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Posts by MOH
349 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Apr 2012
Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we’re already our own surveillance state
How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up
Georgia court throws out earlier ruling that relied on fake cases made up by AI
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
Canva to job candidates: Thou shalt use AI during interviews
AI can spew code, but kids should still suffer like we did, says Raspberry Pi
ChatGPT used for evil: Fake IT worker resumes, misinfo, and cyber-op assist
Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul
Virgin Media O2 patches hole that let callers snoop on your coordinates
Coinbase extorted for $20M. Support staff bribed. Customers scammed. One hell of a SNAFU
Cursor AI's own support bot hallucinated its usage policy
Now Windows Longhorn is long gone, witness reflects on Microsoft's OS belly-flop
Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content
We did not have Brave clashing with Rupert Murdoch on our 2025 bingo card, but there it is
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
You're going to do what to the feature? Microsoft defines what it means by 'deprecation'
AI facial recognition could sink this murder probe
Tool touted as 'first AI software engineer' is bad at its job, testers claim
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
Anduril picks Ohio for 5 million square foot autonomous weapon factory
'Savvy' shortcuts produce near-instant speech-to-speech translation of 36 languages
Can AWS really fix AI hallucination? We talk to head of Automated Reasoning Byron Cook
Honey co-founder's Pie Adblock called out for copying GPL'd uBlock Origin files
Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks
Microsoft Edge takes a victory lap with some high-looking usage stats for 2024
Yup. I accidentally clicked on something on the start menu that opened Edge on a new W11 machine.
Which then immediately triggered a modal popup with multiple tabs asking me to agree to various T+C's or import data which I had no intention of agreeing to.
It ignored attempts to close it with Alt-F4 or from the taskbar.Had to kill it with Powershell.
It's pretty pathetic and desperate, like much of MS these days.
Guide for the perplexed – Google is no longer the best search engine
Musk's lawyer asks SEC to quit pestering the shy and retiring billionaire
GitHub's boast that Copilot produces high-quality code challenged
Did Copilot produce that “high quality“ graph that doesn't add up?
This seemed suspicious:
" GitHub's inadequately explained graph that shows 60.8 percent of developers using Copilot passed all ten unit tests while only 39.2 percent of developers not using Copilot passed all the tests."
Bit of a coincidence that they add to 100? I thought maybe they'd meant the of those who passed all the tests, 60.8% used Copilot
In fact, the graph in the linked GitHub blog post shows that of those not using Copilot, 39.2% passed all the tests and 62.2% didn't. Out of 101.4%.
Meanwhile, of those who did use Copilot, a total of 98.6% did or didn't pass all tests.
It's possibly the percentage are supposed to add vertically, but that's crap presentation.
Either way that graph looks like AI produced garbage.
Billionaire food app CEO wants you to pay for the privilege of working with him
Killer app for AI is still years away, says industry analyst
The same "Distinguished VP Analyst" at Gartner predicted 6 years ago that:
"The year 2020 will be a pivotal one in AI-related employment dynamics — Gartner predicts 2.3 million jobs will be created and 1.8 jobs will be eliminated."
https://venturebeat.com/ai/how-ai-augmentation-will-fuel-net-job-growth-by-2020/
How much do these people get paid for churning out endless tat?
And why haven't they been replaced by AI yet?
It's the one thing it's actually good for
Perplexity AI decries News Corp's 'simply false' data scraping claims
If I rewrote this and every other Reg article with mild paraphrasing along the lines of:
"AI newcomers Perplexity have responded to a legal claim that they're stealing content from..."
and then based my business on publishing that content, I'd (rightly) get sued.
Mind you they should be sued just for the sickening tone of that blog post alone
Google's Rust belts bugs out of Android, helps kill off unsafe code substantially
EU kicks off an inquiry into Google's AI model
If HDMI screen rips aren't good enough for you pirates, DeCENC is another way to beat web video DRM
Gartner mages: Payback from office AI expected in around two years
Security biz KnowBe4 hired fake North Korean techie, who got straight to work ... on evil
Hello? Emergency services? I'd like to report a wrong number
Yes, I am being intolerably smug – because I ignored you and saved the project
Kamala Harris's $7M support from LinkedIn founder comes with a request: Fire Lina Khan
Europol says mobile roaming tech is making its job too hard
British Airways blames T5 luggage chaos on fault 'outside of our control'
They used to have enough staff to do it manually?
But now that everything is computerised they can do the whole thing with less staff and more profits, and so it all works fine.
Except that the remaining staff are probably constantly overworked anyway ( but hey, profits!), and when the system goes down there aren't remotely enough people to make it work manually
Snowflake breach snowballs as more victims, perps, come forward
Risk of installing dodgy extensions from Chrome store way worse than Google's letting on, study suggests
Re: 1% of installs are malware is terrible
This. 1% of a ludicrously high number of installs is a very high number.
I can't be bothered trying to find a reliable source for the overall number of installs, but the very fact that a Google mouthpiece has chosen to express it as a seemingly low percentage instead of an outright count is enough to know it's bad
That PowerShell 'fix' for your root cert 'problem' is a malware loader in disguise
Researchers find Meta's withdrawal of misinformation tool hard to swallow
Clearview AI reaches 'creative' settlement with privacy suit plaintiffs: A conditional IOU
I fail to see how letting the company go bust from legal costs wouldn't have been a better solution?
They pay the price for scraping people's data, the product built from that data goes nowhere, seems like a win.
Oh. Except of course the lawyers bringing the class action suit would never get paid. Can't have that.