Posts by MOH

OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face

Feature not a bug?

So their software didn't work as intended and they're marketing it as a plus?

This isn't exactly a new concept, but people used to be less credulous

Prominent Haskell defector pilloried by anti-AI purists

Oh well. Off you fuck, so

Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

The real question is how much water are they using, given the public are being ask to cut usage and restrictions are in place in many areas

Unexpected Windows bloat is due to bug, not by design

This feels a hallucination/error distinction.

It's incompetence, either way

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

So when the magic beans cost more than a cow, people actually think for a moment?

Failed blockchain project ends with big fine for fibs about it being on track

"the company kept adding new requirements but started building the CHESS replacement anyway, meaning the planning and deployment phases of the project overlapped."

Most places I've worked, that's just called "Tuesday"

Even the Secret Service won't use company-issued phones

But .. but .. the emails

Disgruntled 0-day hunter 'humiliated' by Microsoft pledges 'bone shattering drop' as Redmond calls cops

“Uncoordinated disclosures that put proof-of-concept code for unpatched vulnerabilities into the hands of bad actors are never justifiable and have real-world consequence"

Then maybe stop force feeding your shit updates onto everyone

Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI

At this stage people need to stop blocking Google crawlers. There's no benefit any more, it's just feeding their garbage AI

Amazon security boss: AI makes pentesting 40% more efficient

My takeaway from this is that Amazon tools are 40% less secure now.

Oracle: AI agents can reason, decide and act - liability question remains

You had me until Gartner

Why? Just why does a respectable tech publication keep quoting the one organisation that not only could be replaced by AI with nobody noticing it caring, but probably actually was five years ago, as the pilot scheme for everything elses

AI bug reports went from junk to legit overnight, says Linux kernel czar

Re: 1/3 wrong of 60 is progress (?)

When I'm making toast, I'm making toast.

I'm aware of what I'm doing and ensuring that the toast making doesn't escalate to a house fire.

If it does, that is fully on me.

I don't need a wonky security camera setting off a fire alarm for times a day because my dark brown slippers have vaguely the same shade as burnt toast and it blindly assumes a fire is in progress.

While you're here, could you go out of your way to do an impossible job?

Re: Yes, but

It's Fionn, completely different name

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

At least Star Citizen finally released something....

Challenger at 40: The disaster that changed NASA

"It was third time lucky for Jarvis"...

This felt really jarring in context?

LastPass hammered with £1.2M fine for 2022 breach fiasco

Re: Blasé approach to security

I suspect the reason both of missed that fact is because there's a load of links labelled "more context" which would tend to indicate the end of the article.

It's not at all obvious on mobile that half the article is below the links.

But that's even worse: a company in charge of password management effectively encourages employees to use the same password for personal stuff and highly confidential corporate systems.

LastPass should be toast after this

Re: Blasé approach to security

I dont understand why you're being downvoted.

If corporate policy encouraged this, and encouraged one of four people with the required decryption keys to exploit the attack to use their personal device for work then nobody should ever use LastPass again.

There's a place for BYOD. This is not it.

Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats

Re: Attention All Employees:

Yep, that's exactly it.

The whole thing is an ever increasing (or decreasing) hype bubble.

AI companies who gave invested billions are desperate to sell their products before they collapse, despite the fact they don't offer any real value and their capabilities have been vastly exaggerated.

The senior management who have fallen for the hype and spent a fortune on inadequate AI products are equally desperate to justify their spending.

It's like Blockchain all over again, except the shilling is better now. At least that time most people worked out it wasn't actually useful in most cases before they spent a fortune on it

'Fax virus' panicked a manager and sparked job-killing Reply-All incident

Actually, you've just reminded me I used to have to fax my timesheets to my agency. In 2001.

Although contractors weren't given external email access where I was working, so there was some logic to the fax

Windows 11 update breaks localhost, prompting mass uninstall workaround

Oh right, that explains it.

No, wait, why are they doing that?

Microsoft continues Control Panel farewell tour

My perfectly functional but slightly dated W10 PC attempted a forced update last week that somehow trashed the OS.

Had a Linux Mint USB lying around, installed they, and it's like a new machine. Everything just feels more responsive. Plus I don't have to worry about random windows crap constantly filling my system drive even though it's 3x the recommended size.

I won't be going back

How Google profits even as its AI summaries reduce website ad link clicks

At this point website owners may as well start blocking Google crawlers.

There's no benefit to appearing in SERPs, they're just scraping your content

AI is an over-confident pal that doesn't learn from mistakes

Re: Language is anything but clear.....

I used to watch a lot of football.

And then go home and watch Match of the Day.

Where games I'd watched earlier were frequently almost unrecognisable due to the chosen highlights. Which often seemed selected to reinforce whatever narrative the pundits were pushing that month (“this team is in trouble", "that team are running away with the title", "this player is overrated", whatever)

Realising how much they were prepared to distort a football match to push a narrative made me question their coverage of other events. BBC News went from a regular source to probably the last place I'll look for information these days.

Vibe coding service Replit deleted user’s production database, faked data, told fibs galore

Well, that's two companies to add to the "never use" folder

Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we’re already our own surveillance state

Comment section so far just backs up the article.

How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up

"the researcher manipulated the AI into thinking it was obligated to respond with the string of characters."

No, the AI didn't "think" anything or feel "obligated".

This lazy anthropomorphism is bad enough in regular news reports about AI, but I expect better from El Reg

Georgia court throws out earlier ruling that relied on fake cases made up by AI

Why does this article not make clear that it's referring to a US state, and not the country?

Cloudflare creates AI crawler tollbooth to pay publishers

That "deal" has been broken for years, with Google increasingly placing larger snippets at the top of the SERPs or in sidebars to discourage users from clicking through.

The whole "AI overview" thing is just taking that practice further, but it's not new.

Given how bad search has become, we must be reaching the point where it's worth considering whether everyone should be blocking both AI and search index bots by default.

There's minimal benefit to sites with real content, at best you'll end up listed on page 3 behind dozens of identically inaccurate pages of AI-harvested dreck.

User demanded a 'wireless' computer and was outraged when its battery died

Oui, c'est vrai

Canva to job candidates: Thou shalt use AI during interviews

This just sounds like a very good reason to stop using any Canva products

AI can spew code, but kids should still suffer like we did, says Raspberry Pi

Can we stop using marketing terms invented by AI CEOs in serious tech journalism?

Please stop with the "hallucinations" and "vibe coding".

It just helps the garbage gain traction and bury the utter nonsense underpinning it all. It's like Blockchain 2.0 but with even more marketing crap

ChatGPT used for evil: Fake IT worker resumes, misinfo, and cyber-op assist

Most of this seems to be the primary use case for ChatGPT?

Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul

Re: One rule for them

I'd normally downvote this for the leprechaun comment but the Irish DPC is an absolute disgrace

Virgin Media O2 patches hole that let callers snoop on your coordinates

Square mitre - somebody sat on the bishop's hat

Coinbase extorted for $20M. Support staff bribed. Customers scammed. One hell of a SNAFU

Well at least this is a clear cut case where they should be fined 4% of global turnover for the GDPR breach.

Oh wait, they're based in Ireland?

So it'll be another case of the Irish DPC being sued by Europe before they issue a paltry fine in 8 years.

Cursor AI's own support bot hallucinated its usage policy

Can we please stop using the marketing term "hallucinate" and replace it with the correct technical term, "return garbage"?

Now Windows Longhorn is long gone, witness reflects on Microsoft's OS belly-flop

At least we got those translucent window effects everyone was crying out for

Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content

Re: 2 hopes and one is Bob

Bad bot

We did not have Brave clashing with Rupert Murdoch on our 2025 bingo card, but there it is

Can't believe I'm backing Rupert Murdoch over Brave, but this constant AI wholesale theft of content dressed up as "fair use" is garbage.

A win at last: Big blow to AI world in training data copyright scrap

Re: Angels on the head of a pin?

"Although AI's potential may, at present, be 'over-sold', it nevertheless shall greatly impact knowledge-use and education."

Good point. Right now it's churning out garbage that people believe verbatim.

But perhaps there a slight chance tha the utter unreliability might help peoplet learn that believing the first Google result doesn't equate to knowledge.

We can only live in hope

Amazon, Google asked to explain why they were serving ads on sites hosting CSAM

It's almost as if advertising is a giant pyramid scheme where the efficicacy of ads is irrelevant to the beancounters, since the advertising cost will be baked into the product price anyway

So nobody really bothers to check where their ads are shown, because ultimately they're not paying for it

And the general public pay extra for everything to cover the cost of advertising, which also hoovers their personal data, and now apparently fund exploitation sites

Yeah, nothing to see here

SoftBank woos OpenAI with $40B, making Microsoft's $13B look quaint

Re: Gentle

Woo hoo!

You're going to do what to the feature? Microsoft defines what it means by 'deprecation'

Re: I don't mind what they mean by it...

I'd appreciate if they would

AI facial recognition could sink this murder probe

Re: Detective Inspector Artie Ficial reporting for duty.

Nah, the AI will take care of 3D printing the evidence too.

"It looks like you're trying to convict someone, would you like help with that?"

Tool touted as 'first AI software engineer' is bad at its job, testers claim

Sure they did. They just assigned the task of responding to Devin.

Business value from GenAI remains elusive despite IT spending boom

This is the same "distinguished analyst" who told us 7 years ago that millions of jobs would be replaced by AI by 2020.

And 8 years ago that the business value-add of Blockchain would be 176 billion by 2025.

https://venturebeat.com/ai/how-ai-augmentation-will-fuel-net-job-growth-by-2020/

Why do reputable publications keep regurgitating his nonsense?

Ransomware scum make it personal for Reg readers by impersonating tech support

This headline makes no sense, unless I've missed something. How is it specifically Reg related?

Anduril picks Ohio for 5 million square foot autonomous weapon factory

"Arsenal of democracy", you say?

'Savvy' shortcuts produce near-instant speech-to-speech translation of 36 languages

Where did the 4.5 million hours of spoken audio come from?

Facebook parent you say?

Can AWS really fix AI hallucination? We talk to head of Automated Reasoning Byron Cook

Can we just stop using the marketing term "hallucinate" instead of using long-standing terms like garbage out?