Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Jeff Bezos gives CEO another go at $6.2B AI startup Prometheus

Re: some of that cash comes from Bezos himself...

It's a tough economy, lots of retirees are being forced back to work

AI music has finally beaten hat-act humans, but sounds nothing like victory

Re: "LLMs are nothing if not parody generators."

He did say he abandoned the 3rd book in the Scottish cyber-crime series because reality had overtaken fiction

Re: Fake it 'til... you get the idea

> and all that was necessary to achieve the ranking was to spend $3k buying the song from digital music stores.

How unlike the old days when you just had to buy a few hundred singles from the right shop and arrange some "companionship" for a Radio 1 DJ

Game over: Europol storms gaming platforms in extremist content sweep

I was radicalised by computer games

Against Camels

Jaguar Land Rover hack cost India's Tata Motors around $2.4 billion and counting

Australian children

Presumably having survived monster killer spiders, killer monster snakes, sharks, jellyfish, crocodiles, kangaroos and drop bears - are really at risk from swallowing batteries ?

Retro Games opens pre-orders for THEA1200, a full-size working Amiga replica

Re: Humbug

>Most people, i.e. not Reg readers, do not have the technical skills to put the effort in to get an emulator up and running,

Nobody except Reg readers is dropping the price of a modern Macbook on a bit of 90s gamer nostalgia

I can only hope there are enough 40-50 year old boys(*) in highly paid tech jobs with disposable income to support this endeavour

* yes, I know. But statistically ....

Apple’s new 15% mini-app deal finally gets Tencent to cut Cupertino in

Re: Fine

If you believe your fiducial duty is to shareholders it would be criminal not to break the law if the fine was less than the increase in share value

Researchers find hole in AI guardrails by using strings like =coffee

Re: Guardrails don't work !!!

>Guardrails rely on someone guessing all the ways you can 'break' the 'AI' and coding to 'catch them all'.

Ironically that sounds like an ideal task for an AI/LLM

You can now put your US passport into Apple Wallet for domestic travel

Re: If you read Apple's site

But isn't the point that if you can afford an iPhone99 then you can't be a terrorist?

Like getting to skip the TSA lines with credit card points

Re: If you read Apple's site

Will poor Android users still be allowed to ride the bus ?

Re: If the TSA agent knows

The TSA are never wrong so you must be an illegal immigrant communist touristterrorist - please deport your self to the Heard and McDonald Islands

Google to allow Android users with high pain tolerance to sideload unverified apps

Re: But why do you think they made this change?

40-30% was a phone typo but the edit window closed

Although given the advanced hyper mathematics of Apple's tax returns it's entirely possible

It also allows users to use the phone they bought without signing into Google play store and so relaying all their activities to the advertising sales force

Re: But why do you think they made this change?

Apple make 40% pure profit on their App store - Google makes 0.1 bugger all and have to pay Apple $Bn to even allow them to use search

Re: Handwave handwave, distraction distraction.

Is your child using Linux ?

Report blasts UK Ministry of Defence over Afghan data-handling failures

Re: ...And Advice From The Russians....

The BBC starting the 3rd Afghan war just to promote a new Sherlock interpretation was certainly a bold move

Re: Hah...Politicians And Civil Servants And The Military Hard At Work.....

Empires that have invaded Afghanistan: Alexander the Great, Mughals, British, British again, USSR, Americans (with British cos 3rd time lucky!)

Empires which didn't get their arsses kicked: Alexander the Great, Mughals

Moral of the story? If you want to invader Afghanistan make sure you are called "Great"

Cockup or conspiracy?

Given the political and financial cost of welcoming 10,000 Afghan refugees, while also trying to deport anyone without a knighthood to Rwanda.

Might some eager little Special Advisor have specially advised that leaking their names and letting the Taliban 'solve the problem' might be politically expedient?

BOFH: You know something's up when the suits want to spend money

Re: "colored pencil office"

Damn liberal extremists

Re: One small step for a man, one giant quantum communications leap for iMankind

Welcome back. We thought you were too busy with your new job writing press releases for OpenAI

Re: "colored pencil office"

"colored" pencil office????

Obviously a typo.

The "colo-red pencil office" is the co-location office for the single colour red pencil team who are in charge of putting that one red line in the email signature which means every email gets printed out in, and charged for, colour

They are in a colo-located office so that nobody can find them and stop them

Re: a 'Management Abstraction† Layer'

The smallest shell script is

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try it !

UK tribunal says reselling Microsoft licenses is A-OK

Re: Copyright?

Tesla are already claiming you can't sell on extra software features you bought on your Tesla when you sell it

The copyright art claim is obviously MSFT lawyers trying to get around that the case law on all this was settled in the 90s with IIRC Autodesk licenses

States that aren't nice to ICE still sharing key database full of personal info

Re: hamper law enforcement efforts,

You think citizens are safe?

Re: hamper law enforcement efforts,

>Prisons gotta make money!

They'll be fine. That cotton isn't going to pick itself

hamper law enforcement efforts,

But once ICE has deported all these criminals there won't be a need for any law enforcement efforts

London left buffering as Hyperoptic backup link refuses to boot

>Why the hell aren't they using BOTH links at once?

They didn't want to wear it out

To solve compatibility issues, Microsoft would quietly patch other people's code

Re: Of course not!

If the support requestor has the ability to make you sleep on the couch - just buy them a macbook and deny all knowledge of how to do anything with it

Australia’s spy boss says authoritarian nations ready to commit ‘high-impact sabotage’

Re: Mirror mirror on the wall

That's because Australia doesn't exist

First stellar Coronal Mass Ejection detected beyond our Sun

>Red dwarfs are prone to flares

Well it was quite a few years ago

UK unveils roadmap for replacing animal testing

Re: You wouldn't download a car

Just out of interest, how much filament would I need for a T-Rex, and where can I buy it ?

We will just test the drugs in a poor deprived country where people are desperate for any sort of medical care - and then those results can be used to approve the drug in the rest of Europe

Tablet market stalls because there’s not much new worth buying

Re: Nvidia shield here

Samsung have (had?) some nice 7" tablets

Bought one when I broke my phone on a trip - it now lives by the bed as a BBC iPlayer streamer

North Korean spies turn Google's Find Hub into remote-wipe weapon

Re: A backdoor being exploited ?

But this was an unofficial backdoor, official backdoors where the credentials are only shared with every police, security, tax, social services and dog license agency will be perfectly secure

Re: "... an easy way to destroy evidence"...

That's why my phone requires a fingerprint for the remote unlock

AI slop hits new high as fake country artist goes to #1 on Billboard digital songs chart

Re: More to come

> it's difficult to imagine today's broligarchs forking out for even a string quartet let alone a Sistine Chapel.

crypto-entrepreneur-justin-sun-eats-banana-art-he-bought-for-6m-dollars

Re: George wasn't out by much...

And then a film with a Eurythmics sound track tacked on cos the distributor had a band to plug and the movie was a bit depressing and might not appeal to the kids if you don't stick some of that pop music on it

Re: Not too difficult to generate....

The Billy Connoly "Country & Western Super Song"

Re: More to come

The only band Boney-m could become

While Saga Lore AI is, by the standards of country music, quite good

Yes Zeppelin - sounds like an awesome tribute band that plays very very very long songs

Louvre's pathetic passwords belong in a museum, just not that one

Re: Nothing new

Seems terribly labour intensive and even with freelance criminals on zero hours contracts it's likely to look bad on the balance sheet

Re: Feature

That's a relief I thought they were all just venal stupid and generally incompetent

> Maybe the Louve should try BritishMuseum! as a password.

A comment on reddit said that the louvre had to use such an easy passwd because all the good ones had been stolen by the British Museum

Big Tech's control freak era is breaking itself apart

Re: As irrational as it sounds...

And they often never adapt, don't take on debt won't take external investment and can't expand beyond the town of Bielefeld where they have been making the best precision candle snuffers for 500years

Until customers realises that Chinese LED snuffers are cheaper and more efficient

Altman sticks a different hand out, wants tax credits instead of gov loans

Tax credit ?

How do you get a tax credit if you are never going to pay any tax ?

Foxconn hires humanoid robots to make servers at Nvidia's Texas factory

Re: Why humanoid?

> you'll see why we evolved to walk on two legs: it's pretty good for a lot of tasks.

No crabs are better