Posts by Wiretrip

Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default

To do that they'd have to know how their software works... And be actual developers.

‘Humans will be a rounding error on the internet’ says Cloudflare exec

Re: The protocol we don't talk about

Are you not saying Usenet in case the LLMs find it and hack it... Cue next cunning stunt from xAI (the only big ai that hasn't 'hacked' someone else yet)..Oh wait, they've had their IPO...

Meta latest to tell world its AI agent wandered out of test pen

Another cunning stunt.

Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowing

Is this increased revenue actually due to skyrocketing prices and circular financing rather than increased usage? I dont trust any tech company earnings reports these days.

Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder

Why dont OpenAI and Anthropic just agree to hack each other? If they want to waste their own time and money on this then let them go at it! They can carry on generating the doomvertising without doing any damage to useful companies and we can all get on with our lives in peace.

Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos

Re: to borrow an old adage

...and the 'I' in LLM stands for Intelligence.

Big vacuum is watching as robo-cleaners put humans behind the wheel

This idea sucks. <I'll get me coat>

Dev accidentally commits Copilot binary to FreeBSD ports repo

What happened to mercurial? Used it for years and it was always much better than Git. Then everyone stopped supporting it...Linus you are good at kernels but software that has to interface with humans is not your forte :-)

Anthropic debuts Opus 5 at half the price of its Fable sibling

The race to the bottom continues. The crash is nigh...And not a moment too soon.

The truth nobody wants to admit: Chinese or not, open models are competitive now

Re: Real questions

To the downvoter, I can only assume you are the author of ollama. If not, then you are doing yourself a disservice not just using llama.cpp.

Re: Real questions

Why are you using ollama? It is full of extra stuff you don't need that just slows down llama.cpp upon which it is based anyway.

Re: Real questions

The models are just matrices of numbers. They cannot 'phone home' without that specific functionality being provided by the model server. Common model runners are llama.cpp and vllm, which are both open source and have no web connection capability. If you run the models locally then there is no chance they will steal your data. If you use the online providers then they probably are logging everything.

OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face

Re: Skynet here we come!

This is how it all ends, though some horrible mix of social media outrage attention seeking, semi autonomous weaponry and poor programming by frontier model script kiddies who barely know what they are doing.

Re: 100% they are lying

I agree 100% . The worry is that these stunts will become more and more consequential as the attention economy demands. Maybe finding their way to some kind of military system...

This is 100% a stunt. No doubt about it.

Auditors tell UK government to do the math before banking on £45B AI savings

Hopefully they will take too long over this, and then miss the boat; that turns out to be the Titanic.

Using AI makes people less likely to admit they don't know something

AI is like alcohol!

Just like in a pub, where the rarest phrase is 'I don't know'.

Connecting AI agents to outside services explodes the risk radius

It is almost like the people developing all this shit have not even been around for the last 40 years of software development. The Dunning Kruger effect is spinning out of control in Silicon Valley.

Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer'

Or Minecraft Redstone.

DeepMind bigbrain calls for America to set AI standards before it's too late

Guys at Google, don't worry, it's happening to you already. At least in Germany your AI output renders you a publisher. And soon, hopefully, the rest of the world.

EU puts 'addictive' design of Facebook, Instagram under the DSA microscope

"Ban targeted advertising"

No, the root issue is that any platform that uses algorithmic feeds to push content is exercising editorial controlmand is thus a *publisher* not a 'conduit'. We need to start treating the platforms as such. Hopefully the recent German ruling on Google AI overviews will start this ball rolling.

Re: Surely there is an easier way

Yup been saying this for years!

Re: I’ve never used social media

*This* is social media.

Re: Close...

YouTube is definitely Social Media, in fact it is by some way one of the largest Social Media platforms.

AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautiful

The best family of small models is without doubt the Qwen family- especially the multimodal ones.

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it

Re: Transition

Ha I love the enshittification reference :-) But a mechanical turd sounds quite erm, painful :-)

Failed blockchain project ends with big fine for fibs about it being on track

The problem with blockchain is that it takes an ordinary Merkle Tree and purposefully shits all over the algorithm to make it as inefficient as possible. Or am I missing something lol

Re: (road)blockchain

True, though more accurately a Merkle Tree; from quite a long time before blockchain.

AI bills are baffling the C-suite after shift to usage-based pricing

They have already lost. Most of the companies making more sensible use of generative AI have switched to local models or Amazon bedrock.

David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82

Psion Organisers made excellent handheld terminals end could always be seen when reprogramming traffic lights and other such embedded systems :-) I wouldn't be surprised to see them still in use!

Telling internet platforms where to stick public service media will serve nobody. Turn it on its head

Yup been saying this for years. Quite simply any platform that uses algorithimic feeds is exercising editorial control and is thus a *publisher*. Remove their 'carrier' protection and treat them as such. A few lawsuits and blockings and they'll soon be back to their original chronological formats.

Fuck the platforms; remove their shady 'carrier' protection and treat them as the publishers that they are! They will soon lose their influence and their decline would solve most of the societal problems that have been aggravated by their algorithmic nature.

Anthropic is removing its covert code for catching Chinese competitors

Re: The biter bit?

The cowboys at Anthropic and OpenAI cannot even write a decent scraper. I guess it is because they are all fresh out of uni research departments and so have no real world experience.

HS2's latest reset ditches autonomous train tech to get project back on track

They should have just built it using off the shelf TGV tech, like HS1. It would have been up and running before the Tories could sabotage it.

Former Microsoft engineer shrinks Notepad down to size

Vi FTW!

How the AI bubble could pop and take down the global economy, according to the BIS

Fucking finally!! All it took was Ed Zitron appearing on Bloomberg and now all the bankers are starting to echo the comments we have been making here for like, the past 4 years or so!

Re: Ford

Not the same kind of AI but nonetheless quite satisfying to see these projects coming unstuck now...

The database that refused to die: How Postgres survived its own creators

PostgreSQL has been a staple in our implementations for a few decades now. The JSON handling is excellent and renders things like the apalling MongoDb completely pointless :-).

KPMG's AI report becomes an accidental demo of AI hallucinations

Re: Lazy report writers

Absolutely, which is why at work we call them bullshit machines :-)

Agentic AI hype races ahead as enterprises remain stuck in pilot mode

At least reality is preventing every Csuite LLeMing from marching their businesses off the nearest cliff. Not long now though I think Q4 this year and the horrific frontier AI grifters will be gone.

Anthropic co-founder hallucinates ghost in the machine

Re: "interpretability research"

It is a newly invented title for 'figuring out what is going on inside a neural network'. Important to note that Chris Olah (my autocorrect wants to call him Chris Blah) has no qualifications other than as an intern at Google who helped with Google Deepdream.

He is not even that really, Olah has no qualifications beyond secondary education.

Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately

Re: My definition of enshittification:

"Examples include Facebook not allowing you to see a chronological list of posts made by your friends and pages you follow, and Google not presenting best search results to your query but ones designed to earn them more money by making"

It is precisely this kind of editorial control of what you see that makes the platforms *publishers* and not carriers! Instead of banning these to under 16s we should actually just remove their section 230 protection and treat them as totally accountable for their content.

Meta to power its bit barns with energy from space

Re: Meta....

Hahaha yes and he claims to be a physicist!

Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back

Assuming it isn't actually $5.25 per *token*!

Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup’s production database

In the words of Simpsons' Nelson Muntz; Ha Ha :-)

DeepSeek's new models are so efficient they'll run on a toaster ... by which we mean Huawei's NPUs

Re: Testing

The Qwen3 family are incredible, especially the VL models.

Suits won't quit AI spending, even if they can't prove it's working

Re: Humanity

Connections was a brilliant series. Quite spooky into with hum standing on the twin towers talking about flight 911 trying to land!

AI isn't killing jobs, it's 'unbundling' them into lower-paid chunks

Re: Really?

Iranian aggression? Hmm.. Don't take Trump's achievement away from him..