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Submission + - SVB employees blame remote work for bank failure (axios.com) 1

Submitted by BonThomme
BonThomme writes: Axios is reporting that Silicon Valley Bank employees are at least partly blaming WFH for the bank's failure. As the article notes, this may give other companies cover for their 'back to work' initiatives. It also appears to be great cover for executive incompetence since the implication is that if only everyone was in the office, they could have better managed interest rate risk. Maybe if all the executives were in cubicles together, they could have gotten some of the magic, spontaneous collaboration that cubicles are known for, too.

Comment Re:Western nations aren't the problem here. (Score 1) 341

by BonThomme (#59467200) Attached to: The World May Already Have Crossed a Series of Climate Tipping Points

"China is the world's leading country in electricity production from renewable energy sources, with over double the generation of the second-ranking country, the United States."

citation please: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FRenewable_energy_in_China

Comment Re:Stupid over-reaction (Score 1) 148

by Rain (#56960660) Attached to: Chrome is Using 10-13% More RAM to Fight Spectre
Browsers are a concern for the same reason a cloud providers: you are running untrusted code in a sandboxed VM, and Spectre allows you to potentially exfiltrate data from outside the sandbox. Cloud providers are a bigger concern because they're more likely to contain interesting data* and because it's harder to exploit Spectre via Javascript than native code, but there are Spectre proof-of-concepts written in JS.

* interesting to an attacker, relative to the effort required

Submission + - Asl Slashdot: How Hard Is It To Have a Smart Home That's Not 'In The Cloud'? 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It's beginning to seem like everything related to home (and much other) automation is basically remote control 'in the cloud' feeding information about you to somebody's advertising system. In principle, this should not be the case, but it is in practice. So how hard is it, really, to do 'home automation' without sending all your data to Google, Samsung, or whoever — just keep it to yourself and share only what you want to share? How hard would it be, for instance, to hack a Nest thermostat so it talks to a home server rather than Google? Or is there something already out there that would do the same thing as a Nest but without 'the cloud' as part of the requirement? Yes, a standard programmable thermostat does 90% of what a Nest does, but there are certain things that it won't do like respond to your comings and goings at odd hours, or be remotely switchable to a different mode (VPN to your own server from your phone and deal with it locally, perhaps?). Fundamentally, is there a way to get the convenience and not expose my entire life and home to unknown actors who by definition (read the terms of service) do not have my best interest in mind?

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