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: 19:10 Fri, Mar 21 2025. (Last checked: 55 mins ago) Companies flummoxed by Scope 3 emissions - (pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:31:12 GMT) Measuring all the dirty work of the supply chain and other indirect influences? Ugh, just give us the fine Half of European businesses fear they'll lose customers if they come clean about their greenhouse gas emissions, a third lack confidence in the accuracy of their carbon data, and and 40 percent will just take a fine as they can't be bothered with it.… Microsoft ducks politico questions on Copilot bundling and lack of consent - (pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:57:00 GMT) Consumer price hikes come amid interrogation of why customers have to opt out of added AI features The UK's Science, Innovation, and Technology Committee is pressing Microsoft for answers about the recent Microsoft 365 price hikes and why customers are forced to opt out of the more expensive Copilot version.… Accenture: DOGE's Federal procurement review is hurting our sales - (pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:55:33 GMT) Share price list slides for top ten consultant to US government Accenture says Federal procurement projects are continuing to slow since Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency began reviewing ways to cut costs last month, and this is directly impacting its business.… NASA's inbox goes orbital after email mishap spams entire space industry - (pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 12:29:13 GMT) A lone voice cries out from reply-all chaos: 'Someone tell DOGE to rehire whoever maintains this email list' EXCLUSIVE Everybody loves a good email storm. But an insecure email distribution list accidental spamming space agencies across the planet is undoubtedly one for the record books.… Feds charge three over Molotov attacks on Tesla sites in multiple states - (pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:34:07 GMT) Attorney General warns people tempted to join 'wave of domestic terrorism' Three individuals face federal arson charges labeled as domestic terrorism after a spate of Molotov cocktail attacks on Tesla properties in the US.… No big changes to UK broadband regs, despite no real competition for BT - (pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:31:08 GMT) Regulator reviews wholesale telecoms markets and decides healthy fiber is its biggest concern Britain's telecoms watchdog is giving itself a pat on the back for overseeing the UK's fiber broadband rollout thus far, so doesn't want to rock the boat by making any drastic changes to the regulations at this point, despite admitting there is no effective competition for BT.… Weeks with a BBC Micro? Good enough to fix a mainframe, apparently - (pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:30:11 GMT) With only BASIC knowledge to fall back on, and a typing pool in tears, the OFF switch looked very attractive On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that tells your stories of tech support jobs performed under stress, duress, and all sorts of mess.… AdTech CEO whose products detected fraud jailed for financial fraud - (pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 07:32:07 GMT) Made up revenue and pretended to use non-existent data The former CEO of Kubient, an advertising tech company that developed a cloudy product capable of detecting fraudulent ads, has been jailed for fraud.… Paragon spyware deployed against journalists and activists, Citizen Lab claims - (pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 06:26:06 GMT) Plus: Customer info stolen from 'parental control' software slinger SpyX; F-35 kill switch denied Infosec newsbytes Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions pitches its tools as helping governments and law enforcement agencies to catch criminals and terrorists, but a fresh Citizen Lab report claims its software has been used to target journalists, activists, and other civilians.… Datacenters near Heathrow seemingly stay up as substation fire closes airport - (pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 04:39:06 GMT) Power outage means no flights for 24 hours. And chaos. Lots of chaos London’s Heathrow Airport will close on Friday after a fire in an electricity substation it relies on caused a power outage - but nearby datacenters seem not to be unaffected.… Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content - (pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 03:31:15 GMT) Slop-making machine will feed unauthorized scrapers what they so richly deserve, hopefully without poisoning the internet Cloudflare has created a bot-busting AI to make life hell for AI crawlers.… Capital One cracker could be sent back to prison after judges rule she got off too lightly - (pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 01:06:58 GMT) Feds want book thrown at Paige Thompson, who pinched 100M customer records Paige Thompson, the perpetrator of the Capital One data theft, may be sent back behind bars – after an appeals court ruled her sentence of time served plus five years of probation was too lenient.… Apple hallucinated Siri's future AI features, lawsuit claims - (pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:29:56 GMT) Broken commitment to deliver hyped Intelligence upgrade branded false advertising Apple on Wednesday was sued in a US federal court for allegedly misrepresenting the AI capabilities of its Siri personal digital assistant.… Dept of Defense engineer took home top-secret docs, booked a fishing trip to Mexico – then the FBI showed up - (pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 23:02:20 GMT) So much for that vacation A US Department of Defense electrical engineer has turned his world upside down after printing 155 pages from 20 documents, all of which were marked top secret and classified, from his DoD workspace, brought them home with him – and was collared on his way to Mexico.… Privacy warriors whip out GDPR after ChatGPT wrongly accuses dad of child murder - (pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:25:37 GMT) Tough Euro rules on data accuracy apply to AI yammering, formal complaint to watchdog argues ​A Norwegian man was shocked when ChatGPT falsely claimed in a conversation he murdered his two sons and tried to kill a third - mixing in real details about his personal life.… Infoseccers criticize Veeam over critical RCE vulnerability and a failing blacklist - (pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 18:33:14 GMT) Palming off the blame using an ‘unknown’ best practice didn’t go down well either In patching the latest critical remote code execution (RCE) bug in Backup and Replication, software shop Veeam is attracting criticism from researchers for the way it handles uncontrolled deserialization vulnerabilities.… Tesla Cybertruck recall #8: Exterior trim peels itself off, again - (pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 17:35:11 GMT) Not even the parts want to be associated with Elon's steel monster Tesla has issued its eighth Cybertruck recall, this time over exterior trim panels that risk detaching while driving - the second time loose body trim has triggered a safety fix.… Big Red, Microsoft roll out Azure database services for more mainstream Oracle users - (pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 16:31:12 GMT) Enterprise Edition to be offered on OCI inside Redmond's cloud Oracle is expanding its database services on hyperscale clouds outside of its muscle-car Exadata system.… Photoshop FOSS alternative GIMP wakes up from 7-year coma with version 3.0 - (pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:31:13 GMT) Meanwhile, open source video codec Ogg Theora stirs in its crypt After a seven-year nap, version 3.0 of FOSS image editor GIMP is arriving with a splash, while a long-dormant open video format wakes from its slumbers and lumbers into beta.… Boeing's Starliner future uncertain as NASA weighs next steps - (pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:47:06 GMT) Fix testing to stretch into the summer. When will aerospace giant decide enough is enough? Comment The return of Crew-9 from the International Space Station (ISS) in a Crew Dragon has raised the question of what the future holds for Boeing's Calamity Capsule, also known as the CST-100 Starliner.… Euro semi firms push for 'Chips Act 2.0' to expand beyond manufacturing - (pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:03:13 GMT) Industry leaders want broader strategy, citing supply chain gaps, investment needs, and global trade uncertainty European chipmakers want local politicians to look beyond the region's Chips Act and do more to support research and development, materials, and design, not just manufacturing.… Too many software supply chain defense bibles? Boffins distill advice - (pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:31:13 GMT) How to avoid another SolarWinds, Log4j, and XZ Utils situation Organizations concerned about software supply chain attacks should focus on role-based access control, system monitoring, and boundary protection, according to a new preprint paper on the topic.… The post-quantum cryptography apocalypse will be televised in 10 years, says UK's NCSC - (pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:15:05 GMT) Wow, a government project that could be on time for once ... cos it's gonna be wayyyy more than a decade The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) today started the post-quantum cryptography (PQC) countdown clock by claiming organizations have ten years to migrate to a safer future.… Oops, they did it again: Microsoft breaks Outlook with another dubious update - (pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:12:20 GMT) Testing? We've heard of it Users of Microsoft's email service might be feeling a distinct sense of déjà vu after the web version of Outlook last night blocked access to Exchange Online mailboxes.… SystemRescue 12 lands with added bcachefs support - (pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 11:03:53 GMT) You might need that – the file system has some hard-to-squish bugs A new version of the handy all-in-one bootable system toolkit distro is here, now with a whole new file system for you to play with.… UK's biggest mobile operator starts 3G switchoff, hopes it won't catch out April fools - (pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 10:41:51 GMT) VMO2 starts in the north of England, says it's already contacted 'known vulnerable customers' UK telco Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) is preparing to retire its 3G services, and is set to start with the city of Durham in northeast England this April.… SAP legacy ERP customers still in no rush to adopt latest platform - (pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 09:30:12 GMT) Even looming support deadline isn't tempting ECC users to haul themselves over to S/4HANA, say analysts The majority of SAP's ECC users have not purchased licenses for S/4HANA – meaning its unlikely some of the world's largest businesses will migrate before mainstream support for the legancy platform ends in 2027.… Asahi Linux loses another prominent dev as GPU guru calls it quits - (pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 08:29:13 GMT) Fedora Asahi Remix 42 still scheduled for release in about a month Another developer has dropped out of Asahi Linux, the project to get Linux up and running on Apple silicon.… US Space Force warns Chinese satellites are 'dogfighting' in space - (pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 06:57:11 GMT) Begun, preparation for orbital wars has China has practiced co-ordinated satellite maneuvers in space that resemble aerial combat, according to a US Space Force General.… SoftBank buys server-grade Arm silicon designer Ampere Computing - (pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 05:29:12 GMT) Japanese tech investor expects its own hyperscalers and e-com giants to collaborate, which could take a bite out of x86 market Japanese tech investment house SoftBank Group has announced its intention to acquire Ampere Computing, the chip design firm that makes server-grade silicon based on the Arm architecture.… Tencent slows pace of GPU rollout as DeepSeek helps it wring more performance from fewer accelerators - (pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 04:32:43 GMT) Chinese giant says locals are more efficient than Western hyperscalers, and has tiny capex to prove it Chinese tech giant Tencent has slowed the pace of its GPU rollout since implementing DeepSeek.… It looks like IBM is cutting jobs again, with Classic Cloud hit hard - (pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 01:15:10 GMT) We're told thousands may soon get a pink slip from Big Blue IBM insiders believe Big Blue is laying off thousands of people at various locations around the US, including a quarter of staff at the corp's Cloud Classic operation.… HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 22:59:10 GMT) Dynamic Security update blocks 3rd-party cartridges, but keeps printing money HP Inc. has settled a class action lawsuit in which it was accused of unlawfully blocking customers from using third-party toner cartridges - a practice that left some with useless printers – but won’t pay a cent to make the case go away.… Attackers swipe data of 500k+ people from Pennsylvania teachers union - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 21:09:09 GMT) SSNs, payment details, and health info too The Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) says a July 2024 "security incident" exposed sensitive personal data on more than half a million individuals, including financial and health info.… Names, bank info, and more spills from top sperm bank - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:56:08 GMT) Cyber-crime is officially getting out of hand One of the world's largest sperm banks, California Cryobank, is in a sticky situation.… EU says Google scroogles app makers, also gives Apple an antitrust must-do-list - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:11:37 GMT) Chrome colossus accused of tilting search results, blocking cheaper purchases, while iTitan told to open iOS A year after kicking off its probe into three American tech giants, the European Union has fired off two sets of preliminary findings accusing Google parent Alphabet of failing to comply with Europe's monopoly-busting Digital Markets Act (DMA).… IBM scores perfect 10 ... vulnerability in mission-critical OS AIX - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 18:58:09 GMT) Big Blue's workstation workhorse patches hole in network installation manager that could let the bad guys in IBM "strongly recommends" customers running its Advanced Interactive eXecutive (AIX) operating system apply patches after disclosing two critical vulnerabilities, one of which has a perfect 10 severity score.… VA IT contract cancellation DOGE boasted about ... was due to end in 10 days anyway - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 18:03:15 GMT) How much money was going to be saved by ending tech deal with service-disabled veterans, then? Elon Musk's DOGE promoted the decision to terminate a deal with service-disabled veterans supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs 10 days before the contract was set to expire anyway.… Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options, says Dutch parliament - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:02:11 GMT) Trump administration 'has made the call for tech sovereignty an urgent geopolitical issue' Not content to wait for open letters to influence the European Commission, Dutch parliamentarians have taken matters into their own hands by passing eight motions urging the government to ditch US-made tech for homegrown alternatives.… Nvidia invests in quantum computing weeks after CEO said it's decades from being useful - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:01:08 GMT) Qubit awkward, you might say GTC Nvidia is investing in a research center to advance quantum computing development, just weeks after its head honcho torpedoed the share price of quantum firms by declaring the tech is decades away from being useful.… Political poker? Tariff hunger games? Trump creates havoc for PC industry - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:15:11 GMT) Tech channel increases stockpiling amid 'volatile trade policies.' CIOs to get fewer devices for same money Comment US President Donald Trump's "volatile trade policies" are creating uncertainty among suppliers of computers and among biz customers looking to use budgets wisely amid a game of on-and-off Oval Office tariffs.… Chimera Linux ghosts RISC-V because there's no time for sluggish hardware - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 14:27:06 GMT) Dev behind the GNU-free distro says boards too slow for serious work Updated The creators of the unique Chimera Linux distro are dropping support for RISC-V because kit built on the open instruction set architecture just isn't fast enough and this is holding up the development pipeline.… Crew-9 splashes down while NASA floats along with Trump and Musk nonsense - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:47:12 GMT) Elements within the US space agency have elected to toe the party line Comment The Crew-9 mission has safely returned to Earth, marking the end of Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore's extended time in space and possibly NASA's bipartisan leanings.… Ex-US Cyber Command chief: Europe and 5 Eyes can't fully replicate US intel - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:01:12 GMT) Cue deepening existential European dread as Rest of World contemplates Trump turning off the info tap If the United States stopped sharing cyber-threat intel with Ukraine, its European allies and the rest of the Five Eyes nations wouldn't be able to provide all the info Uncle Sam collects, according to former chief of US Cyber Command and the NSA General Paul Nakasone.… Datacenter vacancies hit record low as power shortages stall projects - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:16:07 GMT) Supply chain and tariffs issues could spell trouble across multiple markets, warns JLL Analysis ​Despite ongoing construction efforts, the North American colocation datacenter market is grappling with record-high occupancy rates. This surge in demand, coupled with delays in new projects due to electricity shortages, has created a challenging environment for both developers and customers.… 'Once in a lifetime' IT outage at city council hit datacenter, but no files lost - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:31:09 GMT) Services still down and out, but techies working for local government saved the day Nottingham City Council continues to deal with the fallout from its freak IT outage from last week as it confirms in-house IT specialists managed to prevent any data from going missing.… Schneider Electric plugs into AI's power hunger with Nvidia digital twin tech - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:07:11 GMT) Because guesswork won't keep the lights on GTC Schneider Electric has developed a digital twin system to simulate how an AI datacenter operates in order to accurately design for the appropriate power requirements.… Ubuntu 25.10 plans to swap GNU coreutils for Rust - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 10:27:13 GMT) It's easier to replace bits of userland than the kernel Efforts are afoot to replace the GNU coreutils with Rust ones in the version after next of Ubuntu, 25.10 – which also means changing the software license.… Brit supermarket finds breaking up is hard to do as Walmart-Asda divorce stretches into fourth year - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 09:28:15 GMT) 'Three-year' tech support deal still running The UK's third-largest grocery retailer is set to finish its "three-year" tech divorce project from Walmart in the third quarter of 2025, while most project staff have been moved on.… Show top LLMs some code and they'll merrily add in the bugs they saw in training - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 08:32:05 GMT) One more time, with feeling ... Garbage in, garbage out Researchers have found that large language models (LLMs) tend to parrot buggy code when tasked with completing flawed snippets.… Search the internet Search bishopston.com Search bishopston.net