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When the political elite call for Africa and other developing nations to adopt absurd green energy objectives, consider that they already have blood on their hands.

Banishing memory safety bugs cuts critical vulnerabilities Google has been integrating code written in the Rust programming language into its Android operating system since 2019 and its efforts have paid off in the form of fewer vulnerabilities.…

Critical infrastructure attacks ramping up The US government has issued an alert about Cuba; not the state but a ransomware gang that's taking millions in purloined profits.…

We need more free money from the government say silicon salesfolks America's top booster for federal semiconductor aid is arguing that the country needs to spend tens of billions more in silicon incentives to ensure it doesn't lose leadership in chip design to other countries.…

In this recent episode of Perspective, host Jesse Zurawell is joined by frequent OffG contributor Iain Davis to discuss his most recent article China: The World’s First Technate. Iain Davis is an author, blogger, researcher and short film maker. You can read more of Iain’s work at his blog IainDavis.com (Formerly InThisTogether), on UK Column …

Spend $500k and we'll double your money, but please ignore the trolls Twitter is reportedly trying to plug its drop in advertising revenues by concocting a series of inducements to convince some brands that have paused spending on the platform to reopen their wallets.…

This situation is related to the replication crisis in science generally, whereby much of the literature is affected by selection and positive results bias.

Subject to conditions: offer only valid if you can get Starship off the ground The FCC has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Gen2 Starlink satellites, assuming it can adhere to a bevy of conditions, including ensuring Musk's expanded satellite constellation doesn't interfere with other space operations or become an environmental risk. …

The United Nations’ COP27 climate change summit has concluded, bringing another year of doomsday predictions, destructive policy promises, and a sharp uptick in private jet use. As the 27th summit,…

'We're going to have lower power, but it's going to cost more' says chipmaker's CTO Chipmaker AMD has hinted that new transistor technology will keep Moore's Law alive for the next six to eight years, but as one might guess, it will cost more.…

Big Blue confirms DS8000 arrays, and various tape libraries and drives will all cost more IBM has announced it is to up the purchase price of a broad range of storage products from Jan 1, making a nice surprise to usher in the New Year for customers.…

The following is an adapted excerpt from my book “The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security… The post The Evil of Coerced Medicine appeared first on The Pulse.

As I stated in the last Modern Philosophy article, the Academy of Ideas (AOI) had a video breaking down the… The post How to Not Quiet Quit and Live Your Best Life appeared first on The Pulse.

Yep. The very same JPEG-XL that's just been axed from Chromium A new application of machine learning looks both clever and handy, as opposed to the more normal properties of being somewhere between privacy-, copyright-, or life-endangering. But before you get too excited, you can't have it.…

French and Germans becoming impatient with Climate Limpets

Months after CEO Benioff said return to office mandates don't work, a bunch told to come in three days a week, take half customer calls in-person Salesforce is calling some staff back to their corporate desk as it tries to counter slowing growth, despite CEO Marc Benioff saying at the start of the year that return to office mandates "don't work."…

Chipmaker confirms 'voluntary time-off programs' part of push to reduce costs Chipmaker Intel is offering staff in Ireland the opportunity to take three months' leave from their jobs, with the catch being that it is unpaid. The move is part of cost saving measures at the company.…

As for Twitter, politicians need to grow thick skins and stop mistaking it for advertisement Former British prime minister BoJo has used one of his first speaking engagements since losing that job to appear at a blockchain conference in Singapore, where his expert opinion on the subject boiled down to a belief the public needs to be convinced there's a reason for it to exist.…

Like fine wine, the longer it sits, the better it is A sophisticated and very patient threat group behind a global malvertising scheme is using so-called aged domains to skirt past cybersecurity tools and catch victims in investment scams.…

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood Matt Ridley in the Spectator: A very strange parliamentary rebellion has been taking place with Boris Johnson, Liz Truss…

'There is no evidence to suggest that TrustCor violated conduct, policy, or procedure' says biz Mozilla and Microsoft have taken action against a certificate authority accused of having close ties to a US military contractor that allegedly paid software developers to embed data-harvesting malware in mobile apps.…

Rules haven't been decided yet but others are already kicking up a stink More than a dozen industry associations including the US Chamber of Commerce this week issued a joint statement warning the EU against adopting rules that would effectively exclude US cloud providers like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from doing business in much of Europe.…

Sylvia Shawcross Please note: This is not a humour column so avoid if despondent or if a highly judgmental holier-than-thou arse feeling omnipotent on a keyboard and by just writing that I realize that some people will get their backs up before even reading the piece and I’d like to remind everyone that medical experts …

Inventor of the spanning tree protocol gets heretical about blockchain, crypto, and why the broken internet is a blessing in disguise Internet pioneer Radia Perlman has argued in favor of centralized infrastructure, while speaking at the International Symposium on Blockchain Advancements in Singapore on Friday.…

Testing is your responsibility, not ours, says PCI-SIG Nvidia and other GPU makers have been urged to "ensure end user safety" by the consortium that created the specification for the 12VHPWR connector used in Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4090, which has been the subject of multiple complaints of melting cables.…

No amount of resilience planning can defeat determined idiots whose devices are low on battery On Call  Welcome once more to On-Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that tells tales of IT pros being asked to fix things that should never have broken.…

A GreenLake future could reportedly be more cloudy Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) may have hyperconverged infrastructure vendor Nutanix on its wishlist this holiday season as the OEM reportedly weighs an acquisition bid.…

New results based on simulations out of NASA’s Advanced Supercomputing facility at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley are painting a more complete picture of one of the most prominent magnetically-driven solar features – a cycle of sunspot formation known as a “torsional oscillation.”

Record keeping rules might need a tweak to ensure content is preserved The United States Department of Justice is considering new guidelines for how businesses use messaging apps, so that they're not employed as a back channel to hide corrupt behavior.…

Microsoft is literally turning them off and on again, but things are getting worse and a root cause is proving elusive Updated  Microsoft's flagship cloudy productivity services are down across the Asia-Pacific region.…

A watch that flips open to reveal tiny earbuds: what could possibly go wrong? Have you ever left the house with your smartwatch on, but forgotten your earbuds?…

Real world data refutes Hersher’s false claim that Climate change is making the weather more severe.

Not a good look for Meta's content moderation team Just before the US midterm elections last month, researchers from non-profit Global Witness and New York University submitted ads containing death threats against election workers to Meta's Facebook, Google's YouTube, and TikTok.…

This is a Musk prediction, so don't get your hopes up After testing on monkeys and pigs, Neuralink may be able to plant its first chip into a human brain in six months, its founder and CEO Elon Musk claimed on Wednesday.…

Take a break from the gaming and fix these now Nvidia fixed more than two dozen security flaws in its GPU display driver, the most severe of which could allow an unprivileged user to modify files, and then escalate privileges, execute code, tamper with or steal data, or even take over your device.…

If at first you don't succeed try again. Then fail again. Video game maker Activision-Blizzard's attempts to stop a second group of quality assurance employees for unionizing has been slapped down by the National Labor Relations Board, clearing the way for an organizing vote at the company's Albany, New York offices.…

In the midst of skyrocketing energy prices and domestic gas shortages, the Aussie Government has congratulated itself for missing its first emissions target.

Your tax dollars at work US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "erroneously" posted names and other personal information belonging to more than 6,252 individuals seeking asylum in the US on its website earlier this week.…

Kit Knightly Most of the Western world is no longer in lockdown, some vaccine mandates are being loosened, mask wearers are distinctly the minority everywhere you look. For now at least, and for want of a better phrase, we have largely “gone back to normal”…except, you know, now with a totally broken economy, more centralised …

Meanwhile NSO faces new lawsuit over Pegasus flying onto journalists' phones Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) said on Wednesday that its researchers discovered commercial spyware called Heliconia that's designed to exploit vulnerabilities in Chrome and Firefox browsers as well as Microsoft Defender security software.…

Intel's 'Ice Lake' and AMD's 'Milan' chips bump up speeds and feeds Microsoft is bulking up its Azure SQL database services on the back of Intel's "Ice Lake" Xeon and AMD's "Milan" Epyc server chipsets.…

Biden to join Tim Cook as well as AMD and Nvidia chiefs for an announcement from the semiconductor giant next week TSMC reportedly plans to make 4nm chips at its Arizona manufacturing plant when it goes online in 2024, a significant upgrade from the Asian foundry giant's previous commitment to focus on less advanced 5nm silicon at its first leading-edge US fab.…

The Geocarb Project cancellation leaves a lot of questions - like how NASA managed to spend $170 million on the CO2 monitoring project without putting anything into space.

Since high-capacity drives are increasingly sealed off, that makes them candidates for dunking Liquid cooling company Iceotope has conducted a study with Meta into the feasibility of using its technology to meet the cooling requirements of the high-density storage drives that are increasingly being deployed by hyperscale datacenter operators.…

Amazon web arm investing in Microsoft's platform to help customers escape Windows RE:INVENT  "We found that .NET open source is heavily under-funded," said Saikat Banerjee, an AWS software development manager, at a re:Invent session this week.…

Big Tech is horrendous at trying to tackle the misinformation problem. And one issue is that average people… The post YouTube Deleted This Video… appeared first on The Pulse.

Residents in westernmost municipality of Solund praise new mobile coverage, but others have been left behind Norway is a couple of years ahead of Britain in mothballing its century-old copper telephone network, which is due to shut down on January 1, 2023.…

Lovely visit to meet Tim Cook at Apple Park HQ forces big change in tone from world's richest man The one-sided battle of the billionaires is over before it really began, with Elon Musk saying his spat with Apple boss Tim Cook over perceived threats to remove Twitter from the App Store was a “misunderstanding”…

Today’s global market is one of broken price signals, starting with energy. High oil/gas/coal prices mean the world is desperate for more, yet global production is being stifled by the class of people that have never sat in the driver’s seat of anything – yet ironically find themselves in the drivers’ seat of economies.

Password manager says credentials safely encrypted, confirms link to August attack Intruders broke into a third-party cloud storage service LastPass shares with affiliate company GoTo and gained access to "certain elements" of customers' information, the pair have confirmed.…

But why Elon Musk's satellite broadband biz and not govt-funded OneWeb? The UK government is the latest to test out the Starlink satellite broadband service amid efforts to connect homes and businesses in poorly served areas of the country.…

Flotation delayed but chip designer's board just keeps on growing Softbank-owned chip designer Arm says it is preparing for its initial public offering (IPO) by adding former Intel and Qualcomm executives to its board.…

Used by millions – and the first official finished version The ClamAV command-line virus scanner used on many Linux boxes has attained an important-looking milestone release: version 1.0.0.…

[T]his agreement currently represents an empty bucket, and the detail of who should fill it, with how much money, then how the funds should be distributed and to whom are pretty substantial features to be ironed out [w]hen we haven’t even lived up to our 2009 commitment to provide $100B per year….

Why not recruit mature folk from outside industry? Why not keep experience in place for longer A little more than one in five techies in Britain is aged 50 or older, and enticing more of that demographic to enter the world of information technology could help alleviate a perennial skills gap.…

Parent biz Alphabet also accused of unfair monopoly in online ads Alphabet and its subsidiary Google are facing a £13.6 billion class action lawsuit claiming they abuse their dominant position in online advertising to make billions at the expense of smaller companies in the UK.…

Coders are safe, too, despite AI writing one line in ten Analyst firm Forrester predicts that despite recent mass layoffs across the tech sector, the jobs market will continue to favor IT professionals in 2023.…

Note to self: Lenders don’t need the contact list on your mobile device Almost 300 apps, downloaded by around 15 million users, have been pulled from the Google Play and Apple App stores over claims they promised quick loans at reasonable rates but then used extortion and other predatory schemes against borrowers.…

Cash flow is king, even in the cloud Cloudflare has announced what it claims are its first ever price rises.…

“The carbon dioxide measurement equipment that maintains the famed Keeling Curve record lost power at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 28 and is not currently recording data."

Is it too late to enter for Understatement of the Year? The former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Sam Bankman Fried (SBF), has defied the advice of his lawyers and given an interview in which he admitted "I made a lot of mistakes" that led to the collapse of his company and left investors with little prospect of recovering billions of dollars.…

Bret Taylor returns to entrepreneurial roots after losing his gig as chair of Twitter Salesforce has again unwound its CEO job share arrangement, with co-CEO Bret Taylor announcing he will leave the company in January 2023 – leaving Marc Benioff occupying the one remaining big chair.…

Hock Tan says hiring engineers is his strategy … but still won't explain plan for massive rapid profit increase Broadcom president and CEO Hock Tan has again felt the need to state that his company's acquisition of VMware won't lead to price rises.…

It’s only a question of when and how it fails — and of how big the political blowback will be when that happens.

Will also offer them as-a-service to other bit barn operators The Japanese operations of NTT Data will deploy datacenter-monitoring robots in 15 of its own facilities, then offer them as-a-service to customers.…

Don't worry, Redmond hasn't gotten its hands on the agency's coffers yet The future of meteorological simulation and forecasting may well be bound for the clouds — well, cloud datacenters anyway. …

PRC and chums see open-source chip architecture as safer alternative to Arm China is reportedly leaning on domestic tech giants Alibaba and Tencent to design RISC-V chips as part of the country's efforts to insulate itself from the effects of the United States' growing silicon sanctions.…

Telematics program doesn't just give you music, but a big security flaw Sirius XM's Connected Vehicle Services has fixed an authorization flaw that would have allowed an attacker to remotely unlock doors and start engines on connected cars knowing only the vehicle identification number (VIN).…

Lift-off postponed for 'additional pre-flight checkouts' SpaceX postponed the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket, carrying a lunar lander and rover built by a private Japanese aerospace company and the United Arab Emirates Space Agency rover to the Moon, by one day.…

University of Canterbury academics Tessa Hiscox and Professor Jack Heinemann think claims biotech could rescue us from the climate crisis are delaying real progress.

On Wednesday, Elon Musk stated that Twitter interfered with elections. In response to a report from Reuters about… The post Elon Musk States That Twitter “Has Interfered in Elections” appeared first on The Pulse.

My favorite bone whisperer, Dr. Susan Crockford, is writing a new book, which she describes as “the complete story of polar bear evolution, including the role of hybridization, but without the baffling scientific jargon.”

It is the cold that kills. If anything, the warming of the past three centuries has been extremely beneficial to mankind, helping us achieve unprecedented progress in human health, living standards, food production and technological achievement as we utilize earth’s resources ever more efficiently. 

It is the mad rush to replace reliable coals and nuclear power plants with weather dependent wind and solar power. This simply does not work and we are beginning to pay the price of folly.

“It’s interesting to speculate our great-grandchildren may have names like January and February as global warming races along..."

Energy “plans” that call for wholesale changes but do not consider how the final overall system might work are not plans but rather only naïve wish lists.

“In every case the answer to bad speech is not censorship, the answer to bad speech is more… The post Twitter Will No Longer Enforce “COVID-19 Misleading Information Policy” appeared first on The Pulse.

"You really think all our problem can be reduced to excess carbon dioxide production?"

Michael Bryant “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Upton Sinclair Bloomberg and various news outlets recently reported that a South African laboratory study warned a new strain of the Covid-19 virus “could” emerge and “could cause worse illness than the current predominant …

It’s been some time since I’ve found the motivation to blog given recent world events. These events have… The post How Can “You” Possibly Change The World? appeared first on The Pulse.

Follow the science,” that pesky little meme, has followed us like a bad dream throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.… The post Follow the Science, Reconsidered appeared first on The Pulse.

As those in the reality-based community know, we live in dark times. But if we cannot acknowledge the good that is in our lives, then what are we fighting for? Join James Corbett for this week’s edition of #SolutionsWatch as he explores the whys and hows of giving thanks and cultivating a spirit of gratitude. …

CJ Hopkins Everyone is going to hate this column. Musk worshipers are going to hate it because I’m going to blaspheme against Elon Musk. Musk demonizers are going to hate it because I am not going to blaspheme against him enough. Everyone else is going to hate it because they’re sick to the gills of …

I have always been fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. As a kid, I wasn’t even aware of the many… The post Is There A Link Between The Pyramids & ‘Otherworldly’ Visitors? appeared first on The Pulse.

Anyone who has followed Twitter news over the last month has to conclude the news is biased towards… The post Why Is News Coverage of Elon Musk’s Twitter Always Negative? appeared first on The Pulse.

Sylvia Shawcross Oh for heavens sakes! It took awhile but I finally figured it out. They have discombobulated their desires into a substitute agenda because they can’t face what they really really want. They are saying they want us to eat bugs but the truth is, they want us to “be” the bugs. They’re building …

Todd Hayen Everyone knows if you pour sand in a car’s gas tank it will eventually destroy the engine. It will get all clogged up and fail to function. Kaput. Nice metaphor for what is happening these days with the vaccine, eh? Now, I don’t want to be accused of being a fear monger, but …

Iain Davis We are being rapidly transitioned into a new system of centralised, authoritarian global governance. This system is designed to be a technocracy and it is truly totalitarian. Totalitarianism is a form of government that attempts to assert total control over the lives of its citizens. It is characterized by strong central rule that …

What would a climate lockdown look like? Well, if such an initiative were to take place, governments would… The post Climate Lockdowns May Be Next: Here’s What That May Look Like appeared first on The Pulse.

We are being rapidly transitioned into a new system of centralised, authoritarian global governance. This system is designed to be a technocracy and it is truly totalitarian.

Part 1 of this series looked at the various models of world order. Part 2 examined how the shift t

In Part 1, we considered the forces shaping the world order and the attempts to impose various models of global governance upon it. In

In Part 1, we discussed the nature of "world order" and global governance. We learned the crucial difference between the Westphalian model of equal, sovereign nation-states—a mythical ideal, never an

Russia's war with Ukraine is first and foremost a tragedy for the people of both countries, especially those who live—and die—in the battle zones. The priority for humanity, though apparently not for the political class, is to encourage Moscow and Kyiv to stop killing men, women and children an

In Part 1 we looked at the propaganda and manipulation techniques used throughout the BBC programme “Unv

I speculated in a previous article that the BBC would attempt to establish a narrative that would promote and support the UK government's proposed Online Safety Act. And that is prec

In my previous article I committed the journalistic sin of predicting the future. I anticipated that the BBC's proposed documentary, "Unvaccinated with Professor Hannah Fry," would be little more than propaganda.

[ Correction: - I estimated the total number of UK unvaccinated adults to be 11M. This was an error. It is actually 7.6M ] The BBC is either the worst media organisation on Earth or the best, depending upon your perspective.

The war in Ukraine, and Russia and China’s advocacy of a new multipolar world order, supposedly based upon national sovereignty, has led some to see Vladimir Putin, in particular, as a saviour of sort