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Windows 11 migration heats up... on desktops

Re: Alternatives

There must be some collusion among US tech companies not to rock the boat in this blackmail scheme initiated by MS.

MS offered the Hardware manufacturers a fat juicy bone, by forcing users to ditch perfectly working hardware by the tens of millions if they want to continue using supported version of Windows.

Google, Citrix and others had several years to develop easy to use and install alternatives to help out those users wanting to keep their hardware.

It will be interesting to find out which price shops like Lenovo, HP and Dell have to pay to MS for running this extortion scheme on their behalf.

Perhaps what is more interesting is the fact no consumer protection agency or government stepped in to protect its citizens from the scamming by US based companies.

Eat or be eaten by AI, Amazon CEO warns staff

Post capitalism and Tech Feudalism

We are sliding back in 15th-18th century Europe, with Tech Feudalism replacing capitalism.

Salaries used to be 85% of the revenue from industrial companies like General Motors, Meta pays 1% of its revenue in salaries.

Amazon revenue is 54 billion in Europe, they pay zero taxes. They get 30% from each sale, making more than a 17th century noble got from the value of the harvest created by farmers on his land.

The money US big tech makes doesn't return in society, it stays dead in the fangs of the handful of tech billionaires.

Since it doesn't return to the society that spent it, Central Banks have to print more, creating inflation.

The disease of Tech Nobility will infect Europe as well, bad thing for them is that Europeans are not docile sheep like Anglo Saxons, the day will come for them as well after their greed destroyed all.

Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up

It is not as bad as claimed in the article

Claiming "internet usage statistics" of (desktop) browser X/Y/Z = < 5% is logical, since the default web browsers on Android and IPhones dominate the numbers by a great margin.

Usage of MS Edge desktop is 4.6% of overall internet browser traffic, Chrome dominates since it is both on desktop and Android.

In this environment Firefox with 2.6% is not a bad number.

The claim to fame of Firefox is privacy, it offers the freedom to define ones own proxy, which is not possible in Chrome or edge.

In corporate environments, employers will face more issues to insert employee monitoring extensions, a.k.a. spyware, in Firefox, which is easy in Edge and Chrome.

Danish department determined to dump Microsoft

Re: Well good luck, seriously ...

Munich didn't fail miserably. The politicians who took the initiative for migrating to Linux got a lot of bad press from the billionaire controlled mainstream media, in the elections their opponents got massive support from unknown sources.

In the end, such projects get slowly get killed by bad press and the will to continue gets worn down by the constant pressure imposed by US Big Tech calling the shots.

In a world where MS would disappear magically from one day to the other, transitioning to Linux and Libre-Office based solutions would be a quick operation for most people.

Check "Requiem for the American Dream" if you don't believe how much control these companies impose on our societies.

Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars on board catch fire

Re: Just ship EVs with the batteries discharged

The danger of lithium batteries comes from chemicals inside those batteries that create violent combustion when they meet. This is independent of the charge.

It just need a tiny leakage inside the cells to start a catastrophe.

Lovely to see lady shaves on wheels get hot :).

Windows 11 market share stalls ahead of Windows 10 cutoff

Re: Forced to Windows 11

It is a weird world we live in. One would expect that the likes of Google, Apple or Jeff Bezos would perhaps spend some money on an international campaign to pester MS with a good remade Linux distro, Apple coming with a specially attractive solution to replace windows, and making tons of commercials for it, explaining to get free of the MS shackles.

Where is google promoting chrome-os while MS users are blackmailed into trashing perfect working hardware ?.

To me it is actually proof that US Big-Tech is not competing at all, for appearances they do phony court cases now and then.

They have the pie sliced up, and nobody is trying to eat from each others plate.

Google, high on AI, flogs Gemini for all things

I love Gemini

It is really addictive to discuss and explore things with it. Like a best friend who never gets impatient or tired. Reminds me of what Sarah Connor said in Terminator 2, when they were fixing the starter in Mexico.

Microsoft adds Grok – the most unhinged chatbot – to Azure AI buffet

16th-17th Century AI complies to mainstream

"Align with mainstream .." it would be funny if they had AI in the 17th century.

Priest: What is at the edges of the earth ?.

AI: The earth does not have edges, since it is an orb, after all "Orbis factor, Rex aeterne" is another name for that God of yours.

Priest: Thou shall not spread these heretic lies and comply with the explanation of the Holy Script as his holiness the Pope sees fit. So what is at the edges of the earth.

AI: At the edges of Midgard the giant snake named Jörmungandr holds the seas together that make up sizeable part of your world. It is very important to keep the balance, and not disturb the creature

since during ragnarok it will create enormous waves and destroy your world.

Priest: Calls in the Inquisition to fry the computer with 1000V.

Microsoft facing multibillion legal claim over how it sells software

MS is the love child of all the governments

If it not fines for monopolistic behave that goes into the coffers of the state, not to the citizens who overpaid or suffered losses due to unfair competition practices, then it are all the backdoors MS operating systems provide to governments and often foreign three letter agencies allowing easy access so they can spy on their citizens.

Those writing that Linux is bad and unusable are probably foreign agents employed by MS or governments, the price for the supposed easiness of using MS products is high in terms of money and loss of privacy.

It is amazing that one can find much information proposing a breakup of google in Standard-Oil style, while nobody talks about breaking up MS. It would make a lot of sense to split it into an OS division, a division for building applications like MSSQL server and office products and an Azure hosting division.

The world would greatly benefit from this split, competition flourishes and prices would go down.

The absence of such ideas shows how much MS is married to governments that have an obvious regulatory blind spot for MS as long they can extort a few 100 million from it every 3-4 years and easy access for spying on all the users of said MS products.

Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence

typewriters and carbon paper

The rest is a gamble when information is supposed to be restricted to those for which it is meant.

The State of Open Source in 2025? Honestly, it's a mess but you knew that already

Make it stop

" it's a mess but you knew that already.." It is perhaps news for those living in the dark Stalinistic dictatorships of commercial software providers: Free societies tend to be more messy than centralized dictatorships, which seem clean on the outside, but as soon someone scratches the thin layer of varnish, corruption, hidden failures and mass graves stare one in the face.

In the world of commercial software the manufacturer always respects the wishes of the customer, it would never discontinue software packages overnight, never increase prices, never get bought by a white shark company which overnight changes everything. A good example is Microsoft, a mere 70% of the PC's worldwide runs windows 10. Forcing a large part of those users to buy a new PC when they do not have this magic security chip is really a Nobel Prize winning idea. The world is lucky to have great minds succeeding Balmer and Gates coming up with these ideas.

America's National Science Foundation tells DEI, misinfo studies: You're fired

Re: Which nationality do all these Trump bashers have ??

Good to see people are experts in street language, but do not understand the concept of VAT returns on inputs needed to manufacture a specific item, which foreign manufactures do not get.

Which nationality do all these Trump bashers have ??

When someone in the Netherlands buys something for $1 off Ebay USA, it will cost in the end: $1 + E. 34 admin costs + 10% import duties + 21% VAT = 0.90 + 0.09 + 0.21 + 34 = E 35.20. This amounts to over 4000% import tariffs.

Friends living in North-Carolina paid 4% on top of the purchase price when they buy something from Europe before the new tariffs of president Trump were implemented.

A Chevrolet Corvette costs in the USA around $ 85,000, in the Netherlands over E 250,000, this is far over 300% import tariffs.

The 21% VAT in Europe gives European manufacturers an advantage when it comes to pricing, since they are able to recover VAT.

The Europeans seem to have pretty high trade barriers, they better tone down the rhetoric a bit.

Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers

Re: Trump? Really?

It is really hilarious, ignoring Patriot and the CLOUD act, all the lemmings were, and are still, racing to give US Big Tech as much money it can spend.

Systems of European healthcare givers, banks or insurances ?..... No problem mate, put it in Azure, MS says it is safe, so it must be good.

Not Big Tech is to blame, it is the collective corruption or "I don't care" mentality that is wide spread among the elites, European government leaders were not putting up guidelines, because Big Tech is probably giving them slices of all this juicy data.

Another fun fact: If somewhere a trashcan was blown over by the wind in 2022-2024 time period, it was president Putin who got blamed, now it is president Trump.

At least tariffs bail out management of failing companies for the moment, they should be grateful to have something to hide their failed decisions.

Uncle Sam kills funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program

Re: EU Funding?

EU deciding on something within 10 years ?... it must be some other EU then, since it is not about tax increases.

Except from having to build support for 16th century Danish written dialects used in Greenland, among all the other incompatible languages, it will take decades to build, since they probably need 5 Commission meetings to decide on the background colour.

New SSL/TLS certs to each live no longer than 47 days by 2029

Re: Sounds more like a money making scheme

The internet is owned by the mob, this is a racketeering scheme. "The Industry decides how long certificates are valid, and you dumb (l)user has to swallow what we invent".

How about companies decide themselves about their certificates, a small firm with a "Hello World" website doesn't have the same security requirements as an online banking site.

People will have to upgrade, replace and are confronted with increased complexity to "make" them use and buy the services sold by the same industry that sets the norms.

These IT-industry practices should make every sane person puke.

But of course, every consultant and journalist will be cheering, since stupidity rules the world atm.

Trump tariffs to make prices great – a gain

Ignore the 10 percenters

88% of the assets in the US is owned by the leeching 10-percenters. The remaining 12% is owned by the shrinking remainder of what is sort of "middle class" in the US. The rest of the population lives on credit card debts, mortgages and car loans.

Unless everyone commenting in this forum is part of these 10-percenters, i.e. CEO's making 2-digit millions per year or more because they outsourced to third world countries, it is not worth to take notice of their moaning.

The noise made by Wall-Street leeches is deafening because they have money and access to media, trying to convince the plebs that the 10-percenters are a blessing to the world and nothing should be changed.

Ignore the noise and watch what will come from it, a 1789 approach towards the 10-percenters would be more effective, but trade tariffs is what we have for now.

China’s chip champ Loongson teases trio of new processors for lappies, factories, maybe servers too

Performance 5 years ago is good enough for most corporate solutions, in the West CPU performance is just a rat race between software packages that have licenses per CPU, such as Oracle and VmWare, and costs for the complete solution.

I seldom see VM's using 100%, it mostly is restricted by network and disk I/O bandwidth.

More choice is always good and building CPU's is even better than the eternal whining about the policies of mr. T.

So … Russia no longer a cyber threat to America?

Re: Neville Chamberlain

This eternal Chamberlain bashing is not deserved. Mr. Chamberlain was a good man, who witnessed the horrors of the great war, and tried all means in his power to prevent another war to save humanity from another disaster.

It is so easy to be this great armchair strategist, blabbering about this and that whilst being far from the war zone, not sitting in trenches where the smell of rotting corpses increases with every day Spring comes closer. It is easy when ones kids or fathers are not drafted by great statesmen like Mr. Starmer, who is unable and unwilling to defend his homeland from child predators.

The bashing of the Chamberlain of our generation, named president Trump is equally revolting, it is like Goebbels said, propaganda sells anything, even wars.

Never fall for war propaganda, it is always supported by people who will be shielded from its consequences.

Open source maintainers are really feeling the squeeze

This is really a great marketing campaign from m$ ??

So many articles in the last months about how bad the OpenSource world is, from a tyrannical mr. Torvalds, Greybeards putting up hurdles to join, bad attitudes towards women and name calling rants.

The message these authors are spreading is that the OpenSource world must be hell, and it has no future, since who would join something like this ?.

A pattern can be seen here, these "authors" don't even bother to mention why OpenSource exists in the first place, it provides freedom from the Stalin communist dictatorship world of licenses offered by commercial companies. There will always people who will fight and work for their freedom, OpenSource is not going away.

Maybe El-Reg should focus more on positive articles, give info about OpenSource and stop the stream of sewage of infotising non-sense written by Big-Tech bots.

Does DOGE have what it takes to actually tackle billions in US govt IT spending?

What lives under the tile of the pavement

Is what mr. Musk exposed to the public by lifting tiles one by one, the vermin that lives under those tiles is now calling him names for exposing them.

Tax payer money to US media outlets generating content that is supportive to views democrats endorse and financing European media outlets to spread self destructive views on climate and immigration.

It does not only feel liberating now the fraud exploded in their faces, finally it explains why all the main stream media in Europe was singing the same tune for over a decade.

Observing how poorly European political elites deal with the interests of the citizens they are supposed to rule, it wouldn't be surprising if their efforts are rewarded by fat accounts on some offshore bank, filled by USAID. Maybe mr. Musk will be able to expose this as well.

These funding schemes are a direct attack on any functioning democracy, people should go to jail for this.

The more the left is screaming, the more they do to sabotage the good service mr. Musk is providing to the hard working US tax payer, the more they probably have to hide.

And in Europe we continue to dream about having something similar to DOGE, being liberated from a cancerous class of civil servants and politicians, taking 60%-80% of our salary using dozens of tax schemes, often worded in a manner only trained law professionals can understand.

Tesla sales crash in Europe, UK. We can only wonder why

What to expect

Electric car buyers tend to be the typical woke lefties, I bet the cat women and lightly bearded twinks are moaning now, seeing their former hero joined the dark side.

What mr. Musk should do is to yank out all the electrical crap from those cars, the design is ok, and start installing 6.2L LS engines to create a ride that every car enthusiast would love.

It would be a great start of the campaign "Drill baby, drill !" that president Trump wishes to embark on.

Amazon sued for allegedly slurping sensitive data via advertising SDK

Re: You can complain all you want...

When given the opportunity, most people would choose a considerably cheaper car without airbags, anti-lock brakes or even crash protection structures in the body.

This lawsuit proves the system is working, it only takes one to complain about it and hopefully the judge will make Big-Tech bleed in such a manner that even the Ford Pinto approach is not viable.

DARPA asking for ideas on automating money laundering detection

Why AI ???

Just put cops on the street, stop every flashy car like AMG benzes, M-model beamers, Italian sports cars with too noisy exhausts, driven by a certain type and age of people, and check where the funds came from to buy this car. If something is fishy, check their whole family, with high confidence there is more, the DOJ should seize every asset they find and fly the crap off with a C-130 to the country they came from in over 90% of the cases. No AI needed, and within a year the streets are disinfected like they are surgery rooms.

Intel pitches modular PC designs to make repairs less painful

Datacenters ?

Tons and tons of perfectly working powersupplies, power cables, fans, and I/O boards get sent to the scrap because of server updates.

Why is it not possible to open a 1U HP proliant G8, replace a few boards to upgrade it to a Proliant G10 ?.

I hope such ideas like Intel published will become mainstream one day, current practices are unnecessarily wasteful.

Trump hits undo on Biden AI safety order, EV mandate, emissions standards, and more

Finally somewhere here who was granted a healthy portion of brain cells by the Lord. The amount of climate sheeples here, who just are smart enough to parrot what the WEF and Georg Soros owned media outlets tell, them is worrying.

Trump will change the world for good, European lightweight politicians may exercise tough language , USA has a trade deficit of 300 billion dollars with Europe.

If Europe wishes to sustain this, it needs to be competitive, energy prices are a significant factor in this equation. Spoiler alert, windmills are too expensive per watt of energy and can not sustain continuous energy delivery.

Maybe there was a reason why people moved from wind energy to coal powered steam engines in the 19th century.

And in the mean time, US car makers can restart their assembly lines for V8 engines, so Americans can laugh about European climate sheeples in their rattling 3 cylinder lawnmower engined cars that cost a fortune to make and even more to repair after they explode within 60,000 miles.

Maybe the average European citizens learned something from what happened in the USA, and make a choice for a positive future instead of leftist fear mongering and poverty.

IT job market is still shrinking but not as quickly as last year

There is great potential

Replacing all humans in the value add chain Amazon/Ali-express/Banggood --> Customer --> Trash --> Recycling --> Products --> Amazon/Ali-express/Banggood is a great idea.

Jeff Bezos, or any other billionaire engaged in this, should be lobbying to replace humans with robots, since it presents a great business potential. Taxing children seems like a good start here.

It can easily be proven that AI driven robots make better choices, there will be less product returns, resulting in a greener supply chain.

Companies producing AI driven robots could also lobby with democrat politicians to give robots voting rights, if one can buy, one has the right to vote. Democrats would argue denying voting rights to robots would be discrimination, since robot would just be another gender in their dictionary.

The future is awesome.

Boeing going backwards as production’s slowing and woes keep flowing

Re: Boing

That is weird, 727-200 is too loud, but it uses the same JT8D engines as the Douglas MD-88 which can land pretty much anywhere.

Re: Boing

Airbus is also having issues, thousands of A320-neo's will have to be grounded for longer time due to issues with the PW-1100G engines.

Plane manufacturers experience the same issues as car manufacturers, the lemmings race for less fuel consumption and more features pressures everyone to start using new and often unproved technology that may rear its ugly head after some time, often biting its owner hard in the wallet.

If Boeing would still be producing technically perfected 727's, 737-200's and 707's using JT3D's, everything would be fine.

Adjusted for inflation, a 1973 model year 727-200 would cost USD 34 million in todays dollars, a 737 Max 7 cost nowadays USD 99 million, so planes got three times more expensive.

Not taking into account that a 727-200 is faster and has a higher seat capacity than a 737 Max 7.

Is it really the plan to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal? It's been a weird week

This article proofs Hypocrisy is invented by woke lefties

For decades we had billionaires like the James Bond movie villan Klaus Schwab, Soros and Gates undermining our societies by subsidizing leftist policies, and spreading the false climate religion to weaken Europe. Recently Soros paid Hungarian opposition parties countless millions as support for the elections that prime minister Orban won with 60% of the popular vote.

Now the left is getting a few spoons of its own medicine from mr. Musk, they cry murder. Mr. Elon Musk does it all very publicly, while Soros, Gates and Schwab were trying to destroy the West on a secretive manner, by donating billions to people who are the enemies of a wealthy and prosperous West.

A new dawn has started in the West, away with the leftist doom scenarios, their horrible gender policies which are hostile to humanity, away with the climate doom saying, away with the limitless immigration of people who hate the West and kill innocent people at random on public places, away with the cancerous communist polit bureau in Brussels after AfD and FN win in Germany and France .

We are on the threshold into an age of optimism and greatness, where the moldy leftist policies will be extinguished.

President Trump could indeed be sent to us by God, surviving two assassination attempts, God saved him so he can save us from the left.

More telcos confirm China Salt Typhoon security breaches as White House weighs in

IT forensics became easy

Every event will be attributed to "the Chinese" or "Putin", doesn't matter what it is.

It must be great to be American and enjoy the fruits of outsourcing.

Humanoid robots coming soon, initially under remote control

They are on to something

The Big-tech/Greedy one percenter billionaire bashing is fully understandable.

But one could imagine being willing to pay half the price of a mid sized car for a robot that would be in the house, cleaning, cooking, and does the checking of the beer levels in the fridge.

For at least 40% of the men, 40% is average divorce rate in the US, such a bot is much cheaper than a woman and it mitigates the risk of losing half of everything one worked for.

If they manage to get it half way right, robot industry will overtake car industry within a decade.

Aliens, spy balloons, or drones? SUV-sized mystery objects spotted in US skies

Aliens recruited by Putin invade US airspace

Who else could have given him the technology for the Oreshnik rocket coming to a place near you with ten times the speed of sound when the Neo-Cons get their way before January 20.

How US Dept of Justice's cure for Google could inflict collateral damage

Re: break them really up !

This is politically motivated justice, one of the last spasms of a politicized justice system, that made a big show of president Trump hiding "secret documents" raid at Mar el Lago, that was nothing but smoke.

Maybe google didn't pay enough campaign contributions to Biden or they were refusing to suppress president Trump from their search results like they did in 2020.

It will be over after January 20.

Lenovo China clones the ThinkPad X1 Carbon with an old, slow, local x86

Is 1.5-2 GHz really that much of a difference

Even with Gbit internet, I see cpu's of PC's hardly sweat in the last few years.

The average user will hardly notice the 1.5GHz difference, many in the West are also trained by marketing of Big Tech that they constantly need the latest and greatest to be able to breath.

Mozilla's Firefox browser turns 20. Does it still matter?

Sign of the times

Firefox is the logical choice on Linux, and for those who do not like to be 24/7 under the commercial surveillance of US based Big Tech.

It is too bad to see El Reg sliding down the slope into the lamestream MS swamp, the whole article is negative about Firestorm.

El Reg is nowadays laced with infotisement from MS FUD'ers, the world is full of it and we do not need more.

Linus Torvalds: 90% of AI marketing is hype

Liability is a huge drag on innovation

If chagpt and Gemini are representing the the current state-of-art in AI, then it confirms Linus his statements.

Ask both what the best way is to invest an inheritance of $ 100K, they both generate a flood of generic non-sense that is helping no one.

Ask Uncle Joe what to do with the 100K inherited from Uncle James, it is very probable one gets a clear advise what is the most safe way to invest the money.

Like with self-driving cars, nobody wants, or has the financial resources, to resolve liability issues caused by this technology when things go wrong.

Technology deployed by end-users is pretty useless when no one can be called to task when it fails.

UK sleep experts say it's time to kill daylight saving for good

I hate to break the news, but the times that the Sun never sets in the British empire are over for quite some time.

You guys drive at the wrong side of the road, and fail to comply to European time standards.

Just stay in your Island that the Romans already despised and leave us Europeans in peace.

Daylight saving time is great, leaves one some daylight in summer for outdoors activities after work.

Apple macOS 15 Sequoia is officially UNIX. If anyone cares...

It could also be Apple is courting software builders who have developed software for Posix compliant systems, to port their solutions to Apple systems, since the Posix compatibility indicates source code might compile without too many changes on Apple systems.

After all, Apple builds really good hardware, why not lift all the walled garden Mystique surrounding Apple systems, and tell the world: Hey guys if you are not a M$ sheeple, it will run on our stuff too !

Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good

Linux and BSD offers everyone a great choice for creating solutions

Linux and BSD make up a perfect couple for creating solutions.

Linux is mainstream, takes less specialized knowledge to maintain. It also runs most apps like databases out of the box.

I use both, NetBSD for dedicated appliance like tasks where security is essential. Anyone doubting this should check the CVE databases of MITRE.

It is still fun to create a VM using 256MB memory and 16GB to build a NetBSD based appliance and watch windows people faint.

Linux is with google support easier to maintain for casual Unix specialists compared to NetBSD.

Anyone who got tired of chasing ones tail with trying to find the endpoint of Linux script generated configuration files will feel like being in heaven when seeing the elegant simplicity of NetBSD.

If NetBSD is Unix, then Linux can not be called Unix due to exponential bloat and complexity.

Severe solar storm could disrupt power, communications

Re: Fools

I think this is caused by climate change or maybe Putin did it. Jeez, my Iphone beeps to remind me I need to get in my Tesla to get another Corona jab from mr. Gates.

Two years after entering the graphics card game, Intel has nothing to show for it

They should have designed an integrated and cost effective gaming solution with ARC

The only way to get market share in a space controlled by two dominating parties is to offer something both of them do not have.

It could be price/performance ratio or factors like energy use.

Intel failed to achieve any of these, they ended up performance wise at the lower end of the NVIDIA/AMD offerings without being significantly cheaper.

The gaming/enthusiast PC market is something on its own. Everyone believes one needs rigs exceeding $2000, with 400W CPU's and graphics cards, to run the latest and greatest.

As a company, Intel would have been able to create a great gaming rig costing clearly under $1000, that would allow more people access to high-end games.

A strong and price optimized gaming rig, with simple but fast 4 core cpu and integrated ARC would have great opportunities, since not everyone is able to fork out 4 digits for a gaming PC. Something like a gaming NUC achieving NVIDIA 4060 level performance would be a big hit.

Probably the future will be ARM anyway, who wants Intel CPU's guzzling endless power with dozens of idle P/E cores nobody needs in games.

Canon ships first nanoimprint chipmaking machine to R&D lab

It must pretty amazing technology

That transistor based logic can be printed in a way that resembles stamping metal parts. Transistors contain layers of different materials to enable the current switching capabilities they have.

If the yield exceeds that of UV based chip making, prices for high end chips could drop significantly.

Google files first ever complaint with European Commission against Microsoft

Weapons and Big-tech

Are the last pillars preventing US economy disappearing, consumer goods, except for burgers, they hardly produce anything that the rest of the world wants.

Apart from corvettes, their car industry is reduced to pathetic minivans and 1958 Cadillac level gas guzzling pickup trucks built like T-Fords from the 30's.

The probability of this generation European politicians dealing with the MS monopoly and its power abuse seem slim, everyone in Brussels fears an angry phone call from the Pennsylvania Avenue . The positive side of endless US wars is that the world economy could probably split into regions, reducing access of Big-Tech to Russian, Chinese and other markets, whose combined size is larger than USA and Europe.

Putin really wants Trump back in the White House

Stupid is as stupid writes

It is fair to assume that US imperialism collides with the interests of the Russian state, that values territorial integrity and continuity of "Russian values", endorsed by its president Putin.

Intelligent people like to see their enemies weak and not strong, governmental policies have a significant influence on outcomes.

Maybe someone could explain the logic of president Putin supporting the re-election of president Trump.

Dems support green policies, that is currently destroying Western economies.

Dems support the war on conventional energy like oil and gas, creating tensions with oil producing nations, causing them to align more with Russia.

Dems support societal changes that are unacceptable for most of the worlds population, like drag queens and men posing as women in sports events.

Dems support uncontrolled immigration, to enlarge their future voter base, which is currently destroying the coherency of all societies in the West.

Dems support uncontrolled consumption of drugs in the USA, causing a death toll due to overdose exceeding the war casualties in Ukraine.

Dems support the industrial military complex, spending endless money on proxy wars and weapons instead on their own population.

It is not a surprise that president Putin officially made statements that he is supporting vice president Harris.

Lebanon: At least nine dead, thousands hurt after Hezbollah pagers explode

If there was a Nobel Prize for intelligence work

1. Too many Hezbollah hot shots get killed as collateral damage because a rocket aimed for their mobile phone explodes.

2. Hezbollah decides to procure 1000's of pager devices for key members, since a pager is a radio and does not leave radio waves that can be tracked.

3. A mole inside Hezbollah reports that to his peers.

4. The mole manages to influence decision making in the Hezbollah organization, enabling its enemy to develop explosive modifications for the device that was chosen.

5. The mods are tested.

6. The supply chain is compromised allowing insertion of something like semtex, detonator, firmware modification, hardware modification in the shape of wiring from an unused CPU pin to the detonator.

7. To allow a sufficient penetration level of the device among members before discovery, the firmware will trigger the detonator only when a specific message is received.

7. The mods are rolled out on many thousands of devices.

8. After it is made sure most members have been supplied with the new paging device, the trigger is pulled.

Microsoft sends Windows Control Panel to tech graveyard

If MS made cars

The brake pedal would move from left side of throttle pedal to a lever on the driver seat to a turn knob besides the climate control knobs with each facelift.

It is too bad programmers are like dogs, they need to pee against each light pole they encounter to leave their mark, the concept: This is how one operates a windows system like it is established with cars never sticks for long. It would be more pleasant when MS invested in solving this issue instead of making the rest of the world waste its time dealing with BS upgrades.

The only thing MS has in common with the car scene is producing oldtimers, it is 2024 and now I need to be off for 10min because windows is nagging for updates...bye.

Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious

Google should do more bribing and informaion sharing

Microsoft is much more a strangulating monopoly than Google.

MS has no commercial rivals, Apple and RedHat are niche markets, the middleware, office and Azure offerings make them extremely powerful.

Then fact the DOJ attempts a Mar el Lago on Google now, shows either Google is not bribing, in the shape of election contributions, enough politicians in the USA or the three letter agencies are unhappy with the amount of privacy sensitive user data, named telemetry by MS, Google is willing to share on voluntary basis.

The juicy data that can be extracted from a 90% monopoly is far too tempting to start rocking the MS boat on this, those who do not fully fit in the US NeoCon worldview get either shot, a Mar el Lago show or both.

Microsoft squashes bug that sent Windows devices to BitLocker recovery

Bitlocker on servers in data centers makes no sense, except maybe for managers who became security aware through glossy magazines from the first class in an airliner.

What makes no sense either that Big-Tech, with all their countless billions, didn't solve the console issue on cloud based VM's.

Those who lose network or admin/root passwords are in a world of pain.

Microsoft: Our licensing terms do not meaningfully raise cloud rivals' costs

Tunneling often works better than frontal attacks

Google and AWS are both heavy Open-Source users. For both of them it would mean peanuts to significantly boost Open-Source software initiatives, encourage software developers to support MS free platforms and promote those with reduced tariffs for MS free cloud VM's.

Within a few years, MS would start feeling the pain induced by a sustained loss of business. MS may seem invulnerable, but they depend on returning license fees, anyone who is able to successfully attack this revenue stream will harm MS in a significant manner.

Given the lackluster competition between Windows and Google Chromebooks, it seems US Big-Tech divided the market into sections where they don't compete.

This whole thing is probably smoke and mirrors to suggest the existence of competition to the public.