Posts by KayJ

AI bills are baffling the C-suite after shift to usage-based pricing

"enabling customers to amplify their IQ with AI while refining their differentiated value in the markets that they serve."

House!

New humanoid robots from China look like creepy pop star action figures – complete with slightly dodgy lip-synch

Chinese advertising copy - it has *88* degrees of freedom

American advertising copy - it has 88 degrees of *freedom*

Ukraine puts its Russian war trophies online for allies to pick apart

Re: That's not fair

Shocking.

Rights groups brand Home Office's AI age guesser for asylum-seekers as biased and inaccurate

Even if we grant the premise that someone should be turned away based on their absolute age (as opposed to, I dunno, "do they really need help") this is a moronic way to go about it. _Unless_ we reframe it from "this is a system for helping decisions" to "this is a scheme to reduce staffing numbers and make arbitrary decisions under the false guise of clanker impartiality" - perhaps I'm a cynic.

Young evil genius forces hamster to run on wheel to power his gadgets

Re: I deemed its existence … unacceptably useless.

"...cows watch sunsets, John."

Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop

PS-85, shortly to be followed by the CN-20.

Google is to journalism what Vikings were to monks. Now their man will run the BBC

Auntie died shortly after David Kelly.

Elon Musk wants to build 50 times more chips than the world currently produces, using 'new physics'

Laws of physics, laws of physics!

Blustering Blackbeard's PC was all at sea, sysadmin got him shipshape in seconds

Those Toshiba wireless switches are a right pain in the behind - our users were perpetually turning them off. We ended up deliberately breaking them in the "on" position for some laptops.

Smart mirror shows dumb Windows in elevator

Steady on now, that lift has a substantial sterling value attached to it.

Desktop tech sent to prison for an education on strange places to put tattoos

"For to see Mad Tom o' Bedlam, ten thousand miles I've traveled..."

Doctors told to give Palantir's NHS data platform the cold shoulder

...and anyone who looked into the stone afterwards without great strength of will would see only Nye Bevan's hands withering in flame.

SpaceX back to Falcon 9 launches as Musk blathers about Moon city

Re: More IPO Fallout

I hear Frogstar B's a real hoopy dive.

BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers

Auntie died with David Kelly.

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

Somebody tell my lower back!

Let them eat Pi: RAM shortage bumps Raspberry prices as much as $60

If TSMC goes up in smoke the current state of affairs will look positively peachy.

Voyager 2's close encounter with Uranus wasn't in the original plan

The correct way, Oor-ann-oss.

I remember with mild shame being very scornful once of some NASA bod on telly that was talking about "Ariss Vallis" on Mars.

ATM takes a kicking yet keeps on ticking

Hard to believe that thing once had hubcaps.

Future of UK's multibillion Ajax armored vehicle program looks shaky

"Don't you know, son, with what bigly understanding the world is ruled?"

Anthropic writes 23,000-word 'constitution' for Claude, suggests it may have feelings

A monstrous entity composed of electric charge and trained on the unguarded psyches of the humans around it - make that the plot of a film and it'd go down a storm.

Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

Oh bugger, first this and now my AE-35 unit is playing up. Back in a minute!

Trump spectrum sale leaves airlines with $4.5B bill for altimeter do-over

Re: Lazy Altimeter Design

Tiktoks I think, but it's hard to call the relative merits of "environmentally damaging mass air travel" versus "widespread popularity of robot Chipmunk short-form content."

Boffins probe commercial AI models, find an entire Harry Potter book

Slop calls to slop.

Headset hype meets harsh reality as Apple and Meta VR shipments fizzle in 2025

Re: Smart?

It's certainly a Grey Area.

GOV.UK to unleash AI chatbot on confused citizens

What could possibly go right?

User found two reasons – both of them wrong – to dispute tech support's diagnosis

Honestly I struggle to cope when people tell me things that I 'know' to be wrong, untrue and counterfactual. There's a part of my brain kicks in wanting to immediately and loudly correct them. I try to keep a lid on it these days because experience has slowly taught me that - even if it is only one time in ten - sometimes the buggers are _right_ and it's not a good look to be telling someone "that's nonsense, don't be silly, of course it's not XYZ" only to discover ten minutes later that it was, in fact a problem with XYZ.

X sues to protect Twitter brand Musk has been trying to kill

X, pronounced "sh"

England keeping pen and paper exams despite limited digital expansion

Re: There is no requirement for a specific make of pen

There's sometimes a belief that Apple-brand *nix machines are just intrinsically better - the _only_ computers that are good for $creative_subject - than those mundane Windows boxen.

And there's a prestige angle. So there's always a demand for Apple kit.

Though strangely they tend to end up running the same software. Or these days, accessing the same web apps...

Bishop of Hong Kong tells peers AI is not the devil's work

Re: Cardinal Kowtow

"...let a Hundred Acres bloom"

NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter

Re: No one would believe

That's slow, sure.

As humanoid robots enter the mainstream, security pros flag the risk of botnets on legs

Re: What a load of fearmongering CODSWALLOP!

"Serf" rather than "worker", so it conveys a certain disdain and contempt for the poor things.

GPUs aren't worth their weight in gold – it just feels like they are

Re: Gold is cheap!

Fie, man, fie.

Magician forgets password to his own hand after RFID chip implant

I bet he facepalmed. He should knuckle down and brute force it.

AI music has finally beaten hat-act humans, but sounds nothing like victory

Re: What happens if you play AI country music backwards?

I lost my bot / on the bleep-bloop road / and I'm cryin'...

AI slop hits new high as fake country artist goes to #1 on Billboard digital songs chart

There was a lot _more_ music reaching the UK top 40 during the late 80s-early 90s period (before Cher and T-Pain began the apocalypse) than at any point before or since, so for those of us of a certain age we do have an unusual time of pop to look back on that stands out from the usual nostalgia cycle. 90% of it was crap same as it ever was, but there was more to choose from.

China uses Mars orbiter to snap interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

Re: Captain

Starboard bow?

EU biometric border system launch hits inevitable teething problems

Re: suffers teeting problems

If they fix the typo it'll be nothing but a mammary.

Texas senators cry foul over Smithsonian's pricey Space Shuttle shuffle

How about a really big Zorb? Just roll it gently over the top of any inconvenient bridges, houses, passers-by and whatnot.

Big money is nervous about AI hype, but not ready to call it a bubble

If the fallout from these things ever fell directly on a majority of the ones responsible they wouldn't happen. Ain't it all a bleedin' shame?

College student went on a destructive rampage, then confessed to ChatGPT, cops say

He thinks he can kill ChatGPT. Is it too much to hope he'll share the plan?

Blood-red bot stalks the burbs armed with . . . groceries

Not kerbs nor bicycles nor inquisitive small dogs can stay these bots from their trundles round.

Zorin OS 18 beta makes Linux look like anything but Linux

Re: Zorin... Industries?

We may hope to see that one day it will be.

Brit scientists over the Moon after growing tea in lunar soil

Re: Instructions for brewing lunar tea...

And a lot of money - it's not for the pu-erh.

Re: Tea..

Ask a cup of tea!

Techie fooled a panicked daemon and manipulated time itself to get servers in sync

Re: been there, done that ...

*the Eschaton has entered the chat*

Commodore Amiga turns 40, headlines UK exhibition

It belongs in a museum!

Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson backs plan to do a Jurassic Park on extinct birds

At last, someone will recreate the Towering Moa from L.A. Lewis' classic horror story!

One Big Brutal Bill: Ex-NASA brass decry Trump's proposed budget cuts

Re: Heathens

It was the right to _use_ bears _as_ arms to cause suffering to the little children - although he did that using his sockpuppet 'Big G' account to help out his mate Elijah.

Trump's budget bill bankrolls $85M Space Shuttle shuffle

Re: Just Wondering

If you asked Boeing very nicely they might build you an X37B for around about* that.

*astronomically speaking. I'll guess they'd ask for a half billion, rounded up to a billion.

Odd homage to '2001: A Space Odyssey' sees 'Blue Danube' waltz beamed at Voyager 1

Re: Alpha Centauri

They're definitely popular in Epsilon Eridani.