Posts by BebopWeBop

Chinese researchers find egg-cellent way to keep space debris from scrambling craft

Things are getting crowded and better spacecraft protection is definitely needed.

Umm the Irish routing problem.... As in I would not start from here!

Apple hawks $2k folding fondleslab

I am not one of their targets (I would like to retain an iphone mini but sight just is not there without reading glasses), but iFixit had some comments on durability. They have not torn one down, but it seems a reasonable set of conclusions until otherwise proven

https://www.ifixit.com/News/119205/will-the-iphone-duo-be-repairable-were-skeptical

Hackers drain $320M in Bitcoin from Liquid Network, claim they're the good guys

Ahhh reading this made me smile. A cheery start to the working day.

Matt Clifford to leave ARIA before Anthropic role becomes a 'distraction'

I am amazed it took so long or the obvious conflict of interest to sink in

Nightwing CEO has a Labor Day message for staff – and apparently The Register

Re: Alice

But they do talk to one another occasionally I believe.

Re: Labour

Or Jammy bastards.

Apple defies memory shortage with new Mac minis

And there I am doing productive (and very very well paid work) from a base (office, I have a laptop, a pen and paper as well for emergencies) lat 2018 Mac Mini - maxed out on memory, but both R* and even Mathematica when I have to use it, are quite workable. Better not tell Apple.

Nigel Farage wants to scrap 'suffocating' UK GDPR

Re: “Reform’s pledges 'collapse on contact with reality,' ”

No but he might represent his constituents nationally, or even on the little things that MPs can influence locally.

Re: And what about NI?

Quite a lots of Scots do as well, for all sorts of reasons.

Re: And what about NI?

We did not. We moved the company to Germany. (60% of our relatively small - 190) workforce are still in Scotland, but we have grown - shame we are taxed in Germany (bar individuals which to be faiur generate a lot of personal tax)/

NHS England rapped over inaccurate Palantir patient data disclosure

The whole contract/relationship stinks.From massive redactions on the contact ‘commercial confidentiality’ to MP’s links with Palantir. They are taking us (well England) for a ride, and the governing class are collaborating. Unfortunately Scotland and NI might get dragged into this shit too.

BOFH: This printer engineer knows every trick in the book

Re: "the sound of a large multifunction printer hitting a small white van from a great height"

Or maybe the boss?

Re: A sinking feeling?

That was just backup - the flying printer got there first.

Re: Priceless

But those open windows came into their own again you have to admit.

'Or, off in the distance, the sound of a large multifunction printer hitting a small white van from a great height...'

ChatGPT wants access to your health records so it can be a better not-doctor

Evolution in Action

The Darwin awards beckon - need I say more?

Google Cloud outage shows it’s still hard to understand hyperscalers’ real resilience regimes

Regarding the title, actually single points of failure and 'pinch points' are really very easy to identify.

Even HP resellers think the price of toner and ink is too high – so HP India facilitated an illegal cartel

My LJ 5 is still going strong. I did however never buy an HP inkjet after I left the company many years ago. And come to think of it I was not paying for printer or cartridges then either…

EU forces Google to share its toys with the other AI and search kids

Maybe much wisdom but little understanding of context or history.

NHS told to show its working on Palantir platform benefits

I am sick of Palentir being able to mark their homework without anyone asking to see their working! It happens all the time.

EU urged to act after Pegasus infects phone of spyware inquiry MEP

Re: Pegasus infects phones :o

On sale to anyone the company or their controlling government choses to sell it to.

At what point will Israel be considered a hostile state by the EU?

UK guts planning red tape so datacenters can bypass the neighbors faster

I suppose this will result in the mess we have in Lanarkshire (Scotland). Lies,more lies and blindness (from the regulators)

'A landmark AI development billed as delivering jobs and prosperity has misrepresented its plans to channel a nuclear reactor’s worth of power to a site in rural Scotland, a Guardian investigation has found.'

and

'On paper at least, AI growth zones need to meet a strict set of requirements, the most important being that they should have a realistic path to powering themselves. These requirements were set out in an application last summer that invited sites across the UK to apply to be AI growth zones.'

nothing like changing the goalposts. Meanwhile in the second linked article

'Promises came with this announcement: 3,400 new “high-value” jobs and a community fund to inject “up to £543m” into local programmes over the next few years.'. Note the carefully chosen 'up to' - no money has actually been promised in any way that is binding and

'Meanwhile, the Scottish charity Action to Protect Rural Scotland (APRS) filed an FoI request to the government to understand how it arrived at the figure of 3,400 jobs. It found that the figure came from industry estimates for another site – Cambois in Northumberland – multiplied to account for the fact that Lanarkshire is a larger site.

APRS found those industry estimates were inflated, and suggested there was no evidence that the Lanarkshire site could directly employ hundreds of people as the press release suggests. Instead, most of the jobs the site could create would be temporary construction jobs.'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/06/lanarkshire-scotland-ai-datacentre-project-renewable-energy

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/06/scotland-lanarkshire-village-ai-datacentre

Where are these 'neighbors' you mention?

Apple passes RAMpocalypse costs on to consumers

Re: There has to be a cut-off point

Yup, my desktop - writing, editing and much coding is a 2012 Mac Mini - maxed out on Ram some time ago though at 16G

Chinese cybersecurity company claims it’s built a better-than-Mythos bug finder

Re: They never learn

So is he

Trump-shuttered climate change site back online in nonprofit hands

Re: HOORAY!!!

Why the downvotes? A serious question.

Even the Secret Service won't use company-issued phones

Re: Porn. The answer is always porn.

I am surprised, Gambling and porn sites are not encouraged by the Trump administration?

It is one of those thoughts that while unlikely (at those ranges fine control is difficult, even if they were trying to kill him) is terribly tempting.

Re: Work or off the shelf?

Mossad got there first - moved on from pagers.

Ukraine puts its Russian war trophies online for allies to pick apart

Re: I quite fancy a MiG.

Messy though - and think about the neighbours.

But will they be able to repair it with WD40 and Duct tape?

Apple's Orwellian device controls for tots also mean more work for parents

Re: Good, about time.

Actually I didn't - but it was a useful byproduct.

Uncle Sam considers buying a seat on the Titanic

Re: DOH!

I suspect the gods don't care - we will destroy ourselves and they do not have shares.

Re: Please give Trump a ticket on the Titanic

Good for a laugh while i was procrastinating.

Re: Please give Trump a ticket on the Titanic

I will settle for just half of them - on the wrong side of course. And of course as they don't 'believe' in the public good, no rescue vessels either.

Re: Sounds familiar

Excellent find. My heart bleeds.

Canada wants to make its own AI, break free from US bots

Re: What's all this aboot ?

Quite. and the NHS (England) appears somewhat reluctant as well. At the same time, some powers are reserved to Westminster and that august body appears determined to hand over data on defence and financial matters to Palentir. It helps I suppose that Labour appears to be in the grip of tht company (through Mandelson) as well as Oracle (c/o Blair). Not that the previous lot will have been any better I a sure, it is just that we don't have the information on them yet.

'Resistance is futile,' says Qualcomm CEO. AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices

Re: Panopticon isn’t anywhere near close to describing its existential threat facility.

Bingo!

Tony Blair and the Reform party both want AI in government, though they can't agree on what for

Re: Tony's back and he's on a mission. Run for the hills!

Crace appears to have shifted to straight reporting some time ago.

BOFH: Vibe-coded solutions arrive for problems nobody has

Re: Another boss defenestrated

Yup, the boss should have taken advice on functionality - that window catch warning feasture might have proven very useful.

Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

Re: Expectation

Ahh, the cargo cult revisited...

Trump to UK: Stop taxing our big beautiful tech corps or face tariff tsunami

Re: If it’s stressing the orange idiot out, great.

So, for once we might consider McDonalds to be our friend?

Don't open that WhatsApp message, Microsoft warns

Re: Employee training tops the list ????

I fondly remember being able, decades ago, to be able to run some extremely amusing Display Postscript on NeXT beasties, that did things like melt the users screen (visually) when they opened emails. Highly amusing to my tiny mind at the time. That got fixed, bu MS as you say did have a wee problem for a while

Google is to journalism what Vikings were to monks. Now their man will run the BBC

Re: research indicates that 63% of people polled think the TV licence is poor value for money

Yes but just look at the politicians who did not get in, but were voted for.

Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right

Re: Sad part: He was normal.

Might be just you? I don't - but then maybe that is just me.

Brit lawmaker targeted by AI deepfake fails to get answers from US Big Tech

Re: Needs serious financial penalties

Prison terms might be more effective.

Apple pushes Maps ads in free training-wheels business bundle

Just remember, tracking (including identification of stores you visit) is turned on by default on your modern iPhone!

EU broadcasters say smart TVs and voice assistants are the next gatekeepers

Re: Big brother is watching and listening to your TV

I sympathise. But as a parent of long experience, the older the better (the kids that is) when you acquire them

Elon Musk wants to build 50 times more chips than the world currently produces, using 'new physics'

New physics? There is precious little of that beyond small insights at the moment. Better engineering maybe.

Maybe the ketamine is having an effect on the loony?

BBC World Service digital switch backfires as online audience drops

Re: ?

Presented in a way the obscures it for most readers - I could have put a yourfantasises.pornhub there and for most people they would not see it until they hit the 'here' link.