Posts by IGotOut

Azure outages ripple across multiple dependent Microsoft services

Is MS365...

...the amount of outages it has?

X marks the raid: French cops swoop on Musk's Paris ops

Sigh..

"Parquet de Paris also confirmed it will close its social media account on X, and anyone wishing to follow its updates can do so instead via LinkedIn or Instagram."

Sigh......how about something not requiring a data harvesting account with a US megacorp?

British military to get legal OK to swat drones near bases

Re: Airports too?

Go back, read article.

Patch Tuesday meets Groundhog Day as Windows hibernation bug returns

Forcing a power down by holding the button is far from ideal.

Do you shares in MS? Just wondering why you're effectively supporting their fuck up.

Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign

Re: Makes you wonder ...

You can get a double decker bus to do it quite easily.

If you know, you know.

Uncle Sam dangles nuclear campuses for states while watering down safety rules

Hey guys....

Would you like an opportunity to build an Nuclear restore with lower safety standards?

Would you like data centres taking away you water supplies?

Did you miss out on 3 Mile Island?

Well now's your chance to grab some cash and kill your residents long after you've retired to a Führer Bunker, Sorry, I meant a X-Bunker.

Just sign on the dotted line!

Re: nuclear safety directives

"Who's in charge of rewriting these at the DOE?"

Grok

Tesla revenue falls for first time as Musk bets big on robots and autonomy

Re: Oh dear

"Getting 10 million subscriptions to Tesla's Full Self-Driving feature"

Well he's removing the most basic items such as Lane Assist, found in cars a 1/3 the price and putting it in the new subscription model.

I genuinely can't see any reason to buy a Tesla these days, other than maybe the charging network.

Microsoft plans more server farms, despite water worries

Look at the billions of "Investment"

Yes all that money will be spent locally, for the good of the local community!

What's that Skippy? The vast majority of that money will actually go into the pockets of billion Dollar Tech Companies? Tell me that's not true!

Old Windows quirks help punch through new admin defenses

Re: Only in testing huh?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/application-security/application-control/administrator-protection/?tabs=intune

Administrator protection can be enabled through several methods:

Microsoft Intune Settings Catalog (Preview)

CSP

Group policy

Windows Security Settings (Preview)

So it's not for general public use.

France to replace US videoconferencing wares with unfortunately named sovereign alternative

Re: 100% sovereign.

So Teams is compatible with Facetime?

Voyager 2's close encounter with Uranus wasn't in the original plan

Re: This brings up the awkward question of when the next mission might be launched

"How are the Chinese going to get there if they don't have a mission to copy?"

Remind me who they copied for Chang'e 4 &6?

US ownership of TikTok off to a rocky start as outage continues into second day

Wait until Oracle...

...start charging users $1000 per core on their mobiles.

EU looking into Elon Musk's X after Grok produces deepfake sex images

Re: I'm curious...

Don't know, go and ask all the other AI companies how they manage it.

Three is the magic number for Alaska Airlines: triple redundancy

Backups are not everything...

...Telecoms people will tell you need Active / Active and ideally active / active with hot standbys.

5 9's? These days cloud seems to be lucky if it's 5 8's

Re: Failure mode

And if your house burns down?

Tech employees demand their leaders take a stand against ICE

Correction to article

"after masked federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti over the weekend "

Should read

"after masked federal agents murdered Alex Pretti over the weekend"

Data thieves borrow Nike's 'Just Do It' mantra, claim they ran off with 1.4TB

That's a lot of data...

...on how to make some of the most hideous looking footwear on the planet.

Future of UK's multibillion Ajax armored vehicle program looks shaky

Re: Drones

FFS.

Another armchair expert.

So remind me, how do the drone operators get to the fron lives? Magic pixie dust? Teleportation devices?

And how do the drones get made? Are transport vehicles all now completely drone proof?

War is one on logistics as much as weaponry. No good having cheap drones if you're 400 miles from the front.

Marching orders delayed: Veterans' Digital ID off to a slow start

Let me give you an example of Government Incompetence

I went to renew my dad's Driving licence online as he's well over 70.

You now need to have a "Driver and Vehicles Account"

But in order to create that you need to create a Gov.uk. One login.

To do this you need to do all the bollocks associated with that (which in my experience fails 95% of the time)

Then you can go back and create the account.

..

..

..

So my dad just sent the form off in the post.

Tech support detective solved PC crime by looking in the carpark

What everyone seems to forget it was a piece of piss to bypass XP security.....you just needed to right bootdisk.....or so I heard (is it past the statute of limitations yet?)

AI-powered cyberattack kits are 'just a matter of time,' warns Google exec

Well Google...

... you're partly to blame for this soooo....die?

Qualcomm CEO pockets 15% pay rise as profits fall 45%

And remember folks

...you pay less tax on stock

So you secure a nice loan against said stock, claim it as an expense and Bingo! Profit.

House GOP wants final say on AI chip exports after Trump gives Nvidia a China hall pass

But how....

...is Trump going to get his kickbacks if others start meddling?

FTC tries to un-Zuck Meta's grip on the market by dragging it back to court

So all he has to do....

is give Trump 25% of all ad revenue and it'll be fine to carry on.

Trump promises nuclear datacenter permits in 3 weeks, calls Greenland 'big beautiful ice'

For someone who apparently doesn't like communism....

...he isn't half like Castro.

Just talks bollocks for hours at a time, best pals with Russia's leaders and...oh wait, Cuba didn't go around invading and blowing up other countries.

My bad.

We come in peace, OpenAI tells locals near gargantuan Stargate facilities

Yeah and look how that worked out.

Palantir CEO claims AI will mean western economies won't need immigration

Re: How many "immigrants" work in the Valley and brought the innovation US is built on?

Elon Musk & Satya Nadella immediately spring to mind.

Another scumbag

shooting off his mouth.

No suprise.

But our governments will still keep using stuff sold by scumbags, whilst saying they don't like scumbags.

Dead batteries cough up lithium after a bath in CO₂ and water, boffins say

There could be a big difference between....

...the Chinese and US approaches.

The Chinese may invest in this if they think there may be a social / political / commercial /strategic benefit in 5 - 10 years.

The US approach is likely to be, what will our share price look like next quarter?

AI framework flaws put enterprise clouds at risk of takeover

Re: I feel like a broken record...

Because the snake oil salesman said it's magic and will fix everything.

Power scarcity drives datacenters to Texas, where the juice is

Gas turbines unable to meet demand.

Let's hope those companies selling to AI bit barns do what the memory companies have done to us.

Sure, we'll supply them. Oh no, no, no....that was LAST weeks price, today it's 4x higher, hurry though we may....oh sorry, just been informed, it's now 6x last week's price.

Yes I know you ordered yours 3 months ago, but we cancelled that order, but as a gesture of goodwill, you can place a new order and we'll give you 10% off the new price.

Rackspace tests customer loyalty with brutal email price hike

Proton Unlimited. Same price if bought annually:

Proton Mail • 1 user with up to 15 email addresses

• 500 GB of total storage shared with Proton Drive

• Support for 3 custom email domains

• Short domain email address (@pm.me): send and receive messages

• Unlimited labels, folders, and filters

• Email client support (via IMAP/SMTP and Proton Mail Bridge)

• Contact groups

• Auto-reply

• Catch-all email

• Easy Switch import assistant

• Password-protected Emails

• Send as many emails as you want*

• Priority customer support

• Dark Web Monitoring

• Unlimited hide-my-email aliases

• Proton Sentinel account protection

Proton Calendar • 25 personal calendars per user

Proton VPN • Connect to VPN on 10 devices per user at the same time

• Highest VPN speed

• 13,000+ servers(new window) in 120+ countries

• NetShield Ad-blocker(new window)

• Worldwide streaming services

• P2P/BitTorrent support(new window)

• Secure Core servers(new window)

• Tor over VPN(new window)

• Strict no-logs policy

• Unlimited volume/bandwidth

• DNS leak prevention(new window)

• Kill switch/always-on VPN(new window)

• Encrypted VPN servers

• Router support

• Split tunneling (Android and Windows only)

Proton Drive • 500 GB of total storage shared with Proton Mail

• Proton Doc

Proton Pass • 50 vaults

• Unlimited hide-my-email addresses

Proton Wallet • 10 wallets with 10 accounts each

Proton Lumo Free • Limited usage

• Basic chat history

Seems a teeny bit better than their offering....

UK gambling regulator accuses Meta of lying about its struggle to spot illegal ads

Wow....

Scam and illegal adverts. Why don't they report them, that why they can get the official stance of "We've reviewed your report and it doesn't break any of outer guidelines". Translation "They paid for it".

And just wait until they start watching YouTube!

Price, battery life, performance – that's how you sell PCs

Re: I want optical drives back.

As a side note, I tried reading some 10 year old Cade's a few months back.

9 out of 10 were unusable. You could actually see the physical discolouration on the knackered discs, it looked like oil slicks on the disk

So be warned!

Broker who sold malware to the FBI set for sentencing

Multiple mistakes made.

1. He was Jordanian, not Israeli

2. He didn't run a "security" company only selling to "law enforcement" and other government authorities (the more totalitarian the better). See point 1.

3. He didn't charge enough money. See points 1 & 2

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

Let's not forget

...he blamed the public outcry, the media and politicians for him having to retire, not his fuck up and lies. No sir it was everyone else to blame.

Fast Pair, loose security: Bluetooth accessories open to silent hijack

Looks at my little Fossil Audio amp....

....pairs with first device to connect to it on power up.

Shugs shoulders, moves on.

I've seen plenty of soundbars do the same. Heck some devices just sit there waiting for a connection for hours.

I could be pretentious and go "If you care about music, why are you using Bluetooth?" But it's simply convenience over quality.

Engineer used welding shop air hose to 'clean' PCs – hilarity did not ensue

It's why factories have signs all around compressed saying how dangerous it is. You're not even supposed to blow the dirt off your clothes using it.....but everyone does.

Contagious Claude Code bug Anthropic ignored promptly spreads to Cowork

So...

Here is an agent to help you sort your documents....but please don't connect it to folders where sensitive information may be, such as "My Documents" or "One Drive" or "Google Drive". If you follow these guidelines you may , everso slightly, be ok.

Oh shit Dropbox as well, ah fuck, SharePoint , no wait, AWS, and ummmm....

OpenAI to serve up ChatGPT on Cerebras’ AI dinner plates in $10B+ deal

Holy shit...

"The deal, which will see Cerebras take on the risk of building and leasing datacenters to serve OpenAI, is valued at more than $10 billion, "

So build the DC's, fill them with hardware then pop. AI bubble deflates and you have a giant water heater doing nothing and your company gets bought out for $1

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

I agree. Everyone should be allowed to make as much CSAM and degrade women as much as they like.

/Sarcasmmoff

Woman bailed as cops probe doctor's surgery data breach

Re: Theft

They may have stolen a pc.

Ignore rosy datacenter expansion projections – there isn't enough power

And when it goes Pop

The likes of Sam Altman and the other snake oil salesmen will blame the lack of power for the downfall and how real AI was just around the corner, but its everyone else's fault it all failed, because if they just had more power.

France fines telcos €42M for sub-par security prior to 24M customer breach

Booooo...

Europe picking on poor hard done by US companies, better raise the tarrifs?

Oh wait, the law applies to non-US companies as well? But, but, but Europe only attacks poor hard done by multi-billion dollar US companies, Donald told me so.

Moon hotel startup hopes you get lunar lunacy, drop $1M deposit for 2032 stay

A bit fucking late

Didn't you know Musk has had a colony on Mars since 2022?

It's connected to other Martian X-bases by a hyperloop, but if you you prefer, you can always hop into a FSD Tesla.

https://www.archdaily.com/880697/elon-musk-announces-spacex-plans-to-begin-mars-colonization-by-2022

SK Hynix's $13B packaging facility promises more HBM for the AI bubble

Slight correction

" now going for well in excess of $300 as vendors grapple with the ongoing DRAM and NAND crunch. "

Should read

" now going for well in excess of $300 as vendors price gouge as much as possible with the ongoing DRAM and NAND crunch. "

Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause

Re: Sounds like gold bars

Pah toner.

I'll take you that and raise you a Techtronix Phaser. Unplugged it, picked the bastard heavy thing up to move it to another desk. Molten wax fucking everywhere. Took me hours to clean up the printer, desk, floor, me.....

Trump says Americans shouldn't 'pick up the tab' for AI datacenter grid upgrades

Crazy idea.

Instead of giving billions of Dollars in tax breaks to build the data centres how about, wait for it.....tax them and build out the electric (and water) grids with them.

Ah yeah, free market.