Posts by xyz

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

NUC, NUC! Who’s there? ASUS with a client device for Microsoft’s cloudy PCs

Re: Coming soon at the price of what used to be a normal PC

Ah the Oracle model of data kidnapping.

Crims create fake remote management vendor that actually sells a RAT

Dead giveaway...

Pay in crypto

Agile Manifesto turns 25 – just in time for vibe coding to test it

Coming soon ..

AGIle

be afraid, be very afraid.

Capita taps Microsoft Copilot to dig it out from UK pensions backlog

CRAPITAI...

Funnily enough Crapitai was already an autocorrect suggestion in Google keyboard. I must be behind the times.

Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake

Re: Double-Dutch police screwup?

"OTOH, how were the Dutch police going to verify that the files were actually deleted?"

He could've sent them a screendump of his recycle bin...

snigger

Kneejerk downvoters...

Is that the Dutch bloke's name?

Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows

near-native performance,

You mean it's going to run that slowly?

Trump's Genesis Mission gets its first set of 26 sure-to-succeed objectives

Re: Was this on the list?

I was hoping for unicorns (plain or rainbow coloured, don't care) because they've a better chance at breeding those than developing some of the shite on that list. It's a sort of Whitehall wet dream list, the only difference being it's only 26 pages, which curiously is the number of fingers and toes of the DoE's head honcho.

Starlink speeds past terrestrial networks – and regulators

Look....

I run the following...

Starlink in the countryside @40€pcm

Multiple 4G mobile SIMs in the countryside @ between 1€-8€ pcm.

1Gb symmetric fibre in town @20€pcm.

All work, but Starlink is the most stable. My only Starlink issue is power draw as I'm on solar in the countryside, but apart from that after nearly 3 years, I can't fault the service..

Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers

So the horny MILF sows are right goers..

I'm sure there is a "specialist" market in Japan for those sort of videos....

Pedant point... the plural of "wild boar" is "wild boar" and not that US horror, which I can't even type and stay sane.

Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office

Re: Wont someone think of the...

Stationery... with an "e"

You try that in 2026

I needed a paperclip last week to reset a device... I hadn't seen one since about 2004. Eventually found one in an old box of papers along with a thing called a pen. It's called stationery seemingly.

Taiwan tells Uncle Sam its chip ecosystem ain't going anywhere

Bargaining chip (no pun)

Can you imagine how much Trump would care about Taiwan if the USA had 50% of the fab. He'd love it if China invaded and then he'd have 100% of the only supply available.... kerching.

Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files

Re: Microsoft is speed running towards Orwell

Don't worry it's Microsoft...they fuck up everything they do.

Microsoft declares 'reliability' a priority for Visual Studio AI

They'll probably spell quality...

with a K. After shoving Copi Lot down our gullets for a couple of years we're now going to get kwality beatings until morale improves.

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

He'll probably call it HACTAR...

with similar results

Microsoft kills standalone SharePoint and OneDrive plans, because they’re not suite enough

Wish the title read...

Microsoft kills SharePoint and OneDrive, because they’re shit.

Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign

Teenage boys will be salivating...

Can you imagine the "fun" they could have with this?

Microsoft shifting to cloud management software brings possibility of it peeking into your estate

Any money there's a sovereign, secure, on-prem managment suite that's just the old management suite rebranded but at 10 x the price. There is no way MS will walk away from "prestige" clients.

Coming soon: We interrupt this ChatGPT session with a very special message from our sponsors

Re: Preserve trust?

It had probably phoned a friend.

Meta retreats from metaverse after virtual reality check

I have enough trouble in real reality

so I wasn't going to try a second copy.

As others have said VR AI was the way to go...or V-RAI (marketing catchy) which would be like an acid trip, what with the AI bit hallucinating all over the place.

Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

This is now not a joke

Microsoft you are crap.

Moon hotel startup hopes you get lunar lunacy, drop $1M deposit for 2032 stay

Re: Extras?

TL;DR.... does it include flights to and from?

Spanish power giant sparks breach probe amid claims of massive data grab

ahh...

I got an sms off Endesa the other day with a link to some weird name website. I just presumed it was spam. When will Spanish companies start using their own urls?

Developer writes script to throw AI out of Windows

I keep wondering...

All these AIs are slurping from a vast data lake (no pun), so what happens when the data lake starts drying out. Even with the best will in the world, humans can only create so much new data for the AIs to drink.

Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote

Ahhh... reminds me of Star Trek

where they insert a chicken soup disk the replicator and out pops chicken soup.

Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech

Why don't they...

open shops where a person can take their win 10 machine in and get someone to convert it to Mint and give it back to them. Get everyone used to the open source idea.

Ultimate camouflage tech mimics octopus in scientific first

Just stick an octopus on your head...

Oh Trump did and it went orange.

Stalkerware slinger pleads guilty for selling snooper software to suspicious spouses

I see a golden future...

pardoned by trump, top job at a FAANG

Ring embraces the end of the world, starts using home cameras to track wildfires

Bugger...

I was just doing the same thing with non Amazon kit. No camera data actually needs to be sent, only an alert, (via WhatsApp or whatever) which can be a mix of what the camera thinks and what the sensor data say.Then someone can manually check via the camera* and make a decision.

In deep forest I can get a min of 450m to the camera (4G 2.4GHz + HaLow + 2.4GHz) + another 200m to the sensors using ESP-NOW.

*Problem is GDPR (UK & EU) prohibits vídeo or audio to be transmitted via HaLow which is bit of a showstopper.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella becomes AI influencer, asks us all to move beyond slop

Well he's a goner....

When a CEO starts telling Joe Public that "they're thinking it wrong" you can be sure the cold wind of investor sentiment is blowing up his ass crack.

European Space Agency hit again as cybercrims claim 200 GB data up for sale

well they got on better than me...

All data at ESA are free and available to anyone according to ESA.. Just try to get your paws on it though. Seems like the crims got a lot of guerrilla programming data that the CTO would have been screaming about for years and no one listened.

We will be cruising at 35,000 feet and failing to update our Apache HTTP Server

Re: FFS, have you actually seen it?

oh god LotR... I tried watching that beardy blokes in a forest pos on a flight from Singapore to London and ended up watching Monsters Inc 5 times.

Windows is testing a new, wider Run dialog box. Here’s how to try it

Lipstick on a pig

Windows is gone from my life and somehow I feel clean again.

Poisoned WhatsApp API package steals messages and accounts

Re: So....

I had to send someone an SMS this morning.... oh the pain. It was like the dark ages.