Will it produce any superheroes?
I dunno. Faulty Compass Man sounds more like a supervillain.
Cartographers Have Secretly Been Hiding Illustrations Inside Switzerland’s Maps for Decades
5G mast set aflame in leafy Liverpool district, half an hour’s walk from Penny Lane
Another 5G mast has gone up in flames in Liverpool in the UK, in this case mere days after it was erected.
Firefighters were called to the mast after nearby residents reported hearing a large bang, followed by smoke and flames. According to police, a suspect was seen fleeing the area on an electric bike, wearing black clothes.
Not going Huawei just yet: UK ministers reportedly rethinking pledge to kick Chinese firm out of telco networks by 2023
Updated Cleansing Britain’s phone networks of Huawei equipment by 2023 might not be possible, ministers are said to have realised after UK policy changes on the Chinese company in the last few weeks.
The Times reports that government ministers now think an outright ban would be “impossible” and are instead mulling plans “to prohibit the purchase and installation of new equipment from 2023”, a U-turn on last week’s plan to slash Huawei usage to zero in the next three years.
Oh cool, tech service prices are plummeting. And by tech services, we mean botnet rentals and stolen credit cards
Crime has never been cheaper to pull off, so long as you’re not particular about quality.
At least that’s according [PDF] to a Trend Micro whitepaper on the cost of criminal services, which says over the past five years the prices for botnet rentals and credit card numbers have taken a nosedive.
Unmanned drones to slash NHS delivery times to one-fifth of road ‘n’ rail transport
Remote-control drones are to be used to deliver coronavirus testing kits to a remote Scottish hospital – and they’re being flown outside of the operators’ direct line of sight.
Backed by the local NHS trust, drone firm Skyports will fly drones between the Isle of Mull and Oban, the closest town on the Scottish mainland.
The Microsoft developer who wrote Task Manager, along with other utilities and games, has popped up to “write this stuff down before I forget it all”.
A post on Reddit goes into detail about the tool, familiar to every Windows expert, which if you are lucky lets you terminate errant applications or processes, as well as providing some handy stats on how your PC is or is not performing.
You E-diot! Formula E driver booted off Audi team after getting video game ace to take his place in online race
A Formula E driver was caught cheating this weekend – by getting a video game ace to secretly stand in for him in a virtual race for charity.
Daniel Abt admitted letting e-sports pro Lorenz Hoerzing race in his stead at a May 23 Race At Home Challenge event. As a result, Abt was booted off his Audi team, disqualified from the Berlin E-Prix, and ordered to pay €10,000 to charity as punishment. Hoerzing has been suspended from his respective e-sports competitions.
Does the G in 5G stand for gullible?
Not big enough for most conspiracy theories. Well played!
The 5GBioShield was recommended by a member of Glastonbury Town Council’s 5G Advisory Committee, which has called for an inquiry into 5G.
But he had no regrets about buying it and since plugging it in had felt beneficial effects, including being able to sleep through the night and having more dreams.
We pay these people a salary. If you can believe it.
A very specific software bug made airliners turn the wrong way if their pilots adjusted a pre-set altitude limit.
The bug, discovered on Bombardier CRJ-200 aircraft fitted with Rockwell Collins Aerospace-made flight management systems (FMSes), led to airliners trying to follow certain missed approaches turning right instead of left – or vice versa.
Surprise! That £339 world’s first ‘anti-5G’ protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a nice sticker on it
A £339 “anti-5G” product billed as the “first to market full-spectrum protection” appears to be nothing more than a bog-standard £5 USB stick with an LED on the end, according to Pen Test Partners.
The “quantum” USB stick, branded as the “5GBioShield”, is a “proprietary holographic nano-layer catalyst technology” and a “remediation from all harmful radiation, electro-smog and biohazard pollution”.
Guess who came thiiis close to signing off a €102k annual budget? Austria. Yes, the country
Austria’s parliament came within moments of slashing its annual spending limit to peanuts after someone omitted the key words “figures in millions” from its national budget bill.
Government spending in the mid-European nation came close to being capped at just €102,389.24 (£91,684.44 or $114,106.15 at current rates) until a sharp-eyed MP realised and pointed out the blunder immediately before the final vote to approve the budget.
This’ll make you feel old: Uni compsci favourite Pascal hits the big five-oh this year
yPascal, a descendant of ALGOL 60 and darling of computer science courses for decades, turns 50 this year._
For engineers of a certain age, Pascal was hard to avoid in the latter part of the last century. Named for 17th-century French mathematician Blaise Pascal, the language is attributed to Swiss computer scientist Niklaus Wirth and was created in part due to Wirth’s frustration with the process to improve the ALGOL 60 language.
Involved in the ALGOL X effort, Wirth proposed ALGOL W, which, while not deemed a sufficient advance over ALGOL 60, became Pascal in 1970.
