Posts by Locomotion69

Safe CEO: AI is an assistant, not a replacement

AI has its merits as it is quite capable in processing vast quantities of data and finding patterns inside them. Not something a human being cannot do, but AI comes up with results much faster - leaving the human to check if the outcome of the AI is plausible. I have seen very good use of processing medical scan data, AI could spot the out of the ordinary which many doctors would overlook. This is a huge benefit - saving time, money and occasionally a life.

But the fields of application are different - software engineering being no exception. These jobs will be different in the future - but senior and junior levels will be there as they are today.

Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030

Re: “Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’”

It is not just Windows, it is the complete codebase - it is hundreds of products, some not even designed by themselves but acquired in a merger/takeover.

Not even considering used libraries, which may be statically linked, so different versions from the same lib are used and updates are not compatible, etc.

It should be called Project Snakepit

AI mania to swell datacenter capex to $1.6T by 2030 – if the bubble doesn't pop first

and the winner is...

Nvidia.

As prices of hardware go up due to the DC hunger, you can get less hardware for your $/£/€, let alone make a viable business case.

Nvidia gets its money, the others sort of .... don't.

The solution? Force your clientele into AI and charge them accordingly.

Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner

Dear Gartner,

Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future

FTFY

And the winner of the Microsoft Christmas sweater is...

It is a terrible thought.....

"Welcome to the world kid. Meet Clippy".

The horror.

'Exploitation is imminent' as 39 percent of cloud environs have max-severity React hole

No panic!

If your application uses external libraries, plugins, etc, this is inevitable. It is not a question if you will get hit by such threats, it is about when and how often.

Yesterday Log4j, React today, and another yet-unknown one tomorrow.

Be prepared and patch when signalled to do so. Period. No excuses. The security of your application is your responsibility alone.

AWS admits AI coding tools cause problems, reckons its three new agents fix 'em

Where is the Colonel when you need him?

Three more AI tools to correct one AI tool ? This is getting too silly - please make it stop!

Canadian data order risks blowing a hole in EU sovereignty

The RCMP got it wrong to start with.

They should have asked the French police to take over the request for data within the investigation, the French police could acquire such information in a legal matter. That is how this is supposed to work anyway, crime does not stop at the borders and neither does criminal investigation.

I do not think there is any legilation on either side of the Atlantic that states that the government can force anyone to break the law.

AWS under pressure as big three battle to eat the cloud market

US companies only

Some governments are looking to cloud solutions that do not depend on an US based provider - for good reasons.

So there may be some providers not listed here that may get (some) market share, although it will not be too significant on a world wide top 3 scale - but significant enough to be noted.

Broken wizard forces Microsoft to issue out-of-band Windows 10 patch

|Obviously

Microsoft failed to properly test the enrollment system

So business as usual - nothing to see here!

Microsoft apologizes for not explaining cheaper no-AI M365 plans, and all it took was a government lawsuit

As in "we don't trust our customers and therefore they do not get any transparancy".

In one year time this "Family classic" option is discontinued, all $$$ on AI !!

'What the hell, Microsoft?' Users hit with incorrect ESU and LTSC Win10 out-of-support messages

Microsoft AI stands for...

... Microsoft Apocalypse Imminent.

AI investment is the only thing keeping the US out of recession

The question is wrong because there is no question where AI is the answer. If it would exist, the "killer app" would exist by now.

Cyber exec with lavish lifestyle charged with selling secrets to Russia

Your next CS threat

This particular individual appears to be bought to commit crimes.

But as cyber security awareness increases, security gets better, the weakest link in here is the human.

One can think of the situation where an individual of company "X" can be bribed or -worse- blackmailed to commit these crimes. It is easy enough for these criminals to look at MSM at find everything about you. Such inside jobs have the danger of going to be big.

In order to minimise the risk of this happening, companies shall appoint at least two pairs of eyes to any one job, and preferably different eyes each time - amongst other measures.

How do you solve a problem like Discovery?

I would go for option 1 if you have to.

Yet another option would be to relocate Houston instead.

Microsoft threatens to ram Copilot into Exchange Server on-prem

Pushing these AI "solutions" to customers...

... is the only way left to "make" money out of AI.

The investment in AI is so huge that companies desperatly do whatever they can to get money out of it.

This is one example - the others will follow, or already have similar strategies.

The only way to avoid this is to find a non-AI infested alternative.

Trust the AI, says new coding manifesto by Kim and Yegge

Trust the AI - you can just as well stop thinking and abandon common sense.

And I always question advise from someone to use products/services/whatever from that same individual.

Windows 11 update knocks out USB mice, keyboards in recovery mode

Instruction:

"Press F2 to continue"

Windows 11 update breaks localhost, prompting mass uninstall workaround

Functionality now known as

localghost

We're all going to be paying AI's Godzilla-sized power bills

But is has provided the answer!

It provided the only viable answer - shut itself down to save energy.

But as that would mean a lo$$$$ of investments that answer is ignored.

No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says as another loophole snaps shut

Obviously

potentially causing users to exit OOBE with a device that is not fully configured for use," Microsoft said.

Not fully configured to be of use to them, that is.

Only way to move Space Shuttle Discovery is to chop it into pieces, White House told

It would be a lot easier if they would relocate an Apollo capsule.

Or they won't, as Apollo 17 sits already there.

Microsoft declares bring your Copilot to work day, usurping IT authority

In my company...

BYOD: no

BYOC: don't you dare....

Most applications used to share data are forbidden.

Still Office365 and Onedrive (although mine is empty).

Sorry M$.

Hardware inspector fired for spotting an error he wasn't trained to find

Logical

It is perfectly understood why Tex was fired - he was overqualified for the job!

Oracle will have to borrow at least $25B a year to fund AI fantasy, says analyst

ROI

Looking into these amounts of money to be "invested" - in the end the investments have to pay off, give some return, right?

How on earth is society capable in paying up all that money (forget "profit" at the moment) for something that has so little contributed to its wellbeing?

In other words: why would I (we, you,...) pay for this "service" ??

All these companies suffer from FOMO - and society gets the bill in the end.

Microsoft Surface 7 laptop: Nice hardware, shame about the OS

Talking about solution looking for a problem: what share of the market would be served by an ARM based laptop for which an Intel variant is better in many ways?

BAE Systems surfaces autonomous submarine for military use

In essence this is a drone capable of going under water.

Now add some AI to it and see where it gets...... lost.

AI pricing is currently in a state of ‘pandemonium’ says Gartner

As far as I can see

in the long term only the AI chip sector makes money here.

All AI "users" will soon come to the conclusion that the service is pricy and the yield is below expectation and therefore AI is only costing money.

Still, they fired every "asset" that could repair the damage in the meantime.

Older developers are down with the vibe coding vibe

Re: #NoAI #UnplugAI

If I have to constantly spend time code reviewing AI, then I might as well have written the code myself from the start and enjoyed the creative exercise.

Have a pint for this line. Well said!

Word to autosave new docs to the cloud before you can even hit Ctrl+S

It is time to get rid of the term "personal computer". There appears nothing "personal" left.

As as the store-to-cloud as an option: I would switch it off immediately waiting for M$ to reset it.

Google kneecaps indie Android devs, forces them to register

Re: MOBile

Ah, security! Good! I was afraid it was all about making more money by charging developers $25...

Developer jailed for taking down employer's network with kill switch malware

Although mr. Lu is not the smartest mind, this does reveal one of the biggest weakness in modern IT - targeted inside job sabotage.

Google tries to trump iPhone launch with AI-powered Pixel 10 range

Re: AI?

or even call AI "smart". It isn't.

AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'

I want to believe him ...

if he lives up to his word and hires those kids - to become experienced developers using AI in their workflow where it adds value, and think for themselves where it counts.

These kids could become the true experts on AI usage in the future - and recognize AI compised rubbish in a heartbeat.

But I fear some other C** role and/or the shareholders may push him to act differently.

One can only hope for the best.

Microsoft crams Copilot AI directly into Excel cells

And so, with "updated" Copilot in the background, the outcome of today will be different from the outcome yesterday.

This is exactly what beancounters want - a new level of unpredictability in their spreadsheets </sarcasm>.

The £9 billion question: To Microsoft or not to Microsoft?

Into the unknown

The big decision maker's question is: will it even be possible to move away from M$ for (less then) £9B, and what (if any) added value will it bring?

I understand the reluctance to leave the M$ environment - the cost of migration (data and applications), risks of downtime of critical systems, £9B sounds a lot but will be gone in a heartbeat.

Training, as in getting used to the new desktop environment may be the least of your worries.

For some infrastructure there will not be a 1:1 replacement, so those need to stay - and M$ will bill you accordingly (need 10? you need to buy at least 25 licenses for £££)

And how will the new vendors act in the future? Do they go wild on the smell of money?

I would be very happy to see a change to a more diverse IT landscape, but a full change now is a big step into the unknown for many companies.

Doctors get dopey if they rely too much on AI, study suggests

Re: "It's not like compilers eliminating people's ability to write machine code,

finally will end up with computers telling unskilled people what to do

FTFY

UK.gov's nuclear strategy is 'slow, inefficient, and costly'

Never underestimate the power of the government to assign all technical/financial/feasibility/... risks in a project to you but complains when you mention it, or demand compensation in one form or another.

Antivirus vendors fail to spot persistent, nasty, stealthy Linux backdoor

This is reassuring

Pezier found no public reports of researchers detecting Plague in the wild

That was the idea behind the hack in the first place: to be extremely hard to detect.

Microsoft pushes $4B at AI education for the masses

Step 1. Educate people to become dependent on AI - check.

Step 2. Make sure they cannot do anything without any AI assistent nearby - almost check

Step 3. Make AI functionality available as a paid subscription for the masses - check

Step 4. Profit

Scholars sneaking phrases into papers to fool AI reviewers

Re: This AI thing

I disagree - it is the person writing such instructions in the data that are really full of shit. You cannot blaim AI for being used by idiots.

Want a job? Just put 'AI skills' on your resume

Interviewer: Can you give me an example of your AI experience ?

You: Have a look at my CV, I generated it completely using AI.

Interviewer: Excellent! You're hired.

VMware must support crucial Dutch govt agency as it migrates off the platform, judge rules

Re: Money for nothing...

Mercedes, BMW and extra value, in one sentence?

Microsoft testing PC-to-Cloud-PC failover for those times your machine dies or disappears

Next service: a virtual PC, being "yours", on the M$ cloud for only $$€€££ per month - but you need no expensive hardware (on prem).

Subscription based of course. AI enabled by default, not configurable, for premium money.

This service is compulsary for the use of the PC to cloud PC failover, Office356, Onedrive, ....

With kind regards, Microsoft.

Florida man expands crypto empire with new wireless service and phone

Cannot wait....

for the Vultures to present us with a review of said Phone...

Danish department determined to dump Microsoft

That would be one of the few occassions a minister makes an appropriate remark...

Nvidia hits the gas on autonomous vehicle software

Autonamous cars work great in a homogenous environment with only other self driving cars, going the same direction. For example, one lane on a motorway.

All other environments are too dynamic to be reasonable safe. I mean, we know how to drive for decades and still people die on the roads, by unfortunate accidents or by misbehavior. And from this data, they teach their AI.

Elon Musk pukes over pork-filled budget bill with Tesla subsidies on the line

Re: Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right

As they if know who is who in this setting ....

American science put on starvation diet

There is actually some logic behind this - from the point of view of Mr. President:

1. Knowledge is dangerous once in the hand of the enemy (especially if it is a personal or political enemy, or can become one)

2. The USA needs minions to populate the returning factories (cheap labour).

Me, sinical?