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British regulator takes a hard look at Pornhub's Apple-powered age checks

Hugo Rune
Stop

Scammers and spammers get away with conning the innocent. Whilst my throw away e-mail that I have used for porno age verification only got tonnes of spam after stupidly asking for a receipt from europarkingsolutions.co.uk in Sainsbury's car park. Come on city of London police and ofcom get your finger out and go after the real crooks.

Virgin Media offloads email services to third-party provider

Hugo Rune
Coffee/keyboard

Re: WTF?

I still use @blueyonder to log in to their website and use tvgo, sky sports and HBO/TNT. Enshitification in action.

LG accused of 'egregious invasion of privacy' over TV data collection

Hugo Rune
Flame

Re: Why? "If I want to stream anything, I'd continue to do so via my Roku."

The same Roku that would not let me even tune in my Hisense Roku TV without an account and shows adverts on the home screen? Only lasted for two years until the backlights failed. Good riddence to cheap rubbish.

AI agent suggested installing a malware package. Engineer almost took its advice

Hugo Rune
Happy

Space Corps Directive Number 43872

What? Suntans will be worn during off-duty hours only.

Waymo's self-driving cars face their toughest test yet: London

Hugo Rune
Facepalm

Captcha

As these cars have been trained on Google Captcha they will stop at all the crosswalks, not drive on a sidewalk, obey traffic lights hanging off of wires, not stop by a fire hydrant and not overtake yellow busses. It is a good job London doesn't have zebra crossing, pavements, traffic lights on poles, double yellow lines and red busses.

Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers

Hugo Rune
Pirate

Calibre will happily convert any new downloads to Old MOBI format to read on your older Kindle.

Microsoft yanks Windows 11 preview update after install failures

Hugo Rune
Windows

Not new

I have been getting similar errors since the October update. The only ones that install are the repair versions of 25H2. All of the others say "something went wrong don't worry uninstalling update".

Burger King turns to AI to flame broil employees who aren't friendly enough

Hugo Rune
Coat

How good is this voice recognition gimmick?

Can I have Peas with cheese please = 3 x Please,

You want Peas? Fuck you = 1 x please + 1 x thank you.

"We believe hospitality is fundamentally human," the company rep told us. "The role of this technology is to support our teams so they can stay present with guests."

Maybe get rid of the giant screens that only sell 'meal deals' unless you hunt through the many sub menus.

Mines the one with a whopper, no cheese, no coke and no soggy chips in the pocket.

30+ Chrome extensions disguised as AI chatbots steal users' API keys, emails, other sensitive data

Hugo Rune
Devil

Toolbar Hell

IE toolbars for Gen Zed.

Bots, bias, and bunk: How can you tell what's real on the net?

Hugo Rune
Joke

This article is clearly AI.

All the signs are there.

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

Hugo Rune
Terminator

Re: "telling customers to leave if they don't like it"

o2 do a £8 / Month tarriff on Mr Lewis' website, currently 32GB. I always switch to the latest version when the April price hike happens. Only worth having over Lebara or Smarty if you have VMo2 Broadband as it doubles your 32GB to 64GB and ups your internet speed a bit.

Windows 11 update knocks out USB mice, keyboards in recovery mode

Hugo Rune
Unhappy

KB5070773 emergency replacement for this update is still failing to install.

KB5070773 emergency replacement for this update is still failing to install.

Brits sitting on £1.6B gold mine of Windows 10 junk as support ends

Hugo Rune
Facepalm

Recycle your electricals now!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The only place around here is the other side of Plymouth and is part of the council tip. Despite the badly drawn cartoon cat telling me to recycle my electricals NOW. I would love to recycle my old phones and gadgets that no longer work but no one wants them and to join the exhaust belching queue to get rid of an old game boy and some batteries seems to defeat the object of saving the planet.

Good morning, Brit Xbox fans – ready to prove your age?

Hugo Rune
Pint

Re: At the ripe age of 43, i got the email too

I'm over 3x the age restriction but this sounds perfect to me.

"Those who choose not to verify their age, Microsoft has confirmed, will retain access to their existing games and other media as well as the ability to buy more – including age-restricted titles. It's the social side of gaming that will be locked off: voice and text chat, party functionality and game invites, and the ability to share user-generated content will be limited to "Xbox friends" only, while the "Looking for Group" and custom club features will be blocked off entirely."

The UK Online Safety Act is about censorship, not safety

Hugo Rune
Trollface

Re: On the plus side

e) There are a lot less Tory MPs now.

Latest Windows 11 insider builds hide secret File Explorer dark mode

Hugo Rune
Angel

Re: Full Dark Mode

In the good old days. Turn the brightness and contrast knobs right down!

Oh what fun we had!

No more Blocktoberfest? German court throws book at ad blockers

Hugo Rune
Coffee/keyboard

Catch 22

"If ads were relevant, they'd be far less annoying." Unfortunately they use this sentiment to justify all of their tracking.

COVID-19 pandemic accelerated brain aging – even if you didn’t catch the virus

Hugo Rune
Facepalm

scientists have used machine learning and those records to create a brain age prediction model.

I have an idea of why this maybe bollocks.

Brit watchdog says public service TV must 'urgently' join Team YouTube

Hugo Rune
Stop

Stupid idea.

Giving away your content to You Tube is just daft. Whenever I watch you tube without uBlock Origin it is a mess of adverts inserted mid sentence. ITV is bad enough with the advert breaks now, why make it worse?

I'm a security expert, and I almost fell for a North Korea-style deepfake job applicant …Twice

Hugo Rune
Pint

M'M'M'Max Headroom here.

https://youtu.be/cYdpOjletnc

AI pothole patrol to snap flaws in Britain's crumbling roads

Hugo Rune
Headmaster

Man with a clipboard does better job.

"up to 95 percent compared to humans." is actually at least 5% lower accuracy than a human.

Bring the joy of train delays home with your very own departure board

Hugo Rune
Boffin

Just like waiting for a train.

For the true geek.

https://tiger.worldline.global/home

If every PC is going to be an AI PC, they better be as good at all the things trad PCs can do

Hugo Rune
Windows

Does anyone remember when all you could buy were 3D TVs?

Windows keyboards to get a Copilot key – but how quickly will users jump?

Hugo Rune
Coffee/keyboard

I prefer Workbench Drawers.

UK voter data within reach of miscreants who hacked Electoral Commission

Hugo Rune
Headmaster

"these could be vulnerable people, even people who have had abusive former partners, or maybe people with mental issues"

Nope Just people who tick the box to protect their own privacy and opt out of the public register.

Millions of Gigabyte PC motherboards backdoored? What's the actual score?

Hugo Rune
FAIL

X570 Aorus Elite here.

App centre is just a Norton and Chrome drive-by installer. if you use its recommendations it will also downgrade your graphics driver.

Uninstall and use ebios as a separate stand alone program if necessary.

4chan and other web sewers scraped up into Google's mega-library for training ML

Hugo Rune
Boffin

I don't mind 4chan being used. It is the use of El Reg comments that scares the shit out of me.

(c) Rune

NASA: Yup, thousand-pound meteorite exploded over Texas

Hugo Rune
IT Angle

How long?

"A meteorite measuring two-feet-wide hurtled towards Earth at 27,000 miles per hour with an energy equivalent to eight tons of TNT and exploded into pieces over McAllen, Texas."

If you are going to use non metric units please stick to the El Reg standard units.

Samsung slaps processing-in-memory chips onto GPUs for first-of-its-kind supercomputer

Hugo Rune
Coat

But

Can it play Crisis?

Amazon has repackaged surveillance capitalism as reality TV

Hugo Rune
Coat

Re: ...very soon we may be continuously performing for some power that we cannot see...

Thank you very much.. Chief

Mine's the one with The Sprout in the pocket.

UK launches 'consultation' with EU over exclusion from science programs

Hugo Rune
Mushroom

Re: Groan….

Self inflicted fucking mess.

Hive to pull the plug on smart home gadgets by 2025

Hugo Rune
Headmaster

Re: Thanks for the money but your stuffed.

Thank you. I had a big lunch, and what is an ax?

Reg reader rages over Virgin Media's email password policy

Hugo Rune
Facepalm

Yes it is the same e-mail & password combination.

When everyone else is on vacation, it's time to whip out the tiny screwdrivers

Hugo Rune
Pint

Re: 2nd observation

Thanks for the link. That's my afternoon reading sorted. Working from home, who would have thought it could be so productive.

UK government bows to pressure, agrees to delay NHS Digital grabbing the data of England's GP patients

Hugo Rune
Stop

Re: >> build a trusted research environment and ensure that data is accessed securely.

"I've now successfully persuaded 6 people to opt out. Now have another 2 months to work on a few more."

Data transfer date has been moved but there is no mention of a change to the opt-out deadline

NHS Digital booking website had unexpected side effect: It leaked people's jab status

Hugo Rune
Headmaster

Re: "run vaccine checks on the status of random people with no authentication"

Don't know if I should upvote for the comment or downvote for the two "would of".

Pure frustration: What happens when someone uses your email address to sign up for PayPal, car hire, doctors, security systems and more

Hugo Rune

tw@t.com

I would just like to let Caroline in Las Vegas know that her neclace is ready at the jewlers, her gym membership is about to auto renew and the Toyota dealer says most people don't say fuck off you conts they just hit unsubscribe.

Master boot vinyl record: It just gives DOS on my IBM PC a warmer, more authentic tone

Hugo Rune

Re: Ah, happy memories...

My wonderful local newsagent put a staple right through the track to stop them falling off the cover.

Microsoft to charge $200 for 32 GPU cores, sliver of CPU clockspeed, 6GB RAM, 512GB SSD... and a Blu-Ray player

Hugo Rune

Re: will either of them do 4k/60fps?

"Would you like to egregiously insult me for other spurious reasons too?"

I would. Have you noticed that Cederic, Codejunky and Cummings all begin with C and so does C...

UK finds itself almost alone with centralized virus contact-tracing app that probably won't work well, asks for your location, may be illegal

Hugo Rune
Pirate

Re: It is your duty ^D^D^D^D obligation to install the app

"Not green on the app? Sorry, no public transport, no travel outside your neighbourhood. It will be a virtual ankle tag."

I'm sure app 'green' screenshots won't be hard to find.

UK snubs Apple-Google coronavirus app API, insists on British control of data, promises to protect privacy

Hugo Rune
Pirate

Just like the IWF list that is now used for the Pirate Bay et al.

US hands UK 'dossier' on Huawei: Really! Still using their kit? That's just... one... step... beyond

Hugo Rune
Mushroom

"You are delusional. Compared to China (forced organ removal, the treatment of the Uyghurs, the situation in Hong Kong) Trump and the US are angels."

Another fool falls for the Trump and Johnson philosophy of two wrongs make a right.

The Six Million Dollar Scam: London cops probe Travelex cyber-ransacking amid reports of £m ransomware demand, wide-open VPN server holes

Hugo Rune
Holmes

Re: What's the future anyway

"always a couple of travellers being ripped off"

That'll be me. Order online, pick up at the airport. I've always had better rates than the high street / M&S, that way. He who has the last laugh...

Is your computer doctor secretly a racist? Two US senators want to find out the truth

Hugo Rune
Boffin

"some heart medications that work on Caucasians will kill Africans."

An Example of race bias. Some Africans are caucasians.

Christmas in tatters for Nottinghamshire tots after mayor tells them Santa's too busy

Hugo Rune
Windows

Of course santa does not exist.

In the UK we have Father Christmas.

I discovered the world's last video rental kiosk and it would make a great spaceship

Hugo Rune

I remember the first VHS tape below £20 was Complete Madness. The only one I ever bought.

It's back: The mercifully normal-looking Moto 360 smartwatch

Hugo Rune

Talking toot with Laz

Below £200 and a metal strap would be nice.

Hold on, Booker prize judges - Stob's penned a steampunk hit

Hugo Rune

Re: Enjoyed that

I can't stand his books. Too far fetched.

Gas bill climbed £13,000 after correct online reading given

Hugo Rune
WTF?

Is the f on your keyboard phucked?

Stealth Carbon 'efficiency' tax could close UK data centres

Hugo Rune
Alert

Carbon costs £12 per ton?

A big bag of charcoal costs that in B&Q.

"most carbon in our country comes from ... goods and services"

Can I have mine in diamonds please.

Good points but it's Carbon dioxide

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