Derek McAuley
Derek Robert McAuley FREng is a British academic who is Professor of Digital Economy in the School of Computer Science… more
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Smeg! Apple Password app just delivered me 111 "compromised password" alerts. Offered to help me change the password, but so far, mostly they are dead websites. I am starting to wonder if maybe the alert should have been " you're too old, those sites have […]
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Much deserved recognition of a computing pioneer that few people have heard of… https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/12/move-over-alan-turing-meet-the-working-class-hero-of-bletchley-park-you-didnt-see-in-the-movies
“… and there is no backup.“ Holy fudge Batman! How’s that going for you then guys? https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/08/155239/858tb-of-government-data-may-be-lost-for-good-after-south-korea-data-center-fire?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
858TB of Government Data May Be Lost For Good After South Korea Data Center Fire
South Korea's government may have permanently lost 858TB of information after a fire at a data center in Daejeon. From a report: As reported by DCD, a battery fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) data center, located in the city of Daejeon, on September 26, has caused havoc for government services in Korea. Work to restore the data center is ongoing, but officials fear data stored on the government's G-Drive may be gone for good. G-Drive, which stands for Government Drive and is not a Google product, was used by government staff to keep documents and other files. Each worker was allocated 30GB of space. According to a report from The Chosun, the drive was one of 96 systems completely destroyed in the fire, and there is no backup. "The G-Drive couldn't have a backup system due to its large capacity," an unnamed official told The Chosun. "The remaining 95 systems have backup data in online or offline forms." While some departmers do not rely on G-Drive, those that do have been badly impacted in the aftermath of the fire. A source from the Ministry of Personnel Management said: "Employees stored all work materials on the G-Drive and used them as needed, but operations are now practically at a standstill."
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The rarest of Monopoly Community Chest cards “Bank error in your favour, receive £3billion”
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🇪🇺Germany's Minister of Justice today: "Suspicionless #chatcontrol must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law." Private communication cannot be placed under general suspicion. "Germany will not agree to such proposals at the EU level." […]
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@Floppy OK, based on this will give it another try…
In best Private Eye style “are they related”? (See followup!) https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2025/10/6/trump-says-ufc-fight-at-white-house-to-be-staged-on-his-80th-birthday?traffic_source=rss
Trump says UFC fight at White House to be staged on his 80th birthday
US President Donald Trump announces the 'big UFC fight' on the White House grounds will now take place on June 14.
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Well this can only end well… https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/22/1924228/tiktok-algorithm-to-be-retrained-on-us-user-data-under-trump-deal?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
TikTok Algorithm To Be Retrained On US User Data Under Trump Deal - Slashdot
The Trump administration has struck a deal requiring TikTok's algorithm to be copied, retrained, and operated in the U.S. using only U.S. user data, with Oracle auditing the system and U.S. investors forming a joint venture to oversee it. The BBC reports: It comes after President Donald Trump said ...
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Well that’s it; already fraking useless and now this shite. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/22/2118229/linkedin-set-to-start-to-train-its-ai-on-member-profiles?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
LinkedIn Set To Start To Train Its AI on Member Profiles - Slashdot
LinkedIn has said it will start using some member profiles, posts, resumes and public activity to train its AI models from November 3, 2025. From a report: Users are rightly frustrated with the change, with the biggest concern isn't the business networking platform will do so, but that it's set to b...
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The irony is palpable… “Trump to punish countries that unjustly detain US citizens”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yq9d1ykdqo
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yq9d1ykdqo
Trump to punish countries that unjustly detain US citizens
The executive order creates a "state sponsor of wrongful detention" designation, which could be used to impose US sanctions on foreign states.
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So because AI companies are currently blatantly ignoring (C) issues we have a secondary market in ransomware. Good grief. https://www.404media.co/hackers-threaten-to-submit-artists-data-to-ai-models-if-art-site-doesnt-pay-up/
@sellathechemist Various of my postdocs felt the same way and wanted to store research data places other than the university approved one (the PoS known as Sharepoint). Our solution was use it, ensuring the university held the legal liabilities, but encrypt data before upload…
@1br0wn Seems like a policy of “let the EU take the Orange Turnip’s wrath”…
@1br0wn Is this not just an example of “The CMA should consider the actions being taken by competition and/or consumer protection agencies in other jurisdictions internationally, and, where appropriate, seek to ensure parallel regulatory action is timely, coherent and avoids duplication”, of […]
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@1br0wn To me, the issue is what was the security classification applied to this information (stored in whatever form)…either it was misclassified as merely OFFSENS or if marked higher, there was a major security fuck up. Neither scenario paints the MoD in a good light.
@ianbrown.tech Caveat, they are poorly constructed statistical machines: no valid sampling methodology; no hypothesis to test; no confidence intervals. You’d fail GCSE statistics with this approach. For those who wish to go further try https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6785265/
Ten common statistical mistakes to watch out for when writing or reviewing a manuscript - PMC
Inspired by broader efforts to make the conclusions of scientific research more robust, we have compiled a list of some of the most common statistical mistakes that appear in the scientific literature. The mistakes have their origins in ineffective ...
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Watching live TV for the first time in who knows how long. I see topical ad “I have Telecare and I’m telling my provider” - so what’s that? 5 years after the ripping out copper shit hit the fan? Now we get a program to deal with it. Frak you OFCOM and BT.
@cstross My wife, a children’s author, got a 1* as the first review of her first book because “this book is for children”. No shit Sherlock.
@avsm I presume an interview question is “reverse engineer this pb script”? (Do know fediverse that in the Cambridge Corn Exchange there is a door with a label “do not open this door unless you know what is inside” - that sentiment applies to this toot).
Actually a cursory glance at publications on the topic show complaints of a paucity of longitudinal data. So I’ll revert to the tried and tested auto-ethnography methodology - in my case, two out of my cohort of 25 became academics (even then I did it only 50% of my career, so make that 1.5).
Originally seen on Slashdot, I thought well this is some Internet shite. But no, it’s a piece of shite from Nature. There is no evidence presented in the article that the ratio has changed. In most fields, there has always been way more PhD students than academic posts. <continues…> […]
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“Google has proposed a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow web developers to write web applications or browser extensions that call a local version of Google's Gemini Nano mode “ Monopoly is as Monopoly does […]
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« Apple's internal forecasts estimate potential annual losses of "hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars" »
Err, reduction in monopoly profits are not losses […]
Err, reduction in monopoly profits are not losses […]
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@Privacymatters While effectively reducing funding for this august body is reprehensible, I do wish the article would have covered the creation of the IPCO as the oversight body as part of the « Snoopers charter » as was required to address repeated ECHR judgements against UK govt pointing out […]
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