Posts by Strahd Ivarius

Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical

there is no such agency!

Microsoft makes Copilot harder to miss in Classic Outlook

Re: But... AI isn't Classic

I am expecting next year to see "New Copilot" and "Copilot (Classic)"

In summer season, it may have been written by an intern with a MBA...

or perhaps even a manager!

Don't worry too much about Excel macros, they are not supported on New Excel!

Microsoft faces competition probe over Copilot subscription price hike

in totally unrelated news...

MS proudly announced that the number of subscribers for M365 also paying for Copilot went up by 50%...

Engineer accused of insider trading tied to Microsoft's reboot of Three Mile Island nuclear plant

Re: "Microsoft's reboot of Three Mile Island nuclear plant"?

Don"t worry, Copilot will be in charge!

Trump pumps federal funds into coal plants in the name of energy security

Could someone...

... build a coal plant near Mar-a-Lago, since it is so clean?

It should be a nicer thing to view than these ugly windmills!

Google users fight for refunds as unauthorized API usage bills soar

Google is expecting you to set up a Gemini powered agent to look at your spending limit and put it back to the tier you initially setup.

Of course, it will consume all your credit to do so, ensuring that you need to go to the next tier to be able to use the API key for your initial purpose.

And then, rinse & repeat.

IBM tried to kill Tab navigation. Microsoft told it Bill Gates' mother wasn't interested

Re: To leave a program, do you: quit, exit, close or bye?

And for exiting games, was it Escape?

(like in Escape from Rungistan)

We've only gone and done it: Changed what you're used to

Re: Not commenting on apparently obligatory redesign, but….

What designers?

It was generated by AI!

OpenAI exec says company hopes to burn $50B of somebody else's money on compute this year

And we will be the ones paying the price...

Re: Tariffs

The Great Depression here is the one from 2008, not the 1929 one that propelled to power such nice people...

Re: $50 billions, $110 billions, $300 billions, …

So, M$ ???

Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving

Re: Not Over a Vacation, But ...

and then he turned the page in the manual and saw the last lines of the testing procedure:

"how long did it take for the network team to phone you and ask you to stop doing the test?"

Britain's £6B armoured sickener Ajax cleared for duty despite injuring troops

Exclusive footing

Inside an Ajax in operations

Re: Not just one cause

Russia is always in the right, at least on a map.

User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave

Re: How many excel users does it take to mark a column as numeric?

Nah or NaN?

Or even #N/A?

Re: Analogue clocks

But we can still say: from two to two to two to two, can we?

Re: Analogue clocks

I still remember one detective TV drama where the plot was about how people were reading the time wrong.

10:50 is not half past ten..

Re: Analogue clocks

I thought zero was there only to mark the end of a string?

Re: Maths

And now, you create a program that will use some API to ask the question to some AI...

Re: Maths

Why would you reduce your price after justifying an augmentation by new tax rates?

If the tax rate goes down (something that has never yet happened in all recorded human history), there is only more profit!

Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs

Re: £489,999

It is like in France, where the government says that they need to go to a sovereign cloud and Linux, when the Ministry for Education signs a multi-year contract with Microsoft...

Re: MPS officers are citizens too

Did you notice that the mass surveillance of citizen has now be put into the hands of the private sector?

in the good old USA, the police doesn't need to spend money on hardware to know everything you are doing, they just buy the information from the local data aggregator...

Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheet

Re: Multi-layered security

I am working at a beverage company, and IT is running on root beer...

Re: Not a gaping hole in the network, but . . .

The same that store passwords in OneNote, on only one page, for all the clients he is working with?

Then on a Teams meeting need to open said page to connect to a system for performing a demo while sharing his screen?

(I won't give the name of the company, because they have a strong accent and like adventure; but I still have the screenshot...)

Ancient Excel bug comes out of retirement for active attacks

Visicalc is faster and safer!

Server-room lock was nothing but a crock

Re: I have a lockpick set in my laptop bag

PIN for a secure area?

0000, as usual?

Re: ISO certification VS security

Any company using MS software can't receive any ISO certification, then?

Microsoft's massive Patch Tuesday: It's raining bugs

Who in his right mind is updating servers on Patch Tuesday?

Wait for the update to the update to the update!

Re: How?

This is because they still have 70% of the code not written by AI!

Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs

Re: "If Microsoft wanted to make a real improvement in its OS"

Of course they are really bad, they are running Windows !

Intel gets trapped in Elon’s reality distortion field as it joins in megafab delusions

Elon won't be able to understand how to operate it

Grok, on the other hand...

Oracle cuts jobs across sales, engineering, security

Service for customers?

This is Oracle!

Surprise! Big Tech has been a bit rubbish at enforcing Australia’s kids social media ban

Re: It’s not hard if you want it

How do you know it is a real person and not an AI-generated one?

Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work

Re: Back in the late 90s/early 2000s

My best prank was to put for all actions on a colleague device military music from the Napoleonic era.

Since he was a huge fan of the wargames of that period, he was laughing at first, then spent more than 40 minutes accessing the configuration panel for reverting the sounds back to the standard ones, waiting after each action for a tune to play to its full length before being allowed to proceed to the next step...

Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference

Ask Wally

The older I get, the more I discover I am not able to suffer fools who speak of "improving the user's experience" and then want to inflict AI on the users...

Brit lawmaker targeted by AI deepfake fails to get answers from US Big Tech

Re: End of satire?

The "social" firms are actively promoting deep fakes because it earns them more engagement from the users they addicted to their filth.

Nothing like "innocent dissemination"...

AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

Copilot designed a version of MS SQL that for some reason crashes every 2nd Tuesday of the month.

Re: Think of the bloody children!

And all that you see is coming from documents real mathematicians published earlier, that the LLM is regurgitating without thinking and without understanding what it is sending to the requester, but providing only because statistically this is the likeliest answer (and not always the best)

Water company wasted $200k on bad answers from an AI model – so built its own slop filtering system

Re: "at worst, it poisons critical decision making"

There is a typo, there...

It should read "at best, it poisons critical decision making".

The worst is yet to come...

Out-of-band getting out of hand as Microsoft pushes hotpatch for Bluetooth

Re: Linux Security Roundup for Week 11, 2026 Reveals Critical Fixes

"AI" (autonomous idiot) doesn't write all the code unsupervised at MS, it is writing only the part that requires emergency security fixes.

As long as any world-class outage affects first the USA, and the issue is solved before it reaches civilized countries, I don't care much...

Microsoft ships VS Code weekly, adds Autopilot mode so AI can wreak havoc without bothering you

Re: uh oh

So, 2-click that you'll do without thinking further?

Re: Vim

yes, EDLIN rules!

Re: This may not be all bad...

if it manages to take down all "AI" system with it, I'll be happy!

UK still doodling digital pound while Brussels frets over payment sovereignty

Re: Digital currency

politics as usual, then...

Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction

Re: Zebra

No cattle prod?

AIs are happy to launch nukes in simulated combat scenarios

regexes?

here lies the crux of the issue, then...