Posts by druck

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.

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

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.

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.

Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation

We'll it's half way there - it can get you in to hot water pretty quickly.

AI hype

You really do not need AI to do this sort of simple automation.

India orders infosec red alert in case Mythos sparks crime spree

...in case Anthropic’s Mythos bug-finding AI sparks a cyberattack spree

If they hadn't noticed, there is already a cyberattack spree.

Classic ASCII game NetHack debuts version 5.0 just 11 years after last major release

It was still Rogue when I was doing my degree.

Many hours spend playing in the terminal room, when I should have been doing other things.

Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028

Pay the AI-geld

It would just be co-incidence that the new flavours are all more expensive?

Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs

The Trojans are inside the walls

"Imagine if AI is a birthday cake in the middle of this room, but you don't know how it got there,"

That's not a birthday cake, it's a trojan horse.

"In general, organizations that are trying to wrap their head around AI security,"

It's very very easy to understand, these things can't distinguish between data and instructions - there is no way to secure them, now or ever.

If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked

Re: Which country?

You have to get 6 paragraphs in before it mentions Texas.

"US" should appear in the headline, subhead or, at the very least, the first paragraph.

Five Eyes spook shops warn rapid rollouts of agentic AI are too risky

AI == Abject Insanity

It seems that the FOMO regarding deploying AI agents has in a stroke destroyed every single bit of institutional knowledge of restricted access roles and other good security practices.

In a world where the threat level from criminals and nation states is higher than has ever been, is there no one who recognises the abject insanity of deploying AI agents?

User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave

Re: Analogue clocks

Kids managed quite well in the pre-decimal currency days when they had to manipulate pounds, shillings and pence.

Google's fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines

FTFY: avoid putting AI agents in sensitive environments

Fewer users, fatter wallets is why Anthropic tops OpenAI in LLM revenue stakes

FTFY: Also note that they are both still losing money on each user, hence the current switch to token-based charging, no doubt to be followed by further 'frog boiling'.

GitHub says sorry and vows to do better as uptime slips and devs complain

They know now what every other server is having to deal with being hit by the slop bots.

Future holiday horror: ‘A robot lost my luggage in Tokyo’

It's not a cappuccino

Far too much head on that beer!

I'm not paying for half a glass of throth.

Don't pay Vect a ransom – your data's likely already wiped out

Re: Want to stop ransomware? Ban paying ransom.

No crypto, no viable means of payment. Start by making that illegal.

Brussels orders Google to share Android's AI sandbox with the other kids

FOAD option

Ideal opportunity to insist that there is an option of NONE for any AI integration.

UK.gov's DCMS to new CDIO: Migrate from Google to Microsoft, overhaul ERP, build a team

Not so much of a job ad...

...as a suicide note.

Microsoft Outlook for iOS still down and out for many after 'service change'

Re: Oh dear, think of all those 2FA auths that will fail

Yes, do that by not using Microsoft.

SUSE's sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question

Pan-nationalisation

Never thought I'd say this, but SUSE need to get bought by the EU to keep themselves out of US hands.

Then hopefully the EU can have a standard open source operating system, they can mandate member states use.

‘AI deflation’ comes to India’s tech services giants and puts downward pressure on revenue

AI vs AI

AI slop code in some cases might be better than AI (Actual Indian) cut'n'paste spaghetti, but it's sure as hell not going to be cheaper once they have to start paying the real cost of tokens.

Microsoft's GitHub shifts to metered AI billing amid cost crisis

Never mind the quality, feel the cost

Slop, get your slop here, only $100 $200 $400 a bucket!

Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup’s production database

AI and fucking idiots...

...are just made for each other.

Friendster rises from the grave to make social media great again

Re: Facebook reportedly acquired or licensed Friendster’s patents

AI;dr

Cybersec is a thankless job: expanding workload and shrinking pay packet

Re: I beg to differ

Only the titles that begin with a C, the actual security workers will be the cheapest bodies they can find that are still warm.

Burglar alarm biz burgled: ADT confirms cyber intrusion after ShinyHunters extortion attempt

The US miliary under the orange commander in chief wont do jack shit, given where most of them live.

Our Ukrainian chums are more likely to get them, if they live anywhere near an oil refinery that is.

Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon spits out Xorg, but still lets you run X11 apps

Well that's a hard no....

Well that's a hard no to ever running Ubuntu again, due to the idiocy of removing X11 (hence no X11 only Mate desktop) and the insane obsession with partially porting essential tools to RUST (date command).

Luckily Linux Mint will take all Ubuntu's hard work creating a LTS release, remove nonsense like SNAP, and add back in the goodness of X11 and Mate.

Betting shop bug ends in kidnap plot as staff turn ransom artists

Re: Have the Pronoun Police been in /s

Or just use English as it's mean to be written.

Researchers find cyber-sabotage malware that may predate Stuxnet by five years

So it didn't occur to you to try using your own brain after the first or second failures, and had to wait until the all knowing slop generator answered?

Humanity is truly doomed.

Weak security means attackers could disable all of a city's public EV chargers

Re: EVs in a war

Petrol - no App needed.

Anthropic admits it dumbed down Claude when trying to make it smarter

Re: Old Skool/New Skool

When they say "testing" I suspect they just asked another AI instance to look at it, and accepted whatever waffle it spewed out.

Re: "think"

Along with 3 more instances of reasoning than there should be.

Claude Opus 4.7 has turned into an overzealous query cop, devs complain

Aww didums

Is the nasty LLM refusing to do your work for you now?

YouTuber has DIMM idea, builds working DRAM in backyard

Re: University towns.

https://www.megaprocessor.com/

American farms have a new steward for their safety net, disaster programs... Palantir

Re: Don't put your grain elevators on the CyberTubes /s

AI;dr

Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock

And look at the very next article on El Reg's RSS feed https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/brit_firms_look_to_deploy/

Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs

Re: It's all a bit shit really...

There isn't any savings for the consumer, it will just be a stitch up between the AI maker and the vendor paying to direct the agents it's way.

Even if it wasn't, the cost of the transaction overhead when using AI would even make American Express blush.