Posts by Snowy

Stanford sends 'hallucinating' Alpaca AI model out to pasture over safety, cost

GIGO

<quote>Meta planned to share the code for its LLaMA system with select researchers in an attempt to spur research into why language models generate toxic and false text. </quote>

Look to the internet for your text and they expect it to be good?

BBC to staff: Uninstall TikTok from our corporate kit unless you can 'justify' having it

Re: If they want to be consistent..

Of China and US currently one of them is committing genocide, I leave it to you to figure out which one.

Re: doesn't do it on Apple

How visible are the controls?

Alarming: Tesla lawsuit claims collision monitoring system is faulty

Re: What do you expect?

While there is a steering wheel in the car you are the driver so unless you can prove the AI caused the accident the driver is to blame.

Germany clocks that ripping out Huawei, ZTE network kit won't be cheap or easy

Re: Just doing to China

Part of the problem is China is the worlds second largest economy but still has developing nation status and that gives it a lot of advances. One of them is postage is a lot cheaper when they send packages aboard.

Just doing to China

What China wants to do to the rest of the world.

It is what Made in China 2025 is all about (https://nhglobalpartners.com/made-in-china-2025/)

China debuts bonkers hybrid electric trolley-truck

Re: Nice until

Also the top for repression and genocide!

Nice until

You find out they are burning coal to make the electricty.

Techie fired for inventing an acronym – and accidentally applying it to the boss

Re: brightness adjustment needed

That does not make the user any brighter but something flammable and a match will

AI-generated art can be copyrighted, say US officials – with a catch

Re: Realistically this is less of an issue than people make out...

The earliest version of Mickey Mouse is also out of copyright.

Flirting hard with India doesn't mean US is breaking up with China

Break up with China

It is for the best in the long terms.

Rebel without a clause: ISP promises broadband with no contract

Re: !no contract

Always a contract and in this case I believe it is called a rolling contract.

Where are the women in cyber security? On the dark side, study suggests

To be fair, Trend Micro's methodology is a bit iffy – and the report itself admits as much.

Iffy I think they meant a complete load trash.

They are posting anonymously on cyber crime forum and the report does not even think that they may have used software to change the style of the writing so it can not be matched with their own?

Re: So these figures mean...

Not down "woke"

EU 'poised' to OK Microsoft's Activision biz gobble

It not over

Until it is over.

Warning on SolarWinds-like supply-chain attacks: 'They're just getting bigger'

Re: Say what?

Also easier to go back and read a part I did not fully understand on first pass.

Why our solar-storm sats corrode – and probably not what you expected

They are leaking water

and are surprised they have something rusting.

Can we interest you in a $10 pocket calculator powered by Android 9?

Re: "Asok has a basket containing 12 apples, Nish wants 7..."

Does the down voter want a toasted crumpet instead?

Re: "Asok has a basket containing 12 apples, Nish wants 7..."

Would you like some toast?

Hands up anyone happy with Uncle Sam's $50B IT mega-job. Anyone?

Puts hand down.

I'm not happy, I'm not getting any of that $50 billion is the reason!!

UK consortium set to bid for £480 million NHS data platform

I wish they would just make up their mines and leave or just tell the SNP to shut up.

If we plan to live on the Moon, it's going to need a time zone

Re: Just set the entire moon to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC +0) ...

Given what happened to those that stayed behind, I think the B ark is the best choice :)

Twitter rewards remaining loyal staff by decimating them

Eight pounds

Yet you still get adverts!!!!

Signal says it'll shut down in UK if Online Safety Bill approved

Does this

Make owning and using an old non supported phone a criminal offense?

Workday sued over its AI job screening tool, candidate claims discrimination

ITT Technical Institute, Indiana.

As far as I can see they shut down in 2016 so that is quite a gap between then and now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITT_Technical_Institute

Dole production plants crippled by ransomware, stores run short

To late

<quote>"Upon learning of this incident, Dole moved quickly to contain the threat and engaged leading third-party cybersecurity experts, who have been working in partnership with Dole's internal teams to remediate the issue and secure systems," the statement continued.</quote>

Time to do this is before you get attacked afterwards is just shutting the door after the horse has bolted.

Gartner: Oracle probes orgs for Java compliance after new licensing terms

Re: Oracle is targeting users on Java compliance after new licensing terms

That and all their money.

Wipro tells freshers a job awaits - if they accept a lower salary than first offered

Re: "Turbo" looks good on my car, what about on my project?

Go fast and break things, they can be paid again to fix it :O

SpaceX threatened with $175,000 fine for Starlink crash risk paperwork blunder

Re: It is a fine?

I think your replying to the wrong post as I made no mention of the delay in the fine rather the size of the fine.

Your reason for them not getting a punitive fine is an odd one as that reason could be used by any one. The fine is only going to be paid by someesle when we put the price up.

It is a fine?

Where the fine is just a rounding error to the cost of the doing business?

Was the fine less than the cost of producing the paperwork?

Virtual reality telemetry means you can virtually kiss goodbye to privacy

Is this "new" research?

I'm sure I read some where that someone was working at identifying people from their gait via CCTV, doing this in VR is so much easier with how much data you get.

Meta cranks Zuckerberg's personal security budget to $14m while cutting everything else

I wonder

Where and to who all that money went given they are spending so much more than everyone else...

Core-JS chief complains open source is broken, no one will pay for it

Re: If you want to get paid

Nicely put :)

If you want to get paid

Do not release you software for free.

Musk's view count antics are perfect cover for Twitter's paid API failure

To late

Not many want to pay for API access, those that did not left and they will not be coming back.

Chipmakers threaten to defect to US, EU if UK doesn't get its semiconductor plans sorted

Re: No, no, no.

The top answer from google is Skillet is an American Christian rock band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1996.

Google's $100b bad day demo may be worth the price

Share price goes down

Does not equal to the company losing that money!

Used EV car batteries find new life storing solar power in California

A good step

Now use the time this gives to figure out a way to recycle the materials in the batteries to make new ones when they are come to the end of their second life.

Bank of England won't call it Britcoin but says digital pound 'likely to be needed in future'

Re: How will this ever happen?

Not if they get to run it.

Or it will be "non binding" and we all know how well that went last time weather you agreed with the outcome or not it was a complete mess.

It may be worth £5 but when used 100 times it adds £500 to the GBP.

Re: Digital Cash..

At least one card does not have numbers on the outside now, so even if they had one it would not work for all cards.

Surprise! China's top Android phones collect way more info

Re: As an owner of a Xiaomi

You missed an option China is West Taiwan :)

Australian government doxxed citizens who criticized illegal 'Robodebt' scheme

When

India becomes to expensive do they move on to some place in Africa or will China have to much influence in Africa by then?

Semiconductor world in for a rough ride as chip bubble bursts at the high end

Only thing

dropping is the expensive cutting edge stuff.

Lucy asteroid probe forced to limp on without full solar array

Re: It's full of... Drugs!

At 3.18 million years old I think this Lucy may predate them by a few years.

Happy Lunar New Year: Beijing warns of enhanced surveillance during celebrations

Any thing but red ink

least you be caught red handed.

Bringing cakes into the office is killing your colleagues, says UK food watchdog boss

Promotion

Killing of your colleagues is one way to get that promotion and this way you do not need to supply the roll of carpet and some lime, I'm sure Simon would approve.

Nuclear-powered datacenter throws open doors to tenants this year

No such things as carbon free

<quote>US-based Cumulus Data says it is constructing a datacenter campus adjacent to a nuclear power station in order to directly obtain low-cost, zero-carbon energy for prospective tenants.</quote>

It was built with lots of concrete and that is very far from being carbon free, and since when was nuclear power considered low-cost?

FTX audit finds $415m in crypto mysteriously vanished

Re: "might have been a little easier if he'd been kept in a cell"

Locking him away may cost more than letting him out and keeping him constantly under surveillance?