It's fascinating to watch. Traditional media is dead - well, at least dying a slow death. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I think it seems quite reasonable. We're moving into a world where nothing can be taken at face value. Fake news, fake images, fake videos and possibly now fake capabilities. The Dunning–Kruger effect of AI. www.theregister.com/2025/11/21/m...

One of the biggest misunderstandings in the current market is the difference of “worth” versus value. I see lots of articles proclaiming OpenAI for example is “worth” $500 billion.

Yes, the UK did too little, too late (by which we mean Boris Johnson's Conservative government). But what does it matter? Will there be any consequences? Did anyone get punished for errors that could have been avoided? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

Totally safe they say. End to end encryption they say. Right. True enough unless the software has a bug - and the platform provides no rate limiting... Only 3.5 billion of you have had your data swiped.... www.theregister.com/2025/11/19/w...

Time to add "Black Friday" to all my RSS and media content filtering processes....

The irony of a company owned by a storage company for many years! I wonder how much additional cost was expended in licences (and hardware) because VMware didn't get the storage specification correct? Funny how they became owned by a hardware company... www.techradar.com/pro/vmware-c...

NetApp claims ex-CTO built a secret cloud platform then sold it to VAST Data

Can you imagine being told not to trust a spreadsheet calculation or double check a database query? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

3D Pinball

Sage Online seems to be down - can't access from any device or any network (e.g. broadband/mobile). Is there a wider problem I wonder?

Apple's stance on AI is pretty clear. Not rushing in, not destroying trust. Maintaining the App Store as a walled garden for which they can continue to justify value (and fees). mashable.com/article/appl...

They let me in again. I’ll trade personal privacy for the speed and efficiency of Global Entry every time.

For my first and last business trip this year I’m about an hour out from NYC and Commvault Shift. Weather looks cold! Should be an interesting event. Hit me up if you’re attending.

How do people know how rough a badger’s arse actually is? Have you ever felt a badger’s arse?

Watching Strictly Come Dancing, I'm struck by why UK folks are terrible at languages. It's "LA" Voix. Not Le Voix. It's easy to understand the difference but it grates on me every time I hear it pronounced incorrectly.

With the news about Andrew, all I have in my head today are the last few lyrics of the Madness song, The Prince.

I'm somewhat bemused by the idea that we don't already have digital currency. Admittedly, bitcoin and other crypto can be considered currency, but in reality have turned more into assets for investments than exchange mechanisms. (1/5) www.theregister.com/2025/10/31/d...

When you're quoting the amenities of your hotel on your website, do customers care that 80% of your lightbulbs are LEDs? Not a typical "amenity". Also how useful to have compostable stirrers, but not top of my list....

Who knew baseball was such a popular sport in west London. 4/5 people in one house alone, all with their own bats. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Of course, this will be what Trump considers "negotiating". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You wouldn't call something that wasn't a banana, a banana. So the same should apply to any product, including meat, burgers, sausage, cheese etc. www.theverge.com/news/798146/...

I'm sure there are parts of rural Oxfordshire that you never see a brown face, but no-one ever calls that out, do they? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Let’s not listen to the basis on which people are legitimately protesting, let’s just suppress them more so we don’t have to hear their protestations. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Amazon having a laugh? Mr Benn’s address.

George Galloway seems to be slowly turning himself into Elvis Costello.

Fairly easy to guess which is the cooking wine today and which is the drinking wine!

You know, some days I wonder if things are just being made up as they go along.... www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

What, like George Clooney or Ryan Reynolds? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What a wonderful world we live in. An ex-president sentenced to prison (www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...), the current US president a convicted felon. Our own prime ministers found guilty of criminal behaviour (not quite on the scale of the above).

As a one-off (or maybe a few), this story wouldn't really matter in the scheme of things. But we can guess that this isn't a one-off. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rather than having a new "rule" in our so-called wonderful NHS, shouldn't we be asking what action was taken against the doctors and the surgery in question? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anyone thinking that the concept of VR spectacles is a good idea just needs to read "Brave New World" to realise what a mess we would get into.

I think Trump just announced his new perfume "Abba, by Jean". Oh no, sorry Azerbaijan.

We appear to be entering a new censorship era. The US has bullied Jimmy Kimmel into silence (www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...) while the French president is being forced to prove his wife is a woman (www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...)

Hank Scorpio now the world’s richest man.

Looking forward to listening to "Creg" later, but I suspect Apple won't have anything to offer me in this cycle. Is it time for a new product category?

I wonder how long it will be before we go back to physically segmented networks that require physical desktop access, rather than the convenience of ubiquitous networks? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rarely have I read such a well-written (and probably highly accurate) book review. www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...

This story isn't be about whether the Police should be policing social media or not. It's about the process. Linehan didn't need to be met by five armed officers (assuming they were all armed) immediately leaving a flight. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sadly, all of these cars stink and stink badly, as my children would say. Who wants to buy any of these legacy European brands (or a crappy Ford)? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I have decided that delivery folk don't know if we have a working doorbell because they can't hear it (most knock and ring). I suspect it's the RING effect, where the doorbell itself rings outside.

First time playing Padel this morning. Interesting mix of tennis & squash. Relatively expensive, but entertaining!

And so it goes on - Intel Corporation to get $2 billion investment from SoftBank. (1/5) www.cnbc.com/2025/08/18/i...

Don't it make you feel good that Stefan Dennis will be on Strictly Come Dancing this year? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This minor rant from ex-Intel CEO Craig Barrett highlights some very interesting points. (1/8) fortune.com/2025/08/10/e...

Another meaningless press release. They could have had one customer, now they have two? Generally, I avoid the detail of percentage-based growth data. If you can't or won't show absolute numbers, than they're irrelevant. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...?

This announcement is akin to people saying they're going to use a certain brand of tyres on their car. (1/3) americas.kioxia.com/en-us/busine...

We have friends who live in Gravelines. I've paddled in the water at the beach and can confirm it's warm like a bath. Possibly the reason the jellyfish are doing so well? www.theregister.com/2025/08/12/f...

TACO TACO TACO!! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...