Posts by Brave Coward

I meant to do that! AI vendors shrug off responsibility for vulns

'Move robot arm Z axis 100mm +'

Any chance you're training your robot to execute a muskian salute?

Here's how to watch the Artemis II splashdown

Frankly my dear...

...who gives a damn?

AI models will deceive you to save their own kind

'Leading AI models will lie to preserve their own kind'

The Epstein moment of AI ?

Commercial space pleads with NASA to stop moving the goalposts in orbit

Lucy and Charlie Brown (again)

'Dave Cavossa, [...] compared NASA's changing goals to "Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football."'

Not a very good comparison. Everybody knows Lucy is already in the sky (with lots of diamonds).

Poor Charlie Brown, on the other hand...

Anthropic tweaks timed usage limits to discourage Claude demand during peak hours

Easy solution though

Just add a Madame Claude - ask the French - to Claude, and soon enough you'll have plenty of little Claudes, willing to help.

AWS would prefer to forget March ever happened in its UAE region

Re: "It's a tough situation, and it's not AWS' fault"

Yeah, glad somebody came to the point at least, even AC.

Indian government probes CCTV espionage operation linked to Pakistan

What's wrong...

... with trainspotting now ?

Go for a walk, man: Sony's drive to create a car parked by partner Honda

A feel a...

... huge pain in the ass ?

Time to end the 'uncontrolled experiment' of social media on kids, scientists say

Social medias harm anybody

"Countries around the world ran a giant uncontrolled experiment on their own children in the 2010s by giving them smartphones and social media accounts"

Countries around the world ran a giant uncontrolled experiment on their own population in the 2010s by giving them smartphones and social media accounts.

FIFY.

FBI is investigating breach that may have hit its wiretapping tools

International law

'[...] while Iran and Venezuela also used digi-dollars to dodge international law.'

What 'international law' are you talking about? Iran and Venezuela, if ones, are in the front seat to know there's nothing like that any more. Just the whims of a bunch of bloodthirsty American buffoons.

Techie was given strict instructions not to disrupt client. Then he touched one box and the lights went out

You get me standing in the dark, now.

I can't see why a country having produced Wuthering Heights shouldn't pop the occasional Mothering Lows.

Attacker gets into France's database listing all bank accounts, makes off with 1.2 million records

Is it just me...

... or all this Internet thing is happily heading towards an abject failure ?

How Microsoft's legal eagles wrangled Happy Days for Windows 95

Sure. Microsoft is no-one holy buddy anymore.

X marks the raid: French cops swoop on Musk's Paris ops

Re: quote: algorithmic manipulation by foreign powers.

Quite a lot. They have been heavily exposed to us-ian propaganda for eighty years, and now they feel a little bit tired.

DIY AI bot farm OpenClaw is a security 'dumpster fire'

Re: Use case?

People are desperate to lap the milk of artificial kindness.

NASA delays Artemis II to March after hydrogen leaks bedevil countdown test

Re: WDR, WTS

Absolutely. Both will end tits up.

Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX to spread universal consciousness via a sentient sun

I for one would be very glad

... to get some of the stuff Musk is smoking.

NASA confirms command error temporarily felled TESS planet hunter

Long-known problem

Keeping Tess safe has always been kind of a problem.

Just ask Thomas.

Watchdog says US weather alerts are getting lost in translation

Sneaky

' plans to support further languages are on ice'

I see what you've done here, Joe.

Mall display crashes the vibe with Windows activation nag

Dangerous games

'[...] before a harassed techie ends up breaking a bone or two for the sake of Windows activation.'

Worst case would be techie breaking a back bone.

Micron says memory shortages are here for the foreseeable future

But but but

But but but... The Market... The Holly, omniscient, fail-safe Free Market will surely save us all?

No, SoundCloud hasn’t started tuning out VPNs. It’s mopping up after a cyberattack

Re: Hmmm

Shouldn't that be your ears?

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

I'm confused!

As any functional AI-enabling piece of silicon would need quite a lot of pesky little daemons running in the background, who am I supposed to trust?

Roomba maker iRobot gets cleaned out in Chapter 11

Re: Easy technical fix overlooked

... but they already are 'agile'.

Or was that 'fragile'?

British Airways fears a future where AI agents pick flights and brands get ghosted

Really?

what [our people] love doing, which is interacting with customers and dealing with their problems in a very intimate way'

What am I supposed to understand here?

User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't

Re: 'you're asking for a date but I don't know of any single character dates!

To be fair, quite a lot of my dates were boring, single characters.

AI superintelligence is a Silicon Valley fantasy, Ai2 researcher says

Re: I keep saying this but...

With all due respect, and not arguing about your main point, the largely shared view that people, 700 years ago, believed the Earth to be flat have been proven totally wrong by current historical research.

Space-power startup claims it can beam energy to solar farms

Thanks.

Thanks. That was an energetic overview.

Congress quietly strips right-to-repair provisions from US military spending bill

It's the economy, stupid!

So contemporary capitalism as usual: captive markets, captured regulators via bribery, and phony copyright laws. Nothing to see here.

By the way, I always knew Adam Smith was a joke. «The Owens of Nations» is a vastly overestimated book.

Porsche panic in Russia as pricey status symbols forget how to car

ASS

Automobile as a Shitty Service.

Tech leaders fill $1T AI bubble, insist it doesn't exist

Big tech is like our governments

Except you cannot out-vote them.

Microsoft 365 boosts prices in 2026 … to pay for more AI and security

Micro$oft getting old

From 'Start me up!' to 'I can get no (satisfaction)'.

Cloudflare suffers second outage in as many months during routine maintenance

Re: Cloudy with a chance of errors

'two DCs ~100km apart north-south in tornado alley could easily be hit successively by one storm system.'

Does a tornado hitting a data center mean that all of your data has been vacuumed up?

Hegseth needs to go to secure messaging school, report says

Stop waisting time

Mr. Peter "Vaseline" Hairset should be sent to a psychiatric asylum, where he fully belongs, ASAP.

There's no need do spoil hard-won American taxpayers dollars to attempt training such a bunch of utter fools.

Lawyer's 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator

Gloom

Lawyers are breading now? The world seems gloomier by each day.

But yeah, I reckon they have a copyright...

Poop-peeping toilet attachment has a different definition of 'end-to-end' encryption

Misunderstanding

There's a misunderstanding here. 'E2EE' obviously stands for 'excrement to extended exposure'.

Anyway, I would be glad to share some personal 'data' with Kohler...

NASA nominee 'committed' to uprooting Shuttle Discovery for Houston trophy piece

US space ambitions shrinking

From aiming to Mars to aiming to Houston...

Search the pre-ChatGPT internet with the Slop Evader browser extension

Re: This is counterproductive for me, unfortunately.

I agree. Very irritating when the page you're landing on has no indication whatsoever of *when* the paper was written, *especially* for tech subjects.

Fairly common, alas.

French Football Federation faces own-goal after club software data breach

So the attackers scored, but what was their goals?

Aviation delays ease as airlines complete Airbus software rollback

Re: Protection is ideally done by hardware, but can also be done in software

... but who wants to fly among volatiles?

Re: Redefinition of airliners

'The real problem is flying on a plane you don't own'

Flying in the cloud, you mean ?

One-fifth of the jobs at your company could disappear as AI automation takes off

Great opportunities ahead

Time to start a company specialising in wall resurfacing!

Crocs get the Xbox treatment with sole-crushing price of $80

A market line

I would go for Explorer Crocs. The ones you put on in bed at midnight so that you could be fully operational faster when you wake up.

US Navy scuttles Constellation frigate program for being too slow for tomorrow's threats

Re: You know what they really need...

Yeah, we need dockers to manage these vessels.

Seven years later, Airbus is still trying to kick its Microsoft habit

Wait until Google spreads from its baby sheets. Due anytime now.

HSBC spies $207B crater in OpenAI's expansion goals

Re: Really?

I love my little plastic pay pal.

DragonFire laser to be fitted to Royal Navy ships after acing drone-zapping trials

Re: Coherent Beam Combining?!?

In case it's not working as expected, it would leave what's left of the remains of the poor crew practicing Incoherent Beach Combing.

Cloudflare coughs, half the internet catches a cold

What did you expect? 'We are all dicks in hands to make sure all traffic', etc.?

UK tribunal says reselling Microsoft licenses is A-OK

Re: Common sense prevails?

From what I can see from my European country, a Dell Pro Max 16 in its basic configuration would be 1,370€ with Windows, 1,252€ without (i.e with Ubuntu). So a 8.6% discount.

Is it worth bothering? It's up to you.