Doesn't help the ACLU in exchange for millions, agreed to funnel some of the money BACK to Google and some to the lawyers for "services rendered"......which is why the ACLU was selected as a beneficiary.
Posts by xyz123
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Google location tracking deal could be derailed by politics
NASA confirms Florida house hit by a piece of ISS battery pack
Microsoft to use Windows 11 Start menu as a billboard with app ads for Insiders
My work has been forced to cancel this years planned windows 11 upgrade. having unskippable unstoppable, UNFILTERABLE ads on the start menu was the death knell for 65,000 PCs needing an upgrade from windows 10.
Our tech update is now checking into Linux.
EVEN the possibility of introducing this has killed windows 11 permanently for us and over 5000 of our client companies.
Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins
BOFH: The new Boss, Aiman, is suspiciously good – for now
Support contract required techie to lounge around in a $5,000/night hotel room
I can't tell you which company, but they paid for a friend of mine to stay in a £1000/night hotel for a week for similar "emergency" stuff. However they also offered to pay for "companionship" for him.
Which was turned down as he was married. We had a right laugh trying to imagine how you'd put THAT on what the company INSISTED was a per-action itemized expenses form.
(think..ordered food, ordered drink....ordered snacks...and you'd have to list EVERYTHING that happened with/to those items)
Industrial robots make people feel worse about jobs and themselves
VMware customer reaction to Broadcom may set the future of software licensing
Fujitsu set to be preferred bidder in UK digital ID scheme
No joking or exaggeration, but Fujitsu's plan here is to 'accidentally' intertwine itself with multiple UK ID systems, so they have to become the preferred bidder for future contracts related to ID.
This is the same shit they pulled with Chief. The code was ordered by the CEO/board and execs to be overly complicated to do even simple tasks, so no-one BUT Fujitsu had a hope in hell of supporting it.
FJ has also (internally) decided it would LOVE a database of 16-20yr olds so it can sell the data once its contracts in the UK finally shutdown.
They will have names, photos, addresses, date of birth and a host of other stuff to sell to scam organizations and foreign governments. Hell they already sell HMRC data to China from the Chief import/export system.
Garlic chicken without garlic? Critics think Amazon recipe book was cooked up by AI
Claims emerge that Citrix has doubled price of month-to-month partner licenses
Citrix, because who wouldn't want a 32GB Ryzen 7950x with a 4090RTX and 2TB PCI-E5.0 NVME to run applications slower than a 1998 Packard Bell PC with Windows NT ?
Any company STILL running anything citrix in 2024 deserves to crash and burn in the same way as anyone still using Novell Netware or a windows 3.1 server.
Broadcom boss Hock Tan acknowledges 'some unease' among VMware community
Ad agency boss owned two Ferraris but wouldn't buy a real server
Re: Been there, done that.
I know one fruity phone company and one telecoms company AND a satelliet tv company that in 2024 STILL use thousands of unlicensed copies of windows.
They hide this by "secure" facilities where you need notice to inspect/enter. So all the staff "work from home" on that day....purely co-incidentally......
Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4
Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient, cuts cost of energy storage
Microsoft says AI alliances are needed to compete with Google
Except google bard AND gemini are utter pieces of crap. Worse than a 1990s Eliza Chatbot. seriously.
It can't talk about breast cancer, because boobies.
Ask it about cancer, it goes off about zodiac nonsense and refuses to talk about the disease.
it can barely add two numbers together and for some reason thinks online gaming is "adult sexual content"
That and google has admitted Bard and Gemini will be bricked before the end of 2024....
Nissan to let 100,000 Aussies and Kiwis know their data was stolen in cyberattack
'Chemical cat' on the loose in Japanese city
Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B... and it has yet to turn a profit
Reddit has been informed multiple times by various governments that having mostly (95%+) voluntary mods cannot continue if they IPO. Mods will need to become actual employees at at least minimum wage, with entitlement to health care, PTO etc.
Reddit has been hiding this info buried as deeply as they can in giant waffling IPO documents. Shares will launch at $31, but drop to around $10 within a week or two as regulators demand employee contracts, wages paid (taxes as well obviously).
IPO is going to be hilariously terrible and shareholders will be left with less than 1/3 of their initial investment.
remember Friendster/Myspace etc? Reddit is about to die out, and the contenders to replace are waiting in the wings.
They just haven't launched yet, because they didn't want Reddit to steal their unique selling points pre-IPO.
BOFH: I get locked out, but I get in again
EU users can't update 3rd party iOS apps if abroad too long
Lawsuit claims gift card fraud is the gift that keeps on giving, to Google
Google, Apple AND Amazon have all point-blank refused to allow gift card purchases to be permanently blocked on their systems.
Because Amazon makes over 1.5 BILLION a year pure profit, Google 433 million and Apple's scam profits are off the charts into the double digit billions.
They could easily add a tickbox "DO NOT ALLOW GIFT CARD PURCHASES" and make it so unticking the option starts a 7day countdown to re-enable, but they refused.
Anthropic unlocks Claude 3, claims it's better than ChatGPT and Gemini
Utter crap.
Tried claude. It told me Catholicism is illegal and it couldn't discuss the Eucharist as it featured cannibalism and necromancy.
Asked it to scan a website for data, it said it couldn't scan websites, then proceeded to scan the website and get the results completely wrong.
For example it told me bitcoin was worth $1 each, but when I said "you're wrong" it came back with other randomized figures.
Hold up world, HP's all-in-one print subscription's about to land, and don't forget AI PCs
Fun Fact: HP is 10s of BILLIONS in debt, but they've "restructured" the debt to hide it from the generally available company status reports. (it's hidden in shell companies and "affliliates" which used to be HP departments)
Company is collapsing fast, and is in fact poised to be split up into smaller units and sold to whoever-will-buy-it.
Printers are a dead end. Even the UK Government has ended its HP printer contract, (mainly due to the 'analysis' clauses..which means HP takes a copy of everything printed over the compulsory network/internet connection) and 1000s of printers won't be renewed as they're expensive, generally unused and pointless.
They call me 'Growler'. I don't like you. Let's discuss your pay cut
used to have 2 OPs managers. one left for a better position, the one that remained was terrible.
FIRST meeting with the client company without the other Operations manager controlling her (client was a very large UK satellite broadcaster), she cracked a joke about the CEO banging his new celebrity wife and because he was so old, him crumbling into dust.
The meeting was chaired by the guys SON. 100 million pound contract terminated due to the 'disparagement' clause........
Google wants regulators to take Microsoft down a notch before it stifles AI
No-one wants to use Google Cloud because they only JUST released Gemini, but internally it's being decommissioned in June 2027.
Their cloud infrastructure is in the process of being bricked. Constant malicious "errors"/outages etc are being used to drive customers away, reducing complaints as Cloud is being "deprecated" (internal used term) in December 2025. Some customers are even being offered cheap/free "contract paid off" if they want to go.
They have even stated in high-up meetings that Chrome is "a money drain" and they want rid of it. So Execs have started forcing unwanted changes such as limitations on ad-blocker extensions so the wind-down (again another internally used phrase for the end of chrome) will have a smaller userbase, and therefore less anger after the declaration they're switching to a chrome with security-updates only, , followed by final shutdown of all new versions.
Are you ready to back up your AI chatbot's promises? You'd better be
Please remember this is Canada, where they have already executed 13,000 people for "being poor" whilst claiming they "chose to end their lives with dignity".
Canada is essentially a totalitarian regime now with quite-literal death camps if you are poor or elderly (they state you don't have sufficient quality of life, and so must be humanely destroyed).
Seriously..google for Canada MAiD. its frightening and horrific whats happened.
Avast shells out $17M to shoo away claims it peddled people's personal data
Does anyone still use AVAST these days? Now owned by a shady AF chinese firm that is thoroughly and utterly conntrolled by the CCP in Bejing.
Avast installers are pre-bundled with extremely nasty malware that drops its own payloads AND opens doors to remotely contact botnet servers and download even more horrific stuff.
Basically you install ANY Avast version in 2024, you've just ended your entire networks security and given complete control of your PC to the chinese government.
Why would anyone do this?
Sam Altman's chip ambitions may be loonier than feared
250 million-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released – but the internet isn’t built to use them
Billions lost to fraud and error during UK's pandemic spending spree
Most of the fraud was committed BY MPs of both major parties. They gave contracts etc to "best buds".
The whole Tory / Labour and even US Republican/Democrat thing is a total farce. Behind the scenes off camera they're personal friends, go to each others weddings, birthdays etc.
System designed to make you THINK there's an election choice.
In its tantrum with Europe, Apple broke web apps in iOS 17 beta, still hasn't fixed them
Re: I love Apple...
Tim Cook is NOT a "nice bloke" no-one that isn't forced into PR 'lovelyspeak' has a good word about him.
He's a selfish, egotistical other-people-blamer that will throw anyone under the bus if they 'displase' him. And displeased can be anything from failing to call him Mr Cook, to getting in his line of sight when he's yelling at another employee.
Windows 11 24H2 is coming so we can all shut up about Windows 12 for another year
Dell said to be preparing broad Return To Office order this Monday
Blackbaud settles with FTC after that IT breach exposed millions of people's info
Mozilla slams Microsoft for using dark patterns to drive Windows users toward Edge
Windows 3.11 trundles on as job site pleads for 'driver updates' on German trains
Standards-obsessed boss ignored one, and suffered all night for his sin
I worked For a fruit-based phone maker. They used a mix of [Dirty flasher coats] and PCs to run their network.
High up manager comes in, decides to ethnically cleanse all (as he put it) "the windows filth" from the datacentre. For some reason he thought the PCs were there for people to 'play games' or something!
He unplugged various cables and manually removed the Twin PC servers.
Whole network including iCloud went down, as those PCs were being used to syncronize everything else, controlling load balancing, scheduling backups etc. They also ensured if you hadn't accessed your icloud data for a long time, it went to slower storage. (which is why if you haven't accessed stuff for a few months it can take a little bit to appear).
Whole system down, and the way he'd removed cables he'd damaged the motherboards, fibre connectors AND the ports (think angrily RIPPING them out).
Entire system was down for 1.5days until engineers could replace the PC motherboards and get everything up and running again.
IT consultant fined for daring to expose shoddy security
Congratulations Modern Solutions on your "win".
You now have ZERO researchers willing to tell you about vulnerabilities and as a bonus you made 10s of thousands of enemies, as well as alerting rogue actors in Russia/China/Iran etc that you DO NOT ABSOLUTELY EVER want anyone to tell you that you're vulnerable or even already under attack from a rogue state.
You is gonna get Pwned.
IBM overhauls rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points
This can actually be classified as Employer fraud.
Basically you implement a "reward" system that doesn't pay out immediately, but sets a goal of internal 'points' then when a large enough group gets near to a payout, you cancel the whole thing.
its very VERY illegal. it comes down to various employee rights as well as contract bait and switch.
Like the racism/sexism/ageism issues, its just another in the long line of thousands upon thousands of lawsuits IBM is fighting.
Cloudflare defends firing of staffer for reasons HR could not explain
At least with IBM they're quite blatant (between manager emails) that the reason you're sacked is because you're 40+ years old or because one manager just found out you were an [N-Word].
So they have a reason, although they won't openly say thats why IBM sacks thousands of people every year. Racism and Age Discrimination.
Probably the reason IBM is facing lawsuits for more total money than the entirety of IBM is worth.....