Risky
I guess the blowhard ransomware peddlers are about to find out whether it's true that the Mob no longer runs Vegas - or just a comforting fiction for the tourists.
Either way, a Vegas casino isn't an organisation I'd want to antagonise.
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ShinyHunters demands $1.5M not to leak Vegas casino and resort chain data
EFF policy says bots can code but humans must write the docs
Snyk CEO bails, wants someone with more AI experience to replace him
Healthcare security: Write login details on whiteboard, hope for the best
Microsoft boffins cook up archival storage using Pyrex glass they say can last over 10,000 years
Thursday 19th February 2026 05:55 GMT 
Re: Where is Common Sense in This?
>1. Glass is, at room temperature, a liquid of very high viscosity. If you look at a 100+ years-old-house which has its original glass windows, you will see "waviness" near the bottoms of the windows. This is because over time, gravity has caused the glass to sag.
Not true, alas; a common misconception.
See List of common misconceptions about science - Chemistry and materials science on Wikipedia, or if you prefer your facts to be presented by stick-figures, the title text of this XKCD.
Windows 11 finally hits right note: MIDI 2.0 support arrives
Linus Torvalds and friends tell The Reg how Linux solo act became a global jam session
Amazon's $200 billion capex plan: How I learned to stop worrying and love negative free cash flow
Flush with potential? Activist investor insists Japanese toilet giant is an AI sleeper
Price of popularity: Linux Mint's success also means maintainer stress
Monday 16th February 2026 19:57 GMT
Really? I recently put Mint 22.3 on a ten-year-old Intel m5-based Compute Stick, and it seems to run perfectly happily for browsing and other general use. Certainly better than Windows 10 used to be on the same hardware.
Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows
Saturday 14th February 2026 18:25 GMT
Yes, that gave me a double-take as well. I don't think "consumer desktop virtualization on an x86 PC" was even a thing in '94, although I'm sure someone'll chime in to prove me wrong :)
The article that the quoted text links to says 2024, so I'll assume it's a typo or brain-fart on the part of the author.
AI agent seemingly tries to shame open source developer for rejected pull request
30+ Chrome extensions disguised as AI chatbots steal users' API keys, emails, other sensitive data
Friday 13th February 2026 01:53 GMT
Re: Rats
Which is why it's super important to only use browser extensions from the leading AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.
These malicious extensions from unknown criminals exfiltrate all your personal info without any scruples or regard to consent, sending it off to who-knows-where for unknown purposes, despite the extension writers' convincing-looking public presence and pinky-promises of having only the highest morals.
Whereas offerings from the aforementioned leading AI companies... um...
Err.
I think I may have become confused. Perhaps I need to reconsider the distinction.
Reviving a CIDCO MailStation – the last Z80 computer
How Microsoft's legal eagles wrangled Happy Days for Windows 95
Thursday 12th February 2026 20:44 GMT
Re: How the Wheezer musicvideo was precieved in Germany first...
Knight Rider yes...
Because of the Hoff's God-like celebrity status in the German-speaking world?
Seriously, I was in Basel circa 1995, and it seemed like there was a poster of him on every shop wall.
(as an aside, being a fellow fan of 80s US TV shows like that, I was highly amused that in the recent Megan 2.0, there's a bit where the two human protagonists get into a car that's under the control of the AI... and the Knight Rider theme music starts to play. Most appropriate and amusing!)
Memory price explosion triggers PC buying spree
Notepad's new Markdown powers served with a side of remote code execution
AI connector for Google Calendar makes convenient malware launchpad, researchers show
Kyndryl to review accounting practices as several execs leave
Wednesday 11th February 2026 00:45 GMT
>I guess no shared success bonus this year
Well, not for the general mass of employees, obviously; money's tight, we're all in this together, we need to make shared sacrifices, etc etc.
But for Kyndryl senior management, who are having to deal with the inconceivable stress and pressure of these very important & difficult decisions, obviously some small bonuses are necesssary - the company has to pay the best to get the best, right? So a few $million each would be only fair, I think we all agree.
(Note icon. I, too, think this stinks.)
Microsoft dials up the nagging in Windows, calls it security
More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster
Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach clocks out amid job cuts and market jitters
Monday 9th February 2026 19:56 GMT
Re: Oh dear
Also:
The company later said it would rehire different roles and skills, intending to "ultimately have the same amount of people working,"
(my emphasis)
Nothing says “we regard our employees as a fungible, hired-by-the-kilo resource” quite like the phrase “amount of people”.
NUMBER of people, fgs.
Summoning the spirit of the BBC Micro with a Pi 500+ and a can of spray paint
UK council digs deeper into capital assets to keep Oracle project afloat
Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files
Thursday 5th February 2026 20:50 GMT
Re: Windows' Search
Yes, broken, and since Windows 10-or-whatever, further enspittified by the integration of web search.
I was fixing a friend's PC via AnyDesk last week; it's vanilla unmodified Windows 11, and by golly, I'd forgotten how much of a PITA that is.
I wanted to see if he had a particular program installed, so searched for the first few letters of its name in the start menu Search box. Bingo, instant result, the correct icon and everything, so I clicked it... and was taken to a Bing search for the program name. Aaaargh, grawlix grawlix grawlix.
The actual program was installed, it's just that Search hadn't found it because it was buried in the extremely obscure and unusual location of C:\Program Files, I mean honestly, who expects programs to be installed there...
DWP finds Copilot saves civil servants a whopping 19 minutes a day
Thursday 5th February 2026 17:54 GMT
Re: Copilot is a waste of time
Ouch, you’ve triggered me there. I was in Word the other day when it suddenly popped up in the top-left corner asking for my location. Why? The document’s author swears she didn’t embed any location tracking. What gives? As you said, why TF should Word need to know my location??
SpaceX halts Falcon 9 flights after second stage anomaly
EU's fishy digital certificate system leaves exporters floundering
DIY AI bot farm OpenClaw is a security 'dumpster fire'
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