Windows 10 – current version is final

You think the turd release is going to be best?

Online Safety Bill age checks? We won't do 'em, says Wikipedia

Re: Dog years

Data says Spot is a cat.

AI models may not yet be safe, but at least we can make them affordable … ish

Will it

Ever be safe and cheap?

The truth about those claims of Qualcomm chips secretly snooping on you

The chipset

Should not be downloading anything!!!

UK PM Sunak plans to allocate just £1bn to semiconductor industry

Spend it well

<quote>White told us that if reports of the £1 billion pledge are correct, then the full force of the investment will only be felt if it is used correctly. </quote>

Sure £1billion spent well can be great and can be the seed for future investment, but I assume by spent well Mr White thinks Mr White gets most of it or he is going to take his ball and go play in the USA?

Autonomy's Mike Lynch loses battle against extradition to the US on fraud charges

I wonder

I do wonder how much this part of the business is worth now.

TSMC brags of 20TWh solar scheme. Feels a bit like greenwashing to us

Re: Interesting

Even worse than that "What's more, TSMC has only actually committed to purchasing 500GWh of solar energy from ARK annually." which is around 3.5% of current usage. Very much a green wash and not much of one either.

They just need to scale that up just over 28 time to completely meet their power needs.

Interesting

Would be nice to know just how much power they use now and how much they are likely to use in the future.

Boffins think they've decoded mysterious 819-day Mayan calendar

NASA engineering

Maybe all the doom predictions are for when the machine the world is running on should have failed but due to some good engineering the machine is still running past the shut of date :)

CEO sorry after telling staff to 'leave pity city' over bonuses

Re: Tone deaf CEO's are like buses, you wait ages for one and then two come along at once.

You sounds sad like a very rare business owner who values his employees and I hope your business continues to benefit from this :)

Maybe

She needs to leave whine city while she is at it!!

Europe wants more cities to use datacenter waste heating. How's that going?

Coal it not just CO2

Burning coal releases a significant amount of radiation too, some studies say more radiation is released from coal fired power station than from nuclear power plants.

GlobalFoundries sues IBM for flogging 'chip secrets to Intel, Rapidus'

Re: lawyers "kerching"

Lawyers are going to be involved but it is most likely to be better if they are doing contract and licensing rather than litigation.

Big enought

Big enough to know better or think they can get away with it?

>GF thinks it should be the one doing the licensing as owner of the tech.

Should not effect either Intel or Rapidus' foundry plans to much if they can get GF to do a licensing deal with them?

Chinese company claims it's built batteries so dense they can power electric airplanes

Not the first to 500 wh/kg?

In an article from 2016 https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/features/the-buzz-over-batteries

The most advanced aviation batteries such as those powering small drones, have an energy density of 500 watt-hours per kilogram.

Just last tear from Japan https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/01/220120140724.htm

About the development of a lithium-air battery with an energy density over 500 wh/kg

Meta virtual reality interrupted by financial reality as thousands lose their jobs

Re: "Meta expected to disemploy"

Or they have an increased opportunity for leisure?

Guy rejects top photo prize after revealing snap was actually made using AI

Re: "Our hands are lily-white. HE'S the lying sack of shit."

Agree he did not make them looks like idiots but their response to him sure did make themselves look foolish.

UK consortium bid for NHS data platform falls at first hurdle

Re: Nope.....Nods And Winks Are Insufficient.......

Plain brown envelops are far more traditional :)

US changes rules on tax credits for electric cars to cover American-made only

Re: News

Or using the tax system to simulate domestic manufacturing, which could in turn increase tax receipt.

Tencent said to have demoted and fired tech bosses after brief outages

Re: There is a lot to dislike about Chinese society

It very much depends on who your "friends" are.

Astronomers clock runaway black hole leaving trail of fresh stars

Re: As with many "accidental" discoveries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeWyp2vXxqA

How the truly big blacks holes may have formed.

As with many "accidental" discoveries.

It is all about the follow up work!

Three quarters of UK tech pros are ready to leave their jobs

Who

Would not like a four day week, three days off a week!. Should help greatly with life/work balance. No one should live for work but should work to live!.

Without listing the confidence in the data the quoted percentages are kind of worthless and with the sample size of only 1000 (yes it says 1000 plus and if it was significantly more they would have quoted that) the error bars are going to be significant.

Take a 14-mile trip on an autonomous Scottish bus starting next month

Re: Worth watching.

No role for Spock?

Re: The good news for all small children ..

That is what the scapegoat behind the wheel is for!

Move over, Google Earth. Caltech's here with a fresh 3D tour of Mars

Re: Now just sit back

The Martians cities are under the .5% they did not publish.

Child hit by car among videos 'captured by Tesla vehicles, shared among staff'

Over sharing Data!

<quote>By default, images and video from the camera do not leave the vehicle itself and are not transmitted to anyone, including Tesla, unless you enable data sharing. If you enable data sharing and a safety critical event occurs (such as a collision), Model 3 shares short cabin camera video clips with Tesla to help us develop future safety enhancements and continuously improve the intelligence of features that rely on the cabin camera. Data may also be shared if diagnostics are required on cabin camera functionality. Cabin camera does not perform facial recognition or any other method of identity verification. To protect your privacy, cabin camera data is not associated with your vehicle identification number.</quote>

I think none of the examples where covered by this so the EULA does not cover them doing it!

What camera does "facial recognition " that is some other bit of software, some "rogue software developer" could uploads a still to Facebook and get them to do it. Rather is should say no facial recognition is done on the data.

ChatGPT becomes ChatRepair to automate bug fixing for less

ChatGPT

Will not repair in the same way ChatGPT version one did not write the other versions.

John Deere urged to surrender source code under GPL

Want to keep is closed

Write it all yourself, it is that "easy"

Amazon: Diamonds are a quantum network's best friend

De Beers to supply quality – flawed – rocks

They have loads of flawless ones laying about, diamonds are not rare, just the supply is restricted.

Cisco Moscow trashed offices as it quit Putin's putrid pariah state

Re: Only good business

If refused the deductions in Russia claim for them in the US?

Notorious stolen credential warehouse Genesis Market seized by FBI

Re: I disagree

Harm reduction would work a lot better than war on drugs.

NASA names astronauts picked for next Artemis Moon test flight

Re: What are the criteria for inclusion as crew?

I agree now get back in the DeLorean and fix it :)

Re: What are the criteria for inclusion as crew?

Tokenism is even worse than that as even if you do make it on your own merits some people are just going to think you did not.

If the Canadian was a female of color they would have got all three in one an could have got some more tokens on board? The fact they mentioned their make up rather just their record does raise the idea of Tokenism.

As for Obama did the backlash against him lead to the election of Trump?

Bank rewrote ads for infosec jobs to stop scaring away women

Did I miss

The before and after Advert?

3CX thought supply chain attack was a false positive

"We could only realize the extent of the breach after Crowdstrike gave us full details and then we immediately responded to the best of our abilities which by no means was Olympic medal standard," added Galea, who conceded that responding to a supply chain attack is, well, rather hard."

Was not even school sport day medal standard