Posts by deevee

New Intel boss is all about ‘de-laborating’ the x86 giant – aka job cuts

Certainly the manufacturing and a lot of the logistics can be automated.

Sounds like there is a huge amount of "middle management" in the company, and all their support staff, which actually do nothing for the business.

California sues President Tariff

but, Trump and the government are winners, all that extra money they get from the American public!

IBM Consulting workers told management wants to 'more closely align pay, performance'

So now IBM is deeming the bottom 15% as "low performers", instead of the traditional 10%..

Most of these will no doubt be over 60yo, and probably actually the only "high performers" left in the company...

These are the ones who will be on the next RA list, no point giving them a bonus, they've been given a head up they will soon be leaving, involuntarily.

Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe, activated by a magic packet

Don't worry, its just the usual NSA/FBI/CIA backdoor required on ALL equipment Made In America.

What could possibly go wrong?

Meanwhile all the nice secure Huawei gear, without the backdoors, is banned from the USA.

Donald Trump proposes US govt acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service

What a joke, the Chinese government owns ZERO percent of TikTok (which is a Singaporean company), but the US 50%?!

I think we can all see what sort of propaganda the platform would become if that happened..

Seems Trump thinks this will satisfy the "divestiture" requirement.

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS6qnGFDE/

FBI wipes Chinese PlugX malware from thousands of Windows PCs in America

I'd love to see the US government's proof, that these hackers are backed by the Chinese government...

Just sounds like the usual propaganda they spread in the media every day, to cover up their own spying by the FBI/CIA and NSA.

Australia lays fiendish tax trap for Meta – with an expensive escape hatch

Hopefully they will just be able to stop displaying news from these "so called" news outlets, who do nothing but print and spread FUD, lies, rumours and misinformation.

No one could care less if they never saw and Australian "news" from these companies in their feeds.

Just more corrupt politicians doing the bidding of their media masters.

Blocking Chinese spies from intercepting calls? There ought to be a law

What a joke, how about some laws stopping the NSA/FBI and CIA using ECHELON (and CALEA etc) to spy on phone calls from EVERYONE!

The USA enforce spying abilities, buy making everyone buy US network equipment that is DESIGNED to allow spying. Its why they won't allow Chinese network gear, because no one could spy if all the network gear was Chinese.

The USA has spying equipment/facilities and staff in pretty much every western country in the world, to enable this.

Kyndryl's consulting business may be less than it seems

Too much competition in the consulting arena for Kyndryl to be able to make any inroads...

They should stick to services, like they were spun out to do.

Australia passes law to keep under-16s off social media – good luck with that, mate

typical Australian government, it thinks its job is to pass meaningless laws, that make Australians lives more miserable.

Will passkeys ever replace passwords? Can they?

Just leave passwords alone.

We don't need 2FA or passkeys or pass-phrases or YUBI keys, or 25 character complex passwords etc...

1234 as a password is all we need!

If we need a complex password PASSW0RD is fine too!

Samsung phone users under attack, Google warns

Thanks for the links, so basically its these older and cheaper Exynos models that are affected. I don't know why the Reg couldn't have made that clear in the article.

S10

S20

Z Flip

Note 10

Note 20

M62

F62

A71

A51

x30

vivo s6

M13

M12

A21

A13

A04

A12

XCover 5

F12

F13

Is it all too hard for the authors to provide a list of phones, so people know if they are affected or not?

Pretty much no one knows what Exynos CPU is in their phones. They'd be lucky to even know it had an Exynos CPU, let alone the model number.

Virginia's datacenters guzzle water like there's no tomorrow, says FOI-based report

not to mention electricity, something like 5% of generation is used by datacentres.

No, really, please ban Chinese DJI drones from America's skies, senators are urged

Wasn't it DJI drones that helped Ukraine bomb Russia?

Ten years ago Microsoft bought Nokia's phone unit – then killed it as a tax write-off

Windows mobile failed because it was nobbled, and worse they tried to nobble the Windows desktop operating system, so it would be the same on a phone and on a desktop.

Sinofksy has a lot to answer for, he almost killed Microsoft.

That set them back the best part of a decade, with Windows 11 now "ALMOST" as good as Windows 7, and "ALMOST" with a proper start menu back.

Elon Musk's latest brainfart is to turn Tesla cars into AWS on wheels

ther than the fact that Tesla doesn't OWN these cars, so they can't use them for SETI or bitcoin mining or twitter bots or whatever else Elon thinks he can do with them...

Some smart meters won't be smart at all once 2/3G networks mothballed

Re: So, smart meter joy is continuing

Yeah, they help you to save money, by stinging you with punitive Time Of Use pricing, so you will stop using electricity, when you would otherwise need it and be using it, for fear of high bills!

US lawmakers rage over Intel Meteor Lake-powered Huawei PC

Morons the lot of them.

It'll just be ban, ban, ban, until Intel almost goes bankrupt, then it'll be export to China, Export to China, Export to China, but by then it'll be too late because China will have its own CPU's that are far superior to anything Intel or America has, which China will be banning from export to the USA.

China orders its telcos to rip and replace US chips with homegrown silicon by 2027

The USA only demands "free and open trade" when they benefit from it.

Using Chinese tech also means the FBI/NSA and CIA can't spy on everyone with all the backdoors built into American tech.

Singtel loses $260 million tax case in Australia

Good to see these dodgy companies, trying to avoid tax, getting bought to account.

Especially a stingy company like Optus/Singtel

Huawei finally gives up on US schmoozing efforts

Re: "it may have given up"

Good for Huawei, as they continue to develop better tech than the Americans, it won't be so easy for the Americans to steal it, if they aren't in the country.

Re: Different in non United States Of Murica

The UK got bullied by the USA, after they bullied Australia to get rid of the superior and cheaper and more secure Huawei gear, so that the US spy agencies could use all the American sanctioned gear that allowed the USA to spy on everyone.

Shame the other Anglo countries didn't stand up for themselves and tell the USA where togo.

US reportedly pushed ASML to cancel chipmaking kit for China early

ASML should tell the USA they aren't bound to follow US laws, and to stop telling them what to do, and how to operate their business.

Microsoft nixed Mixed Reality: This Windows VR didn't even make it to the ER

Will Zuckerberg give up on his pet VR money pit project now?

Like Elon and Twitter, these guys just don't get it...

Worse still they are betting the company on their delusional ideas...

'Return to Office' declared dead

Re: Stick

Governments can't legislate the pay rate of a job in India, which is where all these jobs locals think they can do from home, are actually going to end up.

Re: There it is

And many large Real Estate companies think the answer to the over-supply of real estate, it to tart existing properties up, and flog it as "premium" office space.

yeah sure, as soon as the laggards get the poor performance reviews, and no bonuses, or even sacked, the 'No Return to Office' movement will be long dead.

Infosys co-founder calls for youth to work 70-hour weeks

so he will be doubling their pay, if they double their hours, right?

UK to crack down on imported Chinese optical fiber cables

Sounds like some UK fibre company has paid off a government official "protection money"...

America extends China chip export bans and acts to cut off backdoor exports

The USA gets more desperate every day, as its glory days slip away faster and faster...

Tell me Huawei: Chinese giant wants to know what made EU label it high security risk

High Risk, because it doesn't have the backdoors the US gear does to allow spy agencies to spy on users worldwide....

EU threatens X with DSA penalties over spread of Israel-Hamas disinformation

Re: If X is blocked in the EU

is anyone really using "X" these days anyway?

Its become all too hard to be useful...

US allows Samsung and SK hynix to keep making chips in China

China should pull the plug, and let the US suffer with a drought of smartphones.

No Samsung, No Apple, but offer to sell them Huawei phones at retail + 500%.

China suggests America 'carefully consider' those chip investment bans

The USA is only hurting themselves with this trade war against China.

China has proven resilient, and not dependent on American technology, but is now on the receiving end of no more money, no more rare earth minerals and no more cheap finished products.

BRICS will end the USA, and send them into a long and deep recession, from which they won't recover, but will emerge from as a new 3rd world country.

Former IBM services outfit Kyndryl said to be mulling China split

So its true than, every time IBM ever said "we do not comment on rumors or speculation" it was always true.

How about some Honesty, just admit you are going to do it, BEFORE your employees tell the media that Kyndryl has screwed them over (yet again)!

We'll show you our patents if you show us yours, say Huawei and Ericsson

Re: Telecoms is too important…

Says the USA who are still using decades old telco standards and gear in a pathetic attempt to continue spying on everyone.

too late

The USA will have far more to worry about that EU countries using Chinese patents, in the not too distant future.

They are already imploding in on themselves, and once Saudi Arabia & the UAE drop the petrodollar as the currency for buying their oil and gas, its game over for the new 3rd world country - USA.

IBM gives z/OS an AI infusion in major upgrade aimed in part at easing admin chores

Re: Hate

IBM has an 18 month hype cycle, where their sales droids get some new buzz words to sell to the largely IT Illiterate CxO suite.

Whether its Blade Servers, or "Virtual Machines" or CAMSS or "Hybrid computing" or SoftLayer or Watson or "the Cloud" or Blockchain or redhat or AI or another mainframe, there's always something new for the suckers to spend a lot of money on...

oh goodie, another dinosaur for large corporates with too much money to upgrade to, and pay their IBM loyalty tax..

No doubt IBM also announced support ending for some earlier models as well, to kick the laggards into submission.

Now NetApp sued by its own veep over claims of broken sales commission promises

Did Netapp hire a bunch of ex-IBM managers?

That's the sort of stunt IBM pull all the time!

US Cyber Command boss says China's spooky cyber skills still behind

I guess the USA thinks with its spy bases all over the planet, and its spy satellites and submarines. and its backdoors in "American sanctioned" communications & mobile phone equipment, and its echelon system spying on everyones phone calls it has the edge on China...

bwahahahahahahaha...

if only they had a clue....

Two US Navy sailors charged with giving Chinese spies secret military info

the US are such hypocrites

I wonder if they are going to charge themselves with spying on China, or recruiting Chinese sailors/citizens to give them Chinese intelligence...

Will they remove all their spy bases around the world, and disassemble ECHELON and all similar spying mechanisms?

How about disbanding the NSA/FBI and CIA spying organisations??

FBI boss: Congress must renew Section 702 spy powers – that's how we get nearly all our cyber intel

WAAAYYY over used... and lacks accountability or oversight. The FBI/NSA/CIA are some of the worst "criminals" themselves....

Maybe a watered down version that allows interceptions of criminals or terrorists, but not a blanket "foreigners" clause, that also gets used to spy on Americans and other 5-eyes countries where most of these intercepts overseas actually occur.

THE USA is the absolute worst invaders of peoples civil & personal rights.

Amazon confirms it locked Microsoft engineer out of his Echo gear over false claim

America and its "cancel culture" at its best.

Whatever the "racist comments" might have been interpreted to be, in most of the rest of the world they wouldn't even be considered racist.

Florida man insists he didn't violate the law by keeping Top Secret docs

Can he just be locked up and put out of harms way somewhere, Gitmo sounds good to me, not far from his beloved Mar-a-Lago, and it'll keep him (and us) safe from his looney followers.

Taiwan asks US if it could chill out on the anti-China rhetoric

The USA are just warmongers, always have been, always will be.

They are really worried that China is about to overtake them in every field, (in fact they probably HAVE overtaken them) including electronics and military, and are just beating their chests like a big baboon... Trying to get the rest of the world to boycott them in a vain effort to remain relevant longer...

Seagate hit with $300m penalty for selling sanctioned storage to Huawei

ridiculous, does the USA really think no one else manufactures disk drives?

TikTok cannot be considered a private company, says Australian report

Australia is the USA's lapdog, and so often now is yapping at China, to appease their USA masters.

pathetic and obvious really.