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Can open source be saved from the EU's Cyber Resilience Act?

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Re: The usual quality of EU news reporting....

>So pay me $1m a day, and I'll follow the legislation.

That's why open source is so concerned. SAP can say this , I can't say this if I add to some GPL software and you use it. The GPL says I give it to you and you can give to anyone else.

But I'm responsible for reporting any security that affect you, and anyone you gave the software to and anyone using any derived work and possibly for any flaws in any work I derived from that affect my work.

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Re: “… that program you wrote in 2019”

Has there been a court case creating an opinion on that ?

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Re: Seems like a simple fix

That's surprising. It's almost like there are a number of large car companies in the Eu with a lot of lobbying power.

Strangely electric cars are also exempt from the repairable / battery replacement rules that apply to phones

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Re: Unpopular opinion: The act isn't that bad.

Or maybe he's one of the crazy people that likes using gas chromatograph to see if the food he's eating includes arsenic or heavy metals."

That's ridiculous. For heavy metals you would use HPTLC or ideally, plasma coupled mass spectrometry

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Re: I see a LOT of software developers

And as long as you aren't using any other software with a different licence. I can't take GPL software, add my bits and say 'GPL but not for use in Eu'

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Until a court rules on what the standard for 'becoming aware' means.

Boeing can't claim it didn't know about 737max crashes because it only checks an accident loss once per year.

For a medical device sold in Europe we have to have an official notifying body with contact details that we have to put on every product and in every manual. Don't know what their rules are about being staffed 24*7 and having backup phone systems but they aren't cheap!

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Re: EC <> European Council in this context

That's like saying 99% of Holywood is in English, so the global cinema market is basically down to the innovation of Oxford University Press

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Re: EC <> European Council in this context

Are you typing this on a phone with a US OS or are you using a Nokia 3310?

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Are you just responsible for your own flaws or for security flaws in your app due to other components?

So if you accept a € donation for your little utility but it uses Log4J you are responsible for knowing about, reporting and fixing the Log4J security hole as well?

Biden hopes to squeeze loopholes to slow China's devouring of US AI chips

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Re: If you are pissing people off you must be doing something right

If you want to know who the good guys - just look at who the Mail On Sunday hate

Canon claims its nanoimprint litho machines capable of 5nm chip production

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Re: “ a mask imprinted with a circuit design”

Obviously they imprint it from the same revolutionary Canon nano-something-something machine

Nvidia's accelerated cadence spells trouble for AMD and Intel's AI aspirations

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Boeing vibes ?

(Intel) backed out of the latter amid a restructuring of the division and cost-cutting measures.

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

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> I have people that mill around like sheep with a coyote around when a printer runs out of paper.

I have people that will just resend the print job another dozen times, then email it to a secretary to print from their machine

UK silicon startups to share £1.3M chump change as part of chip strategy

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Re: £108k

>Actually, it's 0.3 m per startup.

So a foot in the door for British semiconductor success stories

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Re: describes itself as an "unconventional computation company" that is still in stealth mode

Also avoids that confusion about which way round to put it in socket

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Re: describes itself as an "unconventional computation company" that is still in stealth mode

All conventional CPU dies are square and have limitations.

Our new CPU is round, therefore unconventional and therefore logically doesn't have the same limitations

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Re: £108k

And by 2 again, typical overhead for engineering staff is 100%

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Re: £108k

Or to put it another way.

London to Birmingham = 100mi / 160km

Cost of HS2 = £56bBn

So at £350M / km, this is funding of 3m / startup, or in el'reg units 21 linguini per applicant

Excel recruitment time bomb makes top trainee doctors 'unappointable'

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Re: This is not an IT failing

>Just take a look over here and see what THAT bullshit gets you.

Rich shareholders?

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Re: This is not an IT failing

But all this brings the "efficiency of the free market" to healthcare - right ?

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Re: EuSpRIG horror list

I wonder what tool they use to catalogue these reports ?

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Re: This is not an IT failing

>Ideally the IT systems should be built in house by NHS employees

That's the clever bit, there is no "N"HS, there are 1000s of regional authorities and hospital trusts - all refusing to cooperate with each other. So none would pay another for a national solution

Odd really that decades of governments, all deeply committed to the NHS as a beacon of Britain, should have arranged for it to be so ideally divided up as if for privatisation?

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Re: This is not an IT failing

And instead decided on a nationwide NHS IT solution by the usual suspects which would take 10years, cost £1bazzilion and be abandoned as not fit for purpose

Europe mulls open sourcing TETRA emergency services' encryption algorithms

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Re: Five vulnerabilities uncovered in TETRA?

Including speaking Welsh ?

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Re: "used in Europe, the UK, and other countries"

You haven't seen the new map?

We are now in the new continent of Great Britainia

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Re: They were kept secret ... why ?

But back then you were normally keeping them secret to hide the deliberate weakness

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Re: They were kept secret ... why ?

I see you are attempting logical reasoning, while encrypted communications is a matter of security

Starlink starts advertising Direct to Cell satellite phone service as coming in '2024'

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Re: Best of all

>Gates & Musk will join with Bezos, Ellison, Soros, and the zombie corpse of Steve Jobs - move to Mars before the asteroid hits in 2042.

How do we arrange for the asteroid to hit Mars?

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Re: Best of all

For free ?

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Re: Tinfoil

Cell phone antenna are already multiple element. I thought 5G REQUIRED beam forming to work at all - but apparently it's an R&D level thing in the actual phone at the moment

So at the moment you really need a tinfoil turban to protect yourself from the relatively wide beam satellite rays. Once the beam forming technology gets better you will only need a tinfoil beret, and ultimately just a small tinfoil Yarmulke

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Re: Umm?

I can barely see a cell tower a few km away through the buildings and trees - and yet I can see objects in space that are many leagues yonder

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Re: Tinfoil

You don't need to wear the hat when making a call, the 5G antennae uses a steered beam to tightly focus the radiation from the phone to the satellite.

The tinfoil hat only protects you from the rays the satellites beam down onto the top of your head.

Gulf states and 'The Stans' could become new tech hotspot – analyst

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Obviously they should just start wars among themselves.

Last time we did that we got radar, computers, space rockets, atomic power and powdered eggs out of it

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Indeed, if only we could return to the centuries of liberty, egality and equality in Europe before the industrial revolution

Casino giant Caesars tells thousands: Yup, ransomware crooks stole your data

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Re: Fortunately

Possibly an anti-money laundry or KYC requirement. Or for one if these rules about blocking problem gamblers who have registered as wanting to be bocked

DoJ: Ex-soldier tried to pass secrets to China after seeking a 'subreddit about spy stuff'

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Re: So how did we find him?

Spaseeba Tovarich

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Re: So how did we find him?

If I leaked 192.168.0.0/24 to China would I get into trouble?

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Re: This is just embarrassing

>How did this person manage to get a security clearance in the first place?

He looked alwhiteright in the passport photo

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Re: Worst. Spy. Ever.

The American justice system operates as the inverse of the American health-care system.

Waiting time is proportional to wealth

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Re: Worst. Spy. Ever.

Surely the noted Home Alone co-star would never do that

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Re: team leader and sergeant

I'm picturing the Chinese George Smiley reading the email , chuckling softly to himself, polishing his glasses on his tie and then dragging the email to the spam folder

Google pays Apple $18B to $20B a year to keep its search in iPhone

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Re: I mean...

Or Apple will simply run their own search engine and keep the ad revenue, or being Apple, will insist on getting 30% of anything bought as a result

I'm a little confused why Google is the one on the naughty step compared to Apple's anti-trust behaviour on the iStore

US allows Samsung and SK hynix to keep making chips in China

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Re: "indefinitely"

Hence our strategy of building stuff in places that are hard to pronounce

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Does Canada have a strategic Blackberry reserve?

I understand that Finland have underground bunkers constructed of Nokia 3310s

US govt talks up $2B X-ray photobooth to check its nuke weapon sims are right

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Re: Pays for itself, really

It's a laser not a supercomputer

It only pays for itself if you threaten to blow up a city unless they pay <pinkie finger> ONE MILLION DOLLARS </pinkie finger>

SoftBank boss Masayoshi Son predicts artificial general intelligence is a decade away

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That's not entirely fair.

He also put $300m into pizza making robots and paid $Bn for exclusive rights to give away free iPhones in Japan and make the money on cheap PAYG sims.

However he did get lucky by being in the process of buying a UK company just as the UK decided to crash the value of its currency because a bus told them to.

Apple antique aficionados can boot to the future with OpenCore Legacy Patcher

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Re: Yep, it works

The article doesn't explain it, but how are you funding terrorism and drug smuggling?

I was informed that any violation of software licenses, however technical, funds these activities

Is there a Patreon you contribute to ?

FTC: Please stop falling for social media scams, you've given crooks at least $650M so far this year

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Re: For those unwisely enticed...

I tried, but the message "send me all your money and when Great Cthulhu rises, you too will be destroyed along with everything else" didn't seem to resonate.

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