Posts by arachnoid2

BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI

Given its nothing to do with Culture or Sport one has to wonder why the propaganda machine even quoted them.

Re: Why a TV licence?

Think of it as a compulsory tax on all households so the "BBC" doesn't have to earn their income like other providers.

Take fight to the enemy, US cyber boss says

so America is saying in the open what its been doing for years behind the curtain of secrecy, oh and losing at the same time.

You'll never guess what the most common passwords are. Oh, wait, yes you will

Re: Most Popular Password : 123456

i2EA567

Azure's bad night fuels fresh calls for cloud diversification in Europe

Re: an inadvertent tenant configuration change within Azure Front Door (AFD)

Obviously the last tenant left a bit of a mess

Twist in Tesco vs. VMware case as Computacenter files claim against Broadcom, Dell

Re: It's one of those

Not a small margin in their yearly profits, which won't be easy to fill .after these shenanigans.

No apparent honour in the vendors behaviour.

Its not just the disingenuous behaviour of dishonouring already signed contracts, its also being unable to take a supplier's word that any newly signed contract will be fulfilled.

Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for pretending UK's Online Safety Act doesn't exist

Re: The Online Safety Act is not just law, It's state censorship.

You are misrepresenting the Act, it is a clear attempt to use a hammer to crack a nut and openly violate peoples freedoms and eventually sensor their access to the internet for what it was intended for.

Hardware inspector fired for spotting an error he wasn't trained to find

Re: Maybe they wanted someone incompetent to "inspect"?

Clearly they werent the only sharks in on the purchase.

Nice try, sinners: Pope nixes idea of AI pontiff blessing netizens

THX 1138

For the Reg Buzzard that wouldnt let me edit my post ( EDIT- I must have woke it up again)

AI Pope.......... this has the feelings of many a dystopian SCIFI movie (Bless you son for you have sinned)

Huntress's 'hilarious' attacker surveillance splits infosec community

Re: Can an AI company claim the moral high ground?

Its very much like the Police watching a suspect but they allow them to access and steal from numerous establishments but take no action other than to note their modus operandi

Nano11 cuts Windows 11 down to size, grabbing just 2.8 GB of disk space

Re: tech zillionaire

Given how badly it works in a normal environment requiring 20% more time to do tasks with it than without it then windows 12 might be available in 2040.

Re: We need to go back to an unbloated OS.

No one deserves it

its size and bloat are no friend

Microsoft is king.

The UK Online Safety Act is about censorship, not safety

Re: Calling it censorship is partisan bullshit

Im sure the woman who make thousands every week on the likes of Only Friends would oppose that statement

Out-of-band update arrives to clean up Windows reset and recovery mess

Re: We asked Copilot what was going on

Co-Pilot is their new customer relations department.

No more Blocktoberfest? German court throws book at ad blockers

So now this means you have to read every word in a book or pdf contract before signing and look at everything in a shop window because its there...........

I started losing my digital privacy in 1974, aged 11

It is the level of data that is worrying

Yes the injury data should be accessible years later but why was the address and other minor information even relevant. Surely such immaterial data should be scrubbed from the system after a few years ?

UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new vans heading to a town near you

Plus this constant feed of faces certainly wont be used for tracking individuals who say attend protest marches ,for later knocks on the door.

But its all for your safety..........

Constantly reducing the actual amount of police officers actually patrolling the streets and for every ten or more removed having one "overpaid third party contractor" sat looking at multiple TV screens is somehow safer riiiiiiiiight!?

No more 'Sanity Checks.' Inclusive language guide bans problematic tech terms

" "Hung" is deemed to be a bit violent,

I cant see there being many complaints coming from those people.

Do Spy agencies have to stop using the term "dead drop"?

Nvidia security boss pledges 'no backdoors'

CHYNA

Theres been at least one Chinese based group in Scotland (UK) buying up and allegedly exporting, 5090s since their launch.There will always be back doors to these export restrictions.

Patch now: Millions of Dell PCs with Broadcom chips vulnerable to attack

Re: The biometric elephant in the room.

The problem with fingerprint security is that you leave a copy of it on every object you pick up or touch, so its worse that leaving your password on a sticky note.

Re: Car

You would if you had a 3D printer

Let's Encrypt rolls out free security certs for IP addresses

Re: "which has the potential to negatively impact [..] search engine optimization"

Go home the pair of you

Techie diagnosed hardware fault by checking customer's coffee

Re: Please do not all power on at once

Isnt that the new Enterprise edition?

How to stay on Windows 10 instead of installing Linux

American copyright down the pan

Here we have the Americans who want to remove copyright from the likes of books, songs etc because AI needs to learn with total disregard to the people who actually make a living writing such things.So should this not apply to software too as "AI" needs to learn to program?

LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

Re: Feedback?

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)

Thinking this will prevent war, the US government gives an impenetrable supercomputer total control over launching nuclear missiles. But what the computer does with the power is unimaginable to its creators.

UK threatens £100K-a-day fines under new cyber bill

Toothless n'es pas

Good luck fining a foreign company.

Microsoft ducks politico questions on Copilot bundling and lack of consent

Re: Consent ?

They used the same automated method to force Windows 10 on people PCs without consent.

Microsoft wouldn't look at a bug report without a video. Researcher maliciously complied

Its the Hawk Tuah Trojan Shirley..........

Vodafone: Be in the office 8 days a month or lose bonuses

Vodafone pays relatively well, bonuses in Corporate are >3K (10% assumption for most of the cases

Have you actually worked out via hourly rate and travel expanse if that makes any sense cost wise, I think not?

DeepSeek limits new accounts amid cyberattack

AI will learn

How to stop cyber attacks against it and "Colossus: The Forbin Project" will take over the worlds economy.

FBI wipes Chinese PlugX malware from thousands of Windows PCs in America

USB infection is just a vector if that is blocked another will be used, it solves nothing .

A New Year's gift from Microsoft: Surprise, your scanners don't work

SMB?

A similar issue was flagged recently on social media and it came down to an SMB v 1 (if memory serves) being disabled on the windows update which the printer required for communication.

Jimmy Carter set the solar, space, and environmental pace

Re: A loss no doubt

It seems a Republican down voted me because as usual they dont like to face the fact they elected a racist, criminal and fully sexual predator into the Whitehouse. Never mind four more years of grifting by the man will soon show his true colours and those of the radicals behind him.

Re: A loss no doubt

How to historical lambast a former president , if only he had precognition like the next president seems to have. I wonder what history will say about the next criminally convicted felon to enter the Whitehouse and carry on grifting from his supporters who are already regretting their choice.

One third of adults can't delete device data

Recycled parts

There is also the issue of recycled parts from broken hardware sold on, I purchased a used card to repair my 50" TV and found several app accounts were still able to log into the relevant services i.e. Disney+, Amazon, email etc.

China's Salt Typhoon recorded top American officials' calls, says White House

But whose secure phones , you wouldnt expect world politicians to buy American Shirley?

Spy movies

Didnt they hear the crackle on the line as they picked up the receiver?

Badass Russian techie outsmarts FSB, flees Putinland all while being tracked with spyware

Re: "Always keep a second passport"

A second passport was the go to for many a reporter as some countries would not let you in if certain other countries had stamped the passport.

Broadcom makes U-turn on plan to serve top 2,000 VMware customers itself

Re: unhappy partners?

Akin to Nvidia in their treatment of "partners" then.

Windows 95 setup was three programs in a trench coat, Microsoft vet reveals

There were several versions of windows 95 spanning I think up to around 22(?) floppies depending on the software it came with. I made the mistake one time of installing it without using the 3 DOS disks first and had to redo the installation alll over again.

MS DOS and Windows 95

Were written to 1.7MB formatted floppies at the factory to try and prevent copying , as the standard format tool provided by Microsoft made all disks 1.4MB. Of course there were several 3rd party tools that happily made your floppies 1.7MB if you so wished to make........ er back ups.

Remember the song "Dont copy that Floppy!".

UK councils bat away DDoS barrage from pro-Russia keyboard warriors

the queues were nuts

Thats more to a lack of proper facilities dont you think.

Booking to remove garbage

Is getting as bad as making a doctors appointment

Fired Disney staffer accused of hacking menu to add profanity, wingdings, removes allergen info

I guess the Americans found Whalley after all

Whalley

Urban Dictionary

A term used to describe a vile piece of shit person that has no purpose in life and was most likely a failed abortion. Most "whalley's" grow up to marry washed up, cracked head strippers and have imaginary children

The billionaire behind Trump's 'unhackable' phone is on a mission to fight Tesla's FSD

Hackers be like

(Cracks knuckles): "Right lets avit"

Linux admin asked savvy scientist for IT help and the boffin blew it

The warning was well annouced

In the film my fair lady about picking a packet or two

Yes, your network is down – you annoyed us so much we crashed it

Re: Important word

What if you a a Freeman of the LAN