just wait until they get animated ones ...
Posts by EnviableOne
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We sat through Apple's product launch disguised as a dev event so you don't have to
Campaigners warn of legal challenge against Privacy Shield enhancements
Vehicle owner data exposed in GM credential-stuffing attack
US-APAC trade deal leaves out Taiwan, military defense not ruled out
Wording is Important
there is a big difference between "consider military intervention" and actually putting boots on the ground.
Basically, the US will not commit to anything but makes clear to Xi that if he tries to do what Putin has with Ukraine, there will be consequences.
After all, people can live without gran, but semi-conductors are essential
Florida's content-moderation law kept on ice, likely unconstitutional, court says
the problem is a large minority of people nowadays have issues decerning the difference between facts and opinions.
I firmly believe that we need to restore the balance of critical thinking and wider opinion in this algorithm-driven opinion funnel world, where our views are curated sorted and centralised and opposing ones excluded as irrelevant.
we need to think about subjects from multiple angles and weigh multiple points of view, make our own decisions on motives and how the facts affect us, and not just accept the opinion of someone not directly involved, just because they are from our "team."
the world needs to stop dividing into "US" and "THEM" and come together as one for the common good. Until we actually have some discourse, outside our digital bubble, we don't realise the breadth of other views that exist and that they may be reasonable and the people that hold them might share some views with us, and the extremes painted by either side, of the opposition, may be exaggerated, possibly to the absurd, to get us to take a more extreme stance in the other direction.
Now there are no perfect solutions, but if everyone has a voice and is free to speak from their perspective, we will realise we have more in common than divides us, and we differ far less than we think. allowing us to find common ground to forge a path where we work together to combine our strengths and not exploit each other's weaknesses, and as a whole achieve a fairer, more contented society, that allows us to understand that life isnt a zero-sum game, and we can all be the best we can be, without the need to tear each other down.
Software patching must work like car safety recalls, says US cyber boss
Re: An interesting viewpoint from Mr Inglis
"Interesting, only because he seems not to understand the existence of Open Source and its implications."
No, it seeks to enforce that they obey the terms of the licence (eg apache licence clause 7 final sentence that says :"You are solely responsible for determining the appropriateness of using or redistributing the Work and assume any risks associated with Your exercise of permissions under this License.")
Microsoft patches the patch that broke Windows authentication
The sad state of Linux desktop diversity: 21 environments, just 2 designs
Cars in driver-assist mode hit a third of cyclists, all oncoming cars in tests
Hot glare of the spotlight doesn’t slow BlackByte ransomware gang
Supreme Court urged to halt 'unconstitutional' Texas content-no-moderation law
China's Kylin Linux targets second RISC-V platform
Tech pros warn EU 'data adequacy' at risk if Brexit Britain goes its own way
Re: Too late
well said.
there are only two solutions to the Northern Ireland trade situation that please both the Nationalists (no border on the island of Ireland) and the Unionists (no border between NI and the rest of UK) both rely on their being free trade between Ireland and the UK.
The first method that was working perfectly fine was both countries are part of the EU and hence have the rights to internal market as all members do.
The second is both are outside the EU and have the right to negotiate their own bilateral agreements, and form part of a separate free-trade area.
Ireland is not going to leave the EU, as they have some sense.
During the time since the Belfast / Good Friday Agreement, the economy of NI has become dependent on that of the non-UK part, due to the economies of scale and the limited size of the market in the UK bit.
the only viable option for NI, with the majority either for(SF) or Indifferent to (Alliance) the union of both parts of Ireland, is for that to take place and both to be part of the EU.
Intel shareholders revolt against Pat Gelsinger's pay package
Cryptocurrency laundromat Blender shredded by US Treasury in sanctions first
AMD approaches '30%' x86 CPU market share, thanks to servers 'n' laptops
Apple to replace future iPhone Lightning port with USB-C next year, this guy claims
India to upgrade mobile networks near Maoist insurgents to 4G
FBI: Cyber-scams cost victims $6.9b-plus worldwide in 2021
Phishing operation hits NHS email accounts to harvest Microsoft credentials
Re: Correction
be grateful she's not john.smith238@nhs.net or jonhsmith165 which both exist.
they have the ability for organisation specific sub-domains, but its a "receive only" alias
e.g. john.smith@<mytrust>.nhs.net
the misdirected email thing is a huge issue
but getting back to the story, it may be 136 NHSMail accounts, but its a wider O365 issue, that all orgs have to face, and NHS mail is too monolithic to handle
Critical vulnerabilities found in 'millions of Aruba and Avaya switches'
Apple to bin apps that go three years without updates
AWS CEO: We're not spinning out, likely to seek acquisitions
Re: There is no cloud
fully agree, Cloud should be replaced with the acronym OPT
Other Peoples Tin
cloud invokes some kind of ethereal intangible location that is unreachable and unobtainable.
when TBF the cloud is more like Dave's Bitbarn in a sleazy industrial estate where there might be CCTV cameras, but they dont all work, and the main entrance may be secure, but there are tons of others...
Rivals aren't convinced by Microsoft's one-click default browser change
Russia bans foreign software purchases for critical infrastructure
UK spy boss warns China hopes Russia will help it take over tech standards
Senate edges US chip world closer to $50b subsidies
Meta's plans to build hyperscale DC in Netherlands on hold
DARPA to build life-saving AI models that think like medics
Unit 42: Ransomware demands we're aware of averaged $2.2m last year
World Leading
for once it looks like the Uk leads at something. perhaps US SMBs should have a look at the controls in NCSC/IASME Cyber essentials,
It won't protect you from everything, but it's about getting the basics right, which should stop someone who is not specifically targeting you (the spray and pray method)
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/cyberessentials/overview
Okta acknowledges 'mistake' in handling of Lapsus$ attack
They still dont seem to get it
Okta was at an event I attended on Friday, and the stock response of there is nothing to see here is all they'd come out with.
They don't seem to realise, the issue is not that they had an incident, it's how they knew about it for 2 months and didn't tell anyone. we would have been fine with "we have identified an issue at one of our sub-processors that may affect a limited number of our customers and we are investigating"
followed by
"the issue existed for 4 days from 10th Jan to 24th Jan, at our outsource customer service partner Sitel (Sykes) and may have affected up to 366 customers, we will update you when we receive the full report from our DFIR Partner <name>, and are informing the customers who may have been affected"
then
"here is the full report"
that would have maintained the trust with their customers, that their business is supposed to be built upon.
Fresh concerns about 'indefinite' UK government access to doctors' patient data
Re: This data will be sold to USA 'health' businesses
selling of anonymised (however badly) data and aggregate data on the population is not controlled in any way and the unique coherence of NHS data covering 55million people in a similar geographic area makes it a commodity.
it allows statistical testing of outcomes, which is very much of use to the US Insurance companies and the healthcare providers
It also provides data to those American healthcare companies like the one that just opened a 184-bed hospital in Grosvenor Place, near Buckingham Palace, in central London, looking to gain access to the UK market and pay the Nation MPs handsomely for a specific trust/region
'Enterprise' browser maker Island valued at $1.3bn out of the gate
Okta now says: Lapsus$ may in fact have accessed customer info
Outsourcing firm Serco wins £212m UK Test and Trace deal
Fair and Open
"The contracts have been awarded following a fair and open procurement process, in line with public sector procurement guidelines and with the aim of achieving value for the taxpayer."
surely that should be a Fayre and Old Men process in line with private school cronies and achieving profits for the low tax paying oligarch doners of the party.
Authentication oufit Okta investigating Lapsus$ breach report
Trust No 1
IMHO the way they have handled this has irreparably damaged any trust customers had in their business.
and in their field that's the most important thing.
they knew there was a breach back in January and didn't tell anyone until the threat actor did.
and trusting Sitel is always a recipe for disaster (there's a reason it's usually spelt with an additional h)
Android's Messages, Dialer apps quietly sent text, call info to Google
BOFH: Gaming rig for your home office? Yeah right
AMD unveils first CPU with 3D V-Cache tech, cheaper Ryzens
UK cybersecurity revenue up 14% on last year to £10.1bn
AWS to build 32 more small clouds around the world
IT technician jailed for wiping school's and pupils' devices
Arm's $66bn sale to Nvidia is off: Deal collapses after world's competition regulators raise concerns
depends where they list it
New York - Great for US companies
London - Vote of confidence in Post Brexit Britain
Frankfurt - Vote of confidence in Europe (no-confidence in Britain)
Hong Kong - Bad for the US, Good for china
Tokyo - Where SoftBank is at, probably the best neutral location.
but all of them will be competing, and it might end up dual listed