Comment Who would have thought (Score 1) 35
That Microsoft wants to force users to have an online account when installing Windows. Seems to me they have an ulterior motive.
Comment 42 (Score 2) 35
Now, what's the ultimate question?
Comment Microsoft is starting to panic (Score 4, Interesting) 43
Nobody is moving over to Windows 11 anymore and Microsoft is certainly aware of the campaigns which try to save computers which don't support Windows 11 by installing ChromeOS Flex or some Linux Distribution. Microsoft wants to prevent this, and so they make it easier to extend support.
Comment AI usage while studying is cheating (Score 1) 64
SImple as that.
YOU are supposed to be obtaining a skill. How can you judge what AI creates, when you're not even able to read what it creates... errr... copies.
Comment Re:Nope (Score 1) 157
Linux Mint looks very similar to Windows right out of the box. Installing it is also not difficult. The learning curve with Linux Mint mostly is getting familiar with different applications.
Comment It isn't that simple (Score 1) 80
"Just invest in rail."
No, it's not that easy. Trains are slow to get started, they need a significant amount of time to stop. Most trains weigh way more than a truck with full load. But trains need to be managed carefully. Enough distance between the trains, a quality management system for switches and signals, good trains, good personnel.
Before that, you need to design your network such that it's attractive enough for people to use it. With public transit this generally means: put stations at places where people want to get on or get off or want to transfer to other modes of public transport (such as buses, subways, trams) which can bring people closer to their final destination. All of these modes of public transport need to be efficient, arrive at least twice (preferably more) per hour throughout the day, be safe and clean.
When all of this isn't the case, people will not use public transit, simply because it doesn't get them to the places they want.
But if it works, public transit stands to take quite a few cars from the roads. It's also a good idea to design your cities around public transit and to be walkable/bikeable, as walking or cycling is better for the environment and results in healthier people. Public transit then helps lessen the environmental impact of society.
So, no, it's not that simple. When you put down a railwaysystem, you'd better make sure it's reliable, efficient, and has a high frequency, on top of all other connected, reliable, efficient, and frequent other forms of public transit.
Comment Of course it's free! (Score 4, Insightful) 26
The data you provide will provide, will help us with corporate espionage.
Comment We DEMAND your factories, otherwise we'll tax... (Score 2) 159
...our imports, making everything more expensive for ourselves!
I wonder how this will go.
Comment Re:And the stupid continues (Score 1) 159
It'll sure be a cold day in Hell if TSMC moves its most advanced manufacturing to the USA. Taiwan simply won't allow that, as it's the only bargaining chip they have for protection against the big scary neighbor next door.
The construction of that facility is just a smokescreen to keep Trump happy. As soon as the dumb orange bully is gone, that fab will disappear.
Comment Re:do they make tech in EU ? (Score 1) 72
So I guess Suse GmbH (German) isn't a tech company, then...
Or Phillips (Netherlands) isn't a tech company, then...
TomTom (Netherlands) isn't either...
NXP (Netherlands) doesn't produce any chips, of course...
Comment Re:What's going on here? (Score 2) 72
As soon as something interesting shows up here, it is bought by some American or Chinese company.
Case in point: LanguageTool. It was a promising German company and was hosted in Germany, so EU regulations applied. Then they were bought by LearnEO (a californian company) and their servers moved to California. This prompted me to cancel their service.
Another issue is that our governments just keep buying Microsoft, while we do have European alternatives available (one such is Suse (German) Linux Enterprise Desktop or Ubuntu (which is British)). Sometimes I think our government gets bribed in order to set up a contract with Microsoft.
Comment Re:How much of our tax money goes to wikipedia? (Score 2) 173
Nearly nothing. Most of wikimedia's income comes is small donations from individuals. Then there's donations or grants from the various philanthropic institutions and companies. I wouldn't be amazed if the grant from the US government is less than 1% of wikimedia's income, maybe even less than 0.1%.
Now, that does not disqualify their concern. Wikipedia is the goto place for a lot of people when they look up information on a particular topic, that makes them quite powerful. Wikipedia has a requirement to link to sources or provide citations for articles. That being said, not everybody checks those.
So, I'm not amazed they want to check wikipedia on what they do about abuse.
All that being said, there are public modification logs of articles and each page has its own discussion page. They can see for themselves what has been done about malicious modifications. On top of that, wikimedia has a page about vandalism.
Comment It takes a special kind of low-life (Score 3) 29
Who in their right mind would attack a community project? Why?
Is it some disgruntled user who got banned from their forums?
Amid Service Disruption, Colt Confirms 'Criminal Group' Accessed Their Data, As Ransomware Gang Threatens to Sell It (bleepingcomputer.com) 7
British telecommunications service provider Colt Telecom "has offices in over 30 countries across North America, Europe, and Asia, reports CPO magazine. "It manages nearly 1,000 data centers and roughly 75,000 km of fiber infrastructure."
But now "a cyber attack has caused widespread multi-day service disruption..." On August 14, 2025, the telecom giant said it had detected a cyber attack that began two days earlier, on August 12. Upon learning of the cyber intrusion, the telecommunications service provider responded by proactively taking some systems offline to contain the cyber attack. Although Colt Telecom's cyber incident response team was working around the clock to mitigate the impacts of the cyber attack, service disruption has persisted for days. However, the service disruption did not affect the company's core network infrastructure, suggesting that Colt customers could still access its network services... The company also did not provide a clear timeline for resolving the service disruption. A week after the apparent ransomware attack, Colt Online and the Voice API platform remained unavailable.
And now Colt Technology Services "confirms that customer documentation was stolen," reports the tech news site BleepingComputer: "A criminal group has accessed certain files from our systems that may contain information related to our customers and posted the document titles on the dark web," reads an updated security incident advisory on Colt's site.
"We understand that this is concerning for you."
"Customers are able to request a list of filenames posted on the dark web from the dedicated call centre."
As first spotted by cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont, Colt added the no-index HTML meta tag to the web page, making it so it won't be indexed by search engines.
This statement comes after the Warlock Group began selling on the Ramp cybercrime forum what they claim is 1 million documents stolen from Colt. The documents are being sold for $200,000 and allegedly contain financial information, network architecture data, and customer information... The Warlock Group (aka Storm-2603) is a ransomware gang attributed to Chinese threat actors who utilize the leaked LockBit Windows and Babuk VMware ESXi encryptors in attacks... Last month, Microsoft reported that the threat actors were exploiting a SharePoint vulnerability to breach corporate networks and deploy ransomware.
"Colt is not the only telecom firm that has been named by WarLock on its leak website in recent days," SecurityWeek points out. "The cybercriminals claim to have also stolen data from France-based Orange."
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader Z00L00K for sharing the news.
But now "a cyber attack has caused widespread multi-day service disruption..." On August 14, 2025, the telecom giant said it had detected a cyber attack that began two days earlier, on August 12. Upon learning of the cyber intrusion, the telecommunications service provider responded by proactively taking some systems offline to contain the cyber attack. Although Colt Telecom's cyber incident response team was working around the clock to mitigate the impacts of the cyber attack, service disruption has persisted for days. However, the service disruption did not affect the company's core network infrastructure, suggesting that Colt customers could still access its network services... The company also did not provide a clear timeline for resolving the service disruption. A week after the apparent ransomware attack, Colt Online and the Voice API platform remained unavailable.
And now Colt Technology Services "confirms that customer documentation was stolen," reports the tech news site BleepingComputer: "A criminal group has accessed certain files from our systems that may contain information related to our customers and posted the document titles on the dark web," reads an updated security incident advisory on Colt's site.
"We understand that this is concerning for you."
"Customers are able to request a list of filenames posted on the dark web from the dedicated call centre."
As first spotted by cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont, Colt added the no-index HTML meta tag to the web page, making it so it won't be indexed by search engines.
This statement comes after the Warlock Group began selling on the Ramp cybercrime forum what they claim is 1 million documents stolen from Colt. The documents are being sold for $200,000 and allegedly contain financial information, network architecture data, and customer information... The Warlock Group (aka Storm-2603) is a ransomware gang attributed to Chinese threat actors who utilize the leaked LockBit Windows and Babuk VMware ESXi encryptors in attacks... Last month, Microsoft reported that the threat actors were exploiting a SharePoint vulnerability to breach corporate networks and deploy ransomware.
"Colt is not the only telecom firm that has been named by WarLock on its leak website in recent days," SecurityWeek points out. "The cybercriminals claim to have also stolen data from France-based Orange."
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader Z00L00K for sharing the news.
Comment What worries me (Score 1) 224
Europe basically doesn't have a tech sector. We're sucking on the USA's tit, while the USA has recently proven to be an unreliable "ally". You'd guess our bureaucratic institutions would run to the few local suppliers (such as Suse) there are... but no, they all keep buying Microsoft and Intel like nothing is going on.
All the while Trump can press a button and the entire EU will grind to a halt. From another perspective, all that American influence is slowly strangling our own IT industry... the little that we have.
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