Posts by Roj Blake

While you pay through the nose for memory, Samsung expects to triple its profits in Q4

Not A Problem

RAM prices will come down again this Autumn, just after the AI bubble bursts.

Browser 'privacy' extensions have eye on your AI, log all your chats

And Karl was at least a better Dredd than Stallone.

New Jolla phone and Sailfish 5 offer a break from iOS-Android monotony

Jolly Boys

They were never the same after their coach exploded during their annual day trip to Margate.

UK watchdog urged to probe GDPR failures in Home Office eVisa rollout

If Found Guilty

If found to have been in breach of the regulations, HM Home Office will be forced to pay an eye-wateringly large fine...

To HM Government.

Affection for Excel spans generations, from Boomers to Zoomers

How many Excel users does it take to format numbers?

1st January 1900

UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B

How about instead of defending one set of poor people by complaining about another set of poor people, you complain about those members of the super-rich who hoard resources?

Altman sticks a different hand out, wants tax credits instead of gov loans

Re: Dotcom 2.0

Somebody needs to get a grip.

Meta can't afford its $600B love letter to Trump

Re: Orange hitler

It didn't seem to do BMW, VW, Hugo Boss, or BASF any harm.

Microsoft, Alphabet throw more cash on the AI bonfire

Re: People not getting it.

Yes, the likes of Nvidia, Google, and MS will survive.

But consider this: in 1999 the poster child of the information superhighway revolution was Cisco. Their share price dropped by 80% in the dot-com crash and took twenty years to recover.

Still want to invest in one of the big incumbents?

VodafoneThree to offshore UK network jobs to India

Re: austerity will be back again

Implying austerity ever went away.

Re: Offshoring a key part of your telecommunications networks

There was a national poll recently that had Reform in first place with the Greens second. The Tories and the other Tories were each on 16 points.

DNS downing clouds is boring: IBM Cloud is experiencing a quantum computer outage

Re: Who skipped geography class?

Calling it Aachen ensures it's the first quantum computing entry in the Yellow Pages.

There's mushroom for improvement in fungal computing

Ignobel

If these boffins don't deserve an Ignobel, then nobody does.

SAP users still wrestling with business case for S/4HANA

SAP was founded by ex-IBM folks

And it shows!

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

Nonsense!

The mid 90s were only 10 years ago.

Weren't they?

Feeling lonely? Microsoft Copilot can now listen to your every word, watch your screen

Only Microsoft...

...could create a voice feature and call it Vision.

Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for pretending UK's Online Safety Act doesn't exist

Re: a better way to keep people safe online.

And the firewall protecting it would be the BOL Lock.

Re: doesn't matter if it wasn't you that sneezed your still guilty

What? You get arrested and thrown in jail? For saying you're English?

AI gone rogue: Models may try to stop people from shutting them down, Google warns

Re: Here we go again...

Or a rehashed Hazel O'Connor song from 1980

Brit scientists over the Moon after growing tea in lunar soil

Lunar Soil?

I was under the impression that there was no soil on the moon.

Did they use terrestrial soil exposed to lunar conditions, or did they use some (presumably) very expensive lunar regolith?

AI can now design functional viruses – not the computer kind, either

Re: Virus produced by nation state ...

Race is a social construct, so it's probably not an issue.

The closest you might be able to get is to target ginger hair, or brown eyes, or high melanin production - but that would create a blunt instrument

Google unveils master plan for letting AI shop on your behalf

Fast Show

For some reason I'm reminded of this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=11fCIGcCa9c

Jaguar Land Rover supply chain workers must get Covid-style support, says union

Re: JLR are a victim of a crime, and should be given treated as such

If my house gets broken into and burgled, does the government pay for my possessions to be replaced?

It's time mobile devs started to think seriously about foldable smartphones

Re: Might be different if Apple comes up with a foldable

Didn't they already do that with the iPhone 6?

‘IT manager’ needed tech support because they had never heard of a command line

Re: Have you tried turning it off and on again?

No, but it was Jen.

Proxmox delivers datacenter manager beta that makes it a more viable VMware contender

Gartner

Well, if Gartner says that VMWare has better functionality, then I think we can all be confident that the alternatives will all work just fine.

Apple's 'Awe Droppings' fall close to the tree

Re: Ewe Droppings?

You must be feeling very sheepish after that.

UK Home Office dangles £1.3M prize for algorithm that guesses your age

Re: Very difficult for humans

Or Gary Oldman and Gary Numan.

UK tech minister booted out in weekend cabinet reshuffle

Chief Mouser

All I can say is thank heaven that Larry is still in his post!

Sainsbury's eyes up shoplifters with live facial recognition

Re: Faces...

If you ever need surgery, you should tell the theatre staff not to bother wearing their masks.

Re: Faces...

A Keir Starmer mask, perhaps?

Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware, warns lack of support could disrupt food supply

Time Trumpet

*Slightly* off topic - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0PSyiRXIEyc&pp=ygUSdGltZSB0cnVtcGV0IHRlc2Nv

Re: Popcorn time

And then Broadcom admitted they were selling the Clubcard data to third parties?

Re: Popcorn time

The main winners will be the lawyers!

Defiant Broadcom calls for tech to go back where it belongs: On-premises

"Predictable Costs"

Like when they increased costs by 800%?

Junk is the new punk: Why we're falling back in love with retro tech

Or you could replace both and end up with a Ship of Theseus/Trigger's Broom/Lovejoy's Knife/The Sugababes

Trump made Intel an offer it couldn't refuse

And how many of them can do what TSMC does?

The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon

Re: Finally! (sigh)

You think you could survive on a UK state pension of roughly £12k a year?

Re: The current crop of "AI" is anything but...

French ChatGPT is "Cat, I farted"

Trump's gold-plated smartphone can't seem to decide which design to copy

it's going to be a very small phone

Perfect for users with tiny hands.

Don't cave to Euro censorship or backdoor demands, Uncle Sam warns US tech firms

Apparently the highlight to the celebrations will be a UFC tournament on the White House lawn.

Post-privacy AI glasses claim to listen to your every word

Re: STOP!

Only if you're more of a waffle kind of guy.

The UK Online Safety Act is about censorship, not safety

Re: "adult content providers"

Adult content is more than just porn.

Social media users rubbish at spotting sneaky ads, say boffins

Re: Subliminal Advertising Redux ?

Yvan eht nioj.

You've got drought: UK gov suggests you save water by deleting old emails

Print Your Emails!

Then you can use them to fix leaking water pipes!

UK proxy traffic surges as users consider VPN alternatives amid Online Safety Act

Re: VPNs highly unlikely to be made illegal in the UK

I read the other day that MPs have been putting VPNs on their expense claims, in effect getting us to to pay for their ability to sidestep the legislation they want us to adhere to.

So they won't be banning them any time soon.

PUTTY.ORG nothing to do with PuTTY – and now it's spouting pandemic piffle

Americans who think Magna Carta apply them make me laugh. Have they forgotten about the unpleasantness of 1776?

Re: People had their eyes shut.

Yes, it went on holiday because it turns out that lockdowns are really effective firebreaks.

Re: I know two virologists who are concerned about the safety of some vaccines

Have you asked them how many times the excipients they're worried about have been used, and how often the problem has occurred?

Because if something has been used millions of times over a period of decades, and problem should be blindingly obvious.