Posts by xyz

Crook hawks millions of records allegedly plundered from corporate Azure tenants

and the moral of the story is....

Don't put all your internet in one bucket (apologies to AWS)

Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age

Re: This won't happen

President Donald "Lame" Duck. Mickey Mouse is a professional compared to the orange ego.

Virgin Galactic flights stay paused while ticket prices head for the Moon

Meanwhile....

everyone chucked their cash at "AI". Space tourism is so 2010s.

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

Being a pessimist I'm buying mortar...

because there will be a lot of bricks available.

Seriously, look at the shitstorm MS creates with its AI-ified updates. I thought Linux was the safe option.

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

So ...

Just sit in the car whilst the missus does the shopping for free parking...sounds simple. And if an ambulance turns up because "AI" thinks you've snuffed it, just tell the ambulance driver to bill the parking company for time wasting.

"AI" is so marvellous.

I've gone from writing about SD-WAN to depending on it

Hmmm ....

I've got Starlink and a mobile SIM at each of the only 2 places I've got a mobile signal These are bounced down the hillside by HaLow to normal 2.4Ghz WiFi.hotsposts.. I've never thought about fail over because if one wifi dies my PCs, phones etc just pick up the next one available. Mind you I'm not share dealing or whatever you are doing that needs automatic immediate fail over.

Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power

Re: Looking like...

And it's the stuff they put in Sunny Delight.

Microsoft tosses Teams Live chat into its feature graveyard

Teams ..

the only piece of software I've ever come across that needs to update itself everytime you try to use it... and then it doesn't work so you end up using Whatsapp

Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontroller

Noooooooooooooo

Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11

Who cares anymore....

This was never about actual software. This is what happens when management strategy takes a giant dump on users. "Fixing" Windows needs management heads on poles not "cuddly" tweaks.

Big vacuum is watching as robo-cleaners put humans behind the wheel

Given I have form for running off with my cleaners...

I might give this a try. At least there won't be any of that "I was hoovering naked when .." stuff given there's going to be a granny in Grenada driving the thing.

Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours

but but but .

half the fun is the lay over in Singapore. It's only after getting passed India that you realize what a big assed planet we're on. I'm usually knacked after a 13 hour flight (and ciggie desperate), so Christ knows what state the plane's in.

Microsoft and Wiz mind-meld agents catch more than 90% of bugs

Mind you MS finding bugs ..

is like shooting fish in a barrel

Using AI makes people less likely to admit they don't know something

If I don't know something...

I ask my girlfriend. She knows everything.

Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off

I've been reading stuff....

and I'm now "AI" curious. I like the "odd" methods it sometimes tries, so I'm thinking local model and having a poke around it.

Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud

Re: Swindle?

Funny thing....

Before the IPO I was notified that my monthly Starlink sub was going up.

This morning, post IPO, I'm getting a refund due to "an error" and pricing is now back where it was before.

mmmmmm....

The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey

Why do I keep thinking that underneath its shiny new surface...

A monster from the Id still lurks.

(I bought Forbidden Planet on Blu-ray the other day)

NASA says it will isolate volunteers from the outside world for a year

Re: IT's a Mad, Bad, Sad, Rad Wwworld out There. And aint that a Gospel Truth

I always thought SATAN was an anagram of NASA-T and now I know. Praise be to the Lord...oh I meant Trump..Anyway we've all seen the movies where some schmuck gets put in the cooler only to be forgotten about and wakes up in the future only to find out everyone is Texan (or similar).

Amazon Leo constellation nears 400 satellites as broadband launch looms

Re: Competition

Blimey.... you should move to Europe. Starlink is faster and cheaper here. 300mbps for 40€ pcm. Mind you I've just found 2sqm of mobile signal on my 40 acres of land and a solar powered 4G router/extender is 80€ off Amazon and the SIM is 8€ a month for 64Gb of data.

EU appears to find datacenter emissions easier to offset than lobbyists

Mmmm....

I'm getting an "AI Gigafactory" down the road from me. It is suspiciously next to a very large river and between 2 nuclear power (4 reactors in total) stations, so I presume it'll run off solar panels and not use much water then. *cough.*

They've read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius

Yes but ..

can it translate into a brief sentence, the T&Cs that none of us read.

UK Cabinet Office hiring AI and innovation 'influencer' to build 'AI-first culture' in civil service

The last time I came across AI in HMG...

the idea was to get rid of civil servants. I even stuck a picture of HALs "eye" at the end of the line of pictures of all the previous heads of dept just for a laugh. Might still be there for all I know

Only half of US datacenter capacity planned for 2026 is actually under construction

I'm getting an AI gigafactory!

100,000 AI doo-dahs bashing the bishop 24/7/365, slurping water out the river Ebre and powered by 4 nuclear reactors.

Thanks EU. It'll be finished just in time for the bubble to burst I'm sure.

The stench of FOMO BS is overwhelming

Firefox 152 understands 'Sssh!'

Google really doesn't like Brave...

Constant, never ending Captchas have made me start using Bing FFS! As for Firefox, thar be ads that Brave blocks and I'm fed up of having my time wasted and thought disrupted by all that "buy me" crap.

Firefox for site access via digital cert, but for everything else I use Brave.

And I give Brave bonus points for pissing Google off.

Brit regulator finds mobile network service on trains is far from first class

You have working trains?

I'm shocked.

Peter Mandelson invited UK PM to meet Palantir's Thiel

Prince of Darkness

Wasn't that Mandy's nom de guerre back in the day? Funny how he doesn't seem to have changed.

Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately

Re: I can't help but think of "Die Hard"

Oh Gawd NOOOOOOO. I used Google yesterday and it was shite, so I used Bing and it was shiter.

I see HotBot is still around.

A Russian speaker and jailbroken Gemini went on a hacking spree and emptied at least one MAGA victim's crypto wallets

Re: The campaign targeted the QAnon and MAGA communities

I got my smallest violin in the world out for this story.

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

Sorry....

but I just don't feel "addicted". I must be weird.

To gain root access at this company, all an intruder had to do was ask nicely

Re: Forty years of horror stories

I've found the combinations of Mark IV cabinets written on the wall above each cabinet.

HP stuffed a PC into a keyboard. We took it for a spin

Good luck....

walking out the office with a keyboard and trying to explain to security, as they pin you to the ground, that it's a computer and you aren't just nicking a peripheral.

AWS lets agents drive its virtual cloudy desktops – which could cost 500,000 tokens per click if used carelessly

Microsoft has created a version of its Windows 365 service just for agents.

They'll probably install Linux

SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway

Re: What about the moon nazi's???

Nazis.... no apostrophe!

Re: Velocity of sheep in a vacuum

Thanks for the link. God it was funny reading classic Lester

Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs

It's all a bit shit really...

All this hoo-ha so "an agent" can find a discount on something or book you a flight. Not really noble endeavours given the amount if water, power and construction effort involved.

Windows takes a crash dump after one McDonald's order too many

Naw, that's a Trump dump

Britain's atomic brain trust gives itself till 2030 to unpick fusion challenges

I thought it said £2.58

wouldn't even get fission for that.

UK state bank considers lengthening disastrous IT program

Re: Same old….

so...they're going for Oracle and "its no cost for data going in, bend over and get financially fucked to get it back out" then.

Netflix – yes, Netflix – jumps on the AI bandwagon with video editor

Bet they're wishing for a version that...

removes Italian court judgements.

Even Microsoft knows Copilot shouldn't be trusted with anything important

Checks date....

bugger, it's true. And I thought the Trump as "Son of God" video was nuts.

UK police force presses pause on live facial recognition after study finds racial bias

So it's Constable e-Savage

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=teSPN8sVbFU

Starmer's digital ID reboot raises same old questions as its Blair-era ancestor

Re: Seriously why?

err ... Starmer is now the orange Karen's new BFF after Friday.

Sorry, Amazon, you couldn't pick a worse time to bring a phone to market: IDC analyst

I'm sure MS will be along shortly...

with the Winphone 11 + cockpillock

Microsoft Copilot boss Mustafa Suleyman to chase superintelligence

Re: "Microsoft has rearranged the deckchairs on the RMS Copilot"

More like Coco McCopilot

BBC World Service digital switch backfires as online audience drops

yeah....

what works in an office in central London does not work well in foreign shires.

NASA pencils in fresh Artemis II Moon launch attempt for April 1

Re: Tanking

Tanking for me means sealing to stop wet stuff getting in or wet stuff getting out.

Burger King turns to AI to flame broil employees who aren't friendly enough

Went into BK at El Prat yesterday...

Never again. Up selling is us.

oh if you want a BK at Barcelona airport forget it unless you have a boarding pass on your phone. Only 2 doors are open at T2 and you cannot get in without a flight seat. I think it's to stop tramps or maybe trumps

French DIY etailer ManoMano admits customer data stolen

well...

that's the first I've ever heard of someone finding something on ManoMano that they actually wanted.

Harvard boffins finally crack the mystery of squeaky sneakers

I'm sure Nike or Adidas...

will be along shortly to copyright the noise and improve on it...maybe they'll include AI.

Microsoft HoloLens finds second home in the military after failing battlefield tests

Hope the WiFi password isn't...

passw0rd otherwise someone will have fun