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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU
on Thursday April 03, 2025 @07:07AM (#43567865)
Given Sir Kier Starmer regards himself as New Labour and it was Tony Blair that got us into the illegal wars of Iraq and Afghanistan to please the Republican Americans, then yes I expect he might get us into another illegal war (e.g. Iran) to please the Republicans.
Re:U.K. demand for a back door to Apple data threatens Americans, lawm...
on Thursday February 13, 2025 @01:22PM (#43039335)
> their iPhone stops working
Reminds of when UK regulator blocked Microsoft from buying Activision.
It was suggested by some that Microsoft has lots of power of UK and can threaten to pull out of UK and disable every single Windows PC and server in UK and destroy data belonging to UK businesses held in Azure, etc.
Shame it didn't happen, would have loved the reaction from Macron/French/EU given their hatred of US big tech.
Re:I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C
on Monday February 03, 2025 @03:33PM (#42922667)
Speaking of WebAssembly security, is it vulnerable to Spectre/CPU style attacks like those in JavaScript? (WASM without imported JS functions)
Re:Five years of Brexit reshaped Britain
on Friday January 31, 2025 @01:31PM (#42890239)
Ah thought you meant Brexit agreement compelled UK to copy new EU laws. UK politicians (both Conservative and Labour) love to look around world to copy any regulation targetting business, especially ones targetting tech and online censorship, not far off actual copying China's great firewall...
Re:Five years of Brexit reshaped Britain
on Friday January 31, 2025 @09:58AM (#42888297)
> The UK seems to copy each of these regulations though, which maybe makes this a moot point.
Which new EU regulation since Brexit has UK copied into law?
Re:Five years of Brexit reshaped Britain
on Friday January 31, 2025 @09:56AM (#42888283)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Financial_Centres_Index
London is #2 Nearest EU is at #10