Posts by Snowy

UK watchdog eyes Meta's smart glasses after workers say they 'see everything'

History

History repeating, it is the same as when Google did their glasses.

Altman said no to military AI abuses – then signed Pentagon deal anyway

Simple answer

Money, loads of money!

https://tenor.com/view/loadsamoney-gif-27021617

Microsoft reportedly eyes E7 tier to make AI agents pay their way – like the humans they'll replace

While agents might not need the same salaries or benefits as human workers, they certainly need licenses.

Employees are easier to terminate than the licenses.

Amazon and Nvidia open their wallets to lock in OpenAI's business while SoftBank keeps the lights on

Re: Blog post, not SEC filing

Unless they are the exploding corpse?

Re: The AI bubble just got a lot bigger

and

Aisle 7, 8 and 9.

UK tech hit by double trouble: Fewer foreign techies amid skills squeeze

If you believe

Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister then who in charge does not change. What changes in the faces that the public sees, while behind the scene the senior civil service runs the show.

Attackers have 16-digit card numbers, expiry dates, but not names. Now org gets £500k fine

I wonder

How much they have spent not paying the 500K fine and how deep they are in the sunk cost fallacy.

NASA points fingers at Boeing and chaotic culture for Starliner debacle

Never Never

Allow private industry in mark their own home work!

Four horsemen of the AI-pocalypse line up capex bigger than Israel's GDP

The more you spend

The more you save!

Asia-based government spies quietly broke into critical networks across 37 countries

Re: "Asia-based"

Russia is also in Asia!

BOFH: Eight pints of a lager and a management breakthrough

Re: Ah yes, 6-Sigma.

"And the Lord spake, saying, ''First shalt thou pick up the parcel. Then shalt thou drop it five times, no more, no less. Five shall be the number thou shalt drop it, and the number of the droppings shall be five. Six shalt thou not count, neither count thou four, excepting that thou then proceed to drop is again. Seven is right out. Once the number five, being the fifth number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy parcel towards thy dispatch, who, being naughty in My sight, shall deliver it.'

(Sorry to Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

UK border tech budget swells by £100M as Home Office targets small boat crossings

Targeting small boats

It is like shutting the back door while the front door is left wide open, those coming over in small boats are a tiny amount compared with what is coming in the front door!!

Re: DMZ to be implemented soon.

Could ask Trump to send some ice agents to float off the coast, no boats just let them float out there!

Re: Home Office targets small boat crossings

Could always just take a leaf out of the Israel playbook and bomb the warehouses were the boats are, after giving them a few minutes notice first.

Qualcomm CEO pockets 15% pay rise as profits fall 45%

Re: And remember folks

Someone should have told poor Jensen who sold some 11,250 shares in 1999 to buy his parents a new fancy car, the share he sold today are worth $1.33 billion.

House of Lords votes to ban social media for Brits under 16

Re: Thinking of the adults

Do you run or face the Carousel...

Broker who sold malware to the FBI set for sentencing

Smarter ones are the hidden hand behind the government?

Micron breaks ground on humungous NY DRAM fab after beating bats and tree huggers

BSOD is that the Bat Signal Of Dave?

UK government exempting itself from flagship cyber law inspires little confidence

Legislate

Maybe just get it right first time. It blows my mind that 6 year old legislation can be considered heavily out of date!

Ultimate camouflage tech mimics octopus in scientific first

Re: A secret cloaking device made out of gold?

License to gilde(d)

LockBit takedown architect gets New Year award from King Charles

Awards

For just doing the job they are well paid to do.

Starlink to lower orbits of thousands of satellites over safety concerns

Musk

Sinking to a new low!

Indian cops cuff ex-Coinbase rep over selling customer info to crims

It is easier

To buy someone when they are poorly paid and treated worse.

Imagine there's no AI. It's easy if you try

Re: That's not survival. It is an unnecessary nightmare.

Instead of reduce, reuse, recycle this gives replace, replace and replace.

Faith in the internet is fading among young Brits

Then collect the ashes and dispose of them like the toxic waste it is!

The internet

A nice place to visit but I would not want to live there.

Edit: Social media on the other hand is the dark back alley of the internet and not worth a visit!!

Infinite Machine e-scooter is like the offspring of a Vespa and a Cybertruck

Not think of the pedestrian

WIth all them sharp edges a collision with a pedestrian is not going to go very well..

NS&I tech overhaul blows past Treasury spending limits

Re: Usual suspects

Considering there has been no prosecutions what crimes the post office committed there is evenless for them doing anything here!

Re: The same story

When they are good at lining their own pockets at our expense rather than doing the job who do you pick?

Snowflake update caused a blizzard of failures worldwide

Another month and

Another service taken out by their own bad update, o'well never mind.

California DMV tells Tesla to ease off on those Autopilot claims

Their only just saying it now!

The California DMV says Tesla's use of the term Autopilot is misleading and violated state law

Been say just that for years!!

AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans

Re: Accountants

If you have to pay for patches, more bugs equals more profits.

US freezes $42B trade pact with UK over digital tax row

Unless Trump goes for four more years.

MI6 chief: We'll be as fluent in Python as we are in Russian

We'll be as fluent in Python as we are in Russian

For most people in the UK Python may as well be Russian for how well people understanding of them.

Denmark takes a Viking swing at VPN-enabled piracy

Re: and how...

They will ask China how to build the lesser wall of Denmark

First they came for the pirates

You all know how the rest goes.

The future of long-term data storage is clear and will last 14 billion years

13.8 billion years

No, just no!

British Airways fears a future where AI agents pick flights and brands get ghosted

Re: Third party booking sites?

Or you could go to the aggregators to find the flight then book direct with the airline?

AI datacenter boom could end badly, Goldman Sachs warns

Re: It is!

Goldman Sachs, which reported record revenue for Q3 2025 of $15.2 billion, up 20 percent year-on-year, cautions that its report is for educational purposes only, and does not constitute an investment recommendation.

Kind of makes the whole report meaningless.

Silicon photonics won’t matter ‘anytime soon’ says Broadcom CEO

Re: This thing we're behind the competition in

Yes a case of we do not do it now so it is not important now, go buy this instead.

Airbus exec: Most CIOs in Europe will not finish SAP ECC6 migration by 2030

If ot that hard

To migrate to a new version of the software maybe the software needs to be better.

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

Just a cost of doing business

What makes you think they open the window first?

Google says Chrome's new AI creates risks only more AI can fix

How

Do it turn it off!!

Microsoft 365 boosts prices in 2026 … to pay for more AI and security

Yet nothing

To pay to fix the bugs.

Amazon’s Trainium3 is the latest to conform to Nvidia’s mold

Re: MoUld, FFS

Something is rotting in the world of AI and as grown mold

Baikonur's only crew-capable pad busted after Soyuz flight

Here in the UK

It is more like why have two, when you can have one for twice the price.

No that is not just the current lot.

HSBC spies $207B crater in OpenAI's expansion goals

Re: Some rather bold claims!

Make that ruler bendy and you can fix an exponential curve and go to the moon exponential faster.

Some rather bold claims!

"HSBC predicts that OpenAI's ChatGPT consumer products will attract 3 billion regular users by 2030, up from 800 million last month, and equivalent to 44 percent of the world's population over 15 years old."

I hope there is some good research to back up these rather bold claims?

I wonder how many of them regular "users" will be AI bots?

Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query

I think the missing thing in testing is the testing.