Posts by BebopWeBop

Apple hopes to save Siri from laughingstock status with infusion of Google Gemini

Good for vey simple things. Like ‘turn on navigation’ but otherwise and i dont want otherwise.

Court tosses appeal by hacker who opened port to coke smugglers with malware

Good try, no banana. Maybe he will

Be consoled with the sentence…

Try this, ‘tough numb nuts, gotta be smarter’

Ofcom officially investigating X as Grok's nudify button stays switched on

Re: Wat will Grok take down ?

I susspect we would all benfit if NO UK political paties used X.

Brit lands invite-only Aussie visa after uncovering vuln in government systems

Re: Government wishful thinking

TBF granting a visa to a dead person probaby is not the best use of the paperwork

Former UK chancellor George Osborne finds something to do at OpenAI

Add Tony Blair to the mix (the Tony Blair institute in bed with Ellison) and you have three of the jokers in the pack

UK pushes ahead with facial recognition expansion despite civil liberties backlash

People can and some are prepared to calculate policy trajectories. It just takes time and care. Those 'in charge' are not prepared to wait or don't understand the results - that takes some understanding beyond GCSE arithmetic.

Lammy was simply talking to appease whichever audience he was in front of. Don't expect consistency - you just need to look at the beloved leader to realise that.

Quite. Just imagine, someone photographed with a placard 'don't proscribe Palestine Action' - facial recognition on, jurless trial, fine or instructions to join van for prison stretch delivered by post - what is not to like? Joined up thinking from the maladministration.

Hegseth needs to go to secure messaging school, report says

Re: Hegseth is a drunken moron

Of course not. He couldn't keep up.

Re: When this administration fails

And I am rpepered to lay money on the fact that there are many US owned boas with drugs on them around Florida and the whole of the East Coast.

MAGA cognoscenti warn feds away from shielding AI infringers

Re: won't make any difference

Or just 'the American way' - learning from the best and most experioenced grifters

The letter concludes, "President Trump – himself a bestselling author and former television producer – said it best:

This was the best line in the whole article....

Apply here to win a Microsoft Ugly Sweater. It's uglier than ever

Surely Microsoft never peaked?

OpenAI money-go-round sees it invest in company that invested in OpenAI

It reminds me of the apocyphal tale of two families on a desrt island eking out a precarious living taking in one anothers washing. Just with bells and whistles.

India demands smartphone makers install a government app on every handset

And

Other countries look on excitedly, antisipating a welcome mission creep.

Pebble, the e-ink smartwatch that refuses to die, just went fully open source

Re: Tempting! Bit square though..

'Yet for some of us, (a) the phone could be lying around anywhere in the house, or occasionally forgotten in the car, and (b) we like the mechanical intricacies of a watch.'

I find one of the very useful thins about my watch, which is almost alwasy on my wrist is for finding the phone!

Re: Tempting! Bit square though..

If you are a runner, then yes. I do use an Apple myself, in part because it means I have a telephone with me (eSim) and don't have to lug around the enormous phone (bought for th sie of the screen and the camera) when getting out, although by SO loves her Garmin. I find the interface a bit clunky on it, but if you are used to it it works very well for running and swimming.

Crocs get the Xbox treatment with sole-crushing price of $80

The problem

with Crocs is that in their simplest, they are comfortable, robust and practical. I am coming to the end of the lie of mine (20+ years old I think and inherited from my Dad) - I have already done my best to keep them going but there are only so many times you can recut treads in the soles.

The problem Croc have is that they do last. And so they need to persuade people to buy new ones with no good reason for doing so.

Brits to help foot power bill for datacenters under government AI plans

Re: Too much energy

We pay the highest rates for electirity in the UK - while exportong it to England.

Manchester hits snooze again on joining Palantir-run NHS data platform

Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board has again put off its adoption of an NHS data platform prescribed by the UK government and run by Palantir until there is more evidence that it will be in the "best interests" of the city's population.’.

Madness I say, madness. Downing St, Streeting and Starmer would never countenace such a thing. Their sponsors might get annoyed.

Apple knits up $230 sock for your iPhone in time for Christmas

One way

of identifying a w*nker at a distance though....

AN0M, the backdoored ‘secure’ messaging app for criminals, is still producing arrests after four years

I take a certain satisfaction in observing that this was a subscription service - I wonder how much of the cost of investigations was funded by the criminals?

Postcode Lottery's lucky dip turns into data slip as players draw each other's info

Re: Lotteries

Nope - how much did it cost you?

It occurs to me that those names and adresses revealed may well have been winners given the limited number. What better a set of targets a couple of days later (or however long it takes them to settle up)?

Hacking LED Halloween masks is frighteningly easy

Re: "BLE enabled mask with a programmable app"

Well,I have seen suggestions of a large number of comedy penises roaming the street, with others saying 'hit me you arese'

AWS outage turned smart homes into dumb boxes – and sysadmins into therapists

Re: Cancer

Pre-dimmed in that area, and I am not even sure the power is on at all.

You have a smart printer? Tesll us more, ours is dumbly malignant.

Re: Not in the Smart World™

And we wrrs able to bake them as well

Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout

Re: Work Culture & Corporate Values

I think it generally leaks, a brown sticky, smelly trickle.

UK calls up Armed Forces veterans for digital ID soft launch

Re: Kool Aid 1984

Or all three - they are not mutually exclusive.

Boris Johnson confesses: He's fallen for ChatGPT

A variant on the Halting problem? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem) - I'll get my coat

Trump’s tariff‑shaped stick can’t beat reality on US chip fabbing

Re: And that will mean nothing

If you are not senile )as in the POTUS) it should signify a memory though.

Explain digital ID or watch it fizzle out, UK PM Starmer told

Re: "they are choosing us, they are choosing Hartlepool, Warrington, Belfast, the East Midlands"

There's always a positive side.

FAA decides it trusts Boeing enough to certify the safety of its own planes again

Airbus

must be grinning

Britain's policing minister punts facial recog nationwide

Re: Inetresting use

Spilling not a strong pint before my furst coffeee

Inetresting use

of the word nation. You mean England and (possibly) Wales?

UK to roll out mandatory digital ID for right to work by 2029

Not really going to work in Scotland, Wales or NI

Re: This is a nonsense

I think you are mistaken. Labour are recognising that people on the left will not vote for them -hence the panic and rush for Reform votes.

That's probably why bannng cash will be the next great idea....

Alleged Scattered Spider teen cuffed after extortion Bitcoin used to buy games, meals

Out of curiuosity wince when have we had 'apartment complexes' in the UK?

Li-ion roars can predict early battery failure, MIT boffins say

You 'reacched out to them'? But did you listen?

Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates

Actually yes, the alternative is too bad to think about.

Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing 'cathedrals of complexity'

KISS

And then I wur a lad, 'C obfuscation' contests were treated as an amusing joke. Now.....

xAI fires legal rocket at Apple and OpenAI claiming they're locking out Grok

And meantime

Even Grok appears to be compiring against the Space Karen

Chats leaked on Google show Grok users being provided with ‘detailed’ plans to kill the billionaire and advice on making DIY bombs and drugs

I am sure that the term ‘hoist by your own retard’ must be appropriate here. What are the feckers training the ‘AI’ on? It has already gone for antisemitic slurs and praise of Hitler - does Musk provide a significant amount of training data?

http://archive.today/2025.08.25-212505/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/elon-musks-ai-chatbot-gave-tips-on-assassinating-its-owner-jf8brmm2n (archive from Th Times)

'Suddenly deprecating old models' users depended on a 'mistake,' admits OpenAI's Altman

It is almost

as though he had never had to develop robust dependable software. Oh hang on....

Trump seeing green as he weighs deal to allow Nvidia Blackwell GPU sales to China

And

the shakedown from a Mafia state continues

The White House could end UK's decade-long fight to bust encryption

Starmer's determination to lick the boots of the US might actually have some positive consequences - even if he did not intend them.

Prohibition never works, but that didn't stop the UK's Online Safety Act

Re: Ignorant politicians

The Gruaniad has an excuse of a defence - by one of the architects of this mess - once of Ofcom now running a consultancy to be avoided.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/01/everything-right-left-politics-getting-wrong-online-safety-act

Panic buying ahead of Trump tariffs added $825 million to Apple's sales last quarter

But will consumers notice the effects before the mid terms?

Banning VPNs to protect kids? Good luck with that

Re: Private or Work?

Statements are easy, pro0mises cheap - don't expect any coherence of Reform get into power.