Posts by elDog

Anthropic goes nude, exposes Claude Code source by accident

Re: What are the odds?

Or that Emperor OrangAnus is seeking revenge on Anthropic for not supporting his war(s) against the world.

Telling an AI model that it’s an expert programmer makes it a worse programmer

Never tell an AI that they are an excellent commentator.

They may write a comment like mine.

(I did first frame this as being a The Register columnist and thought better about it.)

CERN eggheads burn AI into silicon to stem data deluge

Re: Science needs better funding and higher policy urgency

Bunch of petrified old geezers.

Sashiko: AI code review system for the Linux kernel spots bugs humans miss

Sachiko != Satoshi

"They all sound alike."

Okta made a nightmare micromanager for your AI agents

This Okta?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okta%2C_Inc.#Security_incidents

Mistakes happen. They just seem to happen at inopportune times and frequently while using products that a specifically built to make security better.

Perplexity Comet hurtling toward Amazon ban

Won't be long before the court systems use AI instead of human judges

Guess how their judgements will fall?

(Actually, this will properly elevate the programmers to their deserved position.)

Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience

Do you want to be on top tonigh?

I'm tired of all the hard work of getting those idiots to love me.

LexisNexis confirms data breach at Legal & Professional arm, some customer records affected

"We take our responsibility to safeguard customer information extremely seriousl ..."

I'm having the sensation of living in an echo chamber.

Do all companies use exactly the same wording? Is the original author getting credit and fees?

Bull-offal, as usual.

Gram: Zed, but with AI and chat features removed

"Although I suspect Emacs users are probably in their element."

Well played, and I'm sure, appreciated by said users.

It takes a twisted mind to know a twisted mind.

LLMs killed the privacy star, we can't rewind, we've gone too far

Re: not signing up

Most large commercial sites have tracker links on their pages that send page actions (clicks, focus changes, etc.) to the big surveillance companies such as FB, Google, MS, etc. as well as sharing this information with data harvesters (and governments.)

Unless you are using tools that don't allow these tracker links to watch your actions, you are being monitored.

And browsers such as Chrome / Edge, can tell the harvesters whatever they want about your viewing habits and actions.

Hotel's rotary switchboard so retro it predates the concept of crashing

Re: Smoke dirt and no cleaning done in decades

If your teeth were like mine back in the 60s the toothbrush wouldn't be the best cleaning tool.

Now, the toilet bowl swabber...

Poland bans camera-packing cars made in China from military bases

Re: Also industrial vehicles

Ah. Cutting the power draw by masking the cameras. Genius!

Re: Electro-gizmo-cam-bleepers

You got the model with electric wires? Mine just had twine.

Microsoft warns that poisoned AI buttons and links may betray your trust

Re: yes

Let's not leave Oracle or Apple out of the Hall of ShAIme.

Were telcos tipped off to *that* ancient Telnet bug? Cyber pros say the signs stack up

Re: How the ancient Telnet bug worked

Thank you! Off to find some end-points.....

Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI – it's all the same old BS, says veteran Red Hatter

Visual Basic

A wonderful introduction to programming that even your 10yo child can master.

Still seeing production apps written in obvious VB4 or VB6. Scary.

Of course this applies to Logo, Turtle, Software through Pictures (https://arxiv.org/html/2403.08085v1)

I think Apple's Hypercard was actually pretty successful - must be why they killed it off.

AI security startup CEO posts a job. Deepfake candidate applies, inner turmoil ensues

Re: PEBKAC

Pogo knew this.

Perhaps the problem exists between humans and our robotic overlords.

Thousands more Oregon residents learn their health data was stolen in TriZetto breach

Even lawsuits and financial penulties don't work. Time behind bars for responsible parties

would help a lot more.

And this should run all the way up the management/ownership chains.

Feds totally skipping infosec industry's biggest conference this year

Can't have CISA noticing trump's Kremlin boss trying to break into the US systems

That would be awkward. Heads would roll and bodies would go thump.

'Course with Elon already making off with most of the jewels, slim pickins.

Notepad will now tell you all the ways Microsoft has enshittified it

By 2028 it will be preloaded in memory before the login screen. It will be multi-user capable, distributed across every available cloud, have total recall and redo, and with a special Easter Egg, let you see what everyone else is doing!

OpenAI will try to guess your age before ChatGPT gets spicy

Re: Age Prediction Based on Topics Discussed

Perhaps Lady Godiva might be a bit too appealing, even to pre-pubes. How about Mata Hari? Or Bathsheba?

Mandiant releases quick credential cracker, to hasten the death of a bad protocol

I thought it was illegal to release programs that could crack software keys/credentials/etc.

I'd love to see the US DoJ (such as it is) go after google/mandiant for making it possible to break security. Or even attempting to do so.

But then, google like most of the US mega-corps, is a maga supporter.

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

Heck, I "raided" it several times in the last year. Free and approved download of all the content.

Very few organizations allow this type of access.

Used Kiwix. https://kiwix.org/

Kiwix enables you to have the whole Wikipedia at hand wherever you go! On a boat, in the middle of nowhere or in jail, Kiwix gives you access to the whole human knowledge. You don't need Internet, everything is stored on your computer.

Bond, debt bond: Investors shaken, not stirred by Oracle’s borrowing spree sue Big Red

Don't by coy. Your nomination was: "We all live in a virtual machine, a virtual machine, ..."

Probably sung to the Yellow Submarine tune by some garage band.

Reminds me of the joke (?) from years ago:

This is your pilot speaking.

Now that we are safely in the air, you will be pleased to know that this is the first commercial aircraft totally controlled by robots, totally controlled by robots, totally controlled by ...

There was so much fraud on COVID loans, the feds trained an anti-fraud AI on the applications

Re: Fraud was a given...

Unless it increased "fees" to be paid to engage in fraudulent activity. You know, "It's all right if the boss says so."

Ignore rosy datacenter expansion projections – there isn't enough power

At least in the US, those pesky regulations that are holding back unfettered polution

are all on the chopping block.

Forget carbon credits/swaps and all that fancy paperwork. Just take a trip to sunny Florida - with a truckload of cash (cyber coins not accepted.)

Google rekindles relationship with jilted JPEG XL image format

Good thing! You won't have to worry about any new Dilbert comics!

I guess proper respect should be paid to Scott Adams who gave us some humorous views of a type of office life. Who has now passed.

And also left a legacy of right-wing craziness in his writings.

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

How about some punched cards - ala Lovelace and Babbage?

I was trying to think of something a bit less techno-advanced than a flippy (vs. floppy or zippy.)

Perhaps an OCR for stone tablets? Moses would approve.

Don’t bother with the retailer’s website, says Google: Gemini can shop for you

kagi - a paid subscription with lots of added benefits

Own search index (and can use others)

No tracking

Selection criteria that work

Lenses (choices of groups of sources)

https://kagi.com/

AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them

Wouldn't the slop that comes spewing out of government agencies be enough?

Thinking primarily of what has happened in the US but seems to affect many other countries.

Pink Slime news sites are also great purveyors of poison.

"Study: People Often Trust Fake Local News Sites More Than Real Ones; Yale Political Scientist Warns of Growing Influence of AI-Driven ‘Pink-Slime’ News "

https://isps.yale.edu/news/blog/2025/09/study-people-often-trust-fake-local-news-sites-more-than-real-ones-yale-political

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

Surplus money? Ah, no - you're dealing with the Ellisons

They are as avaricious as the worst of them, including Donny TwoScoops.

Crims disconnect Wired subscribers from their privacy, publish deets online

If you replaced that "or" with "and" - then I couldn't imagine it.

But I've been a reader on-and-off for many years of Wired and The New Yorker. (I love their tote bags.)

Only if I re-incarnate as something very different will I qualify for a subscription to Teen Vogue (and get a new tote bag?)

Stop the slop by disabling AI features in Chrome

Why not just ditch Chrome? Chromium is the open-source framework for Chrome, Brave, Vivaldi, Edge

Chromium is obviously very capable in its own right without the constant proprietary nudges toward using their opinionated search results.

For me, I'll gladly pay for a decent search engine. Kagi.com.

AI datacenter boom could end badly, Goldman Sachs warns

It would be a shame to have all that land, water, energy, technology, human effort wasted.

(Looking for the sarcasm thingee.)

I see dystopian pictures of tumbleweeds rolling by huge rusting/decaying building in the middle of nowhere. I also see a lot of governments (small and large) being left with huge holes in their budgets and nobody can find the original investors or their attorneys.

Lawyer's 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator

This is but the tip of the iceberg. (Copyright 2025)

The AI shit will hit the fan and there won't be enough TP and lawyers to clean it up. At least in the crazy country I live (US), the law-making bodies are even dumber than the 6 year old.

Botnet takes advantage of AWS outage to smack 28 countries

Fortinet is advising organizations about how to conduct security?

They might want to consider a new product - the FaultiTower Maginot line.

Google and Westinghouse lean on AI to speed US nuclear plant builds

Main page shows 9 comments. When I come to be my pithy self there are no comments

Is this such a touchy subject that every comment so far is ending up in the hoosegow?

Software engineer reveals the dirty little secret about AI coding assistants: They don't save much time

Re: circular lists...

Or perhaps any power of 2^8 representing a basic unit of computation in most current computers.

I hope others understand your simple and yet deep comment.

Ironclad OS project popping out Unix-like kernel in a unique mix of languages

Oh, goody! I can put Ada back on my resume.

I think I remember intentionally removing it since it made me look old (which wasn't really necessary), and since hiring types would get a befuddled look on their faces when encountering that word.

Never really got to use Ada in a real production environment. Some difficult coding exercises around handling communication buffers, etc. Gov't mandated Ada for new IT projects but it really wasn't ready at the time. One fall-back was to use JOVIAL (which also doesn't show up on my resume.)

Google yanks Gemma after US senator says model ‘hallucinated’ her committing crimes

If Google's Gemma were an employee, it might be facing HR right now --- HR?

That office that used to be staffed with cranky old bosses and pretty young things?

Now just a vague cloudy thing with noodlely AI appendages reaching everywhere. And actually quite "friendly" with Gemma.

Ransomware negotiator, pay thyself!

So, you get hacked. Employ a ransomware "negotiator" who hacks you. Go to the FBI....

And who in this current world would trust the F.B.I.?

Ka$h Patel? Pam Bondi?

Donald (The Dotard) who doesn't even know that he pardoned a crypto thief?

MIT Sloan quietly shelves AI ransomware study after researcher calls BS

Re: 2/10, Must try harder

I wouldn't single out poor MIT Sloan for having their business school failures. After all, many graduates of these types of schools are either failures or contribute to the same in the corporate world.

Robotic lawnmower uses AI to dodge cats, toys

Quick - grab the trademark for RoboCrop.

Seeing the reference to the music track for Robocop I'm really surprised I'm the first to score.

Pretty obviously they can take off.

Way too easily.

Perhaps if they were equipped with a very loud siren when outside of the base station radius.

Microsoft 365 business customers are running out of places to hide from Copilot

Sounds familiar

All its customers say “fuck off”, MS hears “oooo — more please!!”.

Sounds like someone we may know who insists that grown men are coming up to him with tears in their eyes...

Did they get the same training?

Suspected Chinese snoops weaponize unpatched Windows flaw to spy on European diplomats

Windows. Like an abusive spouse. Can't stand it, and apparently can't live without it.

Yet another fault dealing with those pesky .LNK files. I think they were invented because Unix (pre Linux) had soft links and the Gates crew came up with a seat-o-the-pants solution. They ended up being excellent ways for creatives to trick the unsuspecting into clicking/executing.

Microsoft gives Windows 11 a fresh Start – here's how to get it

And somehow Micro$oft marketing will make this a wonderful new feature

When that same marketing team has drug the Windows desktop into the ditch since Windows 7. They should be congratulated for making a lot of customers look for another platform.

Dame Emma Thompson gives the 'AI revolution' both barrels

Sorry, Jim. You don't get two up-votes by posting duplicates.

Good try, though!

Firewalls and VPNs are so complex now, they can actually make you less secure

Companies that use on-premise HW VPNs more likely to be attacked?

Perhaps these companies are frequent targets and want to in-house their defenses?

A bit of the correlation != causation argument.

Still, I do think complacency creeps in when a vendor installs a bit of new shiny and says "there, all's good!"

OpenAI non-profit will run for-profit that has yet to make a profit

And I have a bridge to sell you.

Why go to all these silly rigamaroles when you can just adopt the financial wizardry of the trump world and put your scams out into the open?

I mean, since there are no regulatory restrictions in the US anymore (and who cares about the rest of the world?), a couple of handshakes and several trillion of worthless crypto-currencies, and all's right.

SEC filings? As Emil Bove said "f em."

(Apologies for the us-centric view. I'm sure the same shit-craft is happening elsewhere.)