* Posts by Fruit and Nutcase

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UK prime minister stares down barrel of ban on social media for kids

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Re: More of "We Are Doing Something"......

@Goodwin Sands

Perhaps if we could transport a Westminster packed with all our representatives (tell them it's double allowances for attendance), then we transport the whole lot down the Thames and along the Kent coast to you, will you swallow the whole lot?

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Alaska

We just need Putin to take back Alaska

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

Though the Russians will run up against Sarah Palin, the nearest to a Boudica character in those parts

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Re: Pork, they need PORK

Sorry, Liz Truss, closely followed by Boris are our worst PMs.

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Hey Donald,

You have a couple of golf courses up in Scotland. Shame if they were taken off you.

If you are bigly nice, the King may send you a slightly soiled Order of the Garter, that once belonged to a friend of a friend of yours. You can display it next your Nobel Peace Prize Medal

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Re: "Floella Benjamin starts kicking off - can't help thinking that if Parliament was dissolved"

Doubt parliament can be dissolved by Aqua Regia. And the King would go around like Lady Macbeth trying to wash off the stain of parliament on the monarchy. Though presently, he's walking around Windsor muttering And...

Not hot on bots, project names and shames AI-created open source software

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Artificial Intelligence

ACME Intelligence

US regulator tells GM to hit the brakes on customer tracking

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Re: Privacy respecting safe driving or economical driving app?

that car heaters were also a bad idea.

When I was in halls of residence in my first year in college, the heating used to get switched off around 2300. With drafty windows, it didn't take long for the room to get cold. The person in charge of the halls of residence was an ex-public school master type, and apparently, it was his directive to turn off the heating at that time - in order to encourage the student residents to get tuck themselves into bed and to discourage night-time activity between them. I'd have thought night time activities between students was one way for them to keep warm - something the old school master hadn't thought of

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Re: Privacy respecting safe driving or economical driving app?

IIRC, Jeremy Clarkson, in the days of the old Top Gear before the reboot, suggested a driver safety device... A great big metal spike pointing at the driver from the center of the steering wheel.

Which would cause the driver to drive in a manner that would reduce the likelihood of them impaling themselves on said spike

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Re: Privacy respecting safe driving or economical driving app?

How did people get by before "is there an app for that?" and "there's an app for that"

Lawmakers urge FTC to probe Trump Mobile over 'deceptive' marketing

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Optimist

'Senator Elizabeth Warren is leading calls for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Trump Mobile..."

You have to applaud her optimism

Chinese spies used Maduro's capture as a lure to phish US govt agencies

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Re: Clickbaited!

They certainly have got the UK resident at No.10 eating out the palms of their hands for any scraps of trade they may fling Blighty for approval of their mega embassy in London. A done deal by the looks of the recent news reports.

No need for phishing, the Chinese just came outright and said UK need to approve plans to play

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Re: Airport transfer

On the one hand, Trump says he wants foreign "criminals" booted out of the USA - and in this case, he's spent hundreds of millions of dollars going and airlifting a dictator and his wife over to the USA, and most probably what will be tens of millions or more putting them up with 24x7 security for the rest of their lives

Meta retreats from metaverse after virtual reality check

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Re: I'm shocked they didn't rename it VR AI.

There's always "MagaVerse" to curry favour with Trump

Congress throws NASA a lifeline, leaves Mars sample mission to die in the dust

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China?

What if they did a sample return mission to Mars... Only go along and pickup the ready packed samples.

Finders keepers?

Wikimedia’s 25th birthday gift: Letting more AIs scour pages volunteers created

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Re: Wikipedia is quite good

Wait until Wikipedia starts using "agentic curators"

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Nobel Peace Prize

How long before an AI will say that Trump has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize due to this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2w94wp4p1o

The difference between the award of the prize to the intended recipient and the acquiring of a medal will be lost/blurred.

Question: When did Donald Trump receive the Nobel Peace Prize

Answer: In January 2026, Donald Trump was presented with the Nobel Peace Prize Medal at the White House by María Corina Machado

Note: The reports mention that it was not confirmed if Trump accepted the gift

Engineer used welding shop air hose to 'clean' PCs – hilarity did not ensue

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Re: BS

Normally there should be an air dryer installed downstream of the compressor. If powering an air tool such as an impact wrench, there may be an optional in-line oiler installed just before the connection to the tool

Ofcom keeps X under the microscope despite Grok 'nudify' fix

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Mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons sues over Grok-generated explicit images

Ashley St Clair has filed a lawsuit with the supreme court of the state of New York against xAI, alleging that Grok, which is used on the social media platform X, promised to stop generating explicit images but continued to do so.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/mother-of-one-of-elon-musks-sons-sues-over-grok-generated-explicit-images

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There's no smoke without the fire

If Grok is capable of producing CSA material, then surely it was trained on such material in the first place?

How does it generate images containing age relevant/undeveloped genitalia without the reference training images/guidance?

Woman bailed as cops probe doctor's surgery data breach

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Re: What for?

Not long ago, I think some hospital staff were disciplined for accessing some well known person's records when that person was being treated at the hospital, when they weren't involved in treating this person/no professional clinical need to access the records

Developer writes script to throw AI out of Windows

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AI Tour

An invitation from Microsoft...

https://aitour.microsoft.com/

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...a blog titled "sn scratchpad"

Linkedin "Thought Leadership" - Nuff said

Moon hotel startup hopes you get lunar lunacy, drop $1M deposit for 2032 stay

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exceed $10 million

Even at double that, it's a bargain. NASA should take a punt and book a few seats for their astronauts

IceWM soldiers on while Budgie jumps the Wayland ship

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Re: Headline Typo?

"Budgie Jumps to the Wayland Ship"

How about...

"Budgie smuggled into the Wayland Ship"???

The sub editors could have found a picture of Budgie Smugglers to accompany the article

Affordable housing site goes live with meme-laden test data

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Fridge

They should have used that picture of Boris trying to hide in an industrial fridge. That's about the size of an affordable property in London

Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote

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LEGO

A LEGO based solution would have been the obvious choice, especially given the country of origin

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QR Codes?

A series of cards, each with a picture and accompanying QR code - teach kid to place card within range of a video camera connected to the R-Pi...

Pause/Play - well, have a couple of big buttons - may be red/gree for stop/go

Grok told to cover up as UK weighs action over AI 'undressing'

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UK to bring into force law to tackle Grok AI deepfakes this week

The UK will bring into force a law which will make it illegal to create non-consensual intimate images, following widespread concerns over Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgvx88md4do

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Trump-Musk Bromance Part Two: Electric Boogaloo

Arwa Mahdawi writes in the Guardian...

"Elon Musk is moving back into politics. Can’t he take up a new hobby instead?"

Trump-Musk Bromance Part Two: Electric Boogaloo. Over the weekend Musk, who seems to have suddenly lost interest in the Epstein files, posted a blurry photo on X of him dining with Donald and Melania at Mar-a-Lago. They’d all had a “lovely dinner”, he gushed in the post, adding: “2026 is going to be amazing!” That dinner, by the way, took place shortly after the US captured the Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/06/elon-musk-back-politics-new-hobby-instead

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Re: Mona Lisa undressed!

Yes, it is a case of "OUT" rather than the usual "UP" situation that usually gets covered (or, uncovered, as is the case) here

https://search.theregister.com/?q=titsup&site=

TITSUP[OUT]

(working in progress...)

The Image That Sheds OUTer garments

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Mona Lisa undressed!

In news coming in from the 16th Century...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nude_Mona_Lisa_(Hermitage)

Cloudflare CEO threatens to make the Winter Olympics a political football after Italy slugs it with a fine

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Re: Please allow me...

Quite a few news presenters have made the Jeremy Hunt/Cunt ("the C-word"/"C-bomb") slip up

A search brings up:

James Naughtie

Nick Robinson

Victoria Derbyshire

Nina Hossain

ISS stint ends early as NASA aborts Crew-11 over crew illness

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Re: "a medical concern involving one of the four astronauts"

Space Virus...

Trump and his Health Secretary will come up some interesting ways of dealing with something like that

Microsoft euthanizes ancient deployment toolkit

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It does not force...

creation of a Microsoft Account

Nothing to declare at border control except a Windows 7 certificate error

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Re: Not a good idea

Yes, do that over the other side of the pond, they'll shoot first and ask[not answer] questions later

Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech

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Re: Software IP

HMG? They have a serious Microsoft addiction that would be difficult to wean off. Wait - it's ok, Brexit and all that jazz - We're not in the EU anymore. We're free to get screwed by Uncle Sam. It is one of our hard won Brexit freedoms

The Microsoft 365 Copilot app rebrand was bad, but there are far worse offenders

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Re: Microsoft CEOs

Well, Bill is trying hard to avoid the last location with his philanthropy

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Microsoft CEOs

William/Bill Gates

Steve Ballmer

Satya Nadella

All 3 have double 'L' in either first or last name, with Bill Gates being the odd one out with the double 'L' appearing in the first name

With the other two, double 'L' is in the last name. Their first names begin with the letter 'S', and the last names are both 7 characters in length

If you take the shorted form of Steven, then, both SB and SN have same number of characters in their first names

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Then and Now

Then - Steve Ballmer

"Developers! Developers! Developers!"

Now - Satya Nadella

"Marketing! Marketing! Marketing!"

How hackers are fighting back against ICE surveillance tech

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Re: So...

There are a few optional extras on this which should help...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QXCWW--DlY

Bank of England's Oracle cloud migration bill triples as project grinds on

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BoE can afford it

Just print a few extra bank notes

Ultimate camouflage tech mimics octopus in scientific first

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Re: Bond movie

He's fitting out his ballroom with gold fixtures

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Re: carats

Surely there's enough already

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Re: A secret cloaking device made out of gold?

The Man with the Golden Mac

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Re: A secret cloaking device made out of gold?

That's the second reference to Octopussy within 2 hours:

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2026/01/06/nasa_science_budget_boost/#c_5206814

Octopussy Galore!

China to probe Meta’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus

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Double Bluff?

A gentle probe, not of the gloved finger variety?

ChatGPT Health wants your sensitive medical records so it can play doctor

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Doctor Doctor

Patient: I think I'm a horse

Doctor: Take these two sugar cubes and gallop home

An AI bot will not come up with that

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Linus Torvalds: Stop making an issue out of AI slop in kernel docs – you're not changing anybody's mind

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Pint

Fair point - but he could just as easily been straight to the point

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paraphrase

Rather than try to paraphrase the great man

How about running the quote through one or more LLMs? Would they manage where we've failed to comprehend?