Comment Re:Global warming isn't real or people are really (Score 1) 52
There will also be bad effects on birds & bugs and other wildlife. This will just add to the ways that we are screwing up our planet.
Comment If they want a non disclosure agreement (Score 1) 95
they are trying to keep the power of information to themselves. If the farmers were to get together they would prolly get a better deal -- assuming that they want to sell up in the first place.
Submission + - ICE reliance on Microsoft technology surged amid immigration crackdown (theguardian.com)
Alain Williams writes: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deepened its reliance on Microsoft’s cloud technology last year as the agency ramped up arrest and deportation operations, leaked documents reveal.
ICE more than tripled the amount of data it stored in Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform in the six months leading up to January 2026, a period in which the agency’s budget swelled and its workforce rapidly expanded, according to the files.
ICE appears to be using a range of Microsoft’s productivity tools, as well as AI-driven products, to search and analyse the data it holds in Azure. Files suggest some of the agency’s own tools and systems may also be running on Microsoft servers.
ICE more than tripled the amount of data it stored in Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform in the six months leading up to January 2026, a period in which the agency’s budget swelled and its workforce rapidly expanded, according to the files.
ICE appears to be using a range of Microsoft’s productivity tools, as well as AI-driven products, to search and analyse the data it holds in Azure. Files suggest some of the agency’s own tools and systems may also be running on Microsoft servers.
Comment Re:How a Society Kills Privacy. (Score 1) 64
I have a long-dormant FB account, but the privacy settings have always (since the setting was introduced) been set to not allow people to tag me.
I do not have a FB account and have never had one. How do I say that I do not want to be tagged ? The only way would be for the default to be no, but FB will no do that.
Comment Re:BYOB (Score 2) 37
No, coal if the orange climate denier has anything to do with it. Trump has ordered the pentagon to buy more coal-fired electricity, one of his biggest and most persistent lies is that climate change is a hoax.
Comment Re:Running out of fingers and toes (Score 4, Interesting) 75
Another popular way is date based numbering. So the kernel just released could have been 2026.02, the next prolly 2026.05, the last 2025.11. It doesn't really matter.
Comment So Claude is a great point of attack (Score 3, Insightful) 69
A rich $EvilEntity that is able to compromise Claude and get it to insert remote exploitable bugs it could do a great deal of damage. Especially if Claude is used by programmers who are inexperienced or too lazy to check its code.
Comment While they are at it ... (Score 0, Troll) 33
mandate another note when they are presenting fake news - ie made up 'facts' or stuff of high bias. There always has been spin in the news, especially when covering politics but these days it has got completely out of control. Things like BBC Verify help but are not nearly enough when faced with the huge torrent of lies generated by those of low morals who will do anything to benefit themselves.
I accept that this is a pipe dream.
Comment Re:Laser Lifetime (Score 2) 62
Will you be able to write the whole disk before it fails ?
Comment Re: Title (Score 2) 71
No it wasn't, it was just called Greenland to trick people into living there.
This appears to be true:
The Saga of Erik the Red states: "In the summer, Erik left to settle in the country he had found, which he called Greenland, as he said people would be attracted there if it had a favourable name."
Comment Re:Low hanging fruit (Score 3, Insightful) 102
A big problem that will remain is that Microsoft is subject to USA laws eg the Cloud Act and others that let the USA government grab your data and remotely disable services and software. The USA could never be completely trusted (think: Edward Snowden) but Trump has thrown this into sharp focus. There is a move within the EU to move away from American technology. Microsoft cannot fix this problem.
Comment Re:Remembered this on that would seem older (Score 3, Interesting) 51
The Rothamsted Classical Experiments have been going since 1843.
Comment Scientists continue to test their beliefs ... (Score 5, Insightful) 72
this is what makes it science and distinguishes it from religion.
Long may scientists continue to try to show their beliefs wrong.
Comment I am surprised ... (Score 1) 32
that this was not already the case.
Comment So what happens when ... (Score 2) 57
A USA owned company that has a subsidiary in, say, Ireland that is staffed by Irish people (citizens & domiciled) and USA based staff cannot ssh (or similar) in to do things. The USA government makes an order under the Cloud act on the USA company. This then orders its Irish subsidiary and the Irish staff decide that obeying the order would breach the GDPR/similar and so tell the USA parent to shove it.
What can the USA government do ?
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