Posts by Empire of the Pussycat

UK spy agency: Don't feed LLMs with sensitive corporate data

Who in their right mind would provide any data, let alone sensitive data, to an LLM?

Why are those that do it still at large?

'Brittle' Twitter suffers bad case of the Mondays: Links, pics, vids fail

"We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences"

I do hope the unnamed scribe survives retribution for this sly reference to EM.

UK prepares to go it alone on post-Brexit science plan

Re: Not quite

You missed off that they also took the liar's bribe in return for their support.

No surprise that he shafted them.

Openreach offers more wholesale fiber discounts, rivals call foul

Keep him there, it's funnier and he burns more money

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US Dept of Energy set to reveal fusion breakthrough

Not even close

As I believe they are basing the >1 gain on the energy delivered to the target. Rather than the total energy needed to actually generate the beams, which is far higher.

Net result, they used far more energy than that produced in the fusion reaction.

Good for fusion research, but it's not going to help with practical fusion power generation.

First-ever orbital satellite launch from British soil will be delayed

Plane taking off from British soil will be delayed

Seems more accurate.

New SI prefixes clear the way for quettabytes of storage

Now we just need a measure called the 'roundsue'

Perhaps relating to cake circumferences in a certain reference frame.

iFixit stabs batteries – for science – so you don't have to

All I want to do now, is shoot a battery with a nail gun

Damn your cunning plan el reg!

Looking for a holiday DIY project? Build your own pen-plotter, for under $15

Re: Reminds me of the Penman Plotter

I used to have one of these!

Pretty good for plotting graphs etc., but the drift was too much to make acetates for PCB prototyping.

Elon Musk reportedly outlines horrible Twitter layoff process

Re: The blue bird rises like a Phoenix

Do you know of someone on left that should be suspended/cancelled ? Or that should have their tweets removed..

We all know the right wingers that were removed or have their Tweets redacted/removed for spouting lies, hatred and inciting violence/insurrection

Brexit dividend? 'Newly independent' UK will be world's 'data hub', claims digital minister

Re: It's the brexiter anti-growth coalition at it again

No sarcasm, brexit has demonstrably been anti-growth.

Things are bad everywhere, but in the land of brexit they're always a bit worse.

It's the brexiter anti-growth coalition at it again

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Boffins hunt and kill cockroaches with machine vision laser

I find myself thinking, hmmm, works on cockroaches, it should work on brexiters

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Vodafone and Three's UK arms locked in merger talks

Into the last year of my 3 contract

Since they announced they were killing Go Roam for new contracts, there's no way I'll renew with them, coverage is poor even in central London.

Arm founder says the UK has no chance of tech sovereignty

If only there were some nearby union of democratic nations...

...that we could build and could share the infrastructure with.

Perhaps even one with a member that makes the stuff essential for advanced chip production.

Don't want to get run over by a Ford car? There's a Bluetooth app for that

Ford's solution to their unsafe drivers/vehicles is for potential victims to run an app

Surely it'd be better to fix the problem, not make it the potential the victims' responsibility.

Testing of Starlink internet under way in Antarctica

The most important aspect is: lasers in frickin' space

Yet this avenue was left unexplored. El Reg is slipping.

One man's battle to get patent rights for AI inventors in America may be over

Re: no more rights than a toaster

i did wonder if this might offend talkie, but then i thought, screw it, it's just a toaster

when the AI can, without prompting...

open its own bank accounts

figure out how to dodge/minimise taxation of its profits

negotiate licensing terms for its patents

sue for alleged violations, and win

set up and run manufacturing, distribution and sales

handle the hr issues

bribe politicians

take over competitors

do charitable good, or fund demagogues

decide what else to spend its money on, perhaps amass a fine art collection, or a superyacht

it'll have shown it's enough of a person to hold a patent

otherwise it's just a piece of design/optimisation software created by humans, and has no more rights than a toaster

UK blocks sale of chip design software company to China

Wise decision, need more like it

China is a totalitarian state, aside from subjugating its own population and putting developing nations on the hook financially to gain access/control of assets, it threatens to seize Taiwan by force, where a large proportion of chip production is based.

After years of allowing China free access to decimate other manufacturing industries, and steal IP from foreign companies to enable it to move from cheap tat to more sophisticated products, the last thing the we should do is sit back and help China on-shore high-end chip design/production, gaining the ability to take Taiwan, leaving the rest of the world in the position of China's way or no chips.

It was bad enough for much of europe to become reliant on Russia for oil/gas, the lesson is clear.

Let's stop pretending it's a good idea to help totalitarian scum develop their economies and capabilities.

Russia fines Google $374 million for letting the truth about Ukraine be told

google's response

Pthhhbbbttt!

AI inventors may find it difficult to patent their tech under today's laws

Simple

The only patentable bit is the untrained HW/SW (except in jurisdictions where the abomination of SW patents is not valid).

Real world training data are not patentable, they are not an invention, nor is any resulting learned model used to configure the HW/SW, it's just a representation of the data produced by the manipulation of the patentable system.

The user(s) of the data potentially could own the copyright to the resulting model, but only assuming they had the copyright to the input data in the first place, i.e. permission from all person(s) or owner(s) of any property represented, if they don't have proven permission for every single piece of data, they can't copyright the result of combining that data.

That means no mass harvesting of photos/whatever from the interweb, surveillance cameras, patient records etc. and claiming ownership of the derivative work, if it was free data going in, the output is free for anyone to use as they wish.

Google engineer suspended for violating confidentiality policies over 'sentient' AI

It's the title of an Ian Dury song

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

It was also played at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Paralympic Games.

I'd assume the user chose it in that context.

Ex-spymaster and fellow Brexiteers' emails leaked by suspected Russian op

Re: some dodgy plotting

Ah, so you supported the liars and traitors who stripped the rights of the British people, using a rigged and corrupt electoral system to put a liar in as PM with a massive majority whilst getting a minority of the vote.

Fact: at the last general election, more than 50% of votes went to parties advocating a second referendum or simply stopping brexit.

I.e, the brexiters' lies had unravelled, the will of the British people was to remain.

Cloudflare stomps huge DDoS attack on crypto platform

Re: used to surface Decentralized Finance projects to potential investors

surface - hipsterspeak for advertise

UK government responds to post-Brexit concerns and of course it's all the fault of those pesky EU negotiators

Re: .....but in the "sunny uplands" this sort of c**k up never happens, does it?

The UK would have been free to go it alone on vaccines within the EU.

Perhaps if the UK had been in the EU, it might even have led the way in getting a region-wide deal.

The UK death rate vs. typical EU is nothing to cheer about, was that because of brexit? The UK is now dragging its heels to approve vaccines that WHO, EU, others have approved, is that because of brexit?No, of course not.

Cherry-picking the good bits and conflating with brexit makes no sense, they are not causally related.

Why do brexiters never stop whining?

They caused the trainwreck, the rest of us have the right to ram that fact into their every orifice, in perpetuity.

Head of Big Tech Expertise? Believe it or not, it's a UK.gov vacancy for a Whitehall job

Re: Salary?

The job ad mentions "secondment" as a contract type.

Given the role, I'd suspect that candidates from the government's consultancy chums will be welcomed.

They'll still rake in their normal compensation while on secondment, the 50k will be handy to cover a few meals and a nice holiday, and it'll open up plenty of opportunity to sell-in additional services.

IPv6 is built to be better, but that's not the route to success

Re: "The Internet existed long before IPv6."

Unlike you. Yes.

Re: IPv6

"Many fail to understand when IPv6 was designed. The first RFC is date December 1995 - meaning development started well before. The actual internet didn't exist then. [...]"

The Internet existed long before IPv6.

I was using the Internet back in the 1980s, and remember first experimenting with internal webstuff (text only) in the early 1990s.

UK, Australia, to build 'network of liberty that will deter cyber attacks before they happen'

Re: Politically incorrect minnows in a dark deep pool of ravenous sharks

Yep.

Having showed herself incapable of understanding cheese, and followed up with some piss-poor trade deals, she's risen among her peers to a position of great responsibility.

Imagine how bad the others must be.

Humanity has officially touched the Sun (or, at least, one of its probes has)

I do hope that at some point the order is given to...

set the controls for the heart of the sun

Boffins find way to use a standard smartphone to find hidden spy cams

Thunderbird 1 had camera detection years ago

Perhaps the Hood finally stole the secret

Brit MPs blast Baroness Dido Harding's performance as head of NHS Test and Trace

If only there'd been some evidence of past performance to assess her on before appointment

I propose that lessons will be learned, game changing, best in class lessons.

Build back blether.

US nuclear submarine bumps into unidentified underwater object in South China Sea

Run silent, run deep, run into things

<picture of fluffy kitten>

Telegraph newspaper bares 10TB of subscriber data and server logs to world+dog

"...details of at least 1,200 Telegraph subscribers..."

That'll be all of them then.

China demands internet companies create governance system for algorithms

Re: CCP repression and control by any other name is still CCP repression and control

Them too, and us, everyone else, several AIs, those sneaky dolphins, and the aliens.

CCP repression and control by any other name is still CCP repression and control

Given its vast troll army, relentless censorship, rewriting/expunging of history, misinformation campaigns, and the physical reality of the brutal repression/elimination of Uyghurs, it's hard to see why anyone would suspect the CCP of being up to no good with this.

If it's going to rain within the next 90 mins, this very British AI system can warn you

Only three rules needed

It has rained.

It is raining.

It will rain.

Google emits Chrome 94 with 'Idle Detection' API to detect user inactivity amid opposition

Would've been good to give the settings link

i.e. chrome://settings/content/idleDetection

Court of Appeal says AI software cannot be listed as patent inventor

Re: What happens when a highly advanced extraterrestrial civilization visits Earth?

I'm guessing that, he, for one, will welcome our highly advanced extraterrestrial overlords, they will impose patEnT rules, and he will not be able to patent anything at all.

Space tourists splash down in Atlantic Ocean after three days in orbit

Crew? More like modern day Laikas

Except this lot were allowed to return.

DARPA plans thousands-strong satellite constellation Space-BACN sandwich

"a low-cost optical aperture which can utilise all infra-red wavelengths in the C band"

My proposal is a hole in the side of the box, wonder if I could get DARPA funding to develop the concept? Hmm.

This is AUKUS for China – US, UK, Australia reveal defence tech-sharing pact

Airstrip Two is much bigger than Airstrip One

Plenty of secluded bang bang testing space and nice beaches too.

A developer built an AI chatbot using GPT-3 that helped a man speak again to his late fiancée. OpenAI shut it down

Re: ElReg has it's own chatbot.

Nooooooo, it can't be!

I thought AMFM is the log lady.

British data watchdog brings cookies to G7 meeting – pop-up consent requests, not the delicious baked treats

If this quote is accurate...

"No thanks, EU! Hated rules SCRAPPED as UK to end 'pointless' web cookies in Brexit bonfire," crowed the headline in the pro-Brexit Daily Express.

...they think it's the EU imposing the cookies, and yet brexiters get annoyed when people call them stupid.

Another big year for tape as ... oops. 2020 sales dropped 8% thanks to 'global shutdowns'

105,198PB?

105EB surely.

If only there were an el Reg unit that could be used. perhaps as Waleses based upon Bekenstein-Hawking.

Treaty of Roam finally in ashes: O2 cracks, joins rivals, adds data roaming charges for heavy users in EU

Re: As Soon As They Could...

Doesn't matter how had you push your nonsensical excuse, it doesn't cut it.

Or are you providing proof that UK rates have fallen now? Thought not.

Dominic Cummings: Health secretary's 'stupid' targets delayed building UK test and trace system to combat COVID

It's a novel experience to find myself agreeing with Cummings

Always expected Johnson and his gang of second-raters to be incompetent.

Unfortunately, Cummings didn't consider that while he was gleefully helping them damage and degrade the UK, and in the process enact the greatest stripping of individual rights in the history of the country.

Then came the pandemic, and things got worse.

Apple is happy to diss the desktop – it knows who's got the most to lose

Last orders

I've used Mac's 20+ years, but the last few releases of what is now MacOs have been a steady slide into unwanted, CPU-burning, pointless, bloat (Apple glorify new emojis ffs), bugginess, and increasingly annoying/unproductive controlware masquerading as security, as Apple continues to turn it into iOS for keyboards.

With the GPU design flaw ruining my trusty old 17" MBP, I refreshed with the 16" MBP, even though it required adding umpteen adaptors and external drive to get similar functionality.

Can't see Apple changing course, the next refresh will be running Linux with a VM for anything that can't run native..