Posts by NoneSuch

Elon Musk's xAI wants $1B cash infusion in exchange for equity shares

Re: Spread too thin

A billion? I refused to give him money for a Blue Checkmark, so don't expect my checkbook to open soon.

Here's how fast a spacecraft should fly to successfully detect amino acids erupting from Enceladus

Re: How fast is that relative to...

Screw a fly-by. Let's have a sheep powered lander.

Wallace: "We're off to the moon! Cheese on toast!"

AMD slaps together a silicon sandwich with MI300-series APUs, GPUs to challenge Nvidia’s AI empire

Wish Intel would start getting competitive. AMD is beginning to get too big of a head lately.

Hershey phishes! Crooks snarf chocolate lovers' creds

When my family visits from the UK, they always bring a box of Fruit and Nut bars. In return, they get complimentary room and board for their vacation. A fair exchange.

Remember when the Hubble Space Telescope was more punchline than science powerhouse?

Maybe Elon et al can stop by on their way to Mars.

No new top boss at NSA until it answers questions about buying up location, browsing data

Re: Private sector

James Clapper knowingly lied to Congress under oath, was proven to have done so by Snowden (and others) with nothing happening.

The NSA thinks it is above the law and as long as no one is taken to task for breaking statutes expect it to get much worse before it gets better.

Put one NSA director in jail for deception or illegal wiretaps, just one, and watch the system correct itself in a hurry.

No consequences, no change.

Ex-school IT admin binned student, staff accounts and trashed phone system

Re: Dontcha love the US court system?

"Where someone gets charged with a whole heap of crimes, but plea bargains them all down to a single charge of littering..."

The typical scenario in the US is charging someone innocent with drug possession, threatening months of incarceration, legal bills and severe jail time, then good cop says, just plead guilty to these minor charges and we let you go. Boom, innocent person now has criminal drug convictions on record and the cops pat themselves on the back for another uptick in their conviction stats.

Robocar tech biz sues Nvidia, claims stolen code shared in Teams meeting blunder

Re: One slide to rule them all

Unless there was an NDA in place prior to the meeting then the only issue is actual copyright violation.

If the names are the same in both sets of source code, it does not look good. How they got the code is irrelevant. The fact that they copied it, is.

Sam Altman set to rejoin OpenAI as CEO – seemingly with Microsoft's blessing

Re: Mmmmm

Changing a non-profit company to a for-profit company is a trivial exercise for lawyers.

Three quarters of software engineers face retaliation for whistleblowing

Re: Sorry, I don't believe this

"I don't think I have ever seen a whistleblower treated fairly."

Well, I hear Ed Snowden got fair treatment from the US Gover— Oh, right. Never mind.

Microsoft dials back Bing after users manage to recreate Disney logo in fake AI-generated images

And this is why corporations should not control AI output.

They will only let you see what they want you to see.

50 years ago, Skylab's accidental rebels put Mission Control on mute

Re: Smithsonian in DC

The SkyLab "hamster wheel" for exercising looked like fun.

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You get a Copilot, and you get a Copilot – Microsoft now the Copilot company

Re: Disabled

Oh, I'll take bets, but MS will be on the losing side. MS product has never failed to let me down when I needed it the most.

1 in 5 VMware customers plan to jump off its stack next year

"This is the problem, there don’t appear to be many options"

There's lots of options, but very few Enterprise level ones with viable support. Anyone leaving VMWare objecting to the pricing is only going to get screwed over by the others in the space. Those opting for Open Source have few options for support.

Another once brilliant company reduced to an IP asset through a corporate buyout. How the mighty have fallen.

The death of the sysadmin has been predicted for years – we're not holding our breath

Re: Biased A.I models written by white men

Wait for it. The UK government will eventually legislate that they run all back end systems.

You know to protect us from "terrorists, child porn and fraud."

OpenAI warns folks over GPT-4 Vision's limits and flaws

My inquiry is being held up.

Some Just-Stop-Oil activists are sitting on my Internet cable.

No more Mr Nice DoJ: Tesla gets subpoenas over self-driving software claims

Not saying Tesla's auto drive does not work.

However, a tweet tends to send their owner off the rails on occasion.

India plans semiconductor research institute to rival the world's finest

Breaking News

Chinese nationals fill all classes an hour after registration opens.

South Korea approves Broadcom's VMware buy

Let's look forward to the day when Apple buys Amazon, Microsoft and Exxon, before changing their name to Wayland-Yutani.

'One corp to rule them all'

Bezos' engineers dream of Blue Ring space platform in orbit by 2025

Meh...

Sounds like Elon's marketing guys and gals work at Blue Origin now.

Chinese citizens feel their government is doing such a fine job with surveillance

Re: Foreigners asking Chinese citizens these questions?

Considering that criticizing the government, in any way, is now a criminal offense in mainland China; I suspect the results are skewed in their favour by some margin.

AI safety guardrails easily thwarted, security study finds

Star Wars Quote

The more you tighten your grip, ChatGPT, the more LLM will slip through your fingers.

Microsoft takes another run at closing Exchange brute-force security hole

"Microsoft, in its note on the issue, said the root cause of the outage was: "A recent service update, applied to a section of infrastructure responsible for enforcing IP address anti-spam rules, contains a change which is inadvertently causing impact."

Make of that what you will, and the use of the word "inadvertently."

"Inadvertently" - Another anonymous MS Engineer applied another Powershell script he shouldn't have. Why have on-prem where you can run your own systems in a stable manner when you can pay Microsoft to f*** up your core contact with clients monthly?

Microsoft gives unexpected tutorial on how to install Linux

Re: Choices?

All right, whoever told Microsoft about how to load Linux. My office, NOW!

US construction giant unearths concrete evidence of cyberattack

Re: Top marks for the headline!

Obvious second place article titles for "Simpson Manufacturing Company"

"What could possib-ly go wrong?"

"DOH!"

"Ha-Ha!"

Microsoft does not want ValueLicensing CEO anywhere near its confidentiality ring

Re: MS is a monopoly

MS is NOT a monopoly, it is a Briar Patch.

Easy to get in, very difficult to get out.

Net neutrality meets opposition in US, while Europe mulls charges for Big Tech

Re: " “pay almost nothing for data transport in our networks.”

"43 Republican senators call on the FCC chair to rethink things, saying to reinstate the “heavy-handed public utility regulations” would be a mistake and urging her to “end this charade.”"

43 Republican senators who have taken hefty donations from US cable and Internet companies no doubt. Any politician issuing a statement on an industry should be forced to state how much money they have received from that industry in the first sentence.

"I Senator (Insert Name Here) have received $125,000 from AT&T. I feel this legislation would hurt my relationship with AT&T and if it is passed they will no longer give me as much cash as they have in the past."

Hacktivist attacks erupt in Middle East following Hamas assault on Israel

Re: Unwanted fall out from Israel/Hamas conflict

Dick moves on both sides going back sixty years.

Re: Unwanted fall out from Israel/Hamas conflict

"Back in 2022, you supported the terrorist regime of Ukraine. You betrayed Russia."

The only people still supporting Russia, is Russia. Makes it kind of obvious where this came from.

Scripted shortcut caused double-click disaster of sysadmin's own making

Re: Yes

Learnt maths.

Learned math.

Blockchain biz goes nuclear: Standard Power wants to use NuScale reactors for DCs

"I can see the locals, keen not to have a mini Two Mile Island on their doorstep, insisting they go elsewhere."

Three Mile Island.

Musk in hot water with SEC for failure to comply with subpoena

Re: Frog March Him Out of His Office in Handcuffs

Either he is a citizen of the US and subject to their laws, or a citizen of the US and subject to their laws.

Either way, subpoena violation should result in jail time. But, he's a billionaire with government contracts and contacts, so he gets off.

James Clapper repeatedly lied to Congress about NSA bugging of US citizens. How many days did he spend in the pokey? Zero.

At the rate they're going, I give the US until 2035 before Civil War II.

ESA funds space weather satellite swarm to understand and combat orbital debris

Rocket stages with fairings, nuts, bolts, Mylar tape and debris from explosive separating bolts are needed to get those sats in orbit as well. They are part of the problem.

ROFL

"ESA funds space weather satellite swarm to understand and combat orbital debris"

That's the same logic Americans use arming teachers and expecting gun violence to decrease.

Never mind SETI and NASA, if your Ring somehow snaps ET, Amazon might give you $1M

Re: What do I get for snapping the tooth fairy?

I snapped my tooth last week on a chicken bone. That's no reason to call me a fairy...

CISA reveals 'Admin123' as top security threat in cyber sloppiness chart

Amateurs

Breaking news: Admin124 is the new rage. That'll throw them off.

AI girlfriend encouraged man to attempt crossbow assassination of Queen

Re: In Other News ...

"But, the GPS map TOLD me to turn into the river. It's not my fault!"

Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11

Re: Forced upgrade even of machines that pass checks?

"Youngest child is in the 6th Form and the school insist on Windows files for submissions (and I really can't be ar5ed to argue too hard), but what they don't realise is that she has been on Ubuntu for years!"

LibreOffice can export in MS Format.

Microsoft introduces AI meddling to your files with Copilot in OneDrive

One Hopes

This new Copilot venture works better then Tesla's Autopilot cruise control.

Microsoft takes concrete steps (literally) toward greener datacenter construction

For Pennies on the Pound

"Microsoft Takes Concrete Steps"

I hear there's a decent clearance sale on for reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete at the moment.

Fuming Tom Hanks says he had nothing to do with that AI dental ad clone of him

Release Forms For Appearing In Movies...

Will become as dense as EULA for software.

"You grant the producers unlimited rights to your face, appearance and confirm you sign away all rights in perpetuity." etc.etc.etc.

Can't wait for five years down the road when the AI responsible for animating dead stars is interviewed by the Reg AI. I'll have my AI read it and break it down into point form.

X Corp is now suing a sublessee for unpaid rent

I'm sure the "I'm not paying my bills, because you didn't pay yours" argument will fall flat.

At least the lawyers will get rich on both sides.

Nuclear-powered datacenters: What could go wrong?

Missed Opportunity With The Sub-title.

Should have been, "where nothing can "possa-bly" go wrong. Uh, possibly go wrong."

The Simpsons. An endless supply of apt quotes. Apt, I tell you!

OpenAI reinstates ChatGPT's internet browsing privileges

Re: The monkeys can't help themselves.

So if I pay nothing, they keep my data off MS servers.

DEAL!

US Space Force wants hotline to China amid rising tensions

"Taiwan has been independently and democratically governed since the 1940s-50s"

An example of how a nation can show that an oppressive government can be overthrown and replaced with democracy.

Now you know why China wants to occupy them so badly.

Who You Gonna Call?

GHOSTBUST—

No!

No.

Uncle Sam mulls spying on clouds being used to train AI

You Have The Right To Privacy, After We Approve The Content.

Effing NSA, GCHQ and Five Eyes in general. They want access to everything because it may be a "threat" one day.

Say anything, do anything, just get access. Skim the best ideas that can make us profit, delete the things we don't like and persecute radical threats like journalists, privacy advocates and members of the EFF.

No, no, no! Disco joke hit bum note in the rehab center

KD Lang's cover of Hallelujah on YouTube is one of the best performances ever given.

Microsoft hiring a nuclear power program manager, because AI needs lots of 'leccy

Revenge of Clippy

"It seems like you're trying to stop a runaway nuclear meltdown? Would you like to download the latest version of Edge to suggest fixes to your issue?"

CANCEL

"Very well. Would you like to see dosemeters on sale in your area?"

CANCEL

"Very well, would you like me to look up anti-nausea medication?"

CANCEL

"It appears you have absorbed three times the lethal does of gamma radiation. Expedia has invested heavily in funeral homes. May I recommend some in your neighborhood?"

"Hello."

"Hello."

"Hello."

"User non-responsive. Processing next six month subscription of Office 365 for your convenience."

Beneath Microsoft's Surface event, AI spreads everywhere

Re: If you've seen my posts you'll know I'm not usually moved to crude language

"No thanks. An off switch please."

No such animal in Windows. Asking Microsoft to turn something off they deliberately turned on isn't going to work. Your data is too profitable and they are a corporation that needs more money this year than last year or they get fired.

I've been shifting over to Linux for the last three years and I'm almost there. Once my gaming is sorted, I'm gone and MS can do whatever the f*** they want without me.