Posts by Snowy

Why Elon Musk won't ever realize the shareholder-approved Tesla payout

Just remember

Some day soon, and it won't be long, the money merry-go-around will stop spinning and all those dreams will come crashing to a halt.

If you can fool someone to buy your magic beans for massive profit you do not care if the merry-go-round stop, you have your profit.

Broken wizard forces Microsoft to issue out-of-band Windows 10 patch

Re: I see you're...

I see your trying to get people to upgrade to windows 11 would you like me to poorly implement an ESU system enrollment for windows 10 for you?

China uses Mars orbiter to snap interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

Re: Oh gawd is there no escape..

The shutdown is part of the coverup!!

UK judge delivers a 'damp squib' in Getty AI training case, no clear precedent set

Re: Of course, Getty has always been whiter-than-white

Just what I was thinking about, as I was sure they had "found" other people's work and adopted it as their own.

Copilot can replace Search in latest Windows 11 test builds, but it's not a good idea

Though it’s off by default,

For now, give it time and it will be on by default.

China's president Xi Jinping jokes about backdoors in Xiaomi smartphones

I believe on Windows it is called an undocumented feature.

AI's trillion dollar deal wheel bubbling around Nvidia, OpenAI

Suprised you did not use.

https://images.moneycontrol.com/static-mcnews/2025/10/20251010060846_Open-AI-091025.jpg

Metropolitan Police hails facial recognition tech after record year for arrests

Re: 80% of the false positives were black

How large is the black population in areas where they were deployed?

Fortytwo's decentralized AI has the answer to life, the universe, and everything

Re: In the washup wasn't 42 == 6×9 ?

42 does equal 6*9 just not in base 10.

AI blew open software security, now OpenAI wants to fix it with an agent called Aardvark

Re: For Free?

If it is free you are the product?

MPs urge government to stop Britain's phone theft wave through tech

Re: Repairable? or Theft-Proof?

From the news the box of choice is some aluminum foil.

Who gets a Mac at work? Here's how companies decide

Do they have something against chocolate?

Starlink is burning up one or two satellites a day in Earth’s atmosphere

Re: We used to watch out for an "Iridium flare"

In the sun sun sun.

Jaguar Land Rover engines ready to roar again after weeks-long cyber stall

Hmmm may be

To help with the company's financial recovery, the UK government issued a £1.5 billion ($2 billion) loan guarantee at the end of September following pressure from unions and talks with JLR suppliers.

Instead of supporting JLR they should have directly supported the supplier who where feeling more pain for something out of their direct control.

India's tech talent pipeline is sputtering

Re: Hang on

Economists with Yale's Budget Lab, a non-partisan policy research group, took a look at how US employment has changed since the November 2022 debut of ChatGPT and the sequent release of other generative AI models.

Not affecting US jobs yet, seeing that a lot of work got off shored it is logical that them jobs would be the first to go rather than jobs in USA?

Brit scientists over the Moon after growing tea in lunar soil

The cheese on the moon is from the milk of the cows jumping over it? Is moon cheese just a rind on the moon or does it go deeper?

Google unmasks itself as mystery hyperscaler behind yet another UK datacenter

Re: Might be cynical but....

Cheaper until the "cost overruns"?

Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates

Is an update still an update.

If the update slows the device down so much it is for all practical purposes "Bricked"?

UK Lords take aim at Ofcom's 'child-protection' upgrades to Online Safety Act

Re: just bollox

You mean the Bible has ALL the answers, no need to look on the internet/

Beijing went to 'EggStreme' lengths to attack Philippines military, researchers say

Re: VoiceOfTruth

One groups defender is another groups attacker, just depends on which side your are standing.

If Broadcom is helping OpenAI build AI chips, here's what they might look like

If Broadcom is doing anything.

Then the only thing they are doing is helping themselves to the money!!

Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware, warns lack of support could disrupt food supply

Aldi

They do not have a card or app, just good prices.

The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon

Re: Does This Mean...

No nothing will bring down the price, if the need for AI cards goes down they will just look to make the same money selling Graphics cards.

Getting touchy-feely with a Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2

Now

Make a bigger one like a 10inch one, not sure why they would make a 5 inch one when a 7 inch one is already available.

Microsoft lets devs tell Copilot to STFU in Visual Studio

It is a start

but if you can not turn it off what is the point of it just being a little less irritating?

Tesla bid to become a UK electricity supplier gets politically 'charged'

Simple

They are going to buy energy cheap off their residential solar panels and battery systems for home users and sell it to the grid for a lot more!

No more Blocktoberfest? German court throws book at ad blockers

Re: That would be perfectly fine

Yes adverts are not the problem it is all the stuff they do to display them and the security holes they open up to do it.

Little LLM on the RAM: Google's Gemma 270M hits the scene

Re: GIGO

Google in, Google observe. Happy now?

Hyundai: Want cyber-secure car locks? That'll be £49, please

Re: Do you want a car with that key?

I'm not a car buyer so I've not looked init much. I can imagine that with software it became easier to pre-installed but not enable, but even in the past it could be done with fitting dummy fuses so that the parts are not powered.

I guess they gain with having a simpler supply, in this case only needing to hold one set of chairs for each interior.

Would that offset the increased price of the item, do they increase the price of the car to account for the increased BOM and then charge you more to turn in that thing on. Which would mean you're paying twice for the item. Once to fit it and a second time to turn it on?

Re: Do you want a car with that key?

The real trouble was they were already fitted to the car and they would only work if you paid for them.

OpenAI’s new model can't believe that Trump is back in office

Easy :)

That would the people hyping it up.

Trump

He did steal the election and the AI found the proof

UK unveils plans to 'transform' the consumer smart meter experience

Re: £2,500 off their bills over 10 years???

Its whining all the way down.

Uncle Sam floats tracking tech to keep AI chips out of China

Re: A different law is needed

Easy any new bad law they try to bring in should result in them been given the full punishment of the "new" law.

German phone repair biz collapses following 2023 ransomware attack

Re: You paid them

It is still the businesses money, they were blackmailed and in no sense did they hand over the money willingly.

If someone threaten you with violence in the street and you handed over your money. When the police recovered that money are you saving the money would not be yours now as you willing handed it over?

Re: You paid them

It may "ought to be a criminal offence" but currently it is not, so is holding on the their money a crime itself?

Tested: Microsoft Recall can still capture credit cards and passwords, a treasure trove for crooks

Turn it off

and do not turn in back on :)

Tech bro denied dev's hard-earned bonus for bug that overcharged a little old lady

Re: Lawsuit culture

The latest being this car financing thing

The car dealers sorted the finance but oddly the banks have to pay the compensation for the "mis-sold" finance.

India eats China's lunch in US smartphone manufacturing

Re: Where next

Trade is better than aid, and trade in good is a lot better than trade in raw materials.

Where next

China became to expensive, so they moved to India. When that becomes to0 expensive are they going to move to somewhere in Africa?

A billion dollars' worth of Nvidia chips fell off a truck and found their way to China, report says

Not Surprised.

An estimated $1 billion worth of smuggled high-end Nvidia AI processors have reportedly found their way onto the Chinese black market,

I would be more surprised if the illegally smuggled things made their way on to anything other than the black market.

Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty

If

You want to control who has access to your data do not use someone else's computer!!

UN World Court declares countries must curb emissions or be held responsible

Re: Useless Non-entities

If they did try to pass a impactful resolution I bet a permanent member of the UN Security Council would just veto it.

The UN has no teeth and even if it did the teeth are sitting in a glass of water on the bedside table while the UN sleeps

Here in the UK we can not even stop water companies from allowing polluting the environment.

Sh!t happens, so Microsoft is paying biz to flush its carbon sins underground

Re: Does carbon storage actually work?

Or for not cutting down trees you were never going to cut down anyway.

IRS has lost one-quarter of its IT staff since Trump took office

Tax are for the poor, there is more of them and they can not afford to pay a good accountant to minimise their taxes, what a wonderful world we live in /s

Tata Consultancy enforces return-to-office mandate for all US staff, effective immediately

Re: I'm sure the C-suite will be in the office

I would hope they would be it could be a case of "Do as a say and not as I do"

Could be a blessing in disguise if the C-suite is away :)

Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals

Re: I have a better plan for biometrics and I can exclusively reveal it here on El Reg.

Biometrics if your going to use them should IMHO be only used as a username and never as a password.

US signals intention to rethink job H-1B lottery

Could be

One of them skills is money, quite a bit of money...

Icon, the whole thing is in danger of becoming a joke.

Time for Britain's CMA to strike hard – or risk losing the cloud competition fight

Re: Clowns

Yes but a press release it cheaper and easier to do than "market reforms" for a market they do not fully understand.

Large Hadron Collider data hints at explanation for why everything exists

Re: Mostly

CERN is developing the Future Circular Collider (FCC), which would be significantly larger and more powerful than the LHC. The FCC is envisioned as a 100-kilometer circumference collider, compared to the LHC's 27 kilometers, and would aim to smash particles at higher energies. This project aims to further explore the fundamental laws of physics and potentially discover new particles and