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The Paradox Of Cyber
Even the biggest outage is only interesting when it’s intentional. Some would say that the difference is a failure to regulate to prevent outages, but outages are inevitable without centralised regulatory control which is not going to happen successfully, if ever. My take: the difference is that the Governments erroneously believe that they are in…
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How long before NASDAQ opens?
I’m faintly worried that it has been going down all week.
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I ordered a green waste disposal / recycling bin from @HartCouncil at 0730am; it quietly arrived by 0930am
I cannot fault Hart District Council on this one, I just looked outside and *boom* there’s a bin. Well done, folks.
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I can’t defend continued use of an operating system where so much of the fundamental core integrity needs to be outsourced to random third parties
If you’re using Microsoft Windows as a core platform in this day and age, you need to add it to your risk register. Possibly you need to insure yourself against your own foolhardiness.
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Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available | Google Developers Blog
Offering a link shortener for years and then killing it is an act of internet vandalism; that Google should do so is depressing. Perhaps the Internet Archive needs to save a copy of the database and unbreak the historical web? https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/
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The EU’s pursuit of regulatory control over tech will lead to doctrinal self-extinction of Europe from the tech sphere and the primacy of Anglophone & Sinophone tech (HT: @KayJebelli)
Every so often humanity vomits-up a sect or cult that decides to do away with sexual reproduction on the grounds that it’s unregulated fun and therefore immoral; and almost inevitably this trait leads to what is called “ideological…” or “doctrinal self-extinction“. Thus the EU and its intention to regulate the training of LLMs in the…
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This guy on TikTok ran a simulation of what it would look like from Voyager 1 to look back at the solar system *now*
34 years after “Pale Blue Dot”, the Voyager probe is now 4x as far away and the solar system is fuzzy and distant: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGendVkD4/
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What do you do with old @OReillyMedia & other tech books of that kind? I have about 1.5m shelving ancient software guides & manuals…
…for legacy stuff like Sendmail 5, RPC, Perl/Tk, JDK1.2, and Ruby on Rails. “WeBuyBooks” is not interested in them, they don’t make much sense to give to charity shops, I don’t want to consign them to garbage, and bound books aren’t recyclable here. Ideas?
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Starmer plans to introduce AI bill in King’s Speech | “…tell us what you are testing for…”
Labour: we will build a tech economy Also Labour: we proactively understand technology better than you do > Labour’s manifesto outlined plans to “ensure the safe development and use of AI models by introducing binding regulation on the handful of companies developing the most powerful AI models”. Peter Kyle, the new technology and science secretary,…
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Fitting an Elephant with Four non-Zero Parameters
This is a lovely little mathematics distraction. [PDF] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.07909 Via:
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GoogleOne Darkweb reports coming to all Google accounts soon
This should be interesting, moreso when somebody from NOYB.EU eventually attempts to demand a takedown under the GDPR. https://9to5google.com/2024/07/09/google-one-dark-web-reports-all-google-accounts/