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Ministry of Defence tells contractors not to answer certain UK census questions over security fears
Staff and students at Victoria University of Wellington learn the most important lesson of all: Keep your files backed up
Partial beer print horror as Microsoft's printer bug fix, er, doesn't
What happens when your massive text-generating neural net starts spitting out people's phone numbers? If you're OpenAI, you create a filter
Microsoft customers locked out of Teams, Office, Xbox, Dynamics – and Azure Active Directory breakdown blamed
Someone defeated the anti-crypto-coin-mining protection for Nvidia's 'gamers only' RTX 3060 ... It was Nvidia
Wednesday 17th March 2021 11:21 GMT 
It's a pain in the backside...
for those of us developing low cost systems for scientific research, especially COVID mutation modelling trying to pre-empt mutations that could render vaccines less effective. It's easy enough to spot the sequence changes as they spread, but not so easy knowing what the implications of those mutations might be.
US govt indicted me because I make privacy tools, says crypto-chat app CEO accused of helping drug smugglers
Holes patched in Russian segment of the ISS though pesky pressure loss continues
Don't be a fool, cover your tool: How IBM's mighty XT keyboard was felled by toxic atmosphere of the '80s
Customer comment and contributions no more as Microsoft pulls the plug on Office 365 UserVoice forum
Tuesday 9th March 2021 09:26 GMT
Every year for the last 15 years I’ve been putting a suggestion into their (and Apple to be fair) product feedback that alongside spelling abd grammar checking they should implement date sanity checking. Eg 29/02/21 or Wednesday 9th March would trigger a red wiggle and potentially ambiguous dates and times eg terms like this Friday, Monday week or midnight Wednesday, would trigger one of the blue lines with a suggestion of a more precise form.
And has this ever appeared? No.
Am I still getting emails and documents where I have to go back to the sender and point out they edited the date but not the day or that the relative date or time would be ambiguous? Yes.
The sooner AI stops trying to mimic human intelligence, the better – as there isn't any
While Reg readers know the difference between a true hacker and cyber-crook, for everyone else, hacking means illegal activity
What happens when cancel culture meets Adolf Hitler pareidolia? Amazon decides it needs a new app icon
Thursday 4th March 2021 14:35 GMT
Re: I guess sometimes you just can't win.
It is a truly awful logo. Is is some kind of a joke?
Mind you... if they'd asked me I would have submitted one identical to their previous one but at a slightly inflated price. I mean... if they liked the one they had bought before, surely they'd like the same again?
Rookie's code couldn't have been so terrible that it made a supermarket spontaneously combust... right?
Microsoft spearheads a whole new genre with installation on the side of a Lyon tunnel
Wednesday 24th February 2021 15:53 GMT
My French is pretty poor...
When visiting Paris once, with my at the time pregnant girlfriend, I crammed a few extra handy phrases that may be relevant should, for example, medical attention be required for some catastrophe or other. Schoolboy French, at least that taught when I was little, doesn't usually include the vocabulary required to construct phrases such as "She's pregnant!" and "we're having a baby"... nowadays, I dunno... might be standard in some parts of the country pre- the traditional class trip to France.
Anyway, I became fascinated by a sticker on the Metro...
"Il est interdit pour introducer les animaux dans l'enceinte du system metropolitan"... or something along those lines.
My attempt at translation was "It's forbidden to introduce animals into the pregnancy of the tube network."
I mean... WHAT? I know Parisians have a reputation for loving little yappy dogs and that, but do they REALLY have such a problem with dogs shagging on the platforms that they have to put up a sign about it?
Turns out "enceinte" would have been better translated as "confinement", which at one point in the distant history of English was a euphemism for the later stages of pregnancy.
I half expected some gendarme to sneak up behind me and pull something akin to "People called 'Romanes' they go the house?"
BOFH: 7 jars of Marmite, a laptop and a good time
Healthy 32-year-old offered COVID-19 vaccine because doctors had him down as 6.2cm tall with BMI of 28,000
The wastepaper basket is on the other side of the office – that must be why they put all these slots in the computer
Monday 22nd February 2021 08:39 GMT
Re: oh crumbs!
Our central IT lot bought a bargain lot of Dells (GX1s?) from a refresh sale of a Danish bank. 1000s of them to replace all the PCs in the college. A week before term started we had them all out on the desks in the computer suites. All set up ready to ghost. Turned them on and the room was filled with the most awful stench of fags and hash and sweat and just yuck. I was sick. Not such a bargain. We had to run them 24/7 for a month before it subsided enough to not cause complaints.
Big Tech workers prefer 3 days at home, 2 in the office. We ask Reg readers: What's your home-office balance?
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