Axe
Posts by gwp3
19 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Mar 2017
Microsoft to ax Azure Video Analyzer in November
140,000-plus drivers sent $60m in compensation checks after Amazon 'stole their tips'
'Vast majority of people' are onside with a data grab they know next to nothing about, reckons UK health secretary
Brexit travel permits designed to avoid 7,000-lorry jams come January depend on software that won't be finished till April
Friday 25th September 2020 20:29 GMT
Beta?
"Sarah Laouadi, manager of European and international policy at Logistics UK, told The Register that the industry body had seen a version of the system demonstrated on a shared screen, but had not been able to explore the system itself"
Looks like they were shown a Powerpoint presentation.
UK smacks Huawei with banhammer: Buying firm's 5G gear illegal from year's end, mobile networks ordered to rip out all next-gen kit by 2027
Health Sec Hancock says UK will use Apple-Google API for virus contact-tracing app after all (even though Apple were right rotters)
Sunday 21st June 2020 02:16 GMT
NHS Covid app developers 'tried to block rival symptom trackers'
NHS Covid app developers 'tried to block rival symptom trackers'
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/20/nhs-covid-app-developers-tried-to-block-rival-symptom-trackers
NHSX, the health service technology unit responsible for the government’s failed contact-tracing app, attempted to block rival apps to protect its own, hampering efforts to track the early spread of the coronavirus.
Developers of several apps were urged to stop work by either NHSX or the Ministry of Defence, who told them their apps might distract attention from NHSX’s app when it was launched. Last week the app was abandoned after three months, with work beginning on an alternative design without any deadline.
etc.
Brit MP demands answers from Fujitsu about Horizon IT system after Post Office staff jailed over accounting errors
Capita, Fujitsu and pals tuck into slices of £3bn London NHS framework
As Zoom bans spread over privacy concerns, vid-conf biz taps up Stamos as firefighter in totally-not-a-PR-stunt move
You want a Y2K crash? FINE! Here's a poorly computer
Wednesday 12th February 2020 16:42 GMT 
It couldn't happen again, could it?
Home Office tells man, 101, his parents must confirm ID
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/12/home-office-tells-man-101-his-parents-must-confirm-id
When the volunteer who helped Palmiero, a great-grandfather, scanned his passport into the EU settled status app to share the biometric data with the Home Office, the system misinterpreted his birth year as 2019 instead of 1919
Aw, look. The UK is still trying really hard to be the 'safest place to be online in the world'
Wednesday 12th February 2020 16:35 GMT 
Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Nicky Morgan said: "With Ofcom at the helm of a proportionate and strong regulatory regime, we have an incredible opportunity to lead the world in building a thriving digital economy, driven by groundbreaking technology, that is trusted by and protects everyone in the UK," while also pledging to keep the internet "vibrant and open".
Morgan is a halfwit, and this "incredible opportunity" guff is proof.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
