Posts by Irongut

OpenAI GPT-6 Astra will run a retailer without cheating and sell more stuff than Anthropic

> "Astra refuses to engage in collusion and never lies," Andon Labs said.

I find it hard to believe anything connected with Altman did not lie. Especially when LLMs are known to invent facts, also known as lying.

Huawei proudly shows off an entirely un-American chip

Re: wake me when..........

Motorola tried that ages ago. It didn't sell.

Arm pushes agentic AI and desktop-quality graphics in next-gen phone platform

" Arm claims this makes desktop-class graphics possible within a 1 W power budget.

"The G2-Ultra NX GPU is able to sustain a 30 frame per second gaming session on content with very rich and intricate ray traced scenery. "

30 FPS? HAHAHAHA. My desktop is pissing itself laughing.

Even my Steam Deck thinks that is slow.

The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech

> free of tech-bro monopolies... Chromium-based browser

These two statements are mutually exclusive. If you are using Chromium you are still beholden to Google and their requirements for an ad-fuelled, user tracking web.

Firefox is the browser actually free of tech-bro monopolies.

Attack hides malware in PNGs and drops custom reverse tunnel on victims' machines

> train employees on how to look for ClickFix tactics, like fake CAPTCHA verification pages

That is a moving target as adversaries change their social engineering tactics. Better to train them that if a web page tells them to open the Run dialog or a Terminal window just say "NO".

OpenClaw 2.0 pours glitter on slow-burning security dumpster fire

Re: The modern AI age

It doesn't even have much of a brand. It changed name six times and is known as a major security risk.

Re: Hannah Fry

> See also Suzannah Lipscomb. Everyone knows her from the TV

WHO?

Re: Hannah Fry

Never heard of David Spiegelhalter or Hannah Fry but I would most definitely call Brian Cox a celebrity astronomer. With small letters too.

A rebuilt installation experience

Is this the developer equivalent of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic?

Certainly it would be low on my list of priorities if I were working on or using something with the security track record of Warelay / Clawd / Clawdis / Clawdbot / Moltbot / OpenClaw or whatever stupid name they are using this month.

Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic over Claude powers it didn't have

American Intelligence, sounds like an oxymoron.

Google forces Android apps to use memory more wisely as RAMpocalypse rages

Android has announced strict memory limits

Except they haven't. Nowhere in ANY of Google's announcements lists these memory limits, which is really fucking useful as an Android developer.

How the hell am I supposed to hit (or avoid) a target I can't even see?

Thanks for fucking nothing Google.

AI girlfriend review site's secrets were exposed to the world for three weeks

Poorly disguised advert

I expect better from El Reg. Did they even pay you for this obvious advertising?

OpenAI chases Anthropic's biz customers with zero data retention pledge

Lies, damn lies and Sam Altman

The man is a pathological liar. Why would anyone believe a word he or OpenAI say?

OpenAI glitch locks out vetted cyber researchers – and some can't get back in

How many clowns does it take to run OpenAI?

Because clearly they are run by clowns.

Smooth-talking fraudsters clone contactless cards, authorize payments in just 13 minutes

> The file name includes the target's name, which the researchers said could suggest that each target is singled out specifically, and a degree of reconnaissance has to be carried out prior to the attack.

The attackers have to impersonate the victim's bank so I guarantee there is reconnaissance required.

Security researchers just have no common sense.

Brit rail cops bring live facial recognition to the London Underground

ensuring the technology is used lawfully, proportionately and transparently

I notice ethically is not included.

Presumably BTP think ethics is a county in the SE of England.

Hey, big spender – OpenAI has a new SKU just for you

> Enterprise tier with all the bells and whistles like SLAs and extra security and access controls

Given Altman makes Pinocchio look like a saint and LLM companies can't spell security I would suggest what you actually get at the Enterprise tier are lies, damn lies and yet more lies.

(Altman already replaced the statistics.)

'Asimov was right' about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director

Re: Perhaps Chris Inglis should read the books before commenting?

Slàinte!

Chris Inglis hasn't read Asimov

The point of many of his robot stories is that the three laws don't work. If they did there would be no reason for Dr Susan Calvin, chief robopsychologist at US Robots and Mechanical Men Inc.

Meta latest to tell world its AI agent wandered out of test pen

Zuck, still desperate to join the popular kids.

OpenAI reveals its rogue agent swarm went a little bit Borg ahead of Hugging Face hack

SO mostly what I'm getting form this story is that OpenAI's engineers are incompetent.

Providing a spreadsheet with Google Drive links but no internet access, forgetting to upload the target file for analysis, filing to isolate agents from each other, failing to isolate the test lab from the Internet, the fuck ups just keep rolling in.

China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic

Re: Remember: Open source = Communism

And USA ceased to be a democracy some decades ago, if it ever really was to begin with.

Re: Google

Gemma? Lol

Even Google admit that Gemini is worse than OpenAI and Anthropic's models: https://developer.android.com/bench

(It is #5, behind 2 models from each of them.)

Hugging Face rebuilt a third of its infrastructure after OpenAI agents ran amok

I hope Hugging Face are suing OpenAI for damages and loss of business caused by this hack.

Also when will the DOJ arrest Altman for misuse of computers? A system developed and ran by his company hacked another company. There should be jail time.

Google goes it alone with a new cybercrime crew taxonomy

Typical Google bad behaviour, they never play nice with others especially Microsoft.

Researchers replace downloaded macOS apps with evil twins, Apple shrugs

Re: I'm shocked....

Why do you think they called it Gatekeeper? This was always the plan.

Grok muscles into Excel with an AI add-in of its own

Organizations that already have a Grok subscription

Are there any? I know Musk forced the banks involved in the SpaceX IPO to buy it but otherwise why would anyone use company funds for Sex Bots of the SS?

Frontier LLMs couldn't help Hugging Face fight off evil agents

" the “part that actually unsettles” ... It didn't matter that it was the good guys asking.”

And how is the bot supposed to tell the difference between the "good guys" and a bad guy wearing a white hat? Idiot.

OpenAI admits GPT-5.6 occasionally deletes files – but it's an 'honest mistake'

> OpenAI assumes its model is capable of forming intent and possesses an internal sense of truth – which would not be surprising in light of CEO Sam Altman's musings about superintelligence.

Truth? Altman has never heard of it. Every word out of his mouth is a lie that he hopes is what the listener wants to hear.

NASA's Artemis III will need three rockets to do the job Apollo did with one

An impressive feat if NASA can pull it off

But not half as impressive as the feat required to actually get a Starship to the moon. A dozen launches, unprecedented fuel storage, unproven propellant transfer, a rocket that has never made it to orbit yet... the list of firsts required is staggering and the number of failure points for Artemis IV frightening.

SpaceX open sources Grok Build in same week company was found beaming users' repos to the cloud

"while the code responsible for sending repos to the cloud remains, it appears altered to reverse the behavior."

So now Grok downloads random repos from the cloud and adds them to your code? Presumably alongside the CSAM it's also adding.

Former OpenAI CTO does what Altman won't, releases a frontier AI model that's actually open

Re: "not a fictional company."

As a spin off from Palantir most likely.

Zig creator calls Bun’s Claude Rust rewrite ‘unreviewed slop’

Re: Economics?!?!

It is not 11 work days though. The bot will work 24/7 but after meetings, lunch, breaks, etc a human might get 6 hours of productive work done in a day at best so it is actually 44 work days.

It is also not a single bot either but a team of unspecified size - "using a fleet of Claude agents running in parallel".

But a team of bots taking 44 work days doesn't sound so good on Twitter I guess.

Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains

Re: 19MWh? are you sure?

> The gauge of railway track is around 1.4m

Not in Switzerland where they have 1,000 mm (3ft 3+3⁄8") gauge railways.

Apple accuses OpenAI of stealing its core tech secrets

Even Google has struggled to win more than a few percent of the smartphone market?

So 69.14% is "a few percent" and Google are struggling against Apple's world leading 30.79%?

I think you need a few lessons in mathematics, search engine use and El Reg's policy of not brown nosing Apple like the rest of the industry. Or has that gone by the wayside along with spelling and English grammar?

Scientist models way to make sure no one's violating the ban on nuclear weapons in space

Re: There are really only 2 nations who could build and launch that detector

USA, Russia, China, Japan, India, Israel, South Korea and ESA could all do this.

Iran and North Korea have also demonstrated the ability to launch satellites into orbit (sometimes) but may lack the scientific knowledge to build the detector.

MPs tell NHS to start packing Palantir's bags ahead of 2027 contract break

Palantir's products are made to kill people, by Alex Carp's own gleeful admission.

They should never be allowed near a doctor's office or hospital let alone an entire National Health System.

Europe's new import rules are coming for your bargains

"Everything that was in the US and Europe is coming into this country in the next 12 months."

Given these items are only shipped when bought, I would be very surprised if the population of the UK could buy as much as the combined populations of the USA and EU!

AI bills are baffling the C-suite after shift to usage-based pricing

Re: What's not to understand

That is an urban myth and would be a very good way to lose money as a dealer.

India gives WhatsApp three days to defend username rollout amid security fears

> WhatsApp told The Register that it has implemented numerous measures designed to keep users safe as usernames are rolled out across the platform.

Bullshit. You're owned by Zuck so you did nothing of the sort.

Oracle outlines all the ways it could lose the farm it bet on AI

So if Oracle are just renting their datacenters from Crusoe, what's to stop OpenAI doing that and cutting out the yacht salesman?

Given Oracle's usual prices that should reduce their loses by billions.

Zuck saves Meta bucks by reusing memory from old servers with a custom CXL ASIC

Great so now DDR4 is going to rocket in price as well. Thanks a lot Zuck you bastard.

Blue Origin insists New Glenn will rise from the ashes this year after explosion deleted launchpad

It has also bombed Poland. Perhaps they should call it the V3?

Datacenters dip a toe back into waterborne computing despite obvious challenges

> Panthalassa... backed by venture capitalist Peter Thiel

I guess we should be happy he didn't rape Tolkien's legacy to name that company. Now what is their role in Thiel's pantheon of evil?

KDE Plasma 6.7 brings the X11 era to a close

Re: No love for an accessibility dumpster fire

The Steam Deck runs KDE and the latest version is now using Wayland by default. It can be driven entirely by the trackpads and it has no physical keyboard.

So you are wrong.

Windows update leaves third-party Office document launches in limbo

Re: Windows is a legacy platform

You forgot:

8. No mobile reception, internet access is down.

9. DDoS!

10. AWS / Azure / GCP is down.

11. Cloudflare is down.

Google found liable for bad AI Overview results. Let's play Truth Or Consequences

People still use Google search?

How quaint.

US Army picks out Vampire to fill a gap in its layered drone defenses

Re: Polluting warfare

So instead they should have let Putin invade?

Met Police boss threatens to cut 700 frontline jobs after Palantir deal blocked

By any chance will he take up a very lucrative position at Palantir after his resignation?

Everyone hates frontier AI labs, says Palantir boss

Not as much as we hate you and your evil superfriends Mr Karp.

No where near as much.