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Is it a drone? Is it a balloon? Whatever it is the US warns locals not to let them fly in Iran

Re: Beware drones carrying genies

Go study classic medical Gait Analysis, it's used accelerometers, gyroscopes, inertial measurement units (IMUs), and other navigational sensors ever since it was created to use devices like those about 70 years ago now. So we're going to ban things that can be used by people in other countries? Oh look they are breathing ... are we going to make that illegal too?

Banning "items" is only a very minor solution - the war in the Ukraine has created a considerable problem for Russia socially and economically ... it's much better effect to be saying Putin needs a high five in the face with a chair, than start firing nuclear missiles at everyone.

AI weapons need a safe back door for human control

AII upgrades?

Operating Systems have been created (written by programmers) for more than 60 years now and "upgraded" all the time because OS errors and problems are discovered ... so does AI need to be upgraded? How well will that work, probably about as well as UPGRADING smoking weed?

Let's start calling it AII - Artificial "Intelligence Imitation" ... realistically that's how it has always been working.

Florida man (not that one) sold $100M-plus in counterfeit network gear

Re: Damaging networks?

When he heard a problem then maybe he just sent the users to a post on TokTik and FaseBook that says that it's not a problem ...

No this is not a joke, this is just today's fraud environment - all of today's posts just react to this event, nobody's surprised are they?

10 years after Snowden's first leak, what have we learned?

Re: Trust

I have never seen Edward Snowden's revelations as "data leaks", basically he only documented what was happening behind the law in the USA back then, and these days is happening everywhere via apps on our phones ... I'd love to see his opinions on AI and if he is ever able to return home then I'll buy him a crate of beer.

James Webb smells someone having barbecue in galaxy 12 billion light years away

The start of life?

Volcanoes erupt and cause lightening, the lightening creates nitrates and fires create carbon combinations with oxygen so this is just a little suggestion of the creation of life in the universe, maybe just a few reproducing molecules that start to combine and eventually start to be organisms in a sea.

Let's check this planet again in the future ... maybe we should move there when our sun dies and takes us with it.

Crypto catastrophe strikes some Atomic Wallet users, over $35M thought stolen

"I kept all my money in crypto ... everything was so wonderfully stiff but now it just got very floppy.

You will probably think I'm listening to Kevin Bloody Wilson at work now ... yes that's what's happening - it's fine because everyone else has left work now.

Windows XP's adventures in the afterlife shows copyright's copywrongs

I agree, I was just thinking about my first copy of Windows on 3.5 inch "floppy" disks.

Re: What's the monetary damage?

Windows was originally written to work, a factor from its' original DEC environment years earlier.

But these days Windows is written to make users to buy new computers and generate more data income for Windows.

LOL and I remember disassembling CP/M, I've still got the printed pages but only did the disassembly to try and figure out how the floppy disks were being used.

Air Force colonel 'misspoke' when he said an AI-drone 'killed' its human operator

"misspoke" is now Miss Poked, poor girl

It's worth reviewing what we see these days compared to the environment 50 to 60 years ago in the UK when virtually every problem we see these days did not exist, as a kid after WW2 I saw people with guns (I had a pistol too) but I never heard of anyone getting shot or stabbed ... I still have my knife that I wore every week to my Boy Scout meeting, everyone there wore a knife and nobody ever pulled it out to threaten anyone or worried that we were all throwing our knives at the dartboard. Back then, after the war, people were only concerned with helping other people ... what we call these days as "social-media" didn't exist, AI didn't exist, all we did back then was listen to the BBC radio.

So there have been a lot of changes in the last 60 years ... it's just our guess about the cause of today's problems. Is posting our guesses on the social-media helping make things worse?

Microsoft stashes nearly half a billion in case LinkedIn data drama hits

Re: Thanks for this article

I wonder if deleting the LinkedIn account might explain a huge drop in the malware and virus deliveries since I cancelled it? This is weird and hard to believe but nice if it keeps going.

Thanks for this article

This story has confirmed issues that I thought I might be seeing. I've just deleted my LinkedIn account ... LOL, goodbye spam.

Cunningly camouflaged cable routed around WAN-sized hole in project budget

Re: Gutter connection

Maybe in about 30 years your daughter will be posting the details on El Reg and get all the upvotes that everyone is doing today! Your post is a good example of how students can learn a lot of things that they are not "taught" everyday.

NASA experts looked through 800 UFO sightings and found essentially nothing

Re: I'm not saying it's Aliens,...

I think that it's clear that aliens are visiting our planet. They are probably looking to see if there is any intelligent life, but ...

Does the icon apply to only one of my sentence's thoughts?

Criminals spent 10 days in US dental insurer's systems extracting data of 9 million

Payment information has arrived ...

Look at the attached payment information, payment_data_pdf.exe contains your payment details, please open the file and deposit the payments ...

These arrive all the time these days, this is how so many systems fall over - criminal activity is normal now, AI has created huge changes in the business world with users falling over all the time.

Microsoft up in Arms over data-loss protection in Windows 11

Re: AI vs AI

I just reviewed my spam folder in Outlook and Microsoft said "Threats detected and being eliminated"

But AI is being used to deliver spam and malware now.

PyPI subpoenaed: US govt demands data on developers

Re: Well, whos surprised? Not this guy.

Python was designed to make it very easy to create extremely effective and reliable applications, Python has done a fantastic job and is universally popular and applied these days ... but easy to create and highly reliable applications have the option of hacking for some programmer creators too ... this is not a criticism (or even a joke) but I wonder how many copies of Python are installed at the NSA and other countries related organizations too?

Windows XP activation algorithm cracked, keygen now works on Linux

Re: DO NOT go on the Internet with XP

Fair enough, that's reasonable and you can include a lot of other windows versions too ... but if you think you are safe with Windows 10 and 11 today, how many tens of thousands of hackers are working on screwing you soon these days? I wonder if I should I have said "hundreds" not "tens"?

Experimental brain-spine computer interface helped a paralyzed man walk

Re: Wonderful story to end the week with

I've been very happy to be working with the researchers in the USA doing this work for about 15 years now, we build an EMG system that allows the researchers to detect the patients muscle contractions while stimulating the muscles based on their spinal data collection work. It's always made me so happy to talk with the researchers as they explain how their patients arrive in the lab in a wheelchair and then get up and walk around!

We only designed the data collection system, the researchers are doing the great work, we've just given them a product that works in their muscle stimulation environment.

Microsoft enables booting physical PCs directly into cloud PCs

Re: Microsoft enables booting physical PCs directly into cloud PCs

Microsoft will be saying, "Thank you for paying us to sell your data for us."

FBI abused spy law but only like 280,000 times in a year

Re: How many for exPresidents

All US presidents talk with people outside the USA as just international politics, and if you read the details on the surveillance regulations then you'll see that American regulations say that it's completely legal to monitor an American citizens discussions if they ever talk with foreigners.

Google settles location tracking lawsuit for only $39.9M

If you made $60M by selling the data to advertisers then paying $39.9M is just a lower profit these days ... and if you only sold the data for $10M then you have a nice tax deduction that helps other profits.

AI is great at one thing: Driving next waves of layoffs

Re: Obsolete

I think that virtually all the references to "AI" are accurate but are describing the environment, while AI is not slavery, the environment that AI is creating is very similar to the obsolete slavery environment back in the days when slavery was making so many people richer ...

If AI rules the world in the future, then if you are not able to create your own AI ... "Can't get no food to eat, Can't get no money to spend, Woo -oo- oo" (Marcus Garvey - Burning Spear) ... that will be our world where AI does everything, creates music, paintings, food, and makes you do your job for AI's benefit ... AI says "here's your supper as today's payment" and you say "Oh no!, that's my cat!" but AI has shown you as "paid" and "fed"

Microsoft offers electrical engineers a lifeline as it pursues custom cloud silicon

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I would like to say something nice about Microsoft...

Oh wait, it's 25 years to late to do that, Microsoft thinks that we're all lunch these days.

In a stand against authoritarianism, Montana bans TikTok downloads

Re: Anti-alcohol laws

This is America, THC gummies are legal and available everywhere but they don't light up very well, too much smoke when you roll them up with tobacco.

You want AI regulation? Do it right with a dedicated agency, US senators suggest

Re: monumental and ignorant arrogance born of incestuous hubris and delusions of self-defeating

"Who'd have thought it...." - Donald Tramp ... Oh that looks odd, did AI give me the wrong response?

First ever 64-bit version of Windows rediscovered … and a C compiler for it too

Re: ...the people creating NT were poached from DEC

Dave just moved from DEC to Microsoft after DEC was heading to the end of DEC's life, he had always worked to create highly reliable and functional operating systems. OK, I'm using Windows today but I still have an RL02 that can install RSX11M - Windows has been "upgraded" a lot since it was created but the original versions were great to use, and so was RSX.

DEC was dying, not poached.

Elizabeth Holmes is going to prison – with a $500m bill

Re: Insufficient Evidence?

"When St Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland they all came to New York and became Judges" - Brendan Behan

Offshore wind power redesign key to adoption, says Irish firm

Re: USA

LOL, that's a quote from years ago, here's another one that helps explain some of the issues you have noted - LOL

"I am a drinker with writing problems." - Brendan Behan

Re: USA

"New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat." - Brendan Behan

Microsoft will upgrade Windows 10 21H2 users whether they like it or not

Re: Forced upgrade

Windows is designed to reliably upgrade itself, keep installing the upgrades until Windows 12 arrives and you need to buy a new PC for the new upgrades. Windows "users" are only Microsoft Thunders.

(edited to correct my typo, that should have said "funders")

Tech companies cut jobs to chase growth, but watch out for those shareholder returns

"And how they beat us, And how they worked us so hard, And how they used us, Till they refuse us (Do you remember the days of slavery?)" - let's create a new band to describe today, Burning Spear App.

Astronomers say they've seen the largest explosion yet – and we just had to talk to them

Re: The future is only Science Fiction

Thanks Lars, that's good to hear.

The future is only Science Fiction

When you look at all these explosions that we see throughout the Universe it seems that black holes are the only permanent existence in the Universe, everything else (galaxies and even us) is not going to be here forever given the vast numbers of black holes everywhere. So if everything is swallowed by black holes eventually and all the black holes start to swallow each other, will there be one super-massive black hole exploding in the distant future to create the next Universe edition with a bigger bang?

Thanks El Reg, this is a good story.

Why Microsoft just patched a patch that squashed an under-attack Outlook bug

Re: Value to users

And everything is written these days to add new features and be attractive to users, encouraging them to buy the new version. It seems that nothing is written to be totally safe because that would mean a lot more effort to write the app and then work to verify that it was not hackable. Corporate managers seem to be far more interested in "an upgrade" than offering completely safe functions.

Hackable applications need to be replaced, users need to buy the new versions so hacking is making everyone (except all of us users) a lot of money these days.

EU's Cyber Resilience Act contains a poison pill for open source developers

"...and ensure customers can use products securely."

El Reg, can we please have posting icon that is a pair of wire-cutters for incidents discussed in this article.

AI to detect heart attacks tested in the land of the deep-fried Mars bar

Not Easy but possible

Heart Attacks are normally fairly easy to observe when you get a decent EKG recording, basically just monitor the electrical heart muscle contractions, they are quite complex but looking at the baseline level changes with the "p", "QRS" and T-waves will give you a good diagnosis of a potential heart attack or other issues. So all you need to do is look at their heartbeats for a few minutes once you have some EKG interpretation experience (mine's about 40 years now, because that's how I started electronics).

Millions of mobile phones come pre-infected with malware, say researchers

Common Original Visually Infected Devices - let's face it, the world would be strange if infected devices did not exist everywhere these days. It's horrible but malware and infectious everything is normal now. If I had one of these devices then I'd wear a mask and vaccinate it with a hammer.

Microsoft can't stop injecting Copilot AI into every corner of its app empire

Re: AI integration

Looking at our mail-server quarantines every day I suspect that all virus and malware deliveries may now be AI organized.

Brexit Britain looks to French company to save crumbling borders and immigration tech

"It is a good deed to forget a poor joke" - Brendan Behan (was he predicting the Brexit vote?)

The future of cars may be self-driving EVs gossiping about their humans and traffic

Accidental Intelligence evolution?

I see so many stories that suggest that AI related evolution is moving so much faster than our evolution. We climbed out of the trees and started walking around about 30 million years ago, but now we don't need to walk or even drive a car, have we created AI to be so much smarter than we are? Is AI and driver-less cars going to be another asteroid? Certainly we're not walking around these days, will AI be digging up some fossils and saying, "Look this one has something holding the steering wheel, why the hell was that happening?"

China labels USA 'Empire of hacking' based on old Wikileaks dumps

Once upon a time ...

"I have never seen a situation so dismal that a government couldn't make it worse." - Brendan Behan updated

Handwritten Einstein essay on theory of relativity goes under the hammer

Studying Einstein's work and his thinking about the events that he often either saw or predicted is wonderfully educational. I think his attitude to his work was wonderful (icon), in 1952 he said:

“I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious”

Feds rethink warrantless search stats and – oh look, a huge drop in numbers

Re: Explain it to me

Are we going to start seeing emails with the title "Delivery update" and the contents : Here's your shipping information "Cannabis_Delivery_pdf.img" thus targeting everyone?

President Biden urged to appoint AI officers to regulate this shiny-shiny tech

Long time from now, in a place very far, in the court of a castle, on a star a mad jester tunes, his fiery guitar, and with a grin he says to the Czar:

I'm gonna sing you a Ancient tune "Look out pa! There's monkeys on the moon!"