Posts by seven of five

Two different attackers poisoned popular open source tools - and showed us the future of supply chain compromise

Re: Wrong.

Yeah, but that one nosedived pretty soon.

What happened when AI ran into the cold hard reality of the legal profession

Aha, THOSE kind of ethics. The "wink, wink nudge nudge special ethics".

"Lawyers [...] bound by professional ethics."

Lawyers.

Ethics.

Lawyers. Ethics.

... nah, sorry, that does not go into the same sentence. Or paragraph. Article must be wrong.

US foreign router ban criticized for being ‘industrial policy disguised as cybersecurity’

Re: How is this ban even possible?

> Then in practice, open up random containers to detect if 'tractor parts' are actually boxes of illicit routers..

Given John Deeres policy towards spares, thoses boxes will certainly be checked. And you'd better hope there are only illegal routers in it!

Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers

Nah, that guy is all TX, no RX...

Switzerland built a secure alternative to BGP. The rest of the world hasn't noticed yet

Re: Switzerland + Benalux...

Uh-hu. Ever been to Denmark?

Re: Switzerland + Benalux...

Yeah, I was asking for that question, wasn't I? Beers on you... because hydration.

Re: Switzerland + Benalux...

Switzerland is (very fiercely) not part of the EU.

It is part of Schengen and EFTA, though.

(Also, it is BeNeLux - BElgium, NEtherlands (not Holland!), LUXembourg). Don't get me started on how many EU cititzens get that wrong...

Nvidia's DLSS 5 promises to bring you out the other side of the uncanny valley

Re: Game

Tried to, the NPC suck.

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

Re: Zurich, Switzerland

easy: none.

Most chatbots will help plan school shootings and other violence, study shows

Re: Simple solution

The Swiss are armed to the teeth as well, and (almost) nothing happens. Must be something in the food.

NASA abandons delayed SLS upper stage for ULA's Centaur V instead

Re: Centaur: tried and tested - good decision.

That won't stop todays NASA from messing up.

Altman said no to military AI abuses – then signed Pentagon deal anyway

Re: Can't put me on the kill list

Arrr?

IBM stock dives after Anthropic points out AI can rewrite COBOL fast

Re: Ummm...

You certainly have to be up front with your (current) lack of ability. And then see what happens, some might take the risk of several years of training in order to have someone for the next twenty years.

When I have an apprentice who demonstrates interest and basic ability, I go out of my (usually very grumpy, think "25 years Unix") way and try to teach him. Worked once.

Re: Ummm...

Apply anyway. If they really need someone and you can demonstrate to be eager, quite a few companies would take you in. A COBOL (motivated, and trained in-house, on their own environment) Programmer unter 30? Worth its weight in Tritium.

UK watchdog eyes Meta's smart glasses after workers say they 'see everything'

Re: Who would wear AI glasses during "extremely private moments" ...

I guess you've never been married

Every day in every way, passwords are getting worse and worse

Re: And here we go again

And while you wait for the lawyer you neither know how to select, nor how to afford, you will stay in this nice, 5th sub-basement detention cell.

Passkeys? Yeah, sure....

> Go to an online service, the system fills in your username, dab the fingerprint sensor, and you're in.

Yes, what could POSSIBLY go wrong with that?

Pop music fans literally dying to stream hot new albums – in car crashes, that is

Re: Traffic Fatalities?

The one where they can listen to Slayer, just like the staff prefers for themselves?

this reminds me - haven't listened to reign in blood for far too long. Time to correct that. \m/

AWS would rather blame its own engineers than its AI

Re: Strive to be the Earth's Best Employer?

With that attitude, you wouldn't have gotten the job at AMZN in first place, underperformer.

/s

/s (duplicated, just to be sure. )

Orbital datacenters are a pie-in-the-sky idea: Gartner

Re: Must be snowing in hell.

Yep. An idea so stupid even Gartner realises.

You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief

Re: Not just a problem with F-35

Yes, but no: That clause is only sort of printed on page 94. Actually, it is done in VERY fine print on the edge of said page. The inside one...

Maybe

> is a Panasonic Toughbook, with an (optical?) FireWire interface [...]

had the (Boeing) X-32 won the contract, the interface would have been FireBall

Penguin-powered platform board keels over at Alpine station

Re: So, it would be a Linux install gone wrong

Don't get me started... you have to feel bad for them, even though they are Germans... That's how bad it is.

(joke alert, disclaimer, etc etc ....)

Re: Wrong Distro

Nah, is fine: Sargans is in the upper Rhine valley.

Akschually, the SBB station is the least elevated point of the community, at 480 metres above sea level.

Yes, I am fun at parties, why?

And now, my anorak please, I have to leave.

Re: So, it would be a Linux install gone wrong

> it would seem that the vaunted Swiss efficiency has taken some buckshot to the wings.

That never was. The Swiss were attributed precision, efficiency were the Germans.

Oracle suits up for Air Force Cloud One program with $88M contract

Newsflash, December 8th, 2028.

The AirForce extends thoughts and prayers to the victims on the yacht sunk by the errant misfire which happened yesterday off the coast of Hawaii.

T-Mobile announces its network is now full of AI by rolling out real-time translation

Re: Hello, hello?

Du hast WAS über meine Mutter gesagt!?

Microsoft touts far-off high-temperature superconducting tech for datacenter efficiency

Re: Solving the wrong problem

Especially, as they could just harness the power of magic unicorn farts and be done with it. Now really, bloody amateurs...

AI connector for Google Calendar makes convenient malware launchpad, researchers show

Re: Desktop Commander, an MCP server for granting terminal access

There are only so many ways to paraphrase "self-lart", Micros~1 would have used them up long ago, leaving no names for everybody else.

Microsoft dials up the nagging in Windows, calls it security

Re: intended to deal with suspect behavior behind the scenes...

...behind the "Beware of the Leopard" sign on door behind the Leopard.

Re: "or wanders into a user's sensitive files."

"A program tries to access you outlook address book...."

What did I do? right click a file in explorer, "send to email reciepient"

Next-gen nuclear reactors safe enough to skip full environmental reviews, says Trump admin

It used to be. These days, I am not so convinced anymore.

X marks the raid: French cops swoop on Musk's Paris ops

Re: Maybe not.

> hit roadblocks when they try to retire to Spain

Or Malta.

Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX to spread universal consciousness via a sentient sun

Re: In other words

And this:

> the US space programme is so dependent on Space X that somehow the costs AI is going to drag it into will have to be covered by public funds.

This.

is genius. Frustrating, as it is.

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Re: Sounds like a minor chuckle at best

Actually (Ironically), the russians have something better (as in, more able to browse the web [1], which might have been a core function of chrome some time in the past) than chrome.

[1] or, the parts of the web still available to them?

Old Windows quirks help punch through new admin defenses

Re: DOS? There's still DOS in windows?

denial of service? There is loads of that in windows...

(yes, yes i know which dos you meant...)

Gartner questions whether Salesforce AI buffet will stay all-you-can-eat forever

I may have seen something like this before...

Oracle ULA, anyone?

embrace, extend, take hostage.

Oracle AI sailed the world on Royal Navy flagship via cloud-at-the-edge kit

Re: That's a witch!

Witch season! Duck season! Witch season! Duck season! Witch season! Duck season! Exocet!

London boroughs limping back online months after cyberattack

Re: birth certificates

>> "It's proof of ID."

> It isn't. It specifically says it isn't - at least last copy I saw said it wasn't.

Exactly. The last line on the certificate is a strong hint.

Re: birth certificates

Thanks for making my point. The birth certificate will be "made up [1]" (prooving what exactly?) if does not exist, as it is entangeld with things which could (and should) replace it.

[1] with information YOU provide if the authorities can not obtain/verify them otherwise!

birth certificates

I really love these. Useless piece of paperwork just existing for historical reasons. And if you argue (long enough) you don't have one they'll make one up. On your expenses and time.

I mean, on the other hand - just imagine being an uncertified birth. Thats no proper way to be alive...

We will be cruising at 35,000 feet and failing to update our Apache HTTP Server

Yes, but when that happens the passengers tend to provide all the entertainment they still may need.

and the system is quite air-gapped most of the time.

AI faces closing time at the cash buffet

Re: Pointless

Nah, that will play a satanic message. Summon some demons, at most.

'PromptQuest' is the worst game of 2025. You play it when trying to make chatbots work

Re: TL;DR - still a toy

> "AI" can impress under the right conditions.

And it will depress in most other.

New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good

Re: Epoxy?

Absoluetely. In hindsight, it was amazingly stupid. But how to explain hindsight to a 13 year old?

Re: Mouse balls

Though you probably were washing the ladies balls was well...

Re: Better prank

Ah, yes, that was a good one as well: modified a mouse (ball mouse with optical pickup) by removing every second of the spokes from one wheel. Which made the mouse move at half its horizontal speed on the vertical axis. That really messes with your brain.

Epoxy?

Reminds me of the time I still went to school. We glued a teachers car to the pavement, carefully filling each tread of the tyres with a syringe. Took us an entire afternoon of visiting DIY stores to find a fitting extension hose for the syringes to completely fill the tread.

Car stayed there for quite a while, and the damage to the parking lot when they finally cut the tyres was a constant reminder to us to never, ever get caught. That would have been pocket money for a decade...