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

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

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

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

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

Necessary Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Re: Practical Planning..

That's the failure of Labour laissez-faire capitalism, we need to bring back Tory central planning and their 5year plan for electrification of the motherland

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?

I'm doing my part

My loft full of boxes of old random cables is keeping 0.1 "skateboarding rhinos" of e-waste out of landfill

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

Re: Green card – which is itself a pathway to citizenship and freedom

>A green card IS NOT a pathway to citizenship. It merely allows someone to work and live "legally' in the US.

Which is itself the main pathway to citizenship

Re: Green card – which is itself a pathway to citizenship and freedom

>ICE have been pulling green cards and deporting people

Have you considered upgrading to our new Gold Card (tm) ?

Re: Scam

>Then those people not pay as much tax as local would,

They pay more tax (they statistically have fewer of the deductibles that make tax time in America so much fun) and don't get anything back for all those social programs they pay into

The real problem is those old people claiming Medicaid and pensions and retirement benefits. Once we get rid of this liberal open-door policy that lets people stay in the country just because they were born there and worked their all their lives, we will see some real savings. And increased employment and lower house prices.

Qatar’s $400M jet for Trump is a gold-plated security nightmare

High shelfs?

Re: Boeing birds

Bragging rights - but we know who has the best presidential plane

The original delay was that the previous-previous administration also demanded that the 'remodelling' met regular FDA civil specs - which meant that almost every component that was a "military" aviation certified part had to be removed and replaced, with a probably identical, "civil" aviation part

Incidentally it's why "civil" C130s are incredibly rare and valuable while perfectly airworthy "military" C130s sit in bone-yards worth less than their scrap value

Highly secure internal phone system

Will be replaced by one that scrolls his signal messages on a billboard running the length of the fuselage

VPN Secure parent company CEO explains why he had to axe thousands of 'lifetime' deals

What happens if they revoke the license to your new enlarged masculine exuberance?

Does it go back to regular size or do you lose all access?

Trump ends Biden-era dream to cap US AI chip exports

In other unrelated news

UAE, which aims to become an AI powerhouse, 'invested' $2Bn in Trump coin just before the ban on GPU exports to the middle eastern country was lifted.

Amazon tested warehouse robots and found they're not ready to replace humans

Re: Perhaps Amazon workers . . .

Medieval is the middle times between the glory of antiquity and the wonders of the modern age = exactly where Americans are heading

Re: Perhaps Amazon workers . . .

"I am sure that the 1000s of people who work in Amazon warehouses all over the world would rather have a shit job than no job at all."

Ban tractors and we can retun to 100% employment, with 97% working in the fields.

Make America Medieval Again

Tech titans: Wanna secure US AI leadership? Stop giving the world excuses to buy Chinese

Re: Oh?

Perhaps we could tariff America movies.

Re: Econ 101

>only way to beat China is to stay ahead of them

I thought it was to reprariate T-shirt production and have generations of Americans screwing tiny screws in iPhones?

At least according to the new Commerce Sec.

US Transpo Sec wants air traffic control rebuild in 3 years, asks Congress for blank check

Re: Airlines

>airlines don't make much money even where the execs are hauling in fat sacks of compensation.

Also known as the Perfectly Personally Efficient Market Hypothesis

Re: Wait....isn't this exactly what MAGA and DOGE are against?

You can't have state wide ATC, that's ridiculous. You need to take into account the feelings of local people and have community ATC with locally elected boards of concerned citizens

Re: Airlines

Strangely in communismist Britain, the ATC was privatised and is owned by the airlines.

This means that if more investment would make the system more efficient and make money for the airlines they can do it - without it requiring an act of God Congress and permission from the bond market

Re: Notice to Air Missions

The current administration doesn't approve of turning women pilots into men.

Re: highly regarded AI

Dqmn country's being going down hill since John Wayne stopped being president.

As US scientists flee Trump, MP urges Britain to do more to nab them

" ($121k) for a professor, while full professors average about $155k in the US."

Even that comparison is misleading. Professor in the UK is head of dept or very senior staff. Professor in the USA is anyone with a permanent job. If the US stats include "associate professor" that's pretty much everyone.

A head of dept Prof in a major US school would be on $3-500k, or almost 10% of the football coach.

Elon Musk’s xAI to pull about half of its smog-belching turbines powering Colossus

We sold the generators to the company we lease them from, that way they don't count as our emissions

Re: Does one demobilize gas generators?

Originally they were deployed to run the site, now they are no longer needed they will be undeployed or presumably just ployed

If he was a real patriotic American he would be using Tennesse's own clean coal

Nvidia boss gets 45% pay bump, but is the billionaire happy?

Obviously we can beat that rate once we get rid of the socialist minimum wage. If we ban commie Medicare and a job is people's only option fir medical care we can get them to work for basically nothing

Fortunately all those generational assembly line jobs of putting Nvidia GPU cards into boxes will be returning to the USA.

The specy-nerd jobs of designing GPUs will be outsourced to countries that haven't closed all their universities and don't promote people purely on the basis of their podcast/number of Germanic tattoos

IRS hopes to replace fired enforcement workers with AI

Re: This isn't an AI story.

>They fired IRS enforcement agents because they don't want to be doing audits and collections

They do, just not on the 'wrong' people.

They already got smacked wrist for a policy where they target people at 30-50% median income. On the grounds that anyone poorer is probably owed a refund and anyone richer can afford accountants. So this is the sweet spot for those will pay up following a threatening letter for some random amount. Doing this with AI is, as they say, a no-brainer

Pentagon declares war on 'outdated' software buying, opens fire on open source

open source software, with contributions from developers worldwide

So the Army and Airforce are going to be forced to use a language invented by an Admiral ?

(although Admiral Hopper has probably been removed as DEI)

restore the Warrior Ethos

Daily standups - with guns ?

No more "pull requests", just 2 branches enter, one branch leaves.....

Trump wants to fire quarter of NASA budget into black hole – and not in a good way

Re: Make Aerospace Grotty Again

Not sure the concentration of everything else in the air can rise .....

Re: What was .... *ponder* ...

The space force is just so the airforce and Navy don't fight over who gets to run GPS - the Navy invented it but the USAF claimed it went up and was therefore theirs.

>A tiny space agency with no ability to self launch anything into orbit.

They just need some DEI DIE, specifically die Raketenwissenschaftleren

>A medium space agency with their own space crafts to launch objects into low earth orbit.

Were NASA ever building their own space craft? The Redstone arsenal days were before NASA and the Mercury->Apollo era rocket hardware was built by the military-industrial complex

>A large space agency who landed the first humans on the moon!

That was probably it's downfall. Creating a giant crash "Manhattan Project" and then being left with a large sprawling agency with too many sites and a need to pork barrel and politic to keep it running. leading to a search for a big enough project to justify all this ie. the Space Shuttle

From a scientific point of view getting rid of SLS, Artemis and pointless 'square jawed test pilots" back to the moon (even if this time they are female/black/marines or other minorities) - would leave money to spend on actual science. Of course it won't because the purpose of NASA is to prop up Boeing / Lockeed-Martin / Northrop-Gruman

Google details plans for 1 MW IT racks exploiting electric vehicle supply chain

Re: "Leveraging"

Unless you're a politician in which case you have to keep it simple and "Verb the Noun"

Re: "Leveraging"

So we need to verbilization our synergistic leveraging

Re: Three-phase

A natural power supply for the AI boolean of "True / False / Wrong"

Disney Slack attack wasn't Russian protesters, just a Cali dude with malware

A protected computer is one that was hacked, an unprotected computer isn't hacked cos it has nothing on it worth hacking

Three Brits charged over 'active shooter threats' swattings in US, Canada

Re: sentenced to 20 months in prison, suspended for 18 months, in April 2024.

Very briefly