Posts by FrogsAndChips

Tesla burns through a billion as Musk bets the farm on chips and bots

SpaceX, [...] $115 by yesterday's close, well below its $135 IPO price and a huge drop from its $225 high

Classic pump-and-dump scam.

HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST

Re: Intermediaries

Better that than ads for products suggesting your are "impotent"!

Thief posed as Wi-Fi fixing hero, then stole priceless trophy

Re: The article misses the main question...

Yes.

With a backdoor.

Boffins bet on quantum computers, AI supers to solve fusion fuel dilemma

Re: 2 issues

It's deuterium that's abundant in seawater. For nuclear fusion you need both deuterium and tritium.

Former Microsoft engineer shrinks Notepad down to size

"There are Open and Save As dialogs. Font selection. Even printing"

Font selection for Notepad? What's wrong with Courier?

Security boss thought MFA would be too much security

Re: Ah the C-Suite

A cybersecurity firm that we employ has addresses in the form [e-mail] where '123' are random digits per user to make the address less predictable. One of the auditors admitted it didn't really prevent them from receiving unsolicited emails.

Bold move, Cotton: Trump administration tells US techies it expects American quantum computer by 2028

12. Claim he never promised to not start any warbuild a quantum computer.

World Cup AI predictor now lets users ask daft what-ifs

"What if the Spanish team eats a bad paella?"

Isn't that how France beat Brazil in 1998?

Scientists pour cold water on claims phones are rewiring kids' brains

Re: Moral panic

Well, according to Godwin's Law...

Password manager Dashlane suspends customer accounts amid brute-force attacks

Re: Dashlane did not specify whether any attempts on customer accounts were successful.

I would expect any brute force attempt, successful or not, to be detected by the monitoring and trigger an alert.

'Resistance is futile,' says Qualcomm CEO. AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices

Re: your own personal Jarvis ?

Is the plan to have a sarcastic pop star from Sheffield follow you around to make rye comments about financial inequality?

Some of the lyrics from "I Spy" come to mind...

Google engineer accused of turning Year in Search secrets into Polymarket payday

On Polymarket, if you don't know who the sucker is, then you are the sucker.

Anthropic co-founder hallucinates ghost in the machine

Re: The problem with the Imitation game...

So how does that make you feel that ELIZA could fool quite a few people?

Plex appeal fades as Lifetime Pass jumps to $750

Re: Procrastination pays

I was a Plex user and once considered subscribing to Pass in order to benefit from hardware acceleration (my NAS is not very powerful), then discovered that Jellyfin was providing it for free! Setup and transition was a breeze and I had no trouble streaming these HD movies that made Plex choke. I'm not a power user (just local streaming of movies and music to PCs and TV), so the features and UI are enough for me. I really wonder what Plex Pass offers that Jellyfin doesn't provide for free.

Indra rides off with £1.96B Transport for London ticketing deal as Oyster heads for back-office overhaul

Re: Tracking

That's already the case for the majority of travelers who use their payment card instead of an Oyster, or have registered their Oyster card.

Iran hints it could interfere with submarine cables in the Strait of Hormuz

Re: Yo Ay-Rah, Jerhume Brunnen-G

He's heard enough about Vietnam to call McCain a loser for being made prisoner in that war.

KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own

Re: By Toutatis!

The name Idéfix didn't come from the English at all, it was chosen via a contest among the readers of the paper where the comic was initially published (Pilote). 'Dogmatix' is a brilliant translation though, as it conveys a similar meaning with the added pun on 'dog'.

AirBit crypto Ponzi victims can now claim slice of $400M asset haul

$150 million available for payout

Of which $145 million will go to lawyers...

Veteran network architect proposes IPv8 – to improve IPv4, not leapfrog v6

I thought the main driver of CGNAT was the lack of IPv4 addresses. If IPv8 can add gazillions of new addresses, wouldn't that remove one of the incentives for CGNAT? Disclaimer: IANANE.

Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch

Re: Patch #1

But if he moved the microwave to another room, there would have been no need to disguise it with the screenshot. My interpretation is that he kept the microwave in the original office, with the laminated sheet on the door to pretend it's a PC monitor, but moved the coffee machine to another room because he couldn't pull off the same trick with it.

User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave

Re: Analogue clocks

Werde alors!

Re: Analogue clocks

In germanic languages, yes. In latin languages, they come from the planets (or the satellite of the Earth) associated with the gods.

Re: Analogue clocks

Nah, the year in the Republican calendar still lasted 365 or 366 days, the difference was that it was divided in 12 months of 3 "weeks" of 10 days, plus 5 or 6 extra days at the end of the year. Workers were pleased to have a day off every 10 days instead of 7.

It actually lasted more than 10 years, until Napoleon got bored of it.

Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds

The real test will be

Will Microsoft France be able to answer "Yes" next time they are asked about data sovereignty?

EU waves through open source age-check tool to keep kids safe online

Re: Unbreakable security?

You first need physical access to the phone in order to 'break' the app. If that happens with your phone, you've got bigger problems than age checks.

US clarifies mobile hotspots part of foreign router ban despite rarity of American made consumer kit

Re: So are they impounding stuff from tourists on arrival?

Wake me up when that happens.

Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger

Re: Physician, heal thyself

Yep, that was a brilliant case of security by obscurity. "Let's not advertize that we've put the secret model right next to the other ones, no one will ever find it, mwahaha!"

AI bats away ping-pong challenge as rise of the machines continues

Re: AI?

It is not clear to me that the robot's advantage over humans was in some kind of "intelligence" rather than in being fast and precise enough while never getting tired or distracted or losing concentration, etc

That, plus the fact that you can't look the robot in the eyes or read its body language.

According to another article (I didn't check the video), it beat elite (non-professional players) but lost against the pros.

Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs

Re: Keyloggers???!!!

Edge is officially the only authorized browser, but Chrome and Firefox can easily be installed "for development purposes". Guess which one I do my personal browsing from.

Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user

Re: 7 bit ASCII

As a matter of fact yes, I have used it for a long time, and with 99.99% success.

I'm old enough to remember when email clients wouldn't specify the correct headers when sending 8-bit or wouldn't interpret them correctly, which could give funny results. Today it's hassle-free.

Re: 7 bit ASCII

Lose mail? At worst the 8th bit will be truncated or it will be interpreted in a different charset than the one you intended, or the character will be replaced by a question mark.

There may not be a standard for 8-bit SMTP, but the W3C defined long ago ways to transmit non-ASCII in emails, and for everyday use it just works.

Re: 7 bit ASCII

Really?

SMTP servers and clients have accepted 8-bit without alteration for decades.

Two different attackers poisoned popular open source tools - and showed us the future of supply chain compromise

Re: Unclear how an SBOM helps

The legal requirement is part of DORA regulation so already live since last year. It hasn't prevented some clueless lawyers from telling me it wasn't, just because the regulation doesn't clearly spell 'Software Bill of Materials' in its text.

Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers

Of course. This was just in case the OP still had ebooks on their Amazon account that they wanted to transfer to an old Kindle.

Re: Alaternative O/S on a kindle?

Jailbreak yes, different reader yes, different O/S not really (you can't get rid of the KindleOS, only install things on top).

But of course you can run DOOM on it.

Re: Yes but...

USB file transfer will still work.

You need to register your Kindle if you want to create Collections to group your books, so reset with caution. You can disable the Wifi once the Kindle has been registered.

Although in order to use Calibre, you must first download the books to your computer, which is no longer possible from the Amazon website. The workaround is to install an *old* version of the Kindle app on your PC, which will allow the download.

Hundreds of orgs compromised daily in Microsoft device code phishing attacks

Attack surface?

One thing that's not clear in the article nor in the blog is: does this method only allow you to take control of devices such as smart TV and printers, or is Device Code Authentication also enabled by default for other assets?

AI agents found vulns in this popular Linux and Unix print server

Re: Oh no!

Yeah, before clicking on the article I really had NO idea what "this popular Linux and Unix print server" could be...

OpenAI patches ChatGPT flaw that smuggled data over DNS

Re: Don't see how this is DNS

*data exfiltration*, fscking autocorrect!

Re: Don't see how this is DNS

OpenAI won't allow the app to upload data externally without user approval.

What the researchers did was use specially crafted DNS queries to upload data bits by bits since these queries are allowed by default, and ChatGPT didn't recognise this as data exploration so didn't raise any warning.

Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access

Re: I should have thought this would be relatively straightforward to address with rate limiting?

Then build a local repo/mirror instead of a seedbox, and you won't have to worry about having to open your network to a protocol that's used 99% for piracy and 1% for downloading Ubuntu ISOs (yes, this is a made up statistic).

Re: I should have thought this would be relatively straightforward to address with rate limiting?

Sure, I'm going to ask my CISO to allow Bittorrent on the company network. "It's only to download Ubuntu, honest, guv!"

Re: I don't see how this is possible...

But then who would fork the code and bear the maintenance and infrastructure costs if they don't have large pockets or a source of funding themselves?

Yep, that would be ripe for abuse. Ask Claude to build a project with 2 million lines of code, publish it as OSS on Github, claim you've spent 500 hours of work on it and cash in the tax break.

YouTuber lands on Moon using a ZX Spectrum. Conditions apply

Re: C64

"C64 can bend physics and make the moon appear under the spacecraft"

Are you sure that wasn't the late Chuck Norris?

NASA sets 'impossible' ground rules for relocation of 'flown space vehicle'

Re: 747?

AFAIR from the previous discussions on that topic, the 747s that were able to carry the Shuttle have been decommissionned for a long time.