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Skyrora circles Orbex wreckage as UK rocket rival heads for administration

"focused on ensuring maximum impact for taxpayers’ money"

Poor choice of words when it comes to rocketry!

UK unveils telecoms charter to curb mid-contract bill shocks

I think it should be - No price increase during a contract term, unless you can leave without penalty !!!!

Microsoft dials up the nagging in Windows, calls it security

Re: App signing

Remember Windows "S" Mode?

Feeling taxed by layoffs, IRS turns to AI helpers

Re: Glad I’m retired

If you are UK resident, all of your 'no more' are still payable / need action.

Surrender as a service: Microsoft unlocks BitLocker for feds

Re: How can you not use an MS account in Windows these days?

These may help turn off Micro-slurp, I use a .bat file to set them,

echo "" > C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Diagnosis\ETLLogs\AutoLogger\AutoLogger-Diagtrack-Listener.etl

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DataCollection\ /v AllowTelemetry /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\DataCollection\ /v AllowTelemetry /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

sc config DiagTrack start=disabled

sc config dmwappushservice start=disabled

sc stop DiagTrack

sc stop dmwappushservice

Rackspace tests customer loyalty with brutal email price hike

Re: Plusnet is dropping their ISP email service

"IMAP does work offline for everything that works offline" - don't understand that, maybe one should have been online

And what happens if your IMAP sever thinks it has the latest version of your mailbox, and wipes your client version?

Have see it happen, better to keep a local mail store (and back it up!).

Windows 11 shutdown bug forces Microsoft into out-of-band damage control

Re: Outlook is still borked for POP users

Which Outlook?

Mine, Outlook Classic as part of the Office 2024 Pro Plus suite works fine for POP

Edit - checked, seems to only effect Outlook Classic if you have the PST stored in OneDrive.

Mall display crashes the vibe with Windows activation nag

From the article - Microsoft has retired the telephone procedure

From the link to Product Activation Portal - under the Windows 11 section, to activate Windows 11 by phone: Select Start > Settings > System > Activation. Under Activate Windows Now section, select activate by Phone.

Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause

Re: Post Tenebras Lux

Romani ite domum

Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info

Same here.

Moved to new laptop about three months ago. Just fired up Windows Media Player legacy for the first time, it populated all the tracks and artwork.

The Microsoft 365 Copilot app rebrand was bad, but there are far worse offenders

Three Words

Rearranging the deckchairs

Users prompt Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot to remove clothes in photos then 'apologize' for it

Re: Morals

I need some REALLY strong mind bleach now!

Cybersecurity pros admit to moonlighting as ransomware scum

Re: "conspiracy to obstruct, delay, or affect commerce or the movement… etc

Just asking (spill chucker?) - periodontal, relating to or affecting the structures surrounding and supporting the teeth.

Starlink satellite fails, polluting orbit with debris and falling toward Earth

Re: Prison?

I hope so !

Windows is testing a new, wider Run dialog box. Here’s how to try it

Click accidentally, with the -t 00 option, instant shutdown / restart with no option to cancel (or is a UAC (user account control)) dialogue invoked?

EDIT - just tried, no UAC and no option to cancel ----------> doubly

Microsoft 365 business customers are running out of places to hide from Copilot

Re: Cyber essentials

ESU

Windows 11 update knocks out USB mice, keyboards in recovery mode

Re: KB5070773 emergency replacement for this update is still failing to install.

And if it succeeds, guess what, default browser set to Edge (again)

Lloyds Banking Group claims Microsoft Copilot saves staff 46 minutes a day

Re: Black Horse redesign

The 'horse' on the home page is different to the login page - brilliant!

UK slaps 'strategic market status' on Google, unlocking power to pry open search

Well, they could stop Google promoting YouTube as the first 10 results for ANY search

No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says as another loophole snaps shut

NoYB

About time NOYB did something (yes, so could I) - not GDPR (or UK) compliant - data minimisation ?

You can avoid a this scenario in both Android and iOS

Re: Create a dummy admin account

Have you hit the maximum of ten devices connected to an M$ account?

Tesla on the wrong tracks with Fail Self Driving, Senators worry

Re: New old jokes

Why did the Tesla on FSD cross the railway tracks? - It was playing chicken...

Microsoft digs up Vista-era animated wallpaper for Windows 11. Here's how to get it

Re: Class Action needed

Well, you could not wait and click instead, saves, what, 200ms

I actually like a little delay in some menus, especially websites, move just wrong, and get completely different menu !!

The Notepad that knew too much: Humble text editor gets unnecessary AI infusion

Re: So stupid.

May help?

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot]

"TurnOffWindowsCopilot"=dword:00000001

Microsoft folds Sales, Service, Finance Copilots into 365

"Until this week, Microsoft also had begun rebranding its Copilot for Service as 'Microsoft 365 Copilot Service Agent.' But now that branding seemingly has changed to 'Microsoft 365 Copilot for Service.'"

People's Front of Judea

No chips for you! Senator wants Americans to get first dibs on GPUs, restrict sales to others

Profit Margin

Buy all you can as an American, sell with a profit margin to China?

Real estate agents use the power of AI to command plumbing, layout to disappear

Re: Not Just AI...

31st November - not possible, only 30 days in Nov, suspect you mean 31st October (Halloween) ------>

Devs are frustrated with AI coding tools that deliver nearly-right solutions

so 'clippy' on steroids then !

Amazon built a massive AI supercluster for Anthropic called Project Rainier – here's what we know so far

That second interconnect picture - https://regmedia.co.uk/2025/07/03/trn2_us_3d_torus.png?x=648&y=745&infer_y=1 - starting to look like a brain?

Mars was once a desert with intermittent oases, Curiosity data suggests

Re: The really original solution

Take a look at - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3230854/

Firefox 139 arrives for non-Chromium browser fans

Not the behaviour I observe, still shows me the https://

Stargate to land its first offshore datacenters in the United Arab Emirates

Re: Double AI Fail

Interestingly, great circle Athens to Abu Dhabi is about 3250 Km

SEC SIM-swapper who Googled 'signs that the FBI is after you' put behind bars

"Today's sentencing makes clear that anyone who abuses public platforms for criminal gain will be held accountable."

Trump?

Microsoft updates the Windows 11 Start Menu

Re: Settings

Seen the newest Edge settings page?

Deliberately designed to make it more difficult to find the setting you want to control!

US senator warns 'China is cheering' for proposed NASA budget cuts

Re: This explains everything!

No wonder they got it wrong, trick question.

Answer is - Spherical (or more accurately, oblate spheroid)

April's Patch Tuesday leaves unlucky Windows Hello users unable to login

Re: Windows Hello, Windows Goodbye!

I do agree that the underhand, dark pattern dialogue, when you first sign in with Microsoft credentials is really annoying.

You missed the (light green, on light blue, 2 point text) lower left option "Only Sign in to Microsoft apps" option, still wrong, as maybe I don't want you to even do that!

Microsoft lists seven habits of highly effective Windows 11 users

Re: My hot tip

"about 30 different things"

I make about 200 changes to the setting and a further 80 odd in Edge, makes things just about useable.

And therein lines the problem !

Windows 11 adds auto-recovery, kills offline setup loophole

Re: Meh

Don't forget to decrypt the disk after doing this (or tattoo the bit locker key on your forehead)!

Internal storage is encrypted no matter if you used an MS or local account first.

Re: Meh

Do I win?

Five letter (initial and surname) username @hotmail.com i.e. [e-mail]

NASA rewrites Moon mission goals in quiet DEI retreat

Re: Insane

If anybody missed it - Almightily Radiant Super Excellent Holy Orange Loony Emperor.

BOFH: Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot?

Apple - just as bad

I have a picture of a file copy dialogue from an older Mac Laptop (the white plastic one).

"About 169,316,379 hours and 14 minutes remaining"

So, only 19,381 years to wait

Re: Schrödinger's firmware situation

But, again that is open to 'you said a week, but not which week'!

EU says Google scroogles app makers, also gives Apple an antitrust must-do-list

And, being able supress all those 'really useful' YouTube results, would be nice

Don't want Copilot app on your Windows 11 machine? Install this official update

Re: I THINK.....

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot]

"TurnOffWindowsCopilot"=dword:00000001

Apple has locked me in the same monopolistic cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users

Re: So why does Apple get less stick than Microsoft for their planned obsolescence blackmail?

2015 27" 5K i7 - "Haven't yet decided whether to OCLP it, move it to Linux, leave it stock on Mountain Lion"

As far as I can discern, it is fully compatible with macOS Ventura (macOS 13) (so only the latest OS, Sonoma (14) is not supported)

HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls

Re: No need for stamps/labels nowadays

It may have something to do with the last two letters of the URL

Acer signals 10% laptop price hike in US, blames Trump's extra China tariff

Re: Tariffs are taxes with nationalist spin.

But were the tariffs on China not already 25% before FOCF added another 10%?

Even Windows 10 cannot escape the new Outlook

Re: I'm sorry, *what*?

Just checked the Microsoft Store (2nd Feb), has an overall 4.6 rating.

All the 'most useful' comments are one star, with relevant explanations.

Seem to be many five star 'bot' type account ratings, MS's new way?

User said he did nothing that explained his dead PC – does a new motherboard count?

Windows 11 24H2, made into a bootable USB stick, now actually has a 'repair my computer' option, rather than only a reinstall and lose virtually everything path.

Disclaimer - not had occasion to try it yet

Meta's pay-or-consent model under fire from EU consumer group

Responsibillity

They should take responsibility for the Ad's you are 'served'.

Most common place for malverts (malicious adverts) for the people I help.

Why does their "AI" (checked by a meatbag, no chance), not instantly ban any ad that tries to go full screen, usually the fake infection / tech help scam.