Posts by Phil Ni'Sophical

The only technology that died more times than VR is AI, and that seems to have worked out

Re: Since when have these been part of the metaverse?

Now the name Copilot makes a lot more sense!

Welsh government used Copilot for review to justify closing organization

I hear a smart fellow called Claude indeed made a thorough review. All good.

Capita's £370M Whitehall outsourcing deal challenged as 'abnormally low'

Re: Somebody or some people here are exceptionally incompetent

Dear sir,

You mis-spelled "In receipt of a hefty, filled envelope".

Yours,

Friendly Commentard

Gamers furious as indie studio Cloud Imperium quietly admits to data breach

Re: “We are closely monitoring the situation"

Bethesda- 14 years and counting to release a game? Hold my beer/tea/beverage of choice.

Anyway, we can all return to the age old game of What'll come first. Star Citizen, or the completion of A Song of Ice and Fire. Or perhaps the completion of Brexit?

NS&I's IT car crash considers cutting legacy links to stop the bleeding

Re: Thank you NS&I

For making "Europe's largest local authority" look [...].

There are reg standards to adhere to!!

Oracle silent over user complaints about OCI London 'wobble' last week

Re: Pondering

Have no fear, friend. The outages only impacted those commie European countries that sent troops to Greenland. There were a few across Central Europe, and one outage in the UK!

Just Larry takin' care of business.

Micron finds a way to make more DRAM with $1.8bn chip plant purchase

Re: $9.5 billion sold for less than $2 billion

Wait until the new owners find the Indian Burial Ground the plant was built on. Ohhh, the joke'll be on them, then!!

Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever

Re: Irony

Wine Is No longer Essential?

DOE recruits cloud, chip, and AI giants for Trump's Genesis Mission

Re: But not Phil Collins, sadly

Bahhh, considering what become of Genesis when he took over, they're more than welcome to him.

Get 'im out by Friday, as it were.

Cornish recycling drive sows confusion among Reg Standards Bureau

Re: An excess of pasties ....

Is it red, with white fluffy bits on the end of the sleeves?

The Steam Machine rises again as Valve readies 2026 hardware trifecta

Re: Wish they were more honest about what it can and cannot do

Maybe they're following the Trump Mobile school of though? Who knows, maybe the Steam Egg Box will look different in up coming releases and announcements?

100 % made in City 17!!

Senate bill would require companies to report AI layoffs as job cuts reach 20-year high in October

Re: Good

Might I make a suggestion? I give you, the P(arsing) AI N(umbers) Bill.

Get ready to squint! World's smallest pixel is just 300 nm

Re: hydrogen silsesquioxane

And here was me thinking it was a quote from Hermione Granger!

How do you solve a problem like Discovery?

Re: Better option.

Sensible option? Have you been following the news recently, friend Commentard?

Thou shalt not let AI run amok: Vatican wants global rules

Re: Thou shalt not covet your neighbours slaves

Even if your neighbour has a great ass?

Firefox 144 brings fixes, features, and farewells for 32-bit Linux die-hards

Re: Password manager

You forgot the exclamation point, you fool!

Benioff retreats from idea of sending troops in to clean up San Francisco

AI plod?

Given Benioff is such a fan of AI, I'm surprised he didn't suggest it could do the job. That would save him having to splash out on those meat sack security officers.

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

Re: Controversial idea!

You're all not thinking big picture here.

Relocate Houston to Washington DC. Space Shuttle comes home, and the swamp is drained. Sure, throw in a big wall, and you've done it all!

Amazon turns James Bond into the Man Without the Golden Gun

Re: The Law of Unintended Consequences

Isn't that Disney?

NASA administrator says US should have ‘village’ on Moon in a decade

Re: "leaps and bounds"

Neah, it'll have the US flag alright, and also be the site of the first off world Amazon distribution hub, and AWS data centre.

Who else is looking forward to a future Ryder cup, coming to you live from Trump Mare Imbrium?

UK to roll out mandatory digital ID for right to work by 2029

I shall do my best to read said smoke signals!

You could always try our own mandatory, but not compulsory card instead of this digital nonsense.

Two heads better than one? Oracle gives the co-CEO model another shot

Re: Lost opportunity

Would Leisure Suit Larry suffice?

No chips for you! Senator wants Americans to get first dibs on GPUs, restrict sales to others

Re: The USA is not our friend or our ally

I think we can all agree PowerPoint is very much wrong.

Google kneecaps indie Android devs, forces them to register

Re: FDroid?

And risk upsetting Don? "Unfairly" picking on great innovative American companies? Not likely. A lot more pussy footing will be seen over the next three and a half years, I fear.

Icon because.. Well, it should be obvious!

UK drafts AI to help Joe Public decipher its own baffling bureaucracy

Re: So depressing...

Better than asking an expert. We all know how our friends over in Blighty feels about them!

Hyundai: Want cyber-secure car locks? That'll be £49, please

Re: Game Boy-like gizmo worth around £20,000

The real question is can it play Crysis, Shirley!

Arc put on ice as The Browser Company bets big on AI-powered Dia

Re: Arc - I barely even got to know ya.

It's also the Irish for god. Maybe they're trying to say something?

System builders say server prices set to spike as Trump plays customs cowboy

Re: In other news

Find out what happened to this man's life when he discovered the sky was blue, and not dull grey!!

Top Trump officials text secret Yemen airstrike plans to journo in Signal SNAFU

Are we in line for another case of “I did not have sexual relations with that woman”?

Trump orders all government IT contracts consolidated under GSA

Re: /Maybe/ a Nice Candleflame in a Room Filled with Exploding Grenades

Leave the poor GAA alone. They're under enough financial pressure here at home, the poor guys!

Google Maps to roll out Trump-approved Denali and Gulf of Mexico rebrands

Re: Not for the developed world, shirley

Correct. The restored of us will have to endure seeing Gulf of Mexico/Gulf of America, as it will shoe both names for everywhere other than US and Mexico-based souls

Europe hopes Trump trumps Biden's plan for US to play AI gatekeeper

Re: No limit for the Netherlands but for EU?

The Netherlands. And Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden.

Poor Portugal!

Tim cooking up the dough as his Apple pay rises 18% to $74.6M

Think how little time he'll be able to work in Tesla while he's busy ripping about the federal government, and getting that house in order. They better pay him even more, so he remains interested. It's the only way!

Because it's usually not just simple pay, but instead things like RSUs, et cetera. They can take a nice pay cut, but their “compensation” rises and rises, for example. To hell with them all, the spongers.

I tried hard, but didn't fix all of cybersecurity, admits outgoing US National Cyber Director

Re: Don't worry

Amber Rudd, surely!

Pornhub pulls out of Florida, VPN demand 'surges 1150%'

Re: Governments should stick to being rubbish

Isn't it?

*removes "Visit to local pig farm" from the list of things to do this year*

phew.

Trump tariffs transform into bigger threats for Mexico, Canada than China

Re: Not just Electronics, Cars and Oil

Any particular time make it better? Is morning wood a good idea, for example?

Microsoft on a roll for terrible rebranding with Windows App

The macOS Windows App, stooppid!

Microsoft sends Windows Control Panel to tech graveyard

Re: ETA?

Surely we can find a 12 year old lettuce put there, somewhere!

On one Prime Day, Amazon warehouse workers endured '45% injury rate'

Re: El Reg Teaches Percentages

Don't worry, though, faithful Anonymous commentard. Birmingham will forever be known as “Europe's largest local authority”, which we can all agree is a vital factoid of life!

Switzerland to end 2024 with an analog FM broadcast-killing bang

Re: Funny in its ways.

RTE shut that down to save a few 'pingin' in a previous cost cutting exercise. I would think we'll be the great international hold out on shutting down FM. It'll be "the death knell of rural Ireland" if we do!!

At Apple, AI stands for 'Apple Intelligence' – and it's coming to everything

Re: corrections

I find my pizzas have improved 245% since I started adding HugTight Sticky glue!

Icon as it's the closest Bird image available!

Giving Windows total recall of everything a user does is a privacy minefield

Re: It begs the obvious question...

Like any and all AI announcements, one wonders. What is the fucking point?

Re: You have to be pulling my purple plonker

Correction: just the EA, Ubisoft, and Steam spyware!

They've got to be taking their cut o' the action, surely.

Destroying offshore wind farms is top priority for Trump if he returns to presidency

Re: These are weird times.

Disposable capes? Are they for part time superheros?

BT confirms it's switching off 3G in UK from Jan next year

Re: Drat - I will need a new 'phone

I get 3 or 4 days from my Fairphone 4 running /e OS. Data off, Wi-Fi on, location on as needed.

Usage can vary depending on the version (a few versions ago, it was down to 2/2/5 days!).

UK civil servants – hopefully including those spending billions on tech – to skill up in STEM

Re: How about the ministers go next?

Lucky you! Our esteemed politicians are all landlords, publicans, or teachers (A hell of a lot of teachers....)

Mozilla calls cars from 25 automakers 'data privacy nightmares on wheels'

Re: A history of privacy integrity

A Mozilla Station Wagon on the horizon!

What'll happen when it collides with a self driving Tesla, no doubt. ->

I know this is directed at our US-based brethren, but what about us in the democratic people's republic of EU stand, with our warm fuzzy blanket of privacy and data protection?

If I go out tomorrow and pick up a Nissan Leaf, due to an increase in expendable money, and a decrease in expendable common sense, will my sheet rumbling, or lack thereof, be a data point to be bought and sold before too long, I wonder?