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Tata Consultancy enforces return-to-office mandate for all US staff, effective immediately

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I'm sure the C-suite will be in the office

...every day, setting the example.

Microsoft SharePoint victim count hits 400+ orgs in ongoing attacks

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FAIL

Re: "... and Microsoft have blamed Chinese cyberspies and data thieves for the digital intrusions"

Yes, but, but...AI....

OpenAI sweet-talks Oracle into another 4.5GW worth of Stargate datacenters, assuming the check clears

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And of course....

....Softbanks money depends on OpenAI becoming an non-profit AND themselves getting the money together of other backers

It's just one big circle jerk atop a house of cards, only held up by lying snake oil peddlers.

Struggling to sell EVs, Tesla pivots to slinging burgers

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Re: "retro-futuristic"

Retro-futurism is a term that's been around for a long time, but yes your pretty much spot on with Jetsons.

Think how 1950s white USA thought the future would be, I.e. Muskrats wet dream material.

UK government swoons over OpenAI in legally meaningless love-in

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Sick of this shit...

...OK you gullible prick.

How?

Exactly how?

No fucking "Well, it in the future, will do something that will help some"

Put it in writing EXACTLY HOW, with details, it will do what you say it will do. I want figures, I want examples, I want proof.

If you can't do that, I have a nice exhaust pipe you can give head to.

I'm sick of this shit and people should stop being so fucking naive about the magic AI pixie dust.

It does not exist.

UK to ban ransomware payments by public sector organizations

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"If the option is to recover quickly by paying, versus not being able to recover because you're banned from doing so, the temptation may be to pay and simply not report it."

Then make failing to report it a criminal offence resulting in gaol time and being barred working as a Director for life.

Nothing like personal punishment to focus the mindset.

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Re: A better option for the gov

Or a certain government currently levelling entire regions, displacing millions and committing war crimes to "get the bad guys".

Nvidia extends CUDA support to RISC-V just in time for next wave of Chinese CPUs

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Go

Best description of Nvidia yet

"The AI arms dealer...."

Congratulations to the writer.

Composer for worst Tomb Raider games jailed over COVID-19 loan fraud

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First thing

Intention.

Fraudster intentionally committed fraud. The driver didn't intentionally kill her.

Financial.

Unless you've lived under a rock, if you rob a bank, you'll get a bigger sentence than if you rob an individual.

Appeal.

There is a possibility the fraudster could appeal and get it reduced. It's unlikely to get increased. There is a possibility the driver could get reviewed and increased as unduly lenient.

Is it fair? No.

Have you complained to your MP?

Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we’re already our own surveillance state

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This article covers some of the issues...

...but 404 media's hits a lot harder and goes more into depth about the issues around the tech.

https://www.404media.co/the-astronomer-ceos-coldplay-concert-fiasco-is-emblematic-of-our-social-media-surveillance-dystopia/

TSMC aims to make 30% of high-end chips in US with Arizona fab build out

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Have they replaced....

all the Taiwanese workers with US ones yet?

Intel swings the axe again as it looks to lose 5,000 staff

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There is a market wide open....

...and that's "budget" GPU's.

The B series are getting pretty good reviews, yet they seem to be umming and arring if they are going upmarket or staying as is, or even if they are committed

The market is gagging for GPU's that dont cost £500 up and need coolers and PSU's that required more power than a house Aircon unit.

Many, many people are desperate for a "Good Enough" card.

FCC dives in to sink Chinese grip on undersea internet cables

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Nice try.

Any country is free to buy and sell oil in any currency.

Feel free to look up the ones that decided they no longer wanted the PetroDollar.

Look how Brazil is being bullied by the USA .

Look what happens when private contractors murder people in other countries

Laws mean jack shit when you have the largest military in the world.

Quantum code breaking? You'd get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog

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Joke

Quantum computing and Fusion is twenty years away...

...said Professor Bob in 1953, Dr Dave in 1973, Dr Susan in 1993, Professor Gurjit in 2003.....

Open, free, and completely ignored: The strange afterlife of Symbian

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Re: The Burning Platform

Interestingly, look into the story of Ratner....it's not what it seems.

It was a supposed to be closed audience where he, a complete underdog, was ripping apart the established jewelers, who were a snobbish clique.

He was saying people know our products are cheap plated crap, but I'm still completely destroying the patronising elite.

A journalist quoted it out of context and of course the elite love to knock a commoner back into his place

Ukrainian hackers claim to have destroyed major Russian drone maker's entire network

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Re: 10TB of backup files

Ooopps looks like I've pissed off some war, I mean, special operations, supporters.

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Re: 10TB of backup files

This is one instance where I hope not

Tftfy

Google plugs AI into nuclear reactor biz – what could possibly go wrong?

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I just tried it...

Should we build a wall to prevent the risk of tidal flooding in the event of an offshore earthquake?

AI: I've looked at the data and there has only been one instance of this. This has only occurred once since history began, so the risk is almost zero.However as a precaution I've checked my records and found dry stone walls to be an effective defence against all sorts animals, including sharks that may be in any tidal search. For defence against meteor strikes, I suggest putting umbrellas up around the wall.

VMware reboots its partner program again – and it looks like smaller players are out

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Pineapple is a little extreme.

Peeled Ginger is fine.

Ex-OpenAI engineer pulls the curtain back on a chaotic hot mess

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Re: Actually looks like a great place to work at

Because it's a clusterfuck of a money pit, led by a fucking moron who's only skillset is getting other brain dead morons to burn cash at a stupid rate.

The tech industry is just run by MBA's who just lick other MBA's arseholes rather than making a business that makes products people enjoy.

Retailer Co-op: Attackers snatched all 6.5M member records

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"Any trial will be a long way off, the jails are full because the Tories wouldn't build any more"

Yes let's build more very expensive gaols, to hold people costing thousands of Pounds per week, rather than, you know, reforming out dated laws and punishments and using a system that actually works

But the Dail Wail wouldn't like that.

Cloudflare fesses up to config change that borked internet access for all

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@ElReg

"Every business using Cloudflare had no internet for the length of the outage. NO DNS = NO INTERNET."

This is the 1.1.1.1 service, any one using say Google's DNS would see a non-issue.

As a the reg is a Cloudflare user, did your site go down? No.

If a business does not have a secondary DNS set up then they really should be looking at their IT team and going WTF?

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Re: They are one of my forwarders...

@tfewster

You mean put a secondary DNS entry in? It's not hard. If you don't know how to that, go use Mumsnet or something.

German team warns ChatGPT is changing how you talk

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Yay. Comrade Beast never lets us down

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Are you OK beast? You seem to have mixed up AI with your usual EU.

Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI get $800M to hop in bed with Pentagon

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Sooo...

...more government subsidies?

I think Europe should start banning all the companies involved due to their ties with the military linked to a corrupt authoritarian regime.

Caught between China and Trump, Apple spends $500M on rare earth recycling

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But how much...

Will come from Apple devices? Given how bloody awful they are to recycle.

UK's NCA disputes claim it's nearly three times less efficient than the FBI

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Yes it does, they just don't make reality shows about it.

Telefónica Germany offloads VMware support to Spinnaker due to high renewal costs

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Re: Why no one in EU discuss developing local IT eco-system?

They are.

Plenty of discussions on The Reg about it

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Re: Spinnaker *not* a recplament for VMware?

At watty wat.

Just a loving reminder, anything after and including the question mark in a URL can be deleted.

https://www.spinnakersupport.com/vmware

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Re: Spinnaker *not* a recplament for VMware?

"i don't understand the hate you got for asking the question."

Three down votes is hate?

You must be new here.

The standard was always one, but three is the new norm now.

ICANN fumes as AFRINIC offers no explanation for annulled election

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Cloud Innovation.

....who are these?

Their website looks like a little sus.

They just seems to complain about AFRINIC, are "partnered" with a company in Hong Kong and, well, that's it.

Seems like a dodgy front company to me

https://cloudinnovation.org/

Pentagon snaps up ownership stake in America's only rare earths mine

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Sounds a bit...

....like communism and government subsidiaries to me.

/s

IBM moves scientists out of Almaden Research Center

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Re: Seems unlikely

The linked article is from 2016, but it's very badly written.

The infographic is very misleading implies they were celebrating 30 years of these inventions.

But the text states they were created by IBM labs who moved to the "new" site.

It's a mess of a press release.

Trump tariffs turn techies topsy-turvy as US braces for PC tax

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It's not just tariffs...

...people keep overlooking the Dollar is also tanking.

And with even bigger debt, it's going to go lower...

And if he continues to piss Japan and China off, then life in the US is going to get even more expensive.

Please don't cut funds for space traffic control, industry begs Congress

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Re: I'm confused

He's just going to build a big beautiful space dome and have the Martians pay for it.

Thousands of NASA senior staffers expected to quit after budget slashed

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Go on. I love hearing someone seeing facts try to argue against them.

I forgot, you're a Trump supporter. Facts are meaningless.

Microsoft says regulations and environmental issues are cramping its Euro expansion

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Oh dear, what a shame...

...stupid Europe putting people over US profits.

This is just PR fluff to get the Orange Asshole to threaten the EU.

Hint look at what the Great Orange Dictator is threatening Brazil with

Outlook takes another sick day

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It's obvious...

They were pushing AI slop into your Outlook.

They think they just need to push even more AI crap AND spyware into Outlook and that should fix it.

How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up

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He pulled someone else's key. Not his own

Perplexity rips another page from the Google playbook with its own browser, Comet

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Nope.

That is all.

US sanctions alleged North Korean IT sweatshop leader

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Re: I don't suppose he was actually an IT worker?

"That's the problem with being a 'sharp end' IT worker like a programmer. "

Odd, I always thought the helpdesk / techies were the sharp end. Programmers tend not to get hundreds of people phoning them at all hours up because the latest "update" has fucked everything up.

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WTF?

Oh no...

...he won't be allowed to use things he has no access to.

Google Cloud lands gig to make 100,000 UK civil servants tech-literate

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Having worked with Google ..

...trying to help the Charity sector, they were fucking useless. When one of their OWN products was having meltdown. No one could work out how to fix it.

Using existing business account.

Switched to Charity account as detailed in their own instructions.

Cannot set up as charity account as already set up as business account.

Try to create brand charity new account.

That business has already been registered. Please switch to charity account to continue. See above

Think it was in the region of 20 "support" staff and multiple teams.

Eventually they wiped absolutely everything and started again.

Guess what....it was still fucked.

In the end they just applied the charity billing to the business account.

UK police dangle £75 million to digitize its VHS tape archives

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I've got access to a bunch...

Of old VCR's.

Maybe I should put a bid in?

Got Betamax and V2000 as well if they need that.

As for CD's. Have fun.

Just unboxed a load of my CDRs from early 2000's.

50% won't play, you can actually see the "dye" has sort of run and discoloured.

Epic Games settles its antitrust side quest that sought battle royale with Samsung

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If it was anyone other than Epic....

...I might raise a cheer. But as usual, it's a "Can they both lose?" request.

Massive browser hijacking campaign infects 2.3M Chrome, Edge users

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Re: They started clean

I'm with you on this one.

You wouldn't wait years to update a program with malware. It's not just buyouts, but also abandoned software, with poor configuration and repositories.

Nuclear reactors smaller than a semi truck to be tested in Idaho

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Re: That's an awesome hybrid lorry

Climate change is a lie.

The USA will use two stoke engines to cool the reactor. What? You didn't know the mass deportations are so they can get their hands on free leaf blowers?

Army and Navy have both asked for right to repair, now Senators want to give it to them

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Sooooo...

By extension the US government will have absolutely no issues with other countries demanding the same.....

Lol ... Just kidding, it ain't gonna happen.

One Big Brutal Bill: Ex-NASA brass decry Trump's proposed budget cuts

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I do wonder....

...how many of these top dogs in charge of the various agencies voted for Trump?

Then again, it won't be them losing their homes (and healthcare).