Submission + - HP Anywhere Remote Desktop to be discontinued (hp.com)
kriston writes: HP Anywhere, the new name of the Teradici PCoIP remote desktop solution that was acquired by HP in 2021, is being discontinued.
Comment Re:Single point of failure (Score 4, Interesting) 107
It's a good way to keep people sober in Mississippi.
It would be fun to correlate this with number of DUI incidents.
Comment Re:Firefox in my case (Score 2, Informative) 65
With Firefox you can have the full uBlock adblocker.
Comment Re: Welcome to world war 3 (Score 1) 13
Some drones used are controlled by intelligence.
Some are as stupid as the V1 bombs of WWII.
Comment Re: gotta catch 'em all (Score 1) 120
No problem with the Zorin OS I did set up as a replacement for Windows 7 for my parents.
Submission + - EU parliament fails to renew loophole allowing tech firms to report abuse (theguardian.com)
Bruce66423 writes: 'The European parliament has blocked the extension of a law that permits big tech firms to scan for child sexual exploitation on their platforms, creating a legal gap that child safety experts say will lead to crimes going undetected.
'The law, which was a carve-out of the EU Privacy Act, was put in place in 2021 as a temporary measure allowing companies to use automated detection technologies to scan messages for harms, including child sexual abuse material (CSAM), grooming and sextortion. However, it expired on 3 April, and the EU parliament decided not to vote to extend it, amid privacy concerns from some lawmakers.
'The regulatory gap has created uncertainty for big tech companies, because while scanning for harms on their platforms is now illegal, they still remain liable to remove any illegal content hosted on their platforms under a different law, the Digital Services Act. Google, Meta, Snap and Microsoft said they would continue to voluntarily scan their platforms for CSAM, in a joint statement posted on a Google blog.'
Child abuse as the excuse for avoiding privacy protections. Who would have thought it?
'The law, which was a carve-out of the EU Privacy Act, was put in place in 2021 as a temporary measure allowing companies to use automated detection technologies to scan messages for harms, including child sexual abuse material (CSAM), grooming and sextortion. However, it expired on 3 April, and the EU parliament decided not to vote to extend it, amid privacy concerns from some lawmakers.
'The regulatory gap has created uncertainty for big tech companies, because while scanning for harms on their platforms is now illegal, they still remain liable to remove any illegal content hosted on their platforms under a different law, the Digital Services Act. Google, Meta, Snap and Microsoft said they would continue to voluntarily scan their platforms for CSAM, in a joint statement posted on a Google blog.'
Child abuse as the excuse for avoiding privacy protections. Who would have thought it?
Submission + - Meta Cafeteria Workers Take on ICE (wired.com)
joshuark writes: Staff at a Meta café in Bellevue, Washington, had made a pact that they would rally together if the Trump administration's immigration crackdown affected any one of them.
Under a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement program, federal authorities detained Serigne, a Senegalese asylum seeker and the brother of dishwasher Abdoul Mbengue in December.
"I didn't know what to do at first, but we had this community, and I told them this news," Mbengue says through a coworker who is translating his French.
A number of the cooks, dishwashers, and front-of-house staff at the Meta café known as Crashpad are from Africa, the Caribbean, or Ukraine. Some, like Mbengue, are in the U.S. on temporary authorizations while awaiting the resolution of asylum or immigration cases.
Mbengue's colleagues launched a fundraising campaign to pay for the legal defense of his brother.
Thousands of dollars altogether came in from Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon workers. On February 24, a judge ordered the release of Mbengue's brother.
"He is back because of the efforts," Mbengue says.
This activism inside the tech industry may shift as big tech companies become less responsive to worker petitions and decline to take public stands against Trump policies. A decade ago, thousands of tech workers protested against Trump's immigration bans alongside executives.
Workers allege that on January 29, two agents in "DHS" clothing looking for a specific non-Microsoft employee working at the company's headquarters campus in Redmond were turned away at the reception of the Commons building. Microsoft could not confirm that the visitors were law enforcement.
Meta declined to comment for this story. Amazon and Google didn't respond to requests for comment.
Under a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement program, federal authorities detained Serigne, a Senegalese asylum seeker and the brother of dishwasher Abdoul Mbengue in December.
"I didn't know what to do at first, but we had this community, and I told them this news," Mbengue says through a coworker who is translating his French.
A number of the cooks, dishwashers, and front-of-house staff at the Meta café known as Crashpad are from Africa, the Caribbean, or Ukraine. Some, like Mbengue, are in the U.S. on temporary authorizations while awaiting the resolution of asylum or immigration cases.
Mbengue's colleagues launched a fundraising campaign to pay for the legal defense of his brother.
Thousands of dollars altogether came in from Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon workers. On February 24, a judge ordered the release of Mbengue's brother.
"He is back because of the efforts," Mbengue says.
This activism inside the tech industry may shift as big tech companies become less responsive to worker petitions and decline to take public stands against Trump policies. A decade ago, thousands of tech workers protested against Trump's immigration bans alongside executives.
Workers allege that on January 29, two agents in "DHS" clothing looking for a specific non-Microsoft employee working at the company's headquarters campus in Redmond were turned away at the reception of the Commons building. Microsoft could not confirm that the visitors were law enforcement.
Meta declined to comment for this story. Amazon and Google didn't respond to requests for comment.
Comment Re:Microsoft issues the Linux keys too (Score 1) 102
Because an independent encryption program makes Bitlocker look bad.
Comment Re:My guess (Score 1) 102
Add to it that Microsoft don't want anyone to use something more secure than Bitlocker.
Comment Re: Anwser: No (Score 1) 114
Given that Windows now need 16GB of RAM to work well then I see that the answer in 'NO'.
Comment Re: Linux desktop with 16 Mb RAM (Score 1) 114
That was enough when I used one of the first Slackware versions in the early 1990s
Comment Re:Markup (Score 1) 23
Might cost 50 cents to make the chip, but then you have to cover for all the development costs and packaging into a useful package that fits into a socket.
Add some profit on that in order to make the shareholders happy and to cover costs for the next generation and the $700 price tag might be a bit on the high side, but not horrible.
Add to it that not all the chips made are fully functional so there are some losses there too.
Submission + - Anthropic blocks Claude subscriptions from third party AI tools like OpenClaw (nerds.xyz)
BrianFagioli writes: Anthropic says Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage inside third party tools like OpenClaw starting April 4 at 12pm PT. Users who previously logged into those apps with their Claude account will now need to purchase usage bundles or use a Claude API key instead. The company says its subscription plans were built for normal chat usage, not the automated workloads often generated by external clients and agent frameworks.
The move appears aimed at controlling compute costs as demand for AI models continues to rise. Third party tools can generate far more model requests than a typical user chatting in a browser, especially when automation or scripting is involved. Casual users likely will not notice any difference, but developers and power users who relied on those tools may now face usage based pricing.
The move appears aimed at controlling compute costs as demand for AI models continues to rise. Third party tools can generate far more model requests than a typical user chatting in a browser, especially when automation or scripting is involved. Casual users likely will not notice any difference, but developers and power users who relied on those tools may now face usage based pricing.
Submission + - Chinese firms market Iran war intelligence exposing U.S. forces (washingtonpost.com)
sinij writes:
The private companies — some with ties to the military — are marketing detailed intelligence on movements of U.S. forces, even as Beijing seeks to keep its distance.
Submission + - trump proposes nasa budget be slashed by 23% (arstechnica.com)
Mr. Dollar Ton writes: right in the wake of the lunar mission achieving a major milestone and on top of its 1.5 trillion military budget proposal, the trump administration want to save money by slashing nasa budget significantly.
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