Posts by Jedit

Brit rail cops bring live facial recognition to the London Underground

"Victoria is the first stop"

First victim, more like.

They used to say that if you had nothing to hide you had nothing to fear. Now, you just need to have a face.

Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers

"they are a vital social hub for many"

Any pub can do what a Spoons can, and with other pubs you at least don't know for certain that the owner isn't a racist homeless Thundercat.

Anthropic pledges to embed watermarks to help discern AI slop in sop to EU

"It used to be said that you could pick any two of:"

It's still said that you can pick any two from fast, cheap and good. It just doesn't apply to AI, where you don't get to pick any of those things. It's not cheap, it's not good, and if you try to do it fast it's even worse.

South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact

"What did Musk ever do to you"

Musk is openly fascist, racist and transphobic, and it's known that he begged for an invitation to the "special parties" on Epstein's island so he can be presumed to be a pedophile as well. I'm not sure why I would need him to have actually done something to me personally before I'm allowed to despise him.

Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time

"earned the right to do some frivolous coding"

Then let him go use that right, instead of getting AI to do it.

Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11

"8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone"

Based on past projections, we should thus expect somewhere between 48GB and 192GB to be the actual requirement.

Or we could just stop using what should be more accurately named Plagiarised Information Sorting Systems.

IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day

"Sounds like a child process"

No, it was a hardware fault with the daughter bored.

Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours

"airports have not made it a priority to update screening hardware"

AOL to that. It really annoys me that you can't actually drink some of the contents in front of them to demonstrate that it's safe.

Still, not as bad as Paris CDG was 20 years ago. They had a soft drink vending machine in direct line of sight of the security gate and you still couldn't get through with a bottle from it, even though they'd watched you purchase it and they'd personally given it to you.

DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'

"It is ok for authorities to take anyone's picture..."

There are a great many things that it is OK for the authorities to do but not OK for anyone else to do, and in a lot of those cases you will - and should - be arrested if you try to do them without proper authority.

That's not to say the authorities don't frequently overstep reasonable bounds when they decide it's OK for them to do something, of course. If you're unhappy with the panopticon on the streets, you'll hear no argument from me. But generally speaking, there aren't many actions that aren't OK for the authorities to do but are OK for a business to do.

Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks

"lies from Republican wankers"

Some of whom are Democrats.

I've said it before, I'll say it again: centrists always side with fascists because if a socialist ever gets to enact positive change, people are going to start asking why they should ever vote for the status quo. We're seeing this right now in the US. The other day establishment Democrat Haley Stevens debated her democratic socialist opponent Abdul al-Sayed. Fully 95% of respondents thought that al-Sayed had won the debate. You cannot speak for the people if you do not stand for the people.

Re: Probably not that surprising...

So what you're saying is that one capable worker acted for the benefit of all as part of a collective action that ensured everyone got what they needed. Sounds to me like nature isn't only red in tooth and claw.

"They tried training self-driving cars only on Mein Kampf"

Mein Kampfwagen?

Anti-AI open source has an enemy in common, but almost nothing else

"Asbestos is a tool, just like any other."

While I don't disagree with their point, I feel like lead would be a better analogy for AI. Lead is used for far more applications than asbestos and far more commonly, most notably as an additive in paint where it was used for the sake of speed; it accelerates the drying process. It continued to be used for far longer after its toxicity was known. And like AI, there's a causal link between exposure to lead and cognitive issues.

Researcher poisons open-weight AI model for under $100

"you cannot trust any model where you do not have a full history of all its training"

Which raises an interesting possibility: it makes a business case for forced disclosure of said information before using the product. So LLM operators will no longer be able to deny that they've been stealing data - or if they do, you'll have to assume that their product is untrustworthy and unreliable.

Windows 10 refuses to die, and the security bill is coming due

"Especially with the current price of new hardware…"

And the current quality of the new software. Windows 10 remains popular not just because it's familiar and requires no hardware upgrades; it's just better.

Cyberattack threatens utterly critical infrastructure in Japan: KFC

Time for a new slogan?

The Colonel's glad that you logged in

Please leave your malware in usr/bin

Backup and running? Not this digital sign

"eagle-eyed Register reader"

Eagle-eyed? That BSOD is ten feet tall!

Memory makers are slaves to the boom-bust rollercoaster, and the AI boom is the wildest ride of all

Re: test

Failed.

Microsoft warns customers AI will mean busier Patch Tuesdays

I wonder...

... exactly how many of these additional patch day issues discovered with AI are going to be caused by AI being used in the first place.

My personal wager would be on "more than it actually finds".

The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey

"-p --no-porn"

It's not doing too well on that one, is it? (TW/CW: extreme abuse)

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/lawsuit-grok-user-made-7k-child-sex-images-xai-only-reported-one-gang-rape-prompt/

Even banks and hyperscalers are now sounding the alarm about the AI bubble

"all the ways [Oracle] might suffer if this whole AI thing doesn't pan out."

As if we needed more reasons to hope that AI doesn't pan out.

GitHub cuts short offer to burn repos on CD after mockery ensues

"You wouldn’t steal a car…"

I wouldn't? But then how would I carry all my stolen DVDs home?

NASA says it will isolate volunteers from the outside world for a year

"in space there is a hostile and lethal environment on the other side of the wall"

The experiment is being conducted in America, so NASA can easily simulate those conditions by accepting only black applicants. This will also have the side benefit of guaranteed continued funding from the present administration.

"What do you need this $10 million for, Director?"

"We're going to lock up some black people for a year."

"Let's make that $20 million, shall we?"

EU appears to find datacenter emissions easier to offset than lobbyists

"Why do we have politicians if lobbying has so much influence?"

Because some people aspire to receive large paycheques for being told what to tell other people to do.

UN warns of need for global governance to avoid an AI-pocalypse

"the technology could support progress towards sustainable development"

Sustainable development is the absolute last thing that AI will ever be able to support.

Supreme Court rules cops need a warrant to vacuum up phone location data

"He was, after all accused of some pretty heinous acts by some women"

And he's working for someone else whose presence in certain locations at certain times might be confirmed by phone location data, locations where underage girls had accused him of similar heinous acts.

Large Hadron Collider goes offline to make room for its enhanced successor

"If such phenomena were dangerous or destructive..."

Has someone pointed out to them that 99.9% of the universe is empty? You can't go around saying these ten billion billion experiments a second aren't destructive and dangerous when there's huge bloomin' holes all over the place and nobody was around to say how they got there!

It's not the size of your hadron that matters, mate, it's how you collide it.

Anthropic's Mythos mess just keeps getting more complicated

"refusing to ship Tim Tams to the US because of his punitive tariffs on the penguins"

Why would that bother the Aussies? They're always claiming that Tim Tams are better than Penguins anyway.

"They are way too scared this AI will disclose all their backdoors."

Perhaps truer than you know - I have heard that Fable was banned specifically because it was demonstrated that it could hack the US government.

"refusing to let the military weaponize their technology"

Whereas a recent DOD report says that Grok was used to select the targets for the initial strikes in Iran. You know, the ones that led to more than 100 children being killed when a school was bombed.

Ukraine puts its Russian war trophies online for allies to pick apart

"these sneaky Ukrainians give them away for free."

Aha - savings Bonds!

Midjourney pivots from AI image generation to body scanning medical spa where patients bathe in 'golden light'

I can't be the only one thinking this...

Midjourney: We've developed a new AI technology that can perfectly render 3D scans of the human body!

Motherfuckers, your "AI" can't even consistently get the right number of fingers on a hand. How can we be expected to believe that you can produce medically accurate diagrams?

"with a total scanning capacity of a billion scans a month”

Hey, across 50,000 planned deployments that's only 27.8 scans per machine per minute! Surely they can completely scan a patient in 2.16 seconds with no breaks.

Rights groups brand Home Office's AI age guesser for asylum-seekers as biased and inaccurate

"the age-gated Interwebs"

If you're in the UK and not simply submitting a picture of Keith Starmer for your age verification, particularly should you be signing up for AsianAnalAmateurs dot com [1], you're doing it wrong.

[1] Disclaimer: if this site really exists, I am unaware of it. I just pulled a dubious-sounding name out of my ass to use as a humorous example [2].

[2] No, I'm not Asian.

Britain's privacy watchdog quits after 'poor judgment' admission

The gory details?

The precise details of the reason for Edwards' resignation obviously won't be disclosed while the investigation is ongoing. But they also may not be disclosed afterwards, as it may be possible to directly identify the individual affected by his conduct. That's not in the public interest, or in the interest of the person so affected.

From what has been said, though, it's most likely that he made a remark that was either racist, sexist or ableist.

AI nose uses 'Smell Language Model' to sniff out signs of disease

"a company whose name is pronounced 'Anus'?"

I wouldn't trust any information handling technology from such a company. Their security is bound to have an easily located back door.

UK Cabinet Office hiring AI and innovation 'influencer' to build 'AI-first culture' in civil service

"Or would it cost more in tokens than employing someone?"

We're already seeing companies cut back on AI use because it's more expensive than employing someone. And the costs haven't even begun to spike yet. Foolish for a government to follow the Judas goat into the slaughterhouse when they can see it already leaving alone.

I'm tempted to apply for this job myself, to push it towards "AI last and preferably never". But I know I wouldn't get it, because my tongue would turn black and fall out if I said the things I would need to say.

Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher

"I gave Fable a very well written and working function and asked it to improve it."

If you wanted your function to be improved when it was already working perfectly, then logically, your actual intent must have been for the function to not work perfectly. Fable, not understanding that this was a test to see if it could not find an error when no error was present, gave you exactly what it determined you had asked for.

World Cup AI predictor now lets users ask daft what-ifs

Well, yes, but they have to have an atmosphere or Russ Abbot fans won't want to visit.

Britain plots digital bedtime after kicking under-16s off social media

"... when the sites themselves have shown no effort to curb the stuff"

When a pervert exposes himself in a children's playground, you don't close the playground to children. You arrest the pervert.

This policy is an excuse to police the people while ignoring the companies responsible for the damage.

One Very Important Thought

"If you can be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you can be told what to say or think."

(Thanks, BoC.)

Everyone hates frontier AI labs, says Palantir boss

Re: The Curse of This Title is The Re: Makes It Exceed The Permitted Length

Not entirely sure why people are voting down for this one. AMFM is saying - intentionally or otherwise - that it's more realistic that Karp wants to find someone who is more hated than himself or Palantir than it is that he's able to logically conclude he's succeeded in doing so. This is not a statement I can easily dispute, both because it's very hard to imagine how even the most self-deluding person could believe anyone was more hated than Palantir and because the original statement includes a presumption that a neo-Nazi had a thought.

Met Police boss threatens to cut 700 frontline jobs after Palantir deal blocked

My Higher Grade Accounting qualification is begging for mercy

"We have to spend less on front line staff because we weren't allowed to spend more on Palantir" is not something that makes sense to me.

Brit workers waste nearly six hours a week 'botsitting'

"those selling the tool also haven't figured out how to use it yet"

Or what to use it for. Or if it can be used for those purposes. Or if it's even a tool, beyond an overly complicated firelighter for money (and the odd planet).

Uncle Sam considers buying a seat on the Titanic

"Along with Musk's fiddling with output directives"

That's a strange way to describe kids, but I'll let it go.

Yes! It's true! Windows 11 is an agentic platform

"he's very IT savvy"

ChristOS Contractor?

The tech that could make Marvell the next trillion dollar company

"My eyes read "Marvel" at first"

Mar-Vell was the name of the original Captain Marvel. Bold of them to name their photonic power company after a guy with photon-based powers who is chiefly remembered these days for dying of cancer.

Remote work – not AI – is killing job prospects for the youth

"It's like promoting a chemist to accounts because they're a good chemist (or vice versa)."

Also known as the Peter Principle. If you're good at your job, you get promoted; if you're not, you don't. So employees tend to gravitate to a job that they're not good enough at to be promoted out of.

LLMs are closer to religion than they appear. Watch out for those who like it that way

"Now Slaanesh, he's out there,"

Slaanesh is they/them, you pronoun-assuming son of a bitch!