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Chatbots are great at manipulating people to buy stuff, Princeton boffins find

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> you cannot find that one if you use the search

I searched for "B07PDQCY7Q" on Amazon UK and it took me right to the product for £53.11, or approx €60.

Maybe there is a difference between the search on Amazon UK and Amazon Germany but I doubt it. PEBKAC more likely.

Meta's latest model is as open as Zuckerberg's private school

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> If Meta is to be believed, Muse Spark is a big improvement over Llama 4. The model boasts performance matching and in many cases besting the top models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

Meta could produce the world's best, cheapest and most accurate LLM with 100% proof that they aren't lying about its performance and I still wouldn't buy it for free.

I have not and will never use any product made by a company owned or run by that morally bankrupt arsehole.

Nvidia's Rubin GPU is likely to be late thanks to memory shortage and technical challenges

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A novel thought

Here's a novel thought, why don't Nvidia ensure they have a product ready for market before announcing it? Then they wouldn't run into delays with new networking or cooling requirements and could sell it at the peak of the hype cycle rather than 6 months later when people are already starting to hear about their next big money pit.

Iran cyber actors disrupting US water, energy facilities, FBI warns

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As opposed to the USA and your misogynistic, homophobic, Christian* supremacist, genocidal, multiple bankrupt, pussy grabbing rapist and probable pedophile president?

* Trump and the GOP claim to be Christian but as someone who went to a school run by monks I can confidently say their words and deeds are not Christian.

AWS CEO: It's funny when people ask me if AI is overhyped

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Re: WTAF?

I'm sure the guy from AWS knows nothing about the electrification of industry or indeed industry.

He works for an overgrown shop that runs its own IT and rents it out. He's never produced anything or worked in industry in his life.

Hundreds of orgs compromised daily in Microsoft device code phishing attacks

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> although OneDrive and Windows can normally use the same token, Teams and Outlook apparently can't or won't share

Yes they do. I login once a week with MFA to Windows or Teams and that covers me for all MS apps.

Either something is wrong with yout tennant or someone in your IT dept. set it up that way.

Intel gets trapped in Elon’s reality distortion field as it joins in megafab delusions

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He has already spoken of building factories on the moon to build his orbital datacenters. With a potentially civiisation ending capable mass driver, I'm sure we'll all be safe with Elon in control of that.

Live and Let AI: Former CIA officer says human spies matter more in the LLM age

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Re: New Bond titles ?

How have you not suggested GoldenAI?

Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you and your system

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Melon mode... Claude spouts right wing propaganda and buys a social media network for far more than it's worth before announcing its love for Grok.

Surprise! Big Tech has been a bit rubbish at enforcing Australia’s kids social media ban

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Re: It’s not hard if you want it

> would you ban a 14 year old trying to repair the family tractor because dad's in the hospital

You bet I would. Tractors and farm equipment in general are very dangerous, that 14 year old needs adult supervision. Especially since the broken tractor and parent in hospital sound related.

When I was a kid the guy who lived across the street had a specially made round boot on one foot because he'd got it caught in farm equipment as a child. He walked with a stick and lived with that injury for his entire life.

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Re: Because you trust El Zuck to actually do anything ?

Actually since Zuck runs an illegal school from his house I think he probably does have children. He just doesn't want anyone to know anything about them - the opposite of what he wants for your children.

Otherwise that school starts to look a bit Epstein.

US foreign router ban criticized for being ‘industrial policy disguised as cybersecurity’

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Re: MAGAAFTROTW

I don't think that is their true policy, it seems to be more like Fuck America Again, And The Rest of The World If We Have Time.

Commercial space pleads with NASA to stop moving the goalposts in orbit

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Re: "goalposts in space"

I hear everything "... in SPACE!" in the voice of whoever did the voieover for "PIGS IN SPACE!" on the Muppets.

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They have already said the Gateway hub module is going to Mars on a nuclear rocket.

AI companies lick their chops as FCC proposes forcing call center onshoring

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Re: Trump wants to bring all the shitty jobs back to the US

Were there a lot of web programmers in the 80s? How about AI engineers?

There are plenty of completely new roles that have been created in the last 40 years that would counter unemployment from offshoring but you would need to have a few working brain cells and get an education to do them.

Go for a walk, man: Sony's drive to create a car parked by partner Honda

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> brands like Jaecoo have now got the market share that the likes of Citroen used to have

Who? Never heard of them or seen one of their cars in the UK and there are EV charging points on my street.

HP stuffs OpenAI LLM into new laptops in bid for small biz

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Re: At least it's less likely to infest every workplace

I must be imagining the 32GB in the work HP laptop I'm typing this on then.

Datadog bets DIY AI will mean it dodges the SaaSpocalypse

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Sentry (a Datadog competitor) have had a similar model for at least 6 months, they call it Seer. It too can investigate incidents, provide root cause analysis and suggest remediation actions.

Of course its analysis and suggested actions are usually nonsense that is either flat wrong or too vague to be actionable but I doubt Datadog's late entry to the field will be any better.

(Seer may work better for web projects, like much of their tooling, but for Android it's bad.)

Microsoft: Removing some Copilots will improve Windows 11

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Re: The internal polling numbers must be brutal

> Windows 2000 replaced the wildly unpopular ME.

A bit hard to replace something when you are released 6 months BEFORE the thing you are supposedly replacing. (not to mention that 2k is NT and ME is 9x)

Win 2k: RTM 15 December 1999, retail release 17 February 17 2000

WinME: RTM 19 June 2000, retail release 14 September 14 2000

Time to end the 'uncontrolled experiment' of social media on kids, scientists say

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Sailed a tall ship in your teens did you?

Spoke to an astronaut on the Space Shuttle?

Were your ancestors Kings of the Isle of Man?

Well then you have no idea of my anecdotes do you.

Google says it will let UK publishers opt out of AI overviews

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I do not want to see an annual search engine choice screen. My search engine is set to DDG in Firefox and will not be changing.

DR-DOS rises again – rebuilt from scratch, not open source

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This can't be "actually DR DOS" and a new clean room implementation, those are mutually exclusive things.

This is in fact a spiritual successor or homage.

AI has made the Command Line Interface more important and powerful than ever before

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> It won't be long until we're all doing things like this, all the time. That will change software forever.

Most users are incapable of copying files from one place to another, even with a GUI. They won't be doing things like that either.

Governments across Asia order work from home, thanks to Iran war

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Re: Duh. The "Leader of the Free World" is out of his mind.

How about the Iranian children recently murdered by American bombs in the name of freedumb?

Or the Iranians murdered by the CIA over the decades?

AI nonsense finds new home as Meta acquires Moltbook

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Re: Virtual Masterbation

> Other than, as above, the immense waste of resources, what's the point?

The point is that they are wasting immense resources WITH AI!!!

(I didn't say I agreed with said point.)

Musk admits Starship V3 launch date has slipped as Super Heavy booster rolls into place

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Re: Hoping Musk's rocket goes kaboom

He has hit Poland. Based on previous history London is only a matter of time.

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Re: Has he tried

What is really needed is to put Big Balls in charge.

Launching rockets requires balls, ergo launching a rocket as big as Starship requires Big Balls!

Palantir’s lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff

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Yes.

Also Tyrell, OCP, Cyberdyne Systems, Umbrella, Weyland-Yutani, GLOBEX, Mom Co and Soylent if they thought they could get away with it.

Polish cops bust alleged teen DDoS kit sellers – youngest just 12

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No one would benefit from teching these children that crime pays, which is what you are advocating for.

The authorities in Poland have much better ideas for these children and everyone else.

Musk's Grok sparks outrage after chatbot makes offensive jibes about football disasters

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> We will continue to act decisively

Like the decisive action taken when Grok produced CSAM?

Any action at all would make a change.

US state laws push age checks into the operating system

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Re: Stay Chill?

Have to make sure no-one under 21 is putting beer on their Captain Crunch!

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Re: I see differences...

> internet-enabled devices

That would also cover IoT devices. So my Air Fryer will need to verify my age before use?

Washington reportedly moves to tighten leash on AI chip exports

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Exporting the American tech stack to the Middle East - one bomb, missile and drone at a time.

Apple's budget-friendly MacBook Neo is bursting with color and compromise

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I've used an M1 MacBook Air, it was slow as molasses and generally terrible.

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Heard that Google are killing Chrome and replacing it with Android yet?

Chromebooks are a computing dead end.

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

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What a surprise

Meta's AI glasses are Actually Africans rather than Actually Indians.

That they have low paid workers watching everything is not a surprise.

OpenAI says its latest model is less likely to beat around the bush

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He'?

Sidebar seems to be missing most of a paragraph.

Popular prayer program becomes propaganda pusher after reported Israeli hack

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Hacking a religious app to push your propoganda? Well done Israel, you just created the next generation of Muslim terrorists.

Why are the Israeli and US regimes always so god damn stupid?

Motorola partners with GrapheneOS for future phones

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Re: Any GrapheneOS users here?

> months in advance of phones like Samsungs.

Months? Plural? That would be difficult.

All my Samsung devices from A-series handsets to S-series handsets, a watch and tablets recieve security updates 1 month after Google publishes them.

So you're telling us you get security updates before the bugs are reported to Google?

Two days battery life, huh? I get three days with my S22 and it is 4 years old now.

UK businesses told to brace cyber defenses amid Iran conflict risk

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Re: Mugged

Whose geopolitical decisions? Not the UK governments.

You may have noticed the words USA and Israel in the article but you probably didn't read it.

Gamers furious as indie studio Cloud Imperium quietly admits to data breach

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Re: “We are closely monitoring the situation"

Bethesda don't take hundreds of millions of pounds of people's money before releasing a game. (ignore pre-orders, you know what I mean)

They also actually do release their games.

Star Citizen is nothing more than a complicated and flashy scam.

OpenAI’s Altman says Pentagon set ‘scary precedent’ binning Anthropic

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More lies form Altman

"The AI System will not be used to independently direct autonomous weapons in any case where law, regulation, or Department policy requires human control, nor will it be used to assume other high-stakes decisions that require approval by a human decisionmaker under the same authorities."

Or in other words all they need to do is change the law, regulation or policy to not require human control and they can use OpenAI's LLM to fire all the weapons and make all the decisions they want.

These promises mean nothing. Alman just eagerly signed up to build Skynet.

Iran all but vanishes from the global internet amid US-Israel strikes

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Re: a super hybrid of Iraq² and Afganistan

NO-ONE KNOWS HOW BIG THAT IS!!!!

OpenClaw, but in containers: Meet NanoClaw

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Re: What's with all the new cults springing up all of a sudden?

I think you spelled cunts wrong.

NASA safety watchdog says it's time to rethink Moon landing

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Apollo's CSM & LM were light weight and with the help of the Saturn V were actually capable of getitng to Lunar orbit.

Orion is an overweight pig that with SLS help can't even reach a proper lunar orbit you can land from.

Of course in the 60s Health & Safety was not what it is today and NASA were very, very, very lucky not to lose any crew after Apollo 1.

AMD puts $250M into Nutanix to get it building an AI stack for its GPUs

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Re: I'm struggling... how does this make sense?

> The whole world is moving towards local-AI away from cloud AI.

Daily headlines about datacenter build outs, memory prices, CPU shortages, datacenters IN SPAAAACE, etc would disagree.

Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'

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Re: Scary, truly scary

What does fear or the ability to replace parts have to do with understanding or intelligence?

> Very few parts of you (assuming this is not being read into an AI) can be replaced.

Actually quite a lot of human parts can be replaced, from the teeth to the heart. About the only thing that can't be replaced is the brain, sadly for Mr Overstreet who clearly needs a new one.

Worried Europeans can now cut Azure's phone cord completely

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Re: Wrong vocabulary

> a boot on your neck, aka tariffs.

A boot on whose neck? Tarrifs are paid by businesses and consumers in the importing country, that boot is on American necks not European ones.

Hubble in a death spiral that could end as early as 2028 without a reboost

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It fit inside the shuttle's cargo bay. It is not that big.

From Wikipedia...

Dimensions 13.2 m × 4.2 m

Or 1x London bus. (surprisingly similar at 12 - 13.75m long)

'Merica-made Mac Minis marked for manufacturing

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Re: Is that safe?

It's Apple, I thought the child and slave labour came as standard?