Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

US DoE wants developers to fast-track AI datacenters on its land

And this time they aren't going to let a bunch of foreign scientists in

Ubuntu 25.04 beta takes flight – but this Plucky Puffin is still molting

Neither can fly.

China hits back at America with retaliatory tariffs, export controls on rare earth minerals

Re: Medium rare?

It's not so much that processing rare earths is too polluting for the USA but that it's not profitable

They are a minor byproduct of mining other metals, generally Nickel.

So the more nickel you mine (and the more rare-earth rich your ore) the more potential rare earths you have and the cheaper you might be able to obtain them

But then you have to make the decision to perhaps double the cost of your processing plant to extract a tiny % rare earths.

Is this worth it, based on global demand, cost of other suppliers, risk that other suppliers (cough China) could dump stock on the market, current tariffs and sanctions, future tariffs and sanctions...

And you have to do this at an existing mine that might be nearly tapped out with a few years of production left or plan to double the cost, and half the profitability, when making the business case for a new mine

Re: It would be nice to have more manufacturing jobs here

But the little children, they yearn for the mines

Re: It would be nice to have more manufacturing jobs here

There appears to be no shortage of employment in the >USA

There are millions of children and no mines for the to work in

Can they do this ?

Didn't the President declare the executive statute of "no backsies" ?

Trump fires NSA boss, deputy

Re: Let's make American democracy a little more robust next time around. Please!!!

Canada can't ally with Australia. Cobra chickens + emus would wipe out humanity

Re: Let's make American democracy a little more robust next time around. Please!!!

>I hope you Americans are now rethinking the God given mission to impose your flavour of democracy on the rest of the world?

Now it's Canada's turn to rule. Your politicians will have to pretend to speak French and you will all play hockey.

Re: Dear Donald....

First rule of the dictators playbook - cripple the intelligence agencies, military and security apparatus you rely on by installing drunks/morons/unqualified tv personalities into all the command roles.

Re: Thank you, Comrade

You really think President Putin is a puppet of China's ?

Wow - I would have thought that it would be another century before China is telling Russian assets what to do

Alan Turing Institute: UK can't handle a fight against AI-enabled crims

Re: FFS ... have you still not realised and accepted what has happened

So we lure all the AIs into El'reg's comments and then round em up

EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!

And there was no secret cooperation between the NSA / MMB and every tech company, telco and ISP because that would violate your constitutional rights - until Snowden leaked the Powerpoints

Re: Untrustworthy

The play was a success but the audience were a failure

Re: Puzzled.........

I think the Atlantic Editors are fairly educated. The magazine even has its own font !

>and the government could ask Apple for my unencrypted data.

Or the government could just request an API to dencrypted access any of your 'encrypted' data whenever it wanted.

The encrypted data stays on Apple's servers and they don't hand over the keys

That way the Police save the hosting costs

Re: Impossible

That's what happened in the UK when the law was imposed, a lot of groups emailed blocks of random numbers to the home secretary who would have to reveal their meaning to the Police.

But the government explained that the law only applied to people they wanted it to apply to.

Re: Untrustworthy

On the contrary they are entirely trustworthy. Anyone with the IQ of a Golden Retriever could have total trust that they would do that

Re: I think it is about time

Simple - that's the beauty of one-time pads, all messages can decode into any other arbitrary message

encrypted-text = Evil-plan XOR pad1 but also

same encrypted-text = Message-of-love-to-supreme-leader XOR pad2

Re: Puzzled.........

This is the EU's advantage. If you accidentally include a US journalist in your secret signal chat but you aren't speaking English then the message is still secure

Re: Good news everybody

>Police shouldn't have access to any of the digital data

Unless its evidence in a case and they have a warrant.

So if 85% of their investigations need access to encrypted data, presumably to investigate things like LIBOR or insider trading, it means all non-data related crime is only 15%

That means there is almost no crime committed against normal people.

Good news everybody

If "Police can't access data in 85% of cases" that means almost all crime is financial / corporate / etc relying on encrypted data.

That means there is almost no murder, rape, assualt, robbery etc committed in the EU. Ordinary crimes that don't involve encryption must now be varnishingly rare.

Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud

>You can pick up a brand new fully functional PC for $349

Now deploy, secure, manage, update 5000 of them without needing any staff, go on I'll wait....

Re: high-fidelity Microsoft Teams meetings

How does this simulate the 5min of updates and 3 reboots when you open the laptop for the teams meeting?

Mediatek wants to make Chromebooks more like Copilot+ PCs

"Copying and pasting the AI agent's output is not education."

But it is apparently global economic planning

Onboard AI

So this will allow non-networked Chromebooks to do AI?

Am I missing something here ?

System builders say server prices set to spike as Trump plays customs cowboy

Re: Shooting yourself in the foot requires access to a gun

Didn't he announce that there would be no tariffs n semiconductors - while also announcing that "chips" would be hit ?

Re: The cost of buying servers for business will inevitably rise

But then the USA will just tariff the incoming bytes. When you consider the huge byte deficit that america has with PornHub's servers in Canada

FAA closes investigations into Blue Origin landing fail, Starship Flight 7 explosion

Re: US <s>Federal</s> Aviation <s>Administration</s>

Buying the government comes with free airmiles

US <s>Federal</s> Aviation <s>Administration</s>

Elon has fixed the problem

We remove the "Federal" part because that's communism.

and the "Administration "part because that's government waste

and we are left with U.S.A.... chants ... USA .... USA

Intel's latest CEO Lip Bu Tan: 'You deserve better'

And how much more would it cost to buy from someone else

The theory of Intel was that it's ridiculous for a book store (or a tea shoppe) to design and build its own CPUs because Intel can sell so many more of them and amortize the cost.

If building your own CPU is now just pulling an ARM IP core off the shelf, doing ctrl-c/ctrl-V 128 times and then emailing TSMC. If you aren't planning to sell it to anyone else - then the economics changes

Can't they use the traditional 3 letters approach?

New CEO finds three letters on his desk.

1, says "blame previous CEO", promise change.

2, says announce re-building own Fab capability / divesting Fabs to concentrate on design.

3, says, write 3 letters.....

Re: Humility?

>I have reasonable doubts he'll manage to over-deliver on outperforming rivals with cheaper products using less energy.

There plan is to research new ways to under-promise.

Promises: Our new product will kill all kittens within 200m and blow up your gran.

Actual delivery: Core2Duo with RGB fan

Trump yanks CHIPS Act cash unless tech giants pony up more of their own dough

Re: Meh

> there's far less human involvement

But as the number of staff goes down, their quality has to go up.

If you abandoned cutting edge fabs 20 years ago and your last lot of experts retired and nobody trained their replacements - then you either have to get a lot of H1Bs from Taiwan or you have to pay a lot for some smart in-demand people and hope they are fast learners.

But don't worry, it's not like human error is expensive when operating a fab.

UK threatens £100K-a-day fines under new cyber bill

Re: Peter Kyle?

You would get extra packets free on prescription if you had a medical need - such as being a "big lad" or being a bit skinny and "needing feeding up a bit".

Remember this is going to be a granny managed health service

Re: Security

>Tents would be exempt.

So yet again those people who chose to be homeless as a lifestyle choice are given a free rein to break the law

Re: Peter Kyle?

I'm not saying there needs to be a national weekly Chocolate Hobnob ration. but if you wanted a policy that would win you every future election

Re: Hah! -- More "We Are Doing Something" Misdirection Emitted From SW1

There is enforcement. In the case of a theft of government held data about you, the government will fine the government 100grand, it's the only way for the government to control the government

Obviously we can't fine private companies, it will upset the economy or the Americans

Re: Peter Kyle?

Or Peter Kay. The government has made Blackpool tower a national strategic whatsit and put Nans in charge of t'cyber

Arm reckons it'll own 50% of the datacenter by year's end

Re: Maybe, but not this year

>Well of course no way Arm will own 50% of DCs in 6 months,

Depends if they mean a million Nvidia GPUs controlled by a few ARM cpus rather than a million Nvidia GPUS controlled by a few Intel cpus

Tech trainer taught a course on software he'd never used and didn't own

Re: been on many courses where the trainer has no answers

Go back to the 60s and many people who visited a chip shop will have swallowed Sodium and Fluorine

Re: The best way to learn something is to teach it

What did your Ancient Greek teacher teach? And why hadn't he retired ?

Re: been on many courses where the trainer has no answers

> All fine, except the breaker was locked out in the ON position, not the OFF one.

Obviously the breaker fed the kettle, don't want some idiot disabling the tea making system

Re: been on many courses where the trainer has no answers

>I think this is a variation on George Bernard Shaw's "Those that can do, those that can't teach".

Which is a riff on Charlemagne's "let those who can, teach". He was a big proponent of learning after the end of the Roman Empire / (not really) dark ages - but now nobody remembers the original.

Cashless society could be why fewer kids are eating coins and sticking things up their noses

Re: Fewer coins

>how kids get handed their pocket money these days.

Bitcoin

Re: Cadbury's Chocolate Buttons

That's why the US wants to invade Canada - to protect their delicate little children from the deadly Kinder surprise

Re: Furry Friends

>To come to much harm an average sized pooch would have to eat half a pound of bitter dark chocolate

Mine would have to fight me for it.

Re: Furry Friends

>Don't forget them - things that you need to be aware of if you have small children also applies when you have animals.

Depends what kind of animal you have,

If your small child swallows a kitten or rodent you are probably OK.

If it swallows anything larger then your small child might be some sort of alien monster

Check Point confirms breach, but says it was 'old' data and crook made 'false' claims

Re: "it would not be making any further comment"

This hacked data was the same data we lost last time and so there is no real security issue

European Gaia mapping satellite is retired but proves very tough to kill

Re: If It's Not Broken, Don't ... Break it?

>To its credit, ESA is pretty careful about disposing of old/dying hardware responsibly,

So is NASA - it aims at Australia