* Posts by tmTM

698 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jan 2011

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US news org still struggling to print papers a week after 'cybersecurity event'

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Pants down, botties in the air

Seems like they barely understand what has happened to them.

Uber CEO warns robotaxis can't find a fast route to commercial viability

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Re: Until AVs can run for under $2/hour, they can't compete.

Uber doesn't own it's vehicles, or technically employ the drivers, so it's overheads in those areas is vastly reduced.

Running robotaxis it'll own the vehicle/device, be responsible for insurance, fuel/charge and obviously maintenance. So per hour running costs need to be low to offset the huge rise in costs.

US accuses Canadian math prodigy of $65M crypto scheme

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Smart contracts

Only as smart as the idiot that created them.

Mega city council's Oracle finance fix faces further delays

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Petition to rename City Hall 'The Big Top'

To more accurately represent the daily clown show performed there.

DeepSeek stirs intrigue and doubt across the tech world

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If 'the market' doesn't take this warning to go and properly asses the actual value of these AI investments then they really deserve to lose big.

Beijing picking up some of the bill for iPhones sold in China

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Sticking plaster

The Chinese government not only caused the property crisis, but then spectacularly failed to deal with the aftermath which has lead to such longer term issues.

Promoting domestic consumption isn't going to help when they've actively avoided dealing with the key issues slowing economic growth.

EU stings Meta for nearly a billion bucks over competition-trampling Facebook Marketplace

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Re: I read the article...

Old people and anyone who likes to argue with robots in the comments section of posts

Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software

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So if they licence the software they can resubmit the paper?

Really they should be made to redo all the work that used that piece of software.

If they've used some dodgy cracked version of the software, how can they be sure the data it outputs is completely correct?

Europe's largest local authority slammed for 'poorest' ERP rollout ever

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Accountability?

In a council? Are thy having a laugh? Some stuffed shirt will blurt out: "Lessons will be learned"

Then they'll continue with the same circus of idiots as before

Scumbag puts 'stolen' Nokia source code, SSH and RSA keys, more up for sale

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Re: Contracting out is dangerous

What's the betting they used to employ someone with the same skills as this contractor, but some idiot bean counter thought it prudent to bin them off and re-employ as a contractor as and when they needed.

Cyberattackers stole Microlise staff data following DHL, Serco disruption

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Stock response

We've definitely been had, we've no idea how bad it is.

LottieFiles supply chain attack exposes users to malicious crypto wallet drainer

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"Please connect your wallet"

Honestly, what sort of moron falls for something so obvious?

Clearly, one with ten less bitcoin to their name. Gutted.

TSMC blows whistle on potential sanctions-busting shenanigans from Huawei

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Re Sanctions don't work and are counter-productive

Seems to me they're working perfectly?

China being forced to develop it's own tech instead of stealing it from everyone else?

Wasn't that what we all wanted?

Major publishers sue Perplexity AI for scraping without paying

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Re: Albert Einstein

and just like AI, you're p̶r̶o̶d̶u̶c̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶f̶a̶l̶s̶e̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n. Experiencing a hallucination.

He never said that.

Post Office CTO had 'nagging doubts' about Horizon system despite reliability assurances

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Why always 'someone else'

A recurring theme people use in their defence is that 'someone else' told them the system was fine and that was that.

Who are these 'someone else'?? Why did even the head of IT have 'someone else' telling him everything was hunky dory?

Sooner or later names will have to be named, if it's not the head of IT then who was it?

'Newport would look like Dubai' if guy could dumpster dive for lost Bitcoin drive

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B especially

Not a cat in hells chance that hard drive will work, that data is long gone.

Scammers in the slammer for years after ripping off Apple with fake iPhone returns

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"Apple would have known exactly what phones were sent out in this scheme, at least most of them. Wouldn't they be able to remotely disable them, justified under "receiving stolen property" laws? Or have service providers block them based on IMEI?"

Jailbreak phone, send to another country. Job done.

Microsoft throws in the towel on HoloLens 2

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Re: Half-hearted

Isn't that what Microsoft do best?

From mobiles, to wearables to AR, they put in barely 50% of the effort and give up when it soon fizzles out.

Now Dell salespeople must be onsite five days a week

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Re: They're SALES guys

Pissing off the people that make your company lots of money.

That's a big brain move.

91% of polled Amazon staff unhappy with return-to-office, 3-in-4 want to jump ship

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"I only want SUPERSTARS"

Lol, what kind of scam operation are you running bro?

Reads just like those snake oil 'business coaches' absolute hogwash.

Snowflake seeks to raise funds with $2B bond sale

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Bubble

POP!

They are still massively over priced, the shares have some way to fall yet.

China claims Taiwan, not civilians, behind web vandalism

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Look at how black that Kettle is

Said the pot

Cards Against Humanity deals SpaceX a $15M lawsuit over Texas turf tangle

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Re: Anyone familar with American Law?

Yes it's very simple.

Whoever has the most money wins.

'Cybersecurity issue' takes MoneyGram offline for three days – and counting

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Re: Why don't they already have the best cybersecurity experts available on staff?

because in 2023 they were bought by a private equity firm.

Who no doubt slashed headcount, put a block on future investment and hiring, in order to cut outgoings and boost profit.

TSMC, Samsung reportedly eye UAE's silicon fields for fab expansion

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Water you say?

Well this is time for Britain and Ireland to shine.

We're quite literally swimming to work in the stuff right now, when are the fabs going to be built?

Europe's largest city council: Oracle ERP allocated £2B in transactions to wrong year

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Re: And who is going to pay that bill???

Council has a pretty decent pension fund?

They screwed this one up, maybe they can pony up to fix the mess? You can bet they won't cock it up a second time.

Disney kicks Slack to the curb, looks to Microsoft Teams for a happily ever after

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Teams is fine

"It can't do that" is a quick, easy way to shut down many requests, and save yourself a load of hassle.

HPE CEO: 'Best interest of shareholders' to pursue $4B damages from Lynch estate

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Re: Since Mike Lynch is dead ...

Even if Lynch was still alive, he'd be very silly to have anything of significant value to his name.

Have it all held by faceless offshore companies, tucked away in places English courts can't reach.

Trump taps Musk to lead 'government efficiency' task force

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Business efficiency?

Step 1: Sack everybody

Step 2: Massive lawsuits

Step 3: Re-hire most of them

Step 4: Claim to be a genius

Blood boffins build billions of nanobots to battle brain aneurysms without surgery

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Re: How is this a bot?

It's a Nanoparticle, of which there are an awful lot being developed for nearly every possible application.

Cisco merch shoppers stung in Magecart attack

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Cisco branded Merch?

Quite frankly if you're buying that in the first place you deserve everything that's coming to you.

HPE to pursue $4B claim against estate of Mike Lynch over Autonomy acquisition

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I'm sure Lynch, like many of the super rich, won't officially have a single thing to his name for them to take.

One of China's best GPU prospects admits it's failing, lays off workers

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What was the problem?

Unable to steal enough designs and blueprints from NVidia to 'design' their own chips.

City council faces £216.5M loss over Oracle system debacle

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Re: Poor Oracle

How are you supposed to deliver anything when the authority keeps changing it's mind?

Orion SA says scammers conned company out of $60 million

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Dear rich company.

Without explanation, please send all money to this brand new account we have.

Don't bother ringing us to confirm, we're all on holiday or something.

Just send millions of dollars, it'll be totally fine.

kthnxbye

Big Music reprises classic hit 'ISPs need to stop their customers torrenting or we'll sue'

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Re: encryption cannot stop this.

No, but VPN does.

Just don't select a US based one that's known to pass info to anyone that asks.

Biden throws $1.7B at automakers to prepare fading factories for EV production

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Ford didn't get any money

As seemingly all they're doing is plonking a new body on a VW platform and kicking it out the door.

Labour wins race to lead UK, but few would envy the load in its tech in-tray

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They've got the majority in Parliament to do something about the problems arising from Brexit.

I'm not talking about re-joining the EU, but being some part of the single market to boost trade would bring real results.

Ransomware scum who hit Indonesian government apologizes, hands over encryption key

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Re: Criminals with a conscience? I don't buy it!

They were probably Indonesian nationals and realised sooner or later they'll get caught.

Glastonbury to turn festivalgoer pee into eco-friendly fertilizer

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Bring back the long drop

Not only is it a hellacious experience using one on a hot summers day, but every year there's always one dope who manages to fall in.

Since joining NATO, Sweden claims Russia has been borking Nordic satellites

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how do you hold to account

Keep funding Ukraine and ask them to have the SBU solve the issue.

They're more than happy to operate deep in Russian territory, turning things into smouldering wrecks.

T-Mobile US drags New Jersey borough to court over school cell tower permit denial

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Re: If cell towers are considered unsafe

There's a reason these rules are set at a federal level by the FCC.

It's to stop idiotic local politicians making decisions on things they have absolutely no clue about.

IMF suggests tax on AI's CO2 emissions, but not AI itself

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Why AI?

They never bothered to tax the emissions on Crypto and that's far less useful.

Cops cuff 22-year-old Brit suspected of being Scattered Spider leader

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Squeeky bum time

Guess who's going to be cutting deals with the Feds in exchange for naming names and providing evidence??

Decades in prison await.

China miffed over electric vehicle tariff tiff with EU

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Re: If you can't beat 'em, tariff 'em

Lead times on some European EV's is still close to a year. It's utterly ridiculous.

No wonder the Chinese brands are flooding the market.

Mistral AI raises $644M, hits $6.2B in valuation

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Peak hype

Rapidly approaching

Some investors bet against Nvidia, expecting AI bubble to burst

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Re: wise bet.

Considering they've got the 50 series consumer GPU cards coming out in a few months, I can see the hype train gaining pace as everyone scrambles to get their mitts on shiny new components.

Can't see the share price going significantly lower this year.

US Treasury says NFTs 'highly susceptible' to fraud, but ignored by high-tier criminals

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Re: NFTs still exist?

They only exist as a vehicle for people washing money, the genuine ̶c̶u̶s̶t̶o̶m̶e̶r̶s̶ mugs lost everything years ago.

Hypothetical TSMC invasion 'absolutely devastating' says Raimondo

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China IS watching

American support for Ukraine is plenty vocal, but material support recently has been lacking. Just look how long it took them to finally approve the latest wave of support.

If they give up on Ukraine you can bet they'll give up on Taiwan, China will see a green light and go for it.

REvil ransomware scum sentenced to almost 14 years inside, ordered to pay $16 million

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Re: Why did he go to Poland ?

Probably related to the ongoing Russian invasion of his home country.

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