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Melton made £80 million from ROC subsidies, in addition to another £12 million from Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin and top ups from OGFEM from ROC recycling. Total turnover was £169 million, so more than half of revenue comes from subsidies.

The study authors have apparently never heard of swimming.

Over the last two decades, the coal industry has ceded much of the battlefield to its opponents and even now seems somewhat complacent about its future. The Trump Administration will be gone three in years. And even while Trump is in office, state regulators and utilities are proceeding to close coal power plants throughout the country — Colorado, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Washington, on and on. Decisions on these remaining plants will be made over the next several years

What the current crisis proves is simple: Energy security resides in the ability to secure physical molecules – oil, gas, coal and uranium – when geopolitical storms hit. Europe, and much of Asia, chose to anchor their future to slogans instead.

Sell your soul to the orb Sam Altman has cooked up a plan to make his cryptocurrency/identity/eyeball-scanning-orb venture more useful by – you guessed it – adding agentic AI to the mix. Now the technology behind it will be used to identify the human behind bots.…

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by one very large org chart Earlier this month, AWS ended standard support for PostgreSQL 13 on RDS. Customers who want to stay on a supported database — as AWS is actively encouraging them to do — need to upgrade to PostgreSQL 14 or later.…

Formal code verification and testing offer a way around AI blind spots Your AI may need AI to oversee its work. Gallic AI biz Mistral is leaning into making AI code generation more reliable with Leanstral, a coding agent for proofs constructed using the open source Lean programming language.…

The Space-1 Vera Rubin Module will solve all your in-space computing needs gtc  Space could be the final frontier for datacenters. Never mind that some analysts have described orbital bit barns as "peak insanity" - Nvidia has designed a new Vera Rubin module specifically to operate above the Earth's atmosphere.…

His famous 1968 book, "The Population Bomb," changed the world. He famously predicted that human "overpopulation" would soon outstrip food supplies, leading to catastrophic famines, and societal collapse. He predicted that hundreds of millions of people would starve to death in the 1970s and 1980s, that India would be unable to feed its population by 1980, and that major countries like England would no longer exist by the year 2000.

Plus: Object storage gets stamp of approval, and it intros network linked 'AI Grid' GTC  HPE has expanded its Nvidia-based AI portfolio with new systems built on Blackwell and upcoming Rubin GPUs, alongside updates to its Alletra Storage MP X10000, which it claims is the first object storage platform to achieve Nvidia-Certified Storage validation.…

State-sponsored attackers joined by Chinese snoops and hackers-for-hire in latest round of economic penalties The Council of the European Union sanctioned Emennet Pasargad on Monday, a company used as a front for a series of Iranian cyberattacks.…

Still aiming for April 1 if the weather plays ball The rollback to the launchpad for NASA's monster Moon rocket has slipped by a day, though the agency is optimistic that the long-delayed return of humans to lunar space will still happen in early April.…

Big Red bets on native runtimes over reimplementations to tackle edge cases JavaOne  Oracle has shipped Java 26, a short-term release, and introduced Project Detroit, which promises faster interop between Java, JavaScript, and Python.…

Regulator nudges broadband market, hopes competition will turn up in 2031 Ofcom is laying out its pathway for fiber broadband almost everywhere across the UK in five years, but concedes that BT still dominates the market.…

In the same way that Malthusians were wrong about the constraints on food production, so they’ll prove to be wrong about both the future demand and supply of electricity.

Second emergency fix in days targets Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 Microsoft has pushed out yet another out-of-band hotpatch, this time to fix Bluetooth issues in Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2.…

Civilians relying on Dutch shortwave radio broadcast for outside information Iran's internet blackout is entering day 18, according to monitoring outfit NetBlocks, which says the vast majority of the country has been offline for more than 400 consecutive hours.…

Linux still can't mount or read APFS volumes by default ... but that's about to change Linux 7.0 is approaching and there's a new version of bcachefs to go with it… as well as green shoots of support for Apple's new disk format.…

According to Grok, these plug in solar panels start at £600. Does the moron really think people have got that sort of money in their pockets to waste on his green nonsense? Potential annual savings for users are in the tens of pounds.

SCION: Proven in banking and healthcare, slow to spread everywhere else Feature  BGP, the Border Gateway Protocol, was not designed to be secure. It was designed to work – to route packets between the thousands of autonomous systems that make up the internet, quickly and at scale.…

A wearable sensor designed to monitor intestinal gas suggests the average person may let rip around 32 times a day For decades, Reg readers have demanded to know exactly how often humans let rip – and at last science may have produced an answer.…

MPs say the Beeb closed broadcast services expecting audiences to migrate online, but digital reach has fallen instead Britain's push to drag the BBC World Service into the digital age hasn't gone quite to plan, with MPs warning the broadcaster's "digital-first" strategy has shrunk audiences rather than growing them.…

Results from Ryugu suggest the the Solar System produced the building blocks of life Scientists have found that all five of the substances that make up DNA and RNA in samples from Ryugu, the asteroid Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency visited in 2020.…

Refinery closures in California reduce fuel supply resilience on the West Coast, increasing risks to military readiness and national security. Maintaining a stable policy framework that supports continued operation of California refineries is therefore not only an economic and consumer affordability issue, but also a matter of broader national security and national defense.

Admins may be even more exhausted by then, because securing Microsoft’s AI helper is not a trivial job Gartner analyst Dennis Xu has half-jokingly suggested banning use of Microsoft’s Copilot AI on Friday afternoons, because he fears at that time of week users may be too lazy to properly check its possibly offensive output.…

AI helped send weekly threat signal count from 80 million to 400 billion, then helped response time shrink from two days to 30 minutes Australia’s Commonwealth Bank built its own agentic AI threat hunting tools, because vendors are too slow to develop tools that can cope with emerging AI-powered threats, according to General Manager of Cyber Defence Operations Andrew Pade.…

The trick to seeing knowledgeable behavior is to stop and think. What would the critter have to know, perceive, decide, and do in order to perform this action? Over the years I collected many observations like this which are discussed in the various blog articles. I also discuss how to do it and the general theory of knowledgeable animal behavior.

Codestrap founders say we need to dial down the hype and sort through the mess interview  Enterprise organizations are still struggling to figure out how AI fits into their business, and that may be for the best because it will take time to understand any problems caused by AI-generated code and content.…

'We want to use our capital correctly, and I think debt is a great way to do that,' says CEO Benioff Here today; here tomorrow. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s stock buyback will saddle the company with debt until 2066, when he turns 102 years old.…

Latest generation of AI image enhancer brings characters to life GTC  Computer graphics have come a long way from chasing Donkey Kong around a 2D board and fragging 3D demons in Doom. However, even with the most powerful graphics cards, human faces in games still look surreal and lifeless, with dead eyes, cling-film-smooth faces, and beards that blend into their chins. With Nvidia's upcoming DLSS 5, you can play with characters that look like they've stepped out of

Carbon dioxide levels in this dataset vary between 170 parts per million (ppm) and 280 ppm. If the level had fallen below 150 ppm, photosynthesis would have stopped and an almost certain mass extinction of land-based life would have occurred. Hatton observes that in 556 centuries of the 800,000-year Vostok database, CO2 was below 190 ppm.

'OpenClaw is the operating system for personal AI,' insists Nvidia CEO gtc  In Pixar's Toy Story, a trio little green aliens explain, "The claw chooses who will go and who will stay." The claw in that instance was a mechanical claw in a vending machine. …

Operations and hospital networks not affected, we're told Robotics-assisted surgical tech firm Intuitive said that unauthorized intruders gained access to some of its internal IT business applications after stealing an employee's credentials during a phishing attack.…

The cubicals of the agentic AI age are cores GTC  Intel and AMD take notice. At GTC on Monday, Nvidia unveiled its latest liquid-cooled rack systems. But unlike its NVL72 racks, this one isn't powered by GPUs or even Groq LPUs, but rather 256 of its custom Vera CPUs.…

GPUzilla's $20B acquihire paves to way to AI agents that halucinate faster than ever GTC  Nvidia will use Groq's language processing units (LPUs), a technology it paid $20 billion for, to boost the inference performance of its newly-announced Vera Rubin rack systems, CEO Jensen Huang revealed during his GTC keynote on Monday. …

The war in Iran is having the impact that most people with any sense knew it would have: The price of oil is going up, and the supply of oil is going down. Of course, whether or not the latter of these is actually true we will never know, and it’s beside the point. Oil …

Hacktivists use proxy services from Russia, China for 'billions of designed-for-abuse connection attempts' Cybercrime has skyrocketed since the start of the Iran war, according to Akamai, which reports a 245 percent increase in everything from credential harvesting attempts to automated reconnaissance traffic aimed at banks and other critical businesses.…

Native code build tools now dominate for TypeScript or JavaScript projects Vite 8.0 has been released, and it uses Rust-built Rolldown as its single bundler, replacing both esbuild and Rollup, to enable faster builds.…

"... Sunlight doesn’t depend on narrow and vulnerable shipping straits, wind blows without massive taxpayer-funded naval escorts ..."

Robotron: 2084 is the original robot uprising game A former Microsoft engineer is training AI to beat 1982's Robotron: 2084, an arcade game where a lone human must overcome endless waves of robots following a cybernetic revolt.…

Interpol says fraud schemes using the tech are 4.5x more profitable AI is apparently good for the bottom line if your business is crime. Financial fraud schemes carried out with the help of artificial intelligence are 4.5 times more profitable than those that aren't enhanced, according to Interpol's latest estimates.…

Early demo hints at a future sci-fi writers warned us about San Francisco startup Eon Systems claims that it has created the first digital simulation of a fruit fly brain that can control a virtual body and produce recognizable behaviors.…

F is for Free, FSF, and fat chance Updated  The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has rattled a saber at Anthropic over the use of its materials in training the AI vendor's models, urging it to set its LLMs free.…

iFixit opens Apple’s budget system, discovers something missing from MacBooks: replaceable components Apple's latest MacBook may be cheap, but it also comes with something modern MacBooks haven't offered in years: a fighting chance of being repaired.…

Britain is a “sitting duck” for drone attacks, senior defence sources say, because Ed Miliband’s wind farms interfere with radar used by defensive domes.

McDermott argues digital workers will handle much of the grunt work once used to train junior staff Unemployment rates among recent graduates could climb above 30 percent because so many early career routine tasks will be performed by AI agents, ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott has said.…

Toothbrushes, Turing and the truth give the lie to California’s legal lunacy Opinion  There are two ways to look at the California Assembly Bill 1043, known as The Digital Age Assurance Act or DAAA. One is to say it is a 2025 law requiring operating systems and app stores to implement age verification during account setup to protect minors online. The other is to note that the law is all the worst things a law can be.…

Back button blunder in WebFiling service run by Companies House revealed confidential paperwork Companies House was forced to pull down its record-filing platform for the entire weekend to rectify a "security issue" that exposed the personal details of company directors and other data to any logged in users.…

'Access denied' errors hit certain Windows 11 machines running vendor utility Microsoft has blamed Samsung for some devices suffering C:\ drive access problems coincidentally close to March's Patch Tuesday.…

'Sunrise' beast will run AI-heavy simulations of plasma behavior and reactor physics The UK government is splashing out £45 million (c $60 million) on a new AI-driven supercomputer designed to help scientists model the chaotic physics of nuclear fusion, with the system expected to come online this summer at the UK Atomic Energy Authority's (UKAEA) Culham campus.…

Already five years late, project delayed another six months after price tag swells from £2.6M to £41M West Sussex County Council has once again delayed the implementation of Oracle Fusion for HR and payroll – set to replace an aging SAP system – following a series of setbacks that have seen expected costs swell to more than 15 times the original estimate.…

System compensating victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal still slow, thousands of ex-subpostmasters waiting for payments More than a year after MPs warned that victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal were still waiting for compensation, Parliament says the system meant to pay them remains slow, bureaucratic, and flawed – meaning thousands of sub-postmasters are still fighting for payouts while taxpayers pick up the bill.…

Quote of the Week: “…turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics."— Richard Feynman,

Client omissions caused the problem, so guess who was thrown under the bus Who, Me?  The world of work can be thankless, which is why The Register tries to brighten up the Monday return to toil by bringing you a fresh installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column where you confess to your IT screw-ups and tell us how you got away with it.…

Cloudy storage service's scale gave it a hefty cultural footprint Amazon Web Services on Saturday celebrated the 20th birthday of its Simple Storage Service (S3) and revealed a few little secrets about the service.…

The EIKE author concludes that batteries alone cannot guarantee a secure power supply. Even under massive expansion scenarios for 2030, gaps remain (especially in winter) that would strictly require a flexible power plant reserve (e.g., gas-fired plants) or imports.

Dark Dalek drama to stream this April Film preservation organization Film Is Fabulous! has found a pair of Doctor Who episodes thought to have been lost forever.…

So . . . . why is it not argued that these lawsuits should be dismissed because they do not present a prima facie case that ‘industry disinformation campaigns employing skeptic scientists’ happened?? Why is it not suggested that the collective climate litigation lawfare efforts should be referred to the Department of Justice as possible instances of widespread fraud activity? (please see: “The Plagiarism Problem Plaguing the ‘ExxonKnew’ Lawfare Lawsuits — Summary for Policymakers�

PLUS: SAP expands Japanese cloud; SK hynix close to shipping LPDDR6; Lenovo's biggest ever IaaS deal; and more Asia in brief  India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change last week staged a two-day national workshop titled “Policy Implementation for Minimizing Elephant Mortalities on Railway Track” – and one of the ideas discussed was using AI to protect the beasts and workers.…

PLUS: Citrix CISO urges patch blitz; Mandiant founder reveals AI red-teaming tech; Bitter privacy news for Starbucks; And more Infosec In Brief  Canadian outsourcer Telus Digital has admitted it fell victim to a cyberattack.…

Join Brandon Vigliarolo, Tobias Mann, and Avram Piltch to discuss our predictions for this week's GTC Kettle  It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year - if you're an AI aficionado, that is, as chip giant Nvidia, now the most valuable company in the world, is kicking off its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) on Monday.…

Climate science will not disappear. But, it may go underground and become a privately funded political tool.

If you want to understand how Australia got into its current mess, read the open letter quoted in this article.

The Climate Central study has been around for a few of weeks, meaning it was hardly breaking news. WTAE’s audience would have been better served by the outlet and Szwed had they taken the time to see if its research had been vetted by others and its claims checked out. Had they done so they could have easily found Climate Realism’s previous post rebutting Climate Central’s claims and, by doing so, saved themselves the embarrassment of reporting as fact the false claims about coffee’s de

Most don't think they are good for the environment Three-quarters of the American public have heard of datacenters, but they haven't quite made their minds up yet about whether they approve of them or not.…

Cornell Uni researchers pivot to pluck low-hanging fruit to optimize bandwidth Workers who believe "leveraging cross-functional synergies" sounds profound may want to rethink their career trajectory because a new study suggests people who fall for corporate word salad also tend to perform worse at their jobs.…

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The Mars Colony was real, everyone knew that. The actors all knew it because it was in their non-disclosure agreements. The problem was that the radiation of the Van Allen belts and the interference of the asteroid field made any direct, real-time communication almost impossible. That’s what the set was for. And the costumes. The …

It does not take a genius to work out that when Ed Miliband succeeds in tripling wind power capacity, there will be far too much wind power for the grid to handle.

“One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it — it was the black kitten’s fault entirely.” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass Anyone who is not sick at heart and raging over the slaughter of over 165 young Iranian girls at a school by the American-Israeli monsters waging war on Iran is depraved and …

Biological computing is messy and gassy – It’s now cloudy, too At the start of the working day at Cortical Labs’ datacenter in Melbourne, Australia, technicians top up the resident computers with a liquid modelled on the cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds the human brain.…

Conversations with Anthropic's models may now be accompanied by interactive apps Seeing is believing, or so it was said up until AI required questioning everything. But even when braced to resist the slop roulette of online interaction, pictures are worth a thousand tokens.…

Coding education may become a bit more challenging, but the economics lesson is free You don't get what you don't pay for! Microsoft's GitHub is dialing back on expenses by removing several costly premium models from its free GitHub Copilot Student plan.…

IMA members Ryan Cristian, Derrick Broze, James Corbett, Catherine Austin Fitts, Charlie Robinson, Steve Poikonen, Kit Knightly and Hrvoje Moric talk about the on-going war in Iran. They discuss 💢the alleged political “justifications” 💢whether or not Iran is a member of “the club” 💢how the conflict  serves the Great Reset 💢the implications for the global …

We all know that Hollyweird is programming us with their soulless, corporate slop. And we all know they’re preparing to force-feed us their future soulless, corporate, AI-generated slop. So, what are we doing about it? Are we continuing to pay for their propaganda and brainrot? Or are we supporting the independent filmmakers and media producers …

Yesterday, Keir Starmer’s Government officially launched their “consultation” on Digital ID. The language in the press release is hilariously partisan… Government launches consultation on making public services quicker, easier and more secure to access with digital ID The government wants to know if you’re in favour Digital ID making public services quicker easer and more …

For much of humanity’s existence, our traditional worldview or cosmos was based on sacred, reciprocal relationships with the land and governed by natural seasons and localised community rhythms. What we are currently seeing, however, is an accelerated shift from a physical universe rooted in seasons and community to a virtual one mediated by screens and …

The Technocratic Dark State and other matters discussed by author Iain Davis and Paul Brennan on Reality Check Radio. The post The Technocratic Dark State – Reality Check Radio appeared first on Iain Davis.

My claims upfront: We are born into an extraordinary mystery, with too few clues to realistically hope to solve it in this lifetime. We have been given a compass (moral compass, and intuition), so we do have something to guide us through this mystery, but we don’t know who gave us this compass, and we cannot …

When the war with Iran officially began on Saturday, I annoyed quite a few people by replying to James Delingpole on twtter with this comment: I stand by it. In fact I can amplify it. There’s ample evidence to show we’re already living in the post-nation age, and this was made explicitly clear by the …

Keir Starmer has a dubious history of child protection failures. We examine some of those conspicuous alleged "mistakes." What we are asked to believe is sometimes very hard to accept. The post Keir Starmer’s Questionable Child Protection History appeared first on Iain Davis.

The Filton Six have not been found guilty in a trial by jury. The Jury in the case exercised their constitutional rights and liberties. To appreciate the staggering importance of the jury's decision read here The post The Filton Six: The People Rule, OK? appeared first on Iain Davis.

What is a 15-Minute City? Is it, as some apparently believe, simply an urban space where essential goods and services can be accessed within 15 minute walk or cycle ride from you home? No! As usual, there is much more to it than that. The post What Is A 15-Minute City? appeared first on Iain Davis.

The official UK digital identity Panopticon has been announced by the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood. The implication for the British people are extremely concerning. Read more here. The post The Official UK Digital Identity Panopticon appeared first on Iain Davis.

The Technocratic Dark State with Grand Theft World - Author Iain Davis discusses his latest book with Richard Grove from Grand Theft World The post The Technocratic Dark State and Grand Theft World appeared first on Iain Davis.

The fake Digital ID "victory" in the UK is explored by Iain Davis and Ant Critchley from Becoming Stellify. Possible solutions are discussed. Watch here! The post Fake Digital ID “Victory” appeared first on Iain Davis.

Operation Talla exposes the British state for what it is: unconstitutional and unlawful. We only know about it thanks to the tireless work of committed campaigners. Read the incredible story of Operation Talla here. The post Operation Talla – Unconstitutional and Unlawful appeared first on Iain Davis.

In this article we consider what the UK constitutionally rule of law means and how we can use it to resist the UK dictatorship. Read more HERE. The post How We Can Resist The UK Dictatorship – Part 2 appeared first on Iain Davis.

Please check out my speech at the Mass Non Compliance protest rally against digital ID in London on 13th December 2025. The post Iain Davis Speaks At The Mass Non Compliance Protest Against Digital ID appeared first on Iain Davis.