Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

AI finally delivers those elusive productivity gains... for cybercriminals

On the other hand

This presumably reduces people trafficking. If you don't need people on the other side of the scam

Re: AI seems to be like social media

I blame printing. If the people are able to read they may become all uppity and question our rightful place of their betters.

India tests whether AI can stop trains hitting elephants

Re: British Rail Solution?

But I've never seen an elephant in a cherry tree ......

So the solution is to breed heavier elephants

British Rail Solution?

Can't the Indians just copy the system used by British Rail?

It appears to have a 100% effectiveness in stopping train-elephant collisions across the entire network

Apple’s MacBook Neo turns out to be its most repairable lappy in 14 years

Competitor to chromebook for schools/kids

Alternative to an expensive Windows11 upgrade for your home machine, especially given the cost of the ram/storage requirements for W11

given that they must have been designing / tooling for this machine for 2 years they timed it perfectly

>It's more like they are heading towards something that can be made in the US to appease Trump.

Unlikely. Screws = cheap manual labour. Glue = automated dispenser / films

AI Burning Man happens next week – what to expect at Nvidia GTC 2026

Re: Grok?

You have to pronounce it with a French accent

Pentagon AI chief praises Palantir tech for speeding battlefield strikes

Re: One of the groups Hegseth axed in the DoD

> I'm going to be SO enjoying the comeuppance and jail time for all of Trump's cronies that will be coming

You new to this planet ?

Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns

Re: That rather depends on who can be barred from voting

Only if you're an Archbishop

Re: Zurich, Switzerland

Although many Germans might suspect that the Swiss were taught German by someone like Trump

Re: That rather depends on who can be barred from voting

Plan B - only painted portraits will be acceptable as ID

Re: "make sure every journalist and network is aware by shouting it from the rooftops. "

They are woke. They believe that Italian-Americans and even the Irish are "white"

Re: Zurich, Switzerland

Nor humour or sarcasm

>Swiss is still the maker of very expensive wrist clocks...

Cuckoo watches ?

Re: Zurich, Switzerland

Of course they do. Trump pointed out that the bergers of Zurich would be speaking German if it wasn't for him

Re: America's reputational loss will be long lasting

>We are creating a new generation of terrorists.

Isn't that the plan ?

Medical equipment techs beg for right-to-repair lifeline

Re: And while you are at it

If only it was as simple as pure evil greed

I give you DICOM a medical standard data format for the simple task of storing image data. Which just has to accommodate every idiosyncratic 'feature' of every machine built since 1985. Just getting two systems to agree how you number the order that you store a stack of 2d CT or MRI slices seems to be impossible.

AI vs AI: Agent hacked McKinsey's chatbot and gained full read-write access in just two hours

Re: Hidden API documentation?

The McKinsey secret plan = a post-it note saying "fire 25% of the staff each year to increase profits"

Re: FTFY

"The Smartest Guys in the Room" == "ensuring that billions of $ is siphoned into their coffers from their marks in government and industry."

Don't see any obvious discrepancy

Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after USB keys fail to decrypt them

The ultimate democracy

One man one constituency

The just decided to limit the number of people in the country to save buying any more memory - very frugal the Swiis

Re: Should we raise one or two digits to Digital Cash?

Why do you think we've been persuading the rich to only eat healthy organic food?

Billionaires - the Wagu beef of the post-apocalypse

Linux PC vendor System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks

Did it define computer?

My electric toothbrush probably has some minimal RTOS, not sure how I confirm my age when I first turn it on.

That's ridiculous. This just makes the builder of the apartment building responsible for making sure no under age drinking happens there

But since a previous court decided that cryptography was a munition, and therefore subject to export restrictions, every American has a diety given inalienable right to use it everywhere

The supreme court decides that the founding fathers didn't mention Linux so opensource users have no rights

It's going to be a pain on larger computers, doesn't Colorado have the DoE's new 12M core supercomputer?

Going to be a pain for every user to register their age on every instance

Re: I honestly do not get the reason they even want this

They want you to have government ID on your computer that is passed to all websites you visit - so if you view too many anti-Glorious Leader memes you go on a list

It's hard to sell this to a people who believe they live in a free country

So you sell it on "think of the children" then gradually expand it to "anti-terrorism" "anti-organised crime" and "anti-anti-social behaviour'

Musk admits Starship V3 launch date has slipped as Super Heavy booster rolls into place

Re: Hoping Musk's rocket goes kaboom

>He has hit Poland

Force of habit ?

Re: Has he tried

Thank you, couldn't remember his name.

Ironic name for such a twat really

Re: Hoping Musk's rocket goes kaboom

He's an improvement on some NASA rocket scientists

So far he hasn't hit London

Has he tried

Firing 90% of the rocket scientists and replacing them with AI and a couple of interns ?

Mystery outage behind US airline JetBlue asking FAA to ground its flights

They had it fixed in an hour so probably a Windows update that went absolutely perfectly

A solution to America ?

" picture a harassed engineer turning everything off and on again following an unexpected technical problem."

Palantir’s lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff

Re: A tricky problem indeed

Why does this software keep assigning everyone with an Hispanic surname to a "camp something"?

Oh that's just a trial feature for version 2

Royal Navy races to arm ships against drone threat

Re: Simple answer

>Obviously it still is a lot better than nothing, they wouldn't have bought it otherwise

I see you're not familiar with the military procurement process

Re: Pull !

Fire another broadside !

Re: Simple answer

Surely a British solution would be to compromise on a 1 3/8" round ?

>Were the drones at Gatwick homeopathic?

No they were quantum. While nobody observed them they potentially existed at all points at the airport

It was only when the police turned up that their wave function collapsed and they dissapeared

We have a secret system for use against imaginary drones and in tests it's over 90% effective

With enough funding it could be used against dragons and flying unicorns

Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract

Re: Working at a US 3 letter agency

Look on the bright side, the USA has wiped out Epstein-Barr virus, or at least any mention of it on any government site

Musk's Grok sparks outrage after chatbot makes offensive jibes about football disasters

Re: "Only grok speaks the truth"

You certainly couldn't blame the police and the Sun for making up and publishing the stories, blame the AI for reading them

Oracle and OpenAI's Texas Stargate datacenter expansion reportedly on the skids

On the other hand he does seem to be costing Larry Ellison $$$$$$

Re: Dear Lord, doesn't anyone understand?

Have you tried doing it the other way around ?

Brits fear AI will strip the human touch from public services

Re: Exactly

"It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear! And it absolutely will not answer, ever, until you are dead!"

Re: Exactly

But can Skynet recreate the human touch of the GP's receptionist ?

Re: worried that AI will dehumanize public services

So all you need is progressively more complex CAPTCHAs until only the truly ADHD will be able to complete them and so gain an appointment

Perhaps it can be expanded to other interesting mental states? Select the picture that most clearly represents the dark recesses of your soul....

Spyware disguised as emergency-alert app sent to Israeli smartphones

Re: The country that gave you Stuxnet and Pegasus

The one used by Saudi's to track and murder an American journalist ?

That would be an ecumenical matter

Perhaps for safety

You should switch to pagers ?