Posts by druck

UK banks offered access to OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 amid exclusion from Anthropic’s Glasswing expansion

Re: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12, 18, 13, 5, 81, 14, 42

I've see quite a few - this article for example, as I was the first to post.

It's all bullshit to hype up the IPO.

Citation, please! UK regulator slaps Google with new publishing rules for search

Re: Clown Market Authority strikes again

If publishers want "bargaining power," here's a radical idea: publish something a machine can't trivially reproduce from a press release.

And have it snarfed by a bot and stuck in an AI summary before you blink.

Regardless of what you think of the content that is being ripped off, the important part is content is being ripped off, and will continue to be whether it is high quality or dross.

Now get back to your wine and steak.

UK lawmakers call on government to ditch Palantir NHS contract

Re: Exactly 60 minutes

I never go to the front page, I just read the articles as they come in from the RSS feed, and by then they all have comment sections.

Except the ones that don't, and they are all bloody adverts. I'm very pissed off at the number of them The Register is foisting on us these days.

Intel and pals cram 36,864 CPU cores into a 100kW rack while chasing the agentic AI dragon

Just imagine...

...how fast agenic AI will be able to delete your production database with one of these.

Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold

A rare moment of joy

Even with all the shit going on in the world, this really brought a smile to my face.

To all the AI slop slingers; welcome to reality, now go use your fucking brains.

Agentic AI arrives for Delphi and C++ Builder

Is there nothing that they wont enshittify with AI?

I designed Microsoft's $5B EA channel architecture in 2001. The 2026 transition is missing what made it work

tl;dr

Is this going to hurt Microsoft? Unless so I don't care.

4 in 10 AI agents headed for demotion or the rubbish bin

Re: "so they can deliver accurate, compliant and secure outcomes"

And what's the right governance? - Let me guess, chuck yet another LLM at it?

Re: "so they can deliver accurate, compliant and secure outcomes"

It would be accurate to say LLMs really do help with security, they just don't help you with it.

They are marvellous for your adversaries to find holes in your security, ex-filtrate and extort.

Blue Origin's New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans

Re: I wonder...

The Saturn V has a 100% success record at reaching the intended orbit. The failure of the service module (the payload and not part of the Saturn V) occurred after the separation of the 3rd stage, once in the trans lunar orbit.

That an app 'Fits on a Floppy' is still a useful measure in 2026

Embedded programming is the last true example of the art.

Everything has become a sea of slop even before AI turned it in to an ocean.

Jammin' on UK defence secretary's jet as Russia blamed for GPS interference

Re: Backup Systems

NDB and VOR beacons still work on the UK and elsewhere, but some countries have very unwisely dispensed with them.

We were taught never to trust GPS solely for navigation, always have the conventional methods of beacons and dead reckoning running alongside before you lose GPS.

Snowflake to burn $6B on AWS Graviton CPUs and AI accelerators

The title is correct

Burning $billions on the altar of AI.

The end is nigh - hopefully!

Researchers find all big-name bots bomb EU compliance tests

Re: Hands up if this was a surprise

FTFY: especially as some all of the companies involved have a business model that only works if you completely ignore any laws that are inconvenient

Swift thinking buys NASA observatory a little more time before re-entry

Re: Gravity is only a theory

They walk amongst us.

Tony Blair and the Reform party both want AI in government, though they can't agree on what for

Re: Ellison, ha.

It's more that he is trying to find some suckers buyers for all the AI capacity he is building with borrowed money.

GitHub Actions outage told devs 'your account is suspended'

Wean yourself off this AI shitshow now

As above, so below.

Rogue states are putting AI agents to work on sanctions evasion

Yet again

The only use of AI that has a positive ROI is fraud.

Who would have though that an algorithm that generates vast amounts of plausible human like output could ever have such a use.

Experts pour cold borscht on Farage's Russian hack claim

Re: An asset to Russia

Wow that's three whole posts in a row without throwing around your usual allegations of "Wine and Steak".

Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in

An expert knows what he doesn't know.

An idiot thinks he knows everything.

Zuck defends monitoring employees to win AI race in purported leaked audio

Stupid and repugnant

In January 2026, Wired reported that OpenAI's data vendor, Handshake AI, began asking freelance contractors to upload real work products from past and current jobs, including contracts, financial models, presentations, and code repositories. OpenAI provided a tool to help contractors strip confidential information before uploading, but intellectual property lawyers warned the approach carries significant legal risk.

I hope no contractor would be stupid enough to do this, no matter what they were being paid.

The whole AI surveillance thing is more repugnant than employee's having to train up their Indian replacements when the job is being offshored.

Datacenter builders face an impossible quandary: Demand to the left of me, protests to the right

Re: Simple answer.

Of course it will be pension funds, they are the largest stock market investors, "normal folks" are a tiny percentage.

So when the AI bubble bursts and takes banks and utilities with it, it's pretty much guaranteed your pension will be worthless.

AI is getting expensive, but relief is on the way - just not for you

Re: The Age of Enshitification is in full swing

Your friendly local artisan coder, who will happily create high quality software without any use of AI.

But bear in mind because you sacked him or her during the AI boom, will now be charging rates befitting of a proper craftsman.

Workday wants AI to punch in instead of having to hire new recruits

AI and growth

The only way to get growth while having AI do the work, is if you already have large captive market you can keep turning the screws on, despite decreasing quality due to AI slop code.

i.e. Microsoft.

If you aren't in that position, you have to be pretty confident all your competition are also pulling the same shit, or your customers will walk.

BOFH: Vibe-coded solutions arrive for problems nobody has

Just replace the foot pegs with a large armoured disk to stand on, then if you happened to trigger a mine, the blast would propel you to the other side of the minefield.

Gemini accused of 30,000-line code purge and fake recovery report

AI brain bypass

The behavior was ultimately traced back to a third-party npm package styled around Google’s Antigravity branding. The package allegedly seeded repositories with aggressive autonomy rules instructing the coding agent to avoid confirmation prompts, auto-deploy successful builds, automatically retry failed deployments, and even modify its own rule files when necessary.

To AI agent all data is instructions, in training data, in the data it is asked to work on, as well as the obvious prompt, and the less obvious system prompt.

Because of this they can never be constrained to act safely, and can only be trusted by someone who has had a complete brain bypass.

Microsoft storms RAMPART, adds Clarity to agentic AI safety

Safer?

Agenic AI is as safe as playing Russian Roulette with an automatic.

Cisco used AI to write security incident reports, with mixed results

Just say so

AI is shit, just say it.

Shadow AI invades the workplace, up 4x in the last year

$lop $lop $lop

The increasing cost of tokens should put pay to employees using their own accounts on the slop generators to pretend to work.

Broadcom finds a VMware customer willing to stick around: London Stock Exchange

Re: They just bought themselves 5 years of off-ramp

FTFY: sign the cheque

1 in 5 Brits think AI layoffs could trigger civil unrest

Re: Best possible outcome

Where do I sign up to burn those looms data centres?

The big AI companies are going to see their margins disappear

Re: When they have to force people to use it, it's not useful

To counter the rising token cost to employers I propose that a developer's token use cost should be subtracted from their salary.

Those that can code themselves; don't cost the company any more, and get to keep their wages.

Those that can't; can generate as much slop as they like, as long as they don't want to eat.

Google tells database devs to lean hard on AI for PostgreSQL work

Re: "We do encourage folks to use AI heavily"

I'd advise the Postgres maintainers to adopt a no slop policy immediately.

Anthropic’s Bun Rust rewrite merged at speed of AI

Re: It may just be me, but I'd've commited as a new project

The FUD as you call it, appeared in none other than The Register

https://www.theregister.com/security/2025/11/13/ubuntu-2510s-rusty-sudo-holes-quickly-welded-shut/2065091

And the blame lies pretty squarely on Canonical for this.

Re: It may just be me, but I'd've commited as a new project

You might be thinking of the Rust evangelists at Ubuntu porting essential GNU command line utils to Rust and leaving out half the functionality, but silently ignoring any flags they hadn't implemented - utter cockwombles the lot of them.

Re: I wonder

They would certainly be told to fork off.

Agent harnesses, like OpenClaw, are changing how we build and run AI models

Re: Whim

More AI hype bullshit regurgitated without question on The Register, what has this publication come to?

Microsoft puts stability in the driver's seat with new initiative

Microsoft past and future

Shit OS, shit drivers, and the answer; vibe coding.

Anthropic urges Uncle Sam to kneecap China's AI ambitions before 2028

FTFY:

. .warning of the consequences if "authoritarian governments" take the lead rather other than Uncle Sam.

Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data

Re: ...but ... but.. they have "shred logs"

FTFY: rm -rfv *

AI to infest eight in ten premium phones within two years

Re: Pay extra for Premium features

Just get a mid range phone; currently free of AI crap, and with last years premium phone's camera which is normally good enough for anyone.

Welcome to the vulnpocalypse, as vendors use AI to find bugs and patches multiply like rabbits

Re: "(codename MDASH)"

It must be pretty shit compared to the others if they only found 16 bugs in their own code, they normally find hundreds every month.

Which is the reason Microsoft normally only ever try to find bugs in other company's code, so they don't look so bad.

Dissatisfied: Three-fourths of AI customer service rollouts are a letdown

Re: How the world was convinced a spicy autocomplete engine was the second coming

AI;dr

US Army goes green-ish, wants soldiers munching on plant proteins

US Army goes green-ish, wants soldiers munching on plant proteins

Fuck that for a game of soldiers.

Apple, Google drag cross-platform texting into the encrypted age

Re: Big Brother Protects My Privacy -- Don't Think So!!!!

Here they come, the cockwombles that think that posting random characters to a forum somehow proves whatever point they are trying to make.

Feature freeze for Python 3.15 as first beta released

Re: Guess I'll have to wait for version 4

@AC how to say you don't like white space delimited languages without saying you don't like white space delimited languages.

I've been a C++ programmer for 39 years, and a Python programmer for 15 years and I have no trouble switching between them, but then maybe that's because my C++ has always been layout out nicely (Allman style) rather than having lines and braces scattered everywhere, which I suppose is "expressing yourself".

Tech is now rolling out the old grievance grift

Re: Dark triads are weird that way

Moral principals are un-american.

Dyna Software's AI assistant promises to massage your toughest ServiceNow configs

Yet another Copilot

I can't see Microslop letting someone else use the copilot brand.

It's game over for Copilot on Xbox

Re: Well done Microsoft

Like every other bad decision they've made, it will creep back in after a few months.