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Trump wants to grant private cyber firms a license to hack back

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It will benefit The Treasury

I suspect he’ll go after ransomware payments held in some form of ClownCoin.

The recovered ClownCoin will have to go through his OrangeClownCoin to be aggregated.

What is left after huge fees and a tiny cut for the hired hackers will go to a fund to pay himself what he believes The Treasury owe him.

See! He'll be saving The treasury billions.

Microsoft-vendetta hacker has a new zero day that gives system privileges on fully patched Windows

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Re: chuckles

Move fast and break things is the M.O of a smash n’ grab thief.

It’s not like we weren’t warned.

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Pessimist

Windows 10 IoT Enterprise is supported until 2036 or the end of the world, whichever comes first.

Twitch feeds your streams to Amazon's AI unless you tell it to stop

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Re: This'll go down well here in Europe...

Which will fall over first?

The opt out requirement or the stacks of cash the lawyers, on both sides, will be making sorting out the fine the ICO/EU will issue?

This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph

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Useless facts

It's quick but, the just as useless hyperion xp-1 has a better turning circle.

https://static1.topspeedimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/hyperion-xp-1-front-three-quarter-race-track.jpg

Ryanair adds Google Cloud to its dual-cloud flight plan

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Return journey optimisation

How long until AI figures out leaving your luggage at point of departure will reduce transport costs, as you’re coming back anyway, and also prevent it getting lost.

Nvidia's latest solution to soaring enterprise AI costs is...a router?

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more choice needed

Is there an option to run jobs at night on Economy 7* too.

*other night time electricity plans may be available

OpenAI ad service can bill customers for up to one day after they pause campaigns

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Re: Systemized Fraudulent Billing is Not New

TV companies were doing it for years with a chance to win a prize by calling a premium rate number.

The number was still active and billing long after the deadline for entry had passed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_British_premium-rate_phone-in_scandal

*Other scams were and probably still are available*

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why?

State that ads may continue for a day in terms and conditions when simply asking for one days notice to cancel is an option.

A better one too in my opinion.

'Near-autonomous' AI agents attack Taiwan's nuclear safety agency

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Re: FFS this has got to be stopped.

Original or reboot?

I’m up for either or both if needed.

Edit to add...

I have actually seen both.

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Re: FFS this has got to be stopped.

My solution to no power is an acoustic guitar, pile of fire wood and shed loads of booze.

Or as I usually call it, camping.

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Re: FFS this has got to be stopped.

How certain are you that A.I can’t convince someone to ‘push the button’?

Maybe have monitoring systems convince someone that somebody else has?

Perhaps manipulate some fucktard’s analytics data to suggest their target voters would like you to strike them first “just in case”.

I’m not sure if the third possibility is the least or most likely.

Despite my dramatic “nobody saw” I’m with you all the way on the whole societal collapse in the aftermath scenario.

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FFS this has got to be stopped.

They broke out of their sand boxes, hacked each other and we made Skynet jokes.

Then they hacked the accounts of nuclear facility workers and we made more jokes.

Then there was a flash, nobody saw the mushroom clouds.

Deeply buried 16-year-old SQLite bug caused last year's Tailscale outages

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Can go wrong, will go wrong

Unless it doesn’t for 16 years then decides to.

Smooth-talking fraudsters clone contactless cards, authorize payments in just 13 minutes

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Joke

reconnaissance required.

No, there is an app that tells you the name and bank of a person you have called.

Call me toll free and I’ll talk you through the install process.

0800 DEFO REAL

EDit to add a title

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Ask them to call you back stating you’re busy right now transferring a large amount of money to a Nigerian prince.

Then hang up.

We don't serve pies, but we do like a Pi

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Where does it stop?

If you don’t pay the chef a service charge would you expect to get raw food?

Even more ridiculous, don’t pay the restaurant’s suppliers a service charge and get fuck all food.

India’s central bank wants AI to approve loans that humans would reject

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And if....

loanees default on payment will transgender A.I’s be used to harass them online?

https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/bhubaneswar-municipal-corporation-assigns-11-transgender-persons-to-persuade-tax-defaulters-to-cough-up-dues/cid/1748027

The Future is for Billionaires – the rest of us will get open weight AI models, maybe

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Re: 'Are there people now living who are excluded from the future?'

Depending on how far into the future we are talking about, all of us.

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Re: Hey, Siri, what's the answer to humanity's problems?

"power back to the people"

Thank you, I shall now watch some clips of Citizen Smith.

https://youtu.be/4eabA4rz6hU?t=37

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Re: Yawn...

Of course they never use the word "revolutionise".

They don’t want you thinking about a revolution.

Malicious SIMs can shut down phones, steal files, and drag 5G back to 2G

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Re: Hostile SIM

Vulnerabilities in the eSIM download protocol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0muR5UGFB

Anthropic pledges to embed watermarks to help discern AI slop in sop to EU

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Provenance?

Dating from?

Billions of works created by humans ---- A.I mix n’ match slop shop ---- this shite you’re passing off as your own.

I’m pretty sure that covers the ‘provenance’ of over 99.9% of A.I output.

Framework loses customer data in Metabase zero-day attack

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Re: Employee ID. Why?

Thank you.

I now know why.

I read that a little too quickly.

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Employee ID. Why?

That sounds like more data collected than was needed.

Hey, big spender – OpenAI has a new SKU just for you

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PTSD.

Their pricing tiers remind me of the clarity and simplicity of late 90’s early 2000’s mobile phone contracts.

……………………..

“...customers were asking for increased usage limits for deeper work on the Business tier.”

But were they also asking for price hikes to go along with them?

Smart glasses are only smart if we train them to be good. Then they'll be fantastic

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Re: From panopticon to algorithm: surveillance control and the chilling on human freedom

“People who believe they are under constant scrutiny typically become more self-conscious, conformist, and cautious. The mere perception of being watched (even without continuous actual monitoring) is enough to alter behavior, cognition, and emotional state ”

And obey their deity’s literature.

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Other exceptions

I know someone who refused a couple with a ‘helper dog’ entry to a festival. (v97)

The couple had no wristband and were using police ID for entry.

He knew full well what he was doing, simply didn’t care.

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Domestication.

“Domestication took many thousands of years”

Or decades.

Some spurious conclusions were made after Dmitry Belyayev’s experiments, he did however demonstrate a change in behavior from wild to tame in decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Belyayev_(zoologist)

Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal

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Re: Being a pessimist I'm buying mortar...

It’s not a vulnerability, it’s a very naughty bug fix.

Gym rat asks AI agent to book him a class, it hacks a waitlist API to bump him up the list

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Joke

Listen!

Can you hear that?

It’s the sound of half the nation installing the same software in the hope it can get them a dentist appointment.

Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers

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Re: Bring back the original term: glassholes

Depending on who you annoy your new title could be “recently punched”.

Also, someone on here recently floated the term “specs offender”.

Was over a week ago and it’s making still me laugh.

Claude Code puts auto mode in the driver's seat

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Not good enough.

“might receive a one-time prompt asking whether they want to switch”

Might?

NEC tests parking tech that only starts charging once you exit your car

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Headline is a let down.

I thought they had somehow put a new wireless charging tech in their bays.

Ediit.

Beaten to it

Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn

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Re: Comments on El Reg came back to haunt me

Is your handle Dick the Butcher?

'Asimov was right' about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director

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Re: zeroth law

“fun to read about and imagine, but they have little to no bearing on reality”

People living in wooden houses in tornado alley could have benefited from reading The Three Little Pigs.

AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription

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Medical jargon translator.

Doctor says "let me just take a look at your records"

Doctor means "pay no attention as I type your symptoms into Google"

Granted A.I is going to make it worse, but it's not entirely new.

Cop who used police system to snoop for info on crook pals sentenced for Computer Misuse Act offenses

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Re: I'm shocked

You are correct, there is a two tier policibg system,

It's covered rather well here.

https://newsthump.com/2026/07/30/two-tier-policing-and-other-phrases-that-can-easily-identify-the-nations-gullible-simpletons/

Ransomware attacks spike as world distracted by AI

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Re: The ONLY way ransomware will ever stop is banning paying ransom

That will just increase the cost of the attack.

Money for the ransom and money for a presidential pardon,

Edit for typo.

Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power

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Re: Looking like...

What happened to labelling them Atom bombs and H-bombs?

Nuclear, to some extent, does confuse distinction.

South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact

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Hmmm

“...with impacts comparable to this upper stage occurring roughly every six days."

Maybe planed moon bases should be moon bunkers.

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Re: Search

I recently rewatched that.

I'm assuming your downvoter missed the humour.

Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default

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1.1 million Reddit posts

I wonder if they’d analysed El Reg posts they’d have concluded…

A.I can go fuck itself.

OpenAI pledges to add Astra security as Anthropic loosens Fable's leash

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Re: "...what for human perpetrators would be computer crimes..."

Typing with chopsticks

Saying “it wasn’t me it was the A.I” is like claiming “I never posted that libellous comment on X, it was the chopsticks”

By “is like” I mean should be laughed out of court.

Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees

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Re: Stupidity plus arrogance

"This isn't stupidity, it's ignorance"

Or cocaine.

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No explanation

An in-store bakery manager for Tesco, a man who has to avoid off by one errors (bakers dozens) when calculating production, asked me how the police could prove he was doing 40mph when he’d only left the house 15 mins earlier.

Snowflake extortionist admits 165-victim cloud crime spree – and squeezing one target twice

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Joke

UK term is line fraud. Hanging your forged bank notes on the washing line to dry.

Uncle Sam aims to help nuclear energy find its sea legs

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Re: We will get our three eyed fish

One disaster later and The Gulf of America will revert to The Gulf of Mexico with Trump claiming Mexico are going to pay for nets to keep the three eyed fish of American shores.

Latest GitHub outage squeezes Actions, Pages to death

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Re: Another Market Leader

Hopefully they will do an Elon and sell Microsoft to themselves as AiMicrosoft.

Then I’d like to see AiMicrosoft go the way of Skype.

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