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AUKUS blasts holes in LockBit's bulletproof hosting provider

11 February 2025 @ 6:26 pm - The Register

UK foreign secretary says Putin is running a 'corrupt mafia state' One of the bulletproof hosting (BPH) providers used by the LockBit ransomware operation has been hit with sanctions in the US, UK, and Australia (AUKUS), along with six of its key allies.…

Final cumulative update for Exchange Server 2019 lands at last

11 February 2025 @ 5:45 pm - The Register

End of the road in sight for venerable server Administrators rejoice! The 2025 H1 Cumulative Update (aka CU15) for Exchange Server 2019 has finally arrived, marking the end of an era for the server application.…

Man who binned 7,500 Bitcoin drive now wants to buy entire landfill to dig it up

11 February 2025 @ 5:02 pm - The Register

More than a decade on, waste experts say the odds of finding those coins are next to nil Denied permission to excavate a landfill in search of his missing Bitcoin, Newport, Wales resident James Howells has a new plan: buy the soon-to-be-capped dumping site outright from the city council.…

Man who SIM-swapped the SEC's X account pleads guilty

11 February 2025 @ 4:15 pm - The Register

Said to have asked search engine 'What are some signs that the FBI is after you?' An Alabama man is pleading guilty after being charged with SIM swapping the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) X account in January last year.…

Oracle makes Fusion apps available on EU Sovereign Cloud

11 February 2025 @ 3:30 pm - The Register

GDPR-compliant pitched for public sector orgs who can't pipe data offsite Oracle is launching a Fusion Cloud Applications Suite (FCAS) on its Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud in a move designed to offer app users greater assurance in compliance with the region's data law.…

Technocracy Ascending – Part 3: Green Sustainable Slavery

11 February 2025 @ 3:00 pm - OffGuardian

As detailed in Part 2 of “Technocracy Ascending,” David Rockefeller, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and the Trilateral Commission achieved a great deal in moving the world toward a new international economic order and global governance (i.e., a new world order). Brzezinski understood the decline of nation states was a necessity for advancing a global order where the private banking …

I'm a security expert, and I almost fell for a North Korea-style deepfake job applicant …Twice

11 February 2025 @ 2:01 pm - The Register

Remote position, webcam not working, then glitchy AI face ... Red alert! Twice, over the past two months, Dawid Moczadło has interviewed purported job seekers only to discover that these "software developers" were scammers using AI-based tools — likely to get hired at a security company also using artificial intelligence, and then steal source code or other sensitive IP.…

Green Britain has 400GW of Stalled Data Center Requests, 60 – 70% will “Never Happen”

11 February 2025 @ 2:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

How long until British AI entrepreneurs get fed up with waiting?

Google confirms Gulf of Mexico renamed to appease Trump – but only in the US

11 February 2025 @ 1:15 pm - The Register

So now everyone's happy Google has changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico on Google Maps to comply with a Donald Trump whim – but only for American users.…

Microsoft open sources PostgreSQL extensions to muscle in on NoSQL

11 February 2025 @ 12:26 pm - The Register

But will it set a real standard for MongoDB alternatives? Analysis  When Microsoft rolled out an open source extension stack for PostgreSQL to handle document-style data, it wasn't just taking aim at MongoDB – the dominant NoSQL player – but also blurring the lines between relational and non-relational databases, according to one expert.…

DeepMind working on distributed training of large AI models

11 February 2025 @ 11:46 am - The Register

Alternate process could be a game changer if they can make it practicable Is distributed training the future of AI? As the shock of the DeepSeek release fades, its legacy may be an awareness that alternative approaches to model training are worth exploring, and DeepMind researchers say they've come up with a way of making distributed training much more efficient.…

Already three years late, NHS finance system replacement delayed again

11 February 2025 @ 11:01 am - The Register

Project to swap out Oracle E-Business Suite gets another red rating from projects watchdog The UK's largest NHS management body has postponed the replacement of its aging Oracle finance system again following more than three years of delays.…

Euro cloud crew says we-won't-sue deal with Microsoft is 'off-track'

11 February 2025 @ 10:21 am - The Register

Overseas pals urge US tech giant to 'rapidly' work on Azure Local project to make things right – sans licenses Microsoft is not on track to meet technical commitments that form the basis of a settlement agreement intended to resolve a legal dispute over software licensing with a gaggle of cloud providers in Europe.…

Most countries miss UN deadline for new climate targets

11 February 2025 @ 10:00 am - Watts Up With That?

BRUSSELS, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Many of the world’s biggest polluter nations have missed a U.N. deadline to set new climate targets as efforts to curb global warming come under pressure following U.S. President Donald Trump’s election.

UK government using AI tools to check up on roadworthy testing centers

11 February 2025 @ 9:30 am - The Register

Who tests the testers? The UK's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has produced a list showing how the country uses AI technologies to perform tasks ranging from speeding up the planning process to prioritizing the inspection of MOT testing centers.…

RIP Raymond Bird: Designer of UK's first mass-produced business computer dies aged 101

11 February 2025 @ 8:33 am - The Register

Engineer was behind the HEC series and more Obit  Raymond Bird, who developed the UK's first mass-produced business computer, the Hollerith Electronic Computer (HEC), has died at the digitally apropos age of 101.…

Only 4 percent of jobs rely heavily on AI, with peak use in mid-wage roles

11 February 2025 @ 7:31 am - The Register

Mid-salary knowledge jobs in tech, media, and education are changing. Folk in physical jobs have less to sweat about Workers in just four percent of occupations use AI for three quarters of their tasks, according to research from Anthropic that explores how its Claude model is used.…

Professor Stefan Rahmstorf and Thermodynamics

11 February 2025 @ 6:00 am - Watts Up With That?

Doubters of the greenhouse effect are sometimes rightly accused of denying the climate problem. But what are Rahmstorf, Lesch and Co. doing when they reject everything except green energies, which alone are probably only very inadequately capable of solving the climate problem (as shown in January 2025), by swearing about physics?

NASA’s radiation tolerant computer lives up to its name after surviving Van Allen belts

11 February 2025 @ 5:56 am - The Register

'RadPC' flew on Firefly’s Ghost Riders in the Sky mission, which has left Earth Orbit and is headed for the Moon NASA has revealed its experimental Radiation Tolerant Computer has made it through the famously and furiously radiating Van Allen belts in one piece.…

January earthquake shook $165M off TSMC’s revenue forecast

11 February 2025 @ 3:58 am - The Register

Promises production schedule will get back on track Taiwanese chipmaking champion TSMC has revealed that a January earthquake will cost it millions.…

Wind, Solar, Batteries: The High Cost of Duplicative Energy

11 February 2025 @ 2:00 am - Watts Up With That?

“The data make it clear that the only possible rationale for renewable energy—making significant reductions of CO2 emissions—cannot be achieved. The costs of attempting to do this are already imposing heavy costs on economies across the world.”

Apple warns 'extremely sophisticated attack' may be targeting iThings

11 February 2025 @ 1:58 am - The Register

Cupertino mostly uses bland language when talking security, so this sounds nasty Apple has warned that some iPhones and iPads may have been targeted by an “extremely sophisticated attack” and has posted patches that hopefully prevent it.…

Some workers already let AI do the thinking for them, Microsoft researchers find

11 February 2025 @ 12:31 am - The Register

Dammit, that was our job here at The Reg. Now if you get a task you don't understand, you may assume AI has the answers Some knowledge workers risk becoming over-reliant on generative AI and their problem-solving skills may decline as a result, according to a study penned by researchers from Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon University.…

All your 8Base are belong to us: Ransomware crew busted in global sting

10 February 2025 @ 10:15 pm - The Register

Dark web site seized, four cuffed in Thailand An international police operation spanning the US, Europe, and Asia has shuttered the 8Base ransomware crew's dark web presence and resulted in the arrest of four European suspects accused of stealing $16 million from more than 1,000 victims worldwide.…

Honey, I Shrunk the Power Plant!

10 February 2025 @ 10:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

Given the cost, risks, and lack of benefits, why is there lots of support for CCUS? Cheyenne perhaps suggests one answer. Cheyenne lies at the intersection of two major rail networks with associated long haul internet backbone fiber, two major interstate highways, and a satellite uplink/downlink and satellite flying operation. For these reasons, and its cheap local electrical energy, a number of social media, data centers and AI facilities want to locate there. However, the wokeness of these com

Intel loses another exec as datacenter, AI chief named Nokia CEO

10 February 2025 @ 8:45 pm - The Register

Justin Hotard tapped to replace Pekka Lundmark at the Finnish telco Intel is going to need more than a new CEO after its Datacenter and AI (DCAI) chief on Monday announced he's leaving to run Nokia as its next chief executive.…

Reclassification is making US tech job losses look worse than they are

10 February 2025 @ 6:30 pm - The Register

IT hiring ticks up in January, but unemployment climbs to 5.7% The latest job numbers from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics make IT hiring look like it's in freefall, but that's not the case at all, says consultancy firm Janco. …

David Karoly’s Climate Crisis – Fewer Frost Mornings in Melbourne?

10 February 2025 @ 6:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

Should we shut down Western industrial civilisation to bring back the frost?

Meta's plan to erase 5% of workforce starts today

10 February 2025 @ 5:35 pm - The Register

'Intense year' ahead, warned Zuck. Got to spend billions on AI and work to stay out of Trump's bad books Meta has confirmed to The Register that today marks the start of a mass redundancy process with thousands of workers getting the chop.…

T-Mobile goes live with beta of satellite phone service for the US

10 February 2025 @ 4:32 pm - The Register

Free text messages for users of its own and rival networks during test period T-Mobile US has started a public beta of its Direct-to-Cell service using Starlink satellites, offering just text messages for now, with data and voice calls coming later. Access will be free until July – after which it will cost $15 per month.…

Boeing warns SLS staff that job cuts could be on the way

10 February 2025 @ 3:28 pm - The Register

Overdue, over budget and now... perhaps just over? Boeing has notified staff that hundreds of jobs could be eliminated if the Artemis program is canceled or heavily revised.…

The biggest microcode attack in our history is underway

10 February 2025 @ 2:36 pm - The Register

When your state machines are vulnerable, all bets are off Opinion  All malicious attacks on digital systems have one common aim: taking control. Mostly, that means getting a CPU somewhere to turn traitor, running code that silently steals or scrambles your data. That code can ride into the system in a whole spectrum of ways, but usually it has to be in memory somewhere at some time, making it amenable to counter-attack.…

GOP Rep Wants to Gut Biden’s Green Energy Law in Next Budget

10 February 2025 @ 2:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

House Republicans could be leaving hundreds of billions of dollars in potential savings on the table as the GOP conference works to finish a budget deal to extend expiring tax cuts and cut spending, according to one conservative House lawmaker.

Sri Lanka goes bananas after monkey unplugs nation

10 February 2025 @ 1:51 pm - The Register

Simian saboteur or a grid screaming for modernization? Sri Lanka's electricity grid was brought down nationwide on Sunday after monkey business struck a power station south of the capital of Colombo.…

US news org still struggling to print papers a week after 'cybersecurity event'

10 February 2025 @ 1:05 pm - The Register

Publications across 25 states either producing smaller issues or very delayed ones US newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises is one week into tackling a nondescript "cybersecurity event," saying the related investigation may take "weeks or longer" to complete.…

CentOS Connect conference announces return of Firefox

10 February 2025 @ 12:47 pm - The Register

OKD project also has its own immutable CentOS image, which could be fun FOSDEM 2025  CentOS Connect, the FOSDEM-adjacent meetup, delivered a few notable updates: Firefox is returning as a native package on CentOS, an immutable Stream variant is being explored, and AlmaLinux is doing things its own way.…

Legacy systems running UK's collector are taxing – in more ways than one

10 February 2025 @ 12:03 pm - The Register

Costs for fixing them and keeping them working up by 390%, NAO report reveals Updated  Costs associated with the remediation of the UK tax collector's legacy systems have risen by up to 390 percent, according to a new report from government auditors.…

London has 400 GW of grid requests holding up datacenter builds

10 February 2025 @ 10:28 am - The Register

And up to 70% of stalled energy generation projects are unlikely to be approved, claims regulator Ofgem While the UK government wants to turbocharge datacenter construction, a newly published report says there are already 400 GW worth of outstanding requests for connection to the power grid around London, and regulator Ofgem estimates 60-70 percent of these will never happen.…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #630

10 February 2025 @ 10:00 am - Watts Up With That?

Quote of the Week: “No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literary or armistice expressions.” — Richard Feynman, The Meaning of It all: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist (1998)

UK armed forces fast-tracking cyber warriors to defend digital front lines

10 February 2025 @ 9:30 am - The Register

High starting salaries promised after public sector infosec pay criticized The UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) is fast-tracking cybersecurity specialists in a bid to fortify its protection against increasing attacks.…

Sleepwalking into Tyranny: How Power is Silently Being Seized

10 February 2025 @ 9:00 am - OffGuardian

“This is what militaries do during coups: you capture the major targets, with government buildings high on the list, and you take over communications and other systems.” Ruth Ben-Ghiat, historian on fascism and authoritarian leaders How something is done is just as important as why something is done. To suggest that the ends justify the means is to …

Does this thing run on a 220 V power supply? Oh. That puff of smoke suggests not

10 February 2025 @ 8:30 am - The Register

That's not even the worst part of this story, which features a flood, broken promises, and plenty of panic Who, Me?  The working week has rolled around again, bringing with it the promise of new achievements – and the chance to mess things up in ways that we cover here in "Who, Me?" The Register's reader-contributed column in which you admit to your failures.…

Cloudflare hopes to rebuild the Web for the AI age - with itself in the middle

10 February 2025 @ 7:34 am - The Register

Also claims it’s found DeepSeek-eque optimizations that reduce AI infrastructure requirements Cloudflare has declared it’s found optimizations that reduce the amount of hardware needed for inferencing workloads, and is in early talks to re-invent the World Wide Web for the age of AI…

Judge says US Treasury ‘more vulnerable to hacking’ since Trump let the DOGE out

10 February 2025 @ 6:32 am - The Register

Order requires destruction of departmental data accessed by Musky men Trump administration policies that allowed Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency to access systems and data at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS) have left the org “more vulnerable to hacking” according to federal Judge Paul A. Engelmayer in New York City.…

Hurricane DOGE Sweeps into the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

10 February 2025 @ 6:00 am - Watts Up With That?

DOGE was first denied access to the NOAA IT servers but now has access, according to two sources familiar with the situation. DOGE is looking for anything tied to DEI and whether they have removed anything DEI-related from bulletin boards, including posters and signs, the sources said. They also checked bathroom signs to ensure they complied with President Donald Trump’s executive orders.

India's banking on the bank.in domain cleaning up its financial services sector

10 February 2025 @ 4:31 am - The Register

With over 2,000 banks in operation, a domain only they can use has potential to make life harder for fraudsters India’s Reserve Bank last week announced a plan to use adopt dedicated second-level domains – bank.in and fin.in – in the hope it improves trust in the financial services sector.…

DeepSeek's iOS app is a security nightmare, and that's before you consider its TikTok links

10 February 2025 @ 2:30 am - The Register

PLUS: Spanish cops think they've bagged NATO hacker; HPE warns staff of data breach; Lazy Facebook phishing, and more! Infosec In Brief  DeepSeek’s iOS app is a security nightmare that you should delete ASAP, according to researchers at mobile app infosec platform vendor NowSecure.…

Dr Sabine Hossenfelder: Trump is Making Us Give Up On Climate Goals

10 February 2025 @ 2:00 am - Watts Up With That?

Sabine is a high profile Physics YouTuber who creates brilliantly skeptical videos about the latest science claims - except when it comes to climate change.

Huawei revenue growing fast, suggesting China's scoffing at sanctions

9 February 2025 @ 11:59 pm - The Register

PLUS: Japan shifts to pre-emptive cyber-defense; Thailand cuts cords connecting scam camps; China to launch 'moon hopper' in 2026; and more! Asia In Brief  Huawei chair Liang Hua last week told a conference in China that the company expects to meet its revenue targets for 2024, meaning it earned around ¥860 billion ($118.25 billion) – 22 percent growth compared to its 2023 result.…

To My Fellow Jews, As They Invert Reality Each Time an Israeli Is Released from Gaza

9 February 2025 @ 11:00 pm - OffGuardian

Dear fellow religiously-observant Jews, I have a request to make of all of you. Please, please – in the name of minimal decency – spare me another round of weepy propaganda over the release of some Israeli captives formerly held by inmates of the concentration camp you helped to create in Gaza. I cannot bear …

Climate Change Weekly # 533 —Trump’s Energy and Climate EOs Thus Far: Pt. 2

9 February 2025 @ 10:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

CCW 532 examined some of the executive orders (EOs) and policy memoranda President Donald Trump issued in the first hours of his administration to advance his goal of making America energy-dominant while creating jobs and shoring up national security. Below I discuss a few more of these actions and the responses so far.

WATCH: How to REALLY Resist Digital ID – #SolutionsWatch

9 February 2025 @ 6:30 pm - OffGuardian

Today James talks to Gabriel of the Libre Solutions Network about how to really resist the encroaching digital ID grid. As opposed to the posturing and platitudes of the online virtue signalers, James and Gabriel discuss the community-based solutions posited in Gabriel’s article, “‘Internet Badasses’ aren’t going to stop Digital ID,” including: Re-integrating yourself into …

Wind Blowing Somewhere Does Not Solve the Intermittency Problem

9 February 2025 @ 6:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

Green energy advocates who minimize the challenge of transitioning the electric grid to wind and solar rely on the claim that the “wind is always blowing somewhere”.   The 2024 wind energy data suggest otherwise.  I have no doubt that a proper electric reliability resource planning analysis would verify that my intermittency concerns are real and that revolving the issues would be prohibitively expensive.  Coupled with the grid support issues, the green dream of a wind and solar electric

Year 2024 NOAA Measured Sea level Rise Data Show Climate Alarmists CO2 Driven Sea Level Rise Acceleration Claims Have Spectacularly Failed

9 February 2025 @ 2:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

NOAA’s year 2024 updated Relative Sea Level Trend data measurements continue to demonstrate that climate alarmists claim of hugely growing rates of sea level rise acceleration are completely out of touch with NOAA’s overwhelming data reflecting measured rates of relative sea level rise.

Open Thread

9 February 2025 @ 10:00 am - Watts Up With That?

Open Thread

Claim: German Green Automobile Sabotage is a Russian Disinformation Campaign

9 February 2025 @ 6:00 am - Watts Up With That?

Greens are claiming for once it wasn't them.

The Great Green Rebranding: Climate Policies Shift from “Saving the Planet” to “Creating Jobs”

9 February 2025 @ 1:00 am - Watts Up With That?

Green energy advocates like to talk about job creation, but they ignore the elephant in the room: the cost. Renewable energy projects require vast amounts of taxpayer funding, and as we've seen with massive spending packages like the Inflation Reduction Act, this kind of government largesse is inflationary.

“Take Back the Truth” (Energy Transfer plays offense)

8 February 2025 @ 10:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

“Opponents of oil and gas have increasingly targeted energy projects through misinformation, protests, lawfare and misinformation, hurting a strategic U.S. industry that employs more than 11 million Americans, and negatively impacting our country’s economic stability.” (Energy Transfer, below)

Massive Antarctic Iceberg Calving Not Caused by Climate Change

8 February 2025 @ 6:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

“We use 47 years of iceberg size from satellite observations. Our analysis reveals no upward trend in the surface area of the largest annual iceberg over this time frame. This finding suggests that extreme calving events such as the recent 2017 Larsen C iceberg, A68, are statistically unexceptional and that extreme calving events are not necessarily a consequence of climate change.”

Avoiding Trouble

8 February 2025 @ 5:00 pm - OffGuardian

I have to admit, although it seems like I am a real freedom fighter screaming from the mountaintop, “Give me liberty, or give me death,” I am actually quite a wimp. I don’t want trouble, and I am quite frightened of the power of authority to wreak havoc on my pitiful life. I have never …

Biden’s EV Bus Disaster: Another Green Energy Scam Collapses

8 February 2025 @ 2:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

It’s time to stop funding fantasies and start demanding real accountability—and thanks to Lee Zeldin, that reckoning might finally be coming.

Does DOGE have what it takes to actually tackle billions in US govt IT spending?

8 February 2025 @ 1:09 pm - The Register

Tesla’s DIY ERP legend meets the messy reality of entrenched federal contracts Comment (updated)  Tesla reportedly decided not to upgrade its SAP's enterprise software a decade ago, opting to build its own system instead. Now, with Elon Musk heading up the Trump-blessed US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), his cost-cutting mindset could have major implications for federal IT spending - and the big tech vendors cashing in on government contracts.…

France, UAE to drop €50B on AI mega-datacenter. Still nowhere near America’s $500B bet

8 February 2025 @ 10:44 am - The Register

Oh look, a mini Stargate, how quaint The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and France this week announced plans for a one-gigawatt AI datacenter campus dedicated to advancing development of artificial intelligence.…

James Hansen: Democracies Require “Fixing” to Stop Global Warming

8 February 2025 @ 10:00 am - Watts Up With That?

According the Hansen the 2.0C climate target is dead.

New boss for Roscosmos as Yury Borisov binned

8 February 2025 @ 9:30 am - The Register

Vladimir Putin opens airlock after just three years Roscosmos boss Yury Borisov has been fired from the Russian space agency by executive order of the country's president, Vladimir Putin.…

Amazon, Google asked to explain why they were serving ads on sites hosting CSAM

8 February 2025 @ 4:09 am - The Register

And US government adverts at that, say senators Updated  US Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) on Friday sent letters to the CEOs of Amazon and Google asking why their ad businesses fund websites hosting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and allow government ads to appear on sites with illegal imagery.…

Trump's Dept of Transport hits brakes on Biden’s EV charger build-out

7 February 2025 @ 10:54 pm - The Register

Funding freeze while Feds review priorities If you were hoping the Biden administration's $5 billion investment in building a cross-country network of EV chargers would soon have you road-tripping in an electric car without range anxiety, think again: The Trump-led US Dept of Transport has put the plan under review and halted new funding.…

'Maybe the problem is you' ... Linus Torvalds wades into Linux kernel Rust driver drama

7 February 2025 @ 9:44 pm - The Register

Open source project chief hits out at 'social media brigading' Weighing in on yet another Linux kernel spat - this time over Rust device drivers - Linux supremo Linus Torvalds has shot the messenger.…

NASA solar mission data recovering after server room flood fiasco

7 February 2025 @ 7:15 pm - The Register

Spacecraft weather solar storms, but ground processing laid low by water They can put a man on the Moon - but back on Earth, a busted water pipe managed to knock out NASA's solar mission data for months.…

UK Home Office silent on alleged Apple backdoor order

7 February 2025 @ 5:03 pm - The Register

Blighty’s latest stab at encryption? A secret order to pry open iCloud, sources claim The UK's Home Office refuses to either confirm or deny reports that it recently ordered Apple to create a backdoor allowing the government to access any user's cloud data.…

SoftBank woos OpenAI with $40B, making Microsoft's $13B look quaint

7 February 2025 @ 4:30 pm - The Register

Some of that cash is reportedly headed for $500B Stargate dream The AI investment landscape is shifting once again, with SoftBank reportedly finalizing a $40 billion stake in OpenAI - pushing its valuation to around $300 billion.…

Datacenter energy use to more than double by 2030 thanks to AI's insatiable thirst

7 February 2025 @ 3:00 pm - The Register

Shocking research warns electricity shortages could create construction bottleneck AI's thirst for electricity will see datacenter energy use more than double by the end of the decade – just five years from now – according to the latest forecast from investment banker Goldman Sachs.…

Microsoft 365 price rises are coming – pay up or opt out (if you can find the button)

7 February 2025 @ 1:34 pm - The Register

It's not auto-enrollment. It's just your current plan with extra Copilot for more money. Completely different Users are now receiving notifications regarding their Microsoft 365 subscriptions and must take action if they wish to avoid Copilot and its extra charges.…

Creators demand tech giants fess up and pay for all that AI training data

7 February 2025 @ 12:29 pm - The Register

But 'original sin' has already been committed, shrugs industry Governments are allowing AI developers to steal content – both creative and journalistic – for fear of upsetting the tech sector and damaging investment, a UK Parliamentary committee heard this week.…

UK industry leaders unleash hurricane-grade scale for cyberattacks

7 February 2025 @ 11:47 am - The Register

Freshly minted organization aims to take the guesswork out of incident severity for insurers and policy holders A world-first organization assembled to categorize the severity of cybersecurity incidents is up and running in the UK following a year-long incubation period.…

The Covid Pandemic was Fake…

6 February 2025 @ 8:00 pm - OffGuardian

The Covid pandemic was fake. I’m not talking about whether or not the disease existed, that’s moot, because the pandemic was fake. The photos of dead bodies on the street in Wuhan were fake. The refrigerated morgue trucks were fake. The overcrowded hospitals were fake. The “cases” and “deaths” were fake. The dancing nurses were …

Hegemony and Propaganda: Love Your Servitude! 

4 February 2025 @ 6:00 pm - OffGuardian

Today, we are witnessing a profound transformation. We are increasingly impacted by algorithmic decision-making, artificial intelligence, data proliferation, data harvesting and sophisticated monitoring of how we think and act. This affects how we work, how we access services and how we relate to and interact with others. While digital innovations and online platforms offer unparalleled …

The Rise of the Immortal Dictator: What Will AI Mean for Freedom and Government?

3 February 2025 @ 8:00 am - OffGuardian

“If one company or small group of people manages to develop godlike digital superintelligence, they could take over the world. At least when there’s an evil dictator, that human is going to die. But for an AI, there would be no death. It would live forever. And then you’d have an immortal dictator from which …

WATCH: The 8th Annual Fake News Awards

2 February 2025 @ 7:15 pm - OffGuardian

Aaaaaaand now, from the subterranean depths of a conspiracy realist’s worst fever dream come to life, it’s the 8th Annual Fake News Awards? What crimes against humanity did the mockingbird repeaters of the dinosaur media manage to whitewash last year? And what disgusting dissembler of deceptive disinformation will walk away with the biggest dishonour of …

Alex Newman interviews Iain Davis

16 January 2025 @ 3:14 pm - Iain Davis

I chat to Alex Newman from Liberty Sentinel briefly covering a wide range of important subjects including the cliamte scam, UK paedophile scandals, the proposed multipolar world order and more. The post Alex Newman interviews Iain Davis appeared first on Iain Davis.

Discussing Manchester with Sonia Poulton

6 January 2025 @ 4:42 pm - Iain Davis

I discuss the evidence that exposes the alleged 2017 Manchester Arena bombing as a hoaxed false flag with Sonia Poulton The post Discussing Manchester with Sonia Poulton appeared first on Iain Davis.

Why we must resist Eve’s Law and how to oppose it effectively

4 January 2025 @ 9:10 am - Iain Davis

Eve's Law proposes to comprehensively censor the independent media. As only the independent media questions power this is extremely concerning. The state's censorship agenda is based on the Manchester hoax. We can and we must oppose it. The post Why we must resist Eve’s Law and how to oppose it effectively appeared first on Iain Davis.

Voluntary Democracy – Part 3

31 December 2024 @ 1:20 pm - Iain Davis

Voluntary Democracy - Part 3: in this concluding article we consider the only alternative offered of continued statism and address statist objections to a stateless society. We also consider issues like funding and security in a voluntary democracy. The post Voluntary Democracy – Part 3 appeared first on Iain Davis.

Voluntary Democracy – Part 2

31 December 2024 @ 12:43 pm - Iain Davis

In Part 2 of the series on voluntary democracy we start to look at the proposal in more detail. We consider some of the practicalities required for organising a stateless jurisdiction and address how some, limited hierarchical decision making would be needed. The post Voluntary Democracy – Part 2 appeared first on Iain Davis.

Voluntary Democracy – Part 1

30 December 2024 @ 5:00 pm - Iain Davis

Based on the original concept of "democracy," I propose Voluntary democracy as a new possible sociopolitical system that could set us free from the rule of oligarchs. Check out Part 1 here. The post Voluntary Democracy – Part 1 appeared first on Iain Davis.

Gareth Icke Tonight with Iain Davis

13 December 2024 @ 1:13 pm - Iain Davis

On Gareth Icke Tonight I discusses the Manchester Attack hoax and the appalling trial of Richard D. Hall which must be challenged and can be challenged by showing the evidence of the hoax. The post Gareth Icke Tonight with Iain Davis appeared first on Iain Davis.

Exploiting Children’s Mental Health – Rick Munn Interviews Iain Davis

6 December 2024 @ 1:22 pm - Iain Davis

Rick Munn interviews Iain Davis about how alleged concerns for child mental health are being used to bring in Digital ID The post Exploiting Children’s Mental Health – Rick Munn Interviews Iain Davis appeared first on Iain Davis.

What is Technocracy?

4 November 2024 @ 2:44 pm - Iain Davis

Technocracy is the most extreme system of behavioural control ever devised. Learn about the true meaning and purpose of Technocracy in order to resist its imposition. The post What is Technocracy? appeared first on Iain Davis.

The Parasite Class

8 October 2024 @ 11:31 am - Iain Davis

The parasite class provides us with a better term to describe oligarchs. Through elite theory we can see the lies told about the oligarchy. Check this article out to grapple with the concept of the parasite class. The post The Parasite Class appeared first on Iain Davis.