Posts by seven of five

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...

US gov't launches 'Tech Force' to replace IT staff DOGE fired

Re: Isn't this what happens in the UK?

ACK, this is rather "being more on fire" or a second angry crocodile dangeling from your testicles...

IBM unleashes CUGA, an open-source AI agent that actually completes more than half its tasks

Cuga?

Shouldn't that be "coga"?

aaanyway:

"Configurable new technology system" would be more appropriate

Delays? What delays? Oracle insists its $300B cloud contract with OpenAI is on track

Or falling from the roof. Look how fast we can go - right until you pass the windows on ground floor.

Starlink claims Chinese launch came within 200 meters of broadband satellite

Re: SpaceX deflecting much?

and pay them for a launch window!

UK watchdog urged to probe GDPR failures in Home Office eVisa rollout

Re: If Found Guilty

That will teach them!

VMware kills vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA

Strange

"Virtzilla said EMEA customers would need to check with their local dealer to see if VVF was still on sale in their country."

That's wierd. Pulling a product and not being able to name where. Go home Broadcom, you're drunk?

Parachutists told to check software after jumper dangled from a plane

Tail code

cute, how they obscour their company name, but leave the tail code visible... amateurs.

Trump says Nvidia can sell H200s to China – if Washington gets a 25 percent cut

So he is a double agent of the British Crown (think Johnny English, but less funny)? - Or is hey the long forgotten heir, like in the fairy tales?

Blows my mind...

Welcome to America - now show us your last five years of social media posts

Re: Free speech

Doesn't apply to foreigners. Even human rights don't (universally) -> Gitmo

Congress quietly strips right-to-repair provisions from US military spending bill

Re: Is anyone surprised?

Yeah, but those stupid amateuers don't get rich in the process...

Oh, wait...

UK to Europe: The time to counter Russia's information war machine is now

Re: Having left the EU in a hissy fit

Especially with "members" like Orban

IBM touts progress on tech stack for AI-enabled airline with no passengers or alcohol

how fitting

With their fleet consisting of hot air, wishes and a borrowed plane, this the the perfect fit for AI.

IBM drops $11B on Confluent to feed next-gen AI ambitions

early Christmas

Oh, IBM, you shouldn't have. I mean.. thank you. Could you buy and murder Jira next, please?

Re: India Business Machines

AI is "All Indian", isn't it?

UK tech minister vows more whole-government megadeals after £9B Microsoft pact

Re: It won't work

Taxpayer's Penny is buried under heaps of wasted pounds - no chance to find it down there.

Latest Windows 11 updates may break the OS's most basic bits

Au contraire, they are trying. Trying to keep users on Windows 10. With allies like them, who needs enemies?

India demands smartphone makers install a government app on every handset

"I'll make you love me, wether you like it or not"?

and some say romance is dead

UK sinks to fifth in ESA funding league behind Spain

Ok, so it is "creative maths".

"Our space sector is a key driver of our economic growth and national security, and also supports our allies in Europe and beyond."

Words.

"the UK's contribution fell from €1.876 billion (11.24 percent of the budget) in 2022 to €1.706 billion (7.78 percent)"

Deeds.

You do the maths.

Microsoft appears to move on from its most loyal ‘customers’ – Contoso and Fabrikam

Re: security

Does it really matter with Micros~1 and their updates? No point in locking a burning barn.

Canadian data order risks blowing a hole in EU sovereignty

Re: obvious solution

British ones, privately owned. Because traditions have to start somewhere...

/s

HPC won't be an x86 monoculture forever – and it's starting to show

Same. ASCI White. Those were the days, when I was young(er).

Britain plots atomic reboot as datacenter demand surges

Re: Hardly makes us meatbags feel better ...

Sure, thats nice. Though I seem to have missed NISTA define the site for the deep geological repository, and has funding already been allocated to begin construction?

DragonFire laser to be fitted to Royal Navy ships after acing drone-zapping trials

Re: Coherent Beam Combining?!?

How big is the thermal exhaust port on a Type 45? Though istr the Royal Navy DOES regard a single fighter as a threat... unlike the Imperial Navy

Systemd 259 release candidate flexes musl support – with long list of caveats

Re: Musl libc is only a small project

Now that is plain mean.

Researchers claim 'largest leak ever' after uncovering WhatsApp enumeration flaw

Re: University of Vain-a

to paraphrase the late Sith Lord Darth Vader:

Your lack of imagination is... disappointing.

Cloudflare coughs, half the internet catches a cold

"Breaking Internet services provider Cloudflare"

nice one...

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

Re: Jaguar Land Rover Opportunity

That is part of "the experience". People would miss it. If all you care about is driving there (and back again), you'd get a Toyota.

Ransomed CTO falls on sword, refuses to pay extortion demand

Re: Bad things happen. And once they've happened, how you respond is important.

Yikes, chortle. gasp. Now look what you've done - coffee everywhere. But a bloody warning up.

But yeah, good one - LMAO.

Britain's first small modular reactors to be built in Wales

Re: Sounds dystopian.

Sure, I was aware of that.

Supposed to be a light attempt at humor, difficult audience here, judgeing by the downvotes..

otoh, anything remotely critical of nuclear power (or Britain in general) isn't really liked in here...

Sounds dystopian.

[...] will initially deploy three Rolls-Royce SMR units capable of powering three million homes, with potential to expand to eight reactors. [...] at Wylfa on Anglesey, an island off northwest Wales - but it won't generate power until the mid-2030s.

as per wikipedia -> Population (2024) Total 69,097

With 70k people living there right now, even a ten year viagra-only diet will leave them hard pressed to need power for three million homes, leave alone eight, by 2040.

Windows 11 26H1 is coming ... for new processors only

Re: Smell the wind of obsolencence ?

"Doom and Crysis" sounds about right...

I honestly do not remember any specific failures caused by windoes update.

Whenever I see the beach with the stone arch, I think "Whew, at least it booted so far".

Concerning the "How little testing must you do not to notice you can't print?"

Well, I guess you can answer that one yourself, can you? :P

Printing. And some audio hardware. Because: tradition.

On top of that... maybe something security related - break everything except defender maybe.

Meta can't afford its $600B love letter to Trump

Re: Good luck investors

second life! Remember the hype?

Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks

Re: Using 6 GHz for mobile is nonsense.

> through hypnotism.

Ha, Charlatan.

*I* can do breast enlagement through massage - money back if it doesn't work on second try....

SCNR, I know its an old joke.

Musk gets approval for bumper Tesla payout but, unlike his robot, there are strings attached

Re: When I read about these insane pay packages

Great movie, btw.

Microsoft Azure challenges AWS for downtime crown

but nothing of value

Microsoft just revealed that OpenAI lost more than $11.5B last quarter

Re: In other words...

Just great - first you wait ages, and there are four dozen busses at once...

DNS downing clouds is boring: IBM Cloud is experiencing a quantum computer outage

Re: Who skipped geography class?

Only until the danish system in Aabenraa enters the DC...

Ubuntu Unity hanging by a thread as wunderkind maintainer gets busy with life

Or some cutie(m/f/d) took the fall for the benefit of rest of the world...