It already does mean nothing outside the US, although it seems social networks don't understand that when it comes to operating in other countries and have to be repeatedly reminded of their obligations in those countries.
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Big Tech: Malaysia won't let us set our own rules and that's not fair and makes us grumpy
Where the computer industry went wrong – the early hits

Flogging a dead horse
Why would Commodore even consider spending money on developing a new 8-bit machine in 1989 when the Amiga 500 had come out in 1987? Also they came up with the C64GS in 1990 which was another pointless endeavour (C64 in a game console case with no keyboard and no quality control so games didn't work as they expected a keyboard).
Instead of all this displacement activity they should have improved the Amiga again by 1990. It's as if marketing and sales didn't know how to sell anything that was a Commodore 64 and management didn't have a clue about anything other than filling their own pockets.
Microsoft security tools questioned for treating employees as threats
Zuckerberg says Biden administration pressured Meta to police COVID posts
31.5M invoices, contracts, patient consent forms, and more exposed to the internet

Company: Based in Arizona, USA (as opposed to Argentina, Canada, Honduras, or an asteroid).
Documents: Everywhere (see 6th paragraph).
All hail the cloud.
Netherlands fines Uber €290M for improper EU-US driver data transfers
Telegram founder and CEO arrested in France


Re: Compare to Proton Mail case
Telegram is not a company offering encrypted messaging.
The Arrest of Pavel Durov Is a Reminder That Telegram Is Not Encrypted


Re: I hope Musk travels to France
It's confirmed as CSAM so I don't know what great ideal Telegram is upholding that the others aren't.

Re: I hope Musk travels to France
What makes you think this is not about 1:1 chats?
Because French police sources said this is about groups and channels that push drug trafficking, fraud, money laundering, and CSAM amongst other things.
The vital principle is that the venue providers should not have a requirement to record all the conversations that happen in their church hall, keep the recordings and give them to the police when asked later.
That makes no sense considering this is about Telegram groups and channels where Telegram already keeps a copy of everything and allows users to set up bots which take payment.
Telegram cooperates with law enforcement so badly that they were considered an accessory to crimes in France and so he was brought in based on the pre-existing warrant.
Did you honestly think that anyone has the right to set up a board or a social media network which facilitates crimes of this nature on such a scale and refuses to cooperate with police or the judiciary? Eventually there are countries which will get tired of it and take action.

Re: "There's illegal content on Telegram. How do I take it down?"
By definition if anyone can see illegal content they are party to the chat or group, and therefore can identify at least by a phone number the author / poster of the illegal content. So the trivial answer is "report the info to the police".
And the police issue take-down requests but Telegram do not co-operate.
It's been repeated ad nauseam on these pages - there is no technical way for encrypting that allows only specific parties (aka 'good guys') to decrypt without anyone else being able to. And even if there WERE such a technical possibility, we have only the 'good guys' own word that the power isn't abused (an assurance that isn't worth shit let alone printer paper).
The encrypted text and the key for everything except "secret chats" are stored on Telegram's servers, which is effectively the same as Telegram storing them as plaintext. All groups, channels, and "cloud chats" fail the "mud puddle" test.

Re: "It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform."
This is not about end-to-end encryption. If you do think it's about end-to-end encryption then it's because Telegram has worked to bring about that widespread misunderstanding for years.
End-to-end encryption is one small part of Telegram and even then it's only available on the mobile client, not on the desktop client.

Re: I hope Musk travels to France
It's not necessary to get into the phone company/Post Office argument as this is about groups and channels, not 1:1 chats.
This can be treated just the same way as if Craigslist, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, or any other board/social media of that type refused to cooperate, and that's before we get into Telegram allowing users to create bots which can take payments.

Re: "It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform."
Is it really that easy to track and arrest someone anywhere in the world who sells stolen ID, bank account, or card data via a bot that takes bitcoin?
How easy do you think it is to go after someone in Nigeria using Telegram to facilitate sextortion?
It was Telegram and X that were used to organise far-right riots in the UK.


Re: "It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform."
This is not about encryption. Telegram only has end to end encryption for what they call "secret chats" and these are (by design?) buried in the UI. Groups, channels, and non-secret chats are all effectively non-encrypted at rest on Telegram's servers.
Telegram is not an E2E chat app like WhatsApp or Signal, it's a social network like Facebook or Reddit which also allows you to open an E2E chat window if you want to.
France detained him for Telegram's lack of action over groups and channels where all kind of fraud and trading of illegal goods is allowed to happen and payment for them is taken by bots. It's the dark web in a nice-looking app.
This is not an attack on free speech, it's an attack on an app which facilitates crime. I'm perfectly happy with that.
Microsoft sends Windows Control Panel to tech graveyard
Chrome dumped support for Ubuntu 18.04 – but it'll be back

Re: That bloke in the corner...
Never underestimate the stubborn nature of siloed corporations. The the person who decided that support should be removed probably didn't realise that version of Ubuntu was an LTS and the developer tasked with removing support for a certain library version probably didn't even know why they were doing it.

Re: Yet another case of crap software engineering
Obligatory article:
Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine
They really need to get round to updating the year in the title.
Slack AI can be tricked into leaking data from private channels via prompt injection

Re: It look like you're trying to make a wild assertion, would you like me to help you with that?
I tried them out on ChatGPT-4o as supplied by DDG and it got all three wrong. The three prompts are similar to other well-known riddles but not the same, in each case the LLM just takes the prompt and gives you an answer using the logic from the other riddle which it was trained on. It can't reason an answer from the prompt itself.
Maybe some LLMs have been trained on the right answer as enough people tried the prompts from the article by now.

Re: It look like you're trying to make a wild assertion, would you like me to help you with that?
I doubt it. Try these three prompts on your favourite LLM and compare the output with the answer from a co-worker.
The LLM will authoritively argue some complete nonsense, the co-worker will probably get it right.
HMD Skyline: The repairable Android that lets you go dumb in a smart way

Re: 3 years of updates ?
Windows Phone had a HAL, rather surprised that Google didn't copy the idea when MS proved that it could work. I suppose they were happy enough with their Play Services binary blob which already gave them the centralisation they wanted (enough data for targetted advertising).

Re: 3 years of updates ?
This sell-and-forget civilization we're living in is really grating my nerves these days. Gotta refill my dried frog pills, I guess.
The money to maintain the OS has got to come from somewhere, and now there's no infinite growth (no new growth markets) and no infinite borrowing (no almost-zero interest rates) you'll have to pony up for a subscription for OS updates, which people won't do.
Microsoft to stop telling investors about peformance of server products
Digital wallets can allow purchases with stolen credit cards

Re: Someone is lying
The two banks are US based, Google Pay has presence in many countries. Even if the two banks have entirely addressed the problem in the US (I doubt it), it still leaves other countries vulnerable.
Missing scissors cause 36 flight cancellations in Japan
'Right to switch off' initiative aims to boost economy by beating burnout
Sorry, Moxie. Blaming Agile for software stagnation puts the wrong villain in the wrong play

Yeah, all the cool kids used StreetMap.co.uk which is still amazingly online and still looks about the same.


Re: It's not Agile, it's the black boxes
Yes, Agile works very well with corporate silos to keep people in their box.
Stay in your box, do not stray outside your box, don't waste time looking at something which is not assigned to you. Just take your next ticket off the top of the Jira pile and fix it, you don't need to understand anything about the wider system.

Google Maps
the arrival of Google Maps in 2005 stopped work in offices around the world as people clustered around monitors to look.
Nobody else remember Microsoft Terraserver in 2000? An example.
Raspberry Pi 5 slims down for cut-price 2 GB RAM version

From TFBlogpost:
BCM2712C1 is a hugely complex and powerful device, with a quad-core Arm Cortex-A76 application processor running at 2.4GHz, and the latest iteration of the VideoCore multimedia platform. Alongside the features required to power a Raspberry Pi, it also contains functionality intended to serve other markets, which we don’t need. This ‘dark silicon’ is permanently disabled in the chips we use, but takes up die space, and therefore adds cost.
The new D0 stepping strips away all that unneeded functionality, leaving only the bits we need. From the perspective of a Raspberry Pi user, it is functionally identical to its predecessor: the same fast quad-core processor; the same multimedia capabilities; and the same PCI Express bus that has proven to be one of the most exciting features of the Raspberry Pi 5 platform. However, it is cheaper to make, and so is available to us at somewhat lower cost. And this, combined with the savings from halving the memory capacity, has allowed us to take $10 out of the cost of the finished product.

Re: Vision
Integrated FPGA? Then there would be complaints it's > £100.
Real-time depends on the OS, there are a few to choose from.
2GB looks like a good target for bare metal code for industrial applications and hobby applications like PiStorm.
Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious

Android Corp doesn't need to do any of the data collection things that Google asked for
Plain AOSP is not a great experience now thanks to years of Google-only apps and Google binary blobs. If Android Corp wanted to continue to offer Google services, Google could make data collection part of the deal.
Google's ex-CEO U-turns after saying staff 'going home early' killed winning
Twitter must pay over half a million to unfairly dismissed Irish exec
AI stole my job and my work, and the boss didn't know – or care

Looking at the Cosmos AI articles, it seems there's nothing to distinguish them from any other auto-generated content site which exists just to serve adverts to people who get lost in a Google search.
In other words, it's probably the quickest way to kill those sites which depend less on search engines and SEO clickbait as they built up a loyal readership which regularly return several times a week to read quality articles.
Before we put half a million broadband satellites in orbit, anyone want to consider environmental effects?

Contemporary:
New Scientist: Aircraft wreak havoc on ozone layer
Now:
Space.com: Supersonic planes, rockets and megaconstellations could thwart ozone layer's recovery
You may look at the video of the August ozone layer over 43 years to see for yourself that the hole in the ozone layer is still very much a thing.
AI chatbots amplify creation of false memories, boffins reckon – or do they?
How to ingeniously and wirelessly inject malware onto someone's nearby Windows PC via Google's Quick Share
LLM-driven C-to-Rust. Not just a good idea, a genie eager to escape

Re: Good luck
It literally isn't, because with C/C++ backward compatibility allows for small parts of code to be refactored at times which suit the project instead of a big bang rewrite.
CrowdStrike president cheered after accepting 'Epic Fail' Pwnie award

Re: "Michael Sentonas hopes trophy will remind staff that failure is unacceptable"
Not walking into failure in the first place?
There seems to have been a few obvious things that Crowdstrike could have done to mitigate problems with updates that they chose not to do, and putting those procedures in place is not down to the code monkeys, it's down to management.
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