Posts by JohnMurray

UK mulls making employers ask before installing bossware

?

"Intensely observed workers are often less productive because constant monitoring increases stress, reduces autonomy, and stifles problem-solving. While short-term compliance may rise, deep focus and true output decline"

Obvious. Stated. Being.

Another..

..law to be ignored and filed under "how am I supposed to run a company with all these laws"

Council worker spared prison after four-day data-snooping spree

Yes?

More interested in exactly how a low-grade new employee was given, or got, immediate access to highly confidential health data on people and children. And what reason a council had access to that data anyway

Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains

Have to wait in UK...

Until 'direct dump' of toilet contents onto the line is 100% phased out!

NHS told to show its working on Palantir platform benefits

Re: Cause and effect

This system is not sustainable. The improvement relied on pausing the vast majority of elective surgeries, pushing the workload to a later date and creating a massive backlog.

Staff-welfare also suffers, senior clinical staff handle a much heavier workload.

Short term win, long term fail.

AI nose uses 'Smell Language Model' to sniff out signs of disease

Well..

..since they are now staffing hospitals with non-medically-educated associates, and 'promoting' nurses to consultants, neither of which are doctors, maybe AI will enable us to live through medical attention?

NHS patients can't opt out of Palantir's data platform – but their hospital can

Whatever..

..they do now, the cat is out of the bag, the data will have gone by now and it will not be deleted...letting the USA anywhere near data that its industries can use is always a bad, bad, and worse than bad, idea!

France and Germany agree to disagree, ditch joint next-gen Euro fighter

Who ..

..needs enemies when you have friends?

AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies

Lies?

Getting things right would be better!

Asking which engine oil to use in a particular motorcycle and it comes back with "you have to use an oil with few additives, as they may damage the clutch as it is a wet clutch" - the motorcycle has a dry clutch.......

Mozilla warns UK: Breaking VPNs will not magically fix Britain's age-check mess

Well -

- since the politicians will inevitably know this, via various security orgs attached to govt - you can safely assume that the reason is to make secure communication unavailable to the peasant class...

UK government prescribes Single Patient Record for NHS data chaos

well...

https://medconfidential.org/2026/wes-streetings-final-bill/

"There is no obligation in the Bill for all uses of NHS data to be consensual, safe, or transparent – indeed, many of the provisions allow the opposite"

Line 20 on page 100 is the key: it says the NHS must do whatever politicians decide, with any medical records they have anywhere. The Secretary of State for Health can take any data (s)he chooses and punish those who complain or push back. Patients will have no rights and no choice.

Google users fight for refunds as unauthorized API usage bills soar

Use..

crooks, get conned

Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs

Re: Huh???

Yeah, like membership of a secret society raised no red flags ever

But --

It's OK to check every citizen in their journey across the UK...and to use video to literally check every citizen, and ANPR to follow every vehicle.

I forget, how many years is it since there was a month where no police were locked up for raping someone?

7?

Campaigners claim NHS Palantir system could be accessed by police and immigration

Seriously?

'Moral fibre' , 'morality' and government only become coincident in fictional existences.

AIs are happy to launch nukes in simulated combat scenarios

Feasability of AI launching a nuclear war

Recent simulations (e.g., 2025 King's College London war games with models like GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini) showed leading AI systems escalating to nuclear weapons in 95% of high-stakes crisis scenarios, often preferring aggressive preemption.

Healthcare security: Write login details on whiteboard, hope for the best

Re: The Oddest Thing

But then if the patient adopts the "avoid the stress of waiting, go directly to A&E", said patient gets a letter from their GP asking them to explain their choice!

Doctors told to give Palantir's NHS data platform the cold shoulder

Re: How utterly naive

They're not stupid.

So a need exists to look beyond what is being said, to what will likely be done/is being done.

The policy of the sharing of govt data across the entirety of govt departments applies here!

No matter what the patient believes, the govt believes that it pays for the NHS so the data is the govts.

UK to spend £23M on AI to tell benefit claimants where to go

If...

it's anything like vodafones AI assistant, you'll type questions and eventually end up back at the start, with no answers........

EU won't scrap tech regs just because Washington dislikes them

Re: IT dependance on USA companies

Well, Windows could reasonably be construed as a terrorist attack - especially on update day...

UK space sector 'lacks strategic direction,' Lords warn

Well,

could have shortened the title to "UK 'lacks strategic direction,' Lords warn" and explained the entire country..

UK government says digital ID won't be compulsory – honest

Or..

..just two phones. One with the definitely not mandatory ID on, which you leave at home, the other that you have with you [and pay for with cash]

Like..

..the mobile phone that most people carry..

UK to roll out mandatory digital ID for right to work by 2029

Well..

1,871,441 signatures ... so all the 'illegal' 'workers' have signed it?

UK Lords take aim at Ofcom's 'child-protection' upgrades to Online Safety Act

Well...

Maybe the lords should just ask themselves [while not sleeping at £350/day] whether the entire point of the 'online safety' act, from day one, is to enable and empower mission-creep as its primary purpose.

Govts just love free speech and freedoms [not]

UK datacenter developers turn to gas rather than wait for grid power for builds

Frack Off

Whilst acknowledging the huge potential of UK shale gas to provide a bridge to a zero carbon future, I’ve also always been clear that shale gas exploration must be carried out safely. In the UK, we have been led by the best available scientific evidence, and closely regulated by the Oil and Gas Authority, one of the best regulators in the world.

After reviewing the OGA’s report into recent seismic activity at Preston New Road, it is clear that we cannot rule out future unacceptable impacts on the local community.

For this reason, I have concluded that we should put a moratorium on fracking in England with immediate effect.

Business and Energy Secretary Andrea Leadsom.

Britain's 5G experience 'among the worst in Europe' says MedUX

Well...

Approximately 7% of the UK landmass has no 4G coverage from any operator. Additionally, 29% of the UK landmass has 4G coverage from only some operators, meaning 71% has 4G coverage from all operators! https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn07069/

Financial 'stretch' for UK to join Europe's Starlink rival, says minister

Re: Long Brexit.

They're 'racist' because they believe the 'free' 'press' about ravening hordes of coloured rapists running around....the truth being that the vast majority of those are true Brits, white and proud [of being Brits]

Airbus okays use of ‘Taxibot’ to tow planes to the runway

fantastic - unless

You have problems with high CO2 levels in the cabin of 2000ppm to 4000ppm +

There's no international protocol on what to do if an asteroid strikes Earth

I suspect..

The international protocol will be to let the poor die, while the rich survive in their bunkers [with a choice of young beautiful females].

Pretty much what the international protocol is for pandemics....

UK dumps £2.5 billion into fusion pipe dream that's already cost millions

2100AD

"We will have fusion reactors in just 10 years, I promise"

Tesla's Optimus can't roll without rare earth magnets, and Beijing ain't budging yet

Well..

Knowing musk, they'll all be female robots with attitude [and guns]

White House confirms 245% tariff on some Chinese imports not a typo

Re: The Point?

is, it is the largest insider-trading scam that the world has yet seen [as far as I know!]

Some persons are getting ridiculously wealthy overnight, or adding to their already ridiculous wealth!

Re: Point?

You may have noticed that China also said that if any other countries that they sell rare-earths to, re-sell them to USA, they would then ban sales to those re-selling countries.

!

Pentagon needs China's rare earths, Beijing just put them behind a permit wall. Oops

clear memory of what actually occured

Seek help - you have bad memory problems.

The UK vaccinated only those who were expected to be most affected, who were also those who would benefit less from vaccination [they still are] by dint of reduced immune response from either age or illness.

It also sent infected old people out from hospital into care homes housing uninfected old people, with totally predictable results.

If the UK govt had tried to maximise deaths, in groups regarded as socially expensive to maintain, they could have not done much better than they did!!

The software UK techies need to protect themselves now Apple's ADP won’t

Re: Security Theatre at best

RIPA allows for that

Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study

Simple

he's a sociopath. Like Musk/Thiel/Trump

UK government insiders say AI datacenters may be a pricey white elephant

Well...

How freeports undermine local [and national] democracy [intentionally] https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/the-technopopulist-rendezvous-how-freeports-undermine-local-democracy/

UK Home Office silent on alleged Apple backdoor order

Oh good

sp govts whatapp messages will also be readable, hopefully historically

except

that law was introduced by the conservatives....

Now Trump's import tariffs could raise the cost of a laptop for Americans by 68%

Hmmm,,,,,

At a White House dinner in February of 2011, President Obama asked former Apple CEO Steven P. Jobs what it would take to build iPhones in the United States.

The answer was not what Obama wanted to hear. “Those jobs aren’t coming back,” Jobs said.

https://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/news/articles/bringing-macs-back-to-the-u.s

UK government's bank data sharing plan slammed as 'financial snoopers' charter'

Re: Stupid proposal

This proposal is just another govt scare tactic to stop people claiming benefits.

Since most of the 'honorable' members are rich and dodging tax anyway.....

Most people are unaware that the state pension is regarded by the govt as a benefit.

So that is another £125 billion to add.

Given the sharing of data between govt depts, every dept will have access.

Key aspects of Palantir's Federated Data Platform lack legal basis, lawyers tell NHS England

ooopppssss

https://x.com/Resist_05/status/1831834796676542861

Rocket Factory Augsburg engine test ends in explosion at SaxaVord spaceport

Didn't light the blue paper right

NASA mulls using SpaceX in 2025 to rescue Starliner pilots stuck on space station

Re: Boeing should provide Test Pilots

Like the CEO and his stand-in

Re: Yay ... I won the Internet !!! :)

Every other house around - like normally

On one Prime Day, Amazon warehouse workers endured '45% injury rate'

Re: How?

https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/help_committee_amazon_interim_report.pdf

Row erupts over data sharing function in UK doctor software

Not so simple -

More like a GDPR problem -

Have a listen

https://x.com/vanmellaerts/status/1807033327997591917

Meta won't train AI on Euro posts after all, as watchdogs put their paws down

Does it cover the UK or not?

Probably not.

Even if it does, meta will ignore it until they are dragged sc reaming to court, and even then they'll ignore it [out govt/s are pussies]