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Submission + - Iran-linked hackers behind cyber attack that shut down UK power plant (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Alain Williams
Alain Williams writes: The government said that at no point was there a risk to the UK's energy system, but the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has contacted power companies to advise them about the risk of cyber attacks.

The Telegraph reported, external that the attack, which took place last month, was carried out by hackers affiliated to the Iranian regime.

For security reasons, neither the government nor the National Cyber Security Centre, which deals with attacks on critical infrastructure, would give further details of the site affected. However this was not an attack on an essential service such as a large power station.

Comment Re:Their real argument (Score 1) 136

by MightyMartian (#66296522) Attached to: Disney, ABC Sue FCC Over Threats to Broadcast Licenses

Jesus Fucking Christ. It's 2026, Trump has been putting his boot on the necks of major networks and studios for a year and a half now. I realize you probably fell into a coma in 2016, but ten years later, the free press, regardless of what you think of it, or fair you imagine it is, is under direct assault. Fuck off with the "MSM" bullshit and grow the fuck up.

Comment Re:The storefront not the games? (Score 1) 48

Yep. Honestly native builds are what I really need to switch. I appreciate Wine and think its nice, but everything has enough little quirks and workarounds and such that I don't like using it for gaming.

And if I'm being honest, a big enough amount of my gaming is just hearthstone as a side diversion these days that if Blizzard released it for Linux, I'd switch for my main desktop tomorrow.

As it is I just keep 2 machines on a KVM. Windows when I'm gaming, Linux when I'm not.

Comment These are not 'user agreements' (Score 1) 30

by Alain Williams (#66292756) Attached to: Amazon's New User Agreement Seeks To Curb Class-action Suits

The user does not have any opportunity to negotiate a change to any of the clauses, they are 'terms of business', deliberately written so that most people do not read them and even fewer understand them. Amazon is not really any worse than most of the on-line retailers.

What is needed are a set of agreements that are drawn up to be understandable to non lawyers and to be fair to both parties. There need to be a set of them as the requirements of a business selling clothes is different from one selling pizzas. The agreement must be easily checkable by the user that it has not been modified and there should be a short schedule that the business can specify defined terms, eg: business name, delivery charge and timescale, return address, ...

Submission + - Zuckerberg faces questions over why superyacht reportedly declined to help ship (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Alain Williams
Alain Williams writes: Mark Zuckerberg has faced questions over why a small cruise ship in south-east Alaska rescued a stranded skiff and its crew when his 387ft superyacht had been closer.

The Silicon Valley billionaire’s yacht, worth a reported $300m, is said to have “repeatedly” declined to assist when a nearby boat called for help last week.

Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms, was not on board at the time, a spokesperson told Forbes.

When a nearby 21ft skiff ran out of fuel between Petersburg and Juneau, the Alaska Beacon reported operators of a cruise ship that was further away than Zuckerberg’s yacht came to the rescue.

“I’m on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son,” a passenger on the UnCruise Adventures ship Wilderness Legacy posted on Bluesky.

“Our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht – which was closer – and they repeatedly refused to respond. (There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this).”

Submission + - AI push is putting banks at mercy of tech firms, warns Moody's (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Alain Williams
Alain Williams writes: The rating agency Moody’s has said the race to adopt AI is putting big banks at the mercy of a small group of Silicon Valley firms, leaving them vulnerable to widespread outages and price gouging by profit-hungry tech bosses.

The financial sector’s efforts to integrate AI into day-to-day operations will eventually cut costs and increase revenues across the City and Wall Street, Moody’s said.

But that will require “substantial investments”, and with so many rivals racing towards the same goal, many of those benefits will end up being “competed away”.

AI will also create bigger risks around data privacy, cybersecurity, fraud and so-called “deposit flight”, as well as an overdependence on a small number of tech firms, the rating agency warned.

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