Lindsay Clark

There's a subtext to Peepo! OH and I discussed in depth. Does the dad ever return from war? Is that the last time he says good night to their baby? 😭

Peepo! 😭😭😭

yes, still correct. It is not just VC, though; all investors see ultra-high margin and/or high growth as the norm in tech. Salesforce was attacked by activist investors for having lower margins than Oracle. SAP was scalped for being too slow on SaaS. AI is next land-grab with no return for users

HMRC's relationship with Capgemini goes back to 2004. They promised to end it in 2016, then 2017, then 2022 but it seems they just can't let go. If you want to know what the real problem is with government and tech, it is right here

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He looks like a man slightly terrified of the idea of influencers, and in that I sympathise.

Google spent $14bn on servers in 91 days, plans more soon : G-Cloud on track for $50 billion revenue as AI creates a new generation of Google-eyed youth

Google just spent $14 billion on servers in 90 days to support GenAI, largely. Gartner said spending on AI servers would soon triple that spent on conventional servers, which support cloud services we use every day. TRIPLE! mainly for GenAI www.theregister.com/2025/07/24/a...

a large concrete tower shaped like an air traffic control tower. There are zebra crossings leading to it (and to other, less exciting buildings) and the sun is golden on one side of it.

a large concrete tower shaped like an air traffic control tower isolated against a sky that seems to gradient from pale blue to peach

a large concrete tower shaped like an air traffic control tower in the distance, almost silhouetted in the dying light. The motorway (and exit) is in the foreground, with arrows pointing to where to exit.

Since Forton came up yesterday, I thought I'd post some pictures of it (The Pennine Tower) from 2023 at sunset.

#ThePhotoHour #Brutalism #Photography

also not new to streaming: I watched it last year, on Prime, I think. It's really very good though dips a bit towards the end imho

We read "Eric" to Son 1.0. He's 15 now. 😭

Shaun Tan's children's books are wonderful

Being in tech and having a single modicum of critical thinking is just screaming "this isn't what LLMs are designed for" over and over as people shove a bunch of word predictors into critical decision making processes because some glorified used car salesmen told them it would fix all their problems

Google spent $14bn on servers in 91 days, plans more soon : G-Cloud on track for $50 billion revenue as AI creates a new generation of Google-eyed youth

The amount of money sloshing around the tech industry is off the scale www.theregister.com/2025/07/24/a...

I remember him doing sessions for John Peel in the 80s. The weirdest stuff.

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Niche, but very good.

Blame a leak for Microsoft SharePoint attacks: researcher : MAPP program to blame?

"A leak happened here somewhere," ZDI's @dustinchilds.bsky.social told @theregister.com. "And now you've got a zero-day exploit in the wild, and worse than that, you've got a zero-day exploit in the wild that bypasses the patch, which came out the next day."

For editors currently trying to juggle summer staff shortages, I'm relatively free this week and available to help out

Cops want Apple, Google to kill stolen phones remotely : Tech giants say blocking purloined devices via IMEI could open new fraud risks

Met police have asked Apple and Google to help slash demand for stolen phones by allowing a remote killswitch and removing access to cloud services at phone level. But they won't, even though you can pay a third-party service to do it www.theregister.com/2025/06/04/a...

AI-assistant caused DATA LOSS, destroyed projects, user files and a production database: issued faulty commands, overwriting data; another ignored freeze directives, fabricated test data, and dropped a live database. anuraag2601.github.io/gemini_cli_d... www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/r...

The views from Gipsy Hill, Crystal Palace and West Norward are South London secrets. Don't go telling everyone.

Barafundle, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci ???

50 years ago, Gates and Allen made the deal that launched Microsoft How the MITS Altair 8800, a $264 RAM board, and some BASIC changed the world This week marked the 50th anniversary of the birth of several empires. On July 22, 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen signed a deal with Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems.…

50 years ago, Gates and Allen made the deal that launched Microsoft

EU cloud gang challenges Broadcom's $61B VMWare buy in court CISPE cites recent channel changes, but the deal was decided on different matters +COMMENT  Trade group Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) has filed a formal appeal before the European General Court to seek annulment of the European Commission's decision to approve Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware.…

EU cloud gang challenges Broadcom's $61B VMWare buy in court

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“.. a roughly double-digit percentage increase ..”

@wsj.com $HSY
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UK government urged to offer more transparency over OpenAI deal Select committee chair says public need to be reassured about the use of their data after ‘major failures’ in the past

Gov is partnering with OpenAI to use AI in the public sector and we know next to nothing about the deal.

We can all see what OpenAI gets - enormous commercial value in helping train the next version of ChatGPT - but what's the benefit to the public?

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Thanks to @aang23.satdump.org for his help understanding the story

Radio geeks say you can still get 'lost' DoD hurricane data : Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff

Here is the thing. Amateurs figure out how to get satellite data needed for hurricane forecasts after the US administration decided to turn off the supply www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/s...

This a cracking article on the background of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath.

Excellent local journalism - please click and read.