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None of our apps (except those 3) could secretly slurp Facebook user details, devs rage to High Court of England and Wales

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It's OK

"Whatever data was slurped from users came from their devices and not from Facebook, said Haltas"

That's ok then. Nothing to see. So long as it's only THAT information you stole, then there is no problem.

Google Project Zero to GitHub: You've had 104 days to sort out injection vuln – now we're telling world-plus-dog

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So Google...

would rather break things rather than let them be reduced in importance.

Yet when it came to Android, it's taken a decade for it even start to resemble a OS that doesn't rely on 3rd parties to update.

Alibaba trying to take China’s Singles Day shopping frenzy global to make Bezos & Co look like sales small fry

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Re: Not a great day...

I see...downvotes by the ignorant.

Let me explain by posting this little article.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day

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Stop

Not a great day...

11th of the 11th.

Can't think why that could be seen as completely inappropriate in Europe, especially the UK. Let me guess, it starts at 11am?

Next idea, a fire sale on the 11th of September.

US govt ups minimum H-1B tech salaries to $208,000 a year, more than startups can hope to afford, say VCs

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"if your business can't pay a competitive wage to staff then it's not a sustainable business. You're welcome."

So you have no issue with raising the minimum wage to $50.

It depends on what you class as competitive.

Voyager 2 is back online after eight months of radio silence

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You know you need coffee when..

..you read the headline and think "How did they upgrade the ariel on Voyager?'

CERT/CC: 'Sensational' bug names spark fear, hype – so we'll give flaws our own labels... like Suggestive Bunny

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Oh help us...

Based on it's source, how long before

Nazi Jew, Happy Slave or Vaccine Murderer.

Google's plan to make User-Agent string even less useful breaks our device detection tech, says NetMarketShare

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Re: Prior Art

I read that and think "sheez, what a dick".

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Re: Well

Good luck with FF android.

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Re: We expect this change to improve compatibility...

Agree.

Webp anyone?

Vodafone bets big on OpenRAN as it replaces its Huawei estate in rural Wales and South West England

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Translation.

They are just a bunch of country bumpkins, so doesn't matter if the service is crap, they are used to it.

Huawei bid to move chip production in-house so it can survive US sanctions will start with a 45nm process – report

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Re: Hopefully tomorrow will see an end to the biggest problem

Don't want to alarm you, but he was predicted to lose last time.

You might want to look Huawei now: Smartphone market returns to growth as Chinese giant's shipments plunge

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This is bad news for me.

Just bought a Mate 20 pro, so will need anew one in 3 or 4 years time, so will need some new models to be released in the next few months.

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Re: Survival is the goal

Are you sure on that?

They have their fingers in many areas and they are doing OK in Asia and Africa.

TikTok wins right to stay in America past current Art of the Deal deadline on November 12th

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Re: Really ? They actually earn their living on TikTok ?

Sponsorship.

If you have 5 million followers, someone is going to pay a lot of money for you to endorse their product.

Here is such an example

https://youtu.be/8lgLYGBbDNs

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Re: prevent key tech?

Isn't it swipe up / down on TikTok, which probably counts as a new enforceable patent.

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Oh no!

The USA is in instant danger now a bunch of teenagers (and those that wish they were) will dance to 30 music clips.

BTW have you seen that Elvis fellow? Gyrating his hips on TV, the country is in immediate peril! As for this "Jazz" music, with "Negros" mixing with WHITE women, it's the end I tell you the end!

As for those Chinese, we need to ban their opium dens, in fact if we ban opium, that will show those evil foreigners!

Don't even get me started on booze....if we ban that, all our problems will be solved!

Doxxing nixed by Hong Kong courts, again

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You can't stop theft, or murder, or assault, so guess may as scrap those laws as well.

Muppet

Windows Server robocopy to gain auto-compression ahead of big file moves

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Your right, in fact sometimes compressing a compressed file can make it bigger!

The Huawei Mate 40 Pro would be the best Android flagship on the market – were it not for the US-China trade war

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Re: £1,000?

Then buy a cheaper phone, or a model from 2 years ago.

You are not forced to buy this

PS you know professional photographers also use smartphones. Rankin springs to mind.

Remember when the keyboard was the computer? You can now relive those heady days with the Raspberry Pi 400

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Re: "or maybe that ZX Spectrum proudly on show"

No need for an adapter, just get the right cable.

I'm lucky as I used to hook up ancient tablets to the tv to use as a media centre

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Re: External HDD support is a question

Agree.

I've and old laptop 500gb attached to mine, so is there room?

China sets itself 2035 goal for technology self-sufficiency and covets title as the world’s top innovator

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The thing is China is powering ahead in many areas.

Two fastest trains? China's.

Highest bridge? China

Largest Dam? China

Nuclear power station construction projects? China

Largest Solar Power? China

Largest Wind Power? China

Electric car production? China.

Much of this is bought in tech, but for example, I know that they are currently building a supercar to rival the best Europe and the US can make.

Did they steal all this? Some yes, but if you class paying to be educated in Europe's and USA's top

schools and universities as stealing, then you are very deluded.

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He doesn't care. Chances are he will be dead or dribbling into his lap.

So long as the narcissist is the centre of attention now, that's all that counts.

On Friday the US starts Ender's hacking game: All local teens can compete for scholarships in cybersecurity

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Re: So a scholarship

So yet again, poor gifted kids are left behind (not just a US issue)

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So a scholarship

of $2,500?

How much is University course in the US again?

Ryuk this for a game of soldiers: Ransomware-flingers actively targeting hospitals in the US, cyber agencies warn

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Targeting Hospitals?

I doubt many are. They are just firing out emails to everyone and anyone.

Chances are some of these attacks are people picking up personal emails on work machines.

Canadian uni blames users, 'isolated technical problems' as new Workday system fails to pay 700 temps on time

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Dear Devs.

If people can't use software designed for Joe Bloggs without spending several days in the classroom, your UI is shit. End Of.

Alphabet thanks ads and AI for its $124m-a-day quarterly profit, and comes out swinging against antitrust action

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Re: WTF is up with Bing?

I find Bing Image search better than googles these days. Google seems to give up on some searches after a couple of dozen images.

Experian vows to drag UK's Information Commissioner's Office to court after being told off for data-slurping practices

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No problem

We've removed the slap on the wrists, now here is a fine for 4% global turnover.

India and USA to share high-quality satellite imagery and more under new pact

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Dear USians

Please get rid of this mob. Times have moved on since the 1950's.

The Reds under the bed rhetoric that spews from this racist rabble is tiresome and serves no one except themselves.

For an example of why it ultimately backfires, the BBC is running a lovely story of paranoia coming to bite you back

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-54695598

Trump's official campaign website vandalized by hackers who 'had enough of the President's fake news'

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Re: Like a Three-Card Monte game

It's Red Chinas fault it's not Friday, yes. In fact we are going to stop them having Fridays so we can have two!

Make Awesome Friday's In America!

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Re: What a pity...

Why proof read? He doesn't.

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Re: ... another 4 or 8 or ... 12 years

Biden is senile....

Keep hearing this, but see know proof. Yet Trump has constantly denied saying things that have been recorded, changes his mind constantly, rambles on incoherently and just plainly make things up.

Researchers made an OpenAI GPT-3 medical chatbot as an experiment. It told a mock patient to kill themselves

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Trollface

So ready for prime time.

After all, it's what Agile is about.

Oculus owners told not only to get Facebook accounts, purchases will be wiped if they ever leave social network

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Errr. One problem.

Should I buy one for my kids, how do they use it, given under 13s are not allowed to have a FB account.

Foot, meet bullet.

Your IT department should behave like a jellyfish, says Gartner

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I'd love to go a Gartner presentation.

Just to see how many words it takes to say absolutely nothing.

Yes, we have a 5G iPhone now. But that doesn't mean 5G has arrived

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It's also odd given that boring mesh wifi could do the same. Unless I missed the killer point.

It seems they went, "When it goes from AP1 to AP2 there is an issue, rather than, is the a way we can have lots of AP1s?

Maybe they did, but clean hand over is possible.

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Hmmm

"AT&T’s 5G (NSA) speeds were 46Mbps, only slightly faster than its 4G LTE speed of 43 Mbps. Rival carrier T-Mobile’s 5G speeds were even worse at 25 Mbps"

That's odd, maybe they could get some Chinese tech in, as they seem to be really good at rolling it out.

Uber drivers take ride biz to European court over 'Kafkaesque' algorithmic firings by Mastermind code

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Re: How did they know ?

GPS spoofing?

Linux kernel's Kroah-Hartman: We're not struggling to get new coders, it's code review that's the bottleneck

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No surprise.

You don't get the"look I created this" satisfaction by reviewing.

When was the last time the proofreader of a novel got recognised, or the sound engineer who removed that quiet little click in the background of a track that would have ruined it?

Nope, no fame, but essential.

President Trump's H-1B visa crackdown wiped $100bn off market value of America's largest corps, top study finds

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Be careful what you wish for.

By making it harder to be an immigrant in the Land Of The Immigrants, then more skilled workers will be forced to work domestically, or in another country.

Lucky India, a country with a lower income rate, therefore more internationally commercial, has no ambitions to become a leader in technology....oh wait.

Palo Alto Networks threatens to sue security startup for comparison review, says it breaks software EULA

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Go the whole hog.

just say PAN stuff is shit. However, they can't prove us wrong as we have now added a EULA forbidding them from testing it. Oh also added a clause stating we are allowed to murder their first born.

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Re: EULA

They are none enforceable in the EU.

If you suddenly can't print to your HP Printer from your Mac, you're not alone: Code security cert snafu blamed

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Re: AirPrint

You've been able use generic drivers for many printers on Windows since 95.

You'd be surprised how many printers worked with HP LaserJet 4 drivers I.e. all of them.

IBM: Our AI correctly predicts onset of Alzheimer’s 71% of the time, better than standard clinical tests

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Re: I'm guessing...

It's odd, which one has repeatedly denied he has said something, despite it being recorded.

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Meh.

I rank that along with 84% of women said their skin felt better after miracle cream (sample size 97 people).

BTW I bet the relatives of those people got WAY higher results.

Ed Snowden doesn’t need to worry about being turfed out of Russia any more

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Re: Life in Russia

Here is a crazy idea....now hold onto this...it may just blow you mind after a century of propaganda...ready....

Most Russians are just like us.

I know, crazy. Totally wacko fringe idea, but it may just catch on.

Love Minecraft: Java? You'll have to learn to love your Microsoft account as well – it will be required next year

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Ffs bunch of ludites.

Are people here that stupid?

1. Create an account with fake credentials.

2. Done.

Seriously, the pointless MS hate on here is toxic.

You are being tracked by Apple / Google Way more, than a single fake account ever will.

Yours

Fred Smith aged 83 living in London W1 1WW

OpenStack at 10 years old: A failure on its own terms, a success in its own niche

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It will be interesting to see

If India start using it more, with there ambition to become less reliant on other nations tech.

China + India....that's a pretty big niche.