Kind of the natural progression of this kind of thing isn't it
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Tor pedos torpedoed again, this time Feds torpedo four Tor pedos – and keep how they unmasked dark-web scumbags under wraps
It's Black Hat and DEF CON in Vegas this week. And yup, you know what that means. Hotel room searches for guns
Apollo 11 @ 50: The long shadow of the flag
SpaceX reveals chain of events that caused the unplanned disassembly of Crew Dragon capsule
I bet the moment they realised that high pressure NTO could ignite titanium that easily* was mildly hair-raising...
It's probably a fair assumption that the Superdraco's feed systems weren't primed during Demo-1 but blimey, this thing was attached to the ISS!
* For particular definitions of "easy".
50 years ago today Apollo 11 slipped the surly bonds of Earth to put peeps on the Moon
Facebook's Libra is a terrorist's best friend, thunders US Treasury: Crypto-coins dubbed 'national security risk'
New old Windows bug emerges, your 'strong' password is anything but, plus plenty more
Time to Ryzen shine, Intel: AMD has started shipping 7nm desktop CPUs like it's no big deal
Finally in the UK: Apollo 11 lands... in a cinema near you
NASA smacks an Orion into the water with a successful Ascent Abort-2 Test
Poetic justice: Mum funnels £100 into claw machine to win single Dumbo teddy for her kid
Suspected dark-web meth dealers caught by, er, 'using real address' when buying stamps
Spoiler alert: Google's would-be iPhone killer Pixel 3 – so many leaks
I originally posted this eight months ago but then deleted it when it turned out that none of the EMUI 8-dependent OpenKirin ROMs could operate the goofy dual camera setup without crashing. Quite the fatal flaw. This was corrected following the recent release of EMUI 9, allowing me to finally use the phone, and I haven't had any noteworthy issues since. With the benefit of hindsight, I might have gone for a Nokia 8 instead.
The Nexus 5 was almost perfect IMO. No nonsense, powerful at the time and reasonably priced. It should have had more storage and the speaker and camera could have been better but what are you going to do.
Mine was really showing its age so I gave up and went down the alternative route of buying a cheap(-ish) 2017 model Huawei and putting an OpenKirin custom ROM on it. It was a bit of a faff (edit: which turned into an eight month long wait for one that worked properly...) and involved paying for an unlock code, but now I've got a 128GB (+µSD) ~5" phone with a reasonably modern 8 core big.LITTLE SoC, 50% more battery capacity and yes, a headphone socket for less than the Nexus 5 cost originally. And, importantly, vanilla Android rather than Huawei's EMUI nonsense.
Hot desk hell: Staff spend two weeks a year looking for seats in open-plan offices
Bot war: Here's how you can theoretically use adversarial AI to evade YouTube's hard-line copyright-detecting AI
23. 712. 3. 608. 45. 89. 11. 332. 841. 255. You want more? Cloudflare and pals are streaming 'em live from new RNG API
Not very bright: Apple geniuses spend two weeks, $10,000 of repairs on a MacBook Pro fault caused by one dumb bug
Protip: No, the CIA will not call off a pedophilia probe into your life in exchange for Bitcoin
Northrop Grumman has nozzle nightmare, Soyuz brushes off lightning, and updates on Crew Dragon 'anomaly' probe
Re: The Aft exit cone...
A forward exit cone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13qeX98tAS8&t=2m18s
Explosion icon because... well...
Egg on North Face: Wikipedia furious after glamp-wear giant swaps article pics for sneaky ad shots – and even brags about it in a video
Re: I've got several items of North Face gear...
I bought two items of NF gear about 15 years ago. They're still going, so they're good enough quality, but I never bought any more after discovering very soon afterwards that despite being "50% off", they were still more expensive than the prices Americans were paying for the same stuff.
'Evolution of the PC ecosystem'? Microsoft's 'modern' OS reminds us of the Windows RT days
Tesla's autonomous lane changing software is worse at driving than humans, and more
That magical super material Apple hopes will hit backspace on its keyboard woes? Nylon
Activist shareholders to target Zuck with giant angry emoji inflatable at Facebook AGM
SpaceX takes a leaf from the Microsoft playbook and stands down Starlink for an update
Apologies in advance...
...onboard Hall thrusters, powered by krypton...
Hall thrusters, of course, are powered by electricity, in this case the craft's solar panels. The krypton is merely the working fluid.
Interesting that they're using krypton as propellant rather than the more common xenon, trading off performance for a substantial cost saving.
Tesla big cheese Elon Musk warns staffers to tighten their belts in bid to cut expenses (again)
Crap band sues crap beer maker: Hair-metal rockers have an Axl to grind over Guns N' Rosé
In the claws of a vulture: Nebra AnyBeam Laser Projector
Veteran vulture Andrew Orlowski is offski after 19 years at The Register
Mods I have known, Mods I have loved, Mods I have hated: Motorola's failed experiment is now a savvy techie's dream
Bitcoin drops 7 per cent on New York Attorney General's allegations of $850m fraud by Bitfinex
Re: So does the US apply the same rules to other currencies?
I am not saying that Bitcoin's management are any better than say UK banksThere is no such thing as "bitcoin management". It's the wild west and everyone's out to put one over on everyone else. There are two kinds of people in kleptocurrency: scammers, and marks who think they're the scammers.
The US has been making efforts to discredit cryptocurrencies for yearsThey've been doing no such thing, and it would be completely unnecessary anyway given the conduct within the industry itself (if you could call it that).
Why Qualcomm won – and why Tim Cook had to eat humble Apple pie
One shrewd account holds that it was the other way around. Because Intel was getting cold feet about phones, it will have told Apple it couldn't guarantee the product needed, leaving Apple with no choice but to capitulate.
This is where my thoughts wandered as well. It just seems much more plausible that Apple was forced into Qualcomm's arms. Or maybe that's just what I want to be true, either way.
Disclaimer: not an expert in any way, shape or form.
Starz, meet the Streisand Effect. Cable telly giant apologizes for demented DMCA Twitter takedown spree
Israeli Moon probe crashes at the last minute but SpaceX scores with Falcon Heavy launch
Get the smell out of here! Gaming tournament bans players who raise a literal stink
I'm surprised it's not more widespread (and still newsworthy)
I remember once finding myself in the gaming room upstairs from a game store, on a night out. I think we'd gone to collect the husband of one of the women in the group. The rules posted at the entry were one long list of stereotypes, from personal hygeine to respecting women.
This is, of course not exclusive to nerd culture. We have to treat our footballers like children and send them to "respecting women" classes too.