Posts by Snowy

Two characters open up a world of typosquatting opportunities in Chromium browsers

Re: Different colors

Choice of colour would not be to hard to do, or may an option to use differant type face style like Bold and italic?

Re: One obvious way to detect these imposters ?

I like your solution it is both simple and clear :)

Teen suspected of running KillSec ransomware group as cops seize servers, arrest three

Re: Puzzled....Again!

May be the teenagers need to code an AI agent to take the blame for them.

FBI to ShinyHunters: 'We know how to find you'

Re: Mistake methinks

The word you are looking for is Defenestration, they may also remove any large pile of manure that may be under the window.

Re: Mistake methinks

Still the rest of your life just maybe not a long one.

16-year-old researcher found a Microsoft bug, got admin access to databases with 17.3 trillion rows

I'm quite sure

At my age I shouold not know what a teen is doing at 2AM, let alone thinking about it!!

OpenAI benches GPT-6.1 Astra for overstepping the mark

Teach them from the internet

Using konwledge gained whilst not observing boundaries then wonder why it does not stay withing boundaries.

Microsoft cells out, crams multiple values into Excel boxes

Re: Standards

I think you are on shaky ground with that one.

NightmareEclipse's latest zero-day leaves Microsoft Defender stuck in the past

For this to work

You have already been owned!

Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts

I wonder

If the AI cost was more than the reward?

Microsoft makes limited attempt to fix broken Excel paste

Re: "rarely used Excel feature: conditional formatting"

Comment on your edit "rarely used Excel feature: conditional formatting"" it is still in the excerpt on the top of the comments :)

Claude Code revamps projects so you can work and pay in parallel

The faster you spend it

The faster you save :o

Oracle pins hopes on 'Star Wars' productivity jump to lightspeed from AI-assisted engineering

Re: More like Death Star levels of wasted resources

Three times if you include Starkiller Base:)

Green Party wants to slam the brakes on UK datacenter construction until water and energy use are sorted

Water usage

There should be a better way to cool computers than using lot and lots of water!!!!

Exec couldn’t identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call

Not dead yet for the NHS!

Email killed faxes in the late 1990s (except in Japan) though manufacturers kept including fax functions in multifunction printers (MFPs) for years

In December 2018 Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced a ban on buying new fax machines, setting a complete phase-out deadline for March 31, 2020.

Yet in 2026 the NHS still uses a tiny number of fax machines for everyday tasks, though they are nearly completely phased out. Health Secretary Wes Streeting confirmed that only three hospital trusts still rely on them for daily operations, while others keep some in storage as emergency backups during cyber or IT failures.

SAP consultant job ads overshoot final offers by up to 12%, recruiter claims

It should be!

Anthropic says text watermarking scheme relies on inconsequential words

LIke any watermark

I'm sure someone is thinking of ways to remove it.

This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph

Re: those snowflakes are sensitive these days.

Nope damp squibs is correct. Damp squids is an "eggcorn". Which is a fun linguistic term for a misheard word or phrase.

The phrase "a damp squib" comes from 19th-century pyrotechnics. A squib is an old-fashioned small firework or explosive charge. If the gunpowder inside a squib gets wet or damp, the firework fails to explode and just fizzles out, creating a major letdown.

Brit rail cops bring live facial recognition to the London Underground

What rubbish

"Expanding deployments into London Underground stations will help us assess the technology in a different transport environment while continuing to refine how it is used across the railway network," said the officer responsible for the project, chief superintendent Chris Casey.

Where the camera is should not matter on how well it works, as long as the lighting is good, which last time I used the Undergrond was fine (was 30 years ago but shouyld still be good)

This "trial" adds nothing!!!

Re: We need a fixed sum to be paid for false positives.

If police messing up will result in them being fined they will instead do nothing,

Re: We need a fixed sum to be paid for false positives.

Have the provider of the tech pay the fine and they have a greater incentive to get it right!

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

Taught by the internet

Then people are surprised it does unethical things :O

NASA's Swift rescue slips to late August as LINK battles its spin

Things break

If they can figure out what is broken and then go on to compete the mission that is rather great :)

LinkedIn realizes its users have been bathing in AI slop, offers a shower

Re: Every site needs a "seems like AI slop" button

AI bots all the way down!

Connecting AI agents to outside services explodes the risk radius

A problem before you included AI Agents.

Connecting to outside services explodes the risk radius

No need to include AI Agent for it to be a problem.

Meta admits its first ‘superintelligence’ was too stupid to survive for three days

Re: Any assistance would be welcome.

Be careful what you wish for AI would say "Cake is fine for breakfast". While in the background it redefines what Cake is!!

Tech divorce from Walmart cost Brit retail giant Asda £1.22B

Re: That sounds a lot

Except they are still using SAP, so they have no escaped.

Google wants AI regulation, but on its own terms

AI wild west

The AI companies see themselve as the Cowboys and everyone else is the Indians. The Cowboys are looking for projection while also wanting the green light to do whatever they want to do!

India and China are home to 2.9 billion people – and together they bought just 13 million PCs in Q1

Re: TL;DR

A lot is nowhere near EVERYONE, there is also quite a few very rich people in them countries too!. Just pointing out the weath is not very well spread out.

Also poor does not meaning living in poverty.

Depending on how you measure it 80% of India ios poor :(

https://www.dataforindia.com/world-bank-poverty/

TL;DR

China and India have a lot of poor people and they are more likely to use a phone and a basic one at that to access on-line stuff. They do not have a great need to buy a PC.

Zuck defends monitoring employees to win AI race in purported leaked audio

Changed?

FAANG was from Facebook (now Meta), Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google (now Alphabet), with the changes it would be MAANA, but a new term is taking hold: MANGO — Microsoft, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google DeepMind and OpenAI.

Google users fight for refunds as unauthorized API usage bills soar

There's no limit!

If limit can be raised when the old limit is reached then there is no limit.

Calling the cops just got extra AI as police seek to add tech to contact systems

Are we all farm animals to be seriviced over by them?

London’s BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool

Considering

The weight of water and how the building was not designed to hold it, the pool is going to be rather small. It is more likely to be a "glorified feet soakers" or plunge pool rather than swimming pool, rather like pools on cruise ships.

Lego throws its own Hail Mary

I would be supprised in GamesWorkshop allowed anyone to product model using it's IP.

Lego lists the set's age as 18+

Is that so they can list it as a collectable and price it accordinly?

Arctic Wolf kicks 250 employees out of the pack to save money for AI

Can not

Say that no jobs will be lost to AI now!!

That old phone in the kitchen drawer could save an industry

Apps

With the increase of "there is an App for that" an unsupported device may as well be a dead device and some Apps will not install on a rooted device.

Sure if you only using it for calls and text an unsupported phone may do but you maybe better off with feature phone rather than a smart phone.

The Nokia 105 2nd Edition Mobile Phone £13.50 cheaper than fish and chips :)

User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave

Re: Maths

I assume it was:

Another where "4/6 of a property is the same as 2/3 of a property" started a discussion about math.

Which is yes as 4/6 is the same fraction as 2/3 :)

Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down

Could be they are thinking that they where an easier target?

Ubuntu has less money to put in place mitagation for this type of attack?

Brussels orders Google to share Android's AI sandbox with the other kids

Apple

Will Apple have to give the same access?

DeepSeek's new models are so efficient they'll run on a toaster ... by which we mean Huawei's NPUs

Is that you Dave?

AI's not going to kill open source code security

Re: others also might itch and use the scratch

Except in the real world bad people exist and some of them want to do bad things.

Breaking the itch/scratch idea they want to put in some itching powder to the scratch so it just causes you to itch more.

YouTuber has DIMM idea, builds working DRAM in backyard

Re: But does it run DOOM?

Crysis sounds far to old maybe Cyberpunk 2077 instead?

What am I doing.

Not buying anything, which about the best thing I can do to fix the problem/

Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger

Re: "one of misinformation and hype."

If you think in Hex then A1 is about what level AI hype is turned up to!

'People's Panel' to check if UK wants controversial Digital ID will cost £630K

Which rate of VAT would that be?

Get the opinion you want!!

Ask the questions in the right order to get the answer you want.

Yes, Prime Minister covered the issue years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahgjEjJkZks

Head-mounted VR hardware will never happen, says Neal Stephenson - who coined the term ‘metaverse’

Was it

Ever alive in the first place?