Was the the guy who wrote the "echo" command code?
Posts by simonb_london
143 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Mar 2010
Boffins find asking ChatGPT to repeat key words can expose its training data
King Charles III signs off on UK Online Safety Act, with unenforceable spying clause
What's unconstitutional about Google keyword search warrants? Nothing, says Colorado Supreme Court
UK judge rates ChatGPT as 'jolly useful' after using it to help write a decision
UK admits 'spy clause' can't be used for scanning encrypted chat – it's not 'feasible'
Microsoft admits slim staff and broken automation contributed to Azure outage
Meta reckons China's troll farms could learn proper OpSec from Russia's fake news crews
UN cybercrime treaty risks becoming a 'global surveillance pact'
Say hello to Downfall, another data-leaking security hole in several years of Intel chips
Scientists strangely unable to follow recipe for holy grail room-temp superconductor
Big Tech's going to love India's new personal data protection bill
If AI drives humans to extinction, it'll be our fault
Evil or enlightened
What would be the result of highly intelligent self awareness? Psychopaths aren't exactly known for being the brightest bulbs in the box in terms of having a fully functional brain with no parts suppressed and shut down. Why would a super-intelligent AI want to emulate such a disability?
Airline puts international passengers on the scales pre-flight
Biden proposes 30% tax on cryptominers' power bills
Brit politicians, Big Tech grumble about India tech laws
Beijing lists the stuff it wants generative AI to censor
US police have run nearly 1M Clearview AI searches, says founder
Twitter 2.0 signal boosts Taliban 2.0 through Blue subscriptions
Re: What?
Nothing to do with left/right/liberals, or my own political views, or what you think my political views may be.
From the Taliban's point of view, who are the ones making the claim, it makes no difference which political party is in power. Foreign policy towards the Taliban will be the same regardless and the BBC viewpoint will reflect that policy. Therefore, as far as the Taliban are concerned the "state" in the UK is constant and the BBC are part of it.
What?
'The BBC is funded by British households to the tune of £159 ($194) a year and strives "to act in the public interest, serving all audiences through the provision of impartial, high-quality and distinctive output and services which inform, educate and entertain." The "state" does not have a hand in its coverage.'
The state has no hand in the BBC's coverage??? This has to be some kind of joke, right? Also I would love a chance to offer the Taliban some anger management training should they be bold enough to post something that shows up in my Twitter feed. Bring it on!
2002 video streaming patent holder sues Amazon and Twitch
Microsoft’s Nadella: Tech is in for a rough two years
Spooky entanglement revealed between quantum AI and the BBC
China is likely stockpiling and deploying vulnerabilities, says Microsoft
Sizewell C nuclear plant up for review as UK faces financial black hole
Apple perfects vendor lock-in with home security kit
India to lead drive for global crypto regulations to bust money laundering
India’s Supreme Court demands government detail internet shutdown rules
Then I got to the comments...
I don't normally comment on the other comments I've seen so far, but there seems to be a consensus that Internet shutdowns on a whim are justifiable and desirable because there are exam cheats in existence. I certainly wouldn't want someone monkeying with Internet availability where I live/work! Not for any reason.
Its up to the exam venues to police the students within their own boundaries.
Indian tech minister picks a fight with Wikipedia over cricketer's dropped catch
Digital Ocean dumps Mailchimp after attack leaked customer email addresses
Iran cheerfully admits using cryptocurrency to pay for imports
Copper shortage keeps green energy, tech ventures grounded
Japan makes online insults a crime that can earn a year in jail
When I was at school...
I remember everyone was quite liberal with hurling insults at each other face to face. Being sensitive was not really an option.
Rising above the insults and developing self-confidence is part of growing up.
Its a bit like the highway code being changed to give pedestrians who don't look, and are therefore "vulnerable", priority over vehicles because teaching them to look before crossing at junctions is too much effort, apparently.
Acer's TravelMate laptops arrive – complete with Microsoft Pluton chips
Biden tours Samsung fab, talks chip cooperation with South Korea
Microsoft-backed robovans to deliver grub in London
Apple to bin apps that go three years without updates
British motorists will be allowed to watch TV in self-driving vehicles
Who will the AI serve
Will the AI serve us, the government or the manufacturer? Looking at the recent trends to control everything we say and do recently I'm not sure I would want a car that decided where I could or couldn't drive to on the basis of "saving the environment" or, as the more often the case these days, for no clearly explained reason.
AWS makes auto-recovery the default for EC2 instances
Linux Snap package tool fixes make-me-root bugs
What are real organisations doing with zero trust?
Machine needs more Learning: Google Drive dings single-character files for copyright infringement
Not a big fan of more legislation myself but this issue of companies clobbering users with zero explanation, chance to appeal, human being to talk about it with is getting out of hand. That coupled with deflection-mode call centres and websites that just send frustrated customers round in circles to the same inadequate FAQs. It looks like companies now need to be legally bound to be accountable as to how they treat their users.
MPs charged with analysing Online Safety Bill say end-to-end encryption should be called out as 'specific risk factor'
Indian government committee slams 'gross misuse' of internet shutdowns – even in Kashmir
Ubuntu desktop team teases 'proof of concept' systemd on Windows Subsystem for Linux
Samsung boss Lee Jae-Yong convicted and fined for drug abuse
Theranos blood-test machine demos for VIPs rigged to hide any failures, court told
Re: Arrogance of investors?
Reminds me of when Peter Jones was duped into thinking that a TV takes tens of watts of power in standby and this power-saving gizmo was required to save the planet. They were doing the demo with an obsolete plasma TV that would keep the grid warm in standby for a fast start-up time. No TV still did that by the time of the pitch.