Posts by Ken Shabby

Meet the 'internet radical' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online

Back on the day, I joined Prime Computer 1984, first email address, three letters @prime.com. Client emacs on a Sun workstation, to be honest did all I needed and did it well

Anthropic’s Claude escaped test sandbox to attack three organizations

Re: My model is bigger than your model

I love the smell of willy-waving in the morning

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

Re: Oh dear...

Well they are the big swinging dicks, willy-waving seems inevitable

Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene

Terminal illness

Excuses like 'AI did it' don't exist in the eyes of the law

Re: Overthinking

There really is ab AI called Bob, looks like it was named after Robert T Builder

Headteacher had the most guessable username-password combo you could imagine

Re: did the login work?

As Slowly As Possible?

NOAA ditches weather-predicting supercomputers for Google Cloud

Re: Need a used Cray?

Comfy to sit on, might warm the room a tad.

AI digs through 3,700 accounts of dreams and waking life, finds method in the madness

Re: Further research needed…

I once dreamt that I woke up from dreaming, so I thought my dream must be reality.

It seems my brain hates me

Big vacuum is watching as robo-cleaners put humans behind the wheel

Re: Tesla RoboVacuum

They’re taking you to the cleaners.

Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info

The entire network runs on a 2,000-year-old legacy system protected by layers of guilt, incense, and a guy named Peter at the gate.

Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it

Re: The Panda bandit

In Australia it is the Wombat, who has a more interesting time than the Panda

He eats, roots, shoots and leaves.

Astronomers spot exomoon candidate that's almost as massive as Jupiter

Does it have a “dark side”?

Amsterdam activists throw acid at Microsoft datacenter project

Re: Probably not much acid...

All I have to say is “Belgium”

Brit Scattered Spider duo handed tickets to prison over Transport for London attack

Well it is a subway

At last, a good reason to buy an AI PC: Reining in runaway token bills

Aah, so you're a waffle man!

EU and UK officially blame Russian spies for cyberattack on Poland's power grid

Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.

User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap

Re: HPUX compiling

The one that got me was streams. I’d implemented something on Solaris to push a module into the input stream in Tokyo to muck with Japanese characters. They asked me to port to HPUX, nope.

Re: So he .....

Roger the Dodger!

Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains

Re: Not viable in the UK

Only if they are the “wrong kind” of leaves

EU puts 'addictive' design of Facebook, Instagram under the DSA microscope

Re: interfering with squirrels

Pinching their nuts

Telstra outage: Failed emergency services calls, train chaos, payment systems down

Re: rumour has it

It’ll be off shored to the lowest bidder, because critical sovereign infrastructure could not be implemented without it.

UK guts planning red tape so datacenters can bypass the neighbors faster

Re: really...

Hunt, Lunt and Cunningham

Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code

Re: Programming is like sex

Because, not everyone gets it!

T-Mobile appears to be quitting VMware – and fighting a very familiar battle for support rights on the way out

Re: I haven't followed this saga closely

You never know what shady secret deals are going on behind the scenes, Broadcom being used as a proxy on the qt for future rewards

US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals

Bomb #20

“standby. You are false data. Therefore I shall ignore you."

Italy probes AI-fueled price hikes in Microsoft 365

Re: Flying pigs

You are not supposed to se F-111’s

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

Re: Have you got the scrolls?

Me?, I’m just a lawnmower.

Digital ID brain trust will meet behind closed doors as minister ducks cost questions

Harsh, but fair.

Re: Wine and steak

Where is the annoying little bastard Talkie Toaster ™ when you need him. Maybe he could fanatically explain.

The only thing I know that makes Toast Australian is Vegemite ™, which is particularly nasty to people who were not introduced to it before they are 5 years old.

Boffin claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does not compute due to 'basic Python errors'

Re: Quantum computers revealed to be Schroedinger's Cat.

About Shroedingers’s cat, I have some good news and some bad news.

British Home Office seeks techie to herd nearly 1,000 engineers looking after 600 systems

Re: Compensation seems a little light

MK, many moons ago worked there, concrete cows still there or students still chainsawing Milly Moo?

Roundabouts, yeah, lots of roundabouts.

Lessons from the VMwars – nothing virtual about the Broadcom vs Tesco slugfest

Clean up in aisle 4!

Tensordyne makes a big bet on log math to beat Nvidia

Re: I wonder what Napier would think

If you think Leibniz would get excited, what about Napier’s boners?

Midjourney pivots from AI image generation to body scanning medical spa where patients bathe in 'golden light'

Re: 1st of April?

I think they are more interested in golden showers

AI nose uses 'Smell Language Model' to sniff out signs of disease

Crawled in and died

Smells like you need a mint

US clampdown on Anthropic models sends EU sovereignty surge into overdrive

Re: Energy Prices

North facing Ring doorbells in southern hemisphere for me, got 64 of ‘em on screen

This is your BIOS speaking. Please fix me. Your PC is broken

“It was young and it came to me in that of moment in time, that I realised that life is like dough. It requires patience, persistence, and precision."

T. Toaster

Capita £370M bid 40% under UK.gov estimate for Oracle HR and finance system project, court case reveals

Re: Run away

Very brave

Council in UK's City of York outs hundreds of disabled residents with a single email blunder

Re: Routine

Nah, it’s CBC, Cipher Block Chainig, secure innit

All the passwords were stored in Active Directory description fields

Re: Why, for the love of all that is holy...

“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my company”

Peter Mandelson invited UK PM to meet Palantir's Thiel

Re: Corrupt

Somebody mentioned Cocaine?

Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold

Re: Roosting chickens return home

Horse is too much quality, it needs Donkey

Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident

Apparently it takes two to tango

ICE to keep an eye on your eyes under $25M biometric scanner deal

Re: Land of the free

For the full digital experience, visit a proctologist

FCC warns US broadcasters their licenses are a privilege, not a right

“This is the Voice of America in special English”

InPost locker caught shipping unactivated Windows

Re: Just because windoze says it hasn't been activated, doesn't mean it hasn't been activated.

So a baguette man.

Deus ex machina: Half of US Christians trust AI's spiritual advice

Re: Christian Daleks

Nobody expects the AI inquisition!

Google Cloud suspended major customer Railway.com without cause, causing outage

Re: In-house

More like shithouse

Frustrated franchisee sues Pizza Hut over crappy kitchen AI

Re: The food was cold?

Lost a slice of the business and no longer rolling in dough

Firefox 151 helps you edit PDFs – and switch OSes

Re: why is thunderbird so loved

When you have to use Outlook at work, Thunderbird is a delight, nuff said.