British hack for hire, 30 years covering the technology sector. Signal iainthomson.60
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Looking forward to this too, and cheers David.
Nvidia's Jensen is under investigation for an alleged Chinese intelligence love trap broke just before the show kicks off in 20 minutes.
Fighting the urge for a "putting his Huang where it shouldn't have been." I may fail.
Since long before Stargate I've been gleefully glued to
@TWIT & #SecurityNow. Today at 2pm PT I'm privileged and lightly terrified to be joining the nerdy fun! But I will be live with my friends @padresj & @malventano and one of my favourite guests @iainthomson...so bring it on!
ALT Stargate nerd and ROM psychedelics
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Today would have been Aaron Swartz's 40th birthday, if he hadn't been hounded to death for trying what AI companies now do on an industrial scale.
We lost a generational talent for nothing. theregister.com/offbeat/2013…
You can almost hear the bubble deflating. China's markets led the way, the rest of the world is following, and the next few months are going to be bloody.
Anthropic's IPO is looking increasingly late and is heading down from $2 tn to $1.3 tn and falling. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Utter legend.
Farewell Alan Jones, Williams’ first world champion and a man whose dogged determination and no nonsense ethos matched perfectly the team with whom he achieved his greatest racing moments. Together they laid the ground work for all Williams would become over the next two decades, founded in the success that hard work and belief created.
Intriguingly he ran an Indycar (CART) race back in 85, filling in for the injured Mario Andretti at Road America. In his one and only start he took to the podium in third.
Hard, fair, and ever so funny. They just don’t make them like Alan Jones anymore.
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An employee of @Railway hacked a competitor using lamentable opsec (own credit card and GitHub account) and the response from @JustJake was milquetoast - we "have taken appropriate action."
@joshmanders took it well, but I suspect lawsuits are coming.
thestack.technology/railway-…
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If you're looking for a palate cleanse from elections here's a shot of the Farallon islands from Saturday's hike.
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This month's View from the Valley is up on
@techfinitive.com
As you'd expect, it's largely about Anthropic and the looming bubble that's about to pop. But, being British, there's also a weather warning in there too. techfinitive.com/opinions/vi…
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Sadly won't be at the [un]prompted conference in person today, but will be watching online.
1,000 of the smartest AI security people in the world will be sharing knowledge and, according to the founder Gadi Evron, that's never been more needed. I agree. techfinitive.com/interviews/…
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"Secretly recording members/councillors who made comments that clearly weren't meant for wider audiences."
Translation: "It's fine to be a racist, so long as you do it off-camera."
Lots of questions on the ITV 'investigation' into Reform.
It's absolutely scandalous how those journalists behaved, to be entirely honest.
Secretly recording members/councillors who made comments that clearly weren't meant for wider audiences.
Evidently I have my disagreements with Reform, but the way those journalists lied to gain trust and then publish private remarks is vile.
Gutter journalism.
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For once, a conference speech that deserves a standing ovation.
🚨 WATCH: Kemi Badenoch accuses Reform UK of debating "whether my mixed race children are English"
"I don't want to explain to my son when we're watching our brilliant English team play football that some people don't think that black players are English"
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Jeffrey Archer: successful novelist, disgraced politician and convicted liar." Superb obituary.
"For all his talents, he will be remembered as a man affected by a defective moral compass, whose public humiliation was entirely self-inflicted."
yahoo.com/news/world/article…
My latest column is up, after a rewrite following Trump's decisions yesterday. Now, by Executive Order, the government has renamed AI as Super Intelligence and the industry will not be regulated, except by itself. Which has always worked out well...
techfinitive.com/opinions/vi…
The word "race" might be a tad generous here.
Stroll has yet to finish a race this season and has racked up a record 101 first quali knockouts. The only reason he has a seat is that his mum is shagging the team boss.
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Norway for the win. A great ad against enshittification.
The Norwegian Consumer Council made a video about enshittification and got 2.5M views and 168K likes on IG. (If the style feels familiar, it was created by NewsLab, the same advertising agency that made the brilliant Visit Oslo video from a few years back.)
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Taking a break in my second favourite bookshop in the world. I love City Lights, but nothing beats @ScrivenersBooks.
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The expo is being torn down, the local hotels and bars are counting their earnings, Usher is probably thinking "I'm never doing that again," and another Dreamforce is in the bag.
The Trailblazers need to tone it down. We get it, you love the platform.
techfinitive.com/features/dr…
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#DF26 registration was incredibly quick if you used the digital check in. Glance at a tablet and you're sorted.
This is the fastest I've got my media badge in years.
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