* Posts by Nightkiller

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Europe's deepest mine to become Europe's deepest battery

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1500 Homes in California is 4500 homes in Finland.

Two of India's most prominent startup tech giants are in deep trouble

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Strange that India and Integrity share the same letters.

Wikileaks source and former CIA worker Joshua Schulte sentenced to 40 years jail

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Re: Really?

He didn't contest the findings.

Elon Musk made 1 in 3 Trust and Safety staff ex-X employees, it emerges

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Culling the Cult.

Huawei finally gives up on US schmoozing efforts

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So long, and thanks for all the fish.

SpaceX accused of firing employees critical of free speech fan Elon Musk

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Re: Don't get this confused with free speech.

This is a shocking indictment of one trick pony writers.

FTC bans Rite Aid from using AI facial recognition in stores for 5 years

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This would never have happened if Rite-Aid used Chinese Tech.

Not even LinkedIn is that keen on Microsoft's cloud: Shift to Azure abandoned

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Re: "Blueshift"

Isn't that when a large Farm object hurtles towards us at a rather alarming rate?

Google mulled offering paid-for no-logging private Search subscription

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This is nothing less than paying protection money.

It's 2023, so Lenovo made a bendy smartphone concept all about hybrid cloud AI

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Why does the desktop photo remind me of Clippy?

Amazon to drop a cool $1B on Microsoft 365 cloud suite

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Pretty sure you could do better on Ebay.

Workload written by student made millions, ran on unsupported hardware, with zero maintenance

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Anyone want a go at that Climate Model?

Undiplomatic Chinese threat actor attacks embassies and foreign affairs departments

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China and Hungary are BFF. Nice to be recognised,

Decision to hold women-in-cyber events in abortion-banning states sparks outcry

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The only religious nut jobs here are the ones projecting that their religion is not being acknowledged.

Australia asks Twitter how it will mod content without staff, gets ghosted

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You should see the colours of the sewer rats on Mastadon.

Boffins claim to create the world's first wooden transistor

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Just what GreenPeace ordered.

Tencent Cloud announces Deepfakes-as-a-Service for $145

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I want one of Xi singing "My Way".

While Twitter wants to sell its verification, Microsoft will do it for free on LinkedIn

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Re: UMMMMMM....

With LinkedIn, you don't find a job. The Job finds you.

Tupperware looking less airtight than you'd think

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The IT angle is that so many IT professionals used these containers instead of brown bags to enhance their image.

Smugglers busted sneaking tech into China

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The smuggler should have asked the Ministry of State Security. Response? "Sure. we'll stuff it in a Diplomatic bag".

Errors logged as 'nut loose on the keyboard' were – ahem – not a hardware problem

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Re: Otherwise know as...

Or

Statistics become useless when the goal is to change the statistic instead of the system.

Adidas grapples with $1.3B in unsold Yeezy sneakers after breaking up with Kanye West

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Re: Doing a Musk

Did you listen to the Hotep Jesus interview Adams did? How about the Sunny Hostin interview? Both understand exactly Adam's point. And they agree.

Another assigned opinion.

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It's DEFCON 3. Defence Condition 3. That you choose not to be accurate and add to smear tactic reporting is everyone's concern.

Elon Musk yearns for AI devs to build 'anti-woke' rival ChatGPT bot

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The real definition "Woke" is the use of Ad Hominem as a way of bolstering an argument. Look at all of the above commenters. Do they attack the idea or the person who made it? What? Jealous?

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Re: Meaning of "woke"

This is the perfect definition for all of the proceeding commenters. You can add "Holier than thou" to the definition as well.

Home Depot sent my email, details of stuff I bought to Meta, customer complains

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Everything is Data Slurping.

Home Depot asking if you want an email receipt implies permission to use the email address.

Swiping your Corporate Points Card is Data Slurping.

They pay you very little in "Rewards" for the data you give them.

LUMI supercomputer puts GPU partition through its paces with hardcore science

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Yes, but will it run ChatGPT?

Sysadmin infected bank with 'alien virus' that sucked CPUs dry

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The only thing that saved this guy's ass was that no one in the IT Department knew how to use Task Manager or the lot of them colluded to conceal the operation in solidarity with SETI@Home.

Here's something communism is good at: Making smartphones less annoying

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Be honest.

They don't want the competition.

Study suggests AI cruise control could kill traffic jams by cutting out the 'intuition' factor

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You can emulate this behaviour by looking at the brake lights of the second car in front of you, not the one in front. Technique requires that you hang back a bit to get a broader view of the situation. Eliminates the problem of the people in front of you braking for giant spiders.

Google wins lawsuit against alleged Russian botnet herders

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Looks like all of the defendants are candidates for the Russian Diplomatic Corps.

SolarWinds reaches $26m settlement with shareholders, expects SEC action

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Re: and yet....

Waiting to see if these were part of the shareholders who sued.

Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh resigns after being added to EU sanctions list

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Re: Give Ukraine Nukes

No. But I do know that Democrat Political strongholds produce Democrat Political verdicts. A person of your calibre would be willfully writing this frame accordingly.

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Re: Give Ukraine Nukes

"It is a tool of American imperialism"

Compared to what? Russian Imperialism?

How ICE became a $2.8b domestic surveillance agency

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Just remember, every downvote is from a person who is suffering from a John Lennon "Imagine" earworm.

Google blocks paid apps from Play Store in Russia

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Well, Sergei. You tried your best to help Mother Russia.

China again signals desire to shape IPv6 standards

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Re: Just how would everything being internet addressable be helpful for china?

Last time I checked, my National Insurance Number could not tell me where I am eating lunch at the moment.

French court pulls SpaceX's Starlink license

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Re: French court freezes out non-French competition

Every person in France has the right to say "L'Etat, c'est moi."

China’s cloud spend to more than triple in four years

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Re: The scale of China...

I too have watched China for years and marveled at how they think allowing their country to turn into a chemical dump while not being able to feed its own people will not lead to consequences. Prepare to be amazed.

China launches test satellites for orbiting broadband service

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Re: Nice low number?

If the purpose is to track where the connections are coming from the entire country - and ONLY the country - parts of which including rural areas are poorly connected… isn’t that obvious?

FTFY

HPE sees 'no indication' its tech was sold to Chinese military, seeks answers from Uncle Sam on sanctions

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Re: Colin Wilson 2 - Apple have got this right!

This is an internal law of a deal breaking sovereign state.

FTFY

US bans Chinese firms – including one linked to HPE’s China JV – for feeding tech to Beijing's military

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Re: Excuse me?

Yes.

They have many representatives in Bradford and Manchester.

Rust dust-up as entire moderation team resigns. Why? They won't really say

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Just allow the core developers to identify themselves as

Omniscient Lord/ Indifferent God

That should cover the lot.

Alibaba Cloud unveils home-spun 128-core Arm-compatible server processor

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Re: China arm of ARM

Because the party says so.

Microsoft turns Windows Subsystem for Linux into an app for Windows

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Re: Found a shortcut

Er, Don't you mean reinforcement of their virtue signaling?

Internet Archive's 2046 Wayforward Machine says Google will cease to exist

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Re: They succeeded to eradicate the book

The problem with these predictions is that people read them and then subconsciously start to work towards fulfilling them.

Windows 11 in detail: Incremental upgrade spoilt by onerous system requirements and usability mis-steps

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"what we put into 11 is [that] we are going to secure you by default."

Finally. After first promising "secure by default" in XP.

We have some sad news about Facebook. It has returned to the internet after six-hour mega outage

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"Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are coming back online now. Sorry for the disruption today – I know how much you rely on our services to stay connected with the people you care about."

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are coming back online now. Sorry for the disruption today – I know how much you missed the targeted ads you care about.

FTFY

IKEA: Cameras were hidden in the ceiling above warehouse toilets for 'health and safety'

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Ikea: Swedish for "I Am Curious (Yellow and Blue)"

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