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Canalys: Foldable shipments could 'exceed 30 million by 2024'

Rollable

I want a 28in wide-screen I can unroll like a scroll

UK.gov threatens to make adults give credit card details for access to Facebook or TikTok

Re: Dead Cat

>All this will do is make the IT savvy kids the most popular ones in school.

So this is all a brilliant and cunning plan to boost the level of IT literacy and general respect for STEM in school children ?

Re: Dead Cat

>Using a VPN is advice issued by the state for protecting yourself

So there would have to be one law for the masters and another for the peasants?

Inconceivable !

China's top chipmaker pivots to domestic sales, struggles to satisfy demand

Re: Is it me?

In UK news the govt minister for celebrating a bright new dawn of Global Britain has announced that although there is no modern fab capacity in operation or planned if there were then the British chips would be as happy as the British fish.

Apple tweaks AirTags to be less useful for stalkers, thieves

Re: Remove the Battery

Were this poundshop 2032 batteries?

Often removing/replacing the battery will clean the contacts and fix it for a while

If you have an iProduct or the app on a Google gadget it will warn you if there is a tag following you.

Red Hat signals Intel's software-defined silicon will debut in Linux 5.18

Re: He has already begun accepting them.

It's a driver with an API, you don't need to know what it will be used for.

Do you not include TCP/IP unless you know what all the websites will be used for ?

IBM looked to reinvigorate its 'dated maternal workforce'

Re: Barely legal

That's the irony. If they had hired Prentice McAbe they would have branded this as increasing the proportion of women/minority/LGBTQQ2IAA etc to match current graduate proportions - and got an award for it

Semiconductor market correction could come in 2024

Re: "2023/4 looks like being a rocky year for the industry"

The glut is prophesied to be in 28nm, 2 generations ago, everybody is struggling to build the next gen fans that aren't going to be ready for 3 years.

I doubt you are going to be seeing any $99 clearance deals on Nvidia 3090 cards anytime soon

CIA illegally harvested US citizens' data, senators assert

Re: And do you think...

>It was only found unlawful in August 2021

Yes I remember that, MI5 and GCHQ were closed down and the spies were hauled off to the Tower of London in Chains and the Home Secretary was convicted and jailed

UK government's chief digital officer departs

Re: (nice wage packet, btw).

That's the problem - it's not.

It's what amazon just raised their base programmer salary to. It's less than a new hire programmer at a FAANG here would expect in a couple of years (with options)

It's a lot of money for us regular minions, but for running an entire G7 governments It - it's not. Which means it's either going to somebody who is essentially on secondment from a supplier and is going to get a bonus on the sales, or it is recognised as a holiday job for some friend of a friend with no actual work required.

If you want government IT fixing, hire the boss of IT of Google/Facebook/Amazon and pay them the $$$$ the are worth - it will save you in the long run.

But then you reorganise depts. So you get 2 legacy systems for unemployment benefits and pensions merged and then they split the dept work and pensions.

Real-time software? How about real-time patching?

Re: In before someone says Rust would have enforced memory safety

In C there would be a linker flag for that --1.21GW

Securing open-source code isn't going to be cheap

Re: It's not an open source problem - you forgot only

Yes the open source may be better quality than mine but it is likely to also pull in other libraries with other functionality.

I might write a logging library that isn't safe against printing unsanitized strings, but I'm unlikely to accidentally implement remote procedure call functionality from scratch

Re: It's not an open source problem - you forgot only

>Security is both a closed source and an open source problem.

Although the open source, I'll just pull in random library to do X rather than write something = because it's free, might lead to a bunch more vulnerabilities.

Top Chinese Uni fears Middle Kingdom way behind on tech – and US sanctions make catching up hard

Re: Is that right?

It's a very difficult market to enter. It costs a lot of money to design a new engine and no customer is going to risk buying from a new entrant without the history, of reliability, servicing, global maintenance facilities.

A few countries make military jet engines locally, they are a lot simpler and you don't need to worry that a spare part and a mechanic will be available in 20years time at the other side of the world.

Re: China should encourage academic exchanges?

We lost a couple of Chinese engineers (one from China, one child of immigrants) to jobs in China

Salary offered was higher, better promotion prospects - but also the chance to buy a house. No new graduate here has a hope of ever doing anything but renting an apartment 1-2 hours out of the city

Joint European Torus more than doubles fusion record with 59 megajoules

Re: More megajoules

An ideal industrial explosive generates gas with as little heat as possible

A big problem, especially underground, is the toxic chemicals produced by stuff being burned by explosives - you have to go to great lengths to avoid any plastics around a blast.

And at the same time as Linux on the desktop

Re: More megajoules

And the rate with which it generates the gas, the rather wonderful term "brisance"

Re: use of fusion

>But kinda fun to re-imagine Mad Max and other post-apocalyptic tales in an EV future.

Given petrol's rather short shelf life Mad-Max would have to be using diesel, or perhaps bicycles.

Somehow Mr Max on a 1.2L diesel VW Polo or a Dutch old-lady bike doesn't quite compute

Chip shortages, sure, but it's a good time to be a silicon wafer maker

Re: Wafers

You do know that Newport Wafer Fab don't fabricate wafers ?

The money wasn't promised for a Fab, it was mostly rebranding existing academic funding.

It was going to be matched (allegedly) by untold Billions in private sector investment to actually build stuff.

Even the Eu sometimes does sneaky government PR spin

Re: Staggering scale

But only 0.438 milliWales

5G masts will be strapped to lampposts and traffic lights – once £4m project figures out who owns them

Eat more babies

Jonathan Swift

Re: 5G is no more harmful than 4G LTE

Leeches?

Luxury, if us wor poorly we had to gu t'NHS

Re: 5G mind control needs a few patches

>5G mind control doesn't seem to work very well.

So further proof that it is Gates/windows !

Re: "Modernising the way local authorities and operators work together"

>The GIS system and reality don't match.

They never match.

It's like as-built drawings never match the thing built

I thought it was a little subtle.

I dropped an Aliens reference into a meeting and got blank looks from the Gen-whatever whippersnappers

Re: only available from HMSO in person

Unless they are all at a party

Re: That's all very well

There is a new system called Large Area Mobile Broadband (LAMB) which will equip sheep with backpack transmitters allowing them to roam the countryside bringing internet to the yokels.

Never thought of Ozzie as representing the mind of Birmingham before..

Well if these idiots are being controlled by microchips it seems pretty obvious that they are running Windows. Look at how many new version the vaccine has needed, now talking about it needing annual upgrades.

Re: How much money?

>How much rental can I charge for installing one on our roof?

About 0.00001% of the cost of getting planning permission, getting the CAA, OfCom, the CoE, the village in bloom committee and the Chancellor of the Dutchy of Arbroath's gamekeepers tea-masher's mate to approve it.

Getting a structural engineering report, a new telecom certified electrical supply, a separate meter because the 50W it uses is taxed at a different rate (actually the same % but calculated in a different way) and a determination if this means your cat now comes under IR35

You also need a copy of the report about how the government is dynamically thrusting toward a new next-generation cloud based high-tech utopia of skills based on Internet of things (only available from HMSO in person)

The streetlight sites are for city centers.

You need lots of cells because a bazzillion punters walking down Oxford st all need to: appear to themselves every day, On TikTok.To make sure they're still real. It's the only connection they feel.

Then having micro cells every 10m helps and it's slightly inconvenient to knock down every building in central London to put up custom large masts.

Don't worry about the lights outside kid's bedroom, worry about what they are listening to on their infernal transistor radios playing the devils music (swanee kazoo)

Re: 5G is no more harmful than 4G LTE

>Yes, but black is more sinister...

A career in the home office awaits you

Car radios crashed by station broadcasting images with no file extension

Re: GIGO for the goddesses sake!

0% of the blame to the radio station but perhaps some to the vendor of their broadcast software.

Not sure I would blame a local NPR station for not auditing their software purchase for compliance with RDS standard 3.14159 part II, section 2.718 sub 0

You should read Section 8 of the Unix User's Manual

Re: Remember O'Reilly & Assoc books?

> ORA book on Sendmail was a godsend to a young ... sysadmin.

Sounds like child abuse

Re: % in email addresses?

Only properly impressive if the route was shown a hop at a time with red dotted lines on a giant video wall map.

UK, US, Australia issue joint advisory: Ransomware on the loose, critical national infrastructure affected

Obviously

We must ban encryption.

EU directs €11bn toward European Chips Act to build homegrown semiconductor industry

Re: You don’t understand?

Not anti-Eu, just saying that Europe in the 1950s wasn't exactly a bunch of social democrats all busy organising Black history month and promoting LGBTQQIP2SAA pride.

Re: You don’t understand?

The council of Europe had more members depending how you count. But the Germans didnt want Saarland included (it had been given to France after WW2), they eventually ended up with 13 and the Italians didn't want an unlucky number so it became a symbolic 12

There is a less fun story of the link to the virgin Mary 12 gold stars / blue. The original proposals had been for crosses because some of the founders where committed to a Christian Europe (having got rid of the Jews, there were very few Muslims and we can soon remove the commies). Its worth remembering that the fascists didn't all disappear in 1945

Re: And thanks to Brexit

Good job that British universities won't be involved in researching what happens at 1nm and how to solve it.

There is no point in doing the research because we can just read the Dutch/German research and use it in our own cutting edge fabs, built by all the semiconductor experts we have trained

Because it still costs $$$$ to build a last generation fab

By the time the fab is running in 3-4years there may well be a glut of these parts.

The parts you are making (power electronics, low cost micro-controllers) have a profit margin of 0.0% so you are going to be shipping the wafers to SE Asia for dicing and packaging and making into products - so no strategic advantage to European customers in the next trade disruption.

HMRC: Contractors, don't worry about IR35 reforms in private sector 'cos it all went so well in public sector

Re: UK Employment rate - More or Less (BBC Radio 4)

In the good old days if 4million unemployed they just 'seasonally adjusted' it to under 4M every month

D-Wave to go public after $1.2 billion merger deal with SPAC

Re: Probability

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers"

Re: You invest in a SPAC that merges with a company developing quantum computing

Only if you don't look in the box