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Meanwhile, Apple is lining up '$1B' of Nvidia Blackwell Ultra kit Schneider Electric plans to spend $700 million through 2027 to expand its US operations and bolster the supply of its power equipment necessary to sustain the proliferation of AI datacenters.…

Who knew social media stars had a role to play in building national cyber resilience? The world's biggest brands have benefited from influencer marketing for years – now the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has hopped on the bandwagon to preach two-factor authentication (2FA) to the masses.…

At last, cell service from SPAAAAAACE Britain's telecoms regulator could authorize satellite-to-smartphone services in the UK before the end of this year.…

Spending watchdog says digital professionals need seat at top table to ensure 'transformation' The parlous state of UK government legacy IT systems is hampering attempts to adopt AI, a report from MPs has warned.…

PC-size ML prediction model predicted to be as good as a super at fraction of the cost Aardvark, a novel machine learning-based weather prediction system, teases a future where supercomputers are optional for forecasting - but don't pull the plug just yet.…

Firefly Aerospace choses Amazon boss's Honeybee Robotics to supply vehicle for 2028 mission Elon Musk may have launched hundreds of rockets and sent his own Tesla Roadster into space, but rival billionaire Jeff Bezos will soon be able to boast he’s built a moon rover.…

As rumors swirl about a new 72-core minimum vSphere license requirement VMware has sued industrial giant AG Siemens’s US operations for alleged use of unlicensed software and accused it of changing its story negotiations.…

The sausage-making aspect of making law is never a pretty sight, especially when unprincipled Republicans try to use green pork to clog up the machinery works.

Binned an e-commerce tax last year so this may not be complete capitulation The lower house of India's parliament on Tuesday passed the nation's budget for 2025, after making a last-minute change that removed a tax on digital ads.…

"... Funds must flow directly and predictably to developing nations ..."

Who needs studies into diseases, virus infections, US mortality rates ... right? Two academic organizations sued the Trump administration Tuesday for the allegedly unlawful withdrawal of $400 million in federal funding from Columbia University and associated demands for policy changes.…

Chip guru preaches virtues of 'values-aligned' pray-I, sorry, AI Pat Gelsinger, once CEO of VMware and later Intel, has announced he's taken a new job as executive chair and head of technology at Gloo, a Colorado-based startup offering technology tools for churches and other faith-based organizations.…

Overall it looks like the offshore wind construction projects are simply ignoring the Federal investigation into their legitimacy. Even under Biden the federal leasing agency made it clear that a lease is not a right to build, just a right to make a proposal. The leases themselves contain language allowing the Feds to change them with no limit to how big these changes might be.

Officials likely broke Privacy Act by dishing out info without consent A Maryland judge has dealt another blow to Elon Musk's cost-trimming DOGE unit, temporarily blocking the US Treasury, Dept of Education, and Office of Personnel Management from sharing union members' personal data with the billionaire's minions.…

The man who helped make Sammy the biggest name in modern tellies Samsung co-CEO Han Jong-hee died this week in the Samsung Medical Center in southern Seoul after a cardiac arrest. He was 63.…

An impressive recreation of the Windows golden age The ReactOS project is putting out a point-release for the first time in a few years, and this insanely optimistic effort is making progress.…

Customers come forward claiming info was swiped from prod Oracle Cloud's denial of a digital break-in is now in clear dispute. A infosec researcher working on validating claims that the cloud provider's login servers were compromised earlier this year says some customers have confirmed data allegedly stolen and leaked from the database giant is genuine.…

Bye bye Juliana v. United States.

We have one, yes – but what about a second death ray? Still shopping for the perfect death ray, the US Army has tapped Huntington Ingalls to build and test a prototype laser weapon designed to fry drones in flight.…

User group chairman warns, however, that ERP giant's pace is not feasible for every org Europe's German-speaking SAP user group is reporting a sharp uptick in organizations signing up or planning to sign up for the application vendor's preferred cloud migration route.…

My understanding of the world in which we live has undoubtedly increased greatly since I wrote the material which formed the first of a series of compilations, Fascism rebranded: exposing the Great Reset, a selection of essays from 2018 to 2021. In four subsequent volumes – The Great Racket: the ongoing development of the criminal global system; …

Joe Tsai says speculative datacenter builds could exceed actual demand Alibaba is warning of a datacenter spending "bubble" amid the rush to build infrastructure in anticipation of an AI feeding frenzy.…

Redmond veteran proposes Zero Sugar and Caffeine Free variants Baffled by the plethora of Outlook options out there? You aren't alone. Microsoft veteran Scott Hanselman posted a list of some more variants that could be used to do the same thing.…

The volume of water is estimated to be enough to cover Mars in an ocean about a mile deep.

16,000 stolen records pertain to former and active mail subscribers Infosec veteran Troy Hunt of HaveIBeenPwned fame is notifying thousands of people after phishers scooped up his Mailchimp mailing list.…

Thoughtful and considered … even if it is based on an American distro EU OS is a proposal for an immutable KDE-based Linux distribution with a Windows-like desktop, designed for use in European public-sector organizations.…

'Don't wait for another pandemic or civil challenge,' says US spy-tech biz Comment  It might take a particularly shameless company to grasp the opportunity presented by the UK's coronavirus pandemic and step in with a sales pitch. US spy-tech biz Palantir is willing to give it a go.…

Microsoft and Dell keeping quiet on their work-life-balance trials A four-day working week pilot programme is being squarely aimed at the UK tech sector with the final results to be assessed by academics.…

Other cities either started with rival kit, or had Chinese vendor core already built before any bans, says expert Interview  Recent research found that London is ranked at the foot of the table when it comes to 5G mobile service, but why should that be? The answer is a combination of issues, including available spectrum, investment and the great Huawei replacement.…

Attempting to put the best spin on it, LBC calls this a “pause”, but the scheme – a pet project of cycle-fanatic Cllr Adam Harrison, “Cabinet Member for Planning and a Sustainable Camden” and CBC’s Deputy Leader – was always unworkable. Uproar among locals, who discovered Camden’s brief ‘nonsultation’ was to be held during last summer’s holidays, was led by the Highgate Society which commissioned expert analysis of LBC’s dodgy metrics.

Just an FYI, like Generative AI assistants packaged up as browser extensions harvest personal data with minimal safeguards, researchers warn.…

There's only one rule – don't attack Russia, duh Check Point has spotted a fresh ransomware-as-a-service crew in town: VanHelsing, touting a cross-platform locker targeting Microsoft Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi systems, among others. But so far, only Windows machines have fallen victim, we're told.…

Time to update your firmware, if you can, to one with the security fixes, cough cough DrayTek router owners in the UK and beyond had a pretty miserable weekend after some ISPs began to notice a lot of their customers' gateways going offline.…

The DOE loan authorities have come under fire since the 2011 collapse of the advanced solar photovoltaic firm Solyndra, leaving the Obama administration holding a bag containing a $527 million default.

‘It's just pure incompetence’ confesses penguin emperor Linux kernel development boss Linus Torvalds has admitted his own “pure incompetence” led him to forget to deliver version 6.14 of the project.…

How many K8s systems are sat on the internet front porch like that ... Oh, thousands, apparently Cloudy infosec outfit Wiz has discovered serious vulnerabilities in the admission controller component of Ingress-Nginx Controller that could allow the total takeover of Kubernetes clusters – and thinks more than 6,000 deployments of the software are at risk on the internet.…

That’s right, the same folks who scolded that the world will “burn” unless the government forces every one of us to buy an EV or stop driving, are now torching the world’s best EVs with Molotov cocktails.

Kari, OK, we'll see you in court An organization that bankrolls various internet security projects has asked a Washington DC court to prevent the Trump administration from cancelling its federal funding – and expressed fears that if the cash stops flowing, the tools it supports could become harder to access.…

Massive OPSEC fail from the side who brought you 'lock her up' Updated  Senior Trump administration officials used the messaging app Signal to discuss detailed plans to attack Houthi rebels in Yemen – and accidentally added a journalist to the group in which they chatted.…

Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting rackets The FCC is investigating whether Chinese manufacturers black-listed on its so-called Covered List - including Huawei - are still somehow doing business in America, either by misreading the rules or willfully ignoring them.…

This deeply unserious study out of China—blessed, of course, by Nature Communications (a publication that has long since traded rigorous science for progressive catechism)—makes the mind-numbing claim that rising temperatures are causing people to lose sleep. The culprit? Not noisy neighbors, too much screen time, or China’s brutal urban density. Nope. It's “climate change,” the all-purpose demon invoked every time someone stubs a toe or misplaces their AirPods.

Ex-US Air Force officer says companies shouldn't wait for govt mandates Interview  Former US Air Force cyber officer Sarah Cleveland worries about the threat of a major supply-chain attack from China or another adversarial nation. So she installed solar panels on her house: "Because what if the electric grid goes down?" …

Capital costs of creating document-relational serverless database take their toll FaunaDB - the database that promised relational power with document flexibility - will shut down its service at the end of May. The biz says it plans to release an open-source version of its core tech.…

Official PoE+ HAT+ for the Pi 5 still MIA The Raspberry Pi team has launched a Power-over-Ethernet Injector aimed at users who are seeking to add some juice to their network but who lack a network switch capable of doing so.…

$280M of excess spending makes for a ripe - and reasonable - DOGE target After blowing deadlines and budgets for years, the Pentagon has finally pulled the plug on a troubled project to overhaul its outdated civilian HR IT systems.…

Only 6% of people over 50, though, had talked with a health care provider about how extreme weather might affect their health and how they could prepare or protect themselves.

Looking to sort through large volumes of security info? Redmond has your backend Microsoft's Security Copilot is getting some degree of agency, allowing the underlying AI model to interact more broadly with the company's security software to automate various tasks.…

The answer to the ultimate question of Linux, the Universe, and Everything? Fedora 42 is now in beta testing, with more desktops and editions than ever.…

CEO steps down after multiple failed attempts to take the DNA testing company private Beleaguered DNA testing biz 23andMe – hit by a massive cyber attack in 2023 – is filing for bankruptcy protection in the US following years of financial uncertainty.…

First woman and first person of color pledges dropped The purge of DEI language from US federal websites has claimed another victim. This time, it is NASA's pledge to land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon as part of the Artemis program.…

The OIG is auditing the Solar For All program, which is part of the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) created by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The Biden EPA used the program to route massive checks to sixty recipients — primarily state governments —around the country so that awardees could finance solar panel deployment in low-income areas. The Trump EPA is now following up on the program’s funding.

Return to office, hours and intensity of work cited as reasons to walk Two in five techies quit in the past year because their employer didn't offer requisite flexibility with respect to hours, location and the "intensity of work."…

It's been a very busy week for Digicash Donald's administration Analysis  Is the US retreating from its hardline stance on crypto? On Friday, the US Treasury Department lifted sanctions imposed on notorious crypto mixer Tornado Cash, once accused of washing billions in illicit crypto for criminals and nation-states alike.…

Tweaks mean smoother operation even on low-end kit GNOME 48 is here, with some under-the-hood tweaks to improve performance even on low-end kit.…

Education authority still searching for an alternative after 13 years A public body in Northern Ireland has granted Capita £208 million in additional contracts and extensions without competition after ditching a £485 million Fujitsu deal last November.…

Throw a spanner in the works, best get good at fixing things. Now, where did you put that spanner? Opinion  Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. This works well in sane times, less so when "but it's both" is the default. Apply it to Microsoft's decision to make bug reports include not only a working example but a video of the same, and the meter oscillates wildly. What were they thinking? What did they expect?…

“We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning ... People search for certainty. But there is no certainty.” – Richard Feynman, "What is and What Should be the Role of Scientific Culture in Modern Society" – lecture given at the Galileo Symposium in Italy, 1964.

President Trump’s declaration of war as a justification for using wartime powers to sidestep constitutional protections is indeed a war, but it is a war waged by the president against dissent, against due process, and against the very foundations of our constitutional republic. This is what it means to weaponize the government. When the government turns its …

And got away with it when someone else broke it even more comprehensively Who, Me?  Welcome to another working week, and therefore to another instalment of Who, Me? It’s The Register’s reader-contributed Monday column that shares stories of your worst moments at work, and how you kept your career alive once the extent of the damage was discerned.…

PLUS: Russian bug-buyers seeks Telegram flaws; Another WordPress security mess; NIST backlog grows; and more! Infosec In Brief  Organized crime networks are now reliant on digital tech for most of their activities according to Europol, the European agency that fights international crime on the continent and beyond.…

Soaring energy prices… regulations…35% of German companies say country is too hostile to business. 

Maps Timeline info wanders off forever for users without encrypted backups Google has admitted it lost some customer data, possibly forever.…

Measles is getting rather spotty coverage in the press over the last couple of months.  Most of the coverage deals with a measles outbreak in Texas, in and around Gaines, Terry and Dawson counties in the South Plains region of the U.S. state of Texas.

PLUS: Zoho's Ulaa anointed India’s most patriotic browser; Typhoon-like gang targets Taiwan; Japan debates offensive cyber-ops; and more Asia In Brief  China’s Cyberspace Administration and Ministry of Public Security has outlawed the use of facial recognition without consent.…

Despite evidence to the contrary as alleged pilfered info goes on sale Oracle has straight up denied claims by a miscreant that its public cloud offering has been compromised and information stolen.…

with Aardvark, researchers have replaced the entire weather prediction pipeline with a single, simple machine learning model. The new model takes in observations from satellites, weather stations and other sensors and outputs both global and local forecasts.

Ode to the Young Doctor in Gaza To the Muslim doctor in Gaza, his soft, dark eyes, gloved hands gently placed on a dusty, bloodied Palestinian child, with matted hair, who is screaming. To his colleague behind him in a white coat, waiting to assist. The young doctor may be from Jordan or Lebanon, his …

GPU goliath claims tech can boost throughput by 2x for Hopper, up to 30x for Blackwell GTC  Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra and upcoming Vera and Rubin CPUs and GPUs dominated the conversation at the corp's GPU Technology Conference this week. But arguably one of the most important announcements of the annual developer event wasn't a chip at all but rather a software framework called Dynamo, designed to tackle the challenges of AI inference at scale.…

In summary, we will be going to Net Zero whether we like it or not. Because one day we will run out of coal and oil and all the other good stuff from the Earth. But we have a perfectly wonderful future to look forward to with nuclear power by the breeder reactor route. Instead of burning coal in power plants, it should be saved for making synthetic diesel. Our motto should be ‘conserve to convert”. Hydrogen enables the conversion of electric power from nuclear reactors to chemical potenti

Via SpaceWeather.com Every second, almost 50 bolts of lightning zig-zag across the skies of Earth. Despite centuries of study, however, researchers still aren’t sure how the bolts get started. Electric…

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As transpired in Weimar Germany, cataclysmic times invariably induce great suffering, yet they can also serve as inspiration for poignant and moving works of art. What follows is a discussion of six works of insightful and intellectually nuanced contemporary American cinema which explore this distressing age in all its viciousness and depravity, while engaging the …

Over the years I learned how inefficient solar and wind energy are and how it raises prices for consumers. People like the fantasy of “free” power. I think most people are poorly informed about the economics of Green energy. Wall Street, however, knows the numbers and Goldman Sachs projected $1.3 trillion in free federal money for Green projects through 2032.

Jonathan Cohler, David Legates, Franklin Soon, and Willie Soon, steer xAI's Grok 3 beta to produce what they call. FIRST-EVER [AI produced] peer-reviewed climate science paper,

I have touched on this before in several articles. But it seems to be an itch I can’t scratch. Ever have one of those? An itch you think you are scratching, but you really are not in the right place? And you can’t seem to find it? This topic is again one of those things …

Yes, I know the world is going to hell and it is all very ugly so all we’re left with is banality. And so that is what this writer is left with. It is what it is… Now, we all know that processed food is bad for us. I don’t know about you but if …

I'm not talking about Adolescence, I'm talking about the people talking about it. That might seem like a paper thin distinction, but it is an important one, in my mind at least.

Last night Donald Trump’s administration released two-thousand files, totaling over 60,000 pages, pertaining to the assassination of President John F Kennedy. You can read them all here. The files are in seemingly no order, with no index or search system, so combing through them will take a while. The National Archive press release claims these …

OK, this one is for all the professional “sensitivity editors” out there, and for the US Department of Homeland Security, and President Donald Trump, and the European Union censors, and all the other self-appointed Speech Police that have been goose-stepping around dictating what everyone can and can’t say and publish and think all the time …

MelK and I discuss the application of the Dark Enlightenment and Technocracy in the Trump administration and its implications. Of note, Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are both proponents of these ideas and influential in Trump's administration. The post MelK and Iain Davis Discuss Trump’s Gov-Corp Technate appeared first on Iain Davis.

Tony Gosling and I discuss the Dark MAGA Gov-Corp Technate being installed by the Trump administration. The discussion centres on my article of the same title published on Unlimited Hangout. The post Tony Gosling and Iain Davis Discuss the Dark MAGA Gov-Corp Technate appeared first on Iain Davis.

I chat to Alex Newman from Liberty Sentinel briefly covering a wide range of important subjects including the cliamte scam, UK paedophile scandals, the proposed multipolar world order and more. The post Alex Newman interviews Iain Davis appeared first on Iain Davis.

I discuss the evidence that exposes the alleged 2017 Manchester Arena bombing as a hoaxed false flag with Sonia Poulton The post Discussing Manchester with Sonia Poulton appeared first on Iain Davis.

Eve's Law proposes to comprehensively censor the independent media. As only the independent media questions power this is extremely concerning. The state's censorship agenda is based on the Manchester hoax. We can and we must oppose it. The post Why we must resist Eve’s Law and how to oppose it effectively appeared first on Iain Davis.

Voluntary Democracy - Part 3: in this concluding article we consider the only alternative offered of continued statism and address statist objections to a stateless society. We also consider issues like funding and security in a voluntary democracy. The post Voluntary Democracy – Part 3 appeared first on Iain Davis.

In Part 2 of the series on voluntary democracy we start to look at the proposal in more detail. We consider some of the practicalities required for organising a stateless jurisdiction and address how some, limited hierarchical decision making would be needed. The post Voluntary Democracy – Part 2 appeared first on Iain Davis.

Based on the original concept of "democracy," I propose Voluntary democracy as a new possible sociopolitical system that could set us free from the rule of oligarchs. Check out Part 1 here. The post Voluntary Democracy – Part 1 appeared first on Iain Davis.

On Gareth Icke Tonight I discusses the Manchester Attack hoax and the appalling trial of Richard D. Hall which must be challenged and can be challenged by showing the evidence of the hoax. The post Gareth Icke Tonight with Iain Davis appeared first on Iain Davis.

Rick Munn interviews Iain Davis about how alleged concerns for child mental health are being used to bring in Digital ID The post Exploiting Children’s Mental Health – Rick Munn Interviews Iain Davis appeared first on Iain Davis.