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Bypassing AI guardrails is so easy a script kiddie can do it

Re: I, for one, welcome...

Certainly !

User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap

Re: Beggars belief...

Perhaps it was on Windows, which doesn't have it .. ?

Re: The opposite....

yeah, do the right thing, when all else fails

Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents

I would like to see another tutorial. Thanks!

'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild

Re: I have a Software equivilant

So true, I am never snarky when the other side is offender

Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process

Re: Incompetence, malice

Apparently his name is now Slopya Nutella, or so I heard ;-)

PrismML debuts energy-sipping 1-bit LLM in bid to free AI from the cloud

Re: 1 bit?

Yes

Jen Easterly, cybersecurity's 'relentless optimist,' hopes feds come back to RSAC next year

Anybody else sees the unsettling resemblance of the photo to a hacker Root from "Person of Interest" ?

( nah, just me , probably... )

Users protest as Google Antigravity price floats upward

Feels quite heavy, this Antigravity

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

Well, they possibly try to earn money on this. That's not antisocial

Because it was certified to run with DR-DOS ages ago ? To make it run with Linux would require recertification ? Not free and not cheap ?

Smart mirror shows dumb Windows in elevator

Let me out at floor 2003

Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after USB keys fail to decrypt them

In all honesty, it should not be "races" . Take your time, count carefully , double check protocols. Speed should be the least concern imho

yes, at most 2 kilocantons :-)

Dev stunned by $82K Gemini bill after unknown API key thief goes to town

>>Nobody anticipated

Yeah, nobody, with exception of sane, thoughtful people, with modicum of imagination

OpenClaw is the most fun I've had with a computer in 50 years

Re: Stop the slop.

And sometimes : Actually Indians

ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key

Re: My wife was a keyholder at a bank branch

Cool story, but methinks what your wife was supposed to do, pull a gun on robbers ? ?

What if Linux ran Windows… and meant it? Meet Loss32

Re: kernel has a stable ABI?

pure gold LOL ". ... Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it was a good idea to read things ONE F*CKING BYTE AT A TIME with system calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted. Who the f*ck does idiotic things like that? How did they noty die as babies, considering that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?"

New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good

Re: Back in the mid 1960s

'60s were so innocent ! Now you cannot dismiss any numpty from management ..

India unveils a homegrown dual-core 1GHz RISC-V processor, the DHRUV64

It is smart , if they have their own fab. Sovereignity and all. 28nm is nothing to sniff at and I bet they quietly work on 16nm. Even if *just* by buying old machines from Taiwan, still very smart

Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming

Re: Yes.

With a conscience problem you should've lie down and breath deeply. The doubts would go away after few minutes every time, guaranteed !

Diversion to power datacenters earns Boom Supersonic a ticket to revive fast air transport

Re: I need some help here..

If you got their bonus you would also be excited

Planet be damned. Force peasants to drive bicycles by stripping them of their income, and CO2 budget created this way can be used to power new datacenters with natgas ! Then profit!

(actually scratch profit, there will never be profit. Only sky-high valuations, but that'll do)

Amazon’s Trainium3 is the latest to conform to Nvidia’s mold

The "Trainium" brand is so uninspiringly bland that it must have been generated by AI

Microsoft appears to move on from its most loyal ‘customers’ – Contoso and Fabrikam

Even Contoso ditched Microsoft ?!

Good Lord , Microsoft is in shambles if that's true !

I guess adding AI everywhere got to them , too ... And state Windows 11 is in ... and Teams ..

I think Contoso's infrastructure is now Postgres hosted on GCP, and the rest is Google too ....

Another open source project dies of neglect, leaving thousands scrambling

you are most possibly right !

Linux admin hated downtime so much he schlepped a live UPS during office move

Yeah , I know, I know. Then someone will chime in saying they have VAX running in their closet since 1997 non-stop ;-)

My personal record is 587 days uptime for proxmox server in my house's basement

With impeccable timing, AWS debuts automated cloud incident report generator

Of course when outage strikes this service will also be down ...

( due to circumstances _absolutely nobody_ could foresee )

China blames US for cyber break-in, claims America is world's biggest bit burglar

A bloke has stolen a purse and runs away with it shouting "catch the thief, catch the thief!"

Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet

At least El Reg works so we are good

Re: allyoureggsinonebasket.com

To be fair, even if only *half* eggs were in this "basket" , you would possibly hosed anyway ....

That's modern tech for you

Re: Who knew that putting all your eggs...

>>Does nobody do DR trials and simulations any more?

No.

Carmakers fear chip crunch as Dutch sanctions hit Nexperia

Truly, these communists will hang us on the rope we sold them

Careless engineer stored recovery codes in plaintext, got whole org pwned

Was promoted to management. To dangerous in field work

Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don't want – here's what we actually need

+1 for ability to move taskbar to the left

Is it so hard ? Ask copilot how to implement it /s

Ubuntu 24.04.3: Noble Numbat point release slips out quietly

Re: What's in a name

.. and I dreamed of Demented Donkey

Bitter fight over 2020 Microsoft quantum paper both resolved and unresolved

Re: So

Sure , it will both work and not work , at the same time

Intel abandons chip plants in Germany and Poland, confirms more layoffs

I feel Intel will be for sale soon. Please don't sell it to Broadcom

Fedora 43 won't drop 32-bit app support – or adopt Xlibre

Re: 2038

yeah, but the fuss is mostly about old 32-bit binaries, from before that change, i would guess. Nobody will recompile them for new time_t

Tiling terminal multiplexers for the console connoisseur

If someone had mercy on us and simply added something like tmux to Midnight Commander. It already has nice Scp client, cool file manager, comfy editor ..

Xlibre fork lights a fire under long-dormant X.org development

After reading the article I understand one of them is KiCad .

Not worth antbody's time to make CAD tools run under GUI ?

Srsly?

Techie traveled 4 hours to fix software that worked perfectly until a new hire used it

Re: PICNIC

Hm, sounds nicer than PEBCAK !

As RHEL clones hit version 10, Rocky and Alma chart diverging paths

Re: RHEL 10 "Documentation"

Yeah, probably will be best to stick to v9 for a foreseaable future, and I write it without even a hint of sarcasm

Please tell us Reg: Why are AI PC sales slower than expected?

I recently dabbled with ollama on CPU only 64gb old cheap server loading for example Gemma3 37GB model for cpu infrrencing. It _is_ slow but say 10 minutes for complete answer is not eternity either.

From what I understand ollama can work hybrid, load as much to gpu vram as possible, and the rest to system RAM.

This way you could still use gpu, and models bigger than its VRAM

I am still noob, mind you

Tested on Ubuntu 22.04

Workday promises to grow workforce slowly and differently after shedding 1,750 jobs

wish you luck now!

Europe plots escape hatch from enshittification of search

Infoseek ftw!

So your [expletive] test failed. So [obscene participle] what?

Re: September!

High time to rename the day as Wensday! Streamlined and modern...

30 percent of some Microsoft code now written by AI - especially the new stuff

God ...

.. help us all

Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users – including its own employees

Re: What about Outlook (less shitty)?

Outlook 2003 was quite ok, likable even