None of the paper books I own seem to have suffered from a discontinuation of support from their manufacturer, although a few have suffered from loss of support from their spine.
Nor do they try and show me adverts, track my location, or feedback to the publisher what other books I have been reading.
On our way back into Detroit the immigration agent really seemed to not want to let us back in to the US trying to claim we were working there illegally (we weren't, we were representing the European businesses on a global project and our salaries were paid by, and in, Europe)
a while back i went to San Francisco on a holiday, during the passport interrogation i was asked who i worked for, i explained i was a network engineer working for the UK HQ of a US company.
Utter nonsense, you don't communicate potentially disruptive actions to your customer via a blog, nor do you block their accounts without at least a few days prior warning direct to their registered account contact email(s).
Just wait till China moves on Taiwan
And America and Israel are making that all the more likely, as they have demonstrated that they don't care about International Law, Genocide etc, so why should they expect China to play fair
"Making Tax Digital will make it easier for sole traders and landlords to get their tax right by providing a more real-time overview of their finances, freeing up their time to focus on growing their business,"
Yes because making business owners have more red tape and paperwork to do and having to spend money on tax software they didn't previously require, always frees up time to focus on their business!
Mrs Coward does this.
I then suggest that turning up the temperature to higher than you want it like setting the satnav to Manchester when you want to go to Birmingham in the hope of getting there faster.(We approach Birmingham from the South).
You can also look this stuff up in manuals without a sticky note.
The leisure centre we used to support, at the reception for the gym, regularly left a post it note stuck to the monitor with the Windows login details for the account they used on reception.
Making it illegal to own something that is illegal to use whilst doing something illegal.
Yes the car thieves are definitely not going to to break this law too...
All I can hope for is that all the other AI DC's disappear into the ether before they even break ground.
The bubble is growing and when it pops, it will splat lots of very smelly stuff over everyone involved.
It's very difficult to hit a small target with a cannon, especially when there is a large difference in flying speed.
Typical drone speeds are ~100mph but a Typhoon or other military jet becomes difficult to control at speeds less than 250 kias.
"This shift in mindset from viewing AI as something that must deliver an immediate return to one that sees AI as a long-term investment, recognising it as a strategic enabler for enterprise‑wide transformation, is an important milestone."
Where the "enterprise-wide transformation" is firing lots of people?
McNealy's Sun tried to sell us "Graphical Terminals", "Diskless Workstations", "X terminals", "Thin Clients" and "The network is the computer" ...
I'm sure I missed a couple in there, but the idea is pretty much the same across the board.
...because current laws represent “a very big obstacle to the development, and utilization of AI in Japan.”
“We must prevent this from happening,” he said, because without access to data Japan will struggle to develop and deploy useful AI.
el Reg said: "Though this was disputed by the Centre for Net Zero (CNZ), which issued a report last year estimating that it would cost less to power a 120 MW datacenter with renewables and a small amount of gas-generated energy."
It was a 120MW data centre with an 80 MW gas turbine.
"Firefox-maker Mozilla is calling out Microsoft after Redmond said it would scale back some Copilot features in Windows, arguing the rollback shows the company pushed AI too far without enough regard for user choice."
This from the organisation which made multiple uses of "AI" intrinsic to its browser until eventually user protests forced it to include an opt out?
I think the difference is that lithium batteries are (mostly) thought of in terms of capacity : total watt-hours, and you're concerned both with how much power they generate and how long they're going to do it.
With a radioactive battery, you're concerned with the power generated and (usually) not so concerned about how long it's going to last.
It's surprising what can be done with a slow connection if you're patient.
I recall a data system for a retail firm with hundreds of stores, where every store had tills that fed sales data to a store controller.
They can't factorise 35 without errors.
I'll start worrying when they try to factorise, to choose a number at random, 42 and with error correction they come up with 6 and 9.
I fell out of love with Social Media when their prioritised "you may like" content over posts from my friends and family - the only reason why I joined them in the first place.
The end result of this is that I deleted the apps and stopped going.
That is all.
We'd installed some comms equipment in long relocatable cabin.
It had kit at one end that got warm and a couple of workstations at the other.
It's a catastrophe for Linux adoption that the stupid "AI" memory gold-rush has sunk the Steam Machine on price at just the time that Valve really had a compelling device to sell us.
Hard as it is for a lot of us commentards to accept, people like corporate entities.
We have this new super secret AI that we've shared with only the companies who are highly invested in the bubble and they say it's amazing and better than anything we let you plebs use, super honest trust me bro...
Meanwhile I'm here giving the Zapier AI a go and it's misunderstanding requirements, ignoring others, inventing variable names to pass between modules that don't exist and then telling me it's made updates whilst the UI's sat there showing absolutely no change, repeatedly...
The electrification of industry, he said, didn't show up as productivity until decades after factories plugged in.
That's so stunningly false that the audience were probably shocked into silence.
No.
This is El Reg.
Oh I'm really sorry, but the pedant in me can't let this pass...
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In my main office, the coffee type is chosen via an IPad app.....
Sometimes, you can't get your coffee shot due to lack of WiFi signal!
This is more or less what the local coppers could have told them, just for the asking, assuming the areas have such things as local coppers any more.
The FCC ban on Chinese made routers -- itself of dubious legality -- is now being topped by Congress wanting to ban all Chinese made phones (and I heard some rumor that they were now after cameras in phones or something like that).
We all know that once the brain is dead the rest of the body thrashes around for a bit reflexively because of the loss of control.
As opposed to the USA and your misogynistic, homophobic, Christian* supremacist, genocidal, multiple bankrupt, pussy grabbing rapist and probable pedophile president?
* Trump and the GOP claim to be Christian but as someone who went to a school run by monks I can confidently say their words and deeds are not Christian.
They have made me feel sympathy for someone in sales.
I may even be taking his side.
Well written, enjoyable article about a subject I have absolutely no experience of.
I mean, I'm still wondering if "object" storage would be a better way to store the family archive, and I still don't know, let alone have a clue how I could implement it, but nevertheless, find this stuff fascinating.
James Burke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTLBBV8zswA
When a company is this blatant about hiding things you really should think if is still a good idea to invest on it.
"World's smallest violin spotted at Amazon HQ as exec pay packets deflate"
As Nelson Muntz from the Simpsons would say, "Ha Ha!"
What a shock; Artificial Ignorance "discussions" can convince the gullible to buy whatever the shop is shilling, regardless of what they came for originally.
"Ka-ching!" said the shareholders and CEO.
I have always disabled javascript in Adobe Reader as soon as it is installed, but Adobe is one of those companies that corrects you when it discovers that you have made a choice.
>> Secretary of Defense Pete Hegeseth said Microsoft “exposed the Defense Department to unacceptable risk.”
Now we need to ban Microsoft from Europe for the same reasons.
I've seen WordPress compromised repeatedly.
The moment you hand a CMS to a non technical team, there will be issues.
Public: How many have been affected?
Crapita: Yes
I want a "disable AI option" ...
Ma'am, your mistake is in thinking that Claude Code or any other LLM actually thinks.
They don't.
This is deeply un-American.
The 8year old should have been playing outside with his own assault rifle, not some peaceful hippy foreign Lego
after buffing, is the brightest thing about them.
Like everywhere I guess.
Jammy buggers.
We go haring around the planet, hoping for about 7 minutes (and without cloud), that lot get almost an hour when they're out on a Works jolly!
So all it's going to do is add to the pile of bug reports from billion dollar corporations that expect the maintainers working for free to run around after them fixing code.
Not hard to tell.
The same shit.
I know a retired MP slightly.
He lives locally.
Especially when the goddamn pages expire after 15 minutes and you need to re-authenticate.
Remember the good old days of Professional Software Engineering, when we cut and pasted from SO rather than relying on this AI slop
has his car company use non-auto rated displays and electronics resulting in vehicles that have a pretty short useful life.......
Well done that man --->
I for one can't wait to combine Atlassian's legendarily high performance software stack and excellent user interfaces with the reliability and repeatability of large language model outputs.
I'll definitely be dialling that agentic automation all the way up to 11.
I imagine so.
Hostages usually can't partner with would-be captors.
…but he was running a private school?
Ewwwwww.
Shock horror the AI won't fix the decades of mess so can't get accurate info.
Starting to feel like it was a good idea not making things work well.
Trump is willing to fund the Defense Department to the tune of $1.5 trillion, but we can't spare $25 billion for NASA.
Frak him.
Some rando outside vendor knows your internal systems best, right?
Preferably in cloud!
"Do you want the Smooth mix, the rave mix, the club mix or the extended dance mix ?"
"Just give me the one where they got it right."
I think Birmingham's reply would be, "Don't use Oracle!"
That's Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"wiki
What could possibly go wrong here ?
So in about 3 years time there will be no bobbies on the beat in London as their budget is going on the huge overrun on cost that will happen
Rebrand?
Why?
Storing food or drink in a laboratory refrigerator that stores chemicals (or anything) gives me nightmares; gives laboratory managers and WH&S the horrors.
Don't Do It !
