Posts by druck

Struggling to put your AI aversion into words? Here's a handy glossary

Re: Veganism...

Exactly!

If there is anyone that the term Vegan should be thrown at it's those completely taken in by the fad of AI, with it's equally nonsensical justification and harmful outcomes.

Your next car might need 300 GB of RAM, and so will autonomous robots

Re: New cars, I've seen them

I agree, I consider myself lucky I'll be able to see out the rest of my driving life with cars not made after 2018.

Re: New cars, I've seen them

Yes with those you can turn any classic car in to a soulless overweight whining travesty.

EU sanctions Iranian cyber front over election meddling, Charlie Hebdo breach

Forget sanctions, just add their location to a target package.

Artemis II takes a rain check on return to launch pad as NASA fixes loose wire

At this rate it would be far quicker to get back to the moon using bits of left over Apollo equipment and some duct tape, instead of the Artimis/Starship lashup.

Plus I'd trust good old 60s engineering, even stuff that's been sitting outside in the elements for nearly 60s years, over anything made by Boeing in the last decade.

India tests whether AI can stop trains hitting elephants

ai;dr

Azure startup credits don't apply to Claude via Azure AI Foundry, reader finds – after $1,600 charge

AI worse than cocaine

Not even the first hit is entirely free

Intel finds its Zen undercutting AMD with Arrow Lake refresh

Re: Cherry Picked Data

Intel's E cores don't have SMT, the P cores do - but it's shit.

Older SMT cores using both threads showed a slight benefit over using a single thread for the vast majority of workloads, these new P cores seem to always be slower using both threads compared to a single one.

Sorry, kids. Memory crunch threatens to kneecap Chromebook shipments

Re: Good riddance

Not if you are using Linux, 8GB is plenty. I only restart the browser when I reboot for a new kernel.

UK watchdog eyes Meta's smart glasses after workers say they 'see everything'

Even if hacks to disable it weren't available on thousands of websites, a bit of black tape can be used.

CERN sends AI-trained robot mice scurrying through LHC beam pipes

Re: YOu'd think that....

The mouse has a range of 6km and travels back to where it starts. so can inspect 3km out of the 27km at a time, requiring just 9 hatches to be opened.

Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction

Re: Reset Buttons

System compromise in progress?

Lenovo shows off snap-together laptop with removable keyboard, screen, and ports

Re: Horse

But just like a Netbook decade ago, I'm running Linux on it. and it's great.

Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every download

Re: Reg readers need to think this one through

You have to take in to account consumer ISPs and NAT, which means there could be a lot of individual low rate users appearing on a single high rate IP address.

PCs and phones to get more boring and expensive in 2026 thanks to memory drought

Re: What is a PC ?

Just wait until Microsoft comes up with some security excuse to no longer provide UEFI keys for non Microslop OS's.

Oak Ridge spawns institute to curb AI datacenter power surge

Nuclear

The answer to AI data centres is nuclear.

As in nuke the sites from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

Ransomware payments cratered in 2025, but attacks surged to record highs

Re: Make ransomware payments illegal ..

Make the only viable payment method - crypto - illegal, and you eliminate ransomware and many other online frauds.

Hide from Meta's spyglasses with this new Android app

Re: IR LED flare hat

Most cameras can see near IR such as the frequencies used by remote controls, the filters are to stop much lower frequencies.

AMD copy-pastes 6 GW chips-for-stock deal in new Meta agreement

Re: 6GW of chips

Measurable work - for AI? You are joking.

All the damn things do is burn money to heat up the atmosphere, so GW is the relevant number.

Indie web browser Ladybird flutters toward Rust with a little help from AI

Plonk

Watch for it fizzing out after a few months. Its one thing to do a one off port, whatever method you use. It's quite anther thing to maintain and extend a streaming heap of AI generated slop code.

Break free of Ring's servers, earn a five-figure bounty

Re: Why even bother?

Tapo also support local storage, and are very decent cameras, including full colour at night. They are owned by TP link, so the usual security caveats apply.

Ofcom's grumble-o-meter lights up for EE, TalkTalk, Vodafone

I knew there was a reason...

...I was still with PlusNet.

I was tempted to go with a local fibre company, but hung on until BT wired up our exchange last year. Although the fibre co was cheaper, they wanted £8 a month for a fixed IPv4 where as I got mine for free a long time ago with PlusNet, so would have worked out more expensive. But also PN are reliable and handle any problems honestly and quickly, as not only am I still with them, but I still get a fair chunk of referral money off each bill, from people I introduced after I signed up.

SpaceX's faulty Falcon spewed massive lithium plume over Europe, say scientists

Re: Ozone

I remember being advised to always use strong sun block when hiking in New Zealand.

We didn't a we'd already been burned to a crisp in Singapore on the way down.

Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS

Eating your own...

Eating your own dog food is encouraged in software engineering, but letting your own AI agent change your own systems has to be a case of eating your own dog shit.

Indian think tank finds strong hiring for the kind of jobs AI puts at risk

“As home to one of the world’s largest pools of AI-skilled workers..."

Is that skilled in, or indistinguishable from?

Microsoft boffins cook up archival storage using Pyrex glass they say can last over 10,000 years

Re: Heechee fans?

Microsoft can't even read it's own file formats after a couple of decades, never mind thousands of years.

Google digs deep to power AI expansion with 150 MW geothermal deal

Re: But maybe not in the US

Watch out for the volcanos.

£111M later, frictionless post-Brexit border dream 'brought to early closure'

You've clearly got no idea how general elections work in the UK.

Ireland joins regulator smackdown after X's Grok AI accused of undressing people

Re: a cynical attempt to shutdown the last truly open forum on the Internet

How many rubles/renminbi per hour?

Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it

Japanese Knotweed more like.

Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows

WinBloat

Sorry, I saw WinBoat, but I read WinBloat

Re: Oh great!

How on earth did you manage to type that with a straight face?

How AI could eat itself: Competitors can probe models to steal their secrets and clone them

They are stealing the stuff we stole

I thought the term frontier model was nonsense, but it's quite apt, as just like the frontier of the wild west, everything the first settlers gained was stolen from the native Americans, and then stolen again by the next wave of gun slingers.

Hopefully if all those billions invested in training models can be ripped off for peanuts, the AI bubble will burst even faster.

MPs brand NS&I's £3B IT overhaul a 'full-spectrum disaster'

Re: Business as usual

For the hard of thinking (my down voter), let me clarify:

If you don't vote for the stupid ones, their party can't make them leader.

Re: Business as usual

No, the electorate vote for individual MPs to represent their constituency.

More attention should be paid to the competency of their character than the symbol next to their name on the ballot.

Anthropic wants comp-sci students to vibe code their way through college

Would you like fries with that?

The new generation of AI vibe coded Computer Science students will be without doubt the finest burger flippers the University system has ever produced.

Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats

Some hope

And with luck, none of us will, as the news report Henry showed us states the murderer will remain in prison for at least another 15 years – and possibly many more.

Not with the early release schemes these days.

As OpenAI and Claude fight over ads, Google says ‘show me the money’

Re: Just when you thought AI couldn't get any shitter...

Oh it's great for criminal activity (allegedly).

Just when you thought AI couldn't get any shitter...

...along comes AI with ads.

30+ Chrome extensions disguised as AI chatbots steal users' API keys, emails, other sensitive data

Rats

With AI you are never more than 6 tokens away from a criminal.

Microsoft warns that poisoned AI buttons and links may betray your trust

All AI is poison

Nitrogen ransomware is so broken even the crooks can't unlock your files

Re: Criminalize paying ransom

Gift cards could be used for very small transactions, but the ability to launder large amounts without being traced is vastly more challenging than using crypto currencies.

Your point about Monero doesn't hold water, if a victim company has no legal means of purchasing crypto currencies, it can't use them to pay.

You would soon see the ransomware industry dry up if the only payment method was sacks of cash left under flyovers.

Cisco looses Splunk to probe and tame its growing agentic menagerie

The only secure AI...

...is a dead disabled AI.

AI connector for Google Calendar makes convenient malware launchpad, researchers show

Stupid has entered the room...

It's like every single hard learnt lesson about security goes straight out the window when stupid (AI) enters the room.

Kyndryl to review accounting practices as several execs leave

They've obviously not learnt from their parent and failed to sacked enough over 40s and outsourced everything not nailed down.

OpenAI introduces ads...for the people!

Re: Dear Mr. Altman

Necessity?

Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI – it's all the same old BS, says veteran Red Hatter

Re: if your old like me...

I am not sure if "micro fragmenting" of code is due to IDE's forcing this (I have never used an IDE) or whether it is something taught in Uni's or is something considered industry best paractice but IMHO it is counter-productive.

Half arsed coding standards with very low 'complexity' metrics, enforced by static analysis tools, which insist any function with a loop and a couple of if statements is split in to 3.

Re: betes noires

because sometimes luves really did depend on it

I thought that was more the red light community!

Whether they are building agents or folding proteins, LLMs need a friend

AI;dr

As above.

Amazon can't build AI capacity fast enough, throws another $200B at the problem

This is not financial advice

I closed my position on tech stocks last month - don't say I didn't tell you so.