Posts by Vader

The State of Open Source in 2025? Honestly, it's a mess but you knew that already

True.

Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence

The US is untrustworthy at the moment.

India’s services giants brace for impact as US tariffs bite their customers

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe which traffic should go.

UK Home Office silent on alleged Apple backdoor order

STUPID UK GOVERMENT

As above.

UK's new thinking on AI: Unless it's causing serious bother, you can crack on

We have aligned

We have aligned with the US for AI. TBH the USA has vast AI systems what will the UK contribute really, it will be peanuts. As the US has recently shown allies means nothing, this special relationship is in the mind of all PM's, but what does it actually mean, it's all US sided.

As far as Trump and Co ae concerned it' Make America Gay Again(MAGA).

India becomes just fourth country to dock satellites in orbit

You mean the UK hasn't even done this yet. We are not a poodle anymore but only Americas tail.

Microsoft eggheads say AI can never be made secure – after testing Redmond's own products

Ask the AI to secure itself.

What happens when someone subpoenas Cloudflare to unmask a blogger? This...

Nothing will happen

The US protects its own unlike the UK where they would bend over and take one. The UK couldn't even extradite the lady who ran over that kid while when she was on. the wrong side of the road.

Million GPU clusters, gigawatts of power – the scale of AI defies logic

They can chase all they want but AI is still dumb. Only until it can code and change itself then it's smart and truly AI. Right now it's all models and it only knows what we know.

PoC exploit chains Mitel MiCollab 0-day, auth-bypass bug to access sensitive files

Slow disappearing

We do a lot of work with Mitel systems and slowly teams is replacing them. Will they be the next chapter 11. The bottom line is for the solution they are very expensive.

Oracle's Java price hikes push CIOs to brew new licensing strategies

The UK government hasn't got the balls to kick them into orbit.

NHS to launch 'real-time surveillance system' to prevent future pandemics

As with most NHS projects it will over budget and delivered 20 years after the fact.

Your air fryer might be snitching on you to China

My Ninja doesn't. it's pretty dumb. All these smart stuff is a load of bollocks. Why would I want to talk to my washing machine or dishwasher over the internet. All this kit works without the internet of spying.

NASA switches off Voyager 2 plasma instrument to stretch out juice

They did for the time and it's brilliant that both Voyagers are still ticking.

IBM and Oracle to support 280,000 users after winning mega ERP govt tech contract

This is why the UK government is so fucking useless. The cock up at Birmingham City Council, weather it was Oracle directly or indirectly. There name is a stands for we will fuck you over and still charge you.

Infosys scores deal to write code for EV-maker Polestar

Vet the code multiple times please.

FBI boss says China 'burned down' 260,000-device botnet when confronted by Feds

block all Chinese public IP's from accessing anything in the US.

Labour wins race to lead UK, but few would envy the load in its tech in-tray

Damage was done my previous governments. Nothing will change TBH. There hands are tied.

By 2030, software developers will be using AI to cut their workload 'in half'

Let's see, if they coded it properly in the first place there work load would be alright.

BT delays deadline for digital landline switch off date

BT need more time I guess as they have a thought through all scenarios. Landline will be full of batteries from UPS's and not everyone has a UPS for the telephone.

What about lifts and things like that.

Boeing might be criminally prosecuted for 737 MAX crashes after all, says DoJ

Nothing will happen. Even if it does and fines are paid and people sent to prison, they will be taken care of and the government to off set things will give Boeing a massive contract to offset the figures.

Microsoft confirms spike in NTLM authentication traffic after Windows Server patch

In galaxy far far away Microsoft released with breaking anything else and it all worked.

Huawei's woes really were just a flesh wound – profits just soared 564 percent

Stealing and copying IP pays and other governments do fuck all about it and bend over backwards for China.

Google blocked 2.3M apps from Play Store last year for breaking the G law

Google let any shit on the store.

Post Office slapped down for late disclosure of documents in Horizon scandal inquiry

They are dragging this out. This shouldn't be an inquiry but a criminal case, if this was a normal company a police case would be happening so sad.

Farewell .NET 7, support ends in May – we hardly knew you

Do Microsoft themselves use .NET at all?

Fujitsu set to be preferred bidder in UK digital ID scheme

At least with Fujitsu we can expect them to fuck it up and deny it.

US charges Chinese nationals with cyber-spying on pretty much everyone for Beijing

If the west doesn't trust China which it should not. Move manufacturing back and then leave those a load, there local economy won't support them.

Time to examine the anatomy of the British Library ransomware nightmare

Let's not get to carried away, let's get the post office issues behind and then we can address the library. Can't have too many inquiries the poor MP's will be overloaded and there chums can't go to jail either.

UK Cabinet Office hits pause on £9M Microsoft deal

That's another fine mess Ollie.

Fujitsu finance chief says sorry for IT giant's role in Post Office Horizon scandal

What I don't understand is the inquiry.

This should be a criminal case and it's perjury. It was good enough without proper evidence to throw the sub postmasters into prison, the same should apply to all involved. Also the post office should be stripped of its powers to prosecute someone without a 3rd party over looking it.

An inquiry is for MP's and sorts and sweet FA will happen other than we are sorry but F them all.

Former Post Office boss returns CBE to sender over computer system scandal

Nothing will happen

This inquiry like many others before it will achieve sweet FA. Even if Fujitsu payout £1 billion pounds in compensation. They will get contracts worth £15 billion. People always say they far east and Asia is corrupt, however this corruption is at it's finest.

UK government woefully unprepared for 'catastrophic' ransomware attack

We are fully prepared we have Boris, what more do we need. If things get hacked, it can generate it's own BS.

Lenovo to offer Android PCs, starting with an all-in-one that can pack a Core i9

they have been saying the Linux desktop since the 90's. At that time it was still very geeky. Don't know how I don't use Linux much.

Microsoft CEO whinges about Google's default search deals

haha pot calling kettle black.

India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots

Bribe someone and the data how secure is yours, money talks.

Volkswagen stuck in neutral after 'IT disruption'

ITGate maybe, like Dieselgate.

Unions claim win as Hollywood studios agree generative AI isn't an author

For now it's a win.

Arm reveals just how vulnerable it is to trade war with China

You can't stop any country from developing its own technology. If they are smart enough they will.

UK air traffic woes caused by 'invalid flight plan data'

Does seem a bit odd that a dodgy flight would knock it out. For get taking control we can't even control our airspace without messing it up.

Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG

Re: If Torvalds says so

Didn't he go to anger management.

Voyager 2 found! Deep Space Network hears it chattering in space

Wonderful marvel of engineering. Those 70's models keep on ticking.

China sets AI rules that protect IP, people, the planet, and The Party

Re: What is "The Party"?

tiananmen square they protected the people with brut force.

Since when have China acknowledged IP. They normally stick two fingers when questioned. But if the shoe is on the other foot, PRC must be protected lol.

Microsoft's Activision fight with FTC turned up a Blizzard of docs: Here's your summary

Microsoft has a history of fouling up companies it takes over look at Skype. Most of the games are mostly the same first person shooting ones.

JP Morgan accidentally deletes evidence in multi-million record retention screwup

One rule for the big players 4 Million is peanuts and if a smaller company did they same off with there heads.

Bad times are just starting for India's IT outsourcers, says JP Morgan

Most of the coders I have dealt with in India when we did a lot of outsourcing were poo. You explain things so many times and then they still foul it up and lie to your face. Deadlines mean nothing they don't care.

If AI drives humans to extinction, it'll be our fault

We don't AI for that, we are able to do that ourselves.

Mega patent holder Huawei said to be putting licensing squeeze on SMEs

They should do what the Chinese do, ignore the IP requests.

This typo sparked a Microsoft Azure outage

Oh dear and people are flapping over AI. We don't need AI to destroy things we can do it ourselves.