Posts by PhilipN

Google Street View car careens into creek after 100mph cop chase

treat driving through with an abundance of extreme caution

Exactly so. It is what we are supposed to bloody well do anyway - all the time.

FBI boss: Congress must renew Section 702 spy powers – that's how we get nearly all our cyber intel

Compare and Distinguish.

This piece and

https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/17/great_firewall_even_greater/

Chinese companies evade sanctions, fuel Moscow’s war on Ukraine, says report

"probably"

Penultimate line of the shambolic Executive Summary. OK then.

Think tank calls for monitoring of Chinese AI-enabled products

Re: Who are ASPI?

ASPI - Snort! Snigger!

Quarter of tech pros say they're considering quitting jobs in next six months

Mbula Schoen

That last quote - what was it? Some attempt to communicate amongst humanoids? Didn’t work.

Germany raids climate piggy bank for €20B to bankroll chip fabs

Re: Strategic investment

Your para. 2, fourth sentence. Quite so. No way the Taiwan ruling party** will allow TSMC to share its crown jewels outside the territory. Hence automotive-specific only.

** Or - cough, cough - China for that matter, That is at least until they can match the expertise, which is the moving target dragging by the nose everything that China is doing.

Want to live dangerously? Try running Windows XP in 2023

Thanks for the links

Not long ago I bolted together some old bits and some new bits and installed XP. Had to remember where I put the driver CD's for the USB bluetooth dongle and the USB wi-fi dongle. But it all worked. Until I fired up Google Chrome.

Apart from that, the trouble is I sat there looking at the familiar wallpaper wondering what to do next.

Then found that some old things from the era for which I needed XP to run would run perfectly OK in an XP VM on 7,

Eventually binned it. Sigh. I guess like a lot of people here I have too many computers.

US Air Force's Angry Kitten turns Reaper drone into fierce feline of electronic warfare

Re: Defense of budget, not nation

My thoughts exactly.

And “they were focused ..” Pathetic, but I guess having such a large piggy bank overflowing with billions of dollars tends to spoil the focus. It would mine.

RIP Kevin Mitnick: Former most-wanted hacker dies at 59

Hats off from a non-techie

And "pregnant with their son" always tugs at the heartstrings.

Beijing wants to make the Great Firewall of China even greater

Learning from the best.

How is this different from what the Department of Homeland Security (amongst others) is doing?

Microsoft promises to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation for next decade. Sony believes it

Re: So

An integral part of the MS MO. Such as hidden API's which made WordPerfect for Windows explode.

I give them one year.

Microsoft admits unauthorized access to Exchange Online, blames Chinese gang

How curious

Washington Post says ""the government was not yet attributing the attack to any country or group" alongside a similar clickbait headline.

China succeeds where Elon Musk has failed with first methalox rocket

Re: There is success, and then there is "success".

Success is a rocket under test not blowing up. Which just happened in Japan. And nobody noticed.

Chinese battery maker for the stars of the EV world suddenly wants to be seen powering human rights

Re: Is “egregious” the same as “we don’t know”?

Not in your case.

New York Times

Thanks for the link.

And by the way this is what the NYT said :

“It is difficult to ascertain the level of coercion any individual worker has faced given the limited access to Xinjiang for journalists and research firms.”

Is “egregious” the same as “we don’t know”?

Chipotle welcomes you to the age of robot guacamole

How many avocados to spread on one slice of toast?

After binning the ones which are too hard, too black, overripe etc.

About 100 I reckon.

OpenAI is still banging on about defeating rogue superhuman intelligence

It’s been done

Dr. Who series involving some weird operation on Daleks (it was their demand) to inject “the Human Element” into them. Early form of gene-splicing?

Interesting outcome. Shall I spoil the surprise and tell everyone?

Washington plans to block Chinese access to AI cloud services

Horse bolted

WSJ, and Uncle Sam, perhaps blinkered by their own campaign of anti-China rhetoric and reportage fails to notice the massive resources following diktats from on high being poured into everything tech in China.

In other news China's own open source OS openKylin version 1.o just released. El Reg's resident *nix ace no doubt watching with professional interest.

China chip material export controls just the tip of the iceberg, warns official

Newtonian cause and effect

So what else is new?

Lamborghini's last remaining pure gas guzzlers are all spoken for

>1,000 bhp wankmobile

The Ferrari hybrid. More bhp than any Prancing Pony ever.

So you can creep out of the estate at 3 a.m. on electric without waking the neighbours before switching to petrol.

But...without waking the neighbours? So what's the point of that?

US authorities warn on China's new counter-espionage law

Re: Are you with US or China?

Right - that's how to gauge China: the label on the polo shirt in Walmart - made with western technology. Nothing good ever originated in China. Not even 5G. Oh - hang on a sec...

" national security interests"

According to Uncle Sam that covers everything.

Why should it be different for other countries?

Mummy and Daddy Musk think Elon's cage fight against Zuck is a terrible idea

"Epic"

Yeah, right. That's what all fight promoters say.

Crook who stole $23m+ in YouTube song royalties gets five years behind bars

Shocked!

Given the way managers, record companies, promoters, back street chancers and just about everybody else has been ripping off musicians since Mozart I am shocked that an online fraudster should receive jail time. He is a perfect fit for the industry.

If you want a big brain, make a habit out of daytime naps

Doesn't work

I often crash out in the middle of the day after an early start and my 8-hour sleep cycle is compressed into 45 minutes, including one or even two rounds of deep sleep (I wear a sensor). I wake up feeling like **** for a couple of hours even with coffee.

Show me how to Power Nap for 5 minutes.

Oh, wow. OK. Apple really is making a $3.5K VR ski-mask. Dev tools are now out for it

So many Luddites on El Reg?

I can immediately think of multiple uses. No doubt Apple has the same perception.

Just for one - Don’t know yet about the manual (digital = fingers) but I can readily imagine any initial discomfort in wearing one of these will readily supersede the discomfort (which nobody notices any more) of sitting at a desktop all bloody day ruining my posture and eyesight.

Can’t wait.

ASML caught in Dutch oven with China export restrictions

Re: An Error?

“By then…” China will have moved on the next and subsequent generations.

You think they are dumb enough just to replicate yesterday’s technology?

Mark Zuckerberg would kick Elon Musk's ass, experts say

Money on Elon

Nothing to do with physicality.

Many will recall how Butch Cassidy took out a pretender to leadership of the Hole in the Wall Gang in a nanosecond with one well placed kick.

Time running out for crew of missing Titanic tourist submarine

Jurisdiction

Most likely the territory where the port of origin of the craft or vessel is located otherwise your final guess - anywhere potential claims tend to zero.

Grissom White and Chaffee

Thanks for the reminder. Tragic heroes whose names had not transited the grey matter since I were a wee lad.

Bluetooth video game controller

J.... H.... C.... ....

UK smart meter rollout years late and less than two thirds complete

"strigil"?

Is that you, (history teacher) Mr. Marshall?

EU boss Breton: There's no Huawei that Chinese comms kit is safe to use in Europe

Following the series of links starting with the reference to Huawei backdoors...

Fascinating. Starting in 2020 - or a lot earlier if the unnamed "US officials" are to be believed - a story at least as well supported and newsworthy as anything on Twitter, Just keep saying it.

Music bosses go after Twitter's unlicensed soundtrack to the tune of $250M

Re: "copacetic"

Ditto - I had to look it up when starting to read books by James Lee Burke. North American only although I think I have seen it used once in British media.

China's cyber now aimed at infrastructure, warns CISA boss

Follow the link to the Annual Threat Assessment of the intelligence community

Maybe they mean "by" the intelligence community rather than the IC being the threat, but who knows?

Worth looking at the source which dates back to "information as of 18 January".

And which kicks off with "This annual report of worldwide threats to the national security of the United States". Worldwide?? I always knew the inhabitants of Tristan da Cunha were tricky b***ds.

Also worth scrolling to the end to see how many countries are basket cases (presumably other than the USA.....).

Now the US debt "situation" supposedly has been resolved this and other agencies will want their share.

UK government to set deadline for removal of Chinese surveillance cams

Coincidence?

Or is there a connection between this manoeuvre and Rishi's recent trip to the USA (from where he returned empty-handed again)?

File Explorer gets facelift in latest Windows 11 build

And if none of the above..

.. and it is a Quiet News Week or the Holiday Season sucker your developers into telling you what is wrong with Feature X and how to improve it.

Metaverse? Apple thinks $3,500 AR ski goggles are the betterverse

Attachable Zeiss glasses

Shoot! Did not want this.

If the device is so clever why can't it do built-in vision correction?

UK warned not to bother racing US, EU on EV subsidies

I'm with Beanie

The car industry has had 100 years to make efficient the digging up of minerals and their conversion into and fuelling of the vehicle in your carport.

Or at least I would like to see a much broader all-encompassing assessment and comparison of the two technologies.

Australia fines tech companies for exploiting foreign tech workers

"the plethora of deadly creatures found in the one-time prison colony"

I would have enjoyed writing that line too :-)

Uncle Sam vows to Micron-manage China's memory chip ban

"Economic coercion"

Words dripping from the maw of the Commerce Secretary without a hint of irony, embarrassment or self-awareness.

Autonomy founder Mike Lynch flown to US for HPE fraud trial

Due diligence

They would indeed have done massive due diligence via a vast army of lawyers and accountants, who are obviously the ones claiming fraud so clever that they missed it otherwise their retirement funds - including millions from the due diligence - will be in jeopardy.

Millions of mobile phones come pre-infected with malware, say researchers

Imitating Nature - viruses everywhere - get over it

Haven't come across the statistic for years but at one time it was reckoned a brand new computer plugged into the internet would get its first hostile attack in 20 minutes. Anyone know the latest?

LinkedIn links out of China with 716 roles for the chop

"greater compliance requirements

You mean unlike many a social platform you could not just open multiple accounts for oneself, pet budgerigar and goldfish willy-nilly?

Storing the Quran on your phone makes you a terror suspect in China

Follow the links

The first thing to do when tracking a link to organisations such as Human Rights Watch is to look at "About us". Try it. Result : we don't know.

On the other hand, try this one :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2014_%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi_attack

UK PM Sunak plans to allocate just £1bn to semiconductor industry

Blokes in sheds could do a lot with a billion quid

But I wouldn't encourage them to do so since their inventions will disappear into a bureacratic chasm.

Taiwan asks US if it could chill out on the anti-China rhetoric

Re: Supposedly?

And yet closer at hand - Cloud Cuckoo Land.

Huawei masters the great vanishing act as UK sales evaporate

Re: Please stop repeating the lies, or tag your articles as "fake news"

And Huawei stole 5G from where? Do tell.

Brazil defies US, cozies up to Chinese tech on chip building

Smart move by Brazil

Uncle Sam will start tossing money - big money - at them any time now.

Pentagon super-leak suspect cuffed: 21-year-old Air National Guardsman

Re: “deliberate criminal act”

“what he did” .. and you have personal knowledge sufficient to say that. You just proved my point.