Posts by Hugo Rune

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

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

Toolbar Hell

IE toolbars for Gen Zed.

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

This article is clearly AI.

All the signs are there.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

M'M'M'Max Headroom here.

https://youtu.be/cYdpOjletnc

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

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

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

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

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

I prefer Workbench Drawers.

UK voter data within reach of miscreants who hacked Electoral Commission

"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?

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

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

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

But

Can it play Crisis?

Amazon has repackaged surveillance capitalism as reality TV

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

Re: Groan….

Self inflicted fucking mess.

Hive to pull the plug on smart home gadgets by 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

[e-mail]

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

"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

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

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

Talking toot with Laz

Below £200 and a metal strap would be nice.

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

Re: Enjoyed that

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

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

Is the f on your keyboard phucked?

Stealth Carbon 'efficiency' tax could close UK data centres

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

Reg reader applauds World's Crappiest phish

Not quite as bad but..

Here's one that was waiting for me when I got home from work.

We are pleased to inform you again about your UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

NEW YEAR BONANZA price of £1,000,000.00 Equivalent to=

$1,831,922.00. Usd.

for claim contact:

E-mail: [e-mail]

Phone:[phone]

VERIFICATION FORM BELOW:

*Name of Winner:

*Address:

*City/State:

*Nationality:

*Sex:

*Email Address:

*Phone no:

*Occupation:

*Age:

*Amount won:.

Yours Truly,

Meerbergen Jef van

Co-ordinator (The Uk National Lottery)

Nice one Jef or Thomas but I won't be paying that price

Doing the maths on Copenhagen

Chuck another...

....sense of humour on the fire, Rizla

Turn the heating up

One thing I'm sure of is that methane from steak production is not man made. It comes out of a cows arse.

As for the rest of the article, Bollocks, it's bloody penguin weather out there.

Virgin coughs up digital tech support for clueless users

@ OH the irony

As HDMI is to DVI so Virgin Digital is to Virgin Media. ie. different.

MS exec gets shot down after 'inaccurate' Windows 7 spiel

I'm a ?

"Unfortunately this came from a Microsoft employee who was not involved in any aspect of designing Windows 7."

No it was designed by some actors. I know, I've seen the adverts

UK.gov denies innocent will be hit by filesharing regime

Confused

I forgot to record Stargate Universe, which I have paid Sky 1 for through my Virgin Media subscription. So I had to torrent it to be able to watch what I had paid for.

I forgot to record Deep space Nine, which I have paid Virgin 1 for through my Virgin Media subscription. So i had to use TV Catchup it to be able to watch what I had paid for.

Who will explain to my moral compass and the general public why one of these is bad and one is good.

First one to say cos Deep space nine is shit wins a camel's ball or something!

45th Mersenne prime revealed

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#NUM! Entering a formula that produces a number that is too large or too small to be represented in Microsoft Excel