Posts by TimMaher

Salesforce staggers back to feet after global outage

Re: AI probably coded a vibe

Hence SaaS… Slop as a Service.

Ex-FTC boss Khan urges Uncle Sam to break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent

AI is the comet.

So don’t look up.

I’ll get my coat and warm up the launcher.

Revolut falls for fake government requests, hands over customer data

Re: FROM: address

If they right clicked on it they might have seen “[e-mail]”.

Anthropic reveals fourth likely crime committed by its AI

Re:-safely at Waterloo

They could have been safe down on the old Eurostar International platform.

That was great in its day.

Cloverleaf deal is latest example of Nvidia using its war chest to patch cracks in the AI bubble

My study/3rd bedroom/boxroom.

It’s entirely air cooled.

Therefore I shall be unable to support, or even use AI.

AI companies are burning books, advocates complain to FTC

Re: humanity’s knowledge on the internet

It’s why i support Wikimedia.

Not lots of money but, if we all do it, we stand some sort of chance.

Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay

Lamplighters

What happened to them?

They ended up working with George Smiley.

Brit rail cops bring live facial recognition to the London Underground

Re: Next up . . .

At least you get to travel on a penny farthing with a nice canopy.

Is that you number six? Have a beer——>

Re: masks and balaclavas

Not in Nottingham for the moment.

Deepfake hiccup unmasks suspected digital certificate fraudster

Re: Do I have to offer the bailiffs tea?

Not unless they are ‘introduced’.

The Future is for Billionaires – the rest of us will get open weight AI models, maybe

Re: The future’s so bright.

Great track!

One of the reasons I first bought Wayfarers.

Re: Private data centre.

They already are. In South Mimms.

Gym rat asks AI agent to book him a class, it hacks a waitlist API to bump him up the list

Re: Jimmy Saville.

Playing along with his co-star, Gary Glitter.

Cyber vulnerability sweep picks up Royal Navy drones sending data to China

Photocells

Our DC/AC converter came equipped with a USB WiFi plug in.

It talked to a nice Chinese company that could show you your performance details in an app.

It hoped to be using our network.

Fat chance.

Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal

Re: The One True Kernel.

Where’s you sandal?

'Asimov was right' about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director

I think not.

Therefore I am not.

AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon

Yeah but…

… can I plug it into my Raspberry Pi?

China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic

Re: SETI at Home

That takes me back.

Whoosh!

Dev who gave HashiCorp its name returns with a faster terminal multiplexer

Re: Wayland.

No way(land)!

X11 for me.

Now waiting for X12.

Re: “grass is pink”

Ours is currently light brown and mostly dead.

Weather——>

Sigh…

IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day

Re: Papertape punch

You were lucky!

I just had a manual Hollerith punch on my desk.

Hyperscale, hypersensitive: US teacher cuffed for applauding datacenter critics

Re: VD is nothing to clap about

I thought VD was clap?

AI companies.

They follow the yellow brick road.

It is in Kansas after all.

Ask Dorothy.

Deep space dishes dodge devastation from Spanish wildfires

Meanwhile, in Cheshire.

Govt. is taking away funding for Jodrell Bank.

WTF!

Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks

Re: Hun

Don’t call them that @muskie.

Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs

Re: 100kg tub of lard

Police officer?

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

Re: I give up, What's a digit?

It’s something they stick you with when they are not being very nice.

ChatGPT wants access to your health records so it can be a better not-doctor

Re: "Florida Man"

Isn’t Donny in DC at the moment?

Europol flags 4,340 'horrific' URLs linked to The Com

But, but… Will nobody think of the children?

Seems like, this time, they have.

Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter

Broxbourne.

It used to be quite a nice place.

But that was a very long time ago.

Before the M25.

Year-long Russian attacks infect users as soon as they look at an email

Re: WTF is Zimbra?

It’s a very small, landlocked, state. Somewhere in south eastern Africa.

OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face

Re: Hugging Face Palm

Wrong graphic. You need —->

UK's seventh prime minister in a decade says he'll ditch digital ID scheme

Person of Interest

Now watching the last season.

AI and continuous tracking of all people everywhere is now the thing. Samaritan is in charge.

And that was made in 2011.

Also, closing track on last episode of season three… “Welcome to the machine”.

Brilliant.

AWS sustainability claims don't hold water, lawsuit alleges

Re:-What is H-twenty?

It is an AI imagined molecule.

MPs fear Treasury cold feet could sink Whitehall's £1.15B shared services push

The Matrix

Says it all.

As @elsergiovolador says (above) the idiots are just bunging billions of public money at overseas companies instead of investing in a UK Gov. system owned and built by us.

But they don't want to do that, as it might require some actual effort.

Hands off our VPNs, privacy groups tell UK ministers

Capita?

Just asking for a friend.

Zig creator calls Bun’s Claude Rust rewrite ‘unreviewed slop’

Re: Traditional ash frames.

That’d be a Countryman then?

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

Kevin the Teenager

By Harry Enfield.

Just saying.

How do you solve a problem like Capita?

Re: .22

I’d use a 9mm magnum.

More bang for your buck.

AI slop writing has taken over the internet, particularly LinkedIn and X

Re:-“ lack of character in the voice”

That’s known as “middle management”.

Time to head off for a beer.

Britain's cloud habit has become a billion-pound risk

Re: Rivers are wet

Not around here they are not.

GitHub cuts short offer to burn repos on CD after mockery ensues

Re:- Bake, consume.

Thats what we do. Doing tonight. Great.

Brit supermarket giant triples down on facial recog to nab shoplifters

Person of Interest

Anybody watch that?

Laughably lightweight at the episode level, however…

… they seem to have taken a dystopian, technically competent, underlying narrative that is really up to date and very worrying.

Considering that this stuff was made between 2011 and 2016.

I recommend all 103 episodes.

AI bills are baffling the C-suite after shift to usage-based pricing

After Intelligence…

…comes this shambles.

I’m going away.

Companies that add more AI also add more people

Whoa actually did the research?

AI?

User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC

Backup tape

Once had a spare 9 track that wasn’t part of the daily, weekly, monthly rotation.

I labelled it “General Purpose”.

Oh how they laughed!

I’ll get my coat…

Re: Superior

Senior sir. Not superior.

How the AI bubble could pop and take down the global economy, according to the BIS

City Road

In and out of The Eagle.

At least you can get drunk.

Hunting of the Snark

“They sought it here.

They sought it there.

They threatened it’s life with a railway share.”

Engineer accused of insider trading tied to Microsoft's reboot of Three Mile Island nuclear plant

Re: "Three Miles Down"?

China Syndrome anyone?