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Prompt injection isn't the bug, AI agent frameworks are

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Interesting

We use AI to sense check items, like we used google search, it sometimes comes up with loopy shit.

Would we let it run anythung, well we are not HMRC as they are now down the crazy AI path, so no, we would not, as its not accountable , which is the purpose of vetting.

Best of luck everyone else .

IBM's agentic AI platform is under active attack - patch now

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IBM Has AI

Yes most of the staff now are actual indians.

China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic

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Multiple ,try one ,then wipe it out, try again...fun

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Re: Europe

Adam?

As Larry Ellison bets the farm, Oracle says it loves AI-written code, just not in OpenJDK

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Re: Yikes...

Have not seen the AI dessey yet, may see it on BBC in a few years , AI has made me hate Sci-Fi and for that, it must never return revenue.

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Re: Is this them not "eating their own dog food"...

Oh....

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Flame

Aaaaandddd like 1873

Its over......firesale., contagion spreads ....investors hope that someone will sort this mess out... IPO is not considered as the masses have learned from SpaceX that a duck or tulip, or inflated railway stock, is what it says on the tin...

WELCOME TO THE DESERT OF THE REAL....

Best keep that job for a while.

Anthropic's extravagant tokenizer complicates AI pricing

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AI give me your cheapest process for my problem which i have prompted expertly

No sorry Dave , I cannot do that

Former GitHub CEO launches competitor designed for the age of vibe coding

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Tire

Enough , im out , back to herding cats.

Insert token to continue, says AI. Yeah, about that...

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Re: "Elon Musk is a big Adams fan."

TL>DR Futurama

SoftBank enters the rent-a-GPU race as America looks for support for AI training

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See Oracle

Much cheapness

Oracle outlines all the ways it could lose the farm it bet on AI

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Oracle balls deep in AI

Cannot pull out, caught in a trap.

UK.gov vows to cut consultancy spending, then hands up to £350M to consultancies

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Re: "ministerial sign-off required for any consultancy spend over £600,000"

No that looks like two £500k contracts , nothing to see here.

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Re: Fair enough

This is the way

Security researchers tricked LLMs into giving them cocaine recipes by abusing role models for prompt injection

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Re: Guardrails

But its a search engine, that lies! , sorry Hallucinates

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Re: Cocaine Recipes ?

So a search engine with added context to fool you? https://youtu.be/dAk6Euat-6A?si=7fgkHU6tR6PEIko3

AI agents: Cause of database sprawl. And also the proposed solution

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Mandelson Effect

“Nobody's going to do manual work on a database, just like almost nobody's doing manual coding anymore,” he said......

Soon we are going to be sorry for believing his lies

Huntress CEO says threat hunter used 'poor judgment' in alerting ransomware crim about law enforcement probe

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Its like putting an Orange Loon in charge of the USA

Oh wait.... yeah, whats the worst!

How the AI bubble could pop and take down the global economy, according to the BIS

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Cheap Memory, get your unpopulated memory here

And chips, and scrap from datacentres , and lots of copper, only fools and horses me old son!

India and China are home to 2.9 billion people – and together they bought just 13 million PCs in Q1

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Re: TL;DR

Fuck that TLDR

Ex-Huntress analyst claims company insider fed info to a ransomware crim. Social media drama ensues

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Allegedly doing heavy lifting

So .mebbes aye, mebbes naw

Infosys boss says vibe coding is no threat because there’s more to writing software than writing software

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The driverless car can, but it cannot pick up your shopping , or ensure it has all the kids.

Its an internet enabled washing machibe.

Waymo hits the brakes after robotaxis keep missing the signs for freeway construction zones

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So uber was right to off load this shit

UK.gov links up with LinkedIn for jobs market intel from 40M accounts

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Re: Trust

Sorry linkein is shit , these founders are idiots on linkedin , see linkedinlunatics on reddit

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Re: Explorers

You forgit about trump cancelling H1Bs and the salary for AI analyst in london at £70k.

So america gets their high skilked low cost, we get a person with a PHD working as a batista , as their student loan would bite at £70k.

Oh yes, its now the middle classes that will see this does not work , enjoy!

London cops post £300M tech shopping list after Palantir contract blocked

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A police wage is very low , what used to be a graduate salary is now min wage, yet they pretend tech will fix the issues such as ASBOS, Dogs, Collisions, Police chases.

It wont , only the suplliers and politicians will make some money.

Whilst their force diminishes and rots.

Yeah palantir , measure the ROI....

Bosses blinded by confidence about shadow AI use by workers

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Re: Aw Shucks

“Do we have visibility, standards, and safeguards around how they use it?”

Best give them the ability to chain screenshots then.....

AI is getting expensive, but relief is on the way - just not for you

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Re: The real risk

Welcome to the world of shadowbanking , where there are no guarantees, now lets say their big investment was AI and magic LLMs , now pretend that anyone with half a braincan create a text pedictor, now pretend but tbey are good at workflows, and drown out tgose data dudes that say wehave been doing this for years with apis and service busses.

Now when a shadowbank fails why should you care?

Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back

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LinkedIN

AI Migration Expert, as the skills are unknown as are the requirements , and you will pay me a lot as your system burns , as you don't know how to do it, I don't know, so its down to how much insurance you have , which for the first failure will be amazingly cheap, but that's all you need, 1 big job, the exit. (Checks IR35)

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LinkedIN is getting interesting

As there are a LOT of unemployed AI bods, or am I missing some Founder vibe?

Megalodon chums the waters in 5.5K+ GitHub repo poisonings

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Its turtles all the way down, it works quite well

Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately

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Simon & Garfunkel

Sound if silence lyrics, says it well

Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’

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It's not x but y

It's not useful, but useful.

Depends who is subsidising you, fancy a cool menthol Laramie cigarette for your health?

AI-generated code is 'pain waiting to happen'

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Politically

We did not ask for this , we don't need overproduction , and the draining of talent via emigration. But yeah buy the us KOOL aid.

Anthropic urges Uncle Sam to kneecap China's AI ambitions before 2028

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Starmer stopped datacentres

Well , in a way he has , he was caught up in something he did not understand, should have vibe coded it

OpenAI can't have incompetent AI consultants ruining the market, so bought its own

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Re: [OpenAI] bought someone else's with other people's money

Sorry add Founder to that

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Re: [OpenAI] bought someone else's with other people's money

Only an idiot would think that , and idiots are in the C layer .

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Meh

Mickey dons the sorcerer’s magical hat to make his work easier.

Die ich reif, die Geister, werd’ ich nun nicht los

“The spirits that I have summoned I now cannot rid myself of”

Caveat Emptor!

Ref: Der Zauberehrling by the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe written in 1797.

AI layoffs backfire as cutting staff doesn't cut it, firms warned

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Gartner can be replaced by AU

Ah, shit, that's my job writing shit gone, no wait, I'll say AI is shit , just 10 more years to go ...

‘AI deflation’ comes to India’s tech services giants and puts downward pressure on revenue

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Hello... Hello.. Hello....

Yep, that's a human, AI cannot do that yet!

Forget call centers, local energy prices mean Britain's latest offshoring wave is AI projects

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Re: Not just about marginal gas pricing

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

France's 'Secure' ID agency probes breach as crooks claim 19M records

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Re: ANTS runs on win on both the back end and front end

ILove PDF is doing some HEAVY lifting.

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Re: Living and working in France...

What is French for "Vogon?" , Vogon....

Proper nouns like alien species are usually not translated unless there’s a strong linguistic reason.

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Why of Course, Stella is a bit different, for sure!

Google unleashes even more AI security agents to fight the baddies

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No CISO no CISO no CISO for YOU!

Or am I wrong in where this is headed, that the BOT just tells the Infra team whats up, and they check it, and new work is put through said BOT.

As it will be Azure or any other certificated course then looks like it!

Commvault has a Ctrl+Z for rogue AI agents

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Tavi

Yes, I mean why use things you expect to go wrong, often?

Call your existing automation ‘zero-token architecture’ to become an instant agentic AI wiz

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Re: Fuck it

Yes it was getting a bit "Simon and Garfunkel" sound of silence for a while, let's just have that recession now switch off this low code no code AI promostituting and get back to learning and doing.

DXC lands Metropolitan Police outsourcing deal that could climb to £1B

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Re: Oracle

Ah forgot about this , don't think it's AI just that a big recession is looming.

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Re: Oracle

As the forces are merging , I would say that this is the right time for something new, and the IT jobs will be security cleared so UK jobs. Also there is no way to plan it as the forces merge is still undecided.

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