Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Google Maps to roll out Trump-approved Denali and Gulf of Mexico rebrands

Re: For those of us overseas...

>most of us Yanks will continue to call it the Gulf of Mexico, too.

You mean the "Sea of Cuba"?

Re: So when will Google be asked ...

>Greenland would be Overseas Trumpistan

Or to be classical, Trans-Trumpistan, while Canada would be cis-Trumpistan

Re: Not only the Americans who are at it

In a state of civil war?

Re: Freedom Fries 2.0

But it is still freedom cabbage, not that Hun stuff, that you put on hotdogs?

Re: Not for the developed world, shirley

Seems offensive to the good people of Scunthorpe

Re: Not for the developed world, shirley

> then New York can become New Amsterdam

That's a bit offensive, what have the Dutch done to offend you ?

New Brussels on the other hand .....

Re: Not for the developed world, shirley

We can of course rename American cities, such as their capital CrappyMcCrappyPlace DC.

For a start I think a block on any that are obviously stolen foreign IP. Although New Y**k will be renamed to New Doncaster

Everything else gets refereed to by its Spanish or First Nation name

DeepSeek limits new accounts amid cyberattack

Re: The result has been a selloff in AI stocks.

And wasn't most of Microsoft's investment in the form of Microsoft cloud compute?

Re: The result has been a selloff in AI stocks.

>Or rather one guy in HP did, refusing due diligence, all because of FOMO.

Will if you are going to start holding CEO's responsible for spaffing $Bn on acquisitions which turn out to be worthless - then the whole of Wall St will collapse

Re: The result has been a selloff in AI stocks.

The difference is that whatever openAI's "value", nobody is handing over any cash.

While HP did buy the guy a yacht

Re: The result has been a selloff in AI stocks.

>You do realize that China and Russia are pretty good allies, right?

In the same way that the USA, Saudi Arabia and Israel are all allies.

The result has been a selloff in AI stocks.

And expect a US ban for 'national security reasons' in 3...2....1

US freezes foreign aid, halting cybersecurity defense and policy funds for allies

Re: Everything is lies now

>The fact is, we are $38 Trillion in debt! Sending money to countries who don't need it! A;; so they can prop up their socialist policies that just keep their sheep of a people under control!

Most US debt is owned by rich/retired Americans

China owns about 2% (850Bn), slightly more than the UK's 2% (700Bn). But if you're happy paying for Starmer's government to keep the UK population in a socialist paradise land of milk and honey - feel free !

Re: Everything is lies now

And a lot of it was expired or redundant weapons that were going to cost money to dispose of.

Whether blowing up Russians is more environmentally friendly than burning dioxins in an incinerator - I don't know

Re: Everything is lies now

You mean the poor Africans might be screwed over by superpowers fighting for strategic influence and control of their resources ?

"Ave! Cuci novo, similis duci seneci"

>you might want to disguise yourself as a Canadian.

You should make them spell neighbour to be sure.

Vancouver strip club marquee cited as hate speech on X

Re: Everything is lies now

So USAid will no longer buy John Deere tractors and Monsanto seeds to send to poor countries in Africa.

"U.S. law's requirement that most goods and services financed by USAID must be sourced from U.S. vendors." = US foreign aid is aid to midwestern states.

Instead Chinese aid will ship Chinese tractors and Chinese seeds and Chinese advisors and Chinese shippers.

All the US had to do was out-bribe the former USSR in order to own the 3rd world - and it failed at that and is being out-corrupted by China.

Tech stocks tank as US AI dominance no longer a sure bet

Re: I stand ready...

So if we really wanted to defeat China - we would increase the number of Chinese students at Wharton where they could learn the business secrets of our great leader ?

Re: Shorts?

Welcome back, we were worried you were being held in a dungeon/VM at OpenAI

Re: Maybe what they're claiming is true

Nvidia aren't selling millions of H100 gpus to randoms on ebay. Even Twitter could only get them by having Musk steal them from Tesla.

They may have got a handful to play with through 'unofficial channels' but not the 100,000 GPU clusters that OpenAI and chums are talking about needing.

Re: You can almost hear the bubble bursting.

>I'm sorry, you seem to have mis-spelt personal untraceable international bribery fund as "memecoin"

"tomayto, tomahto"

>People who work with benefit claimants are now voicing “serious concerns” about how the system handles sensitive personal data.

The AI can copy the data to a USB key and leave it in a car/bar/taxi ?

Re: No Path to Profitability except handwavey

>That has been MS' business model with Windows & Office. Quite natural that they expect to repeat this with AI.

Ironically MS business model has been that companies need 1000s of office workers all working in Office and all paying $/month for subscriptions.

If MS really believed that AI was going to replace all the workers at their customers - they would go totally "Balmer" on AI

Sweden seizes cargo ship after another undersea cable hit in suspected sabotage

Re: Make flags of convenience, inconvenient.

>The shipping industry's corruption in this regard is getting very tiresome, especially in the current geopolitical climate.

It is a little ironic that shipping companies that register their vessels in Narnia and use crews from middle-earth are being protected from Houtis by $Bn worth of warships from Europe and the USA.

Of course I assume these navies are doing this out of a fraternal bond with seafarers - and not a desire to put a shitload of force protection off Iran's coast

Re: Once is Happenstance, Twice is Coincidence

> alternatives to Lloyds, Swift and other service providers may continue for BRICS members, and suck billions out of the West's service economy.

So long as you only intend shipping or trading within the bloc you can. The USSR had similar arrangements.

However when trading internationally you are generally at the mercy of the customer when it comes to obeying rules

Re: Brown trouser time

Admiral Doenitz was prosecuted as a war criminal for "waging an offensive war" because among other things, his U-boats didn't follow cruiser-rules when attacking heavily defended convoys.

Re: Brown trouser time

>But you can sink a merchant vessel while surfacing without it being a war crime.

1, You can hardly hold the US navy responsible for professional incompetence.

2, It's never a war crime if you do it to the Japanese.

Re: Brown trouser time

But a submarine wouldn't sink a merchant vessel without surfacing, inspecting its papers and giving the crew time to evacuate - that would be a war crime

Re: You know, bad weather can sink bad ships

>fines for lacking/defective navigational & safety equipment

Shipping Company , #1 above the Kebab Shop, Valetta, Malta has been fined $10M and closed

Shipping Company B, #1 above the Kebab Shop, Valetta, Malta, has opened.

Astronomers red-faced after mistaking Musk's Tesla Roadster for asteroid

Re: a problem that is set to worsen as more nations and companies venture to the Moon and beyond

> I'll hold off on anything further until evidence presents itself.

Like his Nazi salutes followed by his Nazi joke routine, his support of the AfD ( aka. Nazi 2.0) party, or the range of antisemitic posts on his Twitter stream ?

Re: Modest proposal

The Japanese did launch a test inflatable habitat. If they had a sense of humour they could have made it UFO (or Godzilla) shaped

Re: Tesla roadster launched on SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy mission.

>What is really beyond comprehension is how he was permitted to send this piece of junk up in the first place given that the entire purpose was publicity.

It was a test launch, normally you would launch a piece of space-grade concrete. It's in a sun orbit so no real danger to Earth.

Nvidia deprecates CUDA support for aging architectures

Re: Trust no one. Suspect everyone. The enemy is within ... You have been warned !!!

I believe the joke is that it's the CIA identification code phrase from Goldeneye.

AC may also have to show the tattoo

Robots in schools, care homes next? This UK biz hopes to make that happen

Re: that's one of the things that we consider to be entertainment, so to speak

Remember there are people who enjoy watching (or even presenting) daytime TV

Chatting with the AI equivalent of a Sendmail error log sounds more stimulating

Re: What? Where? When?

Introducing ED-209 (Matron Edition)

Re: Ugh!

>just spending the money on health, social care,

You can spend all you like on health and social care, but if you have one person under 30 for 10 people over 70 staff are going to be in short supply.

You could bring in lots of of immigrants from Human Resource Rich (tm) nations. Or you could announce a massive program to encourage teen pregnancies and a fast track into nursing for schoolchildren and it would still take 20 years to have an impact.

Stargate, smargate. We're spending $60B+ on AI this year, Meta's Zuckerberg boasts

Re: How long until Florida Man...

Musk is looking a bit "Trumpy" around the midriff, and since the upgrade the Z-1000 android is looking pretty mean

Re: after everyone stops wondering why

Oracle already has all the data - they run tiktok's backend.

What he wants is editorial control on what users see

Re: There is no business case.

>Pres 47 is leading the way with his $TRUMP coin !!!!

At least the publicity around the pump and dump has done great things for public acceptance of crypto in general

Re: Hopefully, not real money

>it is equally the squeezing out of genuinely productive investment in the real economy.

But they don't own the real economy

Re: How long until Florida Man...

Musk : No sir. We fight with cannon.

Zuck : But I thought we were fighting with swords.

Musk : Swords! What do you think this is, the middle ages? Only girls fight with swords these days. Stand by your gun sir.

AI agents? Yes, let's automate all sorts of things that don't actually need it

Re: "We know bad actors may try to misuse this technology."

I thought AI was going to replace bad actors with CGI ?

Europe, UK weigh up how to respond to Trump's proposed tariffs. One WTF or two?

Re: Prisoner's Dilemma!

Hope your employer or government didn't make any short sighted decisions to rely on Microsoft software or any US cloud providers

LinkedIn accused of training AI on private messages

Re: Why am I not surprised ?

>I was forced to have an account by a previous employer

We were told to sign up for everything and promote the glories of our glorious corporate vision on Linkedin and everywhere else.

And then told by IT to avoid any mention of where we worked or work contacts on any social media, to avoid spear-phishing

Re: Why am I not surprised ?

Will any non-Scottish English speaker care what a Scottsman says?

Linux rolls out the welcome mat for Microsoft's Copilot key

Re: It

1, Dell laptops have an un-labelled black power button on the keyboard where the 'del' key should be

2, None of the children on the office understood any of the above references

Re: Pretty obvious

>why the fuck is there a caps lock key on keyboards made since 1975 or so, anyway?)

So that you can get more practice re-entering your passwd. Especially on a certain server that boots with CAPSLOCK enable by default

Re: Pretty obvious

You know that you can save space by removing the unecessary French Language files on your computer with the "-remove french" command ?

> sudo rm -rf /

AI chatbot startup founder, lawyer wife accused of ripping off investors in $60M fraud

Re: Sounds like a meeting at Mar-a-Iago would solve their problemo.

$60M, you are a crook. Come back when you stole $60B and we can talk