* Posts by Winkypop

5937 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

VIPER rover banished to storage as moonshot plan sputters

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Stop

Parking orbit?

No,

Just parking space.

PowerSchool paid thieves to delete stolen student, teacher data. Looks like crooks lied

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Headmaster

Pay AND probably have your data spaffed about

OR

Don’t pay AND probably have your data spaffed about.

Now children, who can tell me which of these options is the most sensible.

Top sci-fi convention gets an earful from authors after using AI to screen panelists

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Joke

Outrageous!

Throw the books at them.

Red, white, and blew it? Trump tariffs may cost America the AI race

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FAIL

Call in US Bonds

Scare the orange juice out of the Great Stupid One.

Japan has threatened this.

Trump hasn’t been this exposed since Stormy had a quiet chuckle.

Trump wants to fire quarter of NASA budget into black hole – and not in a good way

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Facepalm

Make America Grounded Again

Who needs science, knowledge, advanced engineering and adventure?

Disney Slack attack wasn't Russian protesters, just a Cali dude with malware

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Send him down the river

Steamboat Willie is happy to oblige.

Microsoft to preload Word minutes after boot

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Devil

In the beginning

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, with a slight delay to let Word load…

Brewhaha: Turns out machines can't replace people, Starbucks finds

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Coffee/keyboard

Starbucks coffee*

Aussies are not fooled by this corporate dish water.

https://thecoffeelifestyle.com/article/detail/why-did-starbucks-fail-in-australia

* apparently

Homeland Security boss says CISA has gone off the rails, vows to set it right

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Trollface

But more importantly

No animals (dogs) were harmed during the interview.

Trump admin freaks out over mere suggestion Amazon was going to show tariff impact on prices

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Devil

Karoline Leavitt

Isn’t she that lady in pink on North Korean NEWS?

Elon Musk's X revenues in the UK crashed in 2023, down 66%

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Devil

How to make a million dollars

Start with 44 billion dollars…

Claims assistance firm fined for cold-calling people who put themselves on opt-out list

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Re: 90K£ Fine

That music riff will be stuck in my ear all day now.

: )

Tesla's Optimus can't roll without rare earth magnets, and Beijing ain't budging yet

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Big Brother

The future is almost here

If you want a picture of the future, imagine an Optimus boot stamping on a human face - for ever.

Signalgate lessons learned: If creating a culture of security is the goal, America is screwed

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Trollface

Is it really a security breach…

If you’re friendly with the “bad guys”?

Virgin Atlantic is piloting an OpenAI agent in to help with the 'customer journey'

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WTF?

If this is the future

I’ll stay home.

Thanks.

Trump blinks: 'Substantially' lower China tariffs promised

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FAIL

“unpredictable shifts in policy”

It’s not policy and they’re not shifts.

It’s pure unadulterated bedlam on steroids.

The guy is as crazy as a cat on a hot tin roof.

ICE enlists Palantir to develop all-seeing 'ImmigrationOS' eye to speed up deportations

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Re: Peter Thiel, the Ernst Röhm of MAGA

Röhm Didn’t end up very well, in the end…

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Re: What would you do?

FOX News sure spews some garbage, eh?

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Big Brother

The orange colossus

"Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,“

Then we’ll lock them up and deport them!

Hacking US crosswalks to talk like Zuck is as easy as 1234

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Boffin

It’s alive, it’s alive!

- Dr. Frederick Frankenstein

Microsoft Copilot shows up even when it's not wanted

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Devil

AI has its place

But I’m just not sure if it will fit…

Ireland opens probe into Musk’s X over Grok’s AI data slurp

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Facepalm

It’s 2025

If people are still using social media, especially Xitter, then I’m afraid you get what you get.

Don’t like being spied on? Don’t use these “free services”.

Tech tariff turmoil continues as Trump admin exempts some electronics, then promises to bring taxes back

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WTF?

Which hole is this?

Trump is clearly making this shit up as he plays through…

Pentagon celebrates snipping 0.58% from defense budget in IT, DEI cuts

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Alert

Efficiency oversight

Why hasn’t Elon made Donny a self-driving golf cart yet?

It’s got to be difficult for the lazy fool to steer himself.

—> water hazard! Oh noooo, alligators….

Microsoft total recalls Recall totally to Copilot+ PCs

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Stop

If I recall correctly

No

Mapping legend Ordnance Survey releases blocky Britain in Minecraft – again

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Coat

I tried that link

But it was BLOCKED

LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

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Mushroom

Welcome aboard AI Airlines

(You can finish this nightmare yourself)

Trump thinks we can make iPhones in the US just like China. Yeah, right

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Someone rent him a VHS or DVD

He should sit down with a responsible adult and watch John Badham’s 1983 film “War Games”.

He might learn about futility and escalation.

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FAIL

There’s plenty of screwing going on

Just not the good or productive kind.

Lord High Trumpenking has no clothes.

Nvidia paid $1M for Mar-a-Lago meal, US later scrapped AI chip export crackdown

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WTF?

Corruption is the new Orange

Such a beautiful hue, the best hue, nobody has a hue quite like it….

Microsoft resets 'days since last Windows 11 problem' counter to 0

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Devil

Such inefficiency, such waste

Better get Musk and his magnificent DOGE Team onto it.

Once he’s sorted out all of the Government systems, say next Thursday?

AI entrepreneur sent avatar to argue in court – and the judge shut it down fast

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Terminator

See you in court!

*conditions apply*

DOGE dilettantes 'didn't test' Social Security fraud detection tool at appropriate scale

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FAIL

Faaaark

The incompetence of Musk and his assistant Donald, knows no bounds.

You have got to pity the disenfranchised people who are having their world turned upside down by these idiots.

Signalgate solved? Report claims journalist’s phone number accidentally saved under name of Trump official

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FAIL

A campaign staffer

Needs top level war info in real time?

If you believe that I have a large bridge in Brooklyn for sale.

Signalgate: Pentagon watchdog probes Defense Sec Hegseth

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When you employ idiots

Blame the idiot in charge.

EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!

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Black Helicopters

We promise

Only us good guys will peek, OK?

Americans set to pay more on all imports: Trump activates blanket tariffs

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Re: How 'bout that!

Yes, but those penguins are well known left-wing trade unionists.

And, like communists, they all wear the same uniform!

One of the last of Bletchley Park's quiet heroes, Betty Webb, dies at 101

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National heroes

Their honour will live on.

As for the Trumpers, their disgraceful behaviour will go down in history as treachery and dishonour.

Musk's xAI swallows Musk's X in ego-friendly, all-stock deal

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Devil

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake

- That other “little corporal”, Napoleon Bonaparte

Jeff Bezos can now taunt Elon Musk: I'm building a moon rover for NASA, when can Tesla do that?

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Gabblerdictum Says hi!

UK's first permanent facial recognition cameras installed in South London

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Coat

Great little sideline though

You’re nicked Sonny Jim!

Now, can I interest you in some nice 6 x 4s for your dear old Mum?

We take cash, credit and stolen gear.

Just pay as you exit via the gift shop.

Trump orders all government IT contracts consolidated under GSA

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Linux

All your eggs from one basket

And look what happened to the price of eggs.

Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content

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Alert

Let me off the ride

I’m feeling sick.

Dept of Defense engineer took home top-secret docs, booked a fishing trip to Mexico – then the FBI showed up

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Trollface

South of the border, down Mexico way

Everyone knows Florida is the preferred location for classified documents.

Capital One cracker could be sent back to prison after judges rule she got off too lightly

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Re: Book, Paige

I’m going, I’m going…

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Coat

So, in other words

Throw the book at her, not just the Paige…

Tesla Cybertruck recall #8: Exterior trim peels itself off, again

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FAIL

Tesla has issued its eighth Cybertruck recall

And this from a vehicle of such poor design and specification that it’s banned in a number of sensible countries.

Political poker? Tariff hunger games? Trump creates havoc for PC industry

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FAIL

Here’s the executive summary for this article

Trump creates havoc

'Once in a lifetime' IT outage at city council hit datacenter, but no files lost

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Facepalm

Risk assessment

The room is darkened and the tea urn is cold, can we risk it?

“I’m going inside, I may be some time”

VA IT contract cancellation DOGE boasted about ... was due to end in 10 days anyway

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MAGA idiots

All the way down.