Posts by AHW

Ad blockers struggle under Chrome's new rules

I use Epic Privacy Browser and have no problems at all

Outlook email users alerted to suspicious activity from Microsoft-owned IP address

I get the same email and the account is locked until a new password is provided. As soon as the new password is entered my mail client polls the mailbox and immediately the account is blocked again. The only activity showing as suspicious is our routine email checking from the same IP address, nothing has been altered for years.

In the end I simply abandoned outlook.

Nobody cares about DAB radio – so let's force it onto smart speakers, suggests UK govt review

Re: "lots of old folks still love their "wireless""

Openreach no longer provide battery backup for Fibre connections, the instructions boldly state that you will need a mobile phone for emergency calls during a power failure.

Brit law firm files suit against Google and Deepmind over use of hospital patients' data

Re: Who will stop them

No longer employed, no Golden Parachute? Of course not.

Ater his stint as Chief Information Officer at Royal Free Hospital, Professor Stephen Powis is now National Medical Director of NHS England

Switch about to get real: Openreach bod on the challenge of shuttering UK's copper phone lines

I have just been switched over to fibre, BT kindly gave me 3 Digital telephone handsets free of charge.

You can keep your old internal cabling and telephones after the changeover - remove the incoming copper pair from the mastersocket and run a M to M flexible cable from the SmartHub 2 to the nearest socket, you can even use a doubler.

Another successful flight for SpaceX's Starship apart from the landing-in-one-piece thing

SN10 did not explode seconds after landing .

SN10 stood on the landing pad for over six minutes before it's unscheduled second flight.

Rookie's code couldn't have been so terrible that it made a supermarket spontaneously combust... right?

I never said it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.