Posts by EnviableOne

Showing the Windows 10 desktop was the yeast they could do

Why O Why

Do people still use Windows for Digital signage?

Even in its LTS, POS, or Embedded guise, it's too complex and resource-hungry an OS.

Pick up a Penguin or maybe a Penguin Pi

NHS Scotland-linked domains caught serving pr0n and dodgy sports streams

wrong domain?

Doesn't NHS in Scotland use .nhs.scot domain in preference to the .scot.nhs.uk, not wishing to be associated with those from south of the border...

Leaked memo suggests Red Hat's chugging the AI Kool-Aid

sounds like AI then

Microsoft reaches for yet another out-of-band patch to deal with latest update issue

They really need to stop referring to us Beta testers as customers and adopt their true name, "Beta."

Either that or replace all the coders with AI and re-hire the QA team to train it

Microsoft yanks Windows 11 preview update after install failures

Re: High standard in comparison to what?

Or Winblows 8

Jaguar Land Rover's cyber bailout sets worrying precedent, watchdog warns

Re: government should not step in

the governemtn stepped in as about half of the ppulation in the coventry area owes its livleyhood to JLR either directly or indiractly by one of its suppliers. Its the same reason they intervene with Nissan in sunderland, the steelworks at redcar...

Re: Prison fixes so much

It's what finally got firms to take H&S seriously, until the 1990 HASAW Act came in and made corporate manslaughter a thing, the fines and interventions avaialbe did not improve the actions

Re: What bailout?

TBF LandRovers have never been reliable, the reason the Forces used them, is that when they did go wrong they were easy to fix, or bodge together to get you out of the situation you were in

Google unleashes Gemini AI agents on the dark web

nah that got re-classifed as the deep web

AI agents are 'gullible' and easy to turn into your minions

trusted agents leading you off a cliff

so AI is satNav, good to see we havent come that far then

The drone swarm is coming, and NATO air defenses are too expensive to cope

just wondering

Would it be possible to fit a large barge or barges with like 4-5 Phalanx systems and float them down the Hormuz as a cheap drone defence?

Or something of that ilk, they make mincemeat of Shaheds, and while the system cost,s the ammo is cheap and the movement on them is rapid, giving an ability to take down multiple drones in rapid succession

Well, they certainly didn't win them, or we would have pictures of the victory parades

Starmer's digital ID reboot raises same old questions as its Blair-era ancestor

Re: What's all the fuss?

Basically, the issue boils down to the SS's favourite phrase: Papieren, Bitte...

Re: "if any other party gets into power."

tbf the referendum was not the problem, the fact he quit and let the rest of them sort it out when he lost, is more than enough rope to hang him.

IMHO, its Corbin that holds the wrap for losing brexit, if he'd come out and said the Labour party prefers to remain, then that would have tipped the fine balance the other way and we wouldnt be in this mess.

While you're here, could you go out of your way to do an impossible job?

Fish, that's a Norwegian thing

Flaw in UK's corporate registry let directors rummage through rival records

X takes its responsibility to protect the data entrusted to us extremely seriously

This phrase should be banned in all post breach comms, as 99.99+ % of the time, if they took it seriously, the breach would not have happened.

UK Treasury not sure about ditching Oracle to join £1.7 billion shared services program it is funding

Re: If it ain't broke, don't fix it

ok based on the tender, DHSC and HM Treasury are part of Matrix, both of them are on Oracle.

Both are huge departments with complex needs

Why are the rest of them dragging them to Workday?

Apple's budget-friendly MacBook Neo is bursting with color and compromise

Heard of the chromebook?

if its just browsing then its a no-brainer.

Windows 11 tops market share as 10 faces extended farewell

Re: Windows 11 at 72.57 percent and Windows 10 at 26.45

forgot this little thing called Linux, and its baby brother called android

Threat intelligence supply chain is full of weak links, researchers find

Re: Must be nice

Attackers are sharing info, and cyberspace does not recognise geographic boundaries; if the defenders dont do the same, it puts us at a disadvantage.

We need to stop thinking about outdated concepts such as countries and start working together as a collective to defend ourselves against those who would do us harm.

#BlueTeamsUnite

Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS

HITL

got to have a meatbag in the loop to blame if it all goes wrong, couldn't possibly be the rogue code...

ShinyHunters demands $1.5M not to leak Vegas casino and resort chain data

Re: Risky

To be fair, the parent org of Shiny hunters, aka "the Com," is a bit scary too; they might give the modern mob a run for their money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Com

Texas sues TP-Link over China links and security vulnerabilities

Apple must be next

Assembled in the USA is not fooling anyone

Attacker gets into France's database listing all bank accounts, makes off with 1.2 million records

Re: Is it just me...

It failed in 1990 when they made it wibbley. Until then, most of its users were academics and techies, so they could be pretty much trusted.

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

Re: NHS isn't just Socialist

How many Americans go bankrupt due to medical bills, or refuse an ambulance on cost grounds....

Re: Contempt

The problem is that GP records used to exist in two companies' systems, both UK-based and owned.

EMIS's self-titled system EMIS Web and TPP's SystmOne.

EMIS was bought out by UnitedHealth's subsidiary Optum in 2022, and re-branded in 2025

TPP still is.

Both are bad as each other, but they have a duopoly...

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

Re: Envy of the World!

And still, the NHS costs us less per head than the broken American system costs them, and the government still owns and runs all the facilities

Re: No 'Medical Centers' in the UK!

In the UK, the term "medical centre" is the term used by mega-practices, where they put multiple GP practices under one roof, as they can't afford to pay the rent NHS property services were charging them for their old building.

e.g. Bewike Medical Centre https://www.bewickemedicalcentre.nhs.uk/

Burleigh Medical Centre https://www.burleighmedicalcentre.co.uk/

Many more examples exist. But El Reg have the spell check set for American English these days, hence the Center/Centre confusion

OpenAI grabs OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger to build personal agents

Re: Surprised that they're coy about how much money changed hands

Other peoples money, paying to run on other peoples tin, trained on other peoples information, ro waste other peoples time.

What exactly they selling?

StopICE hacked to send alarming text messages, admins accuse border patrol agent of sabotage

Unlikely to get a response from CPB (Consumer Protection Board or Committee to Protect Bloggers), I hope they asked CBP (Customs and Border Protection) for comment

I think you will find the states currently protesting ICE are the only ones ICE has been sent to, and you will find that they are majority blue states that the Cheeto in chief has some beef with. They also have considerably fewer undocumented immigrants as a proportion of the population than places like Texas, which are true red and not having beef with the guy with narcissistic personality disorder and circulatory issues, which may have started to verge into vascular dementia.

Child safety or age-gating for all? UK social media ban plan draws fire

Re: Different approaches required

I think GenZ are beyond repair, but starting with the alpha dogs, and the Beta Babes, you can fix things.

Re: Chicken Little would be proud of the Open Rights Group (ORG)

This is the key: stop expanding the state to do the job that parents are supposed to do.

Mental health, choosing the right foods, limiting screen time, and behaviour conditioning are things that parents can do.

If you start from birth and stick to your guns, don't threaten anything you are not prepared to carry out, and put up with short-term pain (tantrums, etc), you will reduce the pain at a later stage.

If you talk to your kids, and engage them, outside of their devices, you will be able to notice changes and take remedial action.

Family dinner helps an lot, just taking the time for everyone to come together, shoot the breeze and enjoy good food together, we can improve mood, connection and empathy.

follow the simple rules and you will bring up better-behaved, better-adjusted adults.

Ransomware attacks kept climbing in 2025 as gangs refused to stay dead

Re: Solution is to make it illegal to pay ransomeware

Crypto is more traceable than Cash; you can watch it in public on the blockchain. All the authorities need to do is wait for someone to try cash it out

Re: Solution is to make it illegal to pay ransomeware

doesn't need any new legislation,

Whosoever shall aid, abet, counsel, or procure the commission of any indictable offence, whether the same be an offence at common law or by virtue of any Act passed or to be passed, shall be liable to be tried, indicted, and punished as a principal offender.

Paying a ransom aids the commission of ransomware-related crimes; it just needs a prosecutor to take it on and establish the case law.

Meta admits to Instagram password reset mess, denies data leak

Re: A bit off topic but...

Apparently, my organisation, which had a store in Milan, Italy, which got geo-located to Glenrothes in Scotland.

and another organisation based in North East England, geo-located to Hungary

Yes, criminals are using AI to vibe-code malware

Re: readme.txtt

Gone are the days they were called read.me

Catchier or more real than Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division"?

Cloudflare pours cold water on ‘BGP weirdness preceded US attack on Venezuela’ theory

Apply Occam's and Hanlon's razors to the situation, and someone done F*$k3d up a BGP update, and cyber command was a little sneakier or not actually involved...

AMD threatens to go medieval on Nvidia with Epyc and Instinct: What we know so far

Re: Will nobody think about me?

The RAM Cycle will kick back in, and all those fabs doing other things will switch back to RAM and flood the market, driving prices back down, before they become unaffordable, they switch to other things, prices go up, and they then switch back to make hay with the new prices

Stalkerware slinger pleads guilty for selling snooper software to suspicious spouses

Windows Recall

so doing this to spouses is not good,

but doing it to everyone is fine

UK injects just £210M into cyber plan to stop Whitehall getting pwnd

Correct me if i am wrong

“The Government Cyber Unit is operating within a sprawling patchwork of national and international suppliers, contractors and legacy systems holding up every digital service. You can't secure a leaky bucket by pouring in more money if you haven't mapped and patched every crack first.”

Surely you don't need to patch the cracks, as long as you know where they are.

Your smart TV is watching you and nobody's stopping it

Re: My next TV will be a big monitor

Cough... Channel 4 ... Cough

Publicly owned broadcaster, privately funded

PRC replaced ROC, and all the permanent members have a veto

The one thing that would fix the UN is to remove that veto.

It's why the UN can't do anything about Ukraine, Venezuela, or multiple other issues where one or more of the permanent members have an interest

Re: to paraphrase...

Mr Churchill...

Re: "all this is old news"

Do I need to get the image of the ransomwared coffee machine out again?

Re: "all this is old news"

Even if you decline, it works, but it will randomly ask you again if you consent.

Venezuela loses president, but gains empty Starlink internet offer

Re: Show me on the doll where Elon touched you

I think the point is that He is not offering anything to anyone and making a big deal of it.

As Starlink T&Cs forbid using the service in Venezuela, as it's not an active country.

So nothing is being given to anyone

Zoomers are officially worse at passwords than 80-year-olds

The email and password on my Register account have already been compromised and are included in every combination list and collection in circulation.

Microsoft sharpens the blocking axe for Exchange Web Services

Re: The article is not clear on one point

That is also being depreciated:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/end-of-support-for-exchange-server-2016-and-exchange-server-2019-t-12-months/4268516