Posts by The Bobster

CES 2026 worst in show: AI girlfriends, a fridge that won't open unless you talk to it, and more

Re: Sometimes you have to

simpli-special.co.uk

Jaguar Land Rover wholesale volumes plummet 43% in cyberattack aftermath

Re: Must be an interesting one to explain…

Would you say you'd be venturing into a zone of danger?

DVSA's clapped-out booking system gets bot slapped as new boss rides in

There's always the Irish solution!

TIL Ireland - in 1979 they just handed out driving licenses to people who failed the driving test as there was such a backlog

Former UK chancellor George Osborne finds something to do at OpenAI

Brad Lightcap? Sounds like a Toast of London character.

Heard he had a bit of a thing with Peanut Whistle a few years ago.

Trump wants to turn it on again with 'Genesis Mission' for AI in science

Re: Land of Confusion

"Genesis allowed is not! Is planet forbidden!"

Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery

"I think we should've taken pictures at each stage as we dismantled it."

"Oh great, NOW you think that!"

Humanity now has zero active robots at Venus as Japan ends 15-year ‘Dawn’ mission

Re: Now that we are no longer watching,

Million to one chance, mate!

Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league

Re: Other balls are available

A Tipp-Ex bottle will also shatter against the wall panels of the Chief Actuary/CFOs office when the person who should have caught it ducks out of the way of a sudden full-bore throw during an up-to-then gentle game of after office hours catch.

Techie ended vendor/client blame game by treating managers like toddlers

Re: Ping

But how many pings?

One. Ping. Only.

Space Command gets Trumped out of Colorado, voting conspiracy cited

Re: I bet he has

Indeed.

Tim Cook's Tim Cook stepping down from Apple

"Of all the corporate resource units I have encountered in my travels, his was the most <choke>... remunerated."

Techie went home rather than fix mistake that caused a massive meltdown

Re: Honestly I'm bilingual

Give it a couple of hundred years, Sulu uses a metric flight level in The One With The Whales.

Admin brought his drill to work, destroyed disks and crashed a datacenter

Re: I have a hammer drill

You should have posted that as Hieronymus Coward

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

Re: Buono estente

Scorchio!

Static electricity can be shockingly funny, but the joke's over when a rack goes dark

Re: Shocking experience

Ew! You should have resisted the temptation to post that.

Crew-9 splashes down while NASA floats along with Trump and Musk nonsense

Re: Payment?

Buzz Aldrin's travel expenses voucher for Apollo 11 trip.

https://x.com/TheRealBuzz/status/626812956148248577

Google confirms Gulf of Mexico renamed to appease Trump – but only in the US

Re: Jesus is depicted as looking like ...

<Insert pi joke here>

Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe, activated by a magic packet

Re: Where Is That "Someone"? Guess!

But it's so far away!

Megan, AI recruiting agent, is on the job, giving bosses fewer reasons to hire in HR

Re: "and update the notes so that the team has it before the meeting."

Shaka, when the walls fell.

Look for the label: White House rolls out 'Cyber Trust Mark' for smart devices

Lettuce hope that this is not the case, otherwise it could crash the whole initiative!

Tech support warrior left cosplay battle and Trekked to the office

Re: Mr Woof

(a) I read that as "Directed by Reg Barclay"

(b) Just Say No to AI art, kids.

Mine's the one with the Sacred Chalice of Riix in the pocket.

(a) Mr Woof would have been a deeper cut.

(b) "Your current printer configuations are..."

Gowron eyes to camera

"...WITHOUT HONO(U)R!"

Stranded in space: Starliner crew to remain in orbit even longer as SpaceX faces delays

Re: "We'll be in and out within 20 minutes."

"So, what did you guys do with your Tuvix?"

Win a slice of XP cheese if you tell us where Microsoft should put Copilot next

Re: Copilot for Copilot

Coco-no-no more like.

Gang of monkeys escape South Carolina biomedical research facility

Re: Are they certain....

If it was, they would have captured them before they escaped - with a "blowing up Hitler" side-quest.

Arecibo telescope might have failed because of weak sockets

Re: Failure in 3,2,1...

CRISECSCE? Snappy

Branded covfefe mugs available in the gift shop.

Beijing claims it's found 'underwater lighthouses' that its foes use for espionage

Re: Does it go ping?

https://soundcloud.com/aragusea/russians-dont-take-a-dump-son-without-a-plan

5 out of 5 pings!

Uncle Sam lends $1.5B to reignite Michigan nuclear plant in 2025

Re: Up and atom!

Jiminy Jillikers!

Kia Niro electric vehicle defies physics with record-breaking 114 million miles on the clock

- She'll fly apart...

- Fly her apart then!

Speed limiters arrive for all new cars in the European Union

Re: What's the speed limit?

"How will it deal with crossing the Irish border with MPH on one side & KPH on the other?"

The brains in the ex-Macan dealt with it automagically, switching at the border using, I guess GPS.

Babel fish? We're getting there. Reg reviews the Timekettle X1 AI Interpreter Hub

Interior?

Scorchio!

Study employs large language models to sniff out their own bloopers

Re: Monkeys and Bananas...

Time flies

You can't

They fly too fast

Chinese national cuffed on charges of running 'likely the world's largest botnet ever'

Re: C'mon ElReg

Everyobody in 911 S5 is going to shun Wang, tonite!

Samsung workers treated for exposure to radiation in South Korea

Re: "swollen fingers and red spots"

Wow!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski

Council claims database pain forced it to drop apostrophes from street names

Re: No one ever thinks of the poor Grocer

Presumably Jerry Seinfeld would keep all his lighter's in a european carry-all.

OpenAI slapped with GDPR complaint: How do you correct your work?

Some form of covfefe?

MGM says FTC can't possibly probe its ransomware downfall – watchdog chief Lina Khan was a guest at the time

Dave Snap?

Irish power crunch could be prompting AWS to ration compute resources

Re: Irony

Nope

https://www.nationalgrid.com/electricity-transmission/network-and-infrastructure/network-route-maps

Microsoft, OpenAI may be dreaming of $100B 5GW AI 'Stargate' supercomputer

Re: Stargate?

Nomad, Agimus, Daystrom M-5 or, my favourite, Landru.

Hyperfluorescent OLEDs promise more efficient displays that won't make you so blue

Re: lasers?

Only if it uses phased plasma in the 40-watt range.

Palantir boss says outfit's software the only reason the 'goose step' has not returned to Europe

France is Bacon

X reverses course on headlines in article links, kinda

Re: Things Twitter/X is equivalent to in value

Best boss I ever had!

Regulator says stranger entered hospital, treated a patient, took a document ... then vanished

I wonder what the rate of kidney regrowth was in this hospital after the incident.

Now AWS gets a ChatGPT-style Copilot: Amazon Q to be your cloud chat assistant

"We are done with random stuff today."

https://64.media.tumblr.com/c33180cf54012ed3f32ec080c06d89a0/6b3f63c7f9262eaa-a1/s540x810/b7b6f3212b8809dc6c451fd62a08a6409d099fe0.gifv

Space Force turns to Falcon Heavy for spaceplane's seventh mission

Re: Must be

Indeed, Jimmy2Cows.

X looks back at year of so-called 'engineering excellence' under Musk

Re: Going Down (in Droopy’s voice)

Monorail!

Japan cruises ahead with drive-thru EV charging trial

Re: Vehicle ID based charging

Indeed. Try doing 50 launch control starts in an EV and see if you even get close to double figures. Here's Road & Track doing that in a 2014 911 Turbo S. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5DRCTW-Q7o

AI safety guardrails easily thwarted, security study finds

Re: Bollocks

Don't know, but I think I heard them play a session on the John Peel show in the nineties.

Scientists suggest possible solution to space-induced bone loss

Menagenagerie

Space-induced bone loss?

Moopsie!

World's most powerful free-electron laser upgraded to fire a million X-rays per second

Cracking video, thanks for including it @Reg