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This is how West Sussex County Council managed its IT contractor four months before the project was paused and a year or so before DXC left the project. Still, it got £6.6m after signing a £4m deal and worked for effectively half the time.

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Is there any point in benchmarks?

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"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we also steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf." futurism.com/the-byte/ope...

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Sir, this is a Nando's

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Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

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It's Friday and it's times for some Jungle Brothers. Why? Because I got it like that www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cj8...

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This Oracle system handles around £170 billion in NHS payments in England. It runs on legacy software, and NHS England plans to replace it in 2021. It missed another go-live deadline in April 2024 and says it will release another date sometime in 2025. www.theregister.com/2025/02/11/n...

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on personal level. global tech companies: I am so tired of your shit

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Seen a lot of “Farage is PM-in-waiting” commentary but it really seems hard to imagine when you look at the data.

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Just in case any US PR people are reading this: Cornwall is not in London. I can't just hop on the tube for a face-to-face meeting.

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Tech companies want us to believe the "original sin" in creating LLMs is over: we should move on. Otherwise, we block the benefits their technology will bring. Artists and publishers disagree. @mattrogerson.bsky.social @maxrichtermusic.bsky.social www.theregister.com/2025/02/07/a... 1/

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I'm very tired, and on a call with a PR (who was trying to suss out my agenda for a prospective CEO interview), I said, "We have to mobilise all of history to understand the present", and frankly, I don't half come out with some crap sometimes. I can't even remember where it's from.

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We're testing a new DuckDB install experience for Linux and MacOS: curl install.duckdb.org | bash Happy to hear feedback!

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It is "innate" that really jars here. There's decades of scientific research and a whole history of controversial usage behind it. You can't just throw it around like horse shit.

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Surely the most simple explanations is they just want to steal the money or use the info for personal gain. Occam's razor or something.

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I managed to sneak a weapons-grade #dadjoke into the subhead. @histoftech.bsky.social would be proud www.theregister.com/2025/02/06/b...

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Which is what happens if you fight over who gets the biggest piece of pie instead of cooking a bigger pie.

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Paddington's troubled younger brother, Huffington, ignores your silent judgment about his lifestyle choices.

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www.theregister.com/2025/02/06/u... from @lot49.com

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Some fun facts I didn't know before I plugged the books3 jsonl into chatgpt: - The scrape has 85+ books in it from over 30 serving @houseoflords.parliament.uk - Lord Dobbs holds the record with 17 books - Lord Roberts is second with 10 books - The dataset also contains 10 books on copyright..

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PR has requested a meeting about the objectives of a CEO interview. Back in the day they could just look at the cuttings and know where I was coming from

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Palantir designed to "power the West to its obvious innate superiority," says CEO Alex Karp. I'm surpised no one picked up on this. It was quite near the top of the call. Or did everyone else think, 'yeah that's totally fine and normal'. www.theregister.com/2025/02/04/p...

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Of course, the European pronunciation is more like the original Latin, so Doge rhymes with Brute and trebuchet

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Cameo would like you to shake your pants www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTrM...

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I was ill last week, so didn't share this leader I wrote about how you cannot have meritocracy without efforts to support diversity www.newscientist.com/article/2465...

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If there was a vote tomorrow I would vote to rejoin, but I see why Labour won't talk about Brexit. Nobody wants to. My guess is Labour will do something like "pro-growth EU alignment" and when Tories/Reform accuse it of reneging on Brexit they will look bad because nobody wants to talk about Brexit

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