December 17, 2013

December 17, 2013 by yorksranter 0 comments

If you think you’re in a bullshit job, you may end up with more bullshit

I have, from time to time, disagreed violently with Jonathan Freedland, notably about his habit of showing up at Labour Party candidate selection meetings and trying to impose conditions on the strength of his position as Mr Big Stuff, Acting, Unpaid, and then smearing the candidate as an anti-semite the week before the election in…

How a Miami Student’s Package Scam Came Crashing Down
The most interesting thing here is that he....sold his fraud operation to another fraudster? Who paid up?
Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help - IEEE Spectrum
150 types of mine
Squad Rep. Jamaal Bowman’s YouTube Page Is a Bonkers, Conspiracy-Filled Trip
Bowman’s page, which uses his longtime screen name “Inner Peace” and features his image and videos from the middle school he once led, subscribes to dozens of bewildering and bizarre accounts—including known Russian and Chinese disinfo peddlers, flat earthers, musings about UFOs and “signs you’re being prepared to cross to the new earth,” a U.S.-born […]
Dan Neidle on X: "An unknown individual is trying to keep their tax avoidance scheme, and resultant dispute with HMRC, private. They've just applied for a lifetime anonymity order. Quick thread: https://t.co/qdUzw7suV4" / Twitter
apparently not a politician, although the timing is when Johnson was begging for cash
TSMC may soon see 3nm capacity supply fall short of demand
TSMC has already seen utilization rates for its 3nm family climb to more than 95%, and with strong demand from customers, including Apple, for its N3E process, capacity supply at the 3nm node will fall short, according to industry sources // especially as Lunar Lake and RTX50xx have to get in there!
Arm credits growth to smartphone surge and AI, highlights shift in Chinese consumer behavior
a shift where Chinese customers were purchasing from domestic handset producers rather than from outside of China, leading to a transfer of revenue from external customers to related parties, primarily a proxy for Arm China // the data table attached shows the opposite
Liz Truss, the nobody PM: review of ‘Ten Years to Save the West’ - The Freethinker
She is firm in her support for arming Ukraine against Russian aggression, advocates a ‘restoration of British and American exceptionalism’, and wants to see a new ‘coalition of the willing’ against rogue states such as China, Iran, and Russia. Isn’t this Atlanticism an example of the globalism that her desired allies on the radical right […]
Samsung designates separate teams for HBM3E and HBM4 development, targeting HBM market supremacy
Starting with HBM4, the logic chips located beneath HBM will need to be manufactured using advanced wafer foundry processes. As major customers such as Nvidia and AMD seek greater customization, it's expected that a 7nm or lower process will be required. Samsung is poised to achieve production cost and efficiency advantages with its in-house foundry […]
C-130 Floatplane Program Put 'On Pause' By Special Operations Command
yes, it's cool, no, it won't fit in the back garden.
Thwarted cyberattack targeted Library of Congress in tandem with October British Library breach - Nextgov/FCW
The attempted breach occurred around Oct. 28, the same day the U.K.’s national library began reporting technical issues on its website. The cybercriminals were unsuccessful because LOC had multifactor authentication — a method that digitally verifies a user logging into a system — enabled at the entry point of the hackers’ incursion....The dynamics are akin […]