Posts by IGotOut

Hey Siri, use this ultrasound attack to disarm a smart-home system

Re: One C, one R

I don't know. Maybe people record things other than the human voice via the phone?

Uber driver info stolen yet again: This time from law firm

Did they raid a filling cabinet...

...and steal all the fax print offs?

What they have email now? Wow

SHEIN has the look of America's next tech-meets-geopolitics fit-up

Fuck Me!

"keeps its prices low by exploiting a loophole to avoid paying taxes."

Bit rich coming from the land of tax avoidance.

Remind me how much Google and Starbucks and Apple and Microsoft and...and... paid in UK taxes?

British Prime Minister Sunak’s plans for UK NFT on ice

"now let's see if they drop any of their other vanity boondoggles."

You mean like despite all the scientific evidence and drug advice services saying don't, making possession of laughing gas illegal on the grounds it creates litter?

Still , got to keep the Daily Mail happy.

Ammo-maker says TikTok's datacenter site could deprive it of electricity

Re: Send in the celebrities

Yeah have you seen that Ex-boxer. Every time something is going on in Kiev, he has to put his face on TV

/Sarcasmmodeoff

Lebanon's IT folks face double trouble as leaders delayed Daylight Savings Time

Can the whole world...

just scrap DST.

It serves no real purpose in the modern era and at the best, the original concept was on shaky ground.

Hint: Farmers don't give a crap if sunrise / sunset is an hour earlier or later, you work to the daylight and weather

France bans all recreational apps – including TikTok – from government devices

"Meanwhile the US contemplates drastic action"

Conspiracy hat on.

Meta have been oh so desperately try to gain ground lost to TikTok.

Ban TikTok.

Problem solved.

Personally I think it's down to China's lax laws on pornography, after all they allow statues from the middle ages to appear on the app

GitHub publishes RSA SSH host keys by mistake, issues update

Re: "Glitch diverts net traffic through Chinese ISP"

And that 13 year old info is related how?

Are you ready to go all-in, head-first, on a laptop? ASUS's Zenbook Pro 16X asks for that commitment

Eh?

Why would you light up the keys when you are aiming for designers? Overhead lighting can get annoying enough, but lights from below that flicker as you move you hands around, no thanks.

Winnie the Pooh slasher flick mysteriously cancelled in Hong Kong

Or ...

...Disney, one of the most, if not THE most, litigatious companies on the planet threatened to sue the makers into oblivion.

Xi, Putin declare intent to rule the world of AI, infosec

Can we stop saying this crap.

"as appetite to acquire Russian and Chinese tech outside the two nations and their small circle of allies is not vast."

If by small circle of allies you exclude huges swathes of Africa, South America and some segments of Asia, you are spot on

BreachForums shuts down ... but the RaidForums cybercrime universe will likely spawn a trilogy

Yup sounds like a plan...

...let everyone on the mailing list know when the new site is up and running.

I Guess they found the last leader by guesswork and hearsay and in no way being one of those people the old mailing list.

Nvidia hooks TSMC, ASML, Synopsys on GPU accelerated lithography

My guess is ..

...the money isn't in selling the GPU's but the software. Therefore the more GPU's you cover, the easier it is the sell (the very expensive) software and support.

Acer pedals into e-cycle market with AI and big data in its basket

Re: Why?

The point of AI?

They can sell your personal data for cold hard cash

Russian developers blocked from contributing to FOSS tools

I know it's crazy....

...but could not a compromise not be reached?

Is there no means for code to be submitted...it peer reviewed, the released?

It seem counterintuitive to block someone from releasing code that may enhance a product and even make it less likely to be hacked?

Or has everyone gone full red mist (no pun intended)?

Ferrari in a spin as crims steal a car-load of customer data

Pretty sure it was Top Gear that summed up Ferrari.

...A merchandising company that also makes cars.

Privacy fail: Pictures cropped, redacted by Google Pixel phones can be recovered

Re: Hmmm

"While I'm at it I'll also note that transferring a photo from Android to a Windows machine is needlessly clumsy because they have no equivalent to Apple's Airdrop functionality."

No they have no equivalent to a closed property system, instead, the use multiple platform standards.

Bluetooth

WiFi direct

USB

Remind me how you airdrop to a Windows PC?

Apple bags patent for folding phone that closes as it's dropped

Re: Beginner’s error

It's going to the US Patent Office. They approve it and let the lawyers* sort it out.

*The lawyers whose clients have the deepest pockets.

BBC to staff: Uninstall TikTok from our corporate kit unless you can 'justify' having it

Re: Adults Use TikTok?

This may come as a suprise, but the BBC also make a huge amount of content for kids / young adults. In fact without the slightest whiff of irony, there isn't another country that makes kids TV even close to the BBC standards.

IT phone home: How to run up a $20K bill in two days and get away with it by blaming Cisco

Re: ISDN = 128k

Dual channel configs were very common as back up links. Many of ours would fire up 8 or 16 channels.

Given the choice between close on £100,000 / hour penalties or ISDN costs,it was a no brainer

AWS delivers a – rather late – major release of its homebrew Linux distribution

Shock.

Company releases product when ready not to an arbitrary and ultimately pointless date.

Just wish nearly every other one would do the same.

Put this in context Affinity had 8 years between V1 and V2 of their graphic suite.

TikTok cannot be considered a private company, says Australian report

Re: Every Chinese company of sufficient size is a state company

"Certainly in all countries you have companies that are the govt's eager bitches (AT&T, Boeing ,etc. in America), but in Xi's China it's not even a choice."

I think you underestimate the power the government has over so called independent US companies.

How long do you think the likes Lockheed Martin and Boing would last without government contracts and technology export bans?

Free-Teams-gate: Docker apologizes for shooting itself in the foot

And yet another example...

of Silicon Valleys bait and switch techniques.

Get people hooked on the free product.

Remove free product and replace with a lesser free product, but give you an enhanced* version for a fee.

*The same as the old free version, but with a few extra features no one wants to make it seem different.

Techie fired for inventing an acronym – and accidentally applying it to the boss

Bloody Amateur...

I got mine put in the call logging system.

Took 6 months for management to notice....luckily he had a sense of humour.

Computer

Usage.

Not

Technical

You're welcome to that one.

Enter Tinker: Asus pulls out RISC-V board it hopes trumps Raspberry PI

Yikes.

Having just seen the price of the Tinker boards, I don't think the Raspberry Pi has much to worry about.

Microsoft and GM deal means your next car might talk, lie, gaslight and manipulate you

Re: Re - speedometer accuracy

"On the speed cameras I believe the leeway is 10% +2mph."

Don't rely on this info. As many places (looking at you Wales) have often had a ZERO buffer.

Tough luck, Brits: Binance suspends UK deposits and withdrawals

Stopped dealing in the UK

...due to regularity issues

Translation ""They have noticed our Ponzi scheme, so we're getting the hell out of town"

Anyone want an International Space Station? Slightly used

Don't worry

Musk has a plan to turn it into an atomic powered, hyperspeed capable tunnel making car.

It'll be ready next year, unless some pedo guy has a better, more practical plan.

Japan Post closer to replacing snail mail with autonomous drones

Lovely

10s of thousands of screeching craft whizzing round, that should help drive Japan's suicide and murder rates up.

China debuts bonkers hybrid electric trolley-truck

Re: Nice until

https://www.statista.com/statistics/513671/number-of-under-construction-nuclear-reactors-worldwide/

The US would sooner see TSMC fabs burn than let China have them

Comparison to OPEC

is rather an odd one

Hint, look into Petro Dollars.

Cloud upstart offers free heat if you host its edge servers

Re: Nothing new

Click 99% of articles in the Reg and guess what. No new ideas.

Re: Get others involved in the initiative

I believe we no longer boil people to death as a form of execution.

After nearly two decades of waiting, GNOME 44 brings you... image thumbnails

Pretty sure the Atari Falcon did as well, back in 1992, unless it was within an art package that generated them.

Rebel without a clause: ISP promises broadband with no contract

Re: We don't need to trap customers to force loyalty, says boss

Well GiffGaff have been using the exact same business model in the mobile arena for a long time now, and they seem to be doing OK.

Re: 80mbps...115mbps....

You can get 1gbs in many places.

But to be honest, I have no need for anything close to that, but I can see a family if four may need it

Re: Same old tech.

Awesome. Where do people that don't live in major cities get such an installation?

"As long as their users aren't tied into using the provided router it's pretty irrelevant."

And for the 99.99% of the population that have no idea how to set one up?

Examples like this are why techs, in any field, get bad reps.

How many here have had their cars remapped?

Swapped out the exhaust for a better designed and more efficient one?

Changed the supplied locks on the patio door?

Improved the sound proofing in the house?

Why not?

Simple, for most people it's to much hassle / the supplied version is just about good enough, or it's to scary a job to carry out.

Meta winds down NFTs but will continue token efforts

Re: Paid accounts for creators

Meta for business, where pushing out a post is a 50 / 50 chance it works to your Instagram and FB account, messages you've read in your main feed, appear as new messages in the business app, the menus make no sense and where the interface changes almost monthly making it even more confusing than the one you just got used to.

Windows 11 puts 'disgusting' Remote Mailslots protocol out of its misery

Net Send was disgusting.

It didn't require a 30gb client, didn't require an online account, it was clean and simple, it couldn't push adverts and it just worked.

No wonder they are dumping it.

Techie wiped a server, nobody noticed, so a customer kept paying for six months

Yup ..

...we had an eFax server that we paid a stupid amount of money for a support contract for. We kept saying we didn't need it (only 1 genuine fax in a year), but nope we MUST keep it as the lord's above insisted it was still needed.

Anyone the next renewal came round and we thought we'd check to see how many faxes had gone through. Zero. Not a single one. That was of course was odd, as normal we get a least 50 spam a month. Turns out the service had crashed 9 months previous.

So we powered it down, didn't renew and ripped it out 6 months later.

No one ever questioned it, except one bean counter who asked why he couldn't send a fax, and we just casually replied it had been decommissioned 2 years ago and we no longer supported faxes

CISA joins forces with Women in CyberSecurity to break up the boy's club

Good luck.

...I work in an Engineering environment and it's pretty much the same. The women get letched at, have had wolf whistles, get patronised and if you go by the rumours,are either lesbians or have slept with at least 10 different guys in the first week.

The amount of times I've had to call people out us just staggering.

US House reps, staff health data swiped in cyber-heist

Finally...

...maybe this will be the data equivalents of The Great Stink.

Catholic clergy surveillance org 'outs gay priests'

Re: What would Jesus have done?

Yes, but remember, Jesus is the child of a rape victim; the father being a narcissistic, genocidal, racist, sexist, homophobic bigot who didn't give a shit about him, even when the child was being executed.

So no wonder he rebelled

Lenovo revs up a rackable Aston Martin … workstation?

Little Confused.

"Aston Martin Grille"... surrounded by a Ferrari Red bezel.

Wouldn't Green and Yellow been more in keeping?

Adidas grapples with $1.3B in unsold Yeezy sneakers after breaking up with Kanye West

Sooo...

they don't want them in landfill?

So what happens normally to them at their end of life? Turn to magic pixie dust and help power rainbows?

Oh you mean it's YOUR problem and expense, rather someone else's.

Re: Yeeeee

Says right wing troll.

The Moon or bust, says NASA, after successful SLS/Orion test flight

Genuine Question.

Apart from flag wavers, who actually cares?

Flying craft into asteroids, dive bombing into distant planets or visiting far of bodies I totally get, but nan on the moon?

In the 70s people got fed up with the costs and it became a non-event.

So my question, why? So we can get to Mars? Why? We have robotic craft that weren't available back in the 60s and 70s.

Grumpy old me just see's it a another expensive willy waving contest, just this time with China and India.

Guess it may be time for a cover of "Whitey On The Moon"

Dems, Repubs eye up ban on chat apps they don't like

Is the People's Republic of America....

...is so stupid / up its own arse, they are missing the massive, gaping,really fucking obvious problem?

Why are Google and Apple letting this data being collected and sent out in the first place?

Ah yeah, the broken, corrupt version of capitalism that is how the USA and much of the so called advanced societies like to live by. Everything is OK so long as money is going to the right people, and the right institutions.

Humanoid robot takes a retail job, but not one any store clerk wants to do

Still waiting

Industrialisation was to free up workers from the labour of tending to the home, fields and making things in a small community, freeing them up to laze about.

Then automation and computers were going to allow us to work a couple of days a week, the robots cooked and clean for us, while we play beach volleyball after arriving by the sea in our nuclear powered flying cars.