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Microsoft lets Azure Linux 4 out of the cloud in downloadable ISO form

In other news

Microsoft's AI data centers to be powered by spinning Balmer

HS2's latest reset ditches autonomous train tech to get project back on track

Re: HS 2 late

But the tunnels and cuttings are mostly to avoid people in expensive houses being able to see the trains and so claiming it's needed to protect the beetle's habitat.

Very little of the tunneling is to navigate the Berkshire alps

Re: HS 2 late

I would argue that the technical difficulties of digging a tunnel underneath one of Europe's biggest cities with a hundred years of existing buried sewer, electrical, water, telecoms infrastructure and half a dozen tube lines without disturbing any of the buildings above may involve slightly higher costs than running a straight railway through some farmland.

Unless any homeowner within 10miles of the route could object to absolutely anything and every beetle had to be protected.

UK.gov vows to cut consultancy spending, then hands up to £350M to consultancies

Re: Fair enough

Quick, form a committee

Atlas shrugs: New UK asylum seeker IT system failed to help case workers learn from appeals

Re: Dave, my mind is going :o

System built by a government intent on denying all asylum claims won't show people challenging government what challenges worked in past

Supreme Court rules cops need a warrant to vacuum up phone location data

Re: A conundrum, and I don't know how it works

>I don't know how much joy it gives Google to know my exact height and speed

Customers with your height and speed also bought Spatulas and Body-Bags ?

Re: Curses, foiled again

And yet these pinko commie liberals insist on a 3 day waiting period for doomsday weapons. Support the National Ray-Gun Association (NRA)

Re: Curses, foiled again

Don't they just declare that amendments don't count (except the 2nd presumably) ?

Microsoft previews Linux containers that run in Windows

Re: To quote Winston Churchill

1st they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win?

Anonymous researcher drops 0-day 'exploitarium' repo

Re: The hacker might be a typical buff, 6-pack ab-toting el'reg reader

>The hacker might be a typical buff, 6-pack ab-toting geriatric el'reg reader.

Have you hacked my webcam? Do I need to start wearing pants to browse the reg?

Re: Bikini ? As in Atoll

That might be a double bluff. The hacker might be a typical buff, 6-pack ab-toting el'reg reader

Former Microsoft engineer shrinks Notepad down to size

Re: "security tools"

But it does protect you from aggressive raptors in the workplace. When was the last time you get attacked by a falcon at your desk?

End of era as the BBC switches off Radio 4 Long Wave service

Re: Irreplacable...

>Most of those valves are replaceable with HV FETS

But then the cricket commentary would lose that authenticate 'tube' sound

Re: Irreplacable...

You can prioritise how much of the bandwidth you spend on error correction vs how much you use for each channel

Re: Feature parity

> am yet to find a device that can deliver the cricket to my ears in practically real-time

A deckchair and an ear-trumpet ?

Is EMP a major consideration for Radio4?

After a nucear holocaust will The Archers change to teach people how to survive in a nuclear wasteland? Will anyone in Ambridge notice?

Re: Imagine the outcry if the long-running drama The Archers was to come to an abrupt end.

Is it actually necessary to broadcast The Archers?

Can't the receiver simply have the first 3 seconds of the theme tune stored locally so everyone knows to switch off ?

Re: Run silent

Sheffield did get nuked by accident in the 80s. Nobody noticed

Re: Run silent

Nuking Leeds could cost a few quid, Sheffield would be urban renewal

Re: Run silent

Yes, they now check if they have a signal on their DAB radio. If not they nuke Sheffield.

Four years into Ukraine invasion, Russia turns influence-ops back to US and Europe

Just a hint

Russia should invite want-to-be future western political leaders to Moscow to be photographed greeting Putin. That will make us take them seriously as serious politicians on the world stage.

It would help if Russia also made large cash donations to them in suspicious circumstances, it shows that they are deal makers.

Large Hadron Collider goes offline to make room for its enhanced successor

So no risk that ...

The LHC could accidentally flip us into a nightmare alternate universe?

(Again)

You've got a Standard Model, what more do you want ?

Boffins build a better pixel capable of emitting and receiving light

Re: Seems like this would have limited applications

Most laser diodes generate light with a fixed polarisation but it's not adjustable, There are pixel devices that can change phase/polarisation for reflected light on each pixel but with limited number of 'bits'

Re: Seems like this would have limited applications

Being able to detect phase is the critical part. Did a PhD on astronomical imaging interferometry (many years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and student grants were a thing). But without the ability to directly measure the phase of light you are limited in being able to directly reconstruct the image. The best you can do is a lot of software guesswork - see Andrea Ghez's nobel prize for the black hole image.

Australia investigating five social media giants for not enforcing ban on kids

Re: ...for not enforcing ban on kids

And books. Given the sort of filth you can read in books they should be banned for under 16s.

plus the European Union?

The European Space Agency (ESA) who own the launch site, is nothing to do with the Eu, the UK and Switzerland are founder members, even Canada is allowed in.

Arianespace, the people with the rockets, is a French company owned by Airbus and a bunch of other European defense companies.

One man, two kernels, and a lot of RISC-V

Re: Why UCS-2 not UTF-8 ?

> "The post contains some characters we can’t support" - but the page is encoded UTF-8 so it does work -- I see it in the preview.

It's not a technical limitation. As a British tech site el'reg does not support smiling as a matter of principle

Amazon Q flaw let booby-trapped Git repos execute code, swipe cloud creds

>Why not just have a root shell open to the internet with no password, and be done with it.

This is more like have a root shell open to the internet with no password and an infinite number of monkeys typing commands

In the immortal words of the great philosopher Nelson Muntz

Ha Ha !

NASA tests AI medic for astronauts too far from Earth to call a doctor

Re: WTF?

It really shouldn't use very much power at all.

This is a US government medical system, all it has to do is print "Denied :Explosive decompression isn't service related" and then send you a bill

Even the Secret Service won't use company-issued phones

Trump phone?

Shouldn't they use the official $1000 version of the $500 Trump phone which will only cost the government $2000 with the special camo Gold cover

BOFH: Amnesty means never having to say you're sorry

Re: Priceless

Hacker: "... some correspondence lost in the floods of 1967... Was 1967 a particularly bad winter?

Sir Humphrey: No, a marvellous winter. We lost no end of embarrassing files.

US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals

Re: Not all it's cracked up to be

Might this not endanger the gentlemen required to walk in front of the horseless carriage waving a red flag ?

They've read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius

Re: AI helps decipher ancient document

That wasn't really their fault. They just lacked sufficient real world training data of massive ancient underground hidden cities and tunnels with booby traps and rolling balls

Re: Yes but ..

"Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the

computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department

that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached

just saying: "Learn, guys."

pterry - Good Omens

Re: Now then Mistress...

>Or Penrose's The Road to Reality which when read by the unprepared risks serious brain damage. ;)

I suppose you went out and bought a special stand to raise up YOUR monitor ?

>Actually an unread collection of scientific and engineering works from that period would be fascinating.

It would be a bunch of "Were the pyramids build by modern aliens?" scrolls

Re: Vesuvius - destructive

To be fair it also preserved quite a lot

If comics have taught me anything

It's that reading ancient lost scrolls aloud is going to end badly......

Space Shuttle Endeavour stacks up nicely for new California exhibit

"real solid rocket boosters"

And presumably a large "no Smoking" sign

Engineer accused of insider trading tied to Microsoft's reboot of Three Mile Island nuclear plant

Re: Hard to defend a prosecution here ...

Why doesn't the engineer just order the court not to prosecute them, and then shut down the SEC?

IBM stacks up a sub-nanometer chip future

IBM Research - why ?

They do great research, and presumably exist because in the 1950s IBM had to actually invent stuff to build computers - but why are they still around ?

IBM today is a legacy mainframe supplier to government contracts (especially when you have to buy domestic) and an increasingly irrelevant (with AI) offshore outsourcer of grunt work.

Surprised that the halo effect of obscure papers in Quantum computing or AFM chip assembly is worth it as publicity for a local council deciding between IBM/Fujitsu/Crapita for their next payroll system ?

British Home Office seeks techie to herd nearly 1,000 engineers looking after 600 systems

At least he was honest - "it was a reward for Brexit"

If Brexit hasn't made you £5m, that must be your fault.

Boffin claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does not compute due to 'basic Python errors'

Re: measurementz on only one device

>When testing devices on early devices you look for 3 or more devices that have the same behaviour.

Or even just get the first machine to give the same answer 3 times in a row

Germany went off the rails as wireless outage saw all trains cancelled

Re: Backup System

No wonder you die at 30!

Ps. Stupid new swipe keyboard app, changed Aguters to Shuttles again when I clicked ok

Backup System

Unleash an army of Jenny Shuttles and their red underwear

London cops bring live facial recognition to West End

Re: Tech has its uses

But that's because they weren't allowed to give millions to Peter Thiel to seach for the anti-Christ.

Every vastly expensive government IT project puts another 700 officers on the street.

As another UK prime minister bites the dust, a contradictory tech legacy remains

Re: …that people wet their pants demanding a return to the 19th century?

Steam trains and rickets - what more could you want?

Re: Surprised, but the BBC is still showing the football ...

He only got the FIFA Peace prize. That's definitely 2nd place to the FIFA War prize which still goes to Millwall