Posts by Tom Chiverton 1

Mars may have vast underground oceans and enough H₂O to make it a water world

Re: hmm

No, the KSR book trilogy: Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars

AI training license will allow LLM builders to pay for content they consume

Look ! A horse !

I think it's bolted...

Bank of England flirts with offline digital dosh

Right, but the real reason for this is programmable currency. So benefits will only be payed in currency that can only be used in certain ways.

"No, you can't buy food for the kids, not till you've sent the rent money."

Microsoft hits Ctrl-Z after Teams trips over file sharing

Re: 90 days to upgrade

I blame Skype; this used to happen all the time in the Linux app, and the same file would work fine in the web version.

Maybe "integrating" the two broke it ?

Not that we care, we've moved to something not-Microsoft at 3 quid per user per month, and uninstalled Skype. That's how much people hate Teams, even though we have a 365 sub for Office that (probably) includes it.

Non-biz Skype kicks the bucket on May 5

Re: Teams? Forget it..

And you're trusting an LLM because why ?

Microsoft names alleged credential-snatching 'Azure Abuse Enterprise' operators

Re: Alan...

Umm, Turing?

Microsoft quietly erases Windows 11 TPM 2.0 bypass workaround from help page

Re: As long as they don't remove the workaround

Shouldn't the host's VM manager be providing a virtual TPM?

Mega city council's Oracle finance fix faces further delays

Careful. That comment's likely to be a problem under the Online Safety Act, for El Reg...

If you can go to jail for a Tweet about bombing an airport, how do you feel about advocating murder on a user-to-user communications service ?

Intel, AMD engineers rush to save Linux 6.13 after dodgy Microsoft code change

Re: Intel x86_64 is part of the problem

It is surprising when it skips all review and checks and just lands and ships though.

Did we lean nothing from xz ?

The winner of last year's Windows Ugly Sweater is ...

Re: Oh no

Ahh, you're a waffle man ?

Apple and Meta trade barbs over interoperability requests

Re: Metà are the scummiest

Well then, you won't be stepping through the high regulated, 2FA requiring, oAuth-like flow (that's why even mentioning 'passwords' is just Apple being a dick) to grant Meta limited access to some Apple APIs with your account then.

For other people, being able to do this wil be valuable.

British hospitals hit by cyberattacks still battling to get systems back online

You might want to go anonymous the next time you admit to breaching the CMA :)

Thought was more likely to be poorly secured VPN or remote desktop tbh

Arianespace's Vega C delayed after gantry throws a tantrum

Unless it was something moving when it shouldn't, then duct tape.

Perfect 10 directory traversal vuln hits SailPoint's IAM solution

CWE-66

That's pronounced "sea wee sixty six" right?

Re: Perfect 10 directory vulnerability

The ones that wear a 12?

Eurocops take down 'secure' criminal chat system known as Matrix

Re: In other news.....

Which is what the UK government will eventually ask for z and Signal have said is their red line for leaving.

Who had Pat Gelsinger retires from Intel on their bingo card?

replaced ... by ... CFO

It's the end when the bean-counters are in charge, right ?

#bofh

Mystery Palo Alto Networks hijack-my-firewall zero-day now officially under exploit

Re: Wonder how long before the US CISA stops issuing warnings and recommendations.

who do PA think they are, Cisco?

UK energy watchdog slaps down Capita's £130M smart meter splurge

Re: The real reason the UK government wants smart meters

Till some tween does it from his basement. If your lucky it'll be someone in the same country

The Register takes AMD's Ryzen 9800X3D for a spin

Re: But ...

Heck, will it run Doom ?

Mozilla Foundation crumbles as third of staff cast off

Probably has the shortcut mapped to something, such as their window manager.

Hide the keyboard – it's the only way to keep this software running

Re: Wondering about the platform?

Those two F1 projects deserve a full web site with details :)

#arcadeBBSForever

US Army turns to 'Scylla' AI to protect depot

How often does it just make random shit up?

Top EU court overturns Intel's billion-dollar antitrust fine

Geez.Can we adjust the original fine for the upheld parts to counter act the foot dragging from Intel on this ?

The billionaire behind Trump's 'unhackable' phone is on a mission to fight Tesla's FSD

Re: 10k lines of code?

I assume he's talking about a microkernel, so nothing more than a message bus, and everything else lives in user space, including the device drivers and application software. Which of course aren't "OS" and so don't count when they have the inevitable exploit in PNG parsing or hard coded credentials in the provisioning app.

Big deal. NSA got the Windows source too.

Publish your source, or a bootable image, or GTFO.

China’s infosec leads accuse Intel of NSA backdoor, cite chip security flaws

Re: Cue the deafening silence

Sounds like over the top pandering about the Management Engine. Nothing new here...

Digital River runs dry, hasn't paid developers for sales since July

I must be missing something. Who the hell are Digital River ? What do they make/do ? Why should I care ?

Telegram will now hand over IP addresses, phone numbers of suspects to cops

Re: compromising position

Signal with disappearing chats is probability easier to set up and more accessible.

Re: Will this make a difference?

Should have been long ago. It's not like it's encrypted.

Admins using Windows Server Update Services up in arms as Microsoft deprecates feature

Entra? Oh, you mean Active Directory.

China claims Starlink signals can reveal stealth aircraft – and what that really means

Re: Easy fix

As we've seen from Ukraine, any large invasion will coincide with massive malware attacks on infrastructure, civilian or not. I'm sure cable cuts would be in the agenda too.

Russia barely has a space program, so denying GEO and going full Kessler is probably a win for them...

China wants red flags on all AI-generated content posted online

Of course they want hard attestation. Helps to track down anyone critical of them for shipping to reeducation camp.

Nothing to do with AI content here.

Transport for London confirms 5,000 users' bank data exposed, pulls large chunks of IT infra offline

My god. It *was* a script kidz. A *teenager* at that.

Suggests they don't know who works for them any more, and what their access levels should be, so are going to fall back to physical company ID cards, and rebuild their directory from there.

Re: Mind the gap.....

"Line managers/people leaders will use WhatsApp groups to share updates "

Let's hope that's not been popped as well as their corporate AD, eh? Most people will be there with their *personal* mobiles...

Top EU court crushes Google appeal against $2.65B Shopping antitrust ruling

Re: Wow!

14 years. Google easily pays the fine from it's illegal profits.

How is this a disincentive ?

OneFileLinux: A tiny recovery distro that fits snugly in your EFI system partition

Re: Kernel recompiles

You can't boot a kernel you built yourself with Microsoft's secure boot enabled, because it'll fail the DRM checks.

Foot-thick wall workaround: Gigabit network links beamed through solid concrete

Re: The biological effects on human anatomy

None

ESA prints 3D metal shape in space for first time

Re: IMPRESSIVE

Just use magnets

Telegram apologizes to South Korea and takes down smutty deepfakes

> pseudonymous

Telegram, unlike say Signal, isn't encrypted.

They can easily turn over account details to the cops.

The fact they don't seem to is what got them arrested.

You've invented DRM and the end of open source (if FOSS can add 'I am not fake' so can the Bad Place). Please stop.

Deadline looms: Google Workspace mandates OAuth by September 30

Top tip : You should set a per-app password ( https://support.google.com/mail/answer/185833 ) as this will continue working with normal protocols.

NASA's VIPER rover might still reach the lunar surface after all

Ah ha - so milestone payments ?

IM makes money ? How ?!? They don't *do* anything... certainly not compared to say the SpaceX cadence.

Microsoft squashes bug that sent Windows devices to BitLocker recovery

"encrypts a user's storage to keep it safe from prying eyes"

Kinda-sorta?

It prevents someone without the key being able to decrypt it when powered off, e.g. by connecting to a different machine.

Once it's booted, it's decrypted and anything running on the machine can read anything e.g. malware

Still waiting for a Pi 500 and wondering what do this summer?

Re: Point

It might Just Be You ? Mine has been running a suite of Docker containers, such as PiHole, solidly, for months.

Delta: CrowdStrike's offer to help in Falcon meltdown was too little, too late

Not sure what the difference would look like

What's going on with AMD funding a CUDA translation layer, then nuking it?

Re: "the legality of emails is unimportant"

The US wants what it always wants - those with deepest pockets win th argument, might is right.