I had the fortune to be in the right place at the right time and got to fly this remarkable feat of human capability three times, all work related, I happened to work for the airline.
Once was a totally unplanned upgrade to the jump seat in the cockpit sat next to the flight engineer and his myriad of dials.
… almost none of what he says nowadays is even remotely true.
India aren't threatening to tear up NATO just because a tango nonce wants his predilections to remain unnoticed by the American public.
Someone from IT support who was looking at something on my PC asked why when typing in Outlook there wasn’t text being suggested.
I said I’d turned it off and he asked why, so I said I found it bloody annoying and that it was insanely distracting when typing.
back in the eighties.
If there was an alarm, she got called in at all speed to sort stuff out.
"Oh it will be so convenient, why wouldn't you want a digital ID? Why are you scared of the government knowing what you're up to in every bit of your life every minute?
Don't be paranoid, they won't use it to restrict internet access"
So a lot of the jobs in the care industry are going to performed by AI?
Or is the expectation that enough people will lose their jobs due to AI that they will naturally fill the gaps in the care industry (which they don't currently want to work in) and we won't need the support of 'immigrants' without whom our care system would have collapsed years ago?
just another Microslop SNAFU.
Want this to stop?
Ah, but is the liquid nitrogen organic, and is the tank it’s in hewn from a rare hardwood, with the woodgrains aligned all in the same direction, using low-oxygen gold screws to hold it together?
If not, then you are no audiophile, and I say “good day” to you, sir.
Yeah, like hell they're going to do anything other than pay lip service to the regulator if it means cutting into their profit margins.
A fine per displayed illegal ad and a small bounty for every user who reports one that's found to break the law should help them develop suitable processes really quickly
"Get world-class business email at a fraction of the cost of other platforms."
"25 GB mailboxes, 30 GB file storage"
>the problem isn't young people existing online, but platforms designed to keep them hooked
Yup.
I find it very difficult to believe that a manufacturing company with 7,000 suppliers didn't have an ERP system that did this already.
Monitor stock levels and re-order when they fall below projected thresholds.
And US subs too if they continue to f around with their threats to take Greenland
They've already proven the grid in Texas can't cope with unusual demand, that combined with heat, more dry than average climate, and gun toting rednecks, yeah, let them have Texas.
It tells you all you need to know.
The operation is measured in terms of its inputs because they cannot quantify useful outputs.
If I'm not mistaken,the whole point of this particular initiative is to NOT create a new browser by forking an existing one but disabling a bunch of features in the existing browser.
Unless a website insists on checking if specific sloperations are running (if those are even exposed to web servers, I doubt many are) there is no way for a website to mistreat you if this is implemented.
"In the end, this "constitution" thing is just marketing."
And also highly delusional & definitely deceptive
That's a very shallow take.
Trump is a Russian asset, US administration is compromised by Russia.
In that what many people do in terms of 'computing' has little if anything that can't be done on a phone, or if they want a larger screen, a tablet.
Anecdotally, the kids and grandkid use phones and tablets except for work tasks.
From reading the article's title, I was hoping that Nadella had finally said the ugly truth - that you cannot have sovereignty over data hosted by a US company, no matter where the data is located.
Alas, no, it's just the usual meaningless AI hype.
On paper, yes.
A more fun metric might be "the number of news articles per day reporting what we broke now"
I would say 2026 is definitely trending higher for Microsoft.
I for one think it's a great idea ...
I really love pointless bloat and AI in all my systems.
It takes an idiot to use a random welding shop air hose to clean out computers (maybe i'd even pass it off as an honest mistake), but it takes a special kind of idiot to keep going after visibly destroying the first PC!
Not even a quick check to see if it still worked...
As a novice investor who has done reasonably ok - and someone with several decades of tech sector experience - I'll say this.
I have approximately 2-3% of my portfolio invested in AI and even that seems a bit much.
"However, it promised to implement a robust legal framework, alongside all necessary privacy and security safeguards, if these proposals do ultimately become law."
And, like all the others, it's not providing a proof of concept to submit to expert analysis to show it to be possible.
...the Chinese and US approaches.
The Chinese may invest in this if they think there may be a social / political / commercial /strategic benefit in 5 - 10 years.
The House of Lords was a bunch of out-of-touch inherited people with a long-term view, doing things like declaring there shouldn't be anything illegal about being gay or that slavery was not supported by English law.
It's repeatedly knocked back surveillance proposals.
International Rescue ?
Thunderbird 3 is presumably capable of a circum·lunar mission although with The Hood clearly running the US administration some interference might be anticipated.
> the developers, the institution deploying the model, or the data providers.
Take the earlier sentence
What else would we expect to hear from those pushing the official western narrative?
The UK turfed Huawei out simply because America said that.
If you have "agentic ERP [with] autonomous, AI-driven decision-making", then how many CxOs become unnecessary?
NFTs were perhaps the perfect scam.
Cash was made and lost, it fizzled out, and nobody mentioned it again.
For the state of the world’s economy.
I'm all in on Linux but it's not bullet proof either.
Telnet has been out of favour due to inherent security issues for decades.
Which makes sense to everyone.
To call the eBay AI generated descriptions utter shite would be overly generous.
I wish there was a way to filter them out of search results
> Can someone give an example of a use case for rebooting to use systemd occasionally, and sysv usually?
Sure.
So..... what did pressing the Shift key actually do to speed restarting Win95?
"Agentic AI Blockchain" — for the trifecta of a cow with three bollocks running first, second and third in the Bullshit derby.
Many years ago I was travelling for work and needed to get some cash from a machine in Cambridge (branch of HSBC, I think).
I put my card in, but, before I was asked for my PIN, the screen went blank - followed shortly after by the startup screen for "OS/2 Warp".
I thought such technology was just a pigment of my imagination.
But it turns out to be possible.
It works because every company sends lots of genuine emails with links in them.
It works pretty often because said companies very often use third party link shorteners and worse.
"Instead, Meta is betting on AI as bulky headsets become things of the past."
So AI is the new VR.
Goodness knows how I made it to adulthood, given at school we just had:
A paper-based class register
"A legislative proposal to limit or exclude non-EU suppliers based on country of origin, rather than factual evidence and technical standards, violates the EU's basic legal principles of fairness, non-discrimination, and proportionality, as well as its WTO obligations.
The oppressive law in China requiring companies to be spies if needed and Chinas willingness to spy on journalists and activists when abroad are facts, inconvenient for Huawei but facts none the less.
you can actually enshittify a steaming pile of turds.
I, to my horror can now imagine: "would like fries with that" and this fresh hell "goes better with coke" … only conceivably when in powder form.
We can only hope.
I'm inclined to believe it's more "piss ups and breweries" though.
The corporations' justification for that amount of control over your device is, "It's got our company data on it, so we need to be able to do this."
And that is why your personal phone/computer should be forever separate from your work phone/computer.
I thought the article would tell me how to banish a demon after telling me how to use AI to summon one in the first place!
There goes my idea of siccing Great Cthulhu(*) on the tech bros! Oh well, back to waiting till the stars are right.
So now we have confirmation of what we suspected.
DOGE stole all the SSA data.
What FLOSS software would enable one to watch copyrighted content for free in a non infringing way?
I work at a company with no bug bounty, and we get around 10 "vulnerability reports" a week, sometimes more.
100% artificial incompetence.
I'm still amused at the Instagram handle for Volkswagen Italy.
Volkswagenitalia
Never buy a device that doesn't work if the internet is down or the server is not responding.
"Hey, ChatGPT, what do think about the Wright Brothers?
Are they the bee's knees or what?
As someone retired from the front line of hardware, software and information management using computers, it's fascinating to watch the tectonic forces grinding against one another.
On one hand there are the Big Tech companies that have sunk unimaginable amounts of investors' money into developing LLMs, and on the other are the largely un-organized but myriad people who formerly made a good living from wrangling information technology (in its widest sense) into solutions for civilization's progress and benefit.
Allocation to consumers: 0%
Allocation to "AI" data centres that aren't even built yet: 100%
Re: "businesses discovering that a five-year-old laptop running on borrowed time is not, in fact, a long-term IT strategy."
My 5+ year old work laptop (7th gen i7) was doing perfectly all right, there was absolutely no need for an upgrade but for the lack of TPM
"Mozilla's Firefox remains the dominant browser in the worlds of Linux and the BSDs"
Well, until they brought out the hammer and their dick.
The smart crooks own the government
As I understand it, the problem with "AI agents" in their current guise is that to an LLM all inputs are prompts, i.e. they can't (because they simply don't) distinguish between data and instructions.
I suspect the more guardrails you put in place to try to limit prompt attacks, the less flexible the system becomes.
What floor are you on?
I have Windows for WIndows in my office.
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