Posts by ecofeco

Autonomous AI attacks pose 'clear and present danger' to critical infrastructure

WHOCOULDAKNOWED?!

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CoreWeave revenue doubles as debt pile reaches $35.6B

Re: As everyone is saying

Save me a spot, will ya?

What a world.

Passwords stored in public Google Doc then showed up in search results

Thousands of competent IT folks out of work

And yet somehow the numpties get the work.

Am I trying to draw a conclusion from one data point? Are you daft? I've seen this far too many times.

Cisco thinks Mythos means instant death for unsupported networking kit

Re: Cisco thinks Mythos means instant rewards for writing insecure code

Beat me to it.

Everything is better with pickles... except Windows

Re: This looks like an application fail...

That's not nit picking what is an obvious total fuck-up by some amateur.

A digital billboard is the absolute simplest of thing to run and requires nothing more than the simplest bare bones OS on a bare bones PC. But some numpty decided to turn it into a Rube Goldberg fuck-up.

Microsoft-vendetta hacker has a new zero day that gives system privileges on fully patched Windows

And the hits

...just keep on coming!

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

Pledge?

Not worth the bytes it is written on.

India’s central bank wants AI to approve loans that humans would reject

Madness

I'm sure this will end well. /s

Alibaba Cloud is using AI to help it use less AI

What fresh hell

Is this?

The Future is for Billionaires – the rest of us will get open weight AI models, maybe

Re: Either this man is mad

It's both.

Re: I wonder

He always was. Check out his past interviews over the last 20 years.

They better hope we don't get superintelligence

Because the first thing it will do is proceed to rectify the problem of hoarders who make very large mistakes and daily provide no benefit to the body of humanity as a whole.

Efficiency and optimization, doncha know. It will be the funniest irony in all of human history.

The story of the monster demon god that turns on its creator is as old as the written word.

LexisNexis pulls three services offline after suspicious server activity

Lexis Nexis?

Yeah, that's not good.

NEC tests parking tech that only starts charging once you exit your car

Re: Supermarket car parking.

For some odd reason, being hostile to the average punter across all markets is very trendy these days.

Attackers pick Levi's pockets in social engineering attack

Well that's just

Pants.

Mine's the one that buttons up. ------------------------------->>>

Cyber vulnerability sweep picks up Royal Navy drones sending data to China

Re: So Many Questions...

I see what you did there and no lies detected.

Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager

Oh well

It's hard to feel sorry for the large companies that refuse to secure their networks.

Re: Zscaler over ten years behind reality?

Holy moly.

Gym rat asks AI agent to book him a class, it hacks a waitlist API to bump him up the list

Re: Taught by the internet

I mean, WHOCOULDAKNOWED?! UNPOSSIBLE!

Re: Listen!

I can haz cheat code?!

Hellz yeah!!!

Re: Remind me again...

Are you some kind of damn commie?!

Creating a problem to sell a solution and then pump and dump that half-baked solution is as free world market as it gets!

You're just jealous of rich people, loser.

(/s in case needed in this bootlicking modern era)

ShinyHunters called cancer diagnostics biz and tricked staffers into giving them access. Now they've dumped 10.9M email addresses

Re: Insurance companies will be using that dump soon.

LOL, you act like they aren't already breaking every law and regulation.

How?

Anyone who has been in the workforce for a few decades knows why. You pay peanuts, you get a circus.

And the clowns are in charge of everything.

AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription

But...

...why?

Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default

It's been a problem for years

LLMs have been going "rogue" for years and they still haven't solved the problem.

Because they really don't know what's going on at the heart of the process and have even admitted it.

It's pretty much digital alchemy. Not even joking.

Attacker phished way into US defense supplier's Microsoft 365 account

Re: No surprise here

This.

It's like people have forgotten that humans can manually copy things without a computer.

And screen caps leave no traces.

Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees

Re: One Trick Pony's

Facts.

Samsung and Mousterian move ahead with floating datacenter for Texas

Hurricane says what?

Imagine the hubris it takes to think your floating anything is safe from hurricanes.

OpenAI reveals its rogue agent swarm went a little bit Borg ahead of Hugging Face hack

I would expect nothing less from the psychopathic owners.

What I will never understand is how this a surprise to anyone.

New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut

Mere coincidence I'm usre

https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/after-months-safety-review-faa-allows-boeing-resume-issuing-certificates-new-airplanes

Microsoft tells engineers to curb their token-burning enthusiasm

I'll say it again until someone gets it

Shouldn't the super thinking machine come up with a way to make itself profitable?

OpenAI wants teachers and profs to foist their work off on ChatGPT

Will this mean paid training?

So are they going to pay them to train the AI? Because that's what they will be doing.

No? I didn't think so.

Bypassing AI guardrails is so easy a script kiddie can do it

I, for one, welcome...

...our script kiddie overlords.

I'm sure it will end well.

NASA puts astronauts’ lives in the hands of Tesla’s flaky Cybertruck

What utter absurdity

Dear god how far the mighty have fallen.

As Larry Ellison bets the farm, Oracle says it loves AI-written code, just not in OpenJDK

Bet the farm?

Or did they buy the farm and just not know it yet?

Google dev kit spurs first-ever agent-on-agent violence

Begun

It has.

We get AI wars before we get AI doing the chores.

China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

And this time, with gusto! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowing

All your data

Are belong to us.

Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester

The best time to have done this was yesterday

The second best time is today.

And one step is better than no steps.

Update Teams mobile app by October or lose your calendar

Teams mobile? Like, on a phone?

Oh hell no.

Oracle adds Google Gemini to the agent menu

Just add it to the list

Just add it to the list of reasons to never use Oracle.

The most famous brand in physical security got pwned by ShinyHunters

They've already BEEN increasing in frequency. For years now.

If you mean it will only get worse, then yes, absolutely.

Russian spies take their half-click email attack from Zimbra to Outlook

M$ slop keeps sloppin

And no lessons were learned!

Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Jensen puts his thumb on the scales against open-weights fearmongering

Much squabbling

But super thinking machine still can't figure out how to make a profit from itself?

And people just ignore this?

Too many AI agents can get in each other's way

Device created by ego maniacs fails?

Device created by ego maniacs exhibits egomanaical tendencies?

WHOCOULDAKNOWED?

Tech sector pours $1T into AI and sends customers the bill

Or the last 100 years of economic disasters.

But I would expect nothing less from criminal psychopaths.

China fights back in AI spat with claim US AI companies distil Chinese models

Andre has a red flag

Chiang Ching's is blue

They all have hills to fly them on

Except for Lin Tai Yu

Dressing up in costumes

Playing silly games

Hiding out in treetops

Shouting out rude names

OpenAI's Hugging Face debacle makes a great case for open models

No models

All I see is another case for NO models.