Posts by xyz123

Intel finds its Zen undercutting AMD with Arrow Lake refresh

Intel - we give you MORE cores. with DIFFERENT bugs in each.

Burn your CPU to the ground quicker than ever with the Explodium processor - watch the raging motherboard inferno with Intel Inside

Post Office's £142M subsidy for Horizon fallout and IR35 bill reviewed by watchdog

So basically the CEO's who THIS YEAR referred to the post staff affected as "money grubbing parasites" (seriously - thats current AND ex CEOs and board members) aren't going to pay a penny, and the Post office gets away payment-free

Spyware disguised as emergency-alert app sent to Israeli smartphones

The text message:

I am doing the being of your app store. Kindly to be installing Not_a_virus.apk otherwise internet police are coming in next 3minutes to take your children to be processed into burger meats.

Kindly and sincely thanking you. The Federal United states Internet Police of the world (and America)

US state laws push age checks into the operating system

Discord happily now slurps up "age verification", pushes it to third party companiess who perform a full background check, attempt to analyze your political leanings from social media/reddit/digg/discord posts etc and report this directly to ICE as well as to local governments and large corporations that may hire you. Discord also sends ALL your data..your photo, ID, background info to the chinese and russians governments so they can "decide if you are a threat".

Seriously. Those governments pay millions for the data. and Discord keeps EVERYTHING. even when you try to delete a chat.

Result: "so 4yrs ago you were linked to a "workers deserve more pay" movement....well that just illegally barred you from working for Microsoft, Discord, Apple, Walmart, Samsung etc....

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

and this is why I blocked copilot and uninstalled every single bit I could.

on over 60,000 machines.

Capita's £370M Whitehall outsourcing deal challenged as 'abnormally low'

Same Capita thats desperately seeking MILLIONS in funding to cover the "mystery missing amounts" from the Civil Service Pension Scheme.

Yes, their website isn't faulty.....they're covering up blatant theft of the pension pot.

Accenture down to buy Downdetector as part of $1.2 billion deal

So accenture owns Speedtest.net. which will ALWAYS show perfect speeds for anyone they run networks for.

And downdetector will show every accenture service as 100% uptime

Gamers furious as indie studio Cloud Imperium quietly admits to data breach

Fun Fact: Most "breaches" are where the CEO and/or board of directors SELL the info to foreign governments, scammers etc and pocket the cash.......

Trump orders purge of 'woke' Anthropic from government

"we don't want ICE robots massacreing anyone that looks a bit mexican (and we never will ever), but would you mind removing the block on your AI that stops it identifying people as mexican and shooting them in the face?"

Oh BTW, what memory requirements do you suggest to put your AI into our new "mexicankillotronic"? its erm...a microwave oven...

Sopra Steria sues UK government over £958M Capita outsourcing award

In Capita's defence (stop laughing you at the back), £958.70mil is BEFORE bribes.

over £50mil direct to DWP "assessors" bank accounts to disregard every other bid. DWP needs an independent audit of everyone involved's finances and stocks/shares.

Discord drama delays age verification debut until the second half of 2026

Discord is in panic mode as they've already lost over 15% of active users to rivals like Teamspeak, and they feared the snowball effect was about to kick in, as they approached several MAJOR youtubers and paid them MILLIONS to NOT discuss leaving Discord on their channel.

Few of them have over 100million subs.....that would have been catastrophic.

Accenture tells staffers: If you want a promotion, use AI at work

Accenture's "secret" business model is to have everything "handled" by AI and then when the CEO/board decide to sell their data and claim "it wuz hackerz" to blame the AI etc.

Same plan as experian, currys etc cept with AI as the scapegoat instead of whoever's the newest junior IT guy.

Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better

Gemini insists every time I ask for recipes involving cucumber that its "adult sexual material". i.e. it believes I shove cucumbers up my ass before serving them as food.

It also thinks Chicken Breasts are porn.

Capita taps Microsoft Copilot to dig it out from UK pensions backlog

Ever get the feeling "someone" has stolen a large chunk of the civil service pension pot, and now Capita is trying (badly) to cover it up?

I wonder how many Senior civil servants / Capita execs have recently planned to move abroad?

Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it

So basically Claude is now sending your personal data and documents STRAIGHT to Anthropic HQ for data theft?

Why else would they HIDE what the AI is doing, even to developers, other than something very very illegal and sus af.

If Microsoft made a car... what would it be?

The microsoft car.

The steering wheel is underneath near the exhaust. The radio is attached to the fuel cap and turning it on puts the car into Park. The door handles spin as they're connected to the front wheels.

To start the car you have to insert the key, turn it 360 degrees left, then 720 degrees right, turn on the RIGHT heater, flip the turn left indicator four times then press the brake eight times quickly and three times slowly.

Microsoft says they understand this is irritating, but screw you, customers

Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server

Wearing a wedding ring, thats not the type of shock it's designed to bring.

User found two reasons – both of them wrong – to dispute tech support's diagnosis

teacher insists network port is fine. OK this fix is going to take 6months+ as every.single.other.option is investigated first.

Capita pension portal 'fiasco' forces Cabinet Office into damage control

Re: Of course, the government thought ahead…

Hard to add fines when such a HUGE amount of money has been internally "re-located" offshore where there are no extradition treaties.....

Basically a massive chunk of the Civil Service Pension pot has been stolen and moved abroad. Capita are hiding it, trying desperately to "shore up" their cash via loading debt onto sub-companies etc.

We've seen Capita have "money problems" due to inhouse shennanigans before...god knows how they were given yet ANOTHER chance to steal peoples pensions.

Civil servants are going to have to sue the UK government to get their money as this will just drag on and on and on, with Capita hoping some of the claimants die first to reduce the flow of requests.

Cops put Microsoft Copilot in holding cell after controversial hallucination

Re: Let's be honest.

They will still bill the taxpayers for the non-existent match that AI made up, and claim they policed it.

Rumors are that Guildford got a MASSIVE settlement in the hundreds of thousands as well as a "pension boost" to retire early to avoid having to give evidence.

Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam

I once has a very high up manager that wanted wireless for their office. So they cut the cable for an overhead access point and took it into their office. And then complained to IT that it didn't work.

"you cut the power cable AND the ethernet"....."but it's WIRELESS, it doesn't need those"

Emmabuntüs DE 6: A newbie-friendly Linux to help those in need

EmmaBuntus????

I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want.

Less linux distros and one that does everything, instead of having to have 14 different OS's set to multiboot.

zig a zig ah!

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

By 2030, Notepad.exe will be 1.5GB in size, require 8GB just to load and have a menu with so many options you'll need an ultra-ultra-ultrawide monitor to see them all

Moon hotel startup hopes you get lunar lunacy, drop $1M deposit for 2032 stay

I'm waiting for the inevitable Karen to end up on the moon, screaming at the manager "I'm Never breathing here again!" then storming out of the airlock to their energy-guzzling SUV Moonrover.

Firefox 147 brings GPU boost, tidier tabs, and video that follows you around

So basically you close an advert, and it FOLLOWS you and will not absolutely stop until you are dead.

Well there's another reason to abandon firefox.

Microsoft teases targeted Copilot removal for admins

So basically to remove copilot permanently you MUST have a copilot enterprise-grade subscription active for each user.

And it must remain active and unused to KEEP Copilot blocked! hehehe

What if Linux ran Windows… and meant it? Meet Loss32

Microsoft has announced Copilot is being FORCED inside Windows Explorer.

it can't be disabled or ignored. It will popup suggestions both when opening explorer windows to check files, when RUNNING applications or when selecting/accessing documents.

So this "update" is basically Windows 11 now effectively has Recall turned on 24/7 except with ZERO benfit to the user, Microsoft gets ALL your documents, one screenshot every 0.5 seconds and your state-of-the-art 64GB 9950XCD with a GTX5090 is now slower than a system from 2010.

Oh did we mention it reduces your NVME/SSD lifespan to a handful of months by constantly writing to it 24/7? Bonus!!!!!!!

CES 2026 worst in show: AI girlfriends, a fridge that won't open unless you talk to it, and more

Re: The drill? One solution

Sir, your cordless power drill won't work because it requires an always-on internet connection

Woohoo for lollipop stars.

Because what I really need in my candy is large amounts of lead, mercury and radioactive minerals! for literally 5000x the price of a normal piece of candy

Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info

Why don't we use Copilot to find what album it is.

Oh this song is "give me miniature falsehoods containing fructose" by Fleetwood AppleComputers.

"oh fuck this dark magenta precipitation thats burning my eyes" - by the heir to the throne.

"I refuse to turn you into law enforcement" - by rick astley.

Earlier Horizon rollout could widen net for quashed Post Office convictions

As of december 2025, the postoffice CEO was STILL calling the affected victims "money-grabbing parasites" in unofficial correspondence. By unofficial I mean alternate outside-the-investigation means such as using personal email to instruct staff how to throw roadblocks and for which claimants.

They're delaying the compensation KNOWING some of the postmasters will die before seeing a penny. Then they plan to "negotiate down" with their beneficiaries or fight through the courts to delay again saying they shouldn't have to pay dead people.

HSBC app takes a dim view of sideloaded Bitwarden installations

Wonder how much google paid HSBC for this.

because google HATES having to open to other app stores.

"yeah we'll just make every.single.major.app refuse to work if they use a different app store"

Your smart TV is watching you and nobody's stopping it

These companies are NOT to be trusted

Hisense, Vizo and TCL have been caught with "stealth" cameras built into TVs, capturing images of children undressing, recording audio of people talking etc etc.

Wouldn't install those makes if you paid me

The Y2K bug delayed my honeymoon … by 17 years!

No-one' mentioning the eight billion pounds wasted by the government.

They threw vast sums at their Y2K cronies to "protect infrastructure" many of which were single individuals masquerading as businesses. (think £10 registration fee at companies house).

Then used "national security" to cover up the sheer volume of theft.

When the lights went out, and the shooting started, Y2K started to feel all too real

I worked for a certain UK Satellite company. For Y2K they hired 8 VERY VERY expensive suits with no technical ability.

They sat there from 30th December to 2nd Jan being paid insane amounts (think world's top lawyers and then some). They had no technical ability OR access but were purely in place to draft PR fluff pieces "just in case" the TV satellites decided to hurl themselves from space on a death trajectory towards the UK.

Company spooged over £16 million on these guys, but refused to update their ticketing/support system, TV Box firmware etc etc.

BOFH: The Christmas spirit has run dry – time to show some chiller instinct

Shops in Sunderland literally changed their stock to easter eggs at 12:01am 26/12/2025.

'PromptQuest' is the worst game of 2025. You play it when trying to make chatbots work

These are NOT AI. thats the issue.

They're Large Language Models on a neural net.

They don't 'think' or process outside of actioning a prompt. They're dead between prompts

AND companies add a bit of 'people personality' (thanks Douglas Adams) to spice them up / add a bit of randomness, when there needs to be a fixed "I JUST DO THIS" LLM.

Tired of sky-high memory prices? Buckle up, we're in this for the long haul

Micron and samsung are running their DIMM factories at less than 25% capacity to drive up prices.

They're hoping that AI companies will buy a crapload of memory, THEN they increase capacity to 75%-100% and the massive delay in ordinary users buying stuff combined with a price drop/availability will result in a rush on memory purchases/motherboard upgrades "just in case prices go back up again". i.e. people buying MORE memory than they would have over the same time period if the prices hadn't risen.

They've basically formed an illegal cartel to do this all at the same time as a form of price-gouging covered up by the "cost of living crisis"

Micron says memory shortages are here for the foreseeable future

Micron and others are running their DIMM factories at 25% capacity, creating fake "shortages" to drive up prices as they know the AI investment is a short-lived bubble.

They believe they can quintuple DIMM prices and make a short-term profit before going back to 100% capacity.

Waterfox browser goes AI-free, targets the Firefox faithful

Icefox...its Waterfox but windows 11 made it freeze solid. again.

China turns on a vast experimental network it says is an heir to ARPANET

Fun Fact: this is all made up crap

Like China's 200ghz "super cpus", their "ultra cheap 256GB dimms" and Russia's "ultra doomsday weapon" which was an old 1960s missile with extra cardboard fins literally superglued on.

If you believe all the tech stories coming out of china, even the most elderly peasant has a PC with multiple-terabytes of memory running an OS 50 years in advance of Linux with an internet connection so fast it could download everything from Steam in under 30seconds.

Purdue makes 'AI working competency' a graduation requirement

Wait until they insist on an AI exam for your gyno degree.....

"so how can chatgpt help you insert the speculum" It can't.

"how can chatgpt help you take a pap smear" it can't

etc

Your car’s web browser may be on the road to cyber ruin

My cars web browser may be 3 years behind but fortunately I've reduced my pirate website and in-car porn usage to the bare minimum

Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming

>> I can't see a traditional disc drive surviving for long with all the vibration & banging about

If this car's a rockin, don't come knockin*

*Because I'll be playing some MP3s

>> I had also fit a tower PC into my car to play MP3s, so I thought I would tackle the thin client problem

NAND what else did you fit into the car?

Hot for its bot, McKinsey may cut thousands of jobs

I've seen the result of the first AI run and hilariously the AI said it needs to eliminate a large section of management.

i.e. fire the people who spaffed 100s of millions up the wall buying the AI system used to justify firings......

Apparently McKinsey tried to ignore the first result, but that just resulted in the AI suggesting even more upper-management culls.

BOFH: If another meeting is scheduled, someone is going to have a scheduled accident

Lets hope BOFH doesn't get charged with anything. I don't know Watt he'd do to get out of it, but Ohm sure he'd come up with something

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

Re: Don't worry

Water company execs should be legally compelled to drink one glass of water per day from a random river they have control over dumping into.