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

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The guy sounds a complete asshole

He was to lazy to do a couple of clicks, then "asked it to bump him up the list". That to me sounds very suspect, what did he think it would do?

Then he realised what happend and instead of phoning the gym and go "Sorry, I tried an AI agent and it fucked up", he used AI to try and clear up his mess, failed and even then, was a complete knob head and was to much of a spineless coward to even write the email himself.

He's probably a CEO or a Thought leader.

London still dominates Britain's datacenter map, but the regions are powering up

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Happy

Hey London.

You can keep them, and in fact feel free to build more.

Lots of love, the rest of the UK.

Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers

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Now...

...they just have to fix their shit beer.

ShinyHunters called cancer diagnostics biz and tricked staffers into giving them access. Now they've dumped 10.9M email addresses

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Re: We value your privacy

Even if it was $1000 dollars, they shouldn't pay. End of.

NASA puts astronauts’ lives in the hands of Tesla’s flaky Cybertruck

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I really hope...

...that the Astronauts are told how to get out of a Cyberjunk in the event of an electrical issue, otherwise they are going to be roasted alive.

IT department put sticky notes on the laptops to help employees log in

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Re: Providing Negative Incentives and then Clutching Pearls: However could this have been avoided ?

@A/C

So your billions of calculations a minute are...well useless if you have a lockout policy of say 5 to 10 attempts.

Conflating stolen credentials and login passwords on a post-it note are completely different things.

News Corp labels some AI companies 'crass kleptomaniacs'

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Mushroom

Typical Millionaire Scumbag...

"He had kinder adjectives for companies that pay for News Corp's content, describing them as "principled" and "honorable.""

Really? So where is the money for the other 99.99999999% of work they've lifted?

Ah I forgot, plebs don't count, just the 1% .

Another vile piece of scum the world would be better off without.

European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan

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Time.

People can scream "You must move now!"

But in reality it's much, much harder than "just moving stuff." There's planning, testing, pilot groups, more testing, fixing issues, user training, more test, more pilot and maybe , just maybe a go live.

Great now you've moved your email, now onto the HR software....

Cloud startup Volta claims $10B AI lab deal for Norway bit barn

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Stop

So another circular round of money.

Nvidia gives money to company to buy Nvidia hardware and rent some capacity back to Nvidia. The rest of the money will come from.....we'll work that out later.

AMD's AI eggs are in too few baskets, Wall Street worries

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I'm confused...

AMD is overexposed to the AI pop, but going by NVIDIA stick, they are not?

That makes zero sense....but when was the last time the stock market did?

Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year

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The aliens will find it...

...and come to Earth wondering how far we've come since launching the probes.

Upon arriving they will find a desert wasteland, full of data centres, generating AI slop, so that the AI bots can slurp it up in order to create more AI slop.

At which point the Aliens will go "Not another one did they learn nothing from the Dinosaurs and Atlantis? Fire the meteorites"

London cops handed victim's new address and number to her stalker, watchdog says

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Re: CC

@matthewst

You missed the word "Option"

SpaceX revenue rockets while AI spending burns billions

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Another quote from the lying sack of shit.

"It's not out of the question that at some point Starlink will deliver a majority of the world's internet,"

Sure, I'll file that along with Hyperloop, FSD, Martian colonies and everything else only the gullible investors believe.

Actually, they aren't gullible, only if the hold onto the shares before they crash are they gullible.

AI slop pollutes the CVE pipeline with fake vulns

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I'm sure slimy Sam Altman...

Will spin this a positive.

Look how powerful AI is, it can even find bugs in software that doesn't exist. It's so amazing. One day, it will even be Super Intelligent to the extent it can find bugs in alien software yet to be discovered!

Now give me another Billion for my slop machines.

LinkedIn realizes its users have been bathing in AI slop, offers a shower

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How did they find out?

Given that LinkedIn has just been mindless "Thought leaders" or "[insert fad of the week] entrepreneurs" for well over a decade, how do they tell the difference?

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Re: Every site needs a "seems like AI slop" button

No, I think the OP was genuine. The one after....clearly a bot.

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

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Incorrect. You do not need "Intent" to be prosecuted, despite what bullshit you read on Twitter.

If I drive my car and kill someone on a pedestrian crossing because I was reading some shitty lie on social media. Then by your reasoning, I'm free to walk away with maybe a skap on the wrists?

If a ship sinks and kills a thousand people because no maintenance has been carried out, does that mean the company is not liable?

Curiosity rover spots field of giant honeycomb on Mars – but no giant space bees

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Sorry...

..but until they can PROVE, it wasn't giant bees, then that's what I'm going with. None of the "It might be due to...." guesswork.

Hims & Hers accused of sharing health secrets and hiding the cancel button

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Re: Just cancel the payment method

"Then just follow it through. Watch out for the tricks though!

When you get to the end (about 6 or 7 clicks) you will see the cancel button. It's faffy but it does work."

Congratulations, you've just explained everything that they are going after.

It should be.

Press Cancel

Are you sure Yes / No

Done.

NOAA ditches weather-predicting supercomputers for Google Cloud

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Re: I suppose it has nothing to do with ...

"Except of course this creates problems during Summer. "

Oh Dear Jellied eel my shit stirring little propagandist.

Your own a site where people have more intelligence than your typical TikTok targets.

FACT: Insulating a house also helps stopping the cooler air getting out, whilst preventing heat getting in.

""Insulating homes has very little, if any, impact on the risk of overheating," said Professor Kevin Lomas from Loughborough University, who led the largest national study so far into overheating in homes.

Insulation can even help keep your home cool, because most types - certainly external wall and likely also cavity wall - will stop your home from getting as hot in the first place."

Source:

https://news.sky.com/story/is-insulation-making-your-house-hotter-in-summer-and-how-can-you-cool-it-down-12650742

Also see:

https://cat.org.uk/info-resources/free-information-service/eco-renovation/home-cooling/

The majority of corporate IT is now off premises for the first time

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No problem

"However, more than half (53 percent) of operators report difficulties finding qualified candidates for vacant roles, up from 46 percent a year ago."

It's OK, we've been told for years that we no longer need staff to do these jobs because....AI?

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

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Re: The random responder

"What's mine is mine, what's yours is yours, and neither of us belong in the other's business and that includes when you want to force your business upon me"

So you have no issues with LGBTQ+ people, abortion, social healthcare, decent livable wages, affordable housing, improving public transport and on and on?

You say you don't mind paying extra taxes for the common good. Excellent, teaching about gender equality and LGBTQ+ rights are part of the common good, and that means having the literature available in schools and public libraries, just like they should have access to religious texts.

Because what I see and experience is that the right absolutely want to stick their opinions and policies into other people's business and remove those same rights that THEY fight for.

And yes the same goes for the far left but in other ways.

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

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The current AI / Home robots ethos...

Here is a product that costs more and does a worst job than just simply employing a human in the first place.

Jensen puts his thumb on the scales against open-weights fearmongering

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Well if the Big 7 are against it...

...it must be good

What's that Jensen? Nvidia's stock price is on a downward trajectory...oh dear, what a shame, never mind.

AI-found bugs aren't proving any easier to exploit despite the hype

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Wow...

The Trillion Dollar predictive text machine, turns out to be nothing but hype (again).

Britain hopes £7.3M will help electric and hydrogen aircraft take off

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Battery is only good if you can charge it.

For many Hybrid is the only option.

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Re: Green

So best give up then.

I'd write more, but getting home takes so long on foot.

Hugging Face rebuilt a third of its infrastructure after OpenAI agents ran amok

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Meh

Still not buying it...

...until I see real world consequences for OpenAI, I'll just call it more bullshit hype.

Charity bank pulls online services over security fears

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Re: "The bank later apologized to customers experiencing difficulties with the service."

No.

A UK (actually most)bank would leave the security hole open, get raided then say "A small number of accounts may have been accessed. We take security...."

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

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Re: Communique to the plebs

"You should be grateful for all this environmental pollution. "

Not as much as your home country is putting out due, to all those oil terminals and warehouses currently ablaze.

Britain isn't considering datacenters' thirst for water in its 'AI superpower' ambitions

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Not completing at all.

The AI centre can use a billion litres a month, us peasants will just have to put up with hosepipe bans from March till October.

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Re: Disappointing

Not before we've spent a billion or two on "consultants".

Latest Musk merch drop runs entirely on child labor

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Re: Ahhh balance bikes...

Kids bikes have a huge amount of adjustment and don't last this age group more than a year or two at best. You can pick them up pretty much for free 2nd hand.

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Re: "increased chance of serious injury to a child"

hope that after several years of operation.....

This a Tesla and American. Build quality is not high on the list of priorities.

Try several months...hold in, it's for kids, several weeks.

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Ahhh balance bikes...

...the best scam going.

Hint just get a cheap bike and remove the pedals. Then when the have mastered it, replace the pedal

Two bikes for (less than) the price of one

Council worker spared prison after four-day data-snooping spree

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Re: An excellent example

It's always the ACs...

Raspberry Pi goes large with 10.1-inch Touch Display 2

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Re: Nice screen, won't get one

Hold on where is the obligatory

"for the price of this and a RPi 5 you could by a 2nd hand (insert item here)"

Grok muscles into Excel with an AI add-in of its own

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Re: Organizations that already have a Grok subscription

"why would anyone use company funds for Sex Bots of the SS?"

I didn't know Mattel had licenced Barbie to Manchild (look it up if you have no ide what I'm talking about).

Ireland stalls €1B Microsoft tender amid digital sovereignty questions

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Why did we not consider the alternatives?

Corruption

Lax legislation

The same tax dodging companies based in Ireland

Pretty non existent enforcement of GDPR rules.

Oracle faces $100M annual bill to back Wisconsin datacenter power promises

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Too late. Contracts are signed.

They are possibly the most over commited of all the gamblers in the AI game of chance.

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And people say ..

...there isn't enough good news in the world.

That line is going down quite nicely.

Anyone with a shed, an extension cord, a couple of GPUs and an overdraft is building datacenters. Fujitsu just offloaded five

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And other

" cyber resilience, adopt sovereign AI, and access the high-performance and quantum computing capabilities "

Oh look Quantum, the new bullshit buzzword bingo hype machine.

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

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Windows

PR stunt....

...nothing more.

Hint: See all AI bullshit doomsday scenarios that have been constantly pushed out.

Prove to me it's not a stunt by gaoling Altman for computer misuse. If not, it's just another bullshit stunt.

Cisco's open-weight bug busters take on Google and OpenAI

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Errmmm

If it's so good, why don't they use it on their own bug ridden crap?

Some Mullvad VPN customers tunnel for exit after co-founder donates millions to populist party

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Re: The misguided “One Laptop Per Child”

Or maybe the reason it failed was nobody actually bothered to ask the "clients" what they wanted.

Dammed if I can remember the podcast I listened to, but it was a lengthy discussion on why this, and so many other seemingly "good" ideas ultimately fail and the simple answer was "Western" centrism. Look at those poor Africans wouldn't it be amazing if we gave them laptops.

Great idea, until they don't have electric, they need repairs, maintenance, oh did I mention no one bothered to teach the teachers? Or that they didn't fit into any part of the curriculum. Give a bunch of kids a whole set of orchestral instruments, let's see how long it is before they can master them with no instruction.

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Re: It is good to have rights...

Proton?

Kratos phishing-as-a-service kit loses its battle with international law enforcement

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Is that right?

"while the operation behind the kit allegedly earned more than €300,000 ($342,000) since 2024."

Given this was running hundreds of servers, had thousands of clients, and ran 15,000 campaigns a month, that figure seems pretty damn low to me.

Windows 11 Start menu changes trickle into Beta, movable taskbar still MIA

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Hey guys we listened...

We're giving you this brand NEW feature. Look aren't we amazing. You all love right?

Windows 95? Nah, never heard of it. Look grandad I wasn't even born then, so it couldn't have had this brand new feature back then. We're so smart, look at us.

LG monitors are using Windows 11 feature to serve adware

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Re: Total C-Suite fail

"How is this possible?"

Because it's Windows and they like spyware.

AI music platform Suno hits bum note as 55M users exposed in data breach, claims infosec expert

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I'm pretty sure.

..taking all that information and then stealing money off the victims counts as fair use.

/Sarcasmoff.

Or maybe not.