* Posts by Yorick Hunt

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Eat or be eaten by AI, Amazon CEO warns staff

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Re: Sigh...

Paradoxically, those pushing for it are precisely the ones whose jobs would be most suited for replacement by "AI."

Seeing a team of bots playing daily Bullshit Bingo could even become a popular televised sporting event (hey, if they can classify breakdancing as a sport, it's open season).

Here’s what it’ll take for Nvidia and other US chipmakers to flog AI chips in China

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Re: Newegg pricing today

Tseng Labs ET4000 - priceless!

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That barn door is getting rather rickety

Chinese companies are heading their own way, innovating with software and using ever more home-grown tech - which might not be quite up to the level of western technologies at the moment, but it's (1) cheap, (2) available, and (3) highly likely to evolve beyond what the western players are offering.

Faces, noses, etc...

If it can’t double our money, we’re not building it, Intel Products chief says

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Re: Thus strongly encouraging poor predictions

We saw what happened to Boeing when accountants took the place of engineers.

Good thing AMD is around to take up the slack.

AI kept 15-year-old zombie vuln alive, but its time is drawing near

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Re: And this is why we

GIGO

Signal chat app clone used by Signalgate's Waltz was apparently an insecure mess

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Re: Signal has encrypted backups

Isn't that the primary qualification required to become a politician?

30 percent of some Microsoft code now written by AI - especially the new stuff

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Re: writing code is only part of the equatation

"do they use AI to write the tests to test the generated code?"

Testing??? This is Microsoft we're talking about - testing is done by the plebs customers!

No joke: Microsoft foolishly published inaccurate price list on April 1st

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Devil

Why not?

They publish inaccurate software every day of the year, so why not add a little sparkle?

EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!

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Big Brother

Au contraire, it's fit perfectly for the purpose it was intended.

It's just that we, "the great unwashed," weren't deemed worthy of being told what that purpose was.

Aardvark beats groundhogs and supercomputers in weather forecasting

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If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I still prefer the weather stone, been accurate since its creation;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_rock

Microsoft isn't fixing 8-year-old shortcut exploit abused for spying

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Facepalm

Tell that to the dolts who complain about not being able to e-mail their 2Gb video file, "but I took it on my 'phone, it's only a few minutes long!"

RIP Mark Klein, the engineer who exposed US domestic spying ops after wiring it up

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Re: "Honesty, a lost cause. "

The price of eggs is lower than it was six months ago, and deportations are still at least 30% lower than they were under Obama. But don't let the BBC, CNN, NBC or any of the others hear that.

Congratulations for thinking that re-arranged deck chairs actually make a difference.

Broadcom starts beta for VMware Cloud Foundation 9, the release it reckons will douse user anger

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Coat

"Pricing, licensing changes won't feel so bad"

Apparently vinegar tastes quite sweet after you've swigged a half-gallon of hydrochloric acid.

C++ creator calls for help to defend programming language from 'serious attacks'

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What about...

... if programmers actually took responsibility for their work, if they returned to the basics of writing from the ground up - instead of relying on language restrictions to provide them with training wheels?

Microsoft expands Copilot bug bounty targets, adds payouts for even moderate messes

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Re: Can I report...

I was about to say, "Microsoft expands Copilot bug" is where the headline should've ended.

February's Patch Tuesday sees Microsoft offer just 63 fixes

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Boffin

Their fixes are always small in number - the big question is, how many things did they break?

I was told to make backups, not test them. Why does that make you look so worried?

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Ah, memories...

About a quarter of a century ago, I installed a painfully expensive tape backup system for a customer and left instructions on best practices, including regular manual trial restorations.

About a year down the track, disaster struck - as luck would have it, when I was interstate with no easy/quick way to get back.

I had a local agent pop out with a replacement drive, but he said there were no valid backups to be found. Quizzing the customer yielded something to the effect of "we started getting tape errors so we removed the tape and the errors stopped."

They hadn't performed a proper backup in months, had only done one trial restore about a week after I set the backup up, and didn't even think to get a replacement tape or simply roll onto the next day's tape - nor even to call me for advice.

No skin off my nose as they were only a casual customer, but it really makes you wonder just which cereal packet some people got their brains from.

Microsoft quietly erases Windows 11 TPM 2.0 bypass workaround from help page

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Re: As long as they don't remove the workaround

There are valid use cases for disabling the TPM in BIOS - the most pertinent of which is to prevent the installation of Windows 11.

Google torpedoes 'no AI for weapons' rules

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Re-filed...

... in the cylindrical filing cabinet, alongside "don't be evil."

US senator wants to slap prison term, $1M fine on anyone aiding Chinese AI with ... downloads?

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Re: I take it the $500 million

Marketing - 'murica's #1 product for at least the past couple of centuries.

Wacom says crooks probably swiped customer credit cards from its online checkout

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Hmmm...

Well-known CMS in which vulnerabilities are discovered at a rate much faster than they can be patched, and each patch introduces new vulnerabilities?

Donald Trump proposes US govt acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service

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Holmes

Re: National Security

No, the point has always been to punish them for allowing posts critical of zionists in general and genocidal crimes in particular.

FCC to telcos: By law you must secure your networks from foreign spies. Get on it

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Holmes

And the corollary...

"By law you must open your networks to domestic spies."

... Which is what brought us to this mess in the first place!

Enterprises in for a shock when they realize power and cooling demands of AI

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Enterprises in for a shock when they realise...

... that their overpaid CEOs and consultants were rejected by McDonald's because they were too stupid to flip burgers.

Intel, AMD engineers rush to save Linux 6.13 after dodgy Microsoft code change

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Mushroom

Surprise?

Evidently Microsoft are exporting their Windows prowess into other parts of the world.

Microsoft declares 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh'

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Re: and the familiar Windows experience they know and love."

"Love" as in tennis.

3Blue1Brown copyright takedown blunder by AI biz blamed on human error

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FAIL

Utter bullshit!

"There is a manual portion of the takedown submission"

You can train an LLM, you can form a company around your vapourware, but you can't write a simple JS extension for the meatbag's browser?

This is right up there with "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."

More telcos confirm China Salt Typhoon security breaches as White House weighs in

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Good thing they got rid of all of their Huawei equipment, eh?

UK ICO not happy with Google's plans to allow device fingerprinting

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Re: targeted advertising

Install SmartTubeNext and revel in the improved experience.

Ireland fines Meta for 2018 'View As' breach that exposed 30M accounts

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Re: Greed vs. Greed

Those affected deserve nothing.

They exposed themselves by voluntarily (even eagerly) surrendering their entire lives to FaecesHook. The fact that one more scumbag got their data in addition to the hundreds of scumbags El Zucko already gave it to, is of no consequence.

You can't lick the walls of a sewer and then complain that you got a disease.

Salt Typhoon forces FCC's hand on making telcos secure their networks

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Re: So...

"I think trying to secure against stupid, or developing for stupid, or trying to sell to stupid, or catering to stupid, or appealing to stupid, just creates more stupid.”

Hear, hear!

The number of times (including half an hour ago, f@#cking Roku!) I've been nearly reduced to tears because something was made to only be used by idiots (and therefore entirely alienating anyone who has even half a brain) is startling.

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Holmes

So...

... We should expect to see a flurry of patches from Cisco et al, sans back doors?

British boffins build diamond battery capable of working for a millennium or five

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Re: "But the team also envisaged the technology being implanted in humans"

Runner!!!

T-Mobile US CSO: Spies jumped from one telco to another in a way 'I've not seen in my career'

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Jumped from one telco to another...

... Far more easily than what it would take for a subscriber to change services from one telco to another.

£1B lawsuit targets Microsoft for allegedly overcharging Windows customers on other clouds

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I don't think so.

It's easy for Mickey$oft to argue that they weren't charging other customers more - they were simply offering discounts for customers who were also using M$'s cloud.

It's not as if those customers weren't aware of the prices before clicking on "buy now."

I have every aspect of Microsoft, but on this particular subject I see no case to answer.

Major energy contractor reports 'limited' access to IT after ransomware locks files

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Re: 100 lines, and neatly...

How does your car's engine run if you can't pour petrol into your cup holder?

The two networks should be entirely separate and distinct - what you use for controlling infrastructure should NEVER be the same network you use for watching cat videos during quiet times.

It's a simple concept, but alas in this age of iPad-qualified management, stupidity knows no bounds.

Fine print in Intel's CHIPS Act deal includes requirement to keep control of its foundries

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Re: Tough

I'd hoped back in the day that the future would belong to Motorola or Zilog - or even (gasp!) the Transputer.

Sadly we'll be using essentially hyperscaled 8080s for a long time to come - unless ARM takes over or RISC-V actually gets bedded down (in both cases sacrificing compactness for speed, but then programmers these days don't even know what compactness is, let alone care about it).

Australia passes law to keep under-16s off social media – good luck with that, mate

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Re: Age Verification

Bluetooth rectal probe available as an optional extra.

No, Broadcom did not just end VMware's flagship VCDX certification program

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Their only mistake was...

... sending the e-mail out a few weeks before they'd planned to.

Data broker leaves 600K+ sensitive files exposed online

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Re: Let me guess...

"It can SERIOUSLY screw your life for decades"

Unless you're one of the disgustingly well-heeled, in which case all traces of the bankruptcy miraculously evaporate overnight and you continue business as usual, perhaps at worst with the inconvenience of having to create a new trading name.

T-Mobile US takes a victory lap after stopping cyberattacks: 'Other providers may be seeing different outcomes'

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FAIL

"... the crew compromised systems used for performing communications wiretapping for law enforcement..."

Wow, didn't see that coming! Who would've thought that a built-in back door could be exploited?

Trump taps border hawk to head DHS. Will Noem's 'enthusiasm' extend to digital domain?

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Re: Make America SAFE again

"... will be interesting to see what period of American history will serve as the benchmark of safety”

Possibly the period prior to 1776, definitely the period prior to 1606.

Put your usernames and passwords in your will, advises Japan's government

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Re: "Maintain a list of your subscriptions, user IDs and passwords"

"Social media feeds us automatically what it thinks we want wants us to think"

FTFY.

Mega US healthcare payments network restores system 9 months after ransomware attack

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FAIL

Re: Competition needed.

Amazon Glacier, and they didn't want to pay extra to boost the download speed?

They could've put a PFY on the back of a donkey and sent him to the data centre with a sackful of pocket drives, and he still would've back at least eight months ago.

Steam cuts the cord for legacy Windows and macOS

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Alert

"... After quite a while in beta testing..."

Microsoft should take notes.

Europe glances Russia's way after Baltic Sea data cables severed

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Trollface

It was a group of drunken Siberians, in a rented dinghy, on a spur of the moment.

Crook breaks into AI biz, points $250K wire payment at their own account

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Learnt.

Trump's pick to run the FCC has told us what he plans: TikTok ban, space broadband, and Section 230 reform

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Trollface

Let him take the biscuit - after what it's been throughNSFW, you really don't want to keep it.

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Meh

Jimmy Carr - or even Alan Carr - would've been a better choice.

Microsoft breaks timezones in Settings and calls on an unlikely ally for help

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Windows...

... The behemoth comprising one kilogramme of structural materials and two tonnes of sticky tape and string... Think of a deranged elephant with leprosy, suffering from severe radiation poisoning...

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