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diodesign

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About diodesign

The Register's editor-in-chief. Low-level C, Rust and RISCV/ARM/x86/MIPS assembler basher. Operating system kernel and semiconductor chip whisperer. Former electronics engineer and newspaper journalist.

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    Comment #32781321

    You're probably thinking of TheInquirer.net, which was founded by a co-founder of The Register, and shut down in the past few years. C.

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    Comment #32781078

    Hello, I'm Chris Williams, the editor of The Register. Maybe I can answer some of these Qs. > what caused this transformation? All things have to evolve and move with the times. As…

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    Comment #21253328

    Is this actually happening? Because it makes little sense when you consider that YouTube-parent Google is sponsoring security education videos. See this GCP-sponsored LiveOverflow …

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    Comment #20948932

    Credible journalists contact governments, businesses, individuals, and any other subjects of articles, ahead of publication to ask for official comment, interviews, on-the-record e…

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    Comment #20228582

    Hi, I work at El Reg. Just wanted to say we're not owned by the Daily Mail. I used to work for the Daily Mail Group, funnily enough, leaving in 2011 to join The Reg. But, anyway, n…

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    Comment #14623908

    Compressed, it is ~8TB. Fully expanded it is ~32TB. I think the bigger issue is not the final size, but that internal Microsoft material - particularly source code - has escaped in…

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    Comment #14623735

    Hiya - I wrote the article. What's happened is that the Beta Archive folks have now deleted (or in the process of deleting) the private material that was uploaded to the BA FTP. Th…

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    Comment #13582498

    Got it - hear you loud and clear. The article wasn't worded correctly. We've corrected the explanation and linked to the APIs directly (which we should have done from the start). Y…

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    Comment #7839410

    "But why do they reveal it?" Lewis Page, the editor, noted in the comments section: "The [UK] government have made it plain that in their view not only foreign powers (ie probably …