Posts by Potemkine!

British IT worker sentenced to seven months after trashing company network

he logged his attacks and discussed them on phone calls that were later retrieved by the police

So either he recorded his own phone calls, or the police did it for him anyway.

US shuts down a string of North Korean IT worker scams

The capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them

Once again.

VMware must support crucial Dutch govt agency as it migrates off the platform, judge rules

Re: Issue is US listed companies are extremely egregious, you should avoid them whenever possible

Broadcom shareholders in the US are so greedy

FTFY

Re: Money for nothing...

More realistically, more money for the shareholders, and big big bonuses for the C-Suite

Canada orders Chinese CCTV biz Hikvision to quit the country ASAP

Re: "Canada’s government will stop using any Hikvision products it finds"

It's not supposed to communicate with anything but the computer of the security guard that is supposed to check it between coffee and donuts.. How can that be a national security risk ?

Maybe because:

a) it may try to communicate to other things that this computer

b) it has backdoors enabling another actor to watch the video from elsewhere

French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for open source office and collab tools

Re: Le Mayor de Lyon: My advisors tell me there's an alternative to zis Americaine software...

I'm sure Monsieur Doucet is above such things

Probably not, but probably not with MS.

Re: Just be thankful it's not Occitan.

Vai t’en cagar a la vinha e porta me la clau ! :-P

Visiting students can't hide social media accounts from Uncle Sam anymore

Because DHS is soooo credible.

And so was this French lawmaker ?

Wake up, the fascist state is coming in place in the US, a country I will be glad not to visit anymore. I don't travel in autocracies.

Land of the Free

Canada ?

World's largest camera shows galaxy in 3,200 megapixel glory as Rubin telescope goes online

find the elements of dark matter and dark energy that make up our universe.

That may make up our universe. There's no proof yet both exist.

My explanation for the effect of expansion acceleration is that we are in a multiverse and other universes gravity is acting on our universe and makes it expand. No dark energy, just gravity, and the more our universe expands, the closer it is from other universes, the bigger the gravity effect is, the faster is expansion occurring.

For dark matter, it's the interaction of parallel universes interacting with ours.

Tesla Robotaxi videos show Elon's way behind Waymo

Swasticar ? No thanks.

And Swastitaxi neither.

Teens used encrypted chats to recruit for 'violence as a service' murder ring, Europol says

Re: Scandinavia

Ah, the racist scum can't miss an occasion to propagate his hatred even if there are no detail on the information.

And even if those teens were from immigration, it wouldn't mean that every immigrant is a criminal.

Another fact: the first school shooting and the worst mass shooting in Sweden was made by a man of Swedish ascent, targeting immigrants. That's the direct consequence of promoting hatred between people.

SpaceX's Starship explodes again ... while still on the ground

Re: 'Jigsaw Puzzle'

But what have the Romans ever done for us?

European consumers are mostly saying 'non' to trading in their old phones

Re: A good use for old phones

I would fear about privacy with such an app

Eat or be eaten by AI, Amazon CEO warns staff

Re: Pretend

They don't care about a revolution in their fortified private islands. They took precautions.

UK dumps £2.5 billion into fusion pipe dream that's already cost millions

During this time, ITER is progressing, but UK refused to join the effort. Because going alone is the British way ?

Spy school dropout: GCHQ intern jailed for swiping classified data

"highly sensitive matters" stored on a top-secret network.

Making an intern work on this kind of things. How clever.

UK students flock to AI to help them cheat

5.1 for every 1,000 students

So it means 994,6 for every 1,000 students weren't caught.

Teachers will need to adapt, to be able to evaluate students in a way AI is useless.

BT chief says AI could deliver more job cuts, hints at Openreach sell-off

Saw off the branch you are sitting on

Once all the companies will have fired most of their workers, who will have enough money to be their customers ?

Danish department determined to dump Microsoft

Having myself migrated from Office to LibreOffice a few years ago, and migrated all the family and friends for who I'm in charge of maintaining their IT (for free :doh:!), I can say that LibreOffice is a good replacement and does the job. Nobody needs Office at home, and most don't need it in the office either. This Danish minister is making a good choice, and will help her taxpayers to save a lot of money.

I would also thank Mr. Trump aka the Orange Agent aka the Russian Puppet to help us to get rid of the US dominance.

Trump administration's whole-government AI plans leaked on GitHub

Usage example

RFK Jr.’s health report shows how AI slips fake studies into research

Trump guts digital ID rules, claims they help 'illegal aliens' commit fraud

It's amazing to see a country so obsessed with 'illegal aliens' when it is actually made up of descendants of people who stole other people's land by force.

Waymo problems in La La Land as robotaxis set aflame

If our dear leaders were able to listen to protesters without this happening this would be different. However it is only when things become violent and it draws media attention that our dear leaders begin to slightly listen.

A peaceful protest doesn't interest the medias. If there no media show politicians are not interested. If you want to be heard, you have to make a lot of noise. The more disturbance you create, the more politician may take care of the problem. It's sad, but it's a reality.

Irish privacy watchdog OKs Meta to train AI on EU folks' posts

I also doubt about the real independence of DPC regarding to Irish economic interests.

The (very interesting) article you mention talks about DPC suing EDPB. I checked the result, and good news everyone ! DPC lost the case:

The European Data Protection Board's role of maintaining consistent and harmonized EU General Data Protection Regulation enforcement received a boost via the European General Court. On 29 Jan., the court ruled in favor of the EDPB's 2023 binding decision calling on Ireland's Data Protection Commission to carry out separate investigations into certain areas of Meta's data processing rather than bundling several alleged GDPR violations without full consideration of individual allegations

SEC SIM-swapper who Googled 'signs that the FBI is after you' put behind bars

Re: I'm an Author

It would have been "Sword", not "Swordfish", but this word was not in the list anyway.

The words were "Utah", "Omaha", "Overlord", "Neptune" and "Mulberry"

Foxconn chairman predicts AI will end manufacturers' search for cheap labor

Question: what will become of the workers? Most won't be able to adapt to get a higher qualified job, supposing such a job still exists.

Show us your face: New Orleans PD reportedly got secret facial recognition alerts

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes ?

- Who is behind 'Project Nola' ?

- Did NOPD lie ?

- When the police does illegal things, can the citizen worry ?

Good luck to Atos' 7th CEO and its latest biz transformation

Replace the CEO by AI

Because they all tell the same story, because they aren't entrepreneurs but managers and because it will save a lot of money for the company

Uncle Sam claims H-1B fraud crackdown is working as registrations drop 25%

Re: Scam

So they pay as much tax as a local but they are underpaid.

Your first post could let think they didn't pay their fair share of taxes when in fact they are exploited.

It isn't the fault of immigrants to want to make their family live better. Everyone does.

Saudi CubeSat gets golden ticket on doomed SLS rocket

de facto Saudi ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

He's the guy who ordered the assassination and dismemberment of a journalist working for the Washington Post, isn't he ?

Such a nice guy. Money can buy everything it seems.

VPN Secure parent company CEO explains why he had to axe thousands of 'lifetime' deals

A lifetime deal is a deal lasting as long as it is dead :-P

To have more fun, look also at the fate of "perpetual licenses".

Microsoft boots 3% of staff in latest cull, middle managers first in line

Or "screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones, that kind of thing is going to come to America."

GAO finds billions in possible government savings, all without Elon's help

Expect US Comptroller General Gene Dodaro to be fired soon. Neither the Dear Leader nor his sycophant minions like to be contradicted.

Qatar’s $400M jet for Trump is a gold-plated security nightmare

Re: Hmm

It must be nice for the US to have a President being respected on the world stage again.

Maybe the next one, because the current one is considered as a clown, a threat, a traitor, a crook or an insane arsehole. At best.

Putin Khuylo is different, he considers rightly the Orange Agent as a puppet.

As US vuln-tracking falters, EU enters with its own security bug database

Re: EUVD

VD also means "Victory Day" ^^

UK Ministry of Defence is spending less with US biz, and more with Europeans

AS90 have a firing range half of the ones of modern howitzers anyway, so getting rid of them may be a good idea. The problem is replacing them wasn't anticipated

179 AS90 were ordered, there were 89 left of them before Russia invaded Ukraine. 32 then 18 more were given to Ukraine, and some are used for spare parts (Early last year, it was reported that Ukraine had received a total of 32 AS-90 artillery systems, 20 of which were fully operational. )

There was no info showing the last decommissioned AS90 (39) were given to Ukraine as far as I know.

The 14 howitzers left are Archer indeed. Not being tracked is not an obstacle for usage, as show the CAESARs in Ukraine. It may be an advantage on the contrary, being faster to move, less expensive, more reliable, compared to the performance of PzH 2000 in Ukraine, which don't seem to be great

RCH-155 won't be delivered before 2029 at best. There's a planning problem there, somebody didn't anticipate quite well.

UK needs to invest more in armament. For instance, the British Army has only 14 155mm self-propelled howitzers. This is almost the dotation for one battalion.

EU tells US scientists to dump Trump for a lab in Europe

Re: Europeanuts (InB4 political bashing begins - oops, too late)

The trend was particularly pronounced among early-career researchers. Of the 690 postgraduate researchers who responded, 548 were considering leaving; 255 of 340 PhD students said the same. [...] “This is my home — I really love my country,” says a graduate student at a top US university who works in plant genomics and agriculture. “But a lot of my mentors have been telling me to get out, right now.” |...] One postgraduate researcher in a biomedical field summed up much of the thinking these days: “Don’t want to leave, but what’s the alternative?”

CISA slammed for role in 'censorship industrial complex' as budget faces possible $500M cut

AI bubble

Those AI generated junks get worse and worse...

CISA guted

Putin likes it !

The Agent Orange is the best asset Russia ever had. The US thought it won the Cold War, but it was wrong, it wasn't over, and now Russia runs the US.

Signal chat app clone used by Signalgate's Waltz was apparently an insecure mess

Re: A quote from Forrest Gump comes to mind.

FAO, OACI, OMI, OIT, UIT, BIRD to name a few are all part of the UN. And they are quite useful.

Re: Signal has encrypted backups

I wonder if this isn't a primary qualification to vote for them....

Three Brits charged over 'active shooter threats' swattings in US, Canada

Tyler Bariss made the call and two years later was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

How many years got the actual killer ?

Trump wants to fire quarter of NASA budget into black hole – and not in a good way

Sounds adequate for a motto

"When I hear the word Science, I reach for my gun"

TikTok fined €530M after EU user data ends up on servers in China

I guess TikTok has no entity in Ireland for tax evasion ? Generally DPC isn't that harsh when it is about fining corporations with an Irish subsidiary

HMRC's Making Tax Digital scheme also made tax more expensive – by £300M

The only reason for big corporations being more successful than SMB is they don't pay the same taxes. Big corporations are slow and inefficient, bloated with bureaucracy, but they have the needed 'friends' to get an unfair advantage when it is about paying taxes. Some try to know the laws, others know the ones who make the laws.

Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence

Cloud Act is nothing new. Big european corporations and governments gave a blind eye for way too long. Now that the US joins the Axis of Evil, it's a wake up call, but a little bit late. As long as bean counters will be in charge of strategic choices, lack of vision will persist

Ex-Disney employee gets 3 years in the clink for goofy attacks on mousey menus

A Menu Production Manager having administrator rights on a SFTP server ? There's a problem with segregation of duties in Disney. He should be a user, not an administrator.

Cybersecurity CEO accused of running malware on hospital PC blabs about it on LinkedIn

According to reports, Bowie was seen using both a computer for guests and a staff workstation at the hospital.

Security 101: lock your computer when you go away

Google goes cold on Europe: Stops making smart thermostats for continental conditions

Bloody marketing

Indeed, connected != smart.

It could even be the opposite...