Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Turns out most cybercriminals are old enough to know better

Re: Solution

So a UK government is promoting online privacy while risking making Mumsnet and the Daily Mail angry?

That's what happens when we elect a woolly-[liberal human rights lawyer

Re: Not sure I believe these stats

Since there are never any arrests of N Korean / Chinese / Israeli hackers I can assume that none of these are a threat

Solution

Isn't the UK instituting a bunch of laws to stop under 18s using VPNs or doing anything online?

Just change the sign

AWS says drones hit two of its datacenters in UAE, urges users to move resources to different regions

Re: Is this what took Amazon offline on the 27th??

I hope you got the Granddaughter delivered once things were restarted.

Depending on the delivery company they may have left her in a bin or thrown her over a fence

You know what they say: No smoke without incoming fire

Re: Can someone clarify this for me?

>And Shia and Sunni regard each other as heretics.

Not just that, the Saudis are an extreme form of Sunni and are trying to walk a line of "you must strictly adhere to our religious law. But the country should also be run by a monarch and playboy princes not vicars"

The USA has got a bit trickier. It used to be that there was a balance in US foreign policy between the competing interests of the defense companies and the oil companies, or later between the industrials and silicon valley

Now US policy is whatever the Great Leader last tweeted, which might be who he last spoke to, what he last saw on Fox, or what the voices are telling him. I miss the days of a military-industrial complex and backroom deals

Re: Bad feeling about this

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Re: Bad feeling about this

It seems a perfectly well thought-out plan.

Stop Venezuelan, and now Iranian, oil flowing to China, forces China to buy Russian oil.

Somebody is getting a bonus from Moscow this month

Re: Sprinklers!?

>was told that the sprinklers are the last line of defense to safe the building.

When the GPUs are worth 100x the cost of the shell it might be a good idea to omit the sprinklers, just in case some idiot with a forklift

Re: Can someone clarify this for me?

Added to which Saudi Arabia has been at war with them, through various proxies, since the 90s

Re: Armed data centers

Welcome to Texas

Re: Can someone clarify this for me?

Presumably a cunning plan to distract kinetic attention from all the oil and gas facilities that the region is famed for ?

Western governments seek to lock down 6G before it even exists

RFC 666.999

The first byte of the 6G header shall represent

Bit0.- contains data critical of the government

Bit1 - contains data that will upset mumsnet/Daily Mail

Bit2 - contains opensource that threatens profits

Etc etc

Motorola partners with GrapheneOS for future phones

Re: Any GrapheneOS users here?

Daily driver since the Pixel3. Only thing that doesn't work is my corporate Microsoft Work Profile, apparently it can be made to work if IT select "any secure system" instead of "pure Google only" in their management console. Authenticator app does work, but I can't be called on Teams at home at 11:00pm :-(

Nice feature is that it has separate users, beyond the normal Android Profiles. So you can have a separate user for all your banking apps and another for your "install this dodgy app and give it lots of permissions to enable your smart butplug Coffee Mug"

Suspected Nork digital intruders caught breaking into US healthcare, education orgs

It does seem odd that the world's most backward country is able to penetrate the richest, most expensively IT serviced and technologically advanced (at least when it comes to billing) health care system in the world

But that means they might have ... electricity !

SaaS-pocalypse chatter is doomster pr0n. It would be nice if enterprise IT were boring again

Re: Funny

Funny thing is that these are open source development tools, for a bunch of developers, who all use Linux

But corporate IT are upto their necks in Microsoft and SAP and Salesforce etc, so I think you're exactly correct

Re: Funny

Our corporate masters made us use expensive corporate Github and expensive corporate Atlassian wiki - the reason we didn't just host internally was apparently all the "added value" "interoperations" and "features" - which I suspect they mean pretty dashboards - which an ai+stunned-herring could code

But a lot of their "lock-in" is providing consultancy

So if instead of paying SAP / Salesforce / Beelzebub Inc, $10K/day to change the format of a report - Deepseek.ai can write the script for free.

I am confused why Microsoft is down 30%, it's not like anyone is going to vibe-code their own in-house Teams/Office360.5/OS

China’s ‘The US hacks itself to make us look bad’ theorists return with a crypto conspiracy

Re: Seems logical

So in spite of the best efforts of china, the treasonous colonials still remain the proud leaders in conspiracy theories ?

Trump orders purge of 'woke' Anthropic from government

Re: Venn diagram of those MAGA and online trolls is pretty much just a circle though.

There are only so many qualified Fox "news" presenters to go around and a lot of cabinet posts to fill

Re: Venn diagram of those MAGA and online trolls is pretty much just a circle though.

Rather 'woke' to assume MAGA can read/write

I assumed the online trolls were being paid. Hopefully well since English is not only not their native language, but not even their native character set.

I think the current administration would designate the RAF (the British one) as woke - for Harris's bombing of Nazis

Re: The true definition of woke

> difference between someone who calls themselves a "liberal" and someone who calls themselves a "conservative" is empathy

No it's whether your military puts a rainbow flag on its twitter feed once a year, while bombing weddings

NASA safety watchdog says it's time to rethink Moon landing

>The American space program is a weak shadow of its former self, not because Americans are fundamentally incompetent or technologically deficient,

Or because this time they lack Nazis ?

So their moonbase will have a 3-lunar-buggy garage filled with junk and the buggies parked outside ?

Americans have got considerably larger since the 1960s

Obviously became Apollo didn't have all these pinko woke liberal environmental climate change laws

The new mission will be coal powered

Microsoft HoloLens finds second home in the military after failing battlefield tests

Surely it's cheaper

To outsource it to some private air freight company with no qualified personnel

Brit dual nationals grounded by border digitization drive

Re: So how much does it cost

Can I just do some "gross moral turpitude"?

Or does that get me into the House of Lords ?

Re: Reasonable

>There is no proof that they are British if they do not hold a British passport

So a Belgian with an ETA is allowed in but 'for reasons of national security' a Canadian citizen with an ETA isn't allowed into Britain if they were born there

Re: Reasonable

It's ridiculous for a British citizen to just be allowed to enter Britain.

If we start letting citizens in then soon we'll have to let foreigners in, it's a slippery slope

That's because global Ireland bestrides the world as an imperial colossus and nobody dares mess with them.

Top cloud providers to outspend Ireland's GDP on AI in 2026

But Ireland is owned by Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle - so it's a bit of circular accounting

Say goodbye to budget PCs and smartphones – memory is too expensive now

Re: So let me get this right

But at least Tulips gave smug Calvinists something to put in their smug pamphlets and economics textbook authors an example to misunderstand

So let me get this right

Capitalism, the most efficient way to ensure that limited resources go to the most effective use - is forcing companies to build expensive ram for an AI that nobody wants and causing shortages for products that people are clamouring to buy.

Are we sure we read the right textbooks ?

Re: Anyone remember ...

But back then your toolbar icons weren't animated. What kind of primitive office memos could you write without window opening effects

Anthropic launches new marketing blog, pretends it's being 'written' by 'retired' LLM

Re: Pretending to be AI

We don't want any of that sort of talk here - we've got aManfromMars for that

Hubble in a death spiral that could end as early as 2028 without a reboost

I really don't think the American tax-payer is quite so guillable.

On the other hand if Fox "News" said it was being allowed to crash and burn because it had discovered aliens .....

Re: 2028 sounds like a death sentence for Hubble

>With a bit of luck it will fall onto the orange one's head in the White House.

Sadly Hubble's orbit inclination is about 28.5deg so it can't even hit Houston

Mar-a-lago on the other hand.....

Yes but only if you had used disposable rockets instead of cheap safe reliable reusable Space Shuttles

Orbital datacenters are a pie-in-the-sky idea: Gartner

Re: Peak insanity

So a strategic resource ?

Gentlemen, we cannot allow a stupidity gap to develop !

- the back of the PV panel is nowhere near big enough.

Erm it exactly is, assuming you aren't too concerned about the temperature your panels get to

Ex-L3Harris exec jailed 7 years for selling exploits to Russia

Re: Definition

So long as you hire a good judge you should be ok

Worried Europeans can now cut Azure's phone cord completely

All the difficulties of on-prem combined with the costs of cloud.

Discord drama delays age verification debut until the second half of 2026

Re: "turn identity verification data into a government-controlled people tracker"

Who would have thought Big Brother could have got you to pay $1500 to install your own VidScreen ?

AMD copy-pastes 6 GW chips-for-stock deal in new Meta agreement

Re: But ...

Assuming people who aren't idiots don't sign $Bn contracts without a lot of get-out clauses

And NVidia are NOT idiots

IBM stock dives after Anthropic points out AI can rewrite COBOL fast

Re: What's the target platform the investors imagined?

The share price drop was based on high speed trading algorithms predicting that other slower trading algorithms would sell based on the idea that retail investors (ie suckers) would sell based on any "AI+software company" news

Profitable investors don't care about how this affects the company, just on how other investors predict other investors will think other investors will react