And there you have it
The real machinations behind the VMWare debacle.
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Broadcom CEO pay award jumps 164% to $160.8 million
Security is hard because it has to be right all the time? Yeah, like everything else
Tuesday 27th February 2024 22:09 GMT 
Re: You can only
I'll have to stop you at end users.
You are correct. Now try to get everyone on board. Now try to get the top executives to follow the rules.
Yeah. Not happening.
I don't think I've ever worked anywhere that wasn't held together on bailing wire, duct tape and a wish and a prayer, with even the admins being scary slack.
And then there are the vendors. God save us from the vendors. Of which we have no control over, yet get the blame for their mistakes.
FAA gives Boeing 90 days to fix serious safety shortcomings found in report
Uncle Sam tells nosy nations to keep their hands off Americans' personal data
What is GitHub Copilot Enterprise? You and your org just might find out firsthand
Apple's Titan(ic) iCar project is dead as self-driving dream fails to materialize
Fox News 'hacker' turns out to be journalist whose lawyers say was doing his job
Broadcom builds a SASE out of VMware VeloCloud and Symantec
Texas judge turns out the lights on federal survey of cryptominers' energy consumption
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be coders, Jensen Huang warns
Microsoft's February Windows 11 security update unravels at 96% for some users
Data watchdog tells off outsourcing giant for scanning staff biometrics despite 'power imbalance'
Tuesday 27th February 2024 00:36 GMT 
All the cool kids are doing it!
https://www.wired.com/story/facial-recognition-vending-machine-error-investigation/
Canada-based University of Waterloo is racing to remove M&M-branded smart vending machines from campus after outraged students discovered the machines were covertly collecting face recognition data without their consent.
Dell promises 'every PC is going to be an AI PC' whether you like it or not
Tuesday 27th February 2024 00:21 GMT 
Goodbye Dell
For me that's the death knell for Dell.
I do NOT need MORE Big Brother in my life and nor does anyone else. I already spent far too much time turning off all the telemetry crap with Windows alone. And then the mfg's crap that comes with each new PC.
More? Piss right off. The whole goddamn point of the PC was to be independent of the mainframe.
Japanese Yakuza boss charged with nuclear trafficking by the US
Friday 23rd February 2024 02:01 GMT
Rut roh
He's gone for life.
But so is anyone even remotely involved with this. He'll get off with just a prison sentence. His cohorts will probably just disappear in "accidents". Interpol takes a very dim view of this as well.
And the relevant Japanes government agencies are also in deep, deep shit. Mt. Fuji level of deep shit. Keep an eye out for many changes and odd stories of the Japanese government in the future.
The U.S. does not, repeat, DOES NOT fuck around with nuclear weapons shenanigans. Just ask those 6 dead airman the last time a nuclear weapon was accidentally sent to another base just within the U.S. Accidental deaths, of course. Their COs were lucky to live. That little mistake cost a LOT of people their jobs and retirements.
AI comes for jobs at studio of American filmmaker Tyler Perry
Work for you? Again? After you lied about the job and stole my stuff? No thanks
Gelsinger splits Intel in two to advance foundry vision
Amazon hopes to avoid labor regulation by simply abolishing national watchdogs
Boss at one of Microsoft's largest resellers quits, admits secret share deals
Windows 11 users herded toward 23H2 via automatic upgrade
Oracle faces continued legal battle over alleged NetSuite software misrepresentations
Italy's military mulling space-based supercomputing cloud
Microsoft Publisher books its retirement party for 2026
Tuesday 20th February 2024 22:27 GMT 
Who?
I haven't used Publisher in decades. The other day, I had to actually look up what that P icon was in Office. Oh, Publisher. Yeah, I remember that. I used it from day one and it sucked. So did the next version.
I'd been using DTP since day one, starting with Ventura and Aldus Pagemaker. I also used to write Magna code (long lost to history at this point) by hand in the early days of digital typesetting. Funny how it was so close to HTML that making the transition to HTML 3 only took me a few weeks.
In that era, Pagemaker was the one to use. Then came Quark. What a flying piece of shit that was. So needlessly complicated. Of course it became the darling of the DTP world precisely FOR its complexity. In other words, it was best at creating the gatekeeping priesthood and nothing more.
Publisher's biggest problem was not being able to handle all the competing typesetting, printing and color formats of that time. I do NOT miss the format wars.
Then Word muscled into the do-all DTP world and became what most people used. Not professionals, but most people. (which reminds me of that time Word tried be a website maker as well.)
So yeah, goodbye Publisher. I won't miss you.
Euro shoppers popping more and more premium phones in the basket
City of London ditches Oracle for SAP in search of ERP enlightenment
Apple Vision Pro units returned as folks just can't see themselves using it
Apple makes it official: No Home Screen web apps in European Union
Saturday 17th February 2024 20:50 GMT
Changed without notice...
Well if that doesn't describe the entire state of IT these days, I don't know what does.
Who doesn't love waking up each day wondering what tech company left some unpleasant surprise that stinks to high heaven. Without notice and without documentation.
That's the biggest reason I come to El Reg. It's my only chance to keep from getting flattened by tech companies constant screw ups and whimsical and nonsensical changes.
FTC asks normal folks if they'd like AI impersonation scam protection, too
It's time we add friction to digital experiences and slow them down
Meta says risk of account theft after phone number recycling isn't its problem to solve
Infosys subsidiary named as source of Bank of America data leak
Chrome engine devs experiment with automatic browser micropayments
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