Posts by beast666

Nvidia DMs TSMC: Please sir can I have some more? The Chinese are starved for H200s

"Citing multiple sources familiar with the matter, Reuters reports Chinese companies have placed orders for more than 2 million of the chips. That's up from the 40,000 to 80,000 initial orders reported last week."

Number must go up.

Reuters is fake news central.

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

The ESA is unfit for purpose.

Again.

Nvidia spends $5B on Intel bailout, instantly gets $2.5B richer

I suspect this is part of The Great Enshittification Of The Stock Market

Crims disconnect Wired subscribers from their privacy, publish deets online

OMG.

Imagine being subscribed to Wired, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair or Teen Vogue.

Sam Altman is willing to pay somebody $555,000 a year to keep ChatGPT in line

I imagine being in gaol will be stressful for Altman too.

Europe's cloud challenge: Building an Airbus for the digital age

Re: Airbus and US products?

We should start by assuming the EU is not Europe's friend and work forward from there.

The UK should leave NATO and join BRICS+

Re: Airbus and US products?

It's due to the EU overregulation and destruction of sovereignty.

Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030

Thankfully it's fake

SantaStealer stuffs credentials, crypto wallets into a brand new bag

Hey Jessica, do these not fit in with your narrative?

European authorities dismantle call center fraud ring in Ukraine

and

Cyberattack disrupts Venezuelan oil giant PDVSA's operations

Devs say Apple still flouting EU's Digital Markets Act six months on

Lawless

The European Commission are fond of ignoring and misusing their own treaties and laws whenever it suites the unelected bureaucrats at the top so why should anyone else comply with their onerous and corrupt overregulation?

US gov't launches 'Tech Force' to replace IT staff DOGE fired

They should hire more staff for an expanded DOGE instead.

Delays? What delays? Oracle insists its $300B cloud contract with OpenAI is on track

POP!

Delay to European Central Bank messaging project cost the Bank of England £23M

Soon the ECB will be completely shunned and have no one to message.

AI superintelligence is a Silicon Valley fantasy, Ai2 researcher says

"not because they are well founded but because they serve as a compelling narrative,"

Indeed, this applies to many, if not all, current issues pushed on the masses by the mainstream media.

700+ self-hosted Gits battered in 0-day attacks with no fix imminent

Shirley some mistake...

Suspected Chinese and/or Russian attackers are actively exploiting a zero-day bug in Gogs, a popular self-hosted Git service, and the open source project doesn't yet have a fix.

Come on Register, you are slipping...

US extradites Ukrainian woman accused of hacking meat processing plant for Russia

"It's important that we never take an adversary's word for it when they tell us who they are. They frequently lie."

So why should we believe any of this?

Google's AI training tactics land it in another EU antitrust fight

The European Commission is still unfit for purpose.

UK to Europe: The time to counter Russia's information war machine is now

Re: The usual bullshit

Now do the same with the US and NATO.

NASA nominee Isaacman moves to full Senate vote amid budget carnage

Ears

I wonder if Isaacman needs a custom space helmet to accommodate his huge lugs??

Feds bust nefarious plot to ship Nvidia H200s to China and hurt US

I don't think the Chinese really want or need the overpriced Nvidia junk.

Sounds like part of the current AI scam's 'smoke and mirrors' to me.

As humanoid robots enter the mainstream, security pros flag the risk of botnets on legs

Re: Unhackable robot

Just have them watch the BBC and read The Guardian enough and you'll soon see they are easily 'hacked'

PRC spies Brickstormed their way into critical US networks and remained hidden for years

I wouldn't trust Unit 42 to make toast for the cat.

EU probes Meta after WhatsApp kicked rival AIs off platform

The European Commission is unfit for purpose.

Scottish council still rebuilding systems two years after ransomware attack

This is my local council and there has been no disruption to services at all.

In fact I was unaware of said ransomware attack.

Go figure...

Nvidia scoffs at threat from Google TPUs after rumored Meta tie-up

"Nvidia is a generation ahead of the industry — it's the only platform that runs every AI model and does it everywhere computing is done..."

China has entered chat...

Fresh ClickFix attacks use Windows Update trick-pics to steal credentials

"Huntress doesn’t know who is behind these campaigns but noted the source code of the Windows Update lure site contains comments in Russian."

You can take it to the bank that the miscreants are NOT Russian.

Self-destructing thumb drive can brick itself and wipe your secret files away

Hopefully this will catch on with Rust developers.

Latest Servo release hints at a real Rust alternative to Chromium

Burn it with fire.

Google previews Code Wiki: Can you trust AI to document your repository?

No.

OpenAI’s viability called into question by reported inference spending with Microsoft

Chad Gibbity is unfit for purpose.

Tanzania back online after politically motivated five-day outage

"The poll went ahead despite the government barring opposition candidates from standing."

A bit like happens in the EU? - Romania, Ireland, Germany. France etc

UK judge delivers a 'damp squib' in Getty AI training case, no clear precedent set

Re: Hmmm

"As a bonus it uses much less resources than traditional AI models"

The original 'cp' command might but the new Rust version probably uses more...

Palantir CEO celebrates one cash culture to rule them all

"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last..."

OpenAI spreads the imaginary wealth beyond Microsoft with $38B AWS deal

The Tortoise and the Hare in AI - Why the U.S. May Already Be Losing the Strategic Race

White House says China to lift rare earth export bans, stop probes into US tech companies

Re: WhiteHouse says China will play nicely

Err, Taiwan is already China.

YouTube's AI moderator pulls Windows 11 workaround videos, calls them dangerous

How to bypass the hardware check and upgrade Windows 10 to Windows 11 (without TPM and only 2GB)

France jacks into the Matrix for state messaging – and pays too

They need to change the name, it is not fit for purpose.

AI is making Google and Meta even stronger and richer

It's all funny money.

Think tank decries science friction between countries, demands global cooperation

The Oreshnik and Burevestnik are state-of-the-art weapons.

Maybe if Vladimir the Great was to start threatening folk then the world would be a better place?

Disbanding NATO would give better results however.

Elon Musk's Grokipedia launches, filled to the brim with plagiarism and AI slop

Grokipedia >> Wikipedia.

Euro cloud alliance urges action on Broadcom as Microsoft mends fences

ECCO is not fit for purpose.

AI browsers face a security flaw as inevitable as death and taxes

Use Brave browser for desktop and mobile. It's excellent.

Maintained by a great bunch of people too.

Amazon axes 14,000 desk jobs in AI-powered slimming plan

More lies to hide the economic downturn and attempt to keep the AI bubble inflated a bit longer.

Chatbots parrot Putin's propaganda about the illegal invasion of Ukraine

Re: Shocked

"Even the mess that is media ownership in the UK is subject to scrutiny, regulation and occasionally has to actually remedy it's mistakes."

You have succinctly described the mechanisms that prevent the mainstream media from publishing the truth except occasionally by rare oversight.

Forking confusing: Vulnerable Rust crate exposes uv Python packager

Rust is not fit for purpose.

Nexperia drama intensifies as Dutch chipmaker denies ousted CEO's claims of Chinese split

The Dutch govt. is not fit for purpose.

It's trivially easy to poison LLMs into spitting out gibberish, says Anthropic

They spit gibberish anyways.

China moves to extend control over tech industry's critical rare earths

What goes around comes around.

Clearview AI sees red as UK tribunal sides with regulator over $10M GDPR fine

The ICO is not fit for purpose.

Panther Lake sets stage for Intel's 2 nm comeback, but many details still TBD

Hoping for a SKU without the NPU and GPU.