Posts by Forget It

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

Hugging Face Palm

anyone?

Microsoft rolls out Windows Search updates and they're... quite good

Search Everything

https://www.voidtools.com/

GitHub AI agent leaks private repos when asked nicely

Re: Intelligent and knowledgeable intern

> And isn’t AI just like an intelligent and knowledgeable intern?

No - you can't smack it on the head.

Insert token to continue, says AI. Yeah, about that...

President of the Galaxy - post match comment:

Belgium Man Belgium

Perseverance rover finds even more signs of extinct life on Mars

Re: Jesus on Mars

Check out CS Lewis;

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

Mars came first!

They've read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius

Vesuvius - destructive

CT Scans - non-destructive!

Microsoft extends extended updates for Windows 10 in the most muted way imaginable

Question:

Will the ESU continue to be free in the EU?

Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows

Cygwin

for the Win!

China browses lunar landing spots in race to land on Moon

Poetry of Li Po: Drinking Alone With the Moon

From a pot of wine among the flowers

I drank alone. There was no one with me --

Till, raising my cup, I asked the bright moon

To bring me my shadow and make us three.

Alas, the moon was unable to drink

And my shadow tagged me vacantly;

But still for a while I had these friends

To cheer me through the end of spring....

I sang. The moon encouraged me.

I danced. My shadow tumbled after.

As long as I knew, we were boon companions.

And then I was drunk, and we lost one another.

...Shall goodwill ever be secure?

I watch the long road of the River of Stars.

Musk distracts from struggling car biz with fantastical promise to make 1 million humanoid robots a year

Elon's got no clothes on...

Re Nudo.

Google to foist Gemini pane on Chrome users in automated browsing push

Assisted Browsing today

...

Assisted Bathing tomorrow

Voyager 2's close encounter with Uranus wasn't in the original plan

See also

https://www.nasa.gov/history/35-years-ago-voyager-2-explores-uranus/

for the illustrations

Humanoid robots are still novelty acts, but investment is surging to make them real tomorrow

See also: Rodney Brookes

https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dexterity/

Gemini tries to sniff out AI slop images while also making them easier to create

Your's a coke

Mine's a beer.

Thanks

Google to allow Android users with high pain tolerance to sideload unverified apps

FDroid ?

Do FDroid contributors count as hobbyists?

Legacy Update updated – so your old Windows can be, too

For Win 10 this seems to work simply running a script

https://github.com/abbodi1406/ConsumerESU?tab=readme-ov-file

Google kneecaps indie Android devs, forces them to register

FDroid?

How will this effect FDroid?

Vision AI models see optical illusions when none exist

See also: Practical application of visual illusions: errare humanum est

IEEE Abstract

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1080402.1080441

Preprint pdf

https://quicklook-606e5.firebaseapp.com/BrelstaffChessa05.pdf

New Google AI model maps world in 10-meter squares for machines to read

ESA Copernicus Sentinel2

has been doing 10x10m resolution for a decade.

Se https://browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu

If you want a picture of the future, imagine humans checking AI didn't make a mistake – forever

Orwell

a good name for an LLM?

FOR EVER.

X's new 'encrypted' XChat feature seems no more secure than the failure that came before it

Gonna win votes

in the Rust belt states

Google confirms Gulf of Mexico renamed to appease Trump – but only in the US

Since America is greater than just the USA

is this all a bit pointless?

Google torpedoes 'no AI for weapons' rules

Re: "Don't be evil"

Don't be evil -> Don't be ethical

Linus Torvalds offers to build guitar effects pedal for kernel developer

Re: Worthless

So nonfungible gift then?

As worthless as a non-flange-ible

bass pedal.

Elon Musk's galactic ego sows chaos in European politics

Meanwhile in Italy ...

Giorgia Meloni is in a musk love-in

getting a Starlink centre in Lombardy

Windows 11 market share falls despite Microsoft ad blitz

How to bypass internet connection to install Windows 11

https://pureinfotech.com/bypass-internet-connection-install-windows-11/

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!

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