Posts by Nightkiller

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

This also implies equality of outcome is a losing proposition for the receivers.

GAO finds billions in possible government savings, all without Elon's help

Re: Modernization efforts?

Modernization is job cuts.

You either declare the job redundant or put in processes that allow you to do more with the same inputs ( you eliminate future job expansion).

You then reequip for another job.

Signalgate storm intensifies as journalist releases full secret Houthi airstrike chat

This whole episode will be filed and reprinted one day in a future column of "Who? Me?".

Not one of the commenters here can figure this out without a dose of righteous indignation.

'Maybe the problem is you' ... Linus Torvalds wades into Linux kernel Rust driver drama

The "Muh Racism" argument is so yesterday.

Palantir designed to 'power the West to its obvious innate superiority,' says CEO

Shouldn't you be claiming a modified Godwin's law for this post?

US accuses Canadian math prodigy of $65M crypto scheme

There would be no issue if this happened in North Korea.

DeepSeek spills Big AI's open secret: Bright people with good ideas can beat billion dollar binges

The problem is we are making less of them.

Humans brought the heat. Earth says we pay the price

Re: I look forward to . . .

I look forward to . . .

. . . the many commentards who will show up presently to ridicule this research by many informed scientists, rebutting it with either wishful thinking, anecdotes, or a random blog post.

Quoting Mann is like quoting Fauci, these days.

Guess who left a database wide open, exposing chat logs, API keys, and more? Yup, DeepSeek

Well, did you get a copy?

China launches AI that writes politically correct docs for bureaucrats

This is a no brainer. AI already invents stuff as it goes along. Political correctness is asking AI to do what it does best.

NIST trains AI to hear the 'oh crap' moment before batteries explode

This research was funded by Hizbollah.

China launches plan to lead the world in space exploration

Plans to cover entire Dark Side Of Moon with apartment complexes.

Trump campaign arms up with 'unhackable' phones after Iranian intrusion

My, how far we've come. For years ago it was "the most secure election, ever". Now it's

We must also ensure that the same level of security and reliability used in nuclear systems be applied to voting machines, given their critical role in the electoral process," O'Dowd said. "Securing the integrity of the democratic process is paramount."

The firm isn't wrong on the latter point. As has been shown again and again, election voting systems are woefully inadequate, despite strenuous efforts by the hacking community to fix insecure systems.

FCC boss starts bringing up Musk's Starlink dominance, antitrust concerns

This would never have happened if Musk was a DNC contributor.

Have we stopped to think about what LLMs actually model?

I bet Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem about needing to be outside of the form has something to say about this.

Palo Alto Networks execs apologize for 'hostesses' dressed as lamps at Black Hat booth

Now we know where the lamp came from in "A Christmas Story".

Core Python developer suspended for three months

Re: Sad day

"Ah for the good old days of racism, misogyny and bullying in the workplace. Golden times."

You mean, like, today? Finding a racist in every dictionary? Adding Misandry to balance things out? Using the HR department to do what you cannot be seen to be doing to preserve your status?

Cops finally unmask 'LockBit kingpin' after two-month tease

Q: Young man, why are you not at the front?

A: How much money do you want to go away?

Palantir's CEO calls 'woke' a 'central risk to Palantir, America and the world'

Re: Thin pagan religion

But they sure know what it doesn't mean.

Iowa sysadmin pleads guilty to 33-year identity theft of former coworker

Finally. A real story about a BOFH.

Europe's deepest mine to become Europe's deepest battery

1500 Homes in California is 4500 homes in Finland.

Two of India's most prominent startup tech giants are in deep trouble

Strange that India and Integrity share the same letters.

Wikileaks source and former CIA worker Joshua Schulte sentenced to 40 years jail

Re: Really?

He didn't contest the findings.

Elon Musk made 1 in 3 Trust and Safety staff ex-X employees, it emerges

Culling the Cult.

Huawei finally gives up on US schmoozing efforts

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

SpaceX accused of firing employees critical of free speech fan Elon Musk

Re: Don't get this confused with free speech.

This is a shocking indictment of one trick pony writers.

FTC bans Rite Aid from using AI facial recognition in stores for 5 years

This would never have happened if Rite-Aid used Chinese Tech.

Not even LinkedIn is that keen on Microsoft's cloud: Shift to Azure abandoned

Re: "Blueshift"

Isn't that when a large Farm object hurtles towards us at a rather alarming rate?

Google mulled offering paid-for no-logging private Search subscription

This is nothing less than paying protection money.

It's 2023, so Lenovo made a bendy smartphone concept all about hybrid cloud AI

Why does the desktop photo remind me of Clippy?

Amazon to drop a cool $1B on Microsoft 365 cloud suite

Pretty sure you could do better on Ebay.

Workload written by student made millions, ran on unsupported hardware, with zero maintenance

Anyone want a go at that Climate Model?

Undiplomatic Chinese threat actor attacks embassies and foreign affairs departments

China and Hungary are BFF. Nice to be recognised,

Decision to hold women-in-cyber events in abortion-banning states sparks outcry

The only religious nut jobs here are the ones projecting that their religion is not being acknowledged.

Australia asks Twitter how it will mod content without staff, gets ghosted

You should see the colours of the sewer rats on Mastadon.

Boffins claim to create the world's first wooden transistor

Just what GreenPeace ordered.

Tencent Cloud announces Deepfakes-as-a-Service for $145

I want one of Xi singing "My Way".

While Twitter wants to sell its verification, Microsoft will do it for free on LinkedIn

Re: UMMMMMM....

With LinkedIn, you don't find a job. The Job finds you.

Tupperware looking less airtight than you'd think

The IT angle is that so many IT professionals used these containers instead of brown bags to enhance their image.

Smugglers busted sneaking tech into China

The smuggler should have asked the Ministry of State Security. Response? "Sure. we'll stuff it in a Diplomatic bag".

Errors logged as 'nut loose on the keyboard' were – ahem – not a hardware problem

Re: Otherwise know as...

Or

Statistics become useless when the goal is to change the statistic instead of the system.

Adidas grapples with $1.3B in unsold Yeezy sneakers after breaking up with Kanye West

Re: Doing a Musk

Did you listen to the Hotep Jesus interview Adams did? How about the Sunny Hostin interview? Both understand exactly Adam's point. And they agree.

Another assigned opinion.

It's DEFCON 3. Defence Condition 3. That you choose not to be accurate and add to smear tactic reporting is everyone's concern.

Elon Musk yearns for AI devs to build 'anti-woke' rival ChatGPT bot

The real definition "Woke" is the use of Ad Hominem as a way of bolstering an argument. Look at all of the above commenters. Do they attack the idea or the person who made it? What? Jealous?

Re: Meaning of "woke"

This is the perfect definition for all of the proceeding commenters. You can add "Holier than thou" to the definition as well.

Home Depot sent my email, details of stuff I bought to Meta, customer complains

Everything is Data Slurping.

Home Depot asking if you want an email receipt implies permission to use the email address.

Swiping your Corporate Points Card is Data Slurping.

They pay you very little in "Rewards" for the data you give them.

LUMI supercomputer puts GPU partition through its paces with hardcore science

Yes, but will it run ChatGPT?

Sysadmin infected bank with 'alien virus' that sucked CPUs dry

The only thing that saved this guy's ass was that no one in the IT Department knew how to use Task Manager or the lot of them colluded to conceal the operation in solidarity with SETI@Home.

Here's something communism is good at: Making smartphones less annoying

Be honest.

They don't want the competition.