Posts by Piro

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

That's not at all how I read it, I read it as that the currently released PoC doesn't work on 10, nothing to do with the update and support cycles.

Re: I'm curious

As far as I understand, yes. They refused to pay up, they removed his access to report exploits.

Probably more we don't know about. So scorched earth time. I think it's great, Microsoft needs to learn from it.

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

Next step, murder

Have the people ahead of you murdered, or otherwise die, which clears their timeslot. Perfectly logical.

Hack a car's brake/steer/accelerate by wire and kill the occupant, maybe first running over the others. Now you've got your time!

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

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

Rust OS

Although ironically, Rust itself has a permissive AI policy

I guess it has to be Temple OS then

Windows 10 LTSC 2021 has five months before security updates cost extra

The iot ltsc 10 is by far the least terrible in-support version of windows

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

Re: They're joking, right?

Windows 11 is such a turd, that it's absolutely the wrong place to start from if they want to improve resource use.

GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions

Copy Windows interface

Copy w7? The last one people liked?

No, win11, the one that's hated. Great.

A requiem for Optane, Intel's KV cache killer that could have eased the RAM price crunch

Re: Software was a problem

VMware has made a big fuss about memory tiering to NVMe recently, to save on memory costs.

https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/06/19/advanced-memory-tiering-now-available/

Then you wouldn't have to give a damn about the guest OS, they don't need to know anything. As long as your hypervisor is aware and can shuffle the data, Optane would have been absolutely perfect for this. Optane would be a seriously appropriate technology for 2026.

EU lets wearables wriggle out of user-replaceable battery rules

Re: To be fair...

I'm on my xcover 5 right now, it's ip68 and has a snap on back cover, and a headphone jack.

I wouldn't want to push it, as if you refitted the back cover and dust and dirt got in the seal, that would surely compromise things.

But I'm not even asking for the snap-on covers. Just let me unscrew the back and remove a battery not glued down. That way the sealing is rarely going to be messed with, but it's still trivial to fix.

Uh, no

"The Commission has not given in to anyone’s pressure"

Clearly. That much is crystal clear.

Northern Ireland tries (again) to expel Capita from schools IT contract

Article spelling correction

I believe the word you were looking for is: "Crapita"

T-Mobile appears to be quitting VMware – and fighting a very familiar battle for support rights on the way out

Broadcom's strategy is going to fail

If they can't keep T-Mobile, and Tesco, what's the point?

Clearly some of their biggest customers are migrating away, and taking their money with them.

303K cores! If that's not a big customer, I don't know what is.

I do want Broadcom to fail, they've taken a respected company and destroyed it more or less overnight.

Massive password-stealing attack hits 75k Fortinet firewalls

Yeah, exactly, they upgraded that a while back, but hashes were leaked and cracked.

If all those credentials had been recently changed (after the fw was updated) then the hash wouldn't be as vulnerable, even if leaked again.

All the passwords were stored in Active Directory description fields

They deserved that.

That's about as bad as it gets.

Mystery Microsoft bug leaker keeps the zero-days coming

Re: Not a Bitlocker bypass

It can bypass that too, the hacker says so, there's just no poc

Re: Not a Bitlocker bypass

If you read, it can also bypass pin on startup, there's just no public poc.

Re: revenge tour

100% backdoor.

Qualcomm teases ‘dedicated CPU for agentic experiences’ and ‘agentic smartphones’

Nobody wants it

Everyone wants smartphones from a few years ago, just way cheaper.

They've been more than good enough for years.

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition tested: Gratuitous overkill with a price to match

Re: Minor quibble with charts

True, and the JPEG artifacts are the icing on the cake. Graphs, in JPEG? Inappropriate compression.

Claude Code bypasses safety rule if given too many commands

Re: If you're interested in what the Claude Code leaks reveal...

Agreed, it's interesting.

AI bug reports went from junk to legit overnight, says Linux kernel czar

But in future, people will lack the ability to

Distinguish between good or bad code spat out by AI, because they lack the real world knowledge.

Right NOW the boffins might be able to filter correctly, but that ability will quickly deteriorate.

Microsoft: Removing some Copilots will improve Windows 11

Windows 10 LTSC is the last real LTSC, 11 is still full of junk no matter what.

Re: I have an idea

Rollback to Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC IoT 2021, make the interface entirely look like Windows 7, including the start menu, and then dive deep in to the code to optimise every last thing for speed and stability.

Then let the public buy that version with 10 years of support, no telemetry and no ads, no changes in hardware requirements in that time.

Is what they should do.

What we'll get instead is more cruft on top of cruft, artificial restrictions and "agentic" bollocks not a single soul on the earth asked for.

HPE positions Morpheus stack as enterprise alternative to VMware

Re: from

Morpheus MVM entered beta in 2024. I'm not remotely talking about the previous products.

Morpheus MVM is a newer product from a company that has other existing offerings, a company called Morpheus Data.

Although there is no such company now, as it's all Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.

from

The company they hastily bought it from (in Beta!) last year. It was originally "Morpheus MVM".

The company is called.. was called.. Morpheus Data.

Windows 11 Start menu makes unscheduled stop in Saint Moritz

Windows 11 just to play a video?

Terrible solution

If Microsoft made a car... what would it be?

Re: Trabant!

That's now become very popular on certain new cars. Makes me laugh.

Quartic is now modern. I guess Austin were ahead of their time.

Notepad++ hijacking blamed on Chinese Lotus Blossom crew behind Chrysalis backdoor

Don't forget

That notepad++ stopped signing their releases years ago. The most simple and obvious thing that could have helped

Splash-screen memories from a Bangkok ticket machine

Re: Windows, again

To be fair, it's likely to be failing hardware

Sony no longer home of the Bravia as it plans TV biz spin-out to China’s TCL

How to destroy a respected brand, 101

See article title.

Just because Linus Torvalds vibe codes doesn't mean it's a good idea

Re: Synthetic Take: Why Vibe Coding Isn’t “Just for Toys”

Em dash? I see you, llm. You're no human!

All aglow about DCs, investors launch $300M at microreactor startup

If they thought for a second that renewables would be reliable enough and cost-effective, they'd do that.

The fact they don't is a clear condemnation of solar, wind and battery storage.

Your car’s web browser may be on the road to cyber ruin

Re: Seriously...

What? You've got this the wrong way round. The correct way for cars to handle this IS to support Apple Carplay and Android Auto, so the systems don't rely on software that never gets updated, but instead defer everything to the phone.

X sues to protect Twitter brand Musk has been trying to kill

Deadnaming it

Is what Elon would want anyway. Strange conflict.

Denmark takes a Viking swing at VPN-enabled piracy

Re: This makes a chsnge

To be fair, the reason is much worse - to protect copyright holders. Seriously, to stop streaming netflix and the like from other countries.

They also want to destroy end-to-end encryption. There's nothing noble about any of this, remotely.

Reddit sues Australia to exempt itself from kids social media ban

Re: Wrong way round?

Exactly. The argument is terrible, if the kid could just click "log out" or use another browser to bypass a "block".

US teens not only love AI, but also let it rot their brains

Re: No, no, no, you've got it all wrong

Mike Judge nailed it, all other sci-fi was way off.

From the degeneracy and coarseness in advertising, to the absolute non-stop, in-your-face nature of said advertising, to the AI-led medical diagnosis, to the people who couldn't answer simple questions; the lot. It was accurate.

Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches

Re: Damn.

Mushkin? But, I think they use Micron. Oh well.

Microsoft exec finds AI cynicism 'mindblowing'

I didn't realise my simple opinion was

Mindblowing. We never needed this junk, we'd be better off without it, and it's consuming very real resources at a crazy rate.

Server virtualization market heats up as VMware rivals try to create alluring alternatives

Re: Ditch the emotion

Some of us literally will not be allowed to renew under any circumstances, as in, Broadcom won't sell a VCF license to you if you're too small, and the White Label program is going away.

Re: I'm hopeful

Great to hear experiences with it, sad they can't get the most basic things right.

Re: I'm hopeful

So upload the PDF.

Mozilla's Firefox 145 is heeeeeere: Buffs up privacy, bloats AI

Found these, implemented them straight away

about:config - set all to false

browser.ml.enable

browser.ml.chat.enabled

browser.ml.chat.page

browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

extensions.ml.enabled

sidebar.notification.badge.aichat

I've no idea what Mozilla was thinking. The last Firefox hold-outs are on Firefox because it's supposed to have an old-school philosophy. They're not going to attract new users in a million years by adding slop features, that ship has sailed, they're all on Chrome or at least on a flavour of Chrome.

Microsoft Task Manager now tasking PCs with running multiple copies of itself

Taskmgr -d

Launches the previous task manager.

Windows 11 is really, really bad. I have found nothing at all to like.

Chinese gang used ArcGIS as a backdoor for a year – and no one noticed

Re: Pots and kettles

Not a fan of Microsoft these days, but what matters is the truth, not who came with the truth

Brits sitting on £1.6B gold mine of Windows 10 junk as support ends

"Microsoft is not the baddie here," he concluded"

Wrong, very bad take.

They could easily allow bypassing the restrictions, but they don't.

Windows 10 refuses to go gentle into that good night

Re: Untested workarounds

Win 10 2021 ltsc iot. Accept no substitutes.

Tool touted as 'first AI software engineer' is bad at its job, testers claim

Missing an r there