Posts by druck

Rent-a-GPU outfit Nebius promises rapid 1 GW powerup plan isn't nebulous

Re: Bubble go pop!

I wondered if by emissions you mean the planet destroying greenhouse gasses, or the never-ending torrent of AI slop, but your description adequately covers both.

DEF CON dingus suspected of trying to take over Delta in-flight Wi-Fi

Re: Did they actualy jam wifi ?

It probably wasn't jamming in the traditional analogue sense, but sending de-auth packets to devices on the legitimate WiFi so they reconnected to the fake hotspot.

Mozilla revokes Firefox signing key after unencrypted copy lands in GitHub

Not private

There is no such thing as a private repo on GitHub, it's all slurped by Microsoft's AI, so who knows where it might pop out again.

Building up the US power grid won't be wasted, even if the AI bubble bursts

Re: WHEN

Yes, I'm sure the ex-data centres will make excellent cannabis mega-farms.

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

Re: Intent has to enter into it

Exploiting a vulnerability on someone else’s computer is a violation of the UK's Computer Misuse Act (1990), and as AI is just a tool, the person using the tool is completely liable.

It is the users prerogative to sue the AI company if they feel they can prove the tool did not act in the way they expected, despite the AI company admitting it is unpredictable shit.

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

Devs - duh!

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

Any dev that thinks that is possible doesn't know how AI works, and shouldn't be using it.

AI: the stupid person's idea of a clever machine.

Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power

Re: Reality Check

AI;dr

If you can't find a human source of information, you have gained less than nothing.

Prompt injection isn't the bug, AI agent frameworks are

Re: Legitimate and malicious AI agent frameworks :o

AI;dr

We don't care what ClippyAI says.

Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontroller

Re: the pie

Whoosh!

Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter

Re: The merest sniff of one of these in your area...

At least with a sewage farm it invokes some childhood memories of beach holidays in the 1970s*.

*I was walking through the village many years ago, when I thought I could smell the sea just like my family holidays in Devon in the 70s, then I came around the corner and found some road works with a warning sign for sewage works, I realised exactly what I'd been playing in as a child.

OpenAI-Hugging Face attack doesn't mean agents are evil – unless you tell them to be

Re: Checked ChatGPT and it lied...

AI;dr

US Marines' latest anti-drone toy is an AI turret that uses regular machine guns

Re: So its back to WW II technology

Whether or not the Yanks had updated their intelligence, Palantir's AI decided it was target.

Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'

Not just travel typewriters, my dad brought home an ancient 1950s Remington from the office, when they upgraded to those new fangled electric golfball typewriters, it cast iron and weighed a ton, so definitely wasn't a travel model. That lacked both a 1 and a zero, 'l' and 'O' were considered close enough. That didn't matter for me as a child learning to bash the very heavy keys against a warn out ribbon.

I was very annoyed a few years later when home computer magazine started printing listings, and not all of them thought to use a font where 1 and l, 0 and O where indistinguishable.

Ubuntu emphasizes Arm64 support – and gets Rustier

Re: Rust coreutils

Your points while having some validity don't address the problem - the Rustifiers aren't just not implementing certain functionality and giving an error if you try to use it - their versions accept the flags for the unimplemented features and SILENTLY ignoring them leading to incorrect results which aren't signalled to the caller.

It doesn't matter if you are a grey beard or not, whether C has ceased to exist and Rust isn't just a short lived fad until the next one-to-rule-them-all programming language comes along, or even if we just surrender the entire industry to AI, what the are doing is WRONG and dangerous.

Re: Rust coreutils

It would be good to have it more widely adopted if the rust evangelists were interesting in doing the job properly, and not silently ignoring the flags they don't understand or care about.

NextBSD returns to dollop Apple source on FreeBSD

Well intentioned slop is still slop

There's one aspect of the project restart that will alienate some people, though: he is using AI. The Team section of the homepage says it's Maloney and Anthropic's Claude Code.

And everything sounded so good until that point.

"I get and understand the skepticism around AI people have, because I am not sure how much I trust AI-generated code myself, especially without review from humans. In my case, AI has always been more of an effort to accelerate my knowledge of what code does faster, versus not learning anything. With that said, I would still understand the reservations people would have in production environments."

Consider me reserved.

Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer'

Re: Please Be Careful With Those Comments.....

Hence all the central banks aiming to keep it at aound 2%

Even HP resellers think the price of toner and ink is too high – so HP India facilitated an illegal cartel

Re: Fines dont work...

We can't even lock up rapists and murders for more than a long weekend in the UK, so I doubt if we will be able to find any prison space for C-suites.

Dark patterns in Windows are steering users to Edge: Mozilla-commissioned report

Re: Microslop

Now? Always has been, always will be.

Microsoft cancels Patch Tuesday for some Dell users over surprise shutdowns, overheating devices

Days? since we broke something

Somewhere, deep in the heart of Microsoft's Redmond campus, a sad-faced engineer is likely resetting the "Days since we broke something" counter and thinking fondly of the days when the number reached double or triple figures. ®

Except on Windows it's not days, but units of 18ms, and yes they managed triple digits of those once.

OpenAI hides Codex agent instructions behind encryption, leaving developers in the dark

Re: Instructions Hidden Behind Encryption....

FFS, go post random characters elsewhere.

Microsoft emails Windows 10 holdouts: Fine, keep your old PC another year

Re: Depends on what you do with it

If they gain access to her email account, they can compromise any accounts which use email for a password reset.

Even if she doesn't have on-line accounts, email allows miscreants to sign her up for some, order credit cards, and run up debts.

Also don't forget the scams they can perform on her relatives should they be able to send and receive email which seem to be form her.

User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap

It's the garage calling

A few years ago I was working for a spin off of an F1 team, and we found that every other Friday something was buggering with our test rig. We knew the IP address, but not what the machine doing it was or where it was located, to be able to politely ask the owner to stop. I set off an nmap -A scan on the IP address and went off to lunch, only to return and find my colleague very perturbed as IT had come up from the depths of the basement wanting a stern word, thinking he was the culprit and not me. After explain to IT why I was doing it, both him and I were off the hook, and they helped us locate the rogue machine, which was actually a misconfigured strategists laptop in the pit garage track side, which explained why it only happed on the Friday of race weekends.

AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautiful

Re: Shifting perspectives may devastate Western (i.e. USA) AI-service businesses

AI;dr

OpenAI job listing suggests ChatGPT could someday replace junior analysts at Goldman Sachs

Re: it would be good

No such training data exists for AI to steal.

OpenAI makes ChatGPT better at banter

Re: Ug!

Use your own fucking brain mode and you wont need any tokens.

Vim text editor game teaches you keyboard shortcuts with ice cream delivery

But once learned, never forgotten.

If been out of uni and bereft of UNIX systems for about 10 years when the boss shouted "how do you delete a line in vi?" I instantly answered "dd", then went to see what he was using, unfortunately it was just a copy of vi on an NT box.

GitHub AI agent leaks private repos when asked nicely

Re: Attention, Neophiles!

AI is unsafe/dangerous by default design - that's how LLMs work, no amount of sticking plasters can ameliorate that.

New tool gives CLIs a warm and GUI feeling instead

AI;wu

AI; wont use

Microsoft flips Windows Backup to on by default unless you're in the EU

Re: Every week...

There is no argument!

Government's cyber pledge lands 60 signatories, including M&S and, somehow, Capita

I'd imagine it tasked a bit woody, the steak on the other hand was delicious.

Boffins bet on quantum computers, AI supers to solve fusion fuel dilemma

AI and Quantum bollocks is going to solve fusion? Well they chucked everything into the hypefest except poor old blockchain.

Samsung floats 2028 launch for seaborne datacenter

Davey Jones locker

I give it 6 months before it sinks.

AMD’s Ryzen AI Halo makes local AI look easy, but at $4K, easy doesn't come cheap

$$$

Save $750/month on cloud, by spending $4000 on a Halo box?

Just ditch the AI slop generation, use your own god given brain, and you can get away with a $120 Raspberry Pi 5.

Brit supermarket giant triples down on facial recog to nab shoplifters

This is an excellent reference for people to establish their rights if they get caught up by the misapplication of this technology.

Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code

Re: Have you left behind a mess you ended up having to clean up yourself?

I have to regularly dip in to filing system rescue code I wrote over 26 years ago, and understand it quickly.

The way to do it is no matter how knowledgeable you are in the subject matter, write the code as if a clueless idiot has to maintain it.

Because in mere months, never mind years, of moving on to something else, you will be that clueless idiot, and there is no such thing as "that bit is so obvious I don't need to explain it".

Re: Nope

The code I wrote to do ARINC 429 message windowing for the Airbus A330/A340 was very tricky at the time back in the early 90s. I'm not sure I'd ever want to see i again.

AI bills are baffling the C-suite after shift to usage-based pricing

Fill in the missing words

"Total Experience: Redefining Excellence in the Age of Agentic AI," I can only assume the two missing words after the comma are "as shit"

Databricks unifies OLTP and OLAP, depending on what counts as a copy

I thought the only optimisation AI agents needed was to make dropping the production database really fast.

Companies that add more AI also add more people

One engineer out, two slop supervisors in.

So it sounds like they have dispensed with a lot of the skilled workers and then taken on a load of cheap young employees to baby sit the AI, and of course, take the fall for its mistakes.

SoftBank enters the rent-a-GPU race as America looks for support for AI training

They'll probably offload their remaining holding as quickly as possible to pay off AI debts, they wont have the time to Broadcom the ARM licensees.

Anthropic is removing its covert code for catching Chinese competitors

Trap street

So they've done the cartographic equivalent of putting in trap streets, but given the hallucinating bollocks that LLMs output, doesn't do that anyway?

NASA unsure Boeing Starliner will ever be certified for human flight

It's a second supplier. The first has to be cheap to be used, the second just has to exist at any price.

AI agents: Cause of database sprawl. And also the proposed solution

tl;dr

AI snake oil salesman talks bollocks.

Atlas shrugs: New UK asylum seeker IT system failed to help case workers learn from appeals

Re: Dave, my mind is going :o

AI;dr

End of era as the BBC switches off Radio 4 Long Wave service

Re: Run silent

I hope the DAB radio on the sub is better than in my car, as I can get fuck all signal most of the time.

Boffins build a better pixel capable of emitting and receiving light

Re: Max Headroom scenario...

The best pilot show ever, followed by the most disappointing actual program.

NASA tests AI medic for astronauts too far from Earth to call a doctor

WTF?

I'm sure there are far better things to spend the very limited mass and power budget on, than an AI which is going to hallucinate up some untreatable conditions, and only distress the crew further while they are waiting for the response from the flight medical officer.

Trump-shuttered climate change site back online in nonprofit hands

Re: Life after Trump

'Somewhat' is doing a lot of work there.

US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals

Brake by voice

I know lets get rid of the brake pedal and make it voice activated instead.

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