Posts by druck

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.

'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild

Re: Mouse downgrade

No mention colleague responsible having an unfortunate accident later that day?

Criminal wannabes even more dangerous than the pros, says ex-FBI cyber chief

Re: Want to stop ransomware? Ban paying ransom.

We aren't taking about any type of scams. Name any ransomware crew that demanded payment in something other than cryptocurrency.

Re: Want to stop ransomware? Ban paying ransom.

Almost. Ransomware exists because getting cryptocurrency is legal. Stop the crypto, stop the ransomware.

No other form of money can flow so easily and anonymously across international boarders without restriction, such scams didn't exist before it, and wont exist after it.

AI-powered mainframe exits are a bubble set to pop

Re: I disagree

We were talking about programming language translation, specifically COBOL, rather than natural language.

Re: I disagree

AI is excellent at translation.

Translation can be done 100% deterministically without using a LLM, but your point about the difference between translation and migration is sound.

Anthropic won't own MCP 'design flaw' putting 200K servers at risk, researchers say

Re: In other news

Did you not clock the name they gave it?

Just more AI hype to delay the bubble bursting.

Git identity spoof fools Claude into giving bad code the nod

Re: Auto-Approval Based on Good Rep is Stupid

FTFY: The point of code reviews is to catch errors. Auto-approval is equivalent to a rubber stamp: useless, and potentially dangerous.

Raspberry Pi OS ends open-door policy for sudo

Re: The obviously correct decision

Just how many Dr Syntax's do you think there are?

Waymo's self-driving cars face their toughest test yet: London

Re: Video recording needed

E-bike riders are the worst - I'm a road cyclist, they terrify me

They need to be classified as motor vehicles. not bikes, as that is what they are.

The stupid looking fat wheel e-bikes weigh more than a moped, and are often faster, so why they hell don't they need tax, insurance and licences?

Agents hooked into GitHub can steal creds – but Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft haven't warned users

"The solution?"

"The solution?" - disable this agent shit, or use a git sever that doesn't support it.

These security failures can never be fixed due to the very nature of LLMs, and allowing them access to system commands is like playing Russian Roulette with a semi-automatic.

Nvidia slaps forehead: I know what quantum is missing – it's AI!

A Bullshit sigularity...

...would be the result of combining AI hype with Quantum hype.

How ServiceNow gets customers to gorge at the AI trough

Damn right there is!

RAF eyes cheap drone-killer as Typhoon jet tests laser-guided rockets

Re: Cannon

It's far easier to stabilise the targetting optics and the mirror in a laser designator than any on board kinetic weapon system, and time of flight for air to air is very short in any case.

Re: Cannon

And be able to lock on to the miniscule radar signature from a drone compared to what a Phalanx/CIWS normally defends against.

Microsoft calls time on ASP.NET Core 2.3 on .NET Framework

It's a tool

Who is the biggest though, Microsoft for doing what they always do, or developers who continue to rely on their stuff?

Microsoft hints at bit bunkers for war zones

The new Slough

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slop!

It isn't fit for humans now,

There isn't grass to graze a cow.

Swarm over, Death!.

...

Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slop

To get it ready for the plough.

The cabbages are coming now;

The earth exhales.

Hundreds of orgs compromised daily in Microsoft device code phishing attacks

Again here the only login which lasts all day is the domain login and email. Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket, etc, etc seem to have to be re-entered every 4 hours.

I swear that 25% of my work day is just entering my username and mandated to be very long and frequently changing password.

Nutanix brings its K8s to bare metal because hardware matters again

Re: Next VMware?

I didn’t adopt Nutanix because ai felt...

Well you don't call yourself a clown for nothing.

Stack Overflow abandons redesign after loyalists criticize it

Can't hold a candle to...

...USENET

If an AI agent screws up while running your business, there's nobody to sue

Since when...

No wonder vendors won't take responsibility for everything

..has any software vendor taken responsibility for anything?

Every EULA, particularly Microsoft ones, essentially say; this is a steaming pile of buggy shite, and if you rely on it for anything it's your own fault.

Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash

Re: Pretty sure that

One is warning you that saving in a properly defined and validated document standard protects you from compatibility issues.

One is warning that not saving in a poorly documented non standard format is bad for their ability to lock you in to proprietary software.

I'll let you work out which is which.

Ubuntu 26.04 beta arrives packing GNOME 50, which no longer supports Google Drive

Re: Time for a Change

Unlike years ago, it's not even the heaviest weight desktop now, with to the bloat Gnome has accumulated through it's misadventures.

Cloudflare previews 'EmDash' – an AI-driven rebuild of WordPress in TypeScript

Secure, my arse

The rationale for EmDash, aside from being a marketing pitch for Workers, is that along with AI integration, it is more secure and more easily scaled than WordPress.

Wordpress might be a buggy pile of shite, but just wait until you see the speed and quantity of vulnerabilities that only AI can generate.

The company's biggest security hole lived in the breakroom

Re: Internet of Crap

That is a very unwise assumption to make.

Timely and accurate location information from a fitness app would be ideal for targeting a low cost drone swarm by a relatively unsophisticated advisory.

AI recruiting biz Mercor says it was 'one of thousands' hit in LiteLLM supply-chain attack

Re: The perils of using CI/CD pipelines with security tools :o

AI;dr

Claude Code bypasses safety rule if given too many commands

You wouldn't...

Why does anyone think that using agenic AI is anything other than complete madness?

After all you wouldn't put anyone with a mental age of a toddler in charge of the worlds biggest nuclear arsenal...

...OH SHIT

Android keyboard ditches keys entirely, predicts what you mean

Yes, thought I'd withdrawn it too, but just discovered this tab again, and I obviously hadn't pressed the button. Sorry for the confusion.

I'd left this tab open because I wanted to add something about my experience porting a Windows screen reader to Windows CE back in the early days of the iPAQ, exactly what I don't remember!