Posts by diodesign

"and assume root privilege"

No, it has to exploit security holes in Android 6 and 7, which are old and out of date, to achieve root.

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The media content of direct messages and probably stuff like birthdays.

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Furloughed staff

We already reported on it - see the 'Read more' box I've added to the story.

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"It's not an algorithm, its a black box"

It's linked to from the article - you can download it and run it in Matlab.

"if they can tell me why specific voltages returning specific impedence values means a specific number of charge cycles, fine, but I bet they can't."

It's in the paper. You train a model to take these variables - frequency, temperature, impedance, etc - and match them to battery lifetime. So that when you show it arbitrary EIS values, it predicts the lifetime.

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As the first 2 words of the article say, it's an April Fools.

So yes, it's an April 1 joke.

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Re: This is why we have analysts

AMD didn't make the top 10 with 2019 revenues of $6.7bn. Tenth place was Infineon with $8.9bn.

We all want AMD to succeed, but it's still generating <10% of Intel's annual revenue.

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Re: Troll

"if he indeed was warned multiple times"

Key word, if.

"One sided reporting"

So one sided, we put Amazon's reasoning in the headline and prominently at the start of the article. Good grief.

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"may prefer to tackle such subjects themselves"

I feel sorry for children who have questions and fears, and are forbidden from finding resources themselves that could help them understand who they really are.

Anyway, that's beside the point. The filter is supposed to block malware and porn, not human-rights campaigners. That's presumably the mistake Cloudflare's referring to.

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Re: Teeny satellites?

No, means they are tiny ;p

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Re: crayfish, not lobsters

Ah, no: it's lobsters. And our man on the ground there says so. See here for info.

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Re: How to access?

Ooops - sorry, we've added a link to the courses.

Don't forget to email corrections@theregister.co.uk if you think we've omitted something.

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"The range is something like 240 000 .. 2 400 000"

The range is 100,000 to 240,000 with intervention and social distancing, and 2.2 million without. Since we're now, slowly, intervening, we took the lower estimate.

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Correction

It appears the domains aren't $200 - you can buy them for, like, $40.

The article's been updated. Sorry.

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Re: Oooh the hype!

Yeah, yeah, we expect readers are smart enough to recognize a science experiment when they see one - it does say in the headline it's lab work, and later on, it's not a commercial product.

I've put a bit at the bottom stressing this, and the nanoscale-ness. It's just cool science at the moment.

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Aww jeez, thanks a lot - that makes our day :') We're a relatively small team, and we try our hardest. And we'll keep doing our hardest.

Cheers

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They pay our bills so you can enjoy the rest of the site. The vids won't auto-play audio - though if they do, let us know - that would be a bug.

We run webcasts on the home page as they are broadcast live, and sometimes we run virtual events like this. It's not a permanent fixture.

Edit: The videos no longer autoplay - hit play to watch them :)

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Re: The original El Reg Folding@Home team: Vulture Central 2.2

Cool, thanks a lot!

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How to access

Follow the links into the story - there are links to the free courses.

Or see: open.sap.com.

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Make your mind up, guys.

I've tweaked it a bit. The point is: it can be cheaper and simpler during manufacturing, but developing the technology to get to this point has been complex and difficult.

Don't forget to email corrections@theregister.co.uk if you spot any inconsistencies so that they can be fixed, ta.

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"I can't understand a lot of Scots. Does that make me racist?"

I can't understand most northern UK accents, I must admit. That doesn't make me a racist.

However, if I was training a speech-recognition AI and left out a load of accents because I don't care for nor understand them, didn't think about them, or thought it would just work without them, then you might well be able to call me biased.

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Re: Read the PDFs

As I understand it, if it's unavoidable you have to come into work at a factory or non-retail place, then it's not against the rules - but it's against guidance as well as your well-being and those around you.

The government doesn't want to say 'shut all the offices and factories'. It's more 'shut all the communal places like cafes and gyms and hotels and hairdressers' and everyone else, please stay at home.

Contrast to California where all businesses have had to close if they are non-essential, though some people are allowed in for special work like security patrols and ensuring payroll is completed. Restaurants and cafes are allowed to do takeout and delivery. There has been little ambiguity.

El Reg has been working from home since last Monday.

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Re: Tabloid Hyperbole

All right, all right - the headline's been tweaked to something more dull but worthy. Congrats on the cctld.

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I've tweaked that - don't forget to email corrections@theregister.co.uk if you spot anything wrong.

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Director's cut

Here's the porno deleted scene from Kieren's original:

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It's time to talk porn. On the very first day of shelter-in-place in California, there were numerous examples of people calling out, shaming, or reporting co-workers for watching pornography. And yes it's mostly single men but regardless, here's what you need to do:

* Treat the work day like a work day

* Don't watch pornography when you are supposed to be working

* That's it

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"This story sounds a bit odd"

FWIW we're reporting what the auditor said - so if something looks odd, you mean, the auditor's findings are odd.

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Re: Errata:

Thanks for the feedback - I've tweaked that sentence.

Don't forget to email corrections@theregister.co.uk if you spot anything wrong. We can't read every comment, but we can read every email to that address. Case in point: if you had emailed us, we could have addressed this hours ago.

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Re: $Deity Crap !

Shared ;)

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FRAND

The patents are now linked from the article. They don't look standards related.

They look like the usual video-on-demand and video encoding fare. Check 'em out and let us know.

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It'll come from the US Treasury, and it's not returned. It's a one-off check.

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Re: Why the kick in the nuts...?

Microsoft is a multi-billion-dollar company: it can take the criticism. We're not here to kiss ass, no matter the vendor's good intentions: we're here to scrutinize.

What's the point of offering something for free if it just goes down?

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"And what's the point of that snarky comment?"

It's PR trolling by billionaires. It's 0.01% of his net worth. We're just playthings to them in their weird point-scoring battles.

"We join hands with Americans in these difficult times"

C'mon.

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Ah thanks, yeah, we've watched back some of the previous WWDC content online in the past. We'll mention that in the article.

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Re: Safety?

From the court document:

"At a subsequent meeting on March 15,2018, Pankowski reiterated the statement he made during the earlier meeting that his team could not approve the product because it did not meet safety requirements and doing so would place consumers of the product at a safety risk and expose iRobot to liability."

And:

"iRobot ... refused to provide required safety and labelling information with the products it sold"

Emphasis mine. Hope this helps.

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They are not vulnerable, it appears:

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0796

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What kind of ramifications does this have on DRM in general?

Any decryption done using keys secured by the CSME can be broken: so video streaming, anti-copying mechanisms, etc that rely on the EPID/TPM to store and use keys.

DVD and Blu-ray encryption is already cracked.

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Re: Only in England the source of the Skripal fantasy would this title fly

Wow. You hear about these sorts of comments on the internet. It's incredible to see one with your own eyes.

We've struck gold

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Re: JohnG

Thanks for the feedback - don't forget to email corrections@theregister.co.uk if you spot anything wrong so it can be fixed ASAP

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Re: That article title

Commas are for wimps, and multimillionaires.

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Pedant

Yeah, dude, the rub is that the researchers thought the bounty included sub-domain security, Microsoft disagrees.

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Re: Conversion error?

350ft = 106m, fixed.

Don't forget to email corrections@theregister.co.uk if you spot anything wrong.

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"So there is a high number of undiagnosed cases in that region"

Sure, doesn't change the fact that at time of writing, there have been 27 confirmed reported cases in Washington state.

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Population density

Sure, I've added a note mentioning that.

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Re: Gotta bash with feeling now

If you click through to the original article, it lists Huawei as vulnerable.

HTH

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Re: I know...

Speaking in Tech was fabulous, though the decision to part ways with it was taken by El Reg's management some three years ago. A lot has changed since.

Also, this time around we want to focus on end users rather than vendors and suppliers.

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