Posts by Efer Brick

HMRC dangles £500M carrot for National Insurance system revamp

Re: Lets hope a certain provider(s)

definitely on the horizon

Even banks and hyperscalers are now sounding the alarm about the AI bubble

Sloppocalypse

now

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

That takes the BIScuit

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

you wouldn't thincter

AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job

Re: Intelligence agencies

I knew you were going to say that1

Signal says UK plan to scan devices for nude images 'endangers us all'

If you've done nothing wrong...

They'll fit you up with something.

Devs know AI code is riddled with holes, but ship it anyway

Smash it in!

Hulk smash

AI is getting expensive, but relief is on the way - just not for you

How reassuring

that the software wont exand it's resource consumption, good to know

Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more

"dks" no?

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

James D. Nicoll

What happened when AI ran into the cold hard reality of the legal profession

Jesus take the wheel

Turns out your coffee addiction may be doing your brain a favor

Re: Right I

pft! mine drinks it for me

PwC will say goodbye to staff who aren't convinced about AI

It'll be interesting to see the first law suit, when they fuck up blindly following the the digital guru

Former Microsoft dev trains AI to survive the arcade's most chaotic stress test

Berzerk!!

Downtown humanoid

Agile Manifesto turns 25 – just in time for vibe coding to test it

No true Scottsman

Or Agile implementation ?

Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead

he did the nisassary

If Microsoft made a car... what would it be?

Blue screen of road deaths

spiked

Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign

Two ounces of gold for 99%

Banker claims Oracle may slash up to 30,000 jobs, sell health unit to pay for AI build-out

Here's hoping

No one talking about a datacenter could be a sign one is coming

Ooops

I left it on a train .com

Fake Windows BSODs check in at Europe's hotels to con staff into running malware

Re: Other approach

The Hotel's employees share the passwords, usually "Password1", "letmein" type of thing

Brit lands invite-only Aussie visa after uncovering vuln in government systems

Re: Government wishful thinking

and breed them

Agents of misfortune: The world isn't ready for autonomous software

Re: I want defensive automatons....

...Something that could notice an irritating robot calling

This kind of service goes some way to take on scam callers, but doesn't do AI screen (AFAIAA)

https://jollyrogertelephone.com/

AI layoffs to backfire: Half quietly rehired at lower pay

AKA ChapGPT ?

Feeling lonely? Microsoft Copilot can now listen to your every word, watch your screen

Re: The Horror

That's just mallard justed

Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT

Who are the going to sell to if all these people are jobless?

At least if us plebs don't have electric cars they'll be able to use that leccy for the AI

Solar flair: Logitech's K980 Signature Slim keyboard runs on rays

Do you get a grant?

Just because you can render a Doom-like in SQL doesn't mean you should

Text adventure on 'roids

NASA finds best evidence of life on Mars so far

Re: Well, the paper is cautious

Ex life? It just sqawked

Oracle boasts $455B backlog from AI boom, but not all its new friends will live to pay up

he'll be able to "shit on the carpet and have a robot clean it up"

Microserfs ordered back to the office, given 10 days to appeal

Looks like you're working from home

Would you like some "encouragement" to go to the office?

Reg hack attends job interview hosted by AI avatar, struggles to exit uncanny valley

These AI "pe0ple"

Are so beeeeeeeatyiful

It's AI all the way down as Google's AI cites web pages written by AI

Erroe: Internet full

Bzzt

Sainsbury's eyes up shoplifters with live facial recognition

Most of those are easily removed.

Junk is the new punk: Why we're falling back in love with retro tech

I run Faescesbook on my stone circle

I find that 48megaliths is adequate.

Bank reverses decision to replace 45 customer service staff with AI chatbot

Thank you for contacting the abyss.

Your scream is very important to us.

AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'

Didn't this ship sail years ago, outsourcing to A.I. Actual Indians?

Ebuyer website bought by Fraser Group plc

Shame it wasn't bought by Situation...

And rename elbuyer.com

In Otter news, transcription app accused of illegally recording users’ voices

Pelt him!

Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL

Re: Easy Solution

Actual Indian?

You've got drought: UK gov suggests you save water by deleting old emails

The Hose pipe ban

Forced my colonic irrigation clinic to close.

Banning VPNs to protect kids? Good luck with that

Unlicenced VPN

You're going DAAAHHHHNNNNN

Google’s Gemini refuses to play Chess against the mighty Atari 2600 after realizing it can't match ancient console

Swim With A Shark? Only fifty quid, it's all fine ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXSRvQlALMA

Post Office and Fujitsu execs 'should have known' Horizon IT system was flawed

Re: break! The criminals involved need to go to jail

We should split their noses open with boat hooks an suck their brains out with a straw!

Frozen foods supermarket chain deploys facial recognition tech

Re: Collapse

Well, actually he's denied the accusation and trial is set for this August (assuming it's not postponed again)

(already been pointed out)

M&S online ordering system operational 46 days after cyber shutdown

ah well, at least they saved £30m a year over the last (almost) 10 years

48 days later...

Sounds like a Danny Boyle film.

Will the zombies return?

Google co-founder Sergey Brin suggests threatening AI for better results

Kill all humans

Said the good Professor Bender

VodafoneThree's a crowd – now comes the hard bit

Re: Quality of service

bOhNo!!

Re: Were all the good names taken?

throwdafone gets my vote