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But then they might Sunak you...
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Zuckerberg gets $26m in 'other' Meta compensation
Japan seeks to decentralize datacenters
Wednesday 13th April 2022 07:02 GMT 
It's interesting that Japan is trying hard to make its infrastructure more resilient by having more datacentres whilst the rest of the industry seems determined to put as much as possible into a few datacentres operated by AWS, Azure etc. We've already seen how when one of the big Cloud vendors has a problem the problems are quickly seen throughout the globe...
EU countries want to pool photos in massive facial recog database
Day 7 of the great Atlassian outage: IT giant still struggling to restore access
Amazon’s cloudy desktops creep towards cloudy workstations
Tuesday 12th April 2022 12:22 GMT
The new instances aren’t cheap - $537 and $959 a month respectively – but it’s also possible to pay a monthly reservation fee and hourly rental. Bringing your own Windows license knocks a few dollars off the monthly fees and a few cents off the hourly rate.
For those prices you could easily buy a similar spec on-prem work station for your office in a couple of months... Obviously if your data are in AWS then it does make some sense to use a workstation there, but I just can't see how/why you'd want to use these otherwise...
HCL and HP named in unflattering audit of India’s biometric ID system
Tuesday 12th April 2022 09:25 GMT
At this point readers may be wondering who ran UAIDI’s technology, because not archiving data or checking stakeholder security suggests they did not do it brilliantly.The answer is HCL – the Indian services giant was awarded a contract to manage UAIDI tech in 2012 and still has a role today.
Sounds like HCL didn't use an ACID-compliant database
Dell trials 4-day workweek, massive UK pilot of shortened week begins
Monday 11th April 2022 12:08 GMT
Re: There s no way to buy more time
My work is based in Basel on the border with France and Germany so we have lots of people coming over the border every day. My Company's policy of work "remotely if you want" can't apply to those coming over the border each day for social security reasons[0] so there is a bit of a two tier system here (which some people really resent).
[0] Each person coming over the border needs to basically come to work for four days a week
Scientists make spin ice breakthrough
Apple patched critical flaws in macOS Monterey but not in Big Sur nor Catalina
UiPath says war in Ukraine is affecting business confidence across Europe
Meta's plans to build hyperscale DC in Netherlands on hold
Wednesday 30th March 2022 14:25 GMT 
Some might view the construction of this particular DC in the Netherlands as a way of dealing with the increasingly thorny issue of data sovereignty, meaning the information on Facebook's European visitors would be kept in Europe. However, with the US seemingly supporting stateside storage of EU citizens' data, Meta might be less worried about pumping the brakes.
A future change of American government could probably change this in an instant.
DARPA to build life-saving AI models that think like medics
Wednesday 30th March 2022 11:30 GMT
Re: This is one case where an AI will never be better
If you saw the Falklands War programme on Channel 4 last Sunday then there were all sorts of claims about stupidity and competition between senior officers leading to many injuries and deaths. They also claimed that if the Argentines had got to one hill over Port Stanley ten minutes earlier then the British forces would have been annihilated and the war might have gone the other way...
Dev rigs up receipt printer to spit out GitHub issues
Capgemini wins contract to look after legacy HMRC Aspire tech
Nvidia outlines subscription-fueled journey to $1tr revenue
Blockchain powered stock market rebuild started in 2017 delayed again
Google helps develop AI-driven lab machine to diagnose Parkinson's
Big Tech revenues under threat from EU law proposals
BOFH: Putting the gross in gross insubordination
UK Ministry of Defence takes recruitment system offline, confirms data leak
Apple's Mac Studio exposed: A spare storage slot and built-in RAM
GitHub explains outage string in incidents update
Microsoft, Nvidia extend Azure confidential computing to GPUs
How Pfizer used AI and supercomputers to design COVID-19 vaccine, tablet
Wednesday 23rd March 2022 12:08 GMT
Re: Pfizer didn't develop the vaccine
Generally in BigPharma* R & D is split into two parts (with a fuzzy bit in the middle). Research is where molecules are discovered and Development is where the drugs are tested in humans and where they work out how to make said drug at scale. In this case I think the Research was in Biontech, the development in Pfizer.
* I work for a competitor to Pfizer.
Android's Messages, Dialer apps quietly sent text, call info to Google
OVHcloud datacenter 'lacked' automatic fire extinguishers, electrical cutoff
SAP wins competition to replace own ageing system at UK council
US is best place to be a software engineer, salary survey finds
AMD: Our latest, pricier mega-cache Epyc processors leapfrog Intel’s
The IBM System/360 Model 40 told you to WHAT now?
AI drug algorithms can be flipped to invent bioweapons
Monday 21st March 2022 08:11 GMT
he dual-use experiment was carried out for research purposes, and a paper on the matter was published in Nature this month.
Please bare in mind that Nature and Nature Machine Intelligence are separate journals; the former is a highly prestigious general journal, the latter is a very specialist one.
Monday 21st March 2022 08:06 GMT
Re: "I want [to synthesize] something that does not use [anything] on the watch list"
I've read newspaper reports that the (illegal recreational) drugs-trade chemists have been doing this for some time. Bit of an arms race going on, between the chemists and the regulators playing catch-up.
This is why countries now make entire classes of drugs illegal rather than specific molecules. Drug companies even buy software to make sure their chemists don't synthesise anything naughty.
It'd be fun to see it contested in court as I'm pretty sure judges and juries have very little understanding of chemical fingerprints, Tanimoto distances etc.
Northwest England councils in £31m SaaS HR system tender
Friday 18th March 2022 10:56 GMT 
The project, described in a presentation by Paul Muir of the council's technology team, aimed to upgrade the core ERP system from SAP ECC5 on a Sun Solaris 9 server using an Oracle 10.2.0.4 database to ECC6 running on Red Hat Linux 6.2 Intel server using an IBM Db2 database.
Wasn't Red Hat 6.2 released in the 2000?
Client demo in 30 minutes. Just what could go wrong?
114 billion transistors, one big meh. Apple's M1 Ultra wake-up call
Monday 14th March 2022 12:17 GMT
Re: The honeymoon is over
Yeah, the last transformative upgrade to PCs was affordable SSDs.
My PC is nine years old, I swapped the discs[0] and GPU[1] but I don't feel the urge to spend a load of cash replacing it until I have to.
[0] I work in IT so have seen more than my share of dead discs
[1] I thought we'd get a full COVID lockdown so I figured I'd need something to entertain myself.
Intel to spend €17bn on chip mega-factory in Germany
Wednesday 16th March 2022 09:45 GMT
Re: Writing
Whenever we publish in US time, we try to use US spelling. In fact, we're gradually moving to all US spelling to make the site consistent.
Please don't. One nice nice thing that sets The Register apart from the rest is the tone and moving to American English will just move the site nearer to the many homogenous US IT sites...
Prototype app outperforms and outlasts outsourced production version
Reg reader rages over Virgin Media's email password policy
UK Home Office dangles £20m for national gun licence database system
BOFH: Gaming rig for your home office? Yeah right
The long-term strategy behind IBM's Red Hat purchase
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