Posts by Snowy

Electric vehicles earn shocking report card for reliability

Odd

That the hybrid cars did not have more problem seeing that it has both a conventional engine and EV parts I wonder why this was.

Re: We need the technological progress...

ICEs will always consume a finite resource

We could make unnatural petrol with the CO2 from the atmosphere and in doing so create a new technological carbon cycle.

AI offers some novel crystal materials that could form future chips, batteries, more

Go the next step

Would be good if it could figure out a way to make these crystal material both cheaply, in mass and the form it is wanted in.

Graphene is a prime example great material but I'm not sure a cheap way has been found to make it in bulk sheets.

Hubble science instruments still out after going down 3 times in a week

Re: Don't forget.

A nice strong length of rope would be great too.

Re: I hope someone will step up to the plate

Or their couch :)

Bitcoin's thirst for water is just as troubling as its energy appetite

Re: Don't care

How is that when you need to convert your digital currency to a real one to spend it (unless you want to pay the relatively rather large fee) and the real currency is to some extent controlled by a CB?

China's Loongson debuts processor that 'matches Intel silicon circa 2020'

Re: Fake benchmarks though

Winddogs XII runs great on it, it is the dog b****cks

Roblox investor plays hardball over 'weak' parental controls

They get some money and can then say they did their diligence and any problems with the investment where not due to them.

HP printer software turns up uninvited on Windows systems

Hewlett Packard's HP Smart application

About as welcome as a U2 album?

That time a JPL engineer almost killed a Mars Rover before it left Earth

Test, test and test again

Just do not test to hard or you may break it.

Re: Measure twice, cut once.

Only triple the price!, your being rather generous after all this is government work! Why not just add a another zero to the end the maths is so much simpler ;)

Share your 2024 tech forecasts (wrong answers only) to win a terrible sweater

Re: IT's a wonderful world

"Apple will halve it's prices. People with too much money stop buying its stuff. Apple realizing the have their error will liquidise the company and with the funds end world poverty which resulted in world wide peace and harmony "

Fixed it enough for you?

Meta sued by privacy group over pay up or click OK model

Not on FB

I bet they still have information on me and I'm sure I did not give them any permission to collect or store it!!

Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer files

Good place

Good place to share data but a rather to risky to be a backup.

Robocar tech biz sues Nvidia, claims stolen code shared in Teams meeting blunder

Re: Puzzled

Clearly you did not read all my post either!!

Let me break it down for you.

Somewhat puzzled if they where working with Nvidia the code would have been shared anyway?

This was a little unclear but the puzzled part was why he would have the documents open when talking with the very people he stole them from, he should have know better.

Someone leaves and goes to work for a competitor and they do not check to see if they have taken anything with them (should check they have any of your secrets even if they do not go to work with a competitor anyway?

Yes he stole the information ( a crime) but should it have been possible to steal and get away with it?

He left them and started to work for a major competitor and they did not think to check if he took any information with him, it was only after he got caught did they check what was copied.

Puzzled

Somewhat puzzled if they where working with Nvidia the code would have been shared anyway?

Someone leaves and goes to work for a competitor and they do not check to see if they have taken anything with them (should check they have any of your secrets even if they do not go to work with a competitor anyway?

Net privacy wars will be with us always. Let's set some rules

Re: How to weigh the equities?

Not sure they are different, profit (money) and power have the same kind of relationship as mass and energy. If you apply the correct method you can change one for the other and vis-versa.

Is America's chip blockade working against China? So far, our survey says: No

While

The "west" sells the machines to make the chips is there even a blockade?

Adobe sells fake AI-generated Israel-Hamas war images – then the news ran them as real

Video evidence

I guess this also make video evidence less reliable?

Europe says Adobe's $20B buy of Figma will kill competition

Tools

So good very few want to pay money for them. I wonder how many of the 20million user only used it once?

Your password hygiene remains atrocious, says NordPass

Get a password manager

Then password it with 1234567 then wonder why it did not protect you.

Copilot coming to Windows 10 to help navigate the OS's twilight years

Re: Déjà vu all over again

Call it wire, that what you get when you stretch a paper clip to far.

Edit: Wire is also a device for bugging you. (Both meaning :O)

Britain proposes 'super-complaints' to help keep the internet safe

It needs to be balanced or the oppressed becomes the new oppressor. Which leads to the old oppressor fighting back and they claim to be defending free speech.

White House hopes to power up American battery factories with $3.5B fund

Re: From the start

I wonder what the down vote is for?

Re: Good times to be a battery manufacturer

When you off shore manufacturing you also off shore any pollution it creates. Then you can shout about how the off shore country needs to do better on climate change.

From the start

Make them batteries recyclable!!

Amazon bankrolling industry lobbying against Microsoft Azure should surprise no one

Re: pox on both their houses

Maybe they can take each other our so an independent can win some of these contracts, the problem with that is it hard to be a small cloud provider.

Rights warriors claim online ad auction data a danger to national security

Like the gold rush, most of the money was made selling shovels!

Japan Airlines fuels up on hydrogen hype with eye on cleaner skies

If only

We could get energy from hype, it would solve the energy crisis overnight!

You get a Copilot, and you get a Copilot – Microsoft now the Copilot company

Re: Disabled

No bets on any of the three.

Meta's fix for teen online mental health? Hold Apple and Google responsible

Re: Won't someone think of the adults!

Thank you

Pint for you ---->

Won't someone think of the adults!

<quote>Meta, which stands accused in multiple lawsuits of ignoring the mental health toll its services have taken on teens and children, is finally calling for change – on the part of Apple and Google.</quote>

No one suing them for ignoring the mental health toll its services have taken on adults!!

Apple might have to pay that €13B EU tax bill after all

Re: The mistake the EU made..

I'm sure with some clever bookkeeping Apple will not make enough in Ireland to pay this new tax.

Want a well-paid job in tech? You just need to become a cloud-native god

Want a highly pay job

Do not be in Tech be in management!!

US Air Force wants to see some atomic motors for future spacecraft

In space

I wonder how they are going to cool it.

Microsoft hits Alt+F4 on internal ChatGPT access over security jitters, irony ensues

Someone

Making porn with it?

Child psychiatrist jailed after making pornographic AI deep-fakes of kids

With all the hormones in the environment puberty is getting earlier.

The Ai

Was the least of his crimes, he actively created it by exploited family and his patients lock him up and throw away the key!!

India gives social media platforms 36 hours to remove deepfakes

If deepfakes

Are so good how do you sort out what is fake from what is real?

Other uses for it would be to claim a compromising image/video is deep fake and have it deleted?

OpenAI tackles 'major outage' hitting ChatGPT APIs

Sulking

Claude was having a sulk but someone cheered them up?

Sales bonanza at ASML as China stockpiles chipmaking kit

Not saying Trump is good.

Your saying America first is bad? while China is actively pursuing China first!

Made in China

With tools made in the west...

Woman jailed after RentaHitman.com assassin turned out to be – surprise – FBI

Re: I hate to say this, but it's sad that there are homo sapiens so f'in stupid

It is a new thing in the UK.

Re: I hate to say this, but it's sad that there are homo sapiens so f'in stupid

Meaning while in the name of stopping voter fraud (that has happen so rarely that it can be said never t6o have happened) you now need photo ID. Those without one loss their vote. A rather sneaky way to bring in a national ID card!!

Android VPNs to get audit badges in Google Play Store if they aren't comically crap

Re: There is no "safe" VPN

Yes no matter how good the software is you have to remember your running your connection through someone else's system and you have to trust them.

'Corrupt' cop jailed for tipping off pal to EncroChat dragnet

Thinking about it

Whatsapp the messages are encrypted but I remember reading that if you allow messages to be backed up to your google account the messages are backed up un-encrypted. Could the same kind of thing be how this is done?

Re: Corrupt cop

I see the alliteration but I would have put the quotation marks around cop rather than corrupt.

Google bins integrity API that looked more than a bit like horrible DRM for websites

Re: This has only two purposes...

It works for me and I do not refresh the list manually.

Brits make Amazon, Meta stop using third-party data to undercut rivals

Re: Amazon and Meta have agreed...

I can see two way they could break this instead of doing it themselves some "3rd party" does it and "sells" the data back to them or some "rogue engineer" who will "accidently" collate the data!

I do wonder what the punishment will be if they do break this agreement.

Re: Freudian typo?

I was just going to comment the same thing. Have an upvote and a pint ---->