Total guess - But I suspect this is the US pension pot only.
Posts by Gordon 10
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IBM to book $5.9b non-cash charge to transfer its pension liabilities
NHS data platform procurement delayed for a second time
Facebook hands over chats to cops in abortion case
Not a Roe vs Wade case (Poor show Reg)
This is poor journalism.
The case is under pre-Roe strikedown 20 week maximum termination laws.
Its functionally no different than a mother in the UK being tried for terminating after the 24 week limit here.
Utter distasteful actions by the state/police but nothing to do with Roe-Wade.
Remember the humanoid Tesla robot? It's ready for September reveal, says Musk
Re: Yeah right
I know it was a joke but Auto park has mostly worked reliably on lots of models of cars for years. My 2013 Merc has it. Though to be fair last time I used it parallel parked perfectly lengthways across 3 spaces. And remembering how to turn it on takes more mental effort than parking myself.
Claims of AI sentience branded 'pure clickbait'
Intel’s first discrete GPUs won't be a home run
Meta's Giphy buy could be back on after watchdog agrees to reboot investigation
Why is the CMA valuing GIFY for Meta
Since we all know the every GIF engine under the sun is pretty much worthless why is the CMA continually trying to make it look valuable?
Surely the best result for all of us is for Facecrap to have spunked a stupid amount of money on something that is fundamentally worthless?
Tropical island paradise ponders tax-free 'Digital Nomad Visa'
Look to insects if you want to build tiny AI robots that are actually smart
Consultant plays Metaverse MythBuster. Here's why they're wrong
So basically
McKinsey have probably recieved a large bundle of cash from FaceTwat to talk up the Metaverse and are doing do by redefining it as "Gaming on the internet".
In particular failing to mention the well publicised kiddy risks - especially wrt Roblox. And that before we get to the flying penises of Second Life.
Bzzt FAIL
GPUs aren’t always your best bet, Twitter ML tests suggest
Atos CEO resigns after board proposes splitting the company
Meta slammed with eight lawsuits claiming social media hurts kids
Elon Musk needs more cash for Twitter buy after Tesla margin loan lapses
Re: Genuine question
You are mixing up the financing of the buyout with the buyout itself. Musk has a financial house of cards he is juggling to produce the funding to buy enough of the publicly traded twitter shares to take it private.
At a high level the buyout works exactly as you have articulated.
Clearview AI fined millions in the UK: No 'lawful reason' to collect Brits' images
Re: And the enforceability of this fine is done how?
Since what they are doing - collecting images without consent is pretty much illegal in the UK - I'll doubt they'll care. They obviously dont give a stuff about operating in the EU or UK or they would never have gone down this route. BUT EU/UK citizens data will still be used to populate the training sets for their ML models.
Especially if you consider what they'd actually have to do to comply - which is to hard delete both the photos AND the ML models that were generated from them.
Never
Gonna
Happen
So I say again. What actual enforcement actions (that will work!) are open to the ICO? The only one I can think of is get them added to a sanctions list - but that seems tall ask for the ICO to achieve and I'm not sure the framework is in place for it. I think they'd have to write to one of the junior ministers in charge of the UK Treasury.
You downvoters are a bit naive on this one I think.
Safari is crippling the mobile market, and we never even noticed
Re: mobile screens too small?
Meh.
Even then I'm unconvinced unlocking the iOS browser engine will generate the wild surge of innovation they suppose.
Its very Western, Capitalist thinking that change for change's sake is good.
Maybe a dull steady state with lots of known - and therefore avoidable - bugs is better than rampant "innovation" and "creative destruction"?
I know I've come to dread every Chrome for Desktop update. Something annoying generally occurs 1 patch outta 3.
LIDAR in iPhones is not about better photos – it's about the future of low-cost augmented reality
Apple to replace future iPhone Lightning port with USB-C next year, this guy claims
I'm unconvinced.
Especially by the analysts BS rationale about speeds and charging. This is Apple. Multiple inventor or adopter of "different" connectors and protocols.
If they put their mind to it they could easily invent or promote something better just like they did when they were about the only big company to promote Thunderbolt or SCSI or Firewire.
Now as a BOM reduction exercise from Tim the master beancounter - as mentioned further up the comments - that I could believe.
(as an aside USB-C PD charging on the newish Ipad Pro is as brilliant as the standard USB-C on it charging is poor.)
Appian awarded over $2b after claiming Pegasystems stole its data
Odd
Seems a very odd ruling to me. If the only "trade secrets are a bit of look and feel and some UX functionality copied from videos then 2Bn seems a bit steep. Especially when all these Workflow/load code tools tend to converge on the same paradigms and concepts.
Without knowing more this seems to be a typical "US Court system doesn't understand Tech" result.
Study: How Amazon uses Echo smart speaker conversations to target ads
Twitter faces existential threat from world's richest techbro
Re: Do what?
And what happens when the laws and courts are effectively 50-60% owned by that person?
Anyone who doesn't realise we are witnessing a group trying to smother American democracy on behalf of an angry white minority (hint its not the left) and mostly succeeding is delusional.
Freedom of speech requires democracy, sometimes freedom of speech has to come second to the needs of democracy.
Frankly it's only American's that put freedom of speech on such a ridiculous pedestal. Rather like not flag burning.
Elon Musk says he can get $46.5bn to buy Twitter
Re: Wait, what?
I don't think the Holme's comparison is valid. She was a total fraud. Musk (the public persona) is more of a PT Barnum figure, but genuinely successful at multiple things he puts his mind to.
By comparison his peers like Bezos and Gates are one trick ponies. - albeit very successful ones.
Re: SpaceX is his most solid buisness at this point.
I would take issue with much promised and little delivered. Yes he overhypes but none of the deliveries that Tesla and SpaceX have managed have been achieved by any of the incumbents in those industries.
(3 if you count paypal)
Cheapest Space Launch system ever.
Biggest Electric Car manufacturer.
Best Charging network.
Like it or not - he's a disrupter in the true sense of the word - not the VC bullshit sense of the world.
British motorists will be allowed to watch TV in self-driving vehicles
Re: Clippy behind the wheel
"Decisions like it is safer to go faster than the speed limit right now are potentially impossible for computers."
But thats a decision where there is always one answer - NO. Thats not even a binary question.
A "self driving" car that accelerated and braked smoothly and always obeyed the speed limits would be a quantum leap forward both for Safety and Climate change.
If you fire someone, don't let them hang around a month to finish code
SPAC sponsors could soon be held liable for over-hyping to investors
ExoMars rover launch axed over Russia tensions
Ukraine invasion: We should consider internet sanctions, says ICANN ex-CEO
Re: its over
AND?
You're seriously suggesting that the conceit of a single world wide internet trumps the ability to hobble war mongers from war mongering?
Your argument doesn't hold water. There are multiple worldwide financial transfer networks. They work just fine.
I'm not sure the "architectural purity" of the current Internet is a valid argument tbh.
Reg reader rages over Virgin Media's email password policy
NHS Digital's demise bad for 55 million patients' privacy – ex-chairman
Ericsson report details how it paid off Islamic State
Re: Tough Moralism
Ericsson didn't have to do anything. There is no universal rule saying a region has to have a mobile network so badly its worth bribing actual terrorists to get things done. After all the infrastructure would have benefited them anyway so strategically they probably could have negotiated a deployment without a hefty bribe.
Harvard, MIT, Berkeley are still fighting over genome-editing patents. Now another ruling
EU digital sovereignty: Cloud players unconvinced
Talk about a day late and a dollar short - Elvis has left the country.....
The opportunity to build a EU hyperscaler has been and gone. There is zero chance of them being competitive with Oracle and Ali let alone the big 3.
They would be better off bribing approaching MS or AWS or GCP (please no) to set up a duplicate ownership model in the EU. License the technology from the Mothership but total network and company segregation from it. Like Gov.cloud but EU.Cloud.
IBM HR chief insists 'no systemic age discrimination'
UK pins hopes on 'latest technology' to whittle down massive National Health Service waiting lists
Oh FFS
Stop spending peanuts on tech boondoggles and start hiring to replace the 93k NHS vacancies, plus the next 100k who are approaching burnout.
£37Bn on T&T - cant even be arsed to fund the NHS properly - even with an 12Bn NI rise. There is a point at which it becomes ideologically led destruction of the NHS in favour of their Tory donating mates.
Geomagnetic storm takes out 40 of 49 brand new Starlink satellites
Tiny Uber offshoot tries to do for data lakes what Snowflake did for data warehousing
The're a bit late to the Party
No-one except Web 3.0 darlings with megascale are building on Hadoop anymore. Because old school relational (MS, Oracle) and new skool relational (Snowflake) are good enough to cover off most Lake use cases as well these days.
Besides there have been a couple of Hadoop as SAAS/Managed Service products around for years. BlueData and Cazena/Cloudera SAAS.
NASA taps Lockheed Martin to build Mars parcel pickup rocket
Attack on Titan: Four Japanese Manga publishers sue Cloudflare
HPE has 'substantially succeeded' in its £3.3bn fraud trial against Autonomy's Mike Lynch – judge
Re: Absolutely ourageous
As much as I dislike to admit it - its your "common sense" again the experience and expertise of a top tier Judge for which these matters are one of his specialties.
HPE being a gang of clowns and Auditors either not doing their jobs or doing them incompetently doesnt stop there actually being Fraud committed - which is what the Judge has ruled.