Posts by Kane

O2 cranks prices mid-contract, essentially telling customers to like it or lump it

Re: Cancel and keep the phone?

"Since the hire purchase on the phone is rolled into the data contract, you don't sign two separate ones."

I hate to be "that guy", but akchewlee...

They now do two separate contracts, one for the data plan, and one for the phone. They're quite clever about it as well. The device contract is over the course of 36 months. But the data plan is over the course of 24 months, thereby ensuing you're likely to stay with the provider to keep things "tidy", i.e not having two separate contracts with two different providers.

This security hole can crash billions of Chromium browsers, and Google hasn't patched it yet

...and sucked down 18 GB of RAM into one tab.

I thought that was typical of Chromium based browsers, Ya?

Elon Musk's Grokipedia launches, filled to the brim with plagiarism and AI slop

What a Grok of Shit

Discord says 70,000 photo IDs compromised in customer service breach

Re: Wait until the politicians' details are leaked

"Just like Animal Farm..."

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Also, Pink Floyd's "Animals" lyrics has never felt more relevant.

Microsoft cuts off Azure phone surveillance support for Israeli military

We do not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians.

Only customers.

Word to autosave new docs to the cloud before you can even hit Ctrl+S

assuming the user has a Copilot Chat or Microsoft 365 Copilot license

Hahaha!

No.

WTH makes you think that anyone needs a license in order for MS to read the contents of your files?

End well, this won't: UK commissioner suggests govt stops kids from using VPNs

Re: UK home office wanted EVERYONE

"free speed"

Where do I sign up?

Microsoft crams Copilot AI directly into Excel cells

Re: Err .....

"Of course a square wheel will work just fine, look if you push it really hard it rolls."

That's not important. What's important is it's colour.

LLM chatbots trivial to weaponize for data theft, say boffins

"that chatbots built on its platform may not compromise the privacy of their users"

But possibly might be willing to compromise the privacy of non-users?

Vibe coding platform Anything arrives, our hands-on suggests caution

so reliable you can build entire apps without looking at the code once, under the hood.

Nah, we good.

Some users report their Firefox browser is scoffing CPU power

That would be Louis Rossmann

UK proxy traffic surges as users consider VPN alternatives amid Online Safety Act

Re: VPNs highly unlikely to be made illegal in the UK

If they wanted to do it, they could.

• Ban the sale of private VPN services within the UK.
• Become the only provider of "licensed" VPNs.
• There will be two licensing tiers for "legal" VPNs - the State and private organisations/companies with legitimate "business" interest.
• Those that claim legitimate interest will have to jump through a series of bureaucratic hoops in order to obtain a license.
• Those hoops will be repeated, let's say, every 24 months.
• Throughout those 24 months there will be the opportunity for "spot checks/auditing"
• Any non-state org that fails either a renewal of the license or fails a "spot checks/auditing" gets heavily fined/slapped on the wrist (depends on the size/thickness of the required dark brown envelope)
• ????
• Profit! Control and Censorship!

I would also like to add the following. A comment I made on an article many years ago that got downvoted for reasons: https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2017/07/31/china_russia_clamp_down_on_vpns/#c_3247919

Prohibition never works, but that didn't stop the UK's Online Safety Act

"Your information is securely stored...

...in a Dropbox (which may be replicated on approved, secured laptops) and on MSTeams."

I'm sorry, what?

How to train your robot: Wear a tiny one in a baby carrier

Re: Sub Heading - MIssed Opportunity

"Bring Your CHILD To Work Day!"

This was a triumph.

Millions of age checks performed as UK Online Safey Act gets rolling

Re: Madness

I couldn't tell you who though, because when you do a Google search for this information it has been weirdly censored

Your google-fu skills are lacking, as is your comprehension.

Write-back to aging UK health systems lessens benefits of Palantir-based platform

I wonder...

...who will be supplying the contract(s) to update all those old legacy systems that can't be written back to?

Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson backs plan to do a Jurassic Park on extinct birds

"Antarctica. People always forget Antarctica."

Blair's been busy out there all by himself.

US Navy backs right to repair after $13B carrier crew left half-fed by contractor-locked ovens

Re: Rowies

"They need to take a supply of Aberdeen rowies (aka butteries). They were developed back when fishing fleets could be away for weeks - bread rolls so full of fat and salt that nothing could live on them (and so make them inedible). Not necessarily the healthiest food but OK as part of an otherwise good diet."

"The dwarf bread was brought out for inspection. But it was miraculous, the dwarf bread. No one ever went hungry when they had some dwarf bread to avoid. You only had to look at it for a moment, and instantly you could think of dozens of things you'd rather eat. Your boots, for example. Mountains. Raw sheep. Your own foot."

Microsoft's plain text editor gets fancy as Notepad gains formatting options

Re: Wordpad

"I expect it will grow some video editing functions shortly."

Live integration with Teams.

Nuke it >>>

Workday promises to grow workforce slowly and differently after shedding 1,750 jobs

"AI is new outsourcing to India."

700

Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson wants AIs fighting AIs so those most fit to live with us survive

"...and have learned to get along with them."

Some of them are even tasty.

Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors

Re: Hold on

"Galloping Gertie"!

Poor Tubby

The 12 KB that Windows just can't seem to quit

++?????++ Out of Cheese Error. Redo From Start

Signalgate storm intensifies as journalist releases full secret Houthi airstrike chat

Re: I cannot see how bombing the Houthis helps

"It helps Musk ship Teslas from China to Europe via Suez."

Excellent! Just in time for those foreign manufactured car tariffs!

Linus Torvalds forgot to release Linux 6.14 for a whole day

Re: You know what he needs?

"and then promptly order 60,000 boxes of paperclips"

Release The Hypno Drones

France offers US scientists a safe haven from Trump's war on woke

Re: les queer studies?

"There is no measles epidemic in the USA."

Lol! Okay, mate

Pirate Bay financier and far-right activist Carl Lundström dies in plane crash

Re: muh far right

Exploding Immigrants?

Won't somebody think of the children!!!

Saturn runs rings around Jupiter

Re: Should we Pluto some of them.

"That should be plenty of time to come up with a definition of "moon"..."

Space Station

City council rejects inquiry into £130M Oracle IT disaster

Re: Hmm ...

"Has any other project, even some of the gloriously awful military and government ones, actually managed to go 10x overbudget?"

I'm sure there was an NHS IT project some years back that cost the taxpayer somewhere north of about £350m that didn't amount to much in the way of change.

Microsoft quantum breakthrough claims labeled 'unreliable' and 'essentially fraudulent'

...but the software giant says it’s work is sound...

It's true! Copilot told us so!

More Voyager instruments shut down to eke out power supplies

One of these for the team

Cheers!

'Cybertruck ownership comes with ... interesting fan mail'

Meanwhile, Musk's behavior is getting so erratic

Low Stakes Conspiracy - Musk is a victim of his own experiments on himself with Neuralink, which is why he's such a suitcase of cockerels.

DARPA seeks ideas for 'large bio-mechanical space structures'

Re: Ha s someone at DARPA been watching "The Expanse"

I was just thinking, "this all sounds a bit...'Laconian'"

Untrained techie botched a big hardware sale by breaking client's ERP

Wasn't me

Wasn't me

Lawyers face judge's wrath after AI cites made-up cases in fiery hoverboard lawsuit

Re: Hoo boi...

"To be fair, the lawyer did 'fess and apologise"

Yes, but if you look really close he's got his fingers crossed behind his back.

LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab

Re: All you need

"Parties are thrown, gifts are lavished upon you and a statue is erected in your honour."

Did all the molecules in the hostess's undergarments leap simultaneously one foot to the left?

AI summaries turn real news into nonsense, BBC finds

Re: Cake – it's a made up drug

Security footage of a paedophile disguised as a school.

Democrats demand to know WTF is up with that DOGE server on OPM's network

Move fast, break things

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Dell ends hybrid work policy, demands return-to-office despite remote work pledge

Re: All quit so we don't have to pay you

"I'd be more concerned about the resulting paperwork if you did though."

They'd be in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard'.

Re: All quit so we don't have to pay you

""...but if I don't let them run me over with a truck twice a day, how ever will I make a living?""

Have you any idea how much damage this bulldozer would suffer if I were to let it roll straight over you?

White House asks millions of govt workers if they would be so kind as to fork right off

Re: Coming soon

"Pro Tip: Always wear a brown shirt to your loyalty interviews. It never goes out of style."

And the trousers. Just so no-one can tell when you've shit yourself.

UK telco TalkTalk confirms probe into alleged data grab underway

Again?!?!

"given our ongoing focus on protecting customers' personal data... oh look, a butterfly"

SQUIRREL!

Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe, activated by a magic packet

Re: Where Is That "Someone"? Guess!

"Or the Belgians. It's always the damn Belgians"

You must be mistaken. Belgium doesn't exist. I have it on good authority from people who live there.

UK council selling the farm (and the fire station) to fund ballooning Oracle project

Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right...

Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

Trump 'waved a white flag to Chinese hackers' as Homeland Security axed cyber advisory boards

"He died with a felafel in his hand"

I thought you were making a statement about the author, I had to look it up!

In farewell speech, Biden rails against the tech industrial complex, disinfo dismantling democracy

Re: Leaders all mysteriously wish they'd taken on the vested interests

"The problem with the US, is that Government is set up in such a way that it's alomost impossible to get any real work done."

That's a feature, not a bug

Hulk smash Musk and Zuck! Actor Mark Ruffalo and non-billionaire pals back network tech underpinning Bluesky

...as one person took over what we had believed to be a global public square...

There's a key word here being used that underpins everything.

Public.

The assumption that the platform is public is only reinforced by the fact that members of the public can use it. This does not mean that the platform itself is public.

Twitter X is a company, not a public platform. His Muskiness can do whatever he likes with it. And this is what everyone has woken up to.

Amazon worker – struck and shot in New Orleans terror attack – initially denied time off

Re: Wrong type of leave…

"Look!

Flying pigs!"

That would explain the price of bacon going up.

Japan's wooden satellite exits International Space Station

For some reason, my mind was drawn to the original scripts for Alien 3

Aliens, spy balloons, or drones? SUV-sized mystery objects spotted in US skies

The mind and spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak and spongy