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Ignorance is not knowing.
Stupidity is not understanding.
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'Asimov was right' about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director
A human, or group of humans, is responsible for the actions of their AI.
They need to be prosecuted for the actions of their AI, and fast so that we get proper controls in place!
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Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief after suspected Iran attacks
but it costs money to hire staff to monitor the various water plants, whereas sticking a PC there with an open port 22 and remoting in with an account named 'admin' and a password of "1234" is a lot more cost efficient (and gives us more profits)
But if the powers that be demand we upgrade security, we'll use port 222 and a password of "4321" that will stop anyone by the real elite h4XX0rs
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‘Humans will be a rounding error on the internet’ says Cloudflare exec
Quite.
If all that additional traffic isn't for the benefit or use of humans, then what the hell is it for?
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Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power
If I researched this right, the whole thing had less than £200m of funding.
Given how it could transform our energy it is bizarre government prefer to sink billions into foreign consultancies that don't even have to deliver anything than this.
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South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact
... posted imagery from its Danuri lunar orbiter ...
Yes?
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Microsoft tosses Teams Live chat into its feature graveyard
"focus investments on newer customer engagement and communication experiences."
"Today we're excited to take that customer experience to a new level"
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IT department put sticky notes on the laptops to help employees log in
"a marketing and SEO company"
Critical infrastructure then.
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I've gone from writing about SD-WAN to depending on it
Thanks for an interesting article.
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Cop who used police system to snoop for info on crook pals sentenced for Computer Misuse Act offenses
You spelt Reform UK Ltd wrong.
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ShinyHunters called cancer diagnostics biz and tricked staffers into giving them access. Now they've dumped 10.9M email addresses
Because
1) Even if you pay, there is absolutely no guarantee that the data is deleted.
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Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager
In fact 3 in one day.
It was an email trying to get me to click a link onto an "HR" investigating firm because someone was reporting me to HR with a complaint that MUST be resolved.
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Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default
I wonder if they’d analysed El Reg posts they’d have concluded…
A.I can go fuck itself.
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IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day
Sounds like a child process
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The AI bubble is already popping; we just don't know it yet
Not every technological development is beneficial.
See the Sinclair C5, 3DTV, the Metaverse etc.
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Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11
"Making voice more natural and fluid to interact across the apps you use every day."
It's obvious that this guy doesn't have to work in the same open plan torture as his minions if he can't see the problem with a room full of people all trying to talk to their computer.
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Attacker phished way into US defense supplier's Microsoft 365 account
Not that long ago, just having a network connection to the company network was a no-no for secret+ data.
Now we just toss it willy nilly on the internet.
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Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much
We were nearly there.
Then, Tony Blair became PM and the first thing he did was call his mate Bill Gates, and that was that.
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China launches mysterious probe into security of Palo Alto Networks' products
Sounds like this is in response to the "security concerns" that the US has with Chinese kit.
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OpenAI pledges to add Astra security as Anthropic loosens Fable's leash
The bullshit is displacing all the oxygen in the room rapidly.
Why would we believe anything OpenAI says or does is relevant at this point?
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Microsoft tells engineers to curb their token-burning enthusiasm
Borkzilla is having to to police its own workforce on the use of its shitty Clippy.
Maybe other companies could take a hint ?
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London cops handed victim's new address and number to her stalker, watchdog says
How dense do you have to be?
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Headteacher had the most guessable username-password combo you could imagine
The CCTV thingy running XP is not a problem - provided it is on a separate network and cannot be reached from the outside.
And why should it have connections to the outside world?
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Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn
The Hallmark of a good upgrade, as long as it doesn't break anything important, these kind of fixes can last a LIfetime
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Three becomes one as Vodafone buys out merger partner
That's 1990's MBA Speak 101.
Been there, got the cert and used it to help customers decode the MBA BS that was spouted at every opportunity.
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Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem
Also called environment-friendly.
A notion that has gone to waste, apparently, along with a lot of other things we could have still used . . .
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Humans in the loop miss a third of dangerous AI coding agent requests
And producing terrible outcomes.
I always list files with wildcards before I delete files using that wildcard...
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Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'
the firts time
Sometimes what you see is not what's actually there...
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FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another
I like to bash MS as much as the next person but DMARC isn't an MS-specific technology.
Gmail and other email providers use it too.
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Scot NHS trust probes access to medical records of 9-year-old girl after man arrested on suspicion of murder
every time.
every time there's someone in the news the cops and medical personnel get nosey or even worse are looking for something to sell out to the press
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Meta latest to tell world its AI agent wandered out of test pen
Why are are these firms not being taken to court for breaching whatever law it is that hackers usually get done for?
Oh, sorry, I forgot.
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Uncle Sam aims to help nuclear energy find its sea legs
one way or another Blinky will end up on our plates.
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Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal
... but the volume of new code being submitted that has been generated by AI.
Not in the sense that "AI written code is bad" - the chances are it is every bit as good as human-crafted code, since the models have been trained on millions [if not billions] of lines from open source projects.
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Smart glasses are only smart if we train them to be good. Then they'll be fantastic
> Augmented reality has its own spectrum, from the ghastly to the essential, even when you peel back the techbro hype
Er, what?
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Latest GitHub outage squeezes Actions, Pages to death
"things go better with coke".
NOT.
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Sci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI's dystopian impact on their craft
I am only translated by human translators.
If anyone tries to license my works for machine translation, I'll turn them down.
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Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year
It is unbelievable in the Trump era that anyone that knows how to use his mind and his experience to further the knowledge of Science for Humanity would still have a job.
Yet, here we are.
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OpenAI reveals its rogue agent swarm went a little bit Borg ahead of Hugging Face hack
SO mostly what I'm getting form this story is that OpenAI's engineers are incompetent.
Providing a spreadsheet with Google Drive links but no internet access, forgetting to upload the target file for analysis, filing to isolate agents from each other, failing to isolate the test lab from the Internet, the fuck ups just keep rolling in.
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Ransomware attacks spike as world distracted by AI
If there are any people left who doubt that making it illegal to pay ransom would end the problem, here's the proof.
If the US banned ransomware payments while attacks would continue for a bit until it was proven they were complying, eventually they would all but end and they'd attack targets in countries that still permitted such payments.
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European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan
Realistically for most companies it won't be a near term migration, it'll be done when it is time for the kind of major update that already requires much planning, testing, pilot groups, training etc. So it isn't going to happen in the next few years, but now that it is on the radar of so many EU companies it is a near certainty it WILL happen.
It'll just take place across a decade for most, not a year or two.
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Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time
I think Mark Russinovich has earned the right to do some frivolous coding; given how useful the sysinternals tools have been and continue to be every single day, he could spend the rest of his life vibe-coding fart apps, and I'd still consider him pretty much a saint!
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Next step for LINK spacecraft – a software update that won't make things worse. Are you listening, Microsoft?
There are two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
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SpaceX revenue rockets while AI spending burns billions
And this is why we can not have nice things.
I used to be exited about SpaceX, finally seeing a future in space exploration and utilization.
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OpenAI wants teachers and profs to foist their work off on ChatGPT
The AI bullshit is piling up so quickly, we're going to need wings to stay above it.
Here's a tip: toss the AI garbage out the window and teach students to think critically.
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New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut
perhaps they can squeeze in a new version of the MCAS so pilots do not need to certify for this type *wink* *wink*
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NEC tests parking tech that only starts charging once you exit your car
Yes sometimes you have to pay a little more if you spend a lot of time finding a parking spot or getting out of the parking ramp.
But the companies who operate the ramps aren't going to be willing to make less money from all us customers who get charged for 55 minutes instead of 1 hr 5 minutes under the new system.
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Jailed Flock vandal wipes out three cameras, racks up thousands in damages
Anyone with any brains knows the way to take out cameras is with drones that can spray paint over the camera lenses, not by being a meatbag and doing it yourself.
Drones also don't need ladders to climb poles, nor do they care about falling from heights.
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News Corp labels some AI companies 'crass kleptomaniacs'
Hot coffee meet nasal passage.
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AI researchers let models off the leash – then watched as they tried to add malware to a FOSS project
Thankfully, a human maintainer “caught and refused to approve the malicious code.”
Even more thankfully, the human maintainer has not filed a lawsuit against the AI Security Institute.
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Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia
Articles like this, please, much preferable to reading about some incremental increase in resolution of yet another boring phone.
I really admire people who can do this and I even understand a lot of the electronics, but unfortunately I am that person who solders with a spoon.
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MIT boffins' TONTOU attack slips through Spectre defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs
Er, thousands of hundreds, or some lesser number of hundreds...?
Just a reminder, in 2018 Intel claimed to offer $250k for critical software exploitable side-channel attacks against CPUs, with Spectre/Meltdown kernel-data leaking attacks like this one one being the standard-bearer for that.
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Bypassing AI guardrails is so easy a script kiddie can do it
..."existing guardrails offer little resistance to operators willing to reframe their requests"?
Well, obviously.
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Microsoft excludes Domain Exclusion from MS 365 Copilot – days after rolling it out
Maybe people were using it to disable access to Microslop's own sites, and Microslop didn't like people doing that!
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AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon
Dunno, but I work for an IC socket manufacturer...
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Double trouble for Microsoft as pre-owned software license claims converge
to choose between throwing its hand in now at £270 million + up to £3.5 billion (plus costs) or struggle on and ultimately be up for more than double that (assuming only the current litigant are involved.)
My heart bleeds for Microsoft facing this dilemma… but I jest, I was thinking of the smallest violin in the world.
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Time Magazine has a separate version of its website with ads only AI can see
(See title.)
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Windows 10 LTSC 2021 has five months before security updates cost extra
We will actually be debating if we shall go from 10 to 12 or from 10 to 11, depending on hardware and suchHaving dipped my toe in the penguin's pond and found it inviting, before opting to stick with Windows 10 for now (via IoT Enterprise LTSC), I think I've already made the decision on where to go once support runs out in 2032.
I just can't see Microsoft backpedalling so hard and far that Windows 11 or its successor, whatever that might be, will ever be an option for anyone even slightly concerned about privacy and control over their own systems.
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AI struggles to patch vulns without adult supervision
AI models may not be that good at fixing security flaws.
Hardly surprising.
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BOFH: For one ambitious security type, chaos is a ladder
Simon would never hand over a shiny new machine to some newcomer who is usurping part of the BOFH's network without it being a trap.
Hilarious episode
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Openreach nudges another 112 exchange areas toward full fiber
^^ See title
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US bank places trust in ransomware crew that promised to delete its data
"You've deleted the data, right?"
"Yup - all gone"
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Amsterdam activists throw acid at Microsoft datacenter project
...as the balloon would presumably degrade.
I do like the idea of UK-owned datasheds spreading across the EU.
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NASA puts astronauts’ lives in the hands of Tesla’s flaky Cybertruck
Probably more dangerous than the rocket.
Icon: I was torn between joke and flame
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Tennessee congressional hopeful accused of shooting license plate cameras
The only thing Republican voters would care about is what caliber did he use and how many guns does he own.