Posts by Dev_Fit

Cloud startup Volta claims $10B AI lab deal for Norway bit barn

Cold up there at least

At least Norway is cold... for now

Tennessee congressional hopeful accused of shooting license plate cameras

Re: during church???!

Yeeha!

EU competition decision hands SAP customers more leverage in contract talks

Good, we need it

We need the leverage

South Korea to launch universal basic AI chatbot

Granny will still be confused

I hope they've accounted for Korea's elderly

David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82

RIP

Sad news. What a legend.

Pacemaker manufacturer Medtronic warns patients cybercrooks may have swiped health data

Not me. I wouldn't have the heart to do that.

Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up

Honestly I don't mind the AI. At least they don't have it on by default, and gives thema fighting chance to compete against the likes of MS.

Another bug hunter leaks Microsoft exploits in defiance of company’s handling of vulnerability disclosures

Even Microsoft knows it stuffed up

Yep. Imagine threatening the people who are trying to help you...

Listen up, England. The Health Secretary is going to be data controller for everyone's Single Patient Record

One person being everyone's data controller

Hi James! I think you'll find you'll become a phishing target like never before...

Ubuntu 26.04 beta arrives packing GNOME 50, which no longer supports Google Drive

Exactly. Popular distro, popular cloud storage option. The commenters will claim it's not so, but it will impact a lot of people

UEFI Secure Boot for Linux Arm64 – where do we stand?

I'm going to try the below out with my RPi 3 - thanks for this

US spy chief claims UK backed down over Apple backdoor demand

Yep Trump admin accidentally does right thing in Stopped Clock is right Twice a Day shocker. Agreed that they already probably have their own backdoor

Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off

Re: Nerds: 1 – Trump Administration: 0

The point here is: the DoD's move to cut off the data is meant to ACTIVELY UNDERMINE climate research. It's a political act and a stupid act. The data is also used to predict where hurricanes will form, but I guess they hate science enough to fuck that too.

As companies race to add AI, terms of service changes are going to freak a lot of people out

Re: In the new "virtual reality"

Preach. But i am also checking for wording changes in licensing every day. And I never believe the email flagging up the changes.

British Perl guru Matt Trout dead at 42

RIP

He will be missed

Linus Torvalds declares war on the passive voice

That is something up with which you should not put

Happy Sysadmin Day, the Bitlocker keys are in a bowl on top of the fridge

... not genAI, anything but that

Here's to all of you, though

NHS boss says Scottish health board wouldn't give cyberattackers what they wanted

SCOTLAND!!!

Tech trade union confirms cyberattack behind IT, email outage

Re: Organizations don't think about keeping backups away from their network or even off-site

Oh the horror... in a techie's union of all things.

Fortinet's week to forget: Critical vulns, disclosure screw-ups, and that toothbrush DDoS attack claim

Don't cross the Reg.

Lorenz ransomware crew bungles blackmail blueprint by leaking two years of contacts

This is an amazing own goal... I mean, a broken Apache server, really? Super embarrassing for these criminal losers - I love it

Virgin Media email customers enter third day of inbox infuriation

Re: May contain highly technical content

This one is being called a "technical issue"!! Watch out, boffins, you're exploding my brains!

Goddard Space Flight Center's new boss swears in on holy Pale Blue Dot

Nice to see someone toss the "good book" for something worth reading.

Southwest Airlines sued for failing to give prompt refunds after IT meltdown

To be fair, bulk-reversing the transactions by flight number sounds like a risky move

Perseverance rover drops off first sample tube on surface of Mars

What if Perseverance loses power and the backup tube slips out of new lander's grip and rolls down the ridge?

Those low-code tools devs love so much? They'll grow 20% in 2023, says Gartner

"Devs don't love them" - I'm 100% sure the Reg headline writers were being sarcastic

Microsoft leaves the Office, rebrands everything as 365

Re: Möbius strip

Not sure if they are aware of this, but it takes twice as long to navigate a Möbius strip as it does a normal strip. – BWHAHAHAHAHAHA - that's awesome.

VMware confirms Carbon Black causes BSODs, boot loops on Windows

Re: Huh?

Endpoint sensors are for threat hunting /security monitoring - you install them on all your client servers, PCs etc. Kaspersky also has something like this. I see they've updated the piece to add info.

NASA to commission independent UFO study

Ronald Moultrie, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, sounds like a fun guy, "Yes, I have followed science fiction. I have gone to conventions, even, I'll say it on the record.

"I don't necessarily dress up." C'mon Ronald... let your nerd flag fly!

EU makes USB-C common charging port for most electronic devices

Re: Micro USB

It's not just the charger - it's the charging PORT. They can't get around it now. one charger to rule them all!

OneWeb inks deal to launch its LEO satellites from India

Re: Inks Deal?

Errr... they've always used "inks deal". Uses of the phrase on the site date back over twenty years to 2001, see https://search.theregister.com/?q=%22inks+deal%22

UK spy agencies sharing bulk personal data with foreign allies was legal, says court

The article does refer to the bulk data illegality judgements - which occurred i the UK as well as in the EU - this is about the UK sharing that data with five eyes/foreign allies. It should stick in UK taxpayers' craw not just to get snooped on for supposed domestic security, but also having their data shared with other countries. And all of this being overseen by a secret court!

IBM US staff must be fully vaccinated by December – or go back to bed without pay

Not true.

"vaccinated people are less likely to spread the virus if they catch Delta: their levels of nasal virus drop faster than do those of unvaccinated infected people, and their nasal swabs contain smaller amounts of infectious virus."

Crank up the volume on that Pixies album: Time to exercise your Raspberry Pi with an... alternative browser

Re: Pixies

They are a quite representative band in a genre of music in the 1990s that was known as "Alternative" music (as in the alternative to the mainstream).

They sound very punk rockish, and many of the songs are led by bassist Kim Deal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPgf_btTFlc).

Confessions of a ransomware negotiator: Well, somebody's got to talk to the criminals holding data hostage

Good for him moving off dealing with human hostages to data though - 20 years hobnobbing with kidnappers has got to take its toll