Intel is throwing off BILLIONS of free cash flow. They no more need subsidies than the man in the moon. All the subsidies will do is fatten the pockets of the C-levels and wall street vipers.
Posts by Kev99
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Biden to inject Intel with CHIPS fab cash 'next week'
Fresh version of Windows user-friendly Zorin OS arrives to tempt the Linux-wary
NASA missions are being delayed by oversubscribed, overburdened, and out-of-date supercomputers
Let's see. The IG thinks NASA should centralise all its HEC infrastructure and rely on the bunch of holes held together by vapor for storing mission critical, and in may cases, life dependent data. Let the missions talk together AFTER a mission is finished. I for one don't want to become Major Tom because some rectal orifices cramped NASA's style.
Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi adds electric vehicle to its mobility offerings
Oh look, cracking down on Big Tech works. Brave, Firefox, Vivaldi surge on iOS
March Patch Tuesday sees Hyper-V join the guest-host escape club
Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B... and it has yet to turn a profit
Kremlin accuses America of plotting cyberattack on Russian voting systems
Grab a helmet because retired ISS batteries are hurtling back to Earth
BOFH: I get locked out, but I get in again
This reminds me of a prank we pulled on a coworker. He had the ratty, falling apart dictionary so two of us decided to glue and tape it back together. In order to make sure everything was held tightly, we wrapped about a dozen rubberbands around the book. And taped them to his desk.At the end of the day he went to put his dictionary in his desk, after thanking us for trying to repair it. He gave a yank, the rubberbands yanked harder, and he almost face planted into his desk.
Windows 10 failing to patch properly? You are most definitely not alone
Toyota, Samsung accelerate toward better EV batteries
FBI: Critical infrastructure suffers spike in ransomware attacks
X accused of taking money from terrorists by selling checkmarks to US enemies
FTC asks normal folks if they'd like AI impersonation scam protection, too
Ask Weird Al Yankovic what celebs think about impersonations. Everyone should be covered. Period.
I still belive the technology exists for the phone companies to track & identify spoofers. If they don't know where a call originated it makes it very hard to complete the connection. Even VOIP needs to connect to a number.
By the way. As of 5:48 PM ET, there was nothing on the FTC public comment web site about this rule.
Feds dismantle Russian GRU botnet built on 1,000-plus home, small biz routers
Microsoft might have just pulled support for very old PCs in Windows 11 24H2
US regulators crack down on AI playing doctor in healthcare
iFixit tears Apple's Vision Pro to pieces
Mozilla slams Microsoft for using dark patterns to drive Windows users toward Edge
Besides mictosoft's shenanigans, my wife has discovered some related bovine excrement courtesy certain web sites. She will often enter various sweepstakes or order items online. She claims the sites will only function correctly using edge. Hmmm...Sound phishy to me. I have noticed that the HGTV sweepstakes page returns the underlying code instead of the web page when successfully entering their sweeps.
{"state":"success","url":"/display/confirm/sweepstake/a587a142-38bd-4a4b-ad68-939d090ab1d1/313669/confirmation?campaignId=313669&channelId=30847&medium=direct&source=hgtv&containerId=32a0e70d-bc38-4281-af24-46e89bac32f7&channel=website","entry":{"id":"9e586639-6cdf-471a-b890-c20d7a63461c","uid":"w1f1ef105ebef075e0fe0788fc782b5a9","ngx_ext_id":"62a4e7faf65bc16d411a1a6c6728747b","ngx_ext_id_type":"integration_id","content":{}},"route":{"routeRef":"display:route:activate","token":"|:|WmF2No9XkTU4GX41y8L_Fw3ZLK9xFfG5BrBqtY70yEU"}}
Intel delays Ohio fab build, blames semiconductor slowdown
FBI confirms it issued remote kill command to blow out Volt Typhoon's botnet
One of these decades people, businesses and governments will realise the bunch of holes held together with string / vapor is NOT safe or secure. Prior to DARPA releasing the 'net into the wild, electric companies used their own power lines, railroads used their rails and telegraph lines, and many, many businesses used dedicated lines to transmit their data. Then the beancounters decided that since the net was free everything should be put there and hang security and safety. C levels agreed because it made their stock options more valuable and made wall streeters gloat. And gave jobs to PFYs.
The FCC wants to criminalize AI robocall spam
Windows 10 users report app gremlins after Microsoft update
Top Linux distros drop fresh beats
Microsoft unveils a secret tunnel for Windows Insiders who want out
What Microsoft's latest email breach says about this IT security heavyweight
Boeing goes boing: 757 loses a wheel while taxiing down the runway
Tech world won't have long to fall in line when EU signs off on AI Act
Why does AI need to be included in ANY software other than dedicated AI programs or databases? Just because mictosoft thinks it's the be all to end all doesn't make it a good idea. I've been using computers since the old TI-99-4A and I've had no desire or expectancy to use AI. It's far, FAR from being perfected, secure, stable, or uniform.
Microsoft admits issues with Windows 10 patch almost 2 months after release
Re: My system is slow. …
I found a "simple", effective method to rid me of copilot.
1) Run UltraFileSearch Lite (or similar) and search for any edge*.* files.
2) Delete the edge*.* files, especially with a mod date after November 2023.
3) Run CCleaner, BleachBit, Advanced Uninstaller or the like to search the registry for edge entries. Delete them.
4) Searching for copilot files or registry entries returned zero results.
5) Reboot if you want. I just waited for the next time I started my computer.
6) Result: No edge (yay!), and no copilot (yippee!).
The January crappy coding, what's-a-CVE patch did not return any of the deleted files (yippee-ki-yay!).
Lukewarm reception for Microsoft's Copilot Pro amid performance, cost grumbles
White goods giant fires legal threats to unplug open source plugin
Microsoft 365's add-on avalanche is putting the squeeze on customers
John Deere tractors get connectivity boost with Starlink deal
Re: "Great for Farmers"
When we had our farm, the only "computer" on any of our three tractors was for the fuel injection system on the Deutz. We didn't need GPS to plow, disc, or plant our fields. We didn't need electronic controls to set the three point hitch. And our oldest tractor. a Case 930, worked just as well and hard as out Deutz D 9006 as our Oliver 1750.
Drivers: We'll take that plain dumb car over a flashy data-spilling internet one, thanks
Europe's monopoly cops suddenly rather curious about Microsoft's $13B for OpenAI
New year, new updates for security holes in Windows, Adobe, Android and more
After injecting cancer hospital with ransomware, crims threaten to swat patients
Mobileye shares crash after warning of automotive customers' chip glut
Tesla's latest Autopilot safety patch hits 1.6M Chinese vehicles
Additional controls to prevent misuse, eh? I've driven numerous Lincolns with their BlueCruise and if I take my hands off for more than a few seconds the vehicle starts griping. Maybe the NHSTA should also go after the vehicle companies marketing showing idiots going down the road clapping instead of paying attention.
Windows 11 unable to escape the shadow of Windows 10
The only reason I ever "upgraded" (and I use that term euphemistically) was because mictosoft compelled so many of its sycophants to modify the software and hardware so it would not run on win7. In all the years I ran win7, I never had any security lapses, slow repsonse time, or weekly updates fixing things that should never had to have been fixed in the first plce because mictosoft's coders paid no attention to CVEs or industry newsletter, or were just plain sloppy.
Postgres pioneer Michael Stonebraker promises to upend the database once more
At the county where I worked the local welfare department decided to install from scratch a new financial database. They chose Oracle. Five years after they started the process, when I retired, it still wasn't functional as planned, would talk to the chief fiscal officer's financial and payroll systems without thousands of lines of interface code and had cost millions.