Posts by nijam

Next step for LINK spacecraft – a software update that won't make things worse. Are you listening, Microsoft?

> ... a software update that won't make things worse. Are you listening, Microsoft?

Why are you asking? Everybody already knows that (a) they aren't, and (b) even if they were, there would be no benefit (to anybody).

News Corp labels some AI companies 'crass kleptomaniacs'

Of all the targets to pick on in this "target-rich environment", Brave seems a little ... non-obvious.

Re: Surely these two words should be in ironic quotes

> Surely these two words should be in ironic quotes

No, just preceded by the word "appalling".

Re: Surely these two words should be in ironic quotes

> The Sun is useful perhaps as toilet paper if there is a new covid outbreak.

You wouldn't want to besmirch your arse with that filth.

Windows 10 LTSC 2021 has five months before security updates cost extra

Windows 10 ... a true successor to Windows 7.

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint leaves some Linux boxes defenseless after update

Re: So...There Are People Out There Who Rely on M$ For Some Linux Environment?

> Just because you use Linux doesn't mean you're a computer security expert.

Just because you use Windows (and pay MS a fortune for "support", and have your own IT team), doesn't mean you (or MS, or your in-house team) are security experts either.

Obviously.

Intel working to ‘leapfrog’ ARM and AMD designs, says CEO Lip-Bu Tan

Re: RISC V

Oh, I don't know, they managed it with Zilog, didn't they? Sure to be just the same...

Burnham wants Big Ecommerce to bankroll Britain's pubs

Re: Human societies made it 10000 years without online markets...

> ... we haven't gone a single year without some analog to the local pub.

And that's got us where, exactly?

Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow

> But if he were to order Microsoft to disable Office 365 or John Deere to brick its tractors, that would have an immediate, measurable economic impact.

Possibly even a good one.

Chinese President Xi Jinping wants emergency response systems to keep AI in check

> “adhere to the principle of openness.”

A bit short on self-reflection, I feel.

Hands off our VPNs, privacy groups tell UK ministers

Re: You could always just encourage under 16s to go out and play ?

Government scaremongering means no-one thinks it is safe for under-16s to play outside.

Philips to replace bricked Hue Bridge Pro devices

> That would be the driver assist that tries to kill cyclists when you pull out to overtake them right?

Some assistance is actually helpful...

It's looking like a hot, messy summer for security teams as AI finds countless previously hidden vulns

> if you just keep running scans on the same libraries and same code, it just keeps finding more...

Am I the only one who thinks it suspicious that repeating scans on the same code keep giving different answers?

Cloudflare teams up with big browsers to help websites tell welcome from unwelcome visitors

Re: Trying Something New

> If they try something and it doesn’t work, nothing is lost.

No... If they try something and it doesn’t work, we're lumbered with it.

The new database world according to Google: Inexact queries and AI in everything

> It’s going to be humans orchestrating agents, and agents actually doing the work.

It’s going to be humans orchestrating agents, and agents lying to humans about having doen the work.

UK Treasury hunts CTO on salary that may not compute for top tech talent

> "HMT is a fast‑paced, policy‑driven organisation with a diverse user base of several thousand staff, including ministers, senior officials and analysts, all reliant on secure, resilient and responsive digital services,"

Is this a completely differernt organisation that everybody knows as "His Majesty's Treasury"? Because it certainly doesn't sound like the one we all know and ... Well, the one we all know.

Scientists pour cold water on claims phones are rewiring kids' brains

Re: Forget the adolescent brain

> ... I don't think people should sit on their hands and wait for proof before taking action.

Given the action under consideration, they very definitely should sit on their hands.

AIs don't like religion – particularly Jehovah's Witnesses, study claims

Naturally, as a religion itself, of course AI attempts to discredit or devalue competing religions.

Gothenburg's self-driving bus trammed on day one

Self-driving buses (or self-driving anythings) and trams -- two things we don't want on our roads.

Pope Leo warns AI boom can give Big Tech and the people who run it too much power

> That's rich coming from the Catholic Church, that well-known bastion of letting the many determine morality.

Also, when they've spent centuries exploiting the poor and becoming the wealthiest organisation in the world.

Does the Pope have any self-awareness? Don't bother answering.

Minor edits to AI skills can make agents go rogue

It seems more and more that case that AIs are in fact nothing but an attack surface.

Vivaldi 8 polishes the chrome without coating it in AI

For future reference, the title would be more in line with English usage, not to mention more evocative, if it had be phrased as:

" ... without larding it with AI"

AI code accelerates production failures and spending, study finds

> AI code accelerates production failures and spending, study finds.

Well. Quel surprise.

AI sackings reach New Zealand, which will use it to eject 14 percent of government staff

Re: More ministries than you think

> UK has no Indigenous Peoples Ministries or Legislation...

...because that would be considered racist.

Britain's latest civil servant is a chatbot trained on GOV.UK misery

> AI doesn't get salary, expense account or pension...

...but the execs at the company who sold it to you do. So it costs way more.

Vi clone written in BASIC proves old habits :wq hard

> The veteran editor Vi turns 50 this year, and what better way to celebrate than to write a version in BASIC?

Well, not using vi, for a start. And, also, not using Basic.

Apart from that, nothing.

NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns

Looking from a different viewpoint, whu did they choose github?

Microsoft's turned Windows into a cesspool, but it wants to do better

Re: What's wrong at Redmond?

> [0] As a gesture of goodwill.

Goodwill? I doubt the open source community would see it that way.

Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark

Unavoidably, I read the opening of the article as "AI adoption is reaching an infection point ..."

Job's a good 'un: Bank of England tech project wins watchdog praise

Particularly notable is that they didn't start by saying "We need a bespoke solutionn, because our problems are entirely different from every other financial institution in the world." In contrast to every local authority in the UK, not to mention the NHS (repeatedly).

BTW, there's no such thing as the NHS, really. It is actually hundreds of dfferent organisations (just as they were before the NHS was founded) sharing little except a common logo. Oops, almost forgot - they do share fax numbers with each another, mostly.

Fedora 44 is out – countless versions of it

Re: Fedora 44 And EXT4

> ... we don't care; we will not fix this ...

This is very "House of Gnome", isn't it?

I used to be OK with RedHat many years ago, but the rot started and I moved on - via a brief sojourn in Ubuntu - and am now happily using Debian. Whether I'll need to move to Devuan sometime who knows, but I won't be even looking at Fedora.

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

> Migrate from Google to Microsoft

Out of the frying pan...

Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25 percent tax if they don’t pay publishers

Re: Meanwhile in Canada

Fully agree .. Australia's traditional news media were almost as bad as Facebook anyway...

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

Re: The free ride is nearly over for so-called AI.

> ... companies wouldn’t be paying for it.

Have you heard the espression "FOMO"?

Stale gov.uk pages are feeding AI overviews old data and Brits are believing it

> AI overviews from the likes of Google are serving up false summaries of ...

...everything.

Pass the key, passwords have passed their sell-by date

Re: implementation

> ... a lot of benefits to Passkey for sure ...

In the abstract, PERHAPS.

In practice, unmanageable for most people, unless they sign up to one of big operators to do it all for them. And we know who those operators are, and whose orange-stained kingdom they all live in.

Nation-states want to cause harm, not just steal cash - stop handing your cyber defenses to the cheapest contractor

> ...stop handing your cyber defenses to the cheapest contractor ...

Stop handing your cyber *anything* to the cheapest contractor.

Cloudflare, GoDaddy team up to curb AI bot brigades

> Cloudflare has said rarer browsers/agent IDs is a sign of a bot.

Cloudflare *is* a bot.

Anthropic goes nude, exposes Claude Code source by accident

> ...the possibility that some AI bros might occasionally not wholly telling truths.

Why not, after all the AIs themselves are also not wholly telling truths.

Staff too scared of the AI axe to pick it up, Forrester finds

Shouldn't this article have been labelled as "Advertising Feature"?

Apple's last tower topples… and the others will follow

Maybe a bit too late to wory about this, but it also highlights the fact that we're going to end up with systems that have all sorts of who-knows-what spyware, censorware, and general s?itware sqirreled away inside those SOCs. How long before we have to rent our own CPU minutes?

Re: Extrapolation

> ... AI. They're going to milk that one for all its worth.

Yes, we'll look forward to that. When is it going to start, er, lactating?

UK wants to know if banning under-16s from social media does anything useful

Re: Banning is all well and good...

> ...there is no centralised system that can be trusted by the government ...

There is no central government that can be trusted ...

When it comes to catastrophic space weather, the UK is holding a cocktail umbrella

> ... The centre of government has an incomplete understanding...

Actually, there's no need for the rest of that sentence.

Elon Musk wants to build 50 times more chips than the world currently produces, using 'new physics'

Re: Peak Musk...

> ...If however he does manage to jump the shark,

Then we'll need jumping sharks. Any of you working on that?

NASA pencils in fresh Artemis II Moon launch attempt for April 1

> NASA pencils in fresh Artemis II Moon launch

Why are thay sending pencils to the moon?

Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting

> Prohibition failed in the United States.

No it didn't; it gave a huge start-up boost to what we now know as "organised crime".

And of course one of the great lessons was that banning something that people want simply means bigger profit margins for the suppliers.

Prince of PDFs, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, to step down after 18 years

Re: Fuck Adobe. Adobe sucks.

> Photoshop too may not have a great UI (still, Gimp is worse...)

Gimp may not have a great UI (still, Photoshop is worse...), I believe you meant.

Re: He led Adobe’s swing to become a SaaS company

> ... a pox on everything he owns.

Can't we just say he doesn't actaully own it, and charge him a subscription for it all?

> “As a company that has prided itself on creating categories, our AI transformation begins with a focus on customer-centric product strategy to anticipate and fulfill the diverse needs of a large and growing customer base.”

Loosely translated, it means "I no longer know what I'm doing. Looking back now, I don't believe I ever did."