Posts by LateAgain

Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow

Evil people can run AI ?

OMG who allowed that.

Next thing you know random black hats will be training AI on "how to break in to... "

Definitely bug reporting and visibility on patches is better than closed code.

Have you ever tried reporting a bug against any closed software. ?

What's more likely is a targeted attack on the windows desktop that runs all those control devices.

Avoid anything that alerts the end users and it'll just sit there.

Peers ask why UK cyber bill leaves execs off the personal liability hook

Re: Take A Look At "The Times" Today....

Are you sure this isn't from an episode of Yes Prime Minister ?

AI spam filters are getting suckered by old-school text salting

Re: The pain in Spain stays mainly in the HTML - not the plain - text

That's also why top posting had to happen.

F'ing Microsoft rich text email couldn't cope with inserting anything within the body.

Had to go at the top or the bottom.

Anthropic's extravagant tokenizer complicates AI pricing

There will be an AI managing prices

Guess what it will be optimised for.

Ministers arm under-16s social media ban with least surprising study of the year

So, technically, Social Media includes the school with the intranet chat and (seriously) sending SMS messages.

Hands off our VPNs, privacy groups tell UK ministers

Re: Sadly VPNs are nullified by client-side scanning

When every windows machine, apple machine or android phone is going to send your age, and probably a photo of the ID you used to prove it, then the whole security thing becomes a joke.

OpenMandriva claims disgruntled admin trashed repos after community bust-up

Has anyone registered the git bug ?

"deleting years of work".

There needs to be a comment in the documentation.

"If no one clones the repository it's not going to be redundant "

Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IP

Re: Er, guys, I think the monster we helped create is actually pretty scary ...

That's "Fronkensteen" !

Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess

This was back when drives had lifetime warranty

It would have been replaced.

Those were the days.

End of era as the BBC switches off Radio 4 Long Wave service

Some accountant noticed that it would cost less to sell and hire back.

How did that work out for PFI ?

HP investigating BIOS updates that leave premium laptop users in boot loop limbo

Not sure.

BIOS updates have always been done after a reboot with warnings about having a power supply connected and NEVER interrupt it.

Firmware is frankly loaded to a vast number of external devices that you think just work, and in practice do nothing until a blob gets loaded into them.

I've seen Bios options to enable windows bios update, and it defaults to IN. Why???

Turn that off and choose to do an actual bios firmware update on purpose.

All gone to ***p now though with "secure boot" which depends on certificates.

God help you if the machine looses the date and thinks it 1970 again.

LocalSend puts your sneakernet out of business

Re: Long time LocalSend user

That would also make it usable in my local where the WiFi has the box ticked to prevent clients seeing each other.

The latest innovation in UK public transport: Schrödinger's trains

Screensaver?

Time moving around is a classic.

It's game over for Copilot on Xbox

Re: Copilot on Xbox -- for What?

The only place it's actually useful?

AI cheat option. "I'm off for a P. Make sure I don't die"

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

Re: RSS

Not like that in "feeder" on android.

I've had to turn off thumbnails and I just see headers.

To almost quote The Doctor. " New look? Nice. .... I don't like it."

UK.gov's DCMS to new CDIO: Migrate from Google to Microsoft, overhaul ERP, build a team

Yep. All the decisions have already been made.

(And I couldn't possibly suggest that all the backhanders have already been collected.)

The spaghettified DBMS chart that shows Oracle's crown is slowly slipping

Re: PostgreSQL not included

Not including PostgreSQL just shows that it's only "commercial" vendors.

Especially since PostgreSQL can actually run oracle code, apparently.

Is it bad that I misread the headline?

Oracle's Clown.

Britain's atomic brain trust gives itself till 2030 to unpick fusion challenges

It's the transportation that we haven't solved.

Satellite solar collection - easy

Beam down to the planet - possible

But nothing is quite as safe and portable as a liquid that you can burn in an engine.

Users complain that UK Azure is having capacity problems

I asked copilot

"When will the UK azure systems reach capacity?"

And most of the reply came from the register, here. This story .

Cool.

Customers revolt as GitHub Copilot 'fixes' rate limits

That really sounds like it could be a quote from "The Producers" :-)

When a billboard survives the wind, but not the boot

Re: I bet some people

Now that sounds like a feature request.

Customised error message

If an AI agent screws up while running your business, there's nobody to sue

Just get the insurance AI to cover you

Once the insurance company has agreed then they are the one's you quote as saying it's "all good"

NHS staff resist using Palantir software

"ideologically motivated,"

Isn't that pretty much the definition of having ethical concerns ?

Oracle moves to assure MySQL community it really does care

Sorry - SQL IS the specification

So why on earth

"The group also claimed MySQL lacks features that should be standard in a modern database, including vector search, which is often used to support AI applications."

Supposedly big-brained execs are outsourcing decisionmaking to AI

You are assuming that they use AI themselves.

I think they have a secretary for that.

Techie was given strict instructions not to disrupt client. Then he touched one box and the lights went out

Undo is usually control z.

Just saying you might want to remember that.

US state laws push age checks into the operating system

When the first AI "agent" hits 18 the world is going to be in trouble.

Assuming they didn't just ignore it, like any other child.

Google feels the need for security speed, so will ship Chrome updates every two weeks

Can we please have a *ing stable version

There's a "canary" version for anyone who actually wants the latest greatest release.

Users fume at Outlook.com email 'carnage'

Re: Microsoft support was not helpful.

Microsoft support have NO idea why any email is blocked.

The "reputation" database is someone else's department.

It was a mystery before.

Now it's probably all AI so no-one will know what did what.

Microsoft boss on AI content: 'Nobody wants anything that is sloppy'

I asked an AI search engine

"how can i remove copilot from windows 11"

And right at the end, in italics, is

"Note: Microsoft frequently updates Windows, so Copilot might reappear, requiring these steps to be repeated, or the use of specific removal scripts."

Cloudflare experiment ports most of Next.js API 'in one week' with AI

Re: So instead of contributing code to make adapters work...

Interesting idea.

I'm sure that it will happen eventually.

Open source project where what you feed into the AI is the open bit.

Re: Testing

It passed the test suite.

Then again I'm sure that Windows 11 updates also something.

Britain's creaking courts to use Copilot for transcriptions

Re: Why does this need AI?

Actually they already use speech to text according to the quote below.

The AI won't be for replacing that. So what is it for? Perhaps it's going to listen and compare with the verdict so the actual judgement stuff can be "simplified" ?

Court reporters spend most of their working hours in, (yep, you guessed it), court. They attend court sessions and need to listen carefully to everything that’s said. Their main role now is to supervise the recording made by technology but, as we all may have experienced, technology isn’t always reliable. Therefore they need to read the transcripts through to correct and edit any mistakes and produce a final copy after the court session. This amounts to an overall responsibility of ensuring that records exist and can be easily read and understood in the manner in which it was originally spoken.

- from https://www.allaboutlaw.co.uk/school-leaver-law-careers/becoming-a-lawyer/how-to-become-a-court-reporter

Microsoft to auto-launch Copilot in Edge whenever you click a link from Outlook

There are edge cases for it's use :-)

UK council faces data breach claim after mishandling trans complaints

Re: Guide to redaction

And if the "secret" bits and in pencil.

Rubbing it out and making several photocopies will show different bits on each copy.

Oracle Java licensing worries are percolating through the userbase

Last time I tried I had to tick a box on a webpage

I assume marketing wanted stats.

So any automated installation has to pull from your pre download copy.

Did oracle not notice the whole change to automatic testing, rapid development and many other buz words ?

VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files

Am I being naive ?

Surely if you actually remove old snap versions of something it actually deletes the storage ?

Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files

Re: Gods

Sound's like:

Answer by Fredric Brown, 1954

Personally I prefer the version by Asimov - The Last Question

Cyberattack on Poland's power grid could have turned deadly in winter cold

Re: It's 2026 ...

Don't be silly.

SCADA stuff can't get on the internet.

It's connected to a secure IoT gateway device, and that goes on the internet !

Sat Nad declares Windows 11 has a billion users – just don't bother asking for details

Re: We have a billion users...

there's a definition problem here.

The AIs running on a PC are not "users".

UK prime minister stares down barrel of ban on social media for kids

Is there a "most stupid government" contest running?

This generation of children broke through the over 18 age verification without even needing a VPN.

You seriously expect a over 16 rule to actually work ?

We come in peace, OpenAI tells locals near gargantuan Stargate facilities

Well that's not going to work

Everybody knows you can have only one active Stargate per planet.

AI framework flaws put enterprise clouds at risk of takeover

There was actually a rule back in the day

"if you wanted it to be secure, then why did you put it on the internet?"

Dead batteries cough up lithium after a bath in CO₂ and water, boffins say

Re: lithium metal

Ah those were the days.

School chemistry labs had real chemicals.

Far too dangerous now.

Windows 11, not AI, kick-started the PC upgrade cycle

I noticed that M$ actually DO NOT support USB attached TPM modules.

Plan a gone.

One real reason AI isn't delivering: Meatbags in manglement

"the AI tools didn't learn."

Strangely in the terminator story where the terminator DID learn, it was because Connor got to the AI chip and flipped off the write protect.

(That bit was in the book but not the film)

England keeping pen and paper exams despite limited digital expansion

Re: Poor service from providers

Flash back to the "life in the UK" test.

Outsourced back then, and they fulfilled the spec.

The spec which only specified the one browser. Guess what it looked like in anything apart from IE.

And guess how it coped with a proxy.