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Posts by The Alphabet
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Better buckle up: Volkswagen puts Microsoft in driver's seat to deliver 'automated' platform
Tim Cook 'killed' TV project about the one website Apple hates more than The Register
Uri Geller calls off 20-year ban on Pokémon trading card that 'stole' his 'signature image'
Transport for London asks Capita to fling Congestion Charge system into the cloud
Swivel on this: Spinning Surface Hub 2X module may not be happening after all
PSA: Disable FaceTime. Miscreants can snoop on your iPhone, Mac mic before you pick up call
Full frontal vulnerability: Photos can still trick, unlock Android mobes via facial recognition
Day two – and Windows 10 October 2018 Update trips over Intel audio
UKIP doubled price of condoms for sale at party conference
You'll never guess what you can do once you steal a laptop, reflash the BIOS, and reboot it
If you want absolute security then the laptop should have a kill switch that automatically erases all the things including any USB devices, repeatedly, until the battery dies, if you are not physically touching the unit after 60 seconds.
It might make having a shower and sleeping difficult, but security is more important than such trivial things.
Go Pester someone else: TSB ditches CEO over bank's IT meltdown
It liiives! Sorta. Gentle azure glow of Windows XP clocked in Tesco's self-checkouts, no less
Microsoft says Windows 10 April update is fit for business rollout
The biggest complaint i hear is how every time this rolls around, they cant work for nearly 2 hours while it does whatever it is doing.
Android figured out how to do seamless updates (it does an update, boots into android then completes in the notification bar). Why Microsoft hasn't tried to do the same since XP on is crazy.
Microsoft will ‘lose developers for a generation’ if it stuffs up GitHub, says future CEO
If they screw this up they will lose trust.
After Skype, Nokia, Windows Phone, Danger, Windows Mobile, the many recent apps they have purchased and all the previous acquisitions in yesteryear only to sunset i'm surprised that they think this will be an issue only now.
It's not like they've done it enough times for people to be wary almost instantly, is it?
BT bets farm on consumers: Announces one network to rule 'em all
Apple's new 'spaceship' HQ brings the pane for unobservant workers
EE: Data goes TITSUP* for Brit mobile customers
If nothing ever works with EE all the time, then it must be working exactly as intended.
Surely?
Back when i was with T-Mobile i had network issues where inbound calls would constantly divert to voicemail at home despite having signal and trying multiple phones, you'd have to call about 7-10 times before my phone would actually ring. The problems stopped when i migrated to Orange, then when the network merger started i wound up back on T-Mobile's network again and continued until i left EE entirely.
They told me there was no technical or capacity issues in my area.
If at first you don't succeed, you're likely Intel: Second Spectre microcode fix emitted
From tomorrow, Google Chrome will block crud ads. Here's how it'll work
I'm surprised that "ads that cause device resources to be rapidly consumed" isn't on this list, because there's several who nag me to turn off the adblocker then as soon as i do Firefox baloons to 7-10gb RAM use.
It seems that ad-content seems to miss that serving me ads is a two-way relationship; serve me ads in a manner that does not upset or interrupt the content of the site i'm on, or the device i'm using to view it on. If you can't do that then that relationship fails and you dont deserve to serve me ads.
When you play this song backwards, you can hear Satan. Play it forwards, and it hijacks Siri, Alexa
Google can't innovate anymore, exiting programmer laments
It's 2018 and your Macs, iPhones can be pwned by playing evil music
That site you refer to states which devices gets the update, not that devices which are labelled obsolete cannot get any security updates on them even if the patches are released right after EOL.
Having to work out which are EOL ourselves is not the same as just plain saying "these devices will not get security patches no matter the severity of the issue".
Google themeslves could have easily said "the Nexus 6 will not be patched for this bug" (which was the last EOL Nexus before blueborne) but opted to stay silent.
*picks up my iPhone 5C, checks for updates*
"Your software is up to date"
I guess the security on my iPhone doesn't matter too much.
This isn't a jab at Apple either, as my Nexus 6 never received November 2017 patches (meaning it wasn't patched for blueborne). But note that both Apple and Google (and every other phone manufacturer) make careful attempts to avoid saying clearly what devices will not see an update.
Facebook invents new unit of time to measure modern attention spans: 1/705,600,000 of a sec
It gets worse: Microsoft’s Spectre-fixer wrecks some AMD PCs
My AMD laptop installed the patch automatically over the weekend, then immediately disabled the keyboard during the boot sequence, so i couldn't type the PIN to boot into windows.
I had to take my laptop back home (i was out travelling) and stick a USB keyboard into it just to type the PIN.
Well done.
HSBC swinging axe on UK IT department, 840 heads to roll
Logging on to United's frequent flyer site might take longer than a flight
Are bearded blokes more sexist?
Uninstall QuickTime for Windows: Apple will not patch its security bugs
TalkTalk outage: Dial M for Major cockup
Eric Schmidt, for one, welcomes our new robot overlords
Bash, smash, trash Flash – earn $100k cash
Three VoLTEs to victory as it jumps into UK 4G voice offering
Windows 10 is FORCING ITSELF onto domain happy Windows 7 PCs
Microsoft sets end date on Windows 10 support. Hey, wait, WHAT?
Drunk on Friday night? Then YOU probably DIDN'T spot Facebook's privacy tweak
Brit smut slingers shafted by UK censors' stiff new stance
Want to buy T-Mobile US? Yours for $35 per share – report
Ah ha, mon amour violet ... French Iliad attempts to nibble on T-Mobile US
Cheer up, Nokia fans. It can start making mobes again in 18 months
Jellybean dominates Play, still seated atop rising KitKat
Cost-cutting Barclays bank swings axe on 5,600 IT and ops bods
Chucking cash at sport and broadband starts to pay off for BT
T-Mobile US cuts overage charges, dares rivals to follow suit
T-Mobile US: AT&T's mobe buyout deal is so 'desperate', we'll do it too
iPHONE 5c FACTORY SHUTDOWN: Foxconn 'halts' mobe rebrand op
Each person that wanted the 5C changed their mind immediately after i pointed out the contract price is largely the same (on Three, the cost per month is exactly the same), and the sim-free price is only £70 ish cheaper than the 5S.
It's in this strange no-mans-land where its too expensive to be low cost for people to want (like the Moto G/Nexus 4 etc), but labelled as the "cheaper, low cost" device simply by virtue of not being the 5S.