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Power shortages are driving the industry to once-unthinkable places Southeast Asia's hyperscalers face plenty of challenges – from securing talent, property, and keeping construction costs down – but these hurdles pale in comparison to the task of banking enough power.…

AI may help drug discovery, but not US drug affordability Google and DeepMind spinoff Isomorphic Labs has developed an AI model called AlphaFold 3 that can, it's claimed, predict the structure of molecules more accurately than existing tools.…

BogusBazaar ripped off shoppers and scraped card details, but not in China A crime ring dubbed BogusBazaar has scammed 850,000 people out of tens of millions of dollars via a network of dodgy shopping websites.…

A Pleasant spot to Mount an AI push After Foxconn failed to turn Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, into an LCD manufacturing mecca as promised, the site is getting a new lease on life: Microsoft will build a $3.3 billion datacenter campus there.…

Leccy car maker ships bunch of vehicles, losing around $39K on each one Cost-cutting layoffs have had little effect on Rivian's bottom line, as the troubled electric car maker has limped from another quarter with more than a billion dollars in losses. …

It's 'essential to national security' ex-Navy intel officer tells us Interview  As undersea cables carry increasing amounts of information, cyber and physical attacks against them will cause a greater impact on the wider internet.…

Professor Franco Montalto of Drexel University wants to slow runoff and allow parts of the city to flood, to mitigate damage from extreme rainfall and reduce runoff pollution.

Projecting much, US semiconductor industry? By 2032 America is projected to produce 28 percent of the world's most advanced processors while China will be making just two percent, or so the US Semiconductor Industry Association predicts.…

Brain-inspired chip folks set to show off hardware at ISC next week SpiNNcloud Systems says it is making commercially available a hybrid AI high performance computer system based on an architecture pioneered by Steve Furber, one of the designers of the original Arm processor.…

Interrogations, confiscating flyers, and prohibiting literature is no bueno, board says in final decision of 2022 case Apple tried to protest, but the complaints fell on deaf ears as the US National Labor Relations Board has finally decided the tech giant violated labor laws by interfering with union organizing activities at a New York City location.…

It ain't all sunshine and windmills – and guess who's in the lead? China Thirty percent of the world's electricity in 2023 was generated by renewable energy sources, according to a think tank.…

The comprehensive analysis provided by Tourism Economics underscores the need for an approach that considers the economic realities of such significant infrastructural developments.

Crashes continue even with recall fixes in place The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has written to Tesla as the automaker's electric cars keep crashing despite a recall to fix problems with the Autopilot software.…

The government wants all its representatives to know there is no cabal of billionaires running things, and if you doubt it then read this handy guide paid for by a cabal of billionaires.

And it would seriously inconvenience the Chinese and Russians, too RSAC  There's a way to vastly reduce the scale and scope of ransomware attacks plaguing critical infrastructure, according to CISA director Jen Easterly: Make software secure by design.…

No more stress for TESS NASA has confirmed that the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has recovered from a reaction wheel problem and resumed making observations.…

So long SODIMM? Only in new Thinkpad so far, but memory format may well spread across market LPCAMM2 memory is getting the thumbs up from the team at iFixit, which hailed it as a return to the upgradeable laptop and reckons the writing is on the wall for models with soldered-down, non-serviceable memory.…

Nearly 95M people in total snagged by flaw in file transfer tool Just short of a year after the initial incident, the state of Georgia's higher education government agency has confirmed that it was the victim of an attack on its systems affecting the data of 800,000 people.…

Administrators, start your engines Microsoft has finally broken its silence on the fate of on-premises Exchange, and administrators will need to move quickly to keep their servers supported.…

Multiple Marketplace accounts sold fake bottles, cartridges for 2 years+, claim companies Amazon and printer manufacturer Seiko Epson have filed a joint action against firms in Turkey and the UK which they claim sold counterfeit printer bottles and cartridges on the global online retailer's platform.…

...hope for a quick and sweeping transition to renewable energy is fueled mostly by wishful thinking and a misunderstanding of recent history.

Faith in frunk flunks We know that Tesla Cybertruck owners are very special, and their mothers love them very much, but perhaps the most special of all is the one who "broke" his finger attempting to demonstrate the safety of the "frunk" closing mechanism.…

That pesky 'previously unknown software bug' strikes again Australian superannuation fund UniSuper is lumbering back to life after an "unprecedented occurrence" at Google Cloud knocked its systems offline.…

China vehemently denies involvement UK Government has confirmed a cyberattack on the payroll system used by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) led to "malign" forces accessing data on current and a limited number of former armed forces personnel.…

Intel and Qualcomm reportedly among those cut off Updated  The US Commerce Department has revoked some of the licenses held by tech companies to supply Chinese megacorp Huawei.…

Approach could help make forever upcoming tech more reliable Intel says it has made two advancements towards realizing silicon-based quantum processors which involves optimizing a standard fabrication process and developing a means to test the quality of resulting individual devices across a full 300mm wafer.…

The purveyors of climate doom will not tolerate the good news of our planet thriving because of modest warming and increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide. However, a recent scientific paper concludes that an optimistic vision for Earth and its inhabitants is nonetheless justified.

Two years after going live, the project that left employees unpaid still needs work Updated  The fallout from Edinburgh University's ill-fated Oracle HR and finance implementation continues with one department recording thousands of mis-coded transactions relating to more than £300,000 in spending.…

On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career Interview  This year is an unfortunate anniversary for information security: We're told it's a decade since ransomware started infecting corporations.…

Where have you been, Cupertino? Analysis  We can add Apple to the list of tech titans developing their own custom AI accelerators – at least that's what unnamed sources are telling the Wall Street Journal.…

El Nino is dead.  Long live La Nina, its frigid cousin!

Keynotes, physical security, playlists … the buck stops with Linda Gray Martin Interview  The 33rd RSA Conference is underway this week, and no one feels that more acutely than the cybersecurity event's SVP Linda Gray Martin.…

'I'm blown away by the fact that they weren't using MFA' Interview  The cybersecurity practices that led up to the stunning Change Healthcare ransomware infection indicate "egregious negligence" on the part of parent company UnitedHealth, according to Tom Kellermann, SVP of cyber strategy at Contrast Security.…

No child process left behind Later this year, MITRE is getting its hands on a modest supercomputer and is planning to use it to divvy out AI computing time to US government agencies.…

While there is a knee-jerk tendency to link flood events directly to global warming, a serious approach that considers multiple factors—natural, human, and technological—is necessary for a comprehensive understanding and effective policy-making.

Sources slam aggressive 'back to school' grading system as HR vows to track VPN use, badge swipes Exclusive  Dell has told workers it will track the onsite presence of hybrid employees – those who work part remotely, part in the office – using electronic badge swipes, VPN monitoring, and a rather creepy color-coding system.…

Or at least it might well be if these trial programs work out, with some civil lib oversight etc etc etc RSAC  AI is a double-edged sword in that the government can see ways in which the tech can protect and also be used to attack Americans, says US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.…

Avoid traffic-redirecting snoops who have TunnelVision A newly discovered vulnerability undermines countless VPN clients in that their traffic can be quietly routed away from their encrypted tunnels and intercepted by snoops on the network.…

Trenberth is not alone in thinking that methane’s effects have been overstated. According to climate researcher David Frame, the effect would be negligible if there was a drastic reduction in meat and dairy consumption of the sort envisioned by the government’s net zero policies.

Short on cores, big on threads and matrix math Not to be left out of the AI infrastructure game, on Tuesday IBM unveiled a pair of tiny Power 10 servers designed to preprocess data at the network edge.…

In the first year alone, that's saved us all a lot of money and woe Interview  As ransomware gangs step up their attacks against healthcare, schools, and other US critical infrastructure, CISA is ramping up a program to help these organizations fix flaws exploited by extortionists in the first place.…

Oh, right – there's new iPad Pro and Air models, a pencil and some other stuff Apple held its anticipated iPad event today, and the most attention-grabbing news wasn't the new device models or the refreshed iPad Air lineup - it was the unveiling of Apple's homegrown M4 chip with a surprisingly powerful neural processing unit (NPU). …

Nothing like folks in Beijing lecturing us on the Constitution TikTok and its China-based parent ByteDance sued the US government today to prevent the forced sale or shutdown of the video-sharing giant.…

Perhaps just make sure the stuff that is already there works properly? Microsoft will temporarily halt the rollout of Copilot features based on feedback from Windows Insiders.…

Chipmaker outlines plans to save hundreds of millions and, hey presto, share price magically jumps Infineon, maker of chips for the automotive and industrial sectors, told investors that it is embarking on a cost purge after lowering revenue estimates for the full financial year amid weakened demand.…

First new version in almost a decade now boasts TLS The Dillo web browser has returned with a new release, version 3.1. It's nearly nine years after version 3.05 appeared on the last day of June 2015.…

World Weather Attribution, a purpose created organization intended to manufacture attention getting news stories in support of the Climate Crisis meme that  “All Extreme and Bad Weather is caused by Human Induced Climate Change”, has published a report on the   drought in Panama that has been affecting shipping through the Panama Canal.

Part of the race with Beijing to set standards and advance norms RSAC  The US State Department's latest cybersecurity strategy will not be wildly different from current stances, but offers an alternative path to those presented by the country's adversaries.…

Musk continues quest to make Tesla leaner, meaner, more profitable Another week, another round of layoffs at Tesla to report, and this time engineers are caught up in the mix. …

Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev's $10M question is answered at last Updated  Police have finally named who they firmly believe is the kingpin of the LockBit ransomware ring: Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.…

Customers brace for bumpy ride Updated  Broadcom has ended the right of Amazon Web Services to resell VMware Cloud on AWS, meaning customers will now have a direct relationship only with VMware by Broadcom, casting doubt over the long-term future of the product.…

Problems with Centaur rocket keeps first crewed flight on terra firma Boeing's long-delayed Starliner crewed launch, which was scheduled for today, has been postponed yet again, this time due to a valve problem on the Centaur upper stage. Managers pushed back the next attempt to no earlier than May 10.…

Oh, and Alex Karp's forecasts disappoint the market after strong revenue growth Analytics platform biz Palantir saw its share price dip yesterday despite posting on-the-nose revenue growth of 21 percent year-over-year to reach $634 million in the first calendar quarter.…

TrendForce warns of 'potential crowding out effects on HBM' TSMC's advanced packaging capacity is fully booked for the next two years, thanks to Nvidia and AMD needs, according to reports that echo an earlier earnings call.…

Are we at a Hothouse tipping point now? The simple answer is “no”. A Hothouse period is simply not possible in our current climate state.

Group alleges anticompetitive behavior Updated  Microsoft is facing a complaint over alleged anticompetitive practices in the Spanish cloud market.…

More work to do as most deadlines are missed and worst bugs still take months to fix The deadlines associated with CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog only apply to federal agencies, but fresh research shows they're having a positive impact on private organizations too.…

Thousands of ID cards plus CCTV snaps of suspects found online Exclusive  A UK-based physical security business let its guard down, exposing nearly 1.3 million documents via a public-facing database, according to an infosec researcher.…

Too many folks who should know better saying info-slurping tactics of Big Tech are just as bad Opinion  Which China do you want? The innovative good global citizen, adding to the storehouse of knowledge while making better products and services? Or the autocracy, determined to advance the interests of the leadership through any and all means, untrammeled by legal safeguards within its borders and, wherever possible, outside them?…

It is feared that will lead to emissions far in excess of savings generated by the supposedly environmentally friendly engines.

Possibly its most helpful codename yet 9front, the most active project continuing development of the sequel to Unix, Plan 9 from Bell Labs, emitted a new version. We did not follow its advice.…

Originally published by Propaganda in Focus. Part One of this article is available here and here. The Transhumanist campaign against humanity, we have outlined in Part 1, is part and parcel of a sophisticated long-game strategy waged against bodies and psyches. With the manipulation of our primal fears and altruistic impulses, the prosecution of this …

Evidence along the coasts of North Africa (Morocco) suggests sea levels were “20 m above the present level” about 95,000 years ago (MIS 5c).

I have to assume that this is an example of the Climate Industry’ Misdirection Campaign described recently by Kip Hansen. 

"I think you definitely need collaboration [with China]".

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. “Biometric Payments Will Keep You Safe” There’s a big push on the biometric payment issue at the moment, with numerous platforms and outlets talking …

Sell your automobile or the snakes will get you?

All these moves will face stiff legal challenges in any event, so why not push the envelope on putting wetlands back under EPA’s control?

Mathematics is the Language of Science

“As I look at America today, I am not afraid to say that I am afraid.” Former presidential advisor Bertram Gross The American governmental scheme is sliding ever closer towards a pervasive authoritarianism. The American people, the permanent underclass in America, have allowed themselves to be so distracted and divided that they have failed to …

In other words, the green agenda has produced a useless machine whose only function is to produce designs for useless machines.

Even in 2050 and 2100 the IPCC does not forecast any climate change impact on coastal flooding.

By Lee Gerhard Climate scientists would be less likely to issue dire warnings of planetary doom if they gave more credence to the geological history of the past several million…

The award winning documentary Epidemic of Fraud presents an alternative narrative of the “Covid Pandemic”. The film argues that early treatment options for “Covid19” – such as ivermectin and most especially hydroxychloroquine – were suppressed in order to boost vaccine profits. It also suggests that the alleged “virus” itself may have the been result of …

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, I see that the climate hypemeisters are at it again. Here’s Google News on the subject. Figure 1. The usual, from the usual suspects.…

To be crucified is to suffer and die slowly and agonizingly.  It was a common form of execution in the ancient world.  It is generally associated with Rome’s killing of Jesus and carries profound symbolic spiritual meaning for Christians.  In its figurative sense, it refers to many types of suffering and death inflicted on the …

I used to be shocked and amazed when weird things happened in the world that seemed to be connected to each other, but were too weird to be just a coincidence. Now I think it’s funny. Not in a “ha ha” sort of way, but in a “this is so strange, and so obviously connected …

The UK ran local and mayoral elections today, and surprise surprise so far it is a big win for Labour. At the time of writing, the “opposition” has won 3 of the 4 called mayoral elections and wrested control of 8 councils from the Conservatives. The Tories have apparently lost almost 300 council seats so …

There is a lusty bird that sings at dusk outside my window high in the cedar tree. I’ve never seen him but he warbles wildly and poignantly as if to say for the night, “come live with me and be my love.” He is a lonely child of the wilderness spreading his heart to the dying wind knowing the sun is going down and he will be alone watching the predators on the ground, waiting for daybreak.

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