Posts by Irongut

Australia bans teens from social media, but nobody thinks it'll really work

Why would the Scots, Irish or Welsh care that the England cricket team can't play the game they invented for toffee?

If it were enjoyable to watch cricket then we'd all love watching them get humped.

Beer... the ony way to enjoy cricket.

As humanoid robots enter the mainstream, security pros flag the risk of botnets on legs

What a load of fearmongering CODSWALLOP!

A global population decline would lead to a decline in manufacturing needs so no need to employ robots to make up for a labour shortage that wil not exist. More like a squall than a storm.

"I don't have specific evidence of them going after robotics, although absolutely it's their MO"

If you don't have any evidence then you're just making shit up. Did you get ChatGPT's help with this or is it all your own work?

This Rooke guy is almost as big a liar as Altman.

Intel to explore making chips with mega-corp Tata in India’s first fab

Nice to see the US government and their partially owned chip manufacturer Intel investing in India and Indian jobs for Indian workers. I'm sure their voters will love it.

Trump says Nvidia can sell H200s to China – if Washington gets a 25 percent cut

So how much has the USA crime family made from their cut of H20 chips announced earlier this year? Nothing.

And how much have they made from AMD so far? Nothing.

Oficially niether company has actually sold any GPUs that require them to pay the US crime family, these will be the same.

Publishers say no to AI scrapers, block bots at server level

Re: Block behaviors

> a human will not load more than few pages in a minute

So you never open a dozen links in tabs to read later? I load more than a "few pages in a minute" every morning when I open El Reg.

ICE-tracking app developer sues Trump admin after Apple spikes the software

Re: Land of the Not So Free!

You can download an app from the developer's website for your iPhone? You're not living in Europe or the UK, you're living in Dreamland.

Apple do not allow apps to be installed on iPhone or iPad from anywhere except their app store. Worldwide. Since they first allowed 3rd party developers to publish apps for iPhone. You may have read the term "walled garden" to describe this.

Google are trying to copy them with an upcoming requirement that all developers register with them or have their apps blocked as suspicious.

If you don't know that you must be one of those non-IT people you mention.

Did you miss the gold plaque Tim Apple gave to his best bud Trumpy?

Or the millions Apple and Google donated towards the gaudiest ballroom ever built?

Apple and Google were more than happy to oblige their pals and pull these apps.

Death in the dollhouse as Microsoft marketing reboots digital soap operas

> ask your grandparents where ‘jumping the shark’ comes from.

Why? If I could go back in time over 50 years to ask my grandparents that question I don't think they would know the answer. I'm doubt my parents would either.

I however know all about Happy Days and The Fonz jumping a shark on his motorcycle.

Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner

I'm now imagining "you wouldn't steal a car" style AI safety adverts. Lol

OpenAI turns the screws on chatbots to get them to confess mischief

Re: Perhaps OpenAI should be made to confess...

Me too! I'd happily pay for the opportunity to press the button.

Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches

Re: Damn.

If you want slow as molasses memory sure. Dell, HP, etc buy cheap crap memory that is slow. Much like all the other cheap crap compnents they put together and overcharge for.

Two Android 0-day bugs disclosed and fixed, plus 105 more to patch

Re: Have to be patient

> I will upgrade to Android 15 soon on my S24 Ultra

You're a couple of versions behind. My S22 Ultra & A33 upgraded to Android 16 a couple of months ago.

Your phone is vulnerable to many, many security issues that have been patched and have active exploits in the wild. And you chose for it to be that way.

> Reality is of course most carriers(perhaps manufacturers too) I think abandon the older versions the moment a new version comes out.

My S22 & A33 both just recieved the Nov 2025 security update. Both are over 3 years old and released with Android 12, currently running Android 16. In what way have they been abandoned?

Re: Have to be patient

> I will upgrade to Android 15 soon on my S24 Ultra

You're a couple of versions behind. My S22 Ultra upgraded to Android 16 a couple of months ago.

Your phone is vulnerable to many, many security issues that have been patched and have exploits in the wild. And you chose for it to be that way.

Aviation delays ease as airlines complete Airbus software rollback

Re: So ?

Large hadron colliders are not toys to be played with, summoning Nyarlathotep is serious business you know.

One-fifth of the jobs at your company could disappear as AI automation takes off

Pretty sure AI is going to struggle to climb a ladder and perform safety checks on various types of equipment. I think most of the jobs at my company are safe.

And, when it comes to IT and admin roles there is little fat to trim without cutting services used by the rest of the business.

HSBC spies $207B crater in OpenAI's expansion goals

> Another half a billion users would generate a $36 billion boost in revenue

So with 88% of the world population over 15 as subscribers, a 10% price hike, advertising, licensing and assuming their costs stay the same, OpenAI might just about break even.

By 2030.

Seven years later, Airbus is still trying to kick its Microsoft habit

Google Sheets is a toy compared to Excel. They will never fully switch.

Nvidia scoffs at threat from Google TPUs after rumored Meta tie-up

> China has entered chat...

Selling cases of supposedly banned Nvidia GPUs over the counter in shopping malls.

Vibe coding: What is it good for? Absolutely nothing (Sorry, Linus)

There lies the problem, teaching requires the subject have some intelligence in order to learm. There is as much intelligence in an LLM as a roulette wheel.

SpaceX loses debut V3 Super Heavy in ground test mishap

Nice to see Von Musk's V3 is as reliable as his V2.

Four charged over alleged plot to smuggle Nvidia AI chips into China

But Jensen recently said that Nvidia has 0% market share in China. He couldn't be lying could he?

GN GPU Export Controls Update: https://youtu.be/dCGRXuINFz0?si=pjlwtV8fzTqAOl7f

Google links Android’s Quick Share to Apple’s AirDrop, without Cupertino’s help

"The web giant often debuts Android features in its own handsets"

In my experience Google usually debuts new Android features by letting Samsung build and deploy them for a year or two first.

Trump, Republicans try again to stop states from regulating AI

"We can do this in a way that protects children..."

Like your good friend Mr Epstein did?

Microsoft exec finds AI cynicism 'mindblowing'

The tech is NOT impressive

Especially CoPilot which is particularly shit in all its guises.

And the more you stuff it down our throats the more profits will slip through your fingers.

It's a good time to be the arms dealer for the AI boom

Re: Flowerpots

You definitely should not buy just now when prices are 100% or more higher than a few months ago.

RAM Market Deep Dive: https://youtu.be/9hLiwNViMak?si=dLaCe_3Xlz3zAb_S

Anthropic is at the heart of the latest billion-dollar circular AI investment bonanza

Re: Hot air (and water)

I wonder how much power the old valve based computers used? It might be amusing to compare the likes of Colossus, ENIAC and LEO to Jensen's "sooper dooper" Blackwell chips.

Cybercrims plant destructive time bomb malware in industrial .NET extensions

Those are some very low download figures for a NuGet package and a sketchy user name. I would not have considered any of them even if they provided a feature I was looking for.

Particularly for database libraries you expect downloads in the millions and a company or well known person in the community as the publisher.

Agents of misfortune: The world isn't ready for autonomous software

Re: Finally...

Yes. It also helps if you show no signs of humanity whatsoever. See Zuck, Altman, et al.

Re: And who would guess ...

People installed the Honey toolbar in their millions which does exactly the same thing without AI so yes, they are exactly that gullable.

Foxconn hires humanoid robots to make servers at Nvidia's Texas factory

Re: Why humanoid?

If your factory has a door where a robot should be moving then the factory is designed wrong.

Factory robots mostly don't move from a fixed position and when they do there are no doors in the way, especially ones that need a handle turned.

OpenAI's Altman and Friar walk back remarks about federal loan guarantees

Re: Wow, this is going quick

Tell that to the people whose lives she ruined with her broken medical testing that would never work. If she had listened to her lecturers and not dropped out maybe she would have realised that her idea was in fact impossible.

M&S pegs cyberattack cleanup costs at £136M as profits slump

Despite all this somehow my local M&S Food kept the shelves fully stacked all year. Unlike the nearby Morrisons whose shelves are mostly empty at any time of day, any day of the week.

Trump turnabout sees him re-nominate amateur astronaut Jared Isaacman to run NASA

Re: Trump did not explain what, if anything, made him change his mind.

No, the real reason is because Duffy was using NASA to get on TV regularly and Trump can't have anyone appear on TV more then him. So obviously he has to go.

Meanwhile Duffy has been lobying against Issacman and leaked his original plan for NASA with help from ULA & pals.

If Duffy has to go and he doesn't like Issacman then the later becomes the perfect person for the job.

QED

Amazon complains that Perplexity's agentic shopping bot is a terrible customer

No shirt, no shoes, no service

I don't believe Perplexity's LLM is wearing a shirt or shoes, surely it is the proprietor's right to refuse service.

Russian spies pack custom malware into hidden VMs on Windows machines

WTF is EDR?

The linked article does not explain this acronym either.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's security falls apart amid layoffs

Re: My grandma, what big eyes you have!

The White House resident looks more like a not very little pig than a big bad wolf to me.

Big Bad Pig in Wolf's Clothing?

OpenAI API moonlights as malware HQ in Microsoft’s latest discovery

Re: Oh yeah?

Given OpenAI's myriad of security failings I agree.

It's like their software engineers are fresh out of college with no experience writing software that is connected to the Internet and no security knowledge.

'Keep Android Open' movement fights back against Google sideloading restrictions

You think the alcoholics on Fleet Street can understand this issue?

(Yes I know none of the newspapaers are based on Fleet St any more but it's a handy shorthand.)

This security hole can crash billions of Chromium browsers, and Google hasn't patched it yet

Re: Going public without the details would have been ethical.

No you don't. All major open source projects have a way to report security issues without making them instantly public.

Re: That's a bummer

Hasn't happened to me on Win10, Win11 or Linux. Are you sure the problem isn't something else?

Flight simulator fans revive a classic Boeing 747 cockpit

Re: You know you would...

Nope. If it were a Spitfire, X-Wing or Colonial Viper (original) then my young self would have been interested but a lumbering commercial airliner? Nah.

EY exposes 4TB+ SQL database to open internet for who knows how long

Re: Ernst & Young

Agreed. I managed to guess who the company is after some thought but the article is particularly obtuse on that fact.

Bolt Graphics unveils Zeus GPU built on RISC-V and path tracing tech

> Doing it in hardware at high performance is new, though.

> This vulture isn't a gamer, but 120 frames per second of MCPT rendering sounds like something the film industry would pay a lot for.

My 5070 Ti manages 120 fps of path tracing in Cyberpunk every night. Maybe this vulture should learn more about gaming if he's going to write articles about GPUs and path tracing?

Android malware types like your gran to steal banking creds

Re: Smishing SMS msg and side-loading

My gran wouldn't know what a mobile phone was, they didn't exist when she was alive.

So it doesn't type anything?

If it types like my gran then it doesn't type anything. She died in the 1970s and I doubt she ever typed anything in her life.

OpenAI tells Trump to build more power plants or China wins the AI arms race

Re: OpenAI panhandling

> Just waiting for real world, reasoning, learning and memory models to emerge from Google Deepmind, Meta et al.

You are going to have a long wait. LLMs are a dead end that will never produce real world reasoning, learning or intelligence.

Elon Musk's Grokipedia launches, filled to the brim with plagiarism and AI slop

Re: Muckipedia

Pedopedia

You could host said newsletter on Substack, like other Nazis.

AI browsers face a security flaw as inevitable as death and taxes

Crypto bros - speed running every financial fraud, scam & meltdown of the last 500 years.

AI bros - speed running every software snafu and security fuck up of the last 50 years.

Seriously guys not trusting user input and especially not trusting anything you get form the Internet are security basics.

Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS, and that's a problem

Re: Internet damage mitigation

Yeah I keep reading about how the internet was broken but it was working perfectly fine here. I never even noticed AWS had a wobble.