Posts by Mentat74

Elon Musk's xAI pays $300M to born-in-Russia messaging app Telegram to push Grok

Grok

Off...

MIT boffins claim liquid sodium battery could one day power aircraft while sucking up CO2

Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na...

battery !

Ex-Meta exec: Copyright consent obligation = end of AI biz

So the psychopath CEO's DO know...

They just don't care because they want to make more money...

AI's enormous energy appetite can be curbed, but only through lateral thinking

"Steve Ballmer famously compared open source to cancer."

Well, I compare this so-called "A.I." to cancer...

How long before it kills the host ?

AI ain't B2B if OpenAI is to be believed

"and the product metastasizes throughout the org from there."

You mean like the cancer on society it very obviously is ?

Irish privacy watchdog OKs Meta to train AI on EU folks' posts

Clearly the Irish Data Protection Commission have recieved their brown envelopes...

Signal shuts the blinds on Microsoft Recall with the power of DRM

" implementing 'DRM' that works for you (not against you)"...

Finally a type of DRM I can agree with !

Sergey Brin promises next generation of Glassholes will be much less conspicuous

"next generation of Glassholes will be much less conspicuous"...

But they'll still be 'glassholes' for wearing one...

Google carves out cloudy safe spaces for nations nervous about America's reach

Doesn't matter...

Where the servers are located since Google is an American company, US law applies worldwide...

As for Google's partners... those may be US based too...

Trump announces $175B for Golden Dome defense shield over America

So... chrome dome...

Orders a golden dome ?

Research reimagines LLMs as tireless tools of torture

"a sarcastic, unhelpful bastard"

You mean like all those so-called 'A.I.' helpdesk agents ?

Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' would create a regulation-free AI hellscape, AGs warn

Might as well...

Call it the : "Fark you, I'll do whatever I want" bill...

Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade

What's next ?

A version with ads ?

(No, I don't want to give them any ideas... but this seems to be the way things are going these days...)

Apple to add fresh accessibility features for 2025

Global Accessibility Awareness Day...

Good... maybe people should be more aware that Apple still denies people access to parts/schematics to fix their own i-stuff !

Boffins devise technique that lets users prove location without giving it away

How about no...

I'm not giving ANY location data to those farking data-brokers no matter how inaccurate it is...

America’s consumer watchdog drops leash on proposed data broker crackdown

The only way to stop this...

Is to stop giving those farkers data...

Use ad-blockers, script-blockers, go through all privacy settings and disable all of that shiat....

Microsoft set to pull the plug on Bing Search APIs in favor of AI alternative

The enshittification continues...

So now if i'm looking for a driver this LLM is going to give me a summary of what a driver is ?

Or what hardware is ?

Fark off M$....

Meet your new colleague – the ML Admin, who tames LLMs so they're ready to rock

"ML Admins may need to be grown, not hired."

Well... there's probably enough manure around this whole "A.I." thing to do just that...

Here's what we know about the DragonForce ransomware that hit Marks & Spencer

And that's why you should NEVER pay a ransom...

They already have your data... who's to say they'll actually delete it or give you the key to decrypt it after payment is made ?

Meta's still violating GDPR rules with latest plan to train AI on EU user data, says noyb

Might as well make the headline :

$American_company_name_here still violating GDPR rules.

Everyone's deploying AI, but no one's securing it – what could go wrong?

Wouldn't it be fun...

If you could tell this so-called "A.I." to "DROP TABLE students"...

Marks & Spencer admits cybercrooks made off with customer info

Re: I don't really give a fuck that they got hacked...

Well... I do...

If a company holds my personal data then they are responsible for it's safety !

And they should be held accountable for any negative consequences of a data breach...

OpenAI wants to build a subscription for something like an AI OS, with SDKs and APIs and 'surfaces'

So Sam wants to get paid...

While taking other people's stuff for free ?

I don't think so...

Microsoft wants us to believe AI will crack practical fusion power, driving future AI

AI will crack practical fusion power...

No he won't... he just sits on the couch all day with his hand down his pants...

Microsoft updates the Windows 11 Start Menu

"Make Start Menu great again"...

That implies it was great once... and now it isn't...

Infosec guru Schneier worries corp AI will manipulate us

Isn't that what the 'A' in 'A.I.' stands for ?

Ads ?

Trump promises protection for TikTok, for which he has a ‘warm spot in my heart’

So...

Trump is protecting one of his propaganda channels ?

Microsoft tries to knife passwords once and for all - at least for consumers

Re: Passkeys on a PC

You could use a PIN.... Which is SOOOOOOO much more secure than a password.... See icon -------------->

How Amazon red-teamed Alexa+ to keep your kids from ordering 50 pizzas

Yeah but...

What if someone tries to order 2 tons of creamed corn ?

Duolingo jumps aboard the 'AI-first' train, will phase out contractors

Re: "small hits on quality"

"I will not buy this record... It is scratched..."

Windows profanity filter finally gets a ******* off switch

"Instead, the OS will reflect the true feelings of its customers."....

The feeling that MS can **** off and die or go **** themselves with a rusty rake ?

Microsoft pitches pay-to-patch reboot reduction subscription for Windows Server 2025

“and you may finally get to see your family on the weekends.”...

So you mean to say that your product is so bad and unstable that it needs constant supervision / patching ??

New Intel boss is all about ‘deleveraging’ the x86 giant

Re: Lip-Bu Tan is swinging the ax again

Good thing he's not swinging his EAX...

But his behaviour does raise some flags...

Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers

"the Trump effect"...

You mean : Everything he touches turns to shiat ?

Microsoft admits it's not you, Classic Outlook can be a real CPU, power hog sometimes

"Does Redmond have it in it to intentionally hobble an older product"...

Yes.... yes they do...

All right, you can have one: DOGE access to Treasury IT OK'd judge

"but only for one DOGE staffer"...

It only takes one of them to royally fark things up !

ActiveX blocked by default in Microsoft 365 because remote code execution is bad, OK?

Re: ActiveX?

Or Microsoft Silverlight...

Windows Recovery Environment update fails successfully, says Microsoft

An OS so bad...

They can't even get their error messages right !

The sound of Windows 95 about to disappoint you added to Library of Congress significant sound archive

May as well...

Add the music from the opening-credits of "The secret of Monkey Island" to the list...

Ex-Meta exec tells Senate Zuck dangled US citizen data in bid to enter China

Re: Meta is short for…

Mark Equals Total A$$hole

Atlassian makes its Rovo AI free, for now, to reduce 'friction' holding you back from agentic nirvana

"products that start out free become increasingly expensive"

That's how any good drugdealer works... first one's free...

M365 Family users wake up to notice 'Your subscription expired'

And that's why...

You should always run your software locally.

None of this 'cloud' crap...

Microsoft resets 'days since last Windows 11 problem' counter to 0

Maybe someone should file a bug report...

Because that stupid counter just keeps resetting itself to 0...

UK's answer to DARPA sprouts new ideas, like programmable plants

Programmable plants...

A problem has been detected and your tomato has been shut down to prevent damage to your plant.

The problem seems to be caused by the following : TOMATO.VXD

If this is the first time you've seen this error screen, restart your plant.

Microsoft lists seven habits of highly effective Windows 11 users

Seven habits ?

Habit number eight would probably be putting their pants on backwards ?

Copyright-ignoring AI scraper bots laugh at robots.txt so the IETF is trying to improve it

This is like putting up a sign...

"Dear burglars , Please don't steal my stuff... I will be VERY sad if you steal all of my stuff !!!! So don't steal my stuff OK ?"

And expecting all burglars to honor it...

'Copilot will remember key details about you' for a 'catered to you' experience

Oh look !

Yet another reason to tell MS to fark off...

Procter & Gamble study finds AI could help make Pringles tastier, spice up Old Spice, sharpen Gillette

It could...

Also replace Procter & Gamble since they're both full of it...

Chrome to patch decades-old flaw that let sites peek at your history

So they finally decided to fix it...

Why ? Because they already have dozens of other ways to get at your browsing history maybe ?

Windows 11 poised to beat 10, mostly because it has to

How long...

Before the 'nag-screens' start ?

Oooohhh.... It looks like you're still running Windows 10.... Maybe you should go out and buy a new computer with the latest shiny shiny OS ???

Now with extra vendor lock-in, 'A.I.' bullcrap and even more telemetry !

Oh, and we're really REALLY going to try and force you to create a MS-account this time... promise !

Fark off MS...