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In this article we are going to explore "accelerationism" and its roots in "the Dark Enlightenment." We need to do this because surprisingly a commitment to accelerationism---following the philosophical path laid by the Dark Enlightenment---is a powerful influence on both the left and the right of the pol

What is certain though is that producing electricity using carbon capture is more expensive than not using carbon capture, not least because the process itself wastes a lot of energy. Similarly hydrogen produced from gas with carbon capture is much more expensive than just using the gas itself in the first place. All of this inefficiency will add to energy bills. It is hard to think of a more stupid waste of public money.

In any case, here is an even greater mystery: why are people who are sat shivering at home in poorly insulated, under-heated social housing paying about twice as much per kWh for off-peak electricity as EV owners, swanning about in their £65,000 Teslas?

Energy ignorance, at these levels of government, are getting deadly. I mean, we can all see Germany, right? It’s turning slapstick, what they’re doing to energy policy, and so many western leaders seem intent on following them. Force the closure of baseload power, force the adoption of intermittent power, watch AI buy up all the power from nuclear sources, claim to support new nuclear power which everyone knows won’t get here for a few decades, then trot off to an annual fall climate confe

This article describes how the hucksters incorrectly make the extreme weather devastation caused when a rare weather pattern caused the storm to stall into an example of worsening climate change when a hurricane in hurricane alley during the hurricane season occurred.

The International Crisis Summit descended on Tokyo last week to warn about the new “replicon” self-amplifying mRNA vaccines that are about to be unleashed like a third atomic bomb upon the population of Japan. James Corbett was there to cover the proceedings, to document the speeches, to participate in a massive rally in the heart …

Who can develop reliable, cheap, clean power? In the parlance of baseball, the U.S. led early with a leadoff home run. It invented, developed and perfected the first ultra-super critical (USC) coal-powered plant.

Europa is a world that shows strong evidence for an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy crust which could very well host conditions favorable for life. NASA will place a highly capable, radiation-tolerant spacecraft named “Clipper” into a long, looping orbit around Jupiter to perform repeated flybys of the icy moon.

Irish data watchdog opens probe after 'numerous complaints' Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has launched an inquiry into Ryanair's Customer Verification Process for travelers booking flights through third-party websites or online travel agents (OTA).…

As always with green punch-down lunacy, the poorest in society will be the hardest hit. Many people will be priced out of basic necessities they have always taken for granted such as light, heat, refrigeration, cooking facilities and electronic goods to access the online world.

It now seeks 10K supporters for Expert Review A working Turing Machine was this week submitted to Lego Ideas, consisting of approximately 2,900 parts and a bucketload of extreme cleverness.…

Radioactive hazards and cyber failings ... what could possibly go wrong? The outfit that runs Britain's Sellafield nuclear waste processing and decommissioning site has been fined £332,500 ($440,000) by the nation's Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) for its shoddy cybersecurity practices between 2019 and 2023.…

As can happen, atmospheric blocking meant the storm was trapped over the Asheville area for all three days. Daily totals of four or five inches are unusual but not unheard of. It was the duration of the rain that really caused the problems.

ALEC advanced some good model legislation this year, and there’s more in the hopper. All the bills advance the interests of states and their residents. Now it’s time for legislators to do right by their constituents and their economies by adopting versions of bills that fit their respective states’ unique requirements.

WordPress supremo Mullenweg channels Churchill: Never let a good crisis go to waste Matthew Mullenweg, CEO of WordPress biz Automattic and co-creator of the open source software, says he feels "much lighter" after 159 employees departed in the wake of his controversial attempt to pressure WP Engine to license trademarks the rival has used for years.…

Where applied, human ingenuity has been spectacularly successful in countering nature’s threats. Humankind’s shortcoming in this story is its failure to apply appropriately its know-how rather than neglecting to control an uncontrollable climate.

Cable giant says ransomware involved, FBCS keeps schtum Comcast says data on 237,703 of its customers was in fact stolen in a cyberattack on a debt collector it was using, contrary to previous assurances it was given that it was unaffected by that intrusion.…

10 seconds to Elon blaming this on Kamala or something Tesla has submitted another safety recall for the Cybertruck, this time over problems with its backup camera - an essential feature, considering the bulky vehicle's barely functional rearview mirror.…

The Parliament of the United Kingdom is moving forward with a vote on a new bill that will legalise assisted dying for those diagnosed with terminal illness. The bill, proposed by Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, has yet to be published in full. According to the BBC: The details have not been finalised but the bill …

Rather than the devastation of Hurricane Helene on Asheville illustrating the effect of climate change, the success of the flood control dams in other sectors of the Tennessee Valley illustrates the success of the TVA flood control program where it is implemented.

Activists, ex-insider sound the alarm as operator says all is under control Analysis  A shuttered Michigan nuclear power plant is going to need a lot of work to get back online, according to atomic watchdogs. But its operators say the project is still on track despite extensive steam tube damage.…

The storm was bad, but the media has been spreading myths about both the flooding’s historic nature, and the causes of that flooding. Human-caused “climate change” had nothing to do with it, as The Climate Realism Show crew and special guest Joe Bastardi will explain. Bastardi, chief forecaster for WeatherBELL Analytics, is one of America’s leading hurricane experts and historians, and we are thrilled to welcome him back to the show.

AST SpaceMobile partners 'provide zero technical support for their opposition,' letter to FCC rages The competition to deliver satellite-based phone connections is getting nasty, with SpaceX accusing AST SpaceMobile of a misinformation campaign.…

Arizona looks like the place to be for US semiconductor manufacturing Taiwan's TSMC has inked a deal with US semiconductor outfit Amkor Technology to beef up advanced chip packaging on American soil.…

These findings are in line with research showing that rises in ambient temperature (including heatwaves) and climate change are associated with increased stroke morbidity and mortality. Because ambient air pollution is reciprocally associated with the ambient temperature and climate change, all of which synergistically influence cardiovascular disease (including stroke)

Not a great look when the iGiant just launched its first password manager Apple just fixed a duo of security bugs in iOS 18.0.1 and iPadOS 18.0.1, one of which might cause users' saved passwords to be read aloud. It's hardly an ideal situation for the visually impaired.…

No spaceplane in the payload, but it won't be a wasted mission Updated  United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Vulcan Centaur is ready to blast off from Florida this morning, the second flight to space for the rocket.…

For the IT professional who has to take work home The Long Term Service Channel (LTSC) version of Microsoft Office 2024 is being joined by a version aimed at consumers and small businesses that want to avoid paying subscription fees.…

At the front of my hovel is a cedar bush long overgrown now. The birds love this bush and often nest there. The robins love it most of all for some reason. The scent of cedar is like no other. You can crush the leaves and transcend reality for a little while with that aroma. …

America faces a growing threat from grid scale lithium battery fires. Construction of huge battery arrays with no concern for potentially catastrophic fires is out of control. There are no established standards to follow and local permitting authorities seem oblivious to this very real danger.

Self-proclaimed Swiss Army knife of embedded Linux moves slow and fixes things in latest release Busybox is tiny, unobtrusive, and runs quite a lot of routers and other key bits of the internet – somewhat like Linux itself used to be.…

Why yes, I will help you again – for a price On Call  The exchange of labor for currency can be a grim business, which is why The Register ends each working week with a new instalment of On Call – the reader contributed column in which you tell cathartic tales of Working For The Man.…

'You can build this in a few days – even as a very naïve developer' A pair of inventive Harvard undergraduates have created what they believe could be one of the most intrusive devices ever built – a wake-up call, they tell The Register, for the world to take privacy seriously in the AI era.…

Bundles free government apps to help digital diplomacy – and maybe find some new customers Google Cloud will help India to spread its Digital Public Infrastructure – the suite of government apps it offers to help other nations – through the development of a "DPI in a box" tool.…

But lets ignore the obvious solution.

Argument that it didn't inherit Twitter's legal obligations did not hit the spot Australia's Federal Court has rejected Elon Musk's assertion that X/Twitter does not need to comply with local requirements to provide information about how it detects, removes and prevents the spread of child sexual abuse material.…

Gangs hit 5% of all Adobe Commerce, Magento-powered stores, Sansec says Updated  Ray-Ban, National Geographic, Whirlpool, and Segway are among thousands of brands whose web stores were reportedly compromised by criminals exploiting the CosmicSting flaw in hope of stealing shoppers' payment card info as they order stuff online.…

California utilities couldn't deliver for hyperscalers' favorite hardware slinger It's not just datacenters running AI that need their own energy sources. Taiwanese hardware manufacturer to the clouds Quanta has revealed the purchase of three sets of fuel cell microgrid systems to power one of its California plants, after purchasing two in April of this year.…

One long period of severe drought stands out, the 1960s to 80s, which was directly linked to global cooling. This episode was part of the wider drought belt, which extended from the Sahel in Africa, across the Middle East as through India as far as China. In contrast, global warming between the 1920s and 40s brought plentiful rain for India.

Datacenters coming online in the next 15 months will need to supply at least some of their own power Updated  As the saying goes, everything is bigger in Texas, but as datacenter footprints explode amid the AI boom, regulators fear even the Lone Star state's utilities won't be able to keep up for much longer.…

Networking giant pockets $225K, foe promises to stop suing and abandons IP Cloudflare on Thursday celebrated a victory over Sable Networks, which the former described as a "patent troll."…

Duo must also cough up $1.5M for pulling off multi-million-dollar exchange swindle Two fraudsters will spend nearly five years behind bars each and pay a combined $1.5 million for bilking Apple out of millions of dollars worth of iPhones. …

Preliminary coronagraph images show a “halo” coronal mass ejection or CME - a plume of plasma and magnetic field - emerging from the blast site which is likely to strike the Earth on Sunday, October 6th. As a result, auroras are on the table this weekend in the usual northern latitude areas and potentially farther to the south compared to normal.

Tractor maker has only turned over shoddy tools, half-baked info, may be breaking the law, says senator US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has sent a letter to John May, CEO of agricultural equipment maker Deere & Company, questioning whether John Deere is living up to the promises it made to support people's right to repair.…

Is that a Mixed Reality headset, or just a complicated paperweight? Oh and farewell WordPad With the release of Windows 11 24H2, it is time to pay our respects to the features and functions removed from Microsoft's flagship operating system.…

Another day, another academic study/tabloid headline/cringily earnest editorial normalising the idea of rationing. The powers-that-shoudn’t-be LOVE rationing. They would die to start rationing everything for everyone (except themselves, naturally). For years now, barely a few months can go by without some academic or institution penning a pro-rationing editorial or publishing some study about the benefits …

Intruder pored over medical records, insurance details, Social Security numbers in some cases An Alabama hospital is officially informing more than 61,000 patients that their personal data was accessed by a miscreant during a cyberattack in October 2023.…

Because they're most likely to share crappy misinformation online Since Elon Musk bought Twitter nearly two years ago – a $44 billion acquisition he tried to pull out of – the mogul has driven a narrative that moderation of the microblogging website disproportionately targeted conservatives, libertarians, and Trump supporters.…

The celebrities and media who lend any support or comfort to those who manipulate the young to commit crimes based on flawed science are worse than those who encouraged flagellation to cure the Black Death in medieval times.

AI Overviews get links to referenced websites – and ads Almost two decades ago, the head of Google's then nascent enterprise division referred to the firm's search service as "an uber-command line interface to the world."…

Winter is coming The US Department of Justice and Microsoft have seized 107 websites used by Russian cyberspies in a phishing campaign to steal sensitive information from US government agencies, think tanks, and other victims.…

Distro behind the handheld console announces corporate sponsorship Valve is officially sponsoring the Linux distro that powers the gaming giant's Steam Deck console.…

Liquid cooling on the mind Fujitsu and server maker Supermicro are jointly working on a platform featuring Fujitsu's upcoming Arm-based high-performance MONAKA processor, as well as liquid cooling systems.…

Best way to boost your package is to leave, or pretend to A survey of nearly 700 CISOs in the US and Canada has found their pay has risen over the past year to an average of $565,000 and a median of $403,000, with the top 10 percent of execs pulling in over $1 million.…

Tech's consumption of water and energy driving interest in liquid cooling Cooling specialist Submer has scored $55.5 million in a fresh funding round to fuel expansion, touting its tech as part of a more sustainable way to operate datacenters – something sorely needed in the era of AI.…

AI and nuclear energy are a marriage made in heaven it seems. It holds out hope for a more sensible energy policy in the U.K. to be developed after all. But expect to see all kinds of hand-wringing and hypocritical statements from the Government as it tries to make nuclear power palatable to its Left-wing supporters.

Fraudsters targeted local government, colleges, and construction firms in Texas and North Carolina Two British-Nigerian men were sentenced for serious business email compromise schemes in the US this week, netting them millions of dollars from local government entities, construction companies, and colleges.…

Veteran probe set to score a half-century while still doing science Engineers have turned off Voyager 2's plasma science instrument in an effort to eke out the veteran probe's dwindling power supply.…

Former Apple engineer and Apache PMC member Russell Spitzer describes efforts to unite around a single format Interview  In June, Databricks shelled out $1 billion for Tabular, a startup backer of the open source Apache Iceberg table format, signalling just how important the rather niche topic had become. It was a move which shocked the Iceberg community.…

Crooks 'like a sysadmin, with a malicious slant' Exclusive  An extortionist armed with a new variant of MedusaLocker ransomware has infected more than 100 organizations a month since at least 2022, according to Cisco Talos, which recently discovered a "substantial" Windows credential data dump that sheds light on the criminal and their victims.…

Managing the endless stream of cookie banners leaves little energy for anything else Fewer than one in five Brits report being happy with the way their personal data is handled by big tech companies, yet the furthest many will go is to reject optional cookies on the web.…

As is often the case with the BBC’s coverage of climate, the opposite is true. Far from drying up, India’s monsoons have been getting wetter since the 1960s:

Britain's Asda admits tech divorce from ex-owner Walmart is still overrunning Exclusive  Asda, the UK's third largest retailer, discovered a multi-million pound discrepancy between its distribution system and SAP ERP tech installed earlier this year, according to an internal "major incident" report seen by The Register.…

Shifting battle-hardened systems to document model – are your skills and tools ready? MongoDB has used the release of version 8.0 to defend its viability as the underpinning of business-critical transactional systems.…

For version 2025, out on November 1st and adding various modern goodies Microsoft has revealed that the 2025 edition of its System Center management tool will debut on November 1st, at prices ten percent higher that it charged for its predecessor.…

It’s called ‘Cosmos’ and Nvidia, Cisco, X, SuperMicro and VAST Data all think it will help – them and you A group of top enterprise vendors feel that AI is changing so fast it’s “undigestible” to many, so they’ve created an org they hope will function like the Open Compute Project so you don’t make a meal of it.…

If you think VMware has gone to the dogs, maybe check it out? OpenStack Dalmatian, the 30th edition of the open source cloud stack, has bounded out of the kennel.…

Time to see if industry learned anything from the last shortage crisis Updated  Dockworkers at American ports from Maine to Texas have gone on strike, and experts are warning it won't be long before the tech sector feels a supply chain pinch that could easily stretch into the beginning of next year. …

Just two of the gang of eleven remain as safety concerns swirl Anthropic has hired yet another of OpenAI's founders, this time bringing on Durk Kingma in an unspecified role.…

Trademark royalties is one way to force support of open source, we guess Final update  WordPress developer Automattic on Wednesday published details of its efforts to pressure rival WP Engine to sign a trademark license agreement costing millions of dollars.…

With 14 serious security flaws found, what a gift for spies and crooks Fourteen newly found bugs in DrayTek Vigor routers — including one critical remote-code-execution flaw that received a perfect 10 out of 10 CVSS severity rating — could be abused by crooks looking to seize control of the equipment to then steal sensitive data, deploy ransomware, and launch denial-of-service attacks.…

Poor use of PHP include() strikes again Two trivial but critical security holes have been found in Optigo's Spectra Aggregation Switch, and so far no patch is available.…

The year-old Israeli-Hamas war is, we are told, spreading across the region. Following Israel’s bizarre “pager  attack” last month the IDF have “shifted focus” to Lebanon. Two days ago an Israeli strike on Beirut is said to have levelled six buildings and “wiped out” the entirety of Hezbollah’s leadership. Yesterday, Iran responded by firing “hypersonic” …

Unidentified tech issues now resolved Updated  Some US customers using the Bank of America app to keep an eye on their accounts got a shock Wednesday morning when their checking and savings accounts were unexpectedly empty or out of date.…

It's easy being Elon Tesla has managed to persuade a California judge to throw out a lawsuit that claimed the automaker misled shareholders about its Full Self-driving (FSD) system's true capabilities.…

Support stretches to end of 2029, no more maintenance beyond 2026 Networking giant Cisco is getting out of the LoRaWAN market for IoT device connectivity, announcing end-of-availability and end-of-life dates for its gateways and associated products, with no planned migration pathway for customers.…

As of today, the UK’s “Chicken License” is in full effect. October 1st marked the deadline for registering your chickens with the proper authority. Moving forward anyone caught with an unlicensed chicken will be in breach of the law and subject to fines and poultry reclamation. I am entirely serious. Back in March the UK …

So, the Berlin Appellate Court overturned my acquittal today. I am now, officially, at least according to the New Normal German authorities, a “hate-speech” criminal. I’m officially a “hate-speech” criminal because I compared New Normal Germany to Nazi Germany, and I challenged the official Covid narrative, and I used the cover art of my book …

In 2005, I was lead claimant in an antiGMO Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed with the Indian Supreme Court (ArunaRodrigues & Ors. vs.Union of India, Writ Petition (Civil) No. 260 of 2005), the aim of which was to protect our natural environment, farmlands and foods from being made toxic via agrichemicals and irreversible GMO …

“The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes.” Thomas Paine The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. The government’s schemes to swindle, cheat, scam, and generally defraud taxpayers of their hard-earned dollars have …





When three little girls were reportedly murdered by a 17-year-old youth from a first-generation migrant family, long-simmering resentments against the perceived "outsiders" led a small minority in the Southport to snap. They were joined by organised agent provocateurs, bussed in from the su