Palantirs were the Spying orbs of Sauron, so I guess company's name is apt based on Peter Tiels thoughts on society I'd be keeping him as far away from everyone's medical data as possible and indeed society as whole.
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Some English hospitals doubt Palantir's utility: We'd 'lose functionality rather than gain it'
C-suite at Alphabet make B-A-N-K from 2024 equity awards
Bad trip coming for AI hype as humanity tools up to fight back
It's not just Big Tech: The UK's Online Safety Act applies across the board
I thinik theres possibly another way this could be achieved would be to have a DNS record similar to the SFP for email. It could work thus:
TXT "child-safe:true, min-age=13, country=GB"
min-age (see film classifications or something similar)
country (2 letter country code)
- Any website without this record is classed as child unsafe by default.
- Perhaps social media sites could be classed as adult only by default (we'll simply single out the big ones here: any owned by publicly traded company )
- Parents enable parental controls, any time their kid goes to a new website with say a PG or is less than their age the parent gets a notification of the URL so they can check the site and has a log of what they're looking at, then the parent can allow or deny. This should be pretty trivial to implement on all devices and can operate solely on those devices i.e. doesn't need the cloud to compute whether a site is safe or not.
Obviously this is still marking your own homework, but so is the current law also who decides what's safe for their children? the current law doesn't define it and its moving goal posts this gives the tools to parents. The nice thing is this would work globally for everyone, although the age classifications depending on territory could be challenging... but DNS zoning does exist so maybe it would work even with that and using a VPN to a different country.
Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work
SAP says GenAI will help solve legacy migration skills shortage
UK council still hadn't fully costed troubled Oracle project 2 years in
Gang of monkeys escape South Carolina biomedical research facility
UK watchdog hints Voda-Three merger will likely pass
Opening up the WinAmp source to all goes badly as owners delete entire repo
Uncle Sam may force Google to sell Chrome browser, or Android OS
Xfce 4.20 creeps toward Wayland support while Mint 22.1 polishes desktop routine
Yes you'll take more dark themes god damn it, and bloody well use them and to make sure, we'll remove your light theme so there! I don't get the dark themes personally but clearly someone does so good for them.
I'm more excited about a new version of xfce though, I love the monitor profiles if only the other desktop environments had that.
The more annoying bit is the constant buggering about cinnamon has to do because of gnome
Open source orgs strengthen alliance against patent trolls
Pat Gelsinger's grand plan to reinvent Intel is in jeopardy
City council faces £216.5M loss over Oracle system debacle
Dell starts new round of layoffs while it looks to 'unlock modern AI'
Mozilla Thunderbird finally gets system tray notifications
Epic accuses Apple of foul play over iOS access, wants EU to show DMA red card
Beijing says state owns China's rare earth metals
Microsoft Research chief scientist has no issue with Windows Recall
Re: Just looked at the Total Recall code.......
As its a sql lite file then it should be possible to open the database change the schema to make the image field too small or add an extra column which doesn't allow nulls and has no default value set.
I use Windows in VM so on VM shutdown I could just have a script in Linux which mangles that file completely and clears the images assuming those are just image files on the file system. If it ends up being saved to the cloud after all it should be possible to block that on the VM's host
UK may not hit goal of 95% mobile coverage, commons committee warns
Windows 11 tries to escape Windows 10's shadow with AI muscle
UK lays down fresh legislation banning crummy default device passwords
Open sourcerers say suspected xz-style attacks continue to target maintainers
Cloud vendor lock-in is shocking, but there's a get out of jail card
The UK Digital Information Bill: Brexit dividend or data disaster?
The last mile's at risk in our hostile environment. Let’s go the extra mile to fix it
AI researchers have started reviewing their peers using AI assistance
Re: Who raised you people?
"Why is it that people with book smarts have zero common sense?"
Ah yes those who have rolled a natural 20 on intellgence but a natural 1 in wisdom. Intellgence and Wisdom (common sense) are separare things. The other problem is difference between specialists and experts, a specialists knows everything about their subject, experts know nothing else.
How to Netflix Oracle’s blockbuster audit model
Quite then spend the savings on commercial support if you need that and give the developers a hefty donation. I don't have an M$ office licence I instead took that money and gave it to the libreoffice devs, they're more deserving. I honestly think this would be a very fair way to help open source developers.
British Library pushes the cloud button, says legacy IT estate cause of hefty rebuild
Sometimes malware/ransomware can write itself into firmwares of the devices in the server or the boot loader or indeed the bios, we have Sony were the first to do this with their rootkits on music CD's so we really have them to thank, although i'm sure others would have come up with it sooner or later. As far as I know there's no way to tell for sure especially as a lot of firmware isn't available so you can compare and re-flash as needed or indeed fix it.
UK finance minister promises NHS £3.4B IT investment to unlock £35B savings
Microsoft trying to stop Copilot generating fake Putin comments on Navalny's death

What I really love is hubris/laziness in the decision to train large language models on things on the internet where we can safely say most of it is crap. The crap in crap out principle still stands.
AI still has no intelligence, Steven Pinker was right, as usual, its just a manages to copy and paste in a vaguely none gibberish way with no concept of facts and zero wisdom
What's going on with Eos, Nvidia's incredible shrinking supercomputer?
Microsoft's Notepad goes from simple text editor to Copilot conspirator
Data regulator fines HelloFresh £140K for sending 80M+ spams
AMD brings its AI engines to the desktop with Ryzen 8000G APUs, RX 7600 XT graphics cards
HP exec says quiet part out loud when it comes to locking in print customers
It's ba-ack... UK watchdog publishes age verification proposals

Ah yes the societal memory of 90 days so wait for an amount of time after that, then change it slightly and republish, for gods sake stop this nonsense.
Storing more data about kids on-line isn't going to make them safer on-line, it'll make them less safe and more easily identifiable, which is the opposite of what we should be doing. To make children safer online make strong encryption mandatory, ensure no data is stored about anyone and most importantly accompany them when they're browsing the internet.
UEFI flaws allow bootkits to pwn potentially hundreds of devices using images
AWS rakes in half a billion pounds from UK Home Office
Capita scores £239M contract to manage mega public sector pension scheme
Passive SSH server private key compromise is real ... for some vulnerable gear
AI chemist creates catalysts to make oxygen using Martian meteorites
If you like to play along with the illusion of privacy, smart devices are a dumb idea
Google's browser security plan slammed as dangerous, terrible, DRM for websites
Hmmm Wiser, there's no nominative pre-determination there. So is this the foreshadowing of how the internet ends? hopefully not. I can see some of the news outlets and indeed Google committing further self harm implementing this out of intergalactic stupidity. Interestingly though I suspect there will be whole load of website owners who don't do this and they will gain the advantage from remaining open.
Oracle's revised Java licensing terms 2-5x more expensive for most orgs
Two new Linux desktops – one with deep roots – come to Debian
Re: Beautiful? Really?
Agreed the RiscOS 2 look was much nicer than the RiscOS 3. NeXTstep looks ok but its elements take up way too much screen space, also I'm a guy who has 3x 27" screens (1440p) and likes his apps running maximised. Jumping from an Acorn to a PC I found main menus and toolbars a step backwards as they took up screen space.
Mozilla pauses blunder-prone AI chatbot in MDN docs
Free Wednesday gift for you lucky lot: Extra mouse button!
Re: RISC OS always used three buttons
RiscOS is where I started with computers and man was that UI good and consistent, a level of consistency Windows, OSX and Linux could only dream of. The middle click menu in all applications was a joy. You can imagine my despair when my parents bought a PC and I had to do ungodly things like click toolbar buttons and go to the top of an application for the bloody menu as well as hold shift and ctrl. A single mouse button shows nothing but contempt for your users especially when you then put the charging usb port on the bottom.