Posts by Nightkiller

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.

Study suggests AI cruise control could kill traffic jams by cutting out the 'intuition' factor

You can emulate this behaviour by looking at the brake lights of the second car in front of you, not the one in front. Technique requires that you hang back a bit to get a broader view of the situation. Eliminates the problem of the people in front of you braking for giant spiders.

Google wins lawsuit against alleged Russian botnet herders

Looks like all of the defendants are candidates for the Russian Diplomatic Corps.

SolarWinds reaches $26m settlement with shareholders, expects SEC action

Re: and yet....

Waiting to see if these were part of the shareholders who sued.

Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh resigns after being added to EU sanctions list

Re: Give Ukraine Nukes

No. But I do know that Democrat Political strongholds produce Democrat Political verdicts. A person of your calibre would be willfully writing this frame accordingly.

Re: Give Ukraine Nukes

"It is a tool of American imperialism"

Compared to what? Russian Imperialism?

How ICE became a $2.8b domestic surveillance agency

Just remember, every downvote is from a person who is suffering from a John Lennon "Imagine" earworm.

Google blocks paid apps from Play Store in Russia

Well, Sergei. You tried your best to help Mother Russia.

China again signals desire to shape IPv6 standards

Re: Just how would everything being internet addressable be helpful for china?

Last time I checked, my National Insurance Number could not tell me where I am eating lunch at the moment.

French court pulls SpaceX's Starlink license

Re: French court freezes out non-French competition

Every person in France has the right to say "L'Etat, c'est moi."

China’s cloud spend to more than triple in four years

Re: The scale of China...

I too have watched China for years and marveled at how they think allowing their country to turn into a chemical dump while not being able to feed its own people will not lead to consequences. Prepare to be amazed.

China launches test satellites for orbiting broadband service

Re: Nice low number?

If the purpose is to track where the connections are coming from the entire country - and ONLY the country - parts of which including rural areas are poorly connected… isn’t that obvious?

FTFY

HPE sees 'no indication' its tech was sold to Chinese military, seeks answers from Uncle Sam on sanctions

Re: Colin Wilson 2 - Apple have got this right!

This is an internal law of a deal breaking sovereign state.

FTFY

US bans Chinese firms – including one linked to HPE’s China JV – for feeding tech to Beijing's military

Re: Excuse me?

Yes.

They have many representatives in Bradford and Manchester.

Rust dust-up as entire moderation team resigns. Why? They won't really say

Just allow the core developers to identify themselves as

Omniscient Lord/ Indifferent God

That should cover the lot.

Alibaba Cloud unveils home-spun 128-core Arm-compatible server processor

Re: China arm of ARM

Because the party says so.

Microsoft turns Windows Subsystem for Linux into an app for Windows

Re: Found a shortcut

Er, Don't you mean reinforcement of their virtue signaling?

Internet Archive's 2046 Wayforward Machine says Google will cease to exist

Re: They succeeded to eradicate the book

The problem with these predictions is that people read them and then subconsciously start to work towards fulfilling them.

Windows 11 in detail: Incremental upgrade spoilt by onerous system requirements and usability mis-steps

"what we put into 11 is [that] we are going to secure you by default."

Finally. After first promising "secure by default" in XP.

We have some sad news about Facebook. It has returned to the internet after six-hour mega outage

"Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are coming back online now. Sorry for the disruption today – I know how much you rely on our services to stay connected with the people you care about."

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are coming back online now. Sorry for the disruption today – I know how much you missed the targeted ads you care about.

FTFY

IKEA: Cameras were hidden in the ceiling above warehouse toilets for 'health and safety'

Ikea: Swedish for "I Am Curious (Yellow and Blue)"

Fukushima studies show wildlife is doing nicely without humans, thank you very much

When will we start seeing frog's legs in sushi dishes?

Open-source software starts with developers, but there are other important contributors, too. Who exactly? Good question

Everyone gets a star these days.

Busy day in China: Xi Jinping announces tech-sharing, services export push and a bourse for startups

Re: You surely know it is bound to happen somewhere rotting/rotten.

You mean the Chinese State has the right to ask for/enhance the code you generate for your outsourced partners?

Volkswagen to stop making its best-selling product for Wolfsburg workers: VW-branded sausages

Re: Alternatively...

Kill All Humans Phase 2:

Pure Processed Vegetable matter fit for a pig.

McDonald's AI drive-thru bot accused of breaking biometrics privacy law

Re: Who's hungry, then?

There is Law and then there is Illinois Law. In a state where corruption is legendary, they need the privacy law to protect the corruption.

Google says its artificial intelligence is faster and better than humans at laying out chips for artificial intelligence

"allowing chip designers to be assisted by artificial agents with more experience than any human could ever gain."

When are Google and Neuralink going to get together? Somebody's got to be the boss here.

In this round of 'Real life or Black Mirror episode', drones that hunt down humans by listening to their screams

In Germany, no one can hear you scream.

FYI: Today's computer chips are so advanced, they are more 'mercurial' than precise – and here's the proof

Even CPUs are sensitive to Critical Race Theory. At some point you have to expect them to share their lived experience.