* Posts by diodesign

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New York Times source code leaks online via 4chan

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Re: “Source code” does not make 270GB

Ah, come on, give us some credit!

The words source code are in scare quotes ('source code') because that's how the leaker described it. In the article we call it internal data and assets. When you see 'source code', that's the claim: the article refers to what's actually been allegedly leaked.

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Brit tech tycoon Mike Lynch cleared of all charges in US Autonomy fraud trial

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Re: Federal acquittals are extremely rare

This is a really good point. Yes, vast majority of US DoJ cases are won by Uncle Sam.

Not just the trial, Lynch had to go through extradition too. And won. That speaks for itself. Just that damages case in England to go.

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More info coming

Yeah it's true and we've got a full story coming. We were in the process of writing two versions, one for guilty and one for not guilty, but the jury beat us to it. Edit: Now updated,.

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Chucking Trump etc off Twitter after Jan 6 provides key data for misinfo experiment

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Impeached

Ah yeah, impeached not indicted. That's fixed. Doh!

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I'm leaving!!11!!1

Cool story.

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Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

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Re: There is so much wrong in this article

Hey, we're just reporting the study's conclusions.

It's totally fine to disagree with the study but if there's anything wrong with what we've asserted, specifically let us know: corrections@theregister.com and we'll get right on it.

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Boeing's Starliner makes it into orbit at long last – with human crew aboard

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'no mention if the humans were still alive'

Look, someone's got to be onboard to hold the door closed.

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Tape is so dead, 152.9 EB of LTO media shipped last year

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Tweaked

Ah yeah, all good points. We tweaked that part of the article.

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Microsoft paid Tenable a bug bounty for an Azure flaw it says doesn't need a fix, just better documentation

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Kinda

It's more nuanced than that as I understand it.

If you whitelist specific Azure services to allow them to access to your servers as you instruct, anyone using those Azure services also gets access.

Tenable argues Azure should prevent tenants from sending requests to other tenants via these services; Microsoft says you should put in your own levels of authentication and filtering to prevent cross-tenant access.

I believe in having competent IT staff who are aware of this, sure. I also personally believe in not handing footguns to IT staff.

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The definition of an AI PC is now even muddier, helping no-one – not even AIs

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TOPS

TOPS is short for a trillion operations per second. In the context of AI, it'll be INT8 or signed byte precision. So 40 TOPS is 40 trillion operations a second using signed byte values. It's a measure of AI performance by systems.

You'll typically see manufacturers say their hardware can hit X TOPS of AI performance, and software and LLM makers say you'll need hardware capable of Y TOPS for this AI application to be useful. You as a user will want X to be greater than Y.

Eg, Microsoft claims a PC needs a minimum of 40 TOPS to run its Copilot+ suite.

I'll define a page for it and link to it.

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Energy buffs give small modular reactors a gigantic reality check

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Not a stop gap

Hi -- we've reviewed the piece and, yes, stop gap wasn't the right word for the reasons you've given.

For one thing, as a publication, our editorial line is that nuclear is not a stop gap - we should be in it for the long haul, and the nuclear by its very nature is a long-haul undertaking. There's no stop gap to it.

We've tweaked the piece accordingly. Thanks for the feedback.

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Snowflake denies miscreants melted its security to steal data from top customers

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FYI...

Hudson Rock has withdrawn its report so we're doing a followup.

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Re: Did they actually deny it?

Snowflake is a publicly traded company so their response is going to be painfully worded. But it's, simply put, denied it was compromised directly, leading to the theft of data, and instead suggested its customers may have been individually pwned by losing control of their own credentials.

Still not a great look either way. This situation is ongoing.

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Pass the popcorn

We have a feeling there's more to come on this saga, especially regarding the storage source of the stolen data and how that info was obtained.

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Codd almighty! Has it been half a century of SQL already?

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Badges

If you had a badge and then it vanished, you just need to post some more again. The badges do time out, but if you qualified for one in the past and post again, it will come back.

And this is automated: it's not like we have time or inclination to manually take badges off people.

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Behind the curtain...

If we reply to comments while logged in via the publishing system, I get the badge. If I reply from my phone via the web like everyone else, while at home watching the telly in this case, I don't. So that's why I didn't.

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Re: Lecture material

Best thing you can do if you like our articles is tell your friends and share our links.

We appreciate it so much; thank you. We don't need subscriptions or pay walls or anti-ad-blocker begging.

We just need people from all walks of IT life reading and sharing us. Thanks again :)

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Recycling old copper wires could be worth billions for telcos

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From the archives

Fair point -- I'll add that to the article.

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Bayer and 12 other major drug companies caught up in Cencora data loss

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Re: "your" first name etc.

It's patients. People prescribed medication.

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I stumbled upon LLM Kryptonite – and no one wants to fix this model-breaking bug

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Re: Series

We're going down the responsible disclosure route. But hopefully at some point. Mark's had at least four model developers, big and small, contact him now about the prompt. We'll keep you informed.

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Bad vibrations left techie shaken up during overnight database rebuild

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"This story is pure fiction"

I would say the yarn is retold to the best of the reader's recollection. Some of the details in these sorts of stories get lost in the fog of time -- it's reminiscing rather than reporting.

Anyway, we can try to clarify a few things. I'll let the team know.

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Destroying offshore wind farms is top priority for Trump if he returns to presidency

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Fixed!

Ah yeah, this article hadn't caught up - but it is now. Thanks.

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Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad

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Oof

I can't stand Hugh Grant. He's a huge grunt in my opinion.

Anyway it's fixed. Don't forget to drop corrections@ an email if you spot anything wrong so it can be fixed. Ta.

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Dell customer order database of '49M records' stolen, now up for sale on dark web

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Expecting a lot of this...

"Dude, you're getting a Dell!"

"Hey, how'd you know?"

"Well..."

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What do Europeans, Americans and Australians have in common? Scammed $50M by fake e-stores

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Are the deleted posts in the room with us now?

There's a line between saying an internet provider is being used by criminals and an internet provider is actively involved in a crime. If any comments have been moderated in the past, it's possibly because a line was crossed and flagged in a way we couldn't ignore legally.

Pretty much every internet platform gets used for wrong at some point.

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Palantir's CEO calls 'woke' a 'central risk to Palantir, America and the world'

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Mod note

Hi -- just a note from the moderation team. This discussion was going OK until someone (not the above poster but someone who replied to the above poster and has had their post removed) started using racial slurs.

Can we keep it civil and respectful, please. Ta. We don't want to get in the way.

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Council claims database pain forced it to drop apostrophes from street names

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Re: 1890? Are we sure about the implementation year?

No, surprisingly, the BGN was established in 1890 and has been going since then. See the links in the story.

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AI Catholic 'priest' defrocked after recommending Gatorade baptism

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Or

"Justin...credible"

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Boffins suggest astronauts should build a Wall of Death on the Moon

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Oh, you know what we mean

The vehicle is perpendicular to the surface touching the wheels, and parallel with the ground or floor beneath it [triv]

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Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, literally, something else

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Re: We may never see RISC OS for the Pi 5

That is a very good point, thanks. Yes, we've written about 64-bit-only SVC modes in modern Cortex cores.

That is a shame.

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Re: what was then called "Arthur"

The Acornsoft team claimed Arthur was short for something like A RISC operating system by Thursday, as they didn't have long to whack it together before the hardware shipped, and ARX was not close to completion.

Arthur and RISC OS can trace their heritage back to the BBC Micro MOS, as that was pretty much used to jumpstart Arthur development, from which RISC OS 2 grew.

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The eight-bit Z80 is dead. Long live the 16-bit Z80!

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Re: Z180 is also no more

Ah, OK, thanks - we've tweaked that part. Don't forget to email corrections@ if you spot something that could be improved, please.

cheers,

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Judge refuses to Ctrl-Z divorce order made by a misclick

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Well..

We do link to the full judgment if you need some bedtime reading.

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San Francisco's light rail to upgrade from floppy disks

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Re: Are you sure you got that date right? Was not it 88?

If you watch the original source, they said it was installed 26 years ago (1998) and it was designed to last 20-25 years, which all makes sense, and why it needs upgrading.

I think perhaps some of us think 1998 was 10 years ago. It was 26. In 1998, USB was only 2 years old. Netscape was 4 years old. Arm IPO'd. 1998 is hella history.

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German state ditches Windows, Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice

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And in 2020...

FWIW in 2020, new leaders in Munich pledged to favor open source after that switch back to Windows. But it's not entirely clear whether that achieved anything significant.

If we find anything concrete, we'll build that into our coverage.

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Microsoft, OpenAI may be dreaming of $100B 5GW AI 'Stargate' supercomputer

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Correction

I think Doc's Delorean needed 1.21 jiggawatts. Someone give Sam a Mr Fusion and some banana peel.

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The Register meets the voice of Siri Down Under

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URL, schmurl

I wouldn't worry too much about URLs. They're for machines, not us, primarily.

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China encouraged armed offensive against Myanmar government to protest proliferation of online scams

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ICG

Hi -- if you did read about a while back then we'll check it out and reflect that in the piece. But our article is basically reporting the ICG findings.

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Sega grabs tech layoff baton and dumps couple hundred Euro staff

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Couple complaints

I don't think that extension can address stylistic choices. Sometimes (or most of the time) we skip words in headlines to keep them short and punchy to the point of being almost obnoxiously so.

We are a red-top after all.

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Some 300,000 IPs vulnerable to this Loop DoS attack

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Re: Metis Flag

No - it's an infinite loop, not that flag.

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Time to examine the anatomy of the British Library ransomware nightmare

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Re: Western Isles Council

I have a horrible feeling that this just keeps happening so much it's hard to keep up with. We'll make a note of it.

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Whistleblower raises alarm over UK Nursing and Midwifery Council's DB

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Re: As Always

Amen! ;-)

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Labor watchdog wants SpaceX's gag clauses to disintegrate like its exploding rockets

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They are problematic

"Certain exceptions" indeed, Elon.

Broadly worded clauses that ban people from discussing working conditions, employer policies and practices, severance terms and wages, conditions of employment, and related matters are likely to fall foul of the NLRB.

NDAs about trade secrets are OK, for example, but that's not what we're talking about here.

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Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4

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Teams

Ah yeah, they started doing that last year, as we reported.

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Google gooses Safe Browsing with real-time protection that doesn't leak to ad giant

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"There is no such animal"

Nah, you misunderstand. It's non-commercial in that it cannot be used for commercial purposes (and it's also free of charge to use.)

It's not non-commercial for Google at all. It's not for commercial use by others.

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Japan's first private satellite launch imitates SpaceX's giant explosions

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You might be over-thinking it

Hi -- I think this says more about you than about us and your perception of criticism against Elon.

We're just pointing out that this launch went through the same sort of thing (RUD) SpaceX had to overcome. And Musk's lot figured it out, so good luck to Japan.

If Microsoft had a massive hole in its Windows login system and then Linux had a similar issue a week or year later, we'd probably reference that Microsoft bug in the Linux coverage. Pattern recognition; it's what humans do.

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We screwed up, oops

Yeah, we screwed up and broke the embed. It's now fixed. Don't forget to email corrections@theregister.com please if you spot anything wrong so we can fix it right away rather than realize too late.

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An engine that can conjure thrust from thin air? We speak to the designer

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Tweaked

Hey - yeah, he realized that wasn't well explained. So we went back to him and he gave us a revised explanation. It's in the piece now.

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More info

Ah, there's more detail in the previous article that we link to. The electric gun could be solar powered or from a nuclear device. Or any other way you want to make electricity.

And I've added some more links at the start of this latest piece to more info about the tech.

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Microsoft confirms Russian spies stole source code, accessed internal systems

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Different groups

Hi - Fancy and Cozy Bear are two separate Russian intelligence groups. They are not the same.

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