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Analyst at Gartner, trying to discern the future of wireless and space.

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Human Authored Certification - The Authors Guild Human Authored is a project of the Authors Guild that allows an author to certify that their book is created by a human. “Human Authored” means that the text of the book was written by a human and not generated […]

...and so it begins - I'm expecting a lot more of this, and thinking of having this logo made up into a badge.

authorsguild.org/human-author...

10.03.2026 08:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'd certainly buy that book, if only to hope that I'll never need it.

05.03.2026 08:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Very interesting post - I went for the EU capabilities details, but ended up registering with the service and posting a part request for my 1998 Jeep (can't upload a photo though, seems the EU infrastructure isn't perfect yet).

20.02.2026 11:41 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I wonder why America is suddenly so interested in reading about an authoritarian regime policed by irreproachable agents with absolute power, and what one might do about it?

20.02.2026 08:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah... but Nikolai Dante's eyes are telling a deeper story, which is why we love him so much.

12.02.2026 08:40 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
周杰倫 Jay Chou【公公偏頭痛 Eunuch with a Headache】Official MV
周杰倫 Jay Chou【公公偏頭痛 Eunuch with a Headache】Official MV YouTube video by 周杰倫 Jay Chou

Post a banger that is not in English.

I thought listening to Chinese hip hop was cool, until my Chinese guide admitted she was a teenage fan as part of her "Guns 'n Roses phase"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbqB...

10.02.2026 08:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Symbian On Nokia Lives Again, In 2026 Do you remember Nokia phones, with their Symbian OS? Dead and gone, you might think, but even they have dedicated enthusiasts here in 2026. Some of them have gone so far as to produce a new ROM for…

Symbian, running on an N8, in 2026! Not for the faint of heart, but delightful to see - hackaday.com/2026/02/04/s...

05.02.2026 14:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

While I agree with you, I did rely pretty heavily on my hat when I was a journalist.

04.02.2026 17:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This massively undermines my decades-long "cows are more stupid than sheep" argument - I'm going to need some serious evidence of sheep intelligence before the next round.

21.01.2026 17:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The government must work with our European partners on retaliatory measures to hit Trump and his cronies where it hurts, unless he drops these tariffs.

It's time to show that Britain stands with our allies and we won’t be bullied into submission.

19.01.2026 08:24 👍 511 🔁 106 💬 29 📌 3

Toddlers that will never grow up - this is their peak.

27.12.2025 08:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Adding Gemini to Google Auto is not "a best mate to chat with on the seat beside you". It's a total stranger, with whom you have nothing in common, who keeps trying to get you signed up to their multi-level marketing opportunity.

17.12.2025 17:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"was my hero"? Snoopy remains my aspiration.

16.12.2025 11:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
World Without Truth, A book by Dave Aron, Andrew Frank & Richard Hunter How business and technology leaders can confront the AI-powered disinformation supply chain.

Even if the truth is established later, the mind of the listener has been influenced by the statement, and so the aim is achieved.

Colleagues of mine have written a book on the topic: www.gartner.com/en/publicati....

17.11.2025 17:50 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Bubble, what bubble?

"Quantum Computing Inc ... has failed to generate any meaningful revenue. It is a tiny company with 41 employees including a part-time CEO. But because it has Quantum Computing in its name it now has a market valuation in excess of $3bn" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6ZA...

17.11.2025 17:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Amazon Leo (nee Kuiper) has a launch video - a montage of dolly pans and drone shots fast enough to induce motion sickness, without a single satellite in shot (which seems a little on point). www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPN4...

17.11.2025 09:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Judge denies ex-judge’s bid to change name to ‘Judge’ A Ramsey County judge denied former Anoka County Judge John Dehen’s request to legally change his first name to “Judge,” calling the move misleading and made in bad faith.

Maybe Trump should just change his name to "President Trump", that way he could stay president forever without having to muck about with the US constitution.

www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

03.11.2025 08:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

20.10.2025 22:37 👍 10094 🔁 2637 💬 173 📌 537

From Google Translate this seems to be Satellites as a service, using modular hardware for sensing and communications. However, that requires that no-one wants to differentiate on orbiting hardware or orbits, which seems unlikely.

03.10.2025 15:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?

02.09.2025 07:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The weird thing is that (in my limited experience) teenagers today aren't glued to their phones, it's their parents who are. Which makes this standard "back in my day" stuff, only with worse graphics.

29.08.2025 11:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Some really interesting analysis on how pervasive AI is getting (there's a less controversial example at www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd69...).

27.08.2025 07:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"soon" is good, but "when" would be better - I've been waiting for this film for a very long time.

21.08.2025 09:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No one ever "leaves" El Reg, we just take a temporary leave of absence - it's like Hotel California in that way.

06.08.2025 16:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Welcome home.

06.08.2025 15:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A view from history on the future of American science:

American science is what ultimately won Sagdeev over to his new home ... He appreciated that scientists could move freely between institutions, and didn’t have to grovel before party leaders to get funding.

05.08.2025 14:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is, legitimately, the best marketing I’ve ever seen. For anything. Ever.

30.07.2025 18:38 👍 81 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 2

The existing mode can be bypassed by swearing in your search terms. Anyone know if that's still going to work in "AI Mode"?

29.07.2025 16:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Looks like more than a quarter (26%) of the accounts on X discussing Scottish Independence were fake - created to politically destabilize the UK.

Scary stuff - details are at cyabra.com/.../the-bot-....

17.07.2025 15:57 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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EXCLUSIVE 💥

Aneurin Barnard is #RogueTrooper in our exclusive first look at Duncan Jones’ upcoming sci-fi blockbuster, based on the titular 2000AD comics.

See more images from the movie here: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

24.06.2025 11:06 👍 146 🔁 40 💬 3 📌 32