Posts by PhilipN

China warns Dutch away from Nexperia as it lets chip exports resume

Re: Pot and kettle

Nope.

Wagging its finger?

What would have happened if it had been an American company? The White House has treated less than that as an act of war.

By the way who remembers that the Netherlands was in China’s bad books for selling submarines to Taiwan? More finger-wagging?

You'll never guess what the most common passwords are. Oh, wait, yes you will

What's Eric Schmidt's Favourite Password?

You know, the "“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place” Eric Schmidt.

Plonker.

Clippy rises from the dead in major update to Copilot and its voice interface

I wanted a deep Scottish accent

Maybe so but then you'd never get to the eleventh floor

China blames US for cyber break-in, claims America is world's biggest bit burglar

Re: Pot - Kettle

"US government providing help including IP" - really? then explain why soon Chinese were driving locally built Mercedes and BMW's (for example).

Re: Pot - Kettle

“ Apple literally taught Foxconn”..??!! Apple has no production skills. Foxconn and its fellow islanders built those skills from around 1980 onwards.

And China did not start from zero. It had an industrial infrastructure - antiquated but massive - long before it became the workshop of the World.

Nvidia's GB10 workstations arrive with 1 petaFLOPS of compute, 128GB of VRAM, and a $3K+ price tag

$3,000 - pffft

Same as a Huawei Mate XT tri-fold* then.

*Yes I KNOW it only folds twice.

OpenAI bans suspected Chinese accounts using ChatGPT to plan surveillance

"believed to be"...."suspected"

And I thought AI and especially OpenAI was so smart but it doesn't know anything more than anybody else.

Amazon turns James Bond into the Man Without the Golden Gun

Won't make any difference

Last Daniel Craig Bond movie I watched both he and his offsider engage for 5 - 10 minutes in a shoot out ... and did not hit a damn thing. UK's prime marksman and woman had better retrain to handle drones.

Jaguar Land Rover engines ready to roar again after weeks-long cyber stall

Re: What does JLR run on?

Mentioned a mate's Discovery in another post here. This concerns onboard software. When his vehicle was delivered the electronics were dead as a dodo. Dealer said they's try to reinstall but if that didn't work the vehicle would have to go back to the factory. Mate lives in Australia....

Re: Hmmm may be

Acc to a mate of mine the Discovery he bought a couple of years ago was made up of parts from all over the Continent which were all finally bolted together in Croatia (or somewhere that way). So what precisely are JLR's plants for and how much of this subsidy is going to domestic suppliers?

ICE plans to scour Facebook, TikTok, X, and even defunct Google+ for illegal immigration leads

Re: Do the ICE enforcers wear an uniform?

Just white sheets with a white pointy head covering

Texas man accidentally shoots cable, brings internet down

Re: "Stray" bullet

Yup. Friend of mine from Kentucky reckoned the main purpose of road signs was target practice.

Britain's policing minister punts facial recog nationwide

What is happening to the country?

Some time ago young guy - OK a miscreant - was caught after 2 months because CCTV caught the registration of the (stolen) car he was driving.

Honestly - young fellow can't boost a car to take his girlfriend out at the weekend without risking arrest? [Shakes head in disbelief}

YouTube coughs up $24.5 million to make Trump 'censorship' case go away

"will fund construction of a ballroom"

You have GOT to be **** joking!

Oh hang on - 2025 .... Oval Office incumbent...... OK

Hunt for RedNovember: Beijing hacked critical orgs in year-long snooping campaign

"no definitive way of determining who is doing the hacking"

And Insikt Group start off drawing attention to a "likely" connection with China then immediately jump to "it IS China".

Trump’s tariff‑shaped stick can’t beat reality on US chip fabbing

Patience!

Taiwan started flinging money and engineers at semiconductors 40+ years ago. Just give him time. US could reach parity somewhere around - oh, I dunno - 2050 (being optimistic)?

Workers fear for their jobs as JLR's latest shutdown extended

"supporting our customers"

That's a bloody joke for a start. I have (had - my wife still is) been a Jag owner since the early 90's moving to each iteration of the XJ as it came out. And would be doing so today except 5 years ago the dealer said "there won't be another XJ for 2 years and then it will be electric". So if they can give two fingers to the loyal customer I can do the same to them.

Fact is, apart from anything else, their service network was abominable. It got to the point I had to source parts online from other Jaguar shops since the factory did not have them. So not even persevering with the old XJ. Bye-bye JLR it was not fun.

Trump says Michael Dell is part of the team buying TikTok, with Larry Ellison and maybe some Murdochs

"Oracle’s cloud already hosts all traffic to the social network from within the USA."

AS a non-techie I don't get it. If all traffic has to transit systems provided by a US company why is there a national security issue? That is, even though the hosting is supposed to be neutral and transparent (yeah right) what is there to stop Oracle directly throttling personal data of millions of Americans being fed to the Evil Empire and thereby undermining Western security?

Intel and Nvidia sitting in a tree, NVLink-I-N-G

Re: Intel will design PC processors with Nvidia's GPU chiplets inside

Definitely a Trumpish deal as the price for allowing Nvidia to ship more gear to China.

Even fantasy money can buy a lot of power – just ask Larry Ellison

IANA IT guy

I have over the years seen the vitriol applied here to the gent topic of this piece but I have to express admiration for his staying the course for 4 decades.

I said "admiration". I didn't say I like the guy and the only time I visit Delphi is for Virtualbox (which he picked up from a German company).

Trump backpedals as Hyundai factory ICE raid enrages South Korea

Re: Trump backpedals...

Too late. Koreans do not forget.

China turns the screws on Nvidia with antitrust probe

Re: What did they expect?

You have never invested in China, have you?

Bring back your old Mac: 5 ways to refresh the OS on elderly Apples

G4 Mini

Swoon..

Although the last time I fired it up the display output was a bit dodgy.

P.S. Liam is the icing on a thickly marzipanned cake.

We're number 1! America now leads the world in surveillanceware investment

Pall Mall Process

Worth following the links for which thanks, El Reg. This ^ one goes to a page of - ta-da! - the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office not the Brit IT Admin. Impressive roster of subscribers to the deal, but it strikes me as a good way for Uncle Sam to keep track of what other countries are doing so they can ..... (shhh!).

Also check any reference to a think tank : "Atlantic Council is a nonpartisan organization that galvanizes US leadership ...." Oh what a giveaway!

Nano11 cuts Windows 11 down to size, grabbing just 2.8 GB of disk space

Re: Where is nano11?

https://nano11-dev.github.io/

tech zillionaire

Wasn't Elon muttering recently about using AI to write an OS? Or was he sleep-talking?

Would be interesting if only to find out how much bloat AI wrote into the OS.

Especially since Microserfs' outpourings are surely incorporated in the AI dataset, having a deleterious impact on...everything.

Home Office delays £816M English test contract despite market engagement

System to test the English skills?

Since most immigrants from South Asia speak better English than the average Sarf Landoner, Brummie, Geordie etc surely it would take only a fraction of the quoted amount to form them into a language-testing department.

UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost

Meeting Summaries are a critical human skill

How else are you going to do a 180 volte face and turn a loose consensus for Plan A into a firm commitment for Plan B?

And who wants to see recorded some of the crap which comes out of people's mouths in meetings?

AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content

Limited data set however hard you try

Storing up future problems for AI. How much of the planet and what we do every day is online?

No wonder searching has already become counter-productive.

Researcher who found McDonald's free-food hack turns her attention to Chinese restaurant robots

".. a Chinese robot manufacturer .."

Fluent in English?

DHS says it needs $100M worth of counter-drone tech to protect America

Re: L'etat, c'est moi

And you are not even allowed to use "people" anymore. No I am not joking. Its got to be men and/or women. Because the White House is scared stiff and paranoid about the hybrid possibilities of "people" even or especially in the context of pregnancy.

Classic Psion fan releases proof-of-concept language server for OPL

Fond sigh

MX too small for the desktop too big for the pocket but the best ever keyboard*

*which led through the usual hop skip jump thought process to the CyKey. Now nobody else here remembers those, do they?

New Yorkers will soon be able to yell 'I'm walkin here!' to Waymo robotaxis

Re: I'm Walkin Here!

Could someone remind me was that ^ Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy?

Google tries to trump iPhone launch with AI-powered Pixel 10 range

Re: Sooo

"you can't ... even easily root them" which means you can. So your point is?

Re: Sooo

Huawei phone is excellent except you are not Googled at every turn. Build quality and otherwise at least equal to Apple (I have both, high-end). Xenophobia? Maybe doesn't come from the same factory but certainly from the same country.

Pot calls kettle black as China dubs US 'surveillance empire' over chip tracking

Re: Huawei

For the DV'ers and others who do not know - CCDCOE is the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence

Take it up with NATO

Huawei

For the umpteenth time :

“There is, to date, no public evidence of serious technological vulnerabilities in specific Huawei or ZTE equipment.”

CCDCOE Paper, Tallinn 2019

SpaceX prepares itself for a tenth Starship flight test

Caught with chopsticks

Can someone explain - and I am prepared to be shot down in flames here - why it is deemed preferable to catch it, with the enormous expenditure of energy, compared with fishing out of the ocean.

The plan for Linux after Torvalds has a kernel of truth: There isn’t one

Gave me pause

And urgent check on the progress of GNU Hurd as a fallback. 35 years and counting.

Dodgy Huawei chips nearly sunk DeepSeek's next-gen R2 model

"more reputation at stake than..."

Matter of opinion

Breathe easy: Apple Watch can read your oxygen levels again

"wellness" – data entertainment

Thanks for that. It's called perspective.

Having used a plethora of different devices, sensors and apps I can smugly state I accept wholeheartedly an assessment which is upbeat and reject any which are downbeat.*

*Any subtle references to HRM entirely deliberate

Perplexity takes a shine to Chrome, offers Google $34.5 billion

“Comet, based on Chromium”

But which their website describes as “our new browser built from the ground up”.

Californian man so furious about forced Windows 11 upgrade that he's suing Microsoft

Re: If you REALLY want Windows 10, run Server 2019

BBC Home Service - you mean there's still a Two-Way Family Favourites, Listen With Mother and Music While You Work? Or was that the Light Programme?

Trump seeing green as he weighs deal to allow Nvidia Blackwell GPU sales to China

"repeat 5G and.."

No no that was a National Security policy decision not because PRC/Huawei had 5G and Uncle Sam did not. Get with the programme!

The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says

Not everyone wants to be simulated after they're gone

I definitely do not want my simulation to have more fun than me.

Trump surprises with TSMC $300B investment claim

This week billions, next week trillions...

And why not?

Bye bye Taiwan is why.

UK's Ministry of Defence pins hopes on AI to stop the next massive email blunder

Saw the heading - thought I'd opened Private Eye by mistake

Or MAD Magazine or The Onion...

Tony Blair Institute: UK needs bit barns to lead in AI deployment, not training

Re: Credentials?

The report itself identifies (or rather doesn't) "multiple experts" (sic) but you can follow the link and find them. I was not too impressed but the only qualification for writing reports for an organisation such as this is to be able to write reports which at least seem plausible.

US lowers tariffs on major tech exporting nations - but buyers will still pay more

"manufacturing jobs continue to decline"

We are not talking here solely about manufacturing save possibly in its broadest possible sense. There are countless importers relying on overseas product who are up the creek without a paddle because - take a simple example such as a contract publisher or any publisher - he has to find a printer; who has to find a paper supplier; and machines; and machine operators; and ink suppliers; and sources for all sorts of other fancy gizmos stuck on books and magazines. Even if such an ecosystem existed, every single such local business would be selling their mothers into slavery to be first in the queue with local suppliers and sod the rest. The same applies across the board. Where are the guys sewing denim jeans together? And the dyeing and weaving factories to supply them? And the cotton pickers (many of whom are being kicked out)?

The fact also is in the meantime US importers are putting unbearable pressure on overseas suppliers (and hence indirectly their suppliers and hence etc) to eat part of the tariff cost. Once those suppliers reach the limit of their goodwill or their diminished cashflow they are just going to reject new US business. So - start again at the top ^