Bishopston Net consists of a number of Pentium IV 3Ghz PCs, all running the best and most stable operating system available today: FreeBSD ( Version 6.2. )

The name comes from the village of Bishopston, a village on the Gower Peninsula, near Swansea, South Wales, UK.

Updated: 00:26 Tue, Apr 30 2024. (+23 mins-failed) AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile US fined $200M for selling off people's location info - (pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 23:20:15 GMT) Carriers claim real culprits are getting away with it - the data brokers The FCC on Monday fined four major US telcos almost $200 million for "illegally" selling subscribers' location information to data brokers.… Google blocked 2.3M apps from Play Store last year for breaking the G law - (pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 22:20:16 GMT) Third of a million developer accounts kiboshed, too Google says it stopped 2.28 million Android apps from being published in its official Play Store last year because they violated security rules.… Ford's BlueCruise driving assistant probed by US watchdog after deaths - (pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 20:30:06 GMT) Electric Mustang tech active right up to moment of crashes The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating an electric car maker whose self-driving-ish software was involved in a pair of fatal collisions. It's not Tesla this time, instead it's Ford's turn in the hot seat.… Open source Z80 clone seeks to help bring classic chip back from the dead - (pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 19:27:08 GMT) Whether the project will bear fruit is perhaps questionable Zilog's classic Z80 chip is soon to be dead, though it might not be gone forever if one open source project succeeds in its goal to clone the legendary processor.… Musk schmoozes Chinese Premier as Tesla Full Self-Driving remains parked - (pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 18:38:12 GMT) Automaker could really do with the training data Tesla boss Elon Musk met with Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing to discuss electric vehicles and self-driving cars.… London Drugs closes all of its pharmacies following 'cybersecurity incident' - (pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 18:21:35 GMT) Canadian stores shuttered 'until further notice' Updated Canadian pharmacy chain London Drugs closed all of its stores over the weekend following a "cybersecurity incident."… Cloudflare CEO sues over free-roaming fidos at his ski resort paradise - (pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 17:00:14 GMT) Who let the dogs out? When regular people have disputes with neighbors, the more reasonable party will grit their teeth, bite their tongue, and try to avoid conflict as much as possible. When billionaires have disputes with millionaire neighbors, they'll see you in court.… Intel tells mobo makers to go easy on the BIOS settings amid CPU instability reports - (pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:15:07 GMT) Do not disable safeguards by default, says chipmaker Intel is reportedly telling motherboard manufacturers to use its recommended BIOS settings by default to stop CPU instability issues with 13th and 14th Generation chips.… Apple's pleas ineffective: iPadOS on EU's gatekeeper list - (pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:30:12 GMT) iFought the law, but the law wasn't particularly interested in my line of reasoning The European Commission just brought months of legal wrangling to an end with a decision to add Apple's iPadOS to the Digital Markets Act's list of gatekeepers. … Python, Flutter teams latest on the Google chopping block - (pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:46:13 GMT) Never mind the record revenues, costs must be cut Updated Google's latest round of layoffs have hit engineers working on its Flutter and Python teams.… Twilio cofounder buys The Onion - (pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:00:13 GMT) Satirical news site asks everyone for a buck The former CEO of web comms tools provider Twilio has bought The Onion, the US satirical magazine that saw its popularity boom in the early days of the web.… OpenAI slapped with GDPR complaint: How do you correct your work? - (pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:30:10 GMT) Irresistible magical tech runs headlong into immovable personal data regulations Privacy activist group noyb (None of Your Business) has filed a complaint against OpenAI, alleging that the ChatGPT service violates GDPR rules since its information cannot be corrected if found inaccurate.… France willing to buy key Atos assets to keep them French - (pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:00:12 GMT) Finance minister says government has interests in IT giant's 'sovereign activities' The French government has tabled an offer to buy key assets of ailing IT giant Atos after the company late last week almost doubled its estimate of the cash it will need to stay afloat in the near future.… Hubble Space Telescope has gyro problems again - (pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:30:09 GMT) At 34, things don't seem to work how they used to The Hubble Space Telescope has celebrated the 34th anniversary of its launch in the traditional way: by entering safe mode due to an ongoing gyroscope issue.… UK lays down fresh legislation banning crummy default device passwords - (pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 11:45:09 GMT) New laws mean vendors need to make clear how long you'll get updates too Smart device manufacturers will have to play by new rules in the UK as of today, with laws coming into force to make it more difficult for cybercriminals to break into hardware such as phones and tablets.… Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 40, EndeavourOS, and TrueNAS 24.04 all arrive at once - (pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 11:00:28 GMT) Sometimes Linux releases are like buses… frequently clustered together, and rarely as reliable as you might ideally want FOSS round-up Last week was a busy one for the open source community: EndeavourOS and TrueNAS Scale arrived on Tuesday, Fedora landed on Wednesday, and Ubuntu on Thursday.… Watchdog reveals lingering Google Privacy Sandbox worries - (pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:15:14 GMT) Ad tech rewrite to replace web cookies still not to regulatory taste The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) still has privacy and competition concerns about Google's Privacy Sandbox advertising toolkit, which explains why the ad giant recently again delayed its plan to drop third-party cookies in Chrome until 2025.… UK government faces £17.5M shortfall from UKCloud liquidation - (pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 09:30:06 GMT) Cabinet Office letter also reveals department lost money on unfinished database project The UK Cabinet Office has confirmed it is £17.5 million out of pocket after underwriting the official receiver of UKCloud, which went into liquidation in 2022.… The chip that changed my world – and yours - (pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 08:30:08 GMT) Zed 80 is dead baby, Zed 80 is dead.... vulture claws over the astounding tech Opinion It lasted 50 years, but history finally claimed it. Zilog has called time on the Z80 CPU. Readers may have owned one in an 8-bit microcomputer or showered coins on one in an early arcade video game.… Software support chap survived breaking his customer - (pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 07:46:06 GMT) Sometimes there's more than enough blame to go around Who, Me? Welcome once again, gentle reader, to the safe space we like to call Who, Me? wherein Reg readers may unburden themselves with tales of times their tech prowess might have let them down.… Alibaba Yitian 710 rated fastest Arm server CPU in the cloud (for now) - (pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 07:15:12 GMT) Researcher finds it beats Intel's Xeons for speed on one database-related tests, joins AWS Gravitons in cost-efficiency win The homebrew Yitian 710 CPU developed in 2021 and deployed by Alibaba Cloud is the fastest Arm server processor for rent in hyperscale clouds when handling database-related tasks, according to research published this week in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers journal Transactions on Cloud Computing.… Teardown confirms Huawei's Pura 70 contains SMIC 7nm process node - (pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 05:58:13 GMT) 'Remarkably similar' to the Kirin 9000 processor that shocked many last year A teardown of Huawei's Pura 70 smartphone by an IC research firm revealed the Chinese tech giant is relying on Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp's (SMIC) HiSilicon Kirin 9010 processor, likely because US sanctions mean the Chinese company can't buy from other sources.… First Ariane 6 rocket ready to assemble as Europe begins final countdown - (pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 04:02:07 GMT) Core and boosters are on the pad ahead of (maybe) June launch The European Space Agency is ready to put together the first Ariane 6 rocket, and has declared the campaign to get it into orbit is under way.… Discord dismantles Spy.pet site that snooped on millions of users - (pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 02:29:07 GMT) ALSO: Infostealer spotted hiding in CDN cache, antivirus update hijacked to deliver virus, and some critical vulns Updated - Infosec in brief They say sunlight is the best disinfectant, and that appears to have been true in the case of Discord data harvesting site Spy.pet – as it was recently and swiftly dismantled after its existence and purpose became known.… Japan's space junk cleaner prototype closes in on its target - (pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:59:09 GMT) PLUS: Huawei returns to top Chinese smartphone market; China's new IPv6 goals; Malaysia's golden VC Visa Asia In Brief Japan's effort to start a business disposing of space junk is off to a promising start, after the ADRAS-J satellite spotted its first target and sent back images.… State-by-state is the best approach for right to repair, says advocacy leader - (pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 15:22:06 GMT) Gay Gordon-Byrne of the Repair Association says US at least is nearing a tipping point Interview There's a lot of momentum behind the right-to-repair movement, and if anyone should know, it'd be Gay Gordon-Byrne, executive director of the Repair Association and longtime repairability advocate.… Raspberry Pi adds more memory to the Compute Module 4S - (pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 12:30:06 GMT) Compute Module 5 still on track for later this year New memory variants were this week launched for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module family. Customers can now specify a 4S with 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB, as well as the original 1GB version.… The hyper-clouds are open source's friends - (pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 11:30:12 GMT) No, really. Look at the evidence Opinion One of the knee-jerk arguments made by companies abandoning their open source roots is that they can't make money because the bad hyper-cloud companies "steal" their open source services. True, at one time, the hyper-clouds took more than they gave. That's often no longer the case.… Workday abandons new-build Dublin office project - (pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 09:30:09 GMT) Continues to expand EMEA HQ in existing buildings instead SaaS biz application vendor Workday has pulled out of a new-build development in Dublin as it rethinks plans to expand EMEA HQ.… NASA's Psyche hits 25 Mbps from 140 million miles away – enough for Ultra HD Netflix - (pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 08:30:10 GMT) Laser beam comms are fast, so long as the weather cooperates NASA's optical communications demonstration has hit 25 Mbps in a test transmitting engineering data back to Earth from 140 million miles (226 million kilometers) away.… Big Cloud is still making bank – Is this AI adoption, price rises, or what? - (pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 23:58:13 GMT) Shareholders are loving it. What are customers getting out of it all? Kettle This week a chunk of Big Tech reported its latest quarterly financial figures, and our beady eyes were on whether the ongoing AI obsession will pay off for these mega corporations.… Ex-Space Shuttle boss corrects the record on Hubble upgrade mission - (pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 23:00:08 GMT) Under Flight Rules, the crew should have turned back to Earth Former Space Shuttle Program Manager Wayne Hale has posted a correction to NASA's history of STS-109, which he claims "is a lie" - although that may be a slight exaggeration.… Jensen Huang and Sam Altman among tech chiefs invited to federal AI Safety Board - (pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 22:00:10 GMT) Stacking the deck – we've heard of it Leaders of the world's most prominent AI companies are being recruited for the Homeland Security Department's new advisory group.… ASML caves to US pressure to cease servicing some kit used by Chinese customers - (pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 21:00:44 GMT) Not even maintenance is OK in the eyes of the Uncle Sam Under US pressure, Dutch photolithography giant ASML will no longer service certain chipmaking equipment purchased by Chinese customers.… Microsoft dusts off ancient MS-DOS 4.0 code for release on GitHub - (pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 20:00:14 GMT) Nobody's favorite operating system is now available for inspection In partnership with IBM, Microsoft has released the source code for MS-DOS 4.0, more than 35 years since the operating system made a muted appearance ahead of Windows 3.x.… Two indicted for 'illegally exporting' chip gear from US to China - (pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:00:13 GMT) One Chinese national arrested in Chicago while another suspect thought to be abroad Two Chinese nationals were this week accused by the US of attempting to illegally export chipmaking kit to a company back home, in another twist in the tech wars between the two nations.… Kaiser Permanente handed over 13.4M people's data to Microsoft, Google, others - (pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:14:12 GMT) Ouch! Millions of Kaiser Permanente patients' data was likely handed over to Google, Microsoft Bing, X/Twitter, and other third-parties, according to the American healthcare giant.… Amazon to ditch WorkDocs sharing service, support countdown begins - (pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:00:05 GMT) Cloud giant directs users to pack their bags for DropBox, gives them a year to get affairs in order Updated Amazon is killing its WorkDocs document sharing and content collaboration service, notifying users that sign-ups are no longer available and giving them a year to migrate any data stored.… Huawei and pals reportedly plan to produce high bandwidth memory by 2026 - (pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:00:07 GMT) Getting their hands on AI memory one Huawei or another... A group of Chinese semiconductor firms including Huawei are reportedly looking to get domestic production of high bandwidth memory (HBM) up and running by 2026.… Second time lucky for Thoma Bravo, which scoops up Darktrace for $5.3B - (pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 16:00:09 GMT) Analysts brand deal a 'nail in the coffin' for UK tech investment Private equity investor Thoma Bravo has successfully completed a second acquisition attempt of UK-based cybersecurity company Darktrace in a $5.3 billion deal.… The eight-bit Z80 is dead. Long live the 16-bit Z80! - (pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:00:11 GMT) Yes, they are harder to solder, but there's way more potential Feature The Z80 has a long series of successor models – some compatible and some not. There are multiple options for hobbyist computer builders.… Encrypted email service files DMA complaint claiming it vanished from Google Search - (pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:00:07 GMT) Tuta cries foul, Chocolate Factory denies service unreachable Tutao, known for the encrypted email service Tuta Mail, has filed a Digital Markets Act (DMA) complaint to the EU over an alleged de-ranking in Google Search.… TikTok ban could escalate US-China trade war, ex-White House CIO tells The Reg - (pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 13:00:12 GMT) Doing business in Beijing? 'You need to do a what-if scenario' interview It didn't seem America's divest-or-ban bill for TikTok was going to make it into law when we last spoke with former White House chief information officer Theresa Payton – but law it now is. … UK's Investigatory Powers Bill to become law despite tech world opposition - (pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:00:11 GMT) Only minor changes from original proposals that kicked up privacy storm The UK's contentious Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill (IPB) 2024 has officially received the King's nod of approval and will become law.… 45 Drives adds Linux-powered mini PCs, workstations to growing compute lineup - (pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 11:00:06 GMT) Plus the system builder says an Arm-based system is already in the works Exclusive Canadian systems builder 45 Drives is perhaps best known for the dense multi-drive storage systems employed by the likes of Backblaze and others, but over the last year the biz has expanded its line-up to virtualization kit, and now low-power clients and workstations aimed at enterprises and home enthusiasts alike.… IBM and LzLabs to clash in UK court over Software Defined Mainframe - (pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 10:15:14 GMT) Already facing off against each other in Texas over separate reverse engineering claims IBM and LzLabs are to lock horns in a London court next week over Big Blue's claim of breach of contract relating to mainframes and the development of software to allow mainframe applications run on x86 server clusters.… UK agriculture department slammed for paper pushing despite tech splurges - (pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 09:30:14 GMT) Defra is counting contractors like sheep The UK agriculture department is "working towards" getting consultant and contractor numbers down to less than a quarter of its tech and digital transformation teams and reducing contingent labor to 12 percent of headcount by the end of the financial year.… Help! My mouse climbed a wall and now it doesn't work right - (pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 07:32:26 GMT) Support chap learns users will try to solve problems in non-obvious ways On Call As another week drains down the plughole of history, it's time for The Register to once again deliver a fresh instalment of On Call – our weekly reader-contributed tale of tech support torments and triumphs.… VMware’s end-user compute community told to brace for ‘Omnissa’ shift - (pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 06:33:38 GMT) Cloudy hosts given short license change deadlines, customers warned of support portal brownouts VMware by Broadcom’s breakup with its end-user compute products will enter a new phase next week, with cloudy service providers and customers both warned of imminent changes.… Flaws in Chinese keyboard apps leave 750 million users open to snooping, researchers claim - (pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 05:33:17 GMT) Huawei is OK, but Xiaomi, OPPO, and Samsung are in strife. And Honor isn't living its name Many Chinese keyboard apps, some from major handset manufacturers, can leak keystrokes to determined snoopers, leaving perhaps three quarters of a billion people at risk according to research from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab.… Search the internet Search bishopston.com Search bishopston.net