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So your [expletive] test failed. So [obscene participle] what?
LegoGPT is here to make your blocky dreams come true
People find amazing ways to break computers. Cats are even more creative
The 12 KB that Windows just can't seem to quit
Top sci-fi convention gets an earful from authors after using AI to screen panelists
Wednesday 7th May 2025 14:03 GMT 
Detector triggered...
"First and foremost, as chair of the Seattle Worldcon, I sincerely apologize for the use of ChatGPT in our program vetting process," said Bond. "Additionally, I regret releasing a statement that did not address the concerns of our community. My initial statement on the use of AI tools in program vetting was incomplete, flawed, and missed the most crucial points. I acknowledge my mistake and am truly sorry for the harm it caused."
My wetware text parser has just thrown up an over-90% probability that the statement above apologising for the use of ChatGPT was, in fact, written by ChatGPT.
However this statement...
“First, and most importantly, I want to apologize specifically for our use of ChatGPT in the final vetting of selected panelists as explained below,” Morgan wrote. “OpenAI, as a company, has produced its tool by stealing from artists and writers in a way that is certainly immoral, and maybe outright illegal. When it was called to my attention that the vetting team was using this tool, it seemed they had found a solution to a large problem. I should have re-directed them to a different process.”
“Using that tool was a mistake. I approved it, and I am sorry.”
comes up as less than 25% chance of it being completely AI generated, except the third to last sentence, which appears to have been reworded by an AI agent.
I'm getting very sensitised to it nowadays.
Computacenter IT guy let girlfriend into Deutsche Bank server rooms, says fired whistleblower
Techie solved supposed software problem by waving his arms in the air
Soviet probe from 1972 set to return to Earth ... in May 2025
Tuesday 6th May 2025 11:52 GMT
Oddly enough...
I was reading about this mission series just the other day because a couple of memorable episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man were airing, and of all the episodes of this programme I watched as a child, the only stories that I can recall without a reminder are the first, the Big Foot ones and the Venus Death Probe ones. The Death Probe ones were those being aired on I think its Legend channel this past week.
Brain-inspired neuromorphic computer SpiNNaker overheated when coolers lost their chill
Open Document Format turns 20, but Microsoft Office still reigns supreme
Microsoft to preload Word minutes after boot
Your graphics card's so fat, it's got its own gravity alert
BOFH: The Prints of Darkness pays a visit
Friday 25th April 2025 13:24 GMT
I was recently tasked with...
finding the current usage of the photocopier that arrived in the company before I did. Went down to the disused lavatory corridor where the machine has wound up some years pre-COVID during a redecoration event of the main common room area where it used to live. It's powered down...
OK, power on...
Print the job list...
Paper jam... only to be expected...
Fixed paper jam, apply a bit of platen cleaner to the rollers, a dab of blast on the paper pick up rubber... take out the toner cartridge and redistribute the powder... check it's not clumped.
Works like a beast now...
Print out the job log... and the dates are day and month, not year.
If I'd have done the job just three days later I'd not be able to tell if it hadn't been used for a year or a few days.
I suspect it's been unused for about 5 years, to be honest, but one year is enough to condemn it as not in use.
Now, where's that copy of Old Moore's Almanac and my handy Bangladeshi phrase book?
It's fun making Studio Ghibli-style images with ChatGPT – but intellectual property is no laughing matter
Tech tariff turmoil continues as Trump admin exempts some electronics, then promises to bring taxes back
Monday 14th April 2025 14:15 GMT
Re: US companies did this to us
I went to a lecture a few months ago about how a lot of the takeaways that we have come to know, love and see as part of British Culture are disappearing. Mainly because the kids who would normally take them over are now seeing that kind of work as "shit, really" and that there are better dreams to pursue than a number 59 with prawn crackers and fried rice, please. Oh, and some chips in curry sauce for the missus.
Static electricity can be shockingly funny, but the joke's over when a rack goes dark
Monday 14th April 2025 22:01 GMT
I once attended a BBC Micro that refused to boot. The rig was set up in a bedroom next to a ham radio set, sat on top of the feeder.
I tried over and over to get the bbc booted but no joy. I took the lid off, wearing a static strap, and started pointing out the components to the owner. As I touched the top of the CPU, there was a big crack, a spark, and a boing. The surface of the CPU package must have been holding a charge probably picked up from the radio transmitter which I discharged with my grounded finger.
New SSL/TLS certs to each live no longer than 47 days by 2029
UK officials insist 'murder prediction tool' algorithms purely abstract
Thursday 10th April 2025 14:38 GMT
Re: Certainty
There are three certainties in life; death, taxes and last minute changes to one or more PowerPoint presentations that you've already included in a bundle intended to prevent that embarrassing "showing your underwear" moment between speakers*.
* instead of wasting time renaming software, Microsoft should create a PowerPoint mode that allows changes to a presentation in progress without flicking out of "Presentation Dual Screen" mode, perhaps a sort of "dock" for chaining presentations rather like a jukebox concept.
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