Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Trump tariffs ruled illegal within minutes of Musk announcing end of government role

Re: Its a bit of a mess, bit was avoidable

But if you have access to options trades, and know in advance when your little Orange Chaos Monkey is going to make an announcement, then it can be quite profitable

Trump can bluster and bluff all he wants, but iPhone manufacturing isn't coming to the US

Re: Better idea

Aren't all iPhones 'sold' in Ireland?

And Dublin is the 6th New York borough

So all iPhones are American

Re: Obvious solution

>Tim Cook would be a better candidate

At this point Balmer would be better. In fact Clippy would be more presidential

Obvious solution

1, Apple buys Fox news

2, AppleNews announces iPhones made in USA

3, AppleNews announces people should vote for Tim Cook

New Russian cyber-spy crew Laundry Bear joins the email-stealing pack

Laundry Bear?

Faisil:They call him the Sand Spider.

Spencer Trilby:Why?

Faisil:Probably because it sounds scary

Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold in Redmond

Re: Just more evidence (as if we needed it)

Like the fantasy author where the AI prompt made it into the printed book

Re: Sticking an AI interface in every application doesn't make a lot of sense

AI for DOS 3.2, make the Terminator deal with extended memory drivers in config.sys.

One of Britain's largest health trusts says 'no ta' to Palantir-run data platform – for now

Re: Does Peter Thiel Need The Money?

It's not just about the money, it's about the evil as well

Re: "not to adopt a national data platform – [..] run by Palantir – until it has"

Or someone in San Jose tells someone in Washington to tell someone in London to cut it out or there will be trouble

Palantir is owned by the same guy that owns JD Vance

Space Force tech mission threatened by staff and funding black hole

Re: A more lethal military

>Somebody's got to follow in JD's footsteps, bravely knocking out toilet paper requisitions in triplicate, 30 miles away from any fighting.

That's one difference between the allies and the axis in WWII.

The German and Japanese army had the overwhelming majority of its manpower in front line combat roles while the British and Americans had 25% of men fighting and a vast logistics chain able to supply manpower, food, fuel, ammunition, medical care and tea/ice-cream quickly and efficiently to any theatre, while the Germans and Japanese relied on foraging for food and fuel from the locals.

Remind me again who won that one ?

A more lethal military

Didn't the Highly-Qualified Defense Sec claim they wanted to get rid of all the nerds and support staff (and women) and concentrate on a "more lethal military" which would be based on rippling muscles and manly tattoos ?

Actors' union complains about Epic Games cloning Darth Vader

It's very different. HOAs were created to keep black people out of neighbourhoods and so protect house prices

While (American) unions were mostly created to keep Irish out of jobs and so protect wages. The idea of black people getting a job at your factory being ridiculous.

Re: Put them in touch...

Oops sorry. In my defence commenting without reading the article is in the finest tradition of ek'reg

The original "actor" in the suit was a an English body builder David Prowse.

He comes from the bit of English countryside that is the stereotypical "country bumpkin" accent = exactly that of Worzel Gummidge

The onset audio outtakes are hilarious

Re: Put them in touch...

I have changed the deal, pray I do not change it further

Why weren't this Union fighting for the rights of the original actor who was re-voiced by some foreigner just because of Hollywood's anti-Worzel racism

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang labels US GPU export bans ‘precisely wrong’ and ‘a failure’

That's why the USA banned exports of aerospace products like Boeing planes to China.

Show us your face: New Orleans PD reportedly got secret facial recognition alerts

Re: is this normal in the UK?

It worked great, it identified 100% of black people at the Nottingham Hill Carnival as 'of interwst' to the police.

Which just shows how involved in the local community the police are.

Not facial recognition

If it simply measures skin tone = therefore not a civil liberties issue

Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' would create a regulation-free AI hellscape, AGs warn

Re: Fortunately

It also works in parliamentary systems. Put all the year's legislation into the budget bill, on the grounds that if it involves government spending it's budget, and challenge your own party to vote against it and thus cause an election

Re: USA

No rules on my Movie-AI which is able to learn a movie and regenerate it exactly

As a bonus, it uses no more resources than a regualr "cp" command

Intel bets you'll stack cheap GPUs to avoid spending top dollar on Nvidia Pros

Re: It's Intel

Nvidia couldn't care less about your laptop or the consumer in general.

The code and tools to tune CUDA and interconnects on HPC get a lot more attention

Re: It's Intel

Yes but if you ignore the extra cost and complexity of all the extra motherboards, power, cooling, rack-space, interconnects, management issues and latency from many more weaker cards - I think you'll find they have a compelling business case. If only they had the software support that NVidia has

Microsoft revives DOS-era Edit in a modern shell

"Save" is an extra as part of your Office 363 subscription

Ex-NSA bad-guy hunter listened to Scattered Spider's fake help-desk calls: 'Those guys are good'

Re: Accessorising

Look I just find that configuring iptables is easier if I'm wearing a V for Vendetta mask - ok ?

Re: Co-op early decisive action, really?

>The coop is a bit crap and always has been

You probably have more to thank the Rochdale Cooperative Movement for than you would think

(unless you personally own large bits of the Home Counties of course)

No, the criminals are always black hoody wearing hacker geniuses in front of green screens in a basement somewhere. That's why you have to pay Securi-Scary-Solutions $$$$$$ to protect your data with our new magic network box with real magic beans AI technology.

Don't worry about having outsourced your database management to Azerbaijan

"Don't you know who I am?"

I do. You're lucky the bar's open to you.

Re: Always attack at five to five

That would definitely work here.

We're a little outpost of a European Megacorp with 2fa, locked down laptops, intune secure on our phones and mandatory security training

But we have no IT at our site, or in our country. So as a dev i get constant requests to reboot server X, swap a patch cable, press some random button on a Cisco switch. All on teams messaging with no authentication other than an @it at the end of the username

Torvalds' typing taste test touches tactile tragedy

Re: The best keyboard...

Personally a fan of DELL's chunky "real keys" keyboard (L100) it's also full size but sculptured to just the keys, so doesn't need a desk extension like the IBM

Re: Pondering..

Isn't he responsible for extending the Vi/Emacs schism beyond the computer lab, the millions that died in the Gnome/KDE wars and ultimately the Snap/Flatpack jihad that destroyed Earth ?

AI skills shortage more than doubles for UK tech leaders

Re: FFS...

After you swapped your ballet career to retrain in Cyber, couldn't you pirouette into AI ?

Trump signs TAKE IT DOWN law meant to stop revenge porn

Re: Critical speech

I thought all those homo-erotic AI generated images of his manly body were done by his supporters?

CISA has a new No. 2 ... but still no official top dog

Good luck....

Chap has a name that Trump can't pronounce and presumably falls on the "Terrorist" end of the skin-colour test chart

Parachuted into an agency that is being defunded while being blamed for everything being an attack from "Jina", or if they claim it's not "Jina" they are obviously in the pay of Pooh.

If I were this chap I wouldn't bother unpacking

Fired US govt workers, Uncle Xi wants you! – to apply for this fake consulting gig

Re: "How to spot a fake"

Rolls-Royce paid rather less to come up with the name "Silver Mist" for the German market and Bosch-Siemens might have done a bit of googling before naming their bagless vacuum "Zyklon"

Re: "How to spot a fake"

All genuine companies names begin with X

Re: All they need

Ironically this would probably be less harmful than a genuine order from the commander in cheif

DARPA zaps popcorn with laser power beamed 5.3 miles through air

General we have equipped all our drones with solar panels so they don't need batteries.

What happens at night ?

We thought of that, we have mounted a giant rotating light on a big tower at HQ.

Nvidia sets up shop in Taiwan with AI supers and a factory full of ambition

Re: Necessary Infrastructure

Isn't Greenland, Canada and Panama enough for him ?

Necessary Infrastructure

Does the small island of Taiwan have the coal reserves to fuel an AI powerhouse ?

Boffins devise technique that lets users prove location without giving it away

Re: How about no...

Indeed, that's why I only wear it for running.

My partner's Apple watch does everything my Casio AE1200 does for only 10x the cost and with a battery life of 1day instead of 10 years. Also all the younglings in the office think I'm cool and retro for wearing it (I might have to get a Casio calculator watch)

The Small Bread Product Identification Standard

A captcha shows you an individual lump bread product and you have to select from teacake, bap, roll, stottie, balmcake etc. Giving your location in the UK to within a village

Re: How about no...

>measured the impact of leaving GPS on/off on battery life

With the much smaller battery on a smart watch - yes.

Mine has a "watch only" mode that turns off GPS/sensors and extend life from a couple of days to 2weeks

Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson wants AIs fighting AIs so those most fit to live with us survive

But wouldn't they only be effective against the sort of go-getting, move-fast-and-break-things, running ahead without thinking, types ?

On the other hand .....

Re: Handwriting

Don't worry, nobody under the age of el'reg reader will be able to read joined-up/curly writing anyway, however neat.

UK government overrules local council’s datacenter refusal on Green Belt land

It's inside the M25 so at best it's pristine intensively farmed land - this is not exactly the Amazon rainforest.

Re: What?

>No empty factories around? Abandoned neighborhoods?

Not inside the M25

Outside the M25 is, as we all know, a barren wilderness of white walkers, zombies and notherners

Re: visual impact?

Thames Water's new sewage-cooled servers - ideal for Facebook/Twitter/etc

Annual electronic waste footprint per person is 11.2 kg

Re: Software longevity

Well what do you expect? A massive global army of professional programmers all working for free to build a better operating system and keep maintaining it for ever?

Uncle Sam claims H-1B fraud crackdown is working as registrations drop 25%

Re: Excellent

They are sending their best, their sending us their rocket scientists and cancer researchers