fisking

June 1, 2006 by yorksranter 0 comments

Time is on my side

More than two years ago now, I poured scorn on the Grauniad for running ads for an evidently fraudulent anti-allergy gadget whilst also running Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science column. A taste: Which is all very good news for little “James”, the emetic blond child whose likeness takes up one of those two pages with the…

May 17, 2006 by yorksranter 0 comments

Whoops, Eric!

MSNBC/Newsweek’s blogger, Eric Alterman, links a story claiming former KGB boss and Russian PM Yevgeny Primakov is a consultant to the Department of Homeland Security, as are ex-HVA chief Markus Wolf and KGB General Oleg Kalugin, saying that “someone ought to look into this”. Well, somebody did, and that somebody is me. Alterman seems to…

May 12, 2006 by yorksranter 0 comments

Nick Cohen

I don’t usually engage with the “decent left”/”pro-war left”/whatever gabble, but this is ridiculous. Sadly, the Evening Standard‘s web presence is still too impossibly dire to link to, so this has had to wait. Kelly said she wouldn’t change the way social housing was allocated in response to the success of the BNP in using…

François Bayrou, toujours sans gouvernement et déjà affaibli
« L’impression que donne François Bayrou est celle d’avoir fantasmé son arrivée au pouvoir pendant trente ans, en espérant l’union des Français, de la gauche et de la droite, autour de lui. Mais il n’a pas de majorité, ni vraiment le soutien enthousiaste de l’Elysée, et il est faible dans l’opinion », observe Benjamin Morel, […]
Linear no-threshold model - Wikipedia
Radiation precautions have led to sunlight being listed as a carcinogen at all sun exposure rates, due to the ultraviolet component of sunlight, with no safe level of sunlight exposure being suggested, following the precautionary LNT model. According to a 2007 study submitted by the University of Ottawa to the Department of Health and Human […]
AMD arms itself to challenge Nvidia's push into AI PC market
Industry sources suggest that Nvidia plans to release its Arm-based consumer PC platform in September 2025, featuring in-house CPU and GPU designs aimed at the high-end AI PC market. A commercial platform is expected to follow in March 2026, according to reports from Patently Apple and Tom's Hardware....AMD launched its first Arm-based SoC, the Opteron […]
TSMC capacity expansion powers supply chain for 2025 boom
TSMC has begun constructing its first German fab, with equipment installation set for the third quarter of 2027. Mass production is anticipated by late 2027, gradually reaching a monthly output of 40,000 wafers by 2028. TSMC's Kumamoto Fab 1 specializes in 28nm and 22nm processes, targeting 30,000 wafers per month by early 2025 and scaling […]
Micron advances HBM4 development, sets 2026 for mass production
HBM4 utilizes Micron's 1β (5th Generation 10nm-class) DRAM technology, integrating up to 16 DRAM dies per stack, each offering 32 GB of capacity. The technology features a 2048-bit interface and 6.4 GT/s data rates, delivering a peak bandwidth of 1.64 TB/s per stack. Production timing aligns with the release of Nvidia's Vera Rubin GPUs and […]
HS2’s £100m ‘bat shield’ tunnel is not bat-proof
“The aperture size of 43mm x 23mm appears large to keep out Bechstein’s bats, which are very small in size,” said a design review commissioned by HS2. Originally the holes were to be 25mm x 25mm.
Michael Dnes on X: "So when we weren’t looking for them, we thought these bats were rare and under threat Now we’ve looked, we’ve found lots. But because that’s about data collection, it shouldn’t change their status Because nothing has changed
Cobra effect. But for bats.
‘Free and impartial’ addiction helplines paid secret commission by rehabs | Drugs | The Guardian
They were calling up our finance department and demanding early payment. They’d want their commission for the whole length of stay upfront, even though people might drop out and want refunds,” he said. “And we were getting all these emails from the brokers with names of people, saying: ‘If this person writes to you, they […]
Let it go - by Tom Hamilton - Dividing Lines
I would gently suggest to the Conservative Party that relitigating an issue that helped to prompt a huge shift in public opinion away from them, contributing a great deal to the downfall of an election-winning Prime Minister and an eventual landslide defeat, is not the best use of the time of a new leader who […]
Qualcomm claims trial win in dispute with Arm over chip design licences
Qualcomm said it was pleased with the verdict. The jury had “vindicated Qualcomm’s right to innovate” and confirmed the products at issue in the case were protected by its existing contract with Arm, it said. Arm said would seek a retrial based on the fact that the jury was “unable to reach consensus across the […]