Posts by Zibob

911 goes MIA across multiple US states, cause unclear

404

Copper not found.

Or maybe it was...

EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy

Dollars per minute

The heads of the groups that hand down fines to these companies should have a simple and large clock on the wall that displays FD/m (Facebook Dollars/minute) and use that number to multiply by 3 months worth of time minimum.

They seem far apart, but displaying their sawy in Dollars per Minute helps to put in mind of those tasked with punishing them, how much power they have, how little they have to care about conventional fines and how meaningless conventional fines and legal systems are from the view point of the sentencing body.

And applied in minimums starting at 3 months of yearly time passing, not working hours, but a full quarter of the year in real terms. This means you potentially get 3 of these in a year before your company is running negative and starting to eat into previous years profits. The 4th would be more than a years full profit.

This is the only way they will actually pay attention.

Until such a time, they are minor inconveniences. Meerly a latte in terms of their yearly profits.

Re: Thank you!

Inevitable billion dollar fines.

Measured in minutes, hours and days of operation.

Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain 'addictive and toxic' new app

Withered on the Vine

Things have changed now of course, but I cannot fathom whoever justified killing Vine.

That has to go down as one of the web3 blunders to note. Literally sat back a watch tiktok eat their lunch and let them.

More an obversation and point of humour, than anything else.

Whistleblower cries foul over alleged fuselage gaps in Boeing 787 Dreamliner

You know at this point in history, I will gladly side with the person who thinks its unsafe.

It strikes me as very suspicious and handwaving to say there is no issue on the basis of "trust me bro"

Even if it is a worry on that one plane, you bring it in, assess, then tell them yes or no if it was a good idea a founded in reality.

If issues as described arrived on the one plane you immediately ground all others and remediate the problem followed by extensive testing and recertification of those craft before returning it to service.

Then you can confidently say yes we looked, here are the results, there indeed was or wasn't a problem and you can rest assured.

The fobbing off of potential lives at risk is hard to take from the company that deliberately crash 2 planes killing 346 people, after ignoring the same warnings before.

YouTube now sabotages ad-blocking apps that stream its vids

As always, my complaint isn't with being advertised to, its the ineffectual use of that advertising.

It would be easy to instead of probing me for my interests in nasty ways, you instead monitor your own site, in the capacity that it is used. Which is watching videos.

Based on that alone I should be getting FAR more varied ads, but no, I get ads, for skin cream and make up, and women's car insurance, and this is about as far from the content I view as is possible.

They run the site, they have the metrics, they refuse to use that information properly and thus I refuse to play the game.

Further from that again is the mindboggling idea that advertisers pay to have their ads shown to relevant interests. That must be billions wasted on advertising products that are not only not relevant, but in more than a few cases legally impossible for me to take advantage of. Accountants get bent out of shape over paperclips, but will fire hose money at Google to serve ads that are wasting money for not even a slim chance at my business, but nothing, no possible gain for the company being advertised for. But its never even mentioned in accounting, it just go into the anomalous hole of "advertising" on the budget.

FYI: This site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, today all yours for a price

Can we please?

Sure it will be a bit MAD but at this stage its acceptable losses.

Mega city council's Oracle ERP system still not legally safe, compliant... 2 years after rollout

Recoup costs?

At what point does total failure to pride the outlined specs result in the return of funs paid for said off effective system.

Maybe with interest for the time wasted and problems caused.

Official: EU users can swerve App Store and download iOS apps from the web

Freedom at last!

Oh you can have it on a website, asking as that site is tied to your dev account, our approved list, our transaction systems and conforms to.our app store guidelines.

Rrrriiiiiiigiggghhhhhrtttttttt....

Eu, back to the table, bigger stick, harder hits aim for the head.

China orders its telcos to rip and replace US chips with homegrown silicon by 2027

Re: Predictable

And it has been proven they do, dual elliptical curve?

Amazon search results now less self-centered, boffin says

An admission of guilt?

So since the pressure made then jump before pushed that is clear evidence that they were manipulating the market.

So historical fines going back how many year are in order now? 4% a year or something right? So apply that to all of their finances that have been reported going back that many years.

Because we could use some of it to upgrade the power grid the are leeching off.

Ex-Microsoft engineer gets seven years after trying to hire hitman for double murder

Child Protective Services

How would one get in contact with them regarding this. It wasn't stated if they still have custody over the adopted children but I'm pretty sure being convicted of soliciting murder for hire excludes you from being an adoption parent.

Despite two previous court victories, Tesla settles third Autopilot liability case

Is there a better advertisement

For the state of Tesla.

My reading it is that the settlement was so high that if it was let out, others would demand the same and quickly lead to insolvency.

It also hints at flaws so damning that it would itself ruin the business.

Silence says it all.

Irish power crunch could be prompting AWS to ration compute resources

We enjoy a level of service

One that we have come to expect and rely on.

It is a point of pride that we have not had a non weather related or unannounced power outage in years. Something that many Americans I talk to say is a monthly occurrence.

There is already growing and verbal concern amongst the regular people. It is very good to see that EirGrid is limiting what can be used where and when rather than bowing to the corporate Yankee dollar.

But there will be, no doubt about it, wide scale civil unrest if companies that don't pay fair tax and get other breaks start to bring down the power grid at the expense of public services and the people of the country.

It would likely be a building problem, the first times will be outrage, and then when it co tinues to happen people will take to the streets.

It is worth noting that while I don't know the locations of googles or Microsoft's data centers, amazon were far less conspicuous setting up a massive series of branded warehouses next to one of the busiest motorways, not very far from a very rough part of Dublin, one known for its tendency to set things they don't like on fire.

Industrial robots make people feel worse about jobs and themselves

No shot, really?

Who would have thunk it.

Being tasked with installing and maintaining the machine that took your job would be unfulfilling.

From able bodied worker, to just an assistant to a machine. Knowing you will be replaced and another person will carrying on in your place if you can't serve the machine well enough.

And it's a wonder why depression and suicide are increasing.

Academics probe Apple's privacy settings and get lost and confused

Its almost like that was the plan

"Centralizing these options would also prevent users from getting frustrated and giving up on finding the settings they're looking for."

US government excoriates Microsoft for 'avoidable errors' but keeps paying for its products

Real recognise real

That's all that happening here.

You start by saying a company should be punished for not fulfilling their duties to the government.

But the government frequently fails to.fulfill anything they say, and what punishment do they get, a fat paycheck, a government car and driver (in a massive great Mercedes) and a massive pension for life.

So all that happening here is Microsoft , coughed gently and nodded back to the accuser and shrugged it shoulders.

Ivanti commits to secure-by-design overhaul after vulnerability nightmare

Only after the fact

This is infuriating to me. They know there is serious security concerns with holding sensitive information, yet design the business such that security is the later thoughts after money.

Anyone operating with this sort of information should be default security before all and then have it verified and tested, not just call it good and expect it not to be pushed, that's how we end up here with sensible, but in context utterly idiotic statements like "we have been humbled" and going forward with security-by-design now that it has happened.

Nah, that should be grounds for the company board and engineers fired and the project given to more responsible people.

Security should be the default JOB 1. Then the functionality while maintaining the security.

UK and US to jointly develop AI test suites to tackle risks

Like history means nothing

Two previous major collaborations between the US and UK, nuclear weapons, and passing the speed of sound in flight, resulted in the UK info being stolen and none provided in return.

Basically using the UK as an unpaid dev office.

And now... Here it is again. Hope its worth the tax payer investment.

Time to examine the anatomy of the British Library ransomware nightmare

Re: Reason #854637

"and that was paying £500 a day. WTF do they think they'll get for that?"

£3,500 a week

£14,000 a month

£168,000 a year

That doesn't sound terrible.

Even being generous and assuming a 5 day week

£2,500

£10,000 a month

£120,000 a year

A lot closer to the needed standard for buying a house but still 20k clear a year.

For reference, I get £500 a week, for structural steel. Stuff that carries traffic and hangs above traffic, actual life on the line stuff. If I could get pair 5x for am office job, with much lower hazard risks and mental stress that would be a done deal.

Yes I know there's education in there but that's true for any job.

Fujitsu to shutter operations in Republic of Ireland

Well that's nice.

Shame it doesn't extend to the people they ctimised, imprisoned and indeed had a large hand in more than a couple of deaths related to their mistake.

Sure a printer repairman really needs the suicide counciling that deserves to be with the families of those lost.

Whizkids jimmy OpenAI, Google's closed models

*One of the recommendations of the report is "that the US government urgently explore approaches to restrict the open-access release or sale of advanced AI models above key thresholds of capability or total training compute." That includes "[enacting] adequate security measures to protect critical IP including model weights."*

Guys, we made it too good, now we have to try to stop people using it.

At this stage, every day is some catastrophe, not even centered around AI, just general incompetency of those in control of most everything.

Please please, stop trying to fix this and just take the brakes off. Its already a fucked up mess, let's just get to the conclusion rather than drip feed life altering doom every week.

Sunak's defunct SaaS scheme spent seven percent of budget designed to help 100,000 SMEs

Standard government fare

Been this way for as long as in remember. Promise the world, deliver nothing. As long as it sounds good and keep them.elected who cares

Windows 10 failing to patch properly? You are most definitely not alone

Just forgetting the past now?

"However, the issue speaks of a greater malaise within Microsoft and the Windows team."

This has been a constant problem since XP.

This isn't odd, this is "the way its done".

A change in behaviour would be notable, but this isn't that. Its been this way for over a decade. This is just standard operating procedure, no one has done anything about it in that time, so why would Microsoft feel pressured to do anything about it.

Boeing paper trail goes cold over door plug blowout

Re: What is going on?

"Both the above destroy confidence in the honesty and integrity of air safety."

At this stage, replace Boeing with any large influential IS business, and we are there.

By zero cause of our own doing we are regularly subjected to american idiocy, where ultimately the non Americans paynwoth their lives, but we still support this bullshit.

The USA need to be treated like the third world dictatorship it is, placed under sanction for war crimes and held account able for murdering hundreds of people outside their borders.

Re: Ranking

But didn't you know? America runs the world. If america, can tell dutch companies to ignore their government and do what they say, why is it surprising that simple language has gone their way.

We live in a wine country system. Long past then two party option within our, its all just america now, what they say goes.

Its a good thing this planet is beyond our control now, hopefully it just gets quicker now and wipes out humans.

Apple's had it with Epic's app store shenanigans, terminates dev account

Hire a private developer.

Just have one work on behalf of an mutual benefactor (Epic) and release a third party app(store) under them and funnel the Fortnite downloads that way.

Apple can stop every developer they want, but if that turns into every developer, then they will have to ban all third party development.

Not sure if they are that insane for control but that would be a good test. Turn all apple developers into now rival third party app makers through contracts to make Epics stuff for apple products on their behalf. Sure not as profitable for epic but potentially a scorched earth approach for apple if epic really want to try run them down.

Dutch government in panic mode over keeping ASML in the country

Blind to the US?

The vast majority of the comments I see are debating this like its an internal thing to the Dutch, but this is all because the US are forcing laws on companies outside their physical borders or control. Its messed up and incredibly worrying that the US is able to exert country changing influence on companies they are no part of and thus get to directly influence global markets by telling various companies to do what america says, not what their own country says.

And of.course everyone agree with the tyrannical US because "they know best"

.*Ah-merica! Ah-merica!*

*AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!*

*COMING AGAIN TO SAVE THE MOTHERFUCKING DAY YEAH!*

EU users can't update 3rd party iOS apps if abroad too long

Oh, always on, individualised, global, localtion tracking.

This is going to be fun to watch. That's pretty much the bingo card for getting yourself in EU courts.

I see what they are doing though, using the broadness of law to push it as far as they can, so the wording will end up getting so specific after rewrites to pin it down, they will then just rename/switch technology and the ultra specific laws now won't apply to them any more and the circus starts again.

What a surprise! Apple found a way to deliver browser engine and app store choice

Rrrriiiiiiiiggghhhhtttttt.

So before we had the "choice" of a locked down system, and an open system that allows you to lock it down.

Now we "only" have the option of 2 systems.that can be locked down, or open.

You will note there were 3 choices in the first statement, and 4 in the second... Yes... Somehow to you 4 is less than 3.

World-plus-dog booted out of Facebook, Instagram, Threads

Re: 'Link', not 'Nexus'.

Hey. Someone was paid good money to rul that jargon up the flagpole of the world of corpo/pol world.

Re: I've got a tenner...

Yeah, couldn't be, its never DNS.

Who. ould make such changes on a production environment anyway...

US accuses Army vet cyber-Casanova of sharing Russia-Ukraine war secrets

And didn't even get to try it.

That's some expensive "personal services". A fine and jail time over some skin.

Spam crusade lands charity in hot water with data watchdog

No fine?

So just willfully advertising that you can do this and be given leeway to 30 days. So realistically that means they have 11 months of free message abuse. Just take a break out every 29 days.

Updates are plenty but fans are few in Windows 11 land

Waits for patch Tuesday for impact.

China warns of fake digital currency wallets fleecing netizens

Just a question, what do you define as fake currency?

Back from the dead: LockBit taunts cops, threatens to leak Trump docs

Sooner than expected!

Though it foes fall into my "In next weeks news" time frame.

I wonder if anyone would have taken the bet. Maybe I should make friends with financially unsound FBI agents and bet them they can't do their job properly.

LockBit identity reveal a bigger letdown than Game of Thrones Season 8

In next weeks news

*LockBit are back, stronger and more aggressive than before!*

If I didn't despise gambling it would certainly be worth the bet, if anyone is unwise enough to take it.

X protests forced suspension of accounts on orders of India's government

Re: Free Speech?

Freeze peach

Infosys enjoyed a boom in UK government invoices in 2023

Likely yes. They will be out of power by the time the 5+ year o

Inquiry is over, having cost the tax payer millions, to turn up nothing and he will be kicking it in India with his wife.

Upstart retrofits an Nvidia GH200 server into a €47,500 workstation

Cities skylines 2 I think?

Seems that its just horrifically badly optimised though, so that might change.

Fake LastPass lookalike made it into Apple App Store

So much for the AppStore safety claims

I really hope this and other examples are brought up in the on going "make apple open the phone to others" cases happening.

The main point apple always fall back on is the the app store means safety. Well that's demonstrably and repeatedly false.

I don't really expect law makers to actually read relevant news about the thing the a working on. But this is a serious win for them if they see it.

IT suppliers hacked off with Uncle Sam's demands in aftermath of cyberattacks

Re: "Trust us. We're with the government, and we're here to help."

I know the thought behind then post is a different direction but I had a thought too reading the headline.

Contractor reports intrusion, the submitted report gets intercepted by "bad guys" and instead of the authorities showing up demanding full access to their physical systems it is just more hackers who now have actual physical access.

IBM Japan and NTT think they can make datacenter aircon adjust to different workloads

Re: How does it work currently?

Thank you.

I had kind of assumed it was variable but yeah the writing is just bad. Like bad in its execution and bad in its premise if this is already a thing and couldn't explain or reference other systems for comparison.

How does it work currently?

Is cooling just on or off? Is temperature monitor and cooling adjustment a new thing?

Chinese Coathanger malware hung out to dry by Dutch defense department

"State backed malware"

Is that term becoming meaningless to anyone else yet?

Just barely specific enough to say "it was this country" but not at all specific about who, when, where, or how.

Mozilla adds paid-for data-deletion tier to Monitor, its privacy-breach radar

Re: The genies have escaped the bottles; the crap is everywhere

Then perfect blend of technology and magic.

US research body sues chip tech company Japan’s government plans to buy

Yeah was going to say the same

Wikileaks source and former CIA worker Joshua Schulte sentenced to 40 years jail

Re: Really?

" in an encrypted container beneath three layers of password protection,"

That to me looks like theatrics to get the idiot public to get on their side.

He knew what the CIA was capable of computer wise considering the content of the leak. He would know that password protected folders are not secure against brute force attacks. So adding two more layers is not something they would likely bother doing.

But does it sound like HACKERMAN behaviour? To the average layman yeah.

Re: Really?

Do keep in mind the the FBI took over, maintained, hosted and operated a fully functional CSAM website/forum for more than a year "to catch more criminals"

The FBI served and supplied CSAM willingly.

So apart from the FBI being a literal CSAM producing entity... They clearly have access to as much of it as they like for what ever reason. Wouldn't be a huge should to get some buddies in contact to make some files appear where they would be convenient if found.