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Nvidia upgrades tiny Jetson Orin Nano dev kits for the holidays

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Re: specs

'When I click on "Purchase Now" ... I get "This site can’t be reached"'

It's probably an AI hallucination.

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British boffins build diamond battery capable of working for a millennium or five

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Re: Battery?

In the good old days there were plutonium powered pacemakers...

https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/miscellaneous/pacemaker.html

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NHS would be hit by 'significant' costs if UK loses EU data status, warn Lords

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Because brexiters handed Palantir an easy way in.

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Re: Surely this cannot be true

Because it wasn't true.

It just another brexiter lie.

Brexiters lie more than Trump, and he lies bigly.

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Jupiter's Great Red Spot wobbles like Jell-o, according to Hubble snaps

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Re: It's been picking up broadcasts of Trumpjibberjabber

It'll be renamed the Bigly Red Spot.

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It's been picking up broadcasts of Trumpjibberjabber

Shaking with laughter.

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Fore-get about privacy, golf tech biz leaves 32M data records on the fairway

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Joke

Golfers?

Fuck 'em.

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Red team hacker on how she 'breaks into buildings and pretends to be the bad guy'

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Re: "We had found the credentials for their corporate Wi-Fi network in the trash [...]" Seriously?

The point is that this was clearly an amateur/incompetent target - that's assuming they didn't just make it up.

Bragging about it is like a mugger boasting about how hard they are for beating up a toddler.

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"We had found the credentials for their corporate Wi-Fi network in the trash [...]" Seriously?

'Corporate WiFi' secured by static credentials and no NAC? Was it the local cafe?

Bragging about 'hacking' such a soft target seems embarrassing.

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Cybercrooks strut away with haute couture Harvey Nichols data

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The HN emails have a link to a URL with a long numeric string, hiding a PDF

HN: we've been hacked, here's an obscured URL, you'll have to click to find out what it leads to, oh, soz, it's a document type that could itself be used as an attack."

The URL numeric part seems to vary by recipient, i.e. it's a tracker. Presumably they've repurposed a targeted advertising emailer to distribute the link to the PDF, rather than put details in simple text on a webpage on the HN site.

+10 points for admitting it.

-5 points for the way it was done.

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Japan to put a small red Swedish house on the Moon

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If Lester were still with us, El Reg would already have a whole Playmonaut village on the Moon

In his memory.

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How $20 and a lapsed domain allowed security pros to undermine internet integrity

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Use of the full name results in delivery of lightning packets using rfc3251

<body>

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Data watchdog fines Clearview AI $33M for 'illegal' data collection

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Simple, arrest any exec/board member that sets foot in the EU

Time to stop screwing around while social media, AI etc. deny responsibility for the consequences of their (in)actions.

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Elon Musk’s Starlink won't block Elon Musk’s X in Brazil, as required by court order

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He's also developed Trump face

Just another spoiled brat.

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Sam Altman sues builder over $27M flooded, sewage-hit 'lemon' of a mega-mansion

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Joyous

(body text)

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Tesla delays 'Robotaxi' event as Musk 'makes' design 'tweaks'

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"...important design change to the front..."

huge squishy buffer to help reduce injuries to the innocent victims it drives into?

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Asda IT staff shuffled off to TCS amid messy tech divorce from Walmart

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Re: Query

my experience is it's common in outsourcing/contract takeover for the tupe'd to be riffed by the new supplier

helps maintain continuity until the transition is complete, and the new supplier is on the hook for the cost

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Investment analyst accuses Palantir of AI washing

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You get an ology, you're a scientist

(some words)

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The chip that changed my world – and yours

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Pint

I'll raise a glass to the Z80

I bought a Nascom 1 with one of my first pay checks, what I learned kicked off decades of, mostly, great fun doing what I wanted and getting paid for it.

Beer icon only because there isn't a champagne one.

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Boffins deem Google DeepMind's material discoveries rather shallow

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Perhaps they should create an AI to sift through their AI-generated spam compounds

Then perhaps a third AI to train the first AI on the second AI, repeat until the answer is 42 or the energy runs out.

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What strange beauty is this? Microsoft commits to two more non-subscription Office editions

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Re: First hit is always free-ish.

Trouble with LibreOffice is that there's not reliable document compatibility with MS apps.

If you need to exchange documents (read-write) with others using MS, things can get very bad, very fast.

I'd hoped to use it recently instead of coughing up for a subscription, unfortunately the problems (just a simple Powerpoint file) were so bad I had to give MS more of my money.

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UK and US lack regulation to protect space tourists from cosmic ray dangers

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Evolution in action

(body)

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Musk 'texts' Nadella about Windows 11's demands for a Microsoft account

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If he thinks that's bad he should try MacOS

(body)

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Apple makes it official: No Home Screen web apps in European Union

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Re: Yes, you really are the product

Yep, Mac OSes have gone steadily downhill since Snow Leopard, poorer reliability, endless bloatware that can't be deleted/disabled, unwanted/unavoidable 'features', and relentless attempts to lock users into Apple's system.

I never saw the attraction of the iPhone/iPad, so fortunately dodged the bullet there.

Probably going to be a Linux laptop next time, 25+ years of Macs.

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European Court of Human Rights declares backdoored encryption is illegal

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Cue Daily Heil headline "Euro Court Won't Protect Our Children"

The post is required, and must contain letters.

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CERN seeks €20B to build a bigger, faster, particle accelerator

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Happy

He's just a chemist with physics envy.

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What Microsoft's latest email breach says about this IT security heavyweight

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Why give the scumbags these code names?

"...Midnight Blizzard, used to track as Nobelium, and most call Cozy Bear..."

Scumbags-1, scumbags-2, etc. would surely be more appropriate.

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NASA makes purrrr-fect deep space transmission of cat vid

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Cats in Spaaaaaaaaaace!

Meow

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Zuckerberg hunkers down in Hawaii to wait out apocalypse

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The idea of Zuck, Thiel, et al. hiding out in their bunkers...

...with their rentacops, calls to mind Mick Farren's most excellent novel CORP*S*E, which I shall now read again.

It won't end well for them.

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Here's how fast a spacecraft should fly to successfully detect amino acids erupting from Enceladus

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No faster than coconut-laden swallow

Mandatory words typed here.

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X's legal eagles swoop on Media Matters over antisemitic content row

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Odd, I'm sure Musk said he was for free speech

Clearly he's ok with nazis on X.

But freedom doesn't extend to those pointing out the hate spewed on X.

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OpenAI staff threaten to leave if ousted CEO Altman is not reinstated

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Re: For now, just speculative conjecture, but does anyone know of anything better......

Not being 'candid', could reasonably be interpreted as lying and misleading, i.e. à la Bankman-Fried, which ended badly.

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Tool bag lost in space now tracked by garbage watchers

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Tools in Spaaaaaaaaaace!

​​​​ ​​Because.

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As NASA struggles to open OSIRIS-REx's asteroid sample can, probe heads off to next rock

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Why oh why did they let Apple design the fastenings?

I bet they've got tri-hexa-penta-lobed metric screwdrivers, but the capsule has a mix of hexa-tri-penta-lobed and penta-hexa-tri-lobed screws in special cupertonian sizes, and lots of glue.

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New information physics theory is evidence 'we're living in a simulation,' says author

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Headmaster

It only needs enough power to simulate one human brain, me.

The rest is just a figment of my simulated imagination.

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What happens when What3Words gets lost in translation?

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Re: Mountain rescue

Yes there are, Humphreys Peak, Mt Graham, etc., certainly dwarf any UK 'mountains'.

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Google 'wiretapped' tax websites with visitor traffic trackers, lawsuit claims

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I do hope ChatGPT et alia learn this.

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4chan and other web sewers scraped up into Google's mega-library for training ML

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Re: Devil’s advocate

"Surely everyone is entitled to be heard, no?"

Absolutely not.

They can have the right to talk.

The right to 'be heard' would mean compelling others to hear them.

They can scream into the void all they like, but I'm not listening.

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New models of IBM Model F keyboard Mark II incoming

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mmm, want

obligatory text

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Psst! Infosec bigwigs: Wanna be head of security at HM Treasury for £50k?

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I'd assume this is part time, £50k for five-days a year, after all, a head of cybersec must be worth at least as much as a useless ex-minister.

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UK spy agency: Don't feed LLMs with sensitive corporate data

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Who in their right mind would provide any data, let alone sensitive data, to an LLM?

Why are those that do it still at large?

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'Brittle' Twitter suffers bad case of the Mondays: Links, pics, vids fail

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"We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences"

I do hope the unnamed scribe survives retribution for this sly reference to EM.

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UK prepares to go it alone on post-Brexit science plan

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Re: Not quite

You missed off that they also took the liar's bribe in return for their support.

No surprise that he shafted them.

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Openreach offers more wholesale fiber discounts, rivals call foul

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Keep him there, it's funnier and he burns more money

(body)

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US Dept of Energy set to reveal fusion breakthrough

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Not even close

As I believe they are basing the >1 gain on the energy delivered to the target. Rather than the total energy needed to actually generate the beams, which is far higher.

Net result, they used far more energy than that produced in the fusion reaction.

Good for fusion research, but it's not going to help with practical fusion power generation.

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First-ever orbital satellite launch from British soil will be delayed

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Plane taking off from British soil will be delayed

Seems more accurate.

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New SI prefixes clear the way for quettabytes of storage

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Now we just need a measure called the 'roundsue'

Perhaps relating to cake circumferences in a certain reference frame.

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iFixit stabs batteries – for science – so you don't have to

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All I want to do now, is shoot a battery with a nail gun

Damn your cunning plan el reg!

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Looking for a holiday DIY project? Build your own pen-plotter, for under $15

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Re: Reminds me of the Penman Plotter

I used to have one of these!

Pretty good for plotting graphs etc., but the drift was too much to make acetates for PCB prototyping.

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Elon Musk reportedly outlines horrible Twitter layoff process

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Re: The blue bird rises like a Phoenix

Do you know of someone on left that should be suspended/cancelled ? Or that should have their tweets removed..

We all know the right wingers that were removed or have their Tweets redacted/removed for spouting lies, hatred and inciting violence/insurrection

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