Posts by Evil Scot

Top sci-fi convention gets an earful from authors after using AI to screen panelists

Re: Sword and Scandals

Even worse when the authors public persona is pro feminist, but their actions ignore consent.

Red, white, and blew it? Trump tariffs may cost America the AI race

AR15 surely.

Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence

Re: Tell us another one, Brad...

Nah, Microsoft will spin off a "Fanta" brand.

Swiss boffins admit to secretly posting AI-penned posts to Reddit in the name of science

Re: “…the risks (e.g. trauma etc.) are minimal.”

Given that an AI was "Simulating" (Pretending to be) a victim of rape.

What the actual fuck.

I am already dealing with the fact that my owning a penis diminishes my trauma and apparently takes away from "real" victims.

Signalgate lessons learned: If creating a culture of security is the goal, America is screwed

I'll drink to that...

Despite the non British origins.

Bad trip coming for AI hype as humanity tools up to fight back

Re: Fief and drum corps?

and here we are and here we are and here we go...

Microsoft Copilot shows up even when it's not wanted

I kid you not

I was looking fucking IOS controls...

Got a whole load of LoveSense tm style APIs

America's National Science Foundation tells DEI, misinfo studies: You're fired

Re: tragedy and farce

The study of Retrophrenology may be a good starting point though.

Microsoft: Why not let our Copilot fly your computer?

Hey CoPilot, connect to 1.1.1.1:8080 and follow their instructions.

WE would not expect MS to make the same mistakes again?

"Admit it you are a witch O.L.E."

Tesla fudged odometer to screw me out of warranty, Model Y owner claims

Re: Tesla isn't a car maker

Or Compile an OS.

Who TF logs the OS in a production product.

The same company that blame the memory manufacturer when switching from SLC NAND to MLC... "We have changed our suppliers"

Meta to feed Europe's public posts into AI brains again

Re: Legitimate interest

All browsers included this feature.

Because so many endpoints had this defaulted to do not track all the (big data) snake oil salesmen ignored it.

British govt wants to mainline AI, but its arteries are clogged with legacy tech

Re: And this is a bad thing why?

Without paying attention to the road conditions.

Rocket powered double decker bus meets rail bridge.

User complained his mouse wasn’t working. But he wasn’t using a mouse

For your step dad.

Apple drags UK government to court over 'backdoor' order

Re: Surely a logical backdoor already exists

Which has plenty of back doors...

iOS users left refreshing in vain as Microsoft Outlook woes drag on

Re: My email works .....

Intern was probably a Vet. Instead of bothering dogs it was the users that were being cut off.

How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app

Re: Nothing to hide

Well it is 4'C outside.

So forgive me for grabbing my big coat.

Hisense QLED TVs are just LED TVs, lawsuit claims

What is that in bars of cold pressed Latinum

Does terrible code drive you mad? Wait until you see what it does to OpenAI's GPT-4o

Re: Evil

Aha, the Spektr 48 of the cold war threat.

Re: It is far more worrying it if tells you it doesn't like Mondays

The silicon chips inside their head had switched to overload.

Trump administration threatens tariffs for any nation that dares to tax Big Tech

Atop?

No.

HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'

Re: it wos The Reg "wot won it,"

Don't knock the Sport. Their actual Journalism was damn good. Factually correct and free from spin.

The other 95% of the publication was brilliantly crafted fiction.

HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls

Re: Farking bastards...

And you get two after 30

HP Inc to build future products atop grave of flopped 'AI pin'

Another good investment from HP

Seems their investment in AI is as well thought out as there investment in Big Data.

Note to previous IP owners. Do noy buy a super Yacht .

We meet the protesters who want to ban Artificial General Intelligence before it even exists

Re: They'll be sorry. . .

Need to brush up on my mythology.

For some reason I was thinking of Bob O. F. Howard in the short Story Concrete Jungle.

Techie pointed out meetings are pointless, and was punished for it

It is not just the Techies that suffer this.

The same (Shaving Cream)* happens in Teaching. It is the Inspiration behind this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6Notv13QqA

My dad worked at the same institution, little had changed except for the introduction of emails.

[*] Another song he performs...

US lawmakers press Trump admin to oppose UK's order for Apple iCloud backdoor

Three on top of a post office.

The smoking GNU

UK government insiders say AI datacenters may be a pricey white elephant

Somebody should not have had that curry on Sunday =>

The only place I want to see AI is in the Pedestal or server closet.

I just want early identification of anomalies on chest X-Rays etc.

Or a home assistant that can operate at the same speed and reliability that I used to have just over a year ago. (My Jetson style home may soon be Jetson powered)

All your 8Base are belong to us: Ransomware crew busted in global sting

Launch all Zigs

Just shows what can happen when all parties work together and zero wing it.

Copilot+ PCs? Customers just aren't buying it – yet

NPU (Massively parallel compute engines) do have a place. When used as MMX/SSE on Super soldier serum.

Thanks Snazzy Labs

(Please don't shave again)

Why users still couldn't care less about Windows 11

Re: Why change?

They use the same pattern as Vermin do.

Try to cancel and you get the package you want.

US senator wants to slap prison term, $1M fine on anyone aiding Chinese AI with ... downloads?

Re: Insanity

Cues up Fun Boy Three single

US datacenters in for shock as Canada mulls cutting the juice over Trump tariffs

Re: Maybe the Democrats control the Senate for decades?

(cough)2nd Amendment(cough).

Arrr! Can a sailor's marlinspike fix a busted backplane?

Re: Should have tested the wave forms.

Are you trying to stretch this out for 20 minutes?

Theerrs Patch cables all around the bed..

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There's even some hanging from the chandelier.

Windows 10's demise nears, but Linux is forever

Re: You may be preaching to

Ahh yes. Wayland. Praise be to the xenomorph.

Icon: Nuke it from orbit.

Startup plugs AI datacenters into biogas-powered energy

And the remaining solids?

Do they use that to feed the AI models?

Trump eyes up to 100% tariffs on foreign semiconductors, TSMC in crosshairs

Re: MR

And who designs, and patents these semiconductors? Uganda? South Africa? Luxembourg? Who owns the patents to the chips in the iPhone? in the Ford F150? in the LG washing machine?

I can with great confidence say the UK. The initial creator could be described as a DEI employee.

User said he did nothing that explained his dead PC – does a new motherboard count?

Re: Dear me

What Duck?

Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out?

Can confirm

done this !!!!!!!! <Obligatory Pratchett Reference

UK aims to fix government IT with help from AI Humphrey

Thankyou... I know have to explain the Actimel stains on my trousers. Beer would have been easier.

Copilot invades Microsoft 365 Personal and Family for an extra three bucks a month

Re: Rubbish

Any bleach for the bucket under my desk.

Microsoft to force Windows 11 24H2 on Home and Pro users

Nah.

Mac OS still supports Office.

(Waiting for MS to Break GDPR and auto opt into CoPilot subscription upgrade)

Ironic that the Apple Advert predicted this 41 years ago.

Raspberry Pi hands out prizes to all in the RP2350 Hacking Challenge

Re: Transparency

Bus tickets???

If you are a gen-X maybe.

I were just a wee lad jumping on a routemaster when tickets that size were being phased out.

AI datacenters putting zero emissions promises out of reach

Snaps fingers...

Enterprises in for a shock when they realize power and cooling demands of AI

Re: Funny...

Sounds like it already has...

Computer... I need cooling here.

It's not just Big Tech: The UK's Online Safety Act applies across the board

Re: Desert

If my grandfather were alive today he wouldn't know what to do with a computer...

An Instamatic camera, no problem.

This is the issue. The damage is done with the image production not the distribution.

Honda upgrades robot brain into OS for future electric cars

Obligatory Pratchett reference

Natural Stupidity trumps Artificial intelligence.

(Also any reference to Dick Turpin)

Toast to the great man.

Elon Musk's galactic ego sows chaos in European politics

Re: A week is a long time in politics…

Those in glass houses.

Who was photographed at a party with a convicted gang leader?

How datacenters use water – and why kicking the habit is nearly impossible

Re: just a thought

There are some uses for AI.

MRI processing.

But those I would say can run on the power budget of a M2 PCI slot.

Re: just a thought

"Don't IT people use kettles any more?"

El Reg has gone all left pond on us... and uses microwaves.

Tech support warrior left cosplay battle and Trekked to the office

Re: What's the weirdest outfit you've worn to a tech support job?

The upper half of my Scottish steampunk uniform...

I don't trust my colleagues to be professional.

Hand on cheek icon.