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SoftBank, Oracle, MGX form Stargate Project with ChatGPT maker, intend to outspend Microsoft this year OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank, and investment firm MGX on Tuesday announced plans to spend $500 billion on AI infrastructure in America over the next four years, to be used by the ChatGPT super-lab.…

Lawsuits pile up after database accessed by miscreants Canada's largest school board has revealed that student records dating back to 1985 may have been accessed by miscreants who compromised software provider PowerSchool.…

El Reg asked a lawyer to explain WTH is going on Analysis  President Trump's executive order stalling the enforcement of the TikTok ban in the United States has created legal uncertainty for companies hosting or distributing the app. To further confuse the matter, it's not even clear that Trump's decree is within his power to issue or enforce. …

Winter Storm Warnings have been posted and stretch from the U.S.-Mexico border all the way to Duval County, Florida. Get this: 3-5 Inches of snow is in the forecast for Houston, TX; 2-5" for New Orleans; and up to 3" along the west Florida panhandle through Wednesday.

Same, Big A, same If you were unable to access Atlassian's Bitbucket Cloud today, it's because in the words of the IT giant, the service was "hard down."…

Seven days after disclosure and little action taken, data shows Fortinet customers need to get with the program and apply the latest updates as nearly 50,000 management interfaces are still vulnerable to the latest zero-day exploit.…

Long has the origin of Bitcoin been a topic of discussion, debate, and even drawing lines in the sand. The reason for this is largely due to the justifiable concern that the enigmatic “Satoshi Nakomoto” — the pseudonym that we associate with the founding of Bitcoin — might be nothing more than a thin veneer …

If the endangerment finding is ultimately overturned, it could mark the beginning of a new chapter in American energy policy—one grounded in realism, economic prosperity, and scientific integrity. Industries battered by years of overregulation could finally have a chance to recover, innovate, and thrive.

Also, prepare for paused wind projects and the Gulf of America from Trump 2.0 – and that's just day 1 US President Donald Trump has wasted no time in culling Biden-era programs, including the elimination of the prior administration's executive orders on AI safety and electric vehicles, and freezing funds for EV infrastructure.…

Researchers aim to tackle unmet needs for social connection and recreation Scientists in the US have developed a neural interface that enables an individual with paralysis to control a virtual quadcopter by decoding brain activity into distinct finger movements.…

So you want to go to the Red Planet. How deep are your pockets and how much time do you have? Comment  "America is going to Mars," said Elon Musk at yesterday's inauguration of US President Donald Trump. America is already there, thanks to decades of robotic exploration.…

Under Digital Services Act, monitors will be allowed to report abusive language and platforms should respond in 1 day Online platform companies, including X and Meta, have signed up to a new code of conduct aimed at targeting online hate speech, which the European Commission has now baked into the Digital Services Act.…

It’s a feature not a bug, and what the US electorate voted for, says analyst As US president Donald Trump's inauguration passes into history, tech leaders face uncertainty as they wait to see if repeated promises of global US import tariffs are put into action.…

Swain sadly ignores these major drivers of natural wetness-dryness variability, preferring to blame global warming. Thus, Swain and his fellow climate alarmists fail to educate the public about the known reasons for natural wetness-dryness variability. Addicted to a belief in a global warming climate crisis, alarmists prefer to blame a warmer atmosphere’s ability to hold more water vapor. Thus, they can conveniently maintain their crisis narrative that paradoxically argues CO2 warming can caus

Incident response protocols engaged following claims of source code burglary Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is probing assertions made by prolific Big Tech intruder IntelBroker that they broke into the US corporation's systems and accessed source code, among other things.…

From fighters to friends in six months, despite AWS voting against it Exclusive  Microsoft is to become the latest member of CISPE months after negotiating a settlement with the trade association of European cloud providers over alleged anti-competitive software practices. However, not all in the group are happy with the enrollment.…

Ring a bell? Suite of tools named after Yes Minister's master of manipulation The UK government is striving to end its checkered record in managing large-scale projects with a "plan to put technology to work across public services."…

Supermarket taking 'pragmatic approach' to 'Europe's largest IT transformation program' Asda has postponed the tech transition of 55 stores to its new systems as US retail giant Walmart continues to support IT at outlets it sold to the new owner in 2021.…

But soon they will be dealing with much greater volumes of EVs, along with lower volumes of profitable ICE cars.

Now if only the councils could afford to fill them An oft-repeated myth is that potholes form through a combination of surface cracks, water, and traffic, but they're actually caused by chronic levels of underinvestment in public infrastructure.…

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. Drinking Milk is Unsettling Writing in the Guardian – because where else would have her – Arwa Mahdawi asks… Why is it so unsettling …

And possibly even more so if you don’t start planning yours soon If the changes Broadcom brought to VMware have you thinking of a move to an alternative virtualization platform, expect a long, costly, and risky project – and perhaps a longer, costlier, and riskier one if you put off pondering the move.…

There’s seven billion people in the world that don’t live lives anything like we do…They want what we have. And of course, they should get what we have. And through market forces and improvement and leadership, particularly leadership from the President-elect Trump, I think we’re going to see growing more abundant energy resource coming out of our country and hopefully out of the world so that everyone else can live lives like we do.

Geopolitical rumblings one day, geological rumblings the next Taiwan has experienced an earthquake significant enough that chipmaking champ TSMC has halted work at its plants.…

Tycoon's auditors to probe Uncle Sam's IT with full access to unclassified data US President Donald Trump has renamed the US Digital Service the Department of Government Efficiency and given it a mission to modernize government technology.…

Bottom Line:   A very skillfully predicted Santa Ana event with record-breaking winds hit LA earlier this month. Two wet winters resulted in unusually high levels of dried fuels. Human ignitions initiated the fires.

President Trump allows vid app to keep running for 75 days while he reviews security concerns and develops a policy Updated  China appears to have softened its stance on the possible sale of TikTok’s US operations and is now perhaps open to the idea.…

Semantic indexing does some discreet rifling through local drawers of Insiders Windows Search is improved in the latest Dev Channel Windows Insider build, but you'll need a Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PC to use it.…

Both the Ubuntu and Debian-based editions get Cinnamon 6.4 and other goodies It's a bit later than we were expecting, but the latest Mint is here and should start to be offered as an upgrade soon.…

The attempt to transition our energy system via command from central planners has been one of the greatest wastes of taxpayer funds ever perpetrated by the government. It cannot be ended soon enough.

Cloud giant explains its thinking behind support for Apache open table format AWS bet on the Apache Iceberg open table format (OTF) across its analytics, machine learning, and storage stack as a concerted response to demand from customers already using its popular S3 object storage.…

Taipei invites infosec bods to come and play on its home turf Picture this: It's 2030 and China's furious with Taiwan after the island applies to the UN to be recognized as an independent state. After deciding on a full military invasion, China attempts to first cripple its rebellious neighbor's critical infrastructure.…

Golden Staters need to revamp their political, bureaucratic, policy and woke systems. They need to rely less on government – and more on themselves, the way the Getty Villa and several neighbors did in Malibu, thereby saving homes, treasures and lives. Otherwise, these needless tragedies will be repeated.

USA! USA! USA!

Ready or not, here I come Microsoft has begun distributing Windows 11 24H2 to user devices as the company enters the next stage of the operating system's rollout.…

Today is the day –  Trump 2.0 officially kicks off, and the drama began ahead of schedule. Over the weekend there was what we’ll chose to call “The Tiktok Gambit”, which saw the Chinese micro-vlogging app banned on Saturday and then miraculously unbanned by Donald Trump on Sunday, despite his not actually being in power …

Only one called exploding a rocket over the Caribbean 'entertainment' SpaceX is not the only company involved in a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mishap inquiry. Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin has also come under scrutiny after losing its New Glenn rocket's first stage.…

Crypto critics unhappy as BTC hits all-time high and Melania launches her own currency Donald Trump, US president again by the time many of you read this, launched his own cryptocurrency – $TRUMP – on the Solana blockchain network on Friday night. By the weekend, it had hit a market cap of nearly $15 billion, although by Sunday, that value dropped when Melania Trump launched her own meme coin.…

“While the Biden Administration’s mineral policy ‘heavily features international cooperation’,” Wischer says Trump will likely “significantly prioritize” building more mines, processing facilities, and refineries in the U.S.

Clear rules and guaranteed consequences concentrate the mind wonderfully. Just ask a Russian Opinion  "As obsolete as warships in the Baltic" was a great pop lyric in Prefab Sprout's 1985 gem, Faron Young. Great, but ironically obsolete itself. Sweden has just deployed multiple warships in that selfsame sea to guard against the very modern menace of underwater cable cutting.…

Students have work to complete at home in the meantime A UK high school will have to close for at least two days, today and tomorrow, after becoming the latest public-sector victim of ransomware criminals.…

“No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”—George Orwell, Animal Farm It cost the American taxpayer $24 million to find out what we knew all …

Your battery might be flat, but the Wi-Fi signal is going to be great UK telecom giant BT is pulling the plug on its EV charging ambitions after falling a long way short of the 60,000 street cabinets it reckoned could be repurposed.…

Quote of the Week: “It is not unscientific to take a guess, although many people who are not in science believe that it is.”  — Richard Feynman

A whole different kind of 'technical debt' turned into real-world trouble Who, Me?  Accidents will happen, and every Monday The Register celebrates them – and your escape from the consequences – in a fresh instalment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column that details the downside of working in tech.…

'Minor issue' with showing accounting customers 'unrelated business information' required repairs Sage Group plc has confirmed it temporarily suspended its Sage Copilot, an AI assistant for the UK-based business software maker's accounting tools, this month after it blurted customer information to other users.…

While Microsoft pushes AI PC experiences, Nvidia is busy wooing developers Comment  Nvidia is the uncontested champion of AI infrastructure — at least in the datacenter. In the emerging field of AI PCs, things aren't so clear cut.…

It seems that the frequency of these spontaneous fires increases with the size of the battery. Can this problem be solved? I have no idea. But it certainly has not been solved yet.

PLUS: Allstate sued for allegedly tracking drivers; Dutch DDoS; More fake jobs from Pyongyang; and more Infosec in brief  Hogwarts doesn’t teach an incantation that could have saved Harry Potter publisher Scholastic from feeling the power of an online magician who made off with millions of customer records - except perhaps the wizardry of multifactor authentication.…

PLUS: Salt Typhoon and IT worker scammers sanctioned; Alibaba Cloud’s K8s go global; Amazon acquires Indian BNPL company Asia In Brief  When food delivery “superapps” started operations in Indonesia, users started putting on weight – and that’s not an entirely bad thing.…

Good public policy must be based on solid, reliable information. The public has not received full information on climate, what impacts it, subjects involving climatology, energy efficiency, or any other science-related topic that has a significant impact on regulations.

The same Florida Man who wanted to ban the app in the first place US president-elect Donald Trump appears to have proposed the government he will soon lead should acquire half of made-in-China social media service TikTok’s stateside operations.…

Another nail in the coffin of climate models? A study published in Nature suggests there is no evidence for a decline in AMOC over the last 60 years.

The S in LLM stands for Security OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler appears to be willing to initiate distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on arbitrary websites, a reported vulnerability the tech giant has yet to acknowledge.…

In a move that has sent shockwaves through climate advocacy circles, the U.S. Federal Reserve announced its withdrawal from the NGFS—a coalition of central banks established in 2017 to address climate-related risks in financial systems. Citing its limited statutory mandate, the Fed made clear that it was not responsible for shaping climate policy. Chair Jerome Powell has repeatedly emphasized this point, stating that climate matters belong to Congress, not the central bank​.

It becomes an explanation for everything, and so cannot be falsified

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Before my mind was turned to the subject of my title, I started to write a piece called “Are the Dead Nostalgic?” It’s a touchy philosophical question that has no definitive answer. It seems flippant in an impossible way, which it is, but its flippancy holds a secret message.  So I asked the dead who …

The implication of CO2 saturation is a game changer, and should provide the Trump Administration with a substantial line of questioning of EPA’s Endangerment Finding.

A similar fire there would require at least a shelter in place order and possibly an evacuation order for nearly a million people to say nothing about shutting down highways and the East River. The Ravenswood location is the Red Stick Pin on Vernon Blvd. across the East River from Roosevelt Island shown below. 

Do you think there might be a connection?

Security feature widens out to more Windows 11 users, including those at home Microsoft is trying a new way of enabling Administrator Protection in Windows 11. The latest Windows Insider Canary build adds a setting that removes the requirement for IT admins to activate the feature.…

Gaia makes its final science observation The European Space Agency's (ESA) Milky Way mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than three trillion observations over the past decade.…

With added manga and snark. What's not to like? Opinion  Windows 1 and 2 flopped almost as badly as OS/2 did. How did Microsoft stage one of the greatest comebacks ever with Windows 3?…

People are always correcting me when I use the term “elite” to describe that group of “people” (or maybe lizards) who are calling the shots and who created the “agenda” and want the rest of us (useless eaters) either under their thumb or dead. The people who correct me claim these people (or lizards) are …

Cyber agency too 'far off mission,' says incoming boss Kristi Noem America's lead cybersecurity agency on Friday made one final scream into the impending truth void about election security and the role CISA plays in maintaining it.…

Third-party supplier blamed as folks left unable to access funds Capital One is still battling to fix whatever brought down its systems on Wednesday, which has left people unable to access their money.…

Plus: Uncle Sam is cross with this one Chinese biz over Salt Typhoon mega-snooping Decades-old legislation requiring American telcos to lock down their systems to prevent foreign snoops from intercepting communications isn't mere decoration on the pages of law books – it actually means carriers need to secure their networks, the FCC has huffed.…

Ransomware, AI, secure software, digital IDs – there's something for everyone in the presidential directive Analysis  Joe Biden, in the final days of his US presidency, issued another cybersecurity order that is nearly as vast in scope as it is late in the game.…

Beijing investigating claims of unfair competition in mature semiconductors The "chip wars" between the US and China show no sign of cooling off as Beijing prepares to examine whether America is unfairly subsidizing its own semiconductor companies. Meanwhile, Washington's latest export restrictions have angered even some of its allies.…

Competition hots up with Ivanti over who can have the worst start to a year Fortinet has confirmed that previous analyses of records leaked by the Belsen Group are indeed genuine FortiGate configs stolen during a zero-day raid in 2022.…

Anyone who has been car shopping recently knows that modern cars are surveillance and privacy nightmares that take control out of the hands of their supposed owners and places them in the hands of car manufacturers and government regulators. So what do we do about this problem? Joining us today to discuss these issues is …

With Biden reportedly planning to skirt enforcement and kick the can to Trump, this saga might still not be over Updated  The US Supreme Court has upheld a law requiring TikTok to either divest from its Chinese parent ByteDance or face a ban in the United States. The decision eliminates the final legal obstacle to the federal government forcing a shutdown of the platform for US users on January 19.…

Commission insists the timing has nothing to do with Musk meddling in German politics ahead of election The European Commission is stepping up its ongoing investigation of Elon Musk's X with a request to examine recent changes made to the platform's recommendation algorithms.…

Turns out tool does both file transfers and security fixes fast Don't panic. Yes, there were a bunch of CVEs, affecting potentially hundreds of thousands of users, found in rsync in early December – and made public on Tuesday – but a fixed version came out the same day, and was further tweaked for better compatibility the following day.…

€15 million system to serve as testbed for larger Herder supercomputer coming in 2027 Hundreds of AMD APUs fired up on Thursday as Germany's High-Performance Computing Center (HLRS) at the University of Stuttgart announced the completion of its latest supercomputer dubbed Hunter.…

Many users less than impressed by unexpected arrival of AI assistant in Word Copilot is coming to Microsoft 365 Personal and Family, and Vulture Central has had some hands-on experience with the generative AI assistant's attempts to be helpful.…

Eight days ago, in our third prediction for 2025 we said… …the incoming Trump admin will be trying to score “peacemaker” points with a deal in Ukraine, that could extend to Israel-Gaza too. A negotiated release of all hostages is also possible. We already predicted, in our first such article, that Trump was going to …

The Bank of England announced yesterday that they will be launching a “digital pound lab” to “experiment” with different “use-cases” and set-ups of the UK’s planned Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). This signals the end of the “consultation and response phase” and the beginning of the “design phase”, according to the BoE’s website. This is …

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.

Technocracy is the most extreme system of behavioural control ever devised. Learn about the true meaning and purpose of Technocracy in order to resist its imposition. The post What is Technocracy? appeared first on Iain Davis.

The parasite class provides us with a better term to describe oligarchs. Through elite theory we can see the lies told about the oligarchy. Check this article out to grapple with the concept of the parasite class. The post The Parasite Class appeared first on Iain Davis.

The Dark Enlightenment and the associated accelerationism have an immense influence on our polity yet few know anything about it. Please read this post to get to grips with this important subject. The post The Dark Enlightenment appeared first on Iain Davis.