Posts by TimMaher

Warwickshire school to reopen after cyberattack crippled IT

And the hacker has…

…completed their Computer Science A Level, getting a grade A.

Cop cops it after Copilot cops out: West Midlands police chief quits over AI hallucination

Re: Razor

I have problems with Gillette's razor.

S Twatter: When text-to-speech goes down the drain

Re: Scunthorpe

Typhoo put the ‘T’ in Britain but who put the… I’ll get my coat.

Coming soon: We interrupt this ChatGPT session with a very special message from our sponsors

Re: “hold my beer”

It’s just here @Barty. To the right.

Bankrupt scooter startup left one private key to rule them all

Re: Dildo

Doesn’t that have a fallback to Local Intranet Management Program?

Mine has a spare battery in the pocket.

Meta retreats from metaverse after virtual reality check

Remember it for you wholesale.

So, Rikal is going into AI?

The icon is a Martian.

RondoDox botnet linked to large-scale exploit of critical HPE OneView bug

Re: confused

Never mind.

It’s Friday.

Have beer.

Apple, Google pulled into Grok controversy as campaigners demand app store takedown

And, in late news on the BBC

“ Ashley St Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk's children, has sued his company xAI over sexualised deepfakes of her created on social media platform X.”

UK backtracks on digital ID requirement for right to work

National Insurance number

You can’t get paid for work unless you have NI deducted… or you and your employer are crooks.

Just use that.

Re: pressganging

And you get money in the bottom of your pint pot.

Stop dragging feet on AI nudification ban, UK government told

Re: Twatter

I’m now calling it Titter.

Cloudflare CEO threatens to make the Winter Olympics a political football after Italy slugs it with a fine

Italians and Americans

I’m thinking “The Godfather”… not Prince.

Re: "Four Horsemen "

Just watch out for Ronnie Soak.

Mines the one with a Discworld in the pocket.

Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech

Just F off.

Then it becomes Open Source Software that the users must and should pay for.

Accenture bets AI will ring up retail sales with Profitmind investment

Durian

Buy now.

Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info

Re: “Smeared with Jam”

Great album. (I wish).

The Jam. Great band.

ChatGPT Health wants your sensitive medical records so it can play doctor

Re: Malcom Tucker time

Rearrange these two words into a well known phrase or saying:- “Off Fuck”.

How hackers are fighting back against ICE surveillance tech

Re: So...

Yeah but… they will have you on film from all the Ring doorbell cameras.

Linus Torvalds: Stop making an issue out of AI slop in kernel docs – you're not changing anybody's mind

Re: “over the horizon “

The Automatic described AI in their music:-

“What's that coming over the hill?

Is it a monster? Is it a monster?”

Good eh?

Boffins probe commercial AI models, find an entire Harry Potter book

Re: Palmer rather than Potter

Clever that.

I must say I find it really hard to vote for my favourite but, in the end, I always seem to just give “Spy Story” the edge.

Copper supplies set to peak just as tech needs more

Greenland

Have they got mineable copper?

Just asking for a fiend.

Maximum-severity n8n flaw lets randos run your automation server

Randos

I misread that as Nandos.

Sounds like they may do a better job.

Cloudflare pours cold water on ‘BGP weirdness preceded US attack on Venezuela’ theory

But… but..!

Will no one think of the DNS?

UK to spend £23M on AI to tell benefit claimants where to go

Re: Ram

Yup. Sheep farming. So unpredictable.

Specially trained AI…

…that can navigate its way through a ton of swear words from a frustrated UB40 owner with an Estuarian accent.

(Other accents are available).

Luggable datacenter: startup straps handles to server with 4 H200 GPUs

Compaq Portable

Agghhh!!!!

I remember them

Ring embraces the end of the world, starts using home cameras to track wildfires

Edward J. Markey (D-MA) released findings following his probe of Amazon's Ring.

That was probably quite uncomfortable.

One criminal, 50 hacked organizations, and all because MFA wasn't turned on

Hudson Rock

What?

Who chose that name?

They should have gone for Ice Station Zebra. Much sexier.

Capita tells civil servants to wait for chatbots to fix pension portal woes

Re: ping

You just need to feel the vibe.

Zuck buys Chinese AI company Manus that claims it deals in actions, not words

Meanwhile…

Octopus is selling off Kraken; its AI subsidiary.

They may have taken a close look at the bubble.

Europe's cloud challenge: Building an Airbus for the digital age

Re: De Havilland

My parents took my sister and me to see the first Comet land at Palam (Delhi).

Long time ago.

Accused data thief threw MacBook into a river to destroy evidence

Re: “marlinspike in their belt”

I had one, but it started to smell and the scales were falling off. So I threw it away.

Garmin autopilot lands small aircraft without human assistance

Re: Bravo Zulu

Or even Bravo Sierra?

AI faces closing time at the cash buffet

Re: “plans for Nigel”

Farage?

Great track BTW.

Re: “dead horse”

If I am a bestial, necrophiliac, flagellant… am I flogging a dead horse?

Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud

Re: Tesco

I didn’t know they sold masters degrees.

MBAs possibly.

Ten mistakes marred firewall upgrade at Australian telco, contributing to two deaths

Re: “Ship B”

But, but… who will sanitize the phones?

Cornish recycling drive sows confusion among Reg Standards Bureau

Re:- “sows confusion”

I read that as a confused pig.

But then…

MI6 chief: We'll be as fluent in Python as we are in Russian

Re:- Warble, twitter

I’ve never had a Warble account.

Any good? Fluffy cats?

BTW Twitter is now called X.

The future of long-term data storage is clear and will last 14 billion years

Re: 8” floppies

Especially those with the pre-punched sector markers.

Welcome to America - now show us your last five years of social media posts

Re:- “God’s Own country”

Why would anyone want to travel to Yorkshire?

Mines the one without a flat cap in the pocket.

Electric cars no more likely to flatten you than the noisy ones, study finds

Re: They really ought to tack "Technology" onto "Acoustic Vehicle Alerting System".

The sound should then be a parrot squawk.

Researchers spot 700 percent increase in hypervisor ransomware attacks

Re: “Now you have 40”

That’s because of the post.

As humanoid robots enter the mainstream, security pros flag the risk of botnets on legs

RedNovember

See, they’ve already overrun.

Supposed to be RedOctober.

Whitehall rejects £1.8B digital ID price tag – but won't say what it will cost

Re:-“hosted in secure cloud environments”

Really?

Re: Harrods biscuits

Fortnum & Mason surely?

Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner

Re: “useful recommendation “

“To be or not to be. exisquash”

Home Office kept police facial recognition flaws to itself, UK data watchdog fumes

The Register

Doesn’t anyone at the ICO read The Register?

It’s been discussed here for absolute yonks. By vultures and commentards both.

Tech leaders fill $1T AI bubble, insist it doesn't exist

Re: “Railway building bubbles”

From “The Hunting of the Snark”.

“They sought it here. They sought it there.

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

Re: OpenAI

Good article about that in today’s Independent.