Posts by Snowy

xAI's Grok lurches into right-wing insanity, offers tips on assaulting man

Re: Yaccarino came onboard ...

Leaving before to much Grok output hits the fan and she gets sprayed by it

Nvidia CEO says China wouldn't risk building military supers with American AI chips

Nvidia CEO says China

On the other hand Nvidia would be quite happy to supply them with the chips to do it.

From A2A to MCP, a look at the protocols that might one day help AI automate you out of a job

Without a standards body

Your just going to get lots of competing on non interoperable standards.

UK's NCA disputes claim it's nearly three times less efficient than the FBI

Re: Do NCA have better measures?

Or how many "small" boats it failed to stop, considering we are told that they are due to organised criminal gangs?

Tech to protect images against AI scrapers can be beaten, researchers show

Re: Jurisdiction

Money is the problem, those stealing have loads of it and they are stealing from those with a lot less.

It is nearly impossible to take someone to court over copyright and winning (winning does not count if you do not receive any money after you costs) when they have so much more money than you do.

Tim Cook's Tim Cook stepping down from Apple

Williams was seen as his natural successor in the operations role

is that another way of saying rival?

Re: Is there a new meaning for that ?

The phrase "spend more time with friends and family" as been used to many times when the real reason is something else for it to be taken at face value.

I also disagree with the idea that due to me not trusting Apples words that agree with anything that Trumps says and I would say that the overlap of the two is quite small.

Question everything and trust them even less, they are not your friends all they want is your money/vote and will say and do anything they can get away with to get them. Just look at how Apple has structure their business to minimises their taxes.

Re: Is there a new meaning for that ?

In which case they are not being totality honest either and it could have been worded better. If he is not retiring and is planning on doing something else later then may be they could have said ""After 27 years at Apple he is taking his well earned break and at this time he not ready to reveal his plans for the future"

Re: Is there a new meaning for that ?

If it is retiring then why not say "After 27 years at Apple he is taking his well earned retirement and is looking forward to spending more time with friends and family"

Privacy campaigners pour cold water on London cops' 1,000 facial recognition arrests

Met office

According to the raw data published by the Met, London's police made 715,296 arrests in total since 2020. 1,035 of these were made with the support of LFR, and 773 led to charges or police cautions.

Does that mean at 262 (25.3%) were not guilty of anything or just incorrectly identified?

How many of the 773 where charged with am "horrendous offence" and how many of them were convicted of the offence?

How many were given a police caution?

How much have they spent on it?

"Live facial recognition is a powerful tool, which is helping us deliver justice for victims, including those who have been subjected to horrendous offences, such as rape and serious assault," she said.

Why do they always lead with the worse things, I'm surprised they did not include terrorism in the list.

Microsoft developer ported vector database coded in SAP’s ABAP to the ZX Spectrum

Re: "But then you'd have to smash the fingers of the know it all youths"

Out source it and then it becomes someone else's problem, "Those are nice fingers, it would be a shame if anything happen to them!!"

VMware must support crucial Dutch govt agency as it migrates off the platform, judge rules

Re: Money for nothing...

I think the sales team will not see any of that money.

Google to buy power from fusion energy startup Commonwealth - if they can ever make it work

Re: Watts of energy?

Yes power is energy over time 1 unit of energy is 1 Kwh.

BOFH: Peeling back the layers of the magic banana industrial complex

Re: HERESY!!!!

Are there none bent ones?

What if Microsoft just turned you off? Security pro counts the cost of dependency

Dependency

It is not just Microsoft that would be a problem if they turned something off.

Tesla Robotaxi videos show Elon's way behind Waymo

Re: Maybe not drugs

Is that how you say you do not know what it means without saying you do not know what it means.

Not everyone knows everything about drugs.

Yes life is great under my rock :)

Re: Maybe not drugs

Now that makes more sense that "it's a drugs reference" then not explaining the reference.

Maybe not drugs

Tesla priced all trips at $4.20, presumably as a reference to drugs.

Could also be a reference to 42 being the answer to life the universe and everything.

Microsoft is about to retire default outbound access for VMs in Azure

Re: This will shake out a few of the chancers ...

More like point and nick!

Empire State to site 1 GW nuke as AI bit barns guzzle power

Best time.

To have started this would have been around 10 years ago, then it would be finished and fully commissioned by now.

Brit space sector struggles to compete with £90K graduate banking salaries

Re: self inflicted bullshit

The UK pension scheme where tax on today's workers funds the pensions was designed on the assumption that people would only have a few years of retirement, not that their retirement time would be nearly 30% of their time spent working.

They will adjust the age of retirement until you do only live a few years after retirement, they have already started the process.

Microsoft broke DHCP for Windows Server last Patch Tuesday

Re: Easy; Just blame AI

AI is the new rogue engineer?

Training AI on Mastodon posts? The idea's extinct after terms updated

Borg: Your Terms of Use is futile!!

Amazon CISO: Iranian hacking crews ‘on high alert’ since Israel attack

Re: Moses?

And Jacob was also asked for comment, but at time of publication we've had no reply.

He is too busy tending his ladder?

Do you trust Xi with your 'private' browsing data? Apple, Google stores still offer China-based VPNs, report says

Re: I don't trust ANYONE with my private browsing data

Is there any country that does not do it?

US Army signs up Band of Tech Bros with a suitably nerdy name

The Army wasn't answering questions on Friday but an article referenced by Weil indicated that the four will have to serve a minimum of 120 hours a year, can work remotely, and won't have to pass basic training - probably not a problem for a marathon runner like Weil.

Considering the back to office mandate that gets thrown about maybe they should not do any of the work remotely!

Trump administration's whole-government AI plans leaked on GitHub

Plot of a film

I'm sure this was the plot of some terminator film.

BT managers' union mulls options after 'derisory or non-existent' pay rise

Manager please remember!

Just remember if you do not stand up for your staff, your staff is not going to stand up and help you when you need help.

Ex-NSA bad-guy hunter listened to Scattered Spider's fake help-desk calls: 'Those guys are good'

Aye if you can not prove it your no one.

No-boom supersonic flights could slide through US skies soon

Ban it

Not invented here :)

AI training license will allow LLM builders to pay for content they consume

Re: I don't see it working for one simple reason

Some rich legal people getting richer?

CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun

Re: Move MITRE & CVE to Europe

Or WECANT!

Small ocean swirls may have an outsized effect on climate, NASA satellite shows

The seas

Is this the seas version of the butterfly effect and as such should be called the plankton effect?

Congress wants to know if Nvidia superchips slipped through Singapore to DeepSeek

Re: Medism?

Even at its darkest the world of bond is a lot happier than the world we are living in :(

NASA rewrites Moon mission goals in quiet DEI retreat

Re: Insane

About the only thing you can say about people who did not votes is they can not complain about the result.

Man with artificial heart survives over 100 days outside hospital

Re: From 100 days to a lifetime?

The issues with making it last a lifetime could be down to how it is powered?

Qualcomm pledges 8 years of security updates for Android kit using its chips (YMMV)

Great first step

The handset manufactures also have to issue the fixes for the phones too.

Satya Nadella says AI is yet to find a killer app that matches the combined impact of email and Excel

Email or Excel

That should be "which may come once the technology finds a killer app to match the impact of email or spreadsheets.", but then Microsoft did not invent either of them.

Google binning SMS MFA at last and replacing it with QR codes

Re: UK Banks

Your optimistic.

France, UAE to drop €50B on AI mega-datacenter. Still nowhere near America’s $500B bet

Spend better

Rather than spend more.

Arm gives up on killing off Qualcomm's vital chip license

Re: Way to trash your brand!

Yes once the cake is eaten it is gone!

Nvidia plots Quantum Day at GTC 2025 – for tech it called a distant dream

Nvidia finds a way

To simutates stable qbits on a GPU?

Pornhub lockdown and fact-free Zuckbots – welcome to 2025

Re: It's an easy go to

Yes get on with it not another inquiry!

Intel, AMD engineers rush to save Linux 6.13 after dodgy Microsoft code change

Extra checks please!!!

On Microsoft submissions given "Microsoft is notable for dubious quality control standards regarding releases of its flagship operating system, Windows."

Tim cooking up the dough as his Apple pay rises 18% to $74.6M

Tax efficient remuneration package!!

The total remuneration package consisted of a $3 million base salary – unchanged in recent years – as well as $58.1 million in stock awards, $12 million in non-equity incentive plan compensation, and $1.52 million in terms of all other compensation

Only the $3 million base salary is taxed as pay, the rest is tax in a different way, and I would guess at a lot lower rate too.

The ultimate Pi 5 arrives carrying 16GB ... and a price to match

Going AI

Jumping on the AI bandwagon?

AI spending spree continues as Microsoft commits $80B for 2025

Re: I love the coprorate (sic) fine print

If the AI is good then why would you need to be trained to use it? It should understand what you want/need and do it for you.

It's only a matter of time before LLMs jump start supply-chain attacks

Re: Protection must improve first

How many “R”s in raspberry?

There are no R's in raspberry, pirates use R's

How to keep cheese from falling off a pizza?

Nails pr if you must tacks.

Are LLMs totally over hyped and there is a collapse coming that will make the dot com bubble burst look like a non event?

They will be replaced with VLLM and them with ELLM

Million GPU clusters, gigawatts of power – the scale of AI defies logic

AI Scaling Hits Wall, Rumours Say. How Serious is it?

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

More hardware is not going to fix the problem.

Jury spares Qualcomm's AI PC ambitions, but Arm eyes a retrial

Appeal

There was always going to be an appeal regardless of who won.