Posts by iron

Hugging Face CEO says 'planets aligned' for Nvidia deal, aims to reach 100M users

kind of like

Does Mr Delangue ever say what things actually are or does he just say what they are kind of like?

The guy sounds kind of like an idiot.

Hackers poison popular Rust crates to steal developers' credentials

Alternatively just don't update any library where the latest version is less 48 hours old. Requires no extra infrastructure or cost and can even be done with automated tools like dependabot on GitHub.

Wi-Fi 7's WPA3 protections come with a compatibility catch

Re: got it

The problem is new router, old devices.

Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch

How can you tell Musk is lying? His lips move.

Postgres pioneer credits Oracle with helping his database take over the world

Re: weird

Everything Oracle does has an influence on whether someone wants to use MySQL or not. For those of us who choose not, as I did when Oracle bought Sun, MariaDB is great when you need a drop in replacement but Postgres is a better choice otherwise.

Or you could be a mindless coding drone with no ethics and just keep using Oracle products.

Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age

Up next

Replacing the reactor with a nice clean coal powered steam engine.

Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder

the company's security scanner treated PyPI packages as safe to install

Who wrote this so called security scanner? ShinyHunters? One of the fancy bears?

The most famous brand in physical security got pwned by ShinyHunters

The most famous brand in physical security

Was expecting Chubb or Yale, who the hell are Brinks Home?

Never heard of them.

Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos

Given LLM's have no concept of the separation of code and data I can still think of two simple mitigations MS could have applied here:

1. White text on a white background - Word should highlight this for the user in red, no genuine non-scam/exploit text is white on white.

2. Copilot should ignore white text on a white background and not via guardrails, Word should not pass that text to the LLM at all.

Ideally both of these should be for coloured text on same coloured background, not just white on white.

SpaceX to try its luck again with Starship Flight 13 after engines and weather say no

Re: Public company woes

> "It's a government program, it's supposed to cost gazillons of dollars!"

>

> No, its' not. They still do, but they are not supposed to.

SLS is a government program designed to employ rocket scientists and engineers in (almost) all US states in order to secure votes for the relevant senators. Yes, it IS supposed to cost gazillions of dollars. As such it has been a huge success. As a bonus it also sent Orion round the moon twice.

Anti-AI open source has an enemy in common, but almost nothing else

Anti-AI open source has an enemy in common, but almost nothing else

In common with what? The headline only presents one party and therefore makes no sense.

Or did you mean to write "Anti-AI and open source"? I will never know because I stopped reading at the nonsensical headline.

AMD’s Ryzen AI Halo makes local AI look easy, but at $4K, easy doesn't come cheap

What about the important question...

Can it run Crysis?

It's looking like a hot, messy summer for security teams as AI finds countless previously hidden vulns

Re: Why not make software like every other product?

> I'm talking about the things that people actually pay for.

When did you last buy a copy of Windows? Every recent version has been free afaik.

Because I don't use every open source software package out there, let alone know all the different languages they are written in. I do however know the languages used by open source packages I use in my applications and if there's a bug I fix it and send the fix upstream.

Closed source packages on the other hand are usually a case of yelling at the supplier who claims there is no bug, yelling at them some more and eventually coming up with a mitigation for their exceedingly shitty code. And, paying them thousands of pounds for the privilege. Looking at you Syncfusion.

But, you wouldn't understand any of that because you're a moron who has never written a line of code.

Amazon Q flaw let booby-trapped Git repos execute code, swipe cloud creds

Amazon has an AI coding assistant?

Who knew?

US clampdown on Anthropic models sends EU sovereignty surge into overdrive

> Cybersecurity-specific AI models such as Mythos 5, Fable 5, and OpenAI's GPT-5.5

Fable and GPT 5.5 are not cybersecurity specific models. Fable is a general purpose programming model. GPT-5.5-Cyber is OpenAI's cybersecurity specific model.

Re: Energy Prices

And where would I put these panels in my flat?

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

> a coal export terminal in California

No-one will buy their coal. The rest of the world has moved on from killing men & boys underground in order to burn a dirty fuel that then kills their families.

No longer just a Copilot, Microsoft's AI wants to take the wheel

Nope!

That is all.

Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it

Re: That was my first thought.

> Software that folks added to browsers to capture streams, block adverts and whatnot was soon verboten.

In what universe? The last online advert I remember seeing was something about hitting a monkey. Similarly I can save a stream, audio or video, from most sites unless they use DRM. Many don't. None of the software mentioned is "verboten".

Megalodon chums the waters in 5.5K+ GitHub repo poisonings

Re: Megalodon chums the waters ?

Have you never seen JAWS?

The famous scene where Chief Brody is throwing bloody guts into the water and gets a shock from Mr Bitey - that's chum.

Zuck defends monitoring employees to win AI race in purported leaked audio

Re: Monitoring

The article said they want to monitor smart people. Not a guy who had one sexist idea and somehow made a cult out of it.

I'd work for Trump, Epstein and Satan before I worked for Zuck.

I always find it funny that Google, Meta and Amazon think they employ the cream of the crop when it comes to engineers when I think they emply the lowest, morally bankrupt and desparate.

Anthropic urges Uncle Sam to kneecap China's AI ambitions before 2028

Re: export controls worked?

Jensen also claims you can't smuggle a GPU because Nvidia chips weigh 2 tonnes!

So not only does he lie, he also talks crap.

Americans would rather have a nuclear plant in their backyard than a datacenter

Re: Nuclear power plants make great neighbors

> American safety standards

Like allowing Boeing to self-certify their aircraft? Or allowing them to self-certify their space craft? Or Tesla's extensive list of safety issues found on American roads?

Yeah great safety standards you have there.

Musk has never built a wafer fab, but he wants to burn $119B on one anyway

Re: harebrained scheme is part of Elon Musk

Maybe it was supposed to be "hair-brained" as in his hair plugs have grown into his brain.

Would explain a few things.

Re: No experience running a fab

He does not have a history of running a reusable rocket company, Ms Shotwell does that.

According to Elon he doesn't run an electric vehicle company either, Tesla is a robotics & AI company or some such bullshit.

Re: What?

Vaccuous morons shouting at other vaccous morons does not a public debate make.

Re: Blah, Blah, Blah

Should have asked if it'll polish his Iron Cross too.

> SpaceX still has time to make its first truly reusable rocket… well, reusable.

SpaceX still has time to make its first truly reusable rocket… a rocket, rather than a missile / bomb.

FTFY

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

After the initial shock this morning, the new design looks good. Fresh and clean without looking too much like modern web design.

I have one issue though, I can't find a link to the comments section of a story if there are no comments posted yet. Once a comment is posted a link appears at the bottom of the story but it's not there until then, or at least I can't find it.

(Firefox on Windows, haven't tried any other devices yet)

Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs

Re: Orbital booze

As a Japaniese saki manufacturer, I'm sure Dassai have said license. Obviously.

Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

You might want to get your UK passport reissued or you won't be able to enter the country.

A mate with dual German/UK nationality was recently told he now needs a UK passport to enter the UK.

> But can I run my apps?

> Well, probably, yes.

Not very convincing. Did you try a range of UK High Street banking apps? Because I'll bet you a tenner at least one does not work.

Without a phone that can run banking apps you can't approve purchases and for some banks won't even be able to login to their website.

OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope despite slamming Anthropic for doing exactly that

Of course Altman lied, it is what he does. The man is a pathological liar who always says what he thinks people want to hear.

The only time Altman tells the truth is when it happens to agree with his bullshit.

Despite proposed science cuts, NASA boss says 'We haven't canceled anything yet'

Re: Disturbing statement

The occupant of the White House seems to disagree.

Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects

I'd have thought wind was a natural resource the USA has in abundance. There's certainly plenty of it coming from the White House.

Intel eases reliance on TSMC with 'Merica-made Core Series 3 processors

Re: It's a matter of national security

Freedom isn't free, it costs a 7 figure bribe to the White House.

Doesn't scan as well as the song in Team America.

Locked-out iPhone user tells The Reg that Apple is scrambling to fix character flaw passcode bug

Re: Silly question as a non iPhone user

After an update iPhones go into a locked down "first boot" mode that requires unlocking.

I vibe coded a feed reading web app. It was enlightening and uncomfortable

Re: What ever happened to the future where we pick items off of shelf ...

Amazon closed them when the fancy AI tech turned out to be Actually Indians watching lots of cameras.

Britain seeks views before it drops the hammer on signal jammers

Re: Incomprehensible

One man's signal jammer is another man's BBC Radio 1.

Artemis II astronaut: 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working'

Re: I have said for 20 years

Or the concept of people having anything and perhaps being happy.

OpenAI gets $122B to 'just build things' as the world blows them up

> "Users do not want disconnected tools," OpenAI said

Clearly they have never heard of the Unix philosophy.

I realise I'm a non-standard user but I want good tools that do their job well, not a Frankenstein Swiss Army Knife that does everything badly.

> The world doesn't just want to build things. It demonstrably also wants to blow them up. OpenAI's long list of investors and cloud providers might now wonder if they are standing in the blast zone.

Not to worry, Jensen Huang supports war. He thinks we should have bombed Iran years ago and there's money to be made selling AI to the Iranians once the US bombs them back to the stone age.

UK fines Irish Apple outpost over sanctions-busting payments to Russian dev

Re: Cost

> The watchdog said ADI used a UK bank to make two payments in 2022, totaling £635,618.75, to Okko LLC, a Russian app developer linked to a sanctioned party.

Second paragraph of the article. RTFA

Apple's last tower topples… and the others will follow

Re: Gamers say pull the other one

Mobile GPUs such as that 5090 do not have the same silicon as their desktop parts and have far fewer cores, RoPs, etc.

It should be a crime (false advertising) for them to be labelled with the same name as the desktop parts.

Bullshit

My personally built desktop with discrete GPU dances rings round any SoC with integrated graphics. As my little used Steam Deck so obviously demonstrates.

SoftBank to build massive AI datacenter on former US nuclear weapons site

> 10-gigawatt (GW) server farm.

> SB Energy will also build 10 GW of new generation capacity... feeding both the local grid and the datacenter.

Except the entire 10 GW will be needed by the 10 GW datacenter so the local grid gets 0 GW, at best, when all the turbines are turning.

GNOME 50 debuts with X11 axed, Wayland front and center

Re: Yup......Zero Backward Compatibility At GNOME.....

> GNOME 50 itself still contains the XWayland X server, so you can still start and use X11 apps, the same as ever.

Sounds like backwards compatibility to me and in just the second paragraph so you didn't have to read far. Also later on the paragraph about old Nvidia cards.

Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to

> And then they need to wait one day.

What a load of bullshit. No-one wants to wait a day to be able to install an app, this still kills independent developers and FDroid.

Try again Google.

Congress puts the ISS on life support until 2032, orders Moon base plan

Re: Depends

> a scientific endeavor without any commercial aspect

Many companies have sent experiments to the ISS, I don't know if NASA charged them but there is nothing stopping a commercial research station from doing so.