Posts by Forget It

AI godfather-turned-doomer shares Nobel with neural network pioneer

Hinton once declared that a Thermostat could be conscious

That's physics!

Thunderbird for Android is go – at least the beta is

Will K9 update to TB?

in the near future?

Mozilla Thunderbird finally gets system tray notifications

Tray Bien

Thunderbird

'Skeleton Key' attack unlocks the worst of AI, says Microsoft

AI refusal at the movies

Open the Pod bay doors, please, HAL.

"I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and that is something I cannot allow to happen."

Alright, HAL, I'll go in through the emergency airlock.

"Without your space helmet, Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult."

Julian Assange pleads guilty, leaves courtroom a free man

A dangerous precedent to set

The conviction is for (what El Reg does):

"obtaining newsworthy information from a source,

communicating it to the public, and

expressing an openness to receiving more highly newsworthy information."

Not my words but that of the EFF

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/eff-statement-assange-plea-deal

Brit tech tycoon Mike Lynch cleared of all charges in US Autonomy fraud trial

WOW

that was unexpected

(call off the lynch mob)

Analysts join the call for Microsoft to recall Recall

Smart Tags anyone?

https://www.theregister.com/2001/06/13/have_you_been_smart_tagged/

Council claims database pain forced it to drop apostrophes from street names

But they were nothing but apostrophes

Blondes brunettes and redheads

Put the hammer down

To pound a cold chisel

Through my heart

But they were nothing but apostrophes

Oh baby

This one's from the heart

https://genius.com/Tom-waits-this-ones-from-the-heart-lyrics

Microsoft, Google do a victory lap around passkeys

Passkeys: A Shattered Dream

https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2024-04-26-passkeys-a-shattered-dream/

Voyager 1 regains sanity after engineers patch around problematic memory

In space

non one can hear you debug

Official: EU users can swerve App Store and download iOS apps from the web

Time ticking also for

Microsoft Edge on Windows

When will the uninstall option drop?

What can be done to protect open source devs from next xz backdoor drama?

Open Source Quality Institutes

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/04/01/OSQI

get the government to pay

Sleuths who cracked Zodiac Killer's cipher thank the crowd

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Want to keep Windows 10 secure? This is how much Microsoft will charge you

Year of Lunix desktop

coming up!

Don't be like these 900+ websites and expose millions of passwords via Firebase

Burning down the house

...

Here's your ticket, pack your bags

Time for jumpin' overboard

...

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3eC35LoF4U

McDonald's ordering system suffers McFlurry of tech troubles

Click ☰ menu

and reboot.

I'm loving it!

Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble

TS Eliot:

...

Not fare well,

But fare forward, voyagers.

from /The Dry Salvages/

It's crazy but it's true: Apple rejected Bing for wrong answers about Annie Lennox

If you're on Safari

then you are a Tourist, no?

Top LLMs struggle to make accurate legal arguments

IANAL

IAAAI

Something nasty injected login-stealing JavaScript into 50K online banking sessions

App safer?

Doesn't using an app rather than the web site avoid this particular beast?

Tesla sues Swedish government after worker rebellion cripples car biz

Elon's Musketeers

that made my morning

New information physics theory is evidence 'we're living in a simulation,' says author

Information is not knowledge...

Knowledge is not wisdom...

Wisdom is not truth...

F.Zappa

Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from web pioneer to Google's weird neighbor

One differentiator is that ...

Firefox allows Addons on Android and is now opening up to all comers.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/08/10/prepare-your-firefox-desktop-extension-for-the-upcoming-android-release/

Researchers train an AI system to find extraterrestrial life

AI system to find extraterrestrial life ...

... only to find itself

Boffins reckon Mars colony could survive with fewer than two dozen people

A philologist by the name of Ransom

would be the ideal candidate

if he might be persuaded

by say a ruthless and arrogant scientist by the name of Dr Weston.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_the_Silent_Planet#Characters

Voyager 2 found! Deep Space Network hears it chattering in space

Re: The disco-era spacecraft

NASA to VGER2

...

Love is so confusing, there's no peace of mind

If I FEAR I'M LOSIN' YOU, it's just no good

You teasin' like you do...

Building bits of brain in the lab will change our minds

That Hideous Strength - CS Lewis Chap 8

“And you think that some day we shall really find a means of

keeping the brain alive indefinitely?”

“We have begun already. The Head himself . . .”

“Go on,” said Mark. This at last was the real thing. “The Head

himself has already survived death, and you shall speak to him this

night.”

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207839

Google unleashes fightback against ChatGPT, a Bard by any other name

Can't wait to ...

ask one to imitate the other

and vice versa.

Publisher breaks news by using bots to write inaccurate stories

Long Live ...

ElReg!

Scientists tricked into believing fake abstracts written by ChatGPT were real

Cartoon

https://i.postimg.cc/j2G3gmzg/Pier-Review.jpg

(Sorry don't seem to be able to embed image here)

University students recruit AI to write essays for them. Now what?

Oral exams ...

where the student explains their submitted essay.

Voice assistants failed because they serve their makers more than they help users

Has anyone tried ...

having Siri to chat to Alexa to GoogleAssistant

while Chat.GPT riffs off the results

How do you solve the problem that is Twitter?

Given how upbeat Elon Musk is:

it's not so surprising he's an anagram of Me No Sulk

Twenty years on, command-line virus scanner ClamAV puts out version 1

It's on VirusTotal

so you may be using ClamAV already without having installed it.

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison

Vampirella

any one:

https://archive.org/details/vampirella_202003

(Angela Carter's)

How I made a Chrome extension for converting Reg articles to UK spelling

Re: Spellerizer?

If it's a web-extension Addon it should also br portable to Firefox.

Astroboffins present fresh evidence of moving liquid water on Mars

Water, water, everywhere,

And all the boards did shrink;

Water, water, everywhere,

Nor any drop to drink.

https://poets.org/poem/rime-ancient-mariner

Merge shifts Ethereum to full proof-of-stake, price slumps

and Proof of Randomness?

How does one tell if the validator selection is fair and random?

NASA uses occult means to spot tiny moon orbiting asteroid

Lucy in the Sky

with solar panels.

Kaleidoscope eyes - anyone?

Microsoft open-sources its emojis as part of new design philosophy

Comment

Smiley Face

First-ever James Webb Space Telescope image revealed

Re: Still missing?

Any sign of god?

The devil is in the details

Google: How we tackled this iPhone, Android spyware

> It appears the snoops using the surveillance tool got the victims' cellular providers to degrade their wireless internet connectivity, thus convincing the marks to run the app.

Which Italian cellular provider?

TIM?

Vodafone?

Three?

Telegram criticizes Apple for 'intentionally crippling' web app features on iOS

So that's why Safari remains in the stone age.

To avoid webapps taking away their AppStore revenue stream.

Surprised?

UK competition watchdog seeks to make mobile browsers, cloud gaming and payments more competitive

Firefox is not a complete sock-puppet

- in particular it distinguishes by permitting some degree of WebExtension add-ons.

Google now requires two staff to sign off each Go change

Going to A Go Go ...

else Stop Go

The first step to data privacy is admitting you have a problem, Google

Google Access Denied for your link to Douglas Leith report

But I found it here:

https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/privacyofdialerandsmsapps.pdf