Posts by IGotOut

Delays? What delays? Oracle insists its $300B cloud contract with OpenAI is on track

This is less hitting the buggers, rather it's travelling so fast it's going to be a catastrophic derailment.

China, Iran are having a field day with React2Shell, Google warns

Re: Meanwhile

Have you had a warning from The Reg?

You normally personally attack Jessica when she points the finger at your bosses actions.

Denmark takes a Viking swing at VPN-enabled piracy

And.....

...yet another politician that wants to be seen to do "something" even if they don't have a clue how the "something" actually works.

Next week, banning terrorism because that's bad.

Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming

C'mon

We need to test this new network setup before switch over (new offices, going from Token Ring to Ethernet, Upgrading wan links etc).

So we used to run the usual professional stress testing tools.... network Doom / Quake. Etc. Usually on a weekend at Time 1/2, Double time. After all, didn't want to take down the live environment.

Before anyone moans, every go live I conducted was pretty much flawless, we even pulled a go live, because the lag was horrendous. Turned out to be cabling fault. Tested the following weekend and all went well.

Starlink claims Chinese launch came within 200 meters of broadband satellite

More bullshit investment

"On December 9th, Microsoft announced a plan to spend $17.5 billion in India over four years"

Once again, just like Starmer and Trump claiming so, its all lies.

The VAST majority of that cash is spent on servers and GPU's, none of which will go into India.

It'll be a few million spent on buildings, and the rest on staffing, most low wage jobs.

The press need to stop publishing shit like this without questioning EXACTLY how much of that money will be spent IN country.

Crypto-crasher Do Kwon jailed for 15 years over $40bn UST bust

Re: Seek psychotherapy /s

Another A/C.

Two types now.

China / Russia shills

MAGA shills.

Very rarely now is it insider info.

Trump gives state AI regulation the presidential middle finger

So USA?

How is the dictatorship panning out?

BOFH: If another meeting is scheduled, someone is going to have a scheduled accident

Ugghhhh pointless meetings....

My worse was a 5 day (yes DAY) "Technical" meeting, of which about 30 minutes was actually technical, which pretty much consisted of , yeah easy. The rest was just dozens of managers talking utter bollocks. Got so bad, that some of us techies (vendor's ones were just as bored) decided Eve Online was a great way to pass the time. Bullshit bingo ran out on day 1, so we had to find something didn't we?

Home Office staff still leaning on 25-year-old asylum case management system

Re: Spreadsheets

Having an ex who worked in Social Services dealing with Asylum seekers, you are yet another commentard that doesn't have a fucking clue what they are on about.

Not only did they have to deal with a clunky IT system, but also mountains of physical paperwork.

Uncle Sam sues ex-Accenture manager over Army cloud security claims

Scapegoat?

Unless this person was very high up, there is zero chance top brass were unaware of what they were selling.

UK watchdog urged to probe GDPR failures in Home Office eVisa rollout

I'm shocked

A government IT project is a complete shit show of incompetence.

Shocked I tells ya.

Disney turns to dark side, licenses IP to OpenAI for videos, images

Nice try.

Sure it's not copyrightable, but the characters are.

So you produce an AI movie of Snow White getting it on with the seven dwarves, expect to get sued for using those characters.

10K Docker images spray live cloud creds across the internet

Re: The next time you read 'state backed actors'...

Are the two mutually exclusive?

Thought not.

LastPass hammered with £1.2M fine for 2022 breach fiasco

So do nothing?

This is a pretty poor idea, even by your standards.

Google fixes super-secret 8th Chrome 0-day

Because maybe 1 or 2 bad guys know of it, rather than 1 or 2 thousand?

Researcher claims Salt Typhoon spies attended Cisco training scheme

Well that's something

Hackers attended a now obsolete course almost two decades ago.

That's REALLY spreading it thin.

India’s government wants to set prices for the content AI companies use to train models

Re: Is it not a money grab?

Oh look another freeloading A/C.

Let's take your example shall we?

1. The book has been paid for.

2. If borrowing from a library, they pay royalties

So your analogy can go suck a donkeys ball sack.

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

Re: I hope this hurts attendance for the World Cup

Well a overtly corrupt organisation just gave the convicted criminal a peace prize, so expect more of the same.

Hopefully...

...the UK will do the same, if we are unfortunate enough for him not to drop dead in the next few years.

I imagine him coining to the UK to vidt his pretty little gold course, only to be taken into customs, interrogated for 24 hours over his hate for the UK and Europe, then sent back cattle class back to the US....in handcuffs.

Hey Trump

....here is my answer.

Go fuck yourself, you narcissistic sack of shit.

Good, now hopefully Im barred from the USA.

Canada, still love you guys.

US Navy pledges $448 million to test if Palantir is seaworthy

It's software that's the issue!

Not a lack of skilled workers and capable shipyards, caused by decades of under funding and neglect.

If they actually spent that money investing in people and physical infrastructure, then they may have a chance.

But nope , will fix it.

US extradites Ukrainian woman accused of hacking meat processing plant for Russia

@beast.

Do you have a bot running on ElReg's site that alerts your bosses the second a article contains"Russia* or *EU"?

They then give you 30 seconds to post something, otherwise they start opening windows.

How to answer the door when the AI agents come knocking

Alternative Reality.

"The fear of AI agents running amok has thus far halted the wide deployment of these digital workhorses, "

Oh is it?

Pretty sure in the real world it's because people see no point in them.

Australia bans teens from social media, but nobody thinks it'll really work

Re: "social media companies complied without putting up much of a fight."

Not true. They have spent an absolute fortune bribing, I mean lobbying, in order to get this stopped.

They are genuinely shitting themselves, as they know if they don't hook 'em young, they could lose them completely.

Congress quietly strips right-to-repair provisions from US military spending bill

Re: As usual

I'd suggest you actually read the article...

"House Armed Services Committee chair Mike Rogers (R-AL) and ranking Democrat Adam Smith (D-WA), responsible for much of the final version of the bill, have received significant contributions from defense contractors in recent years"

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

Ooooo

I've made some numbers up so far in the future that when it turns out to be bullshit, I'll be long gone.

I'll file this with jetpacks, flying cars, the 3 day working week, atomic powered flying saucers and world peace.

Activist groups urge Congress to pause US datacenter buildouts

@buffer.

Go learn history, especially around the luddite movement.

Once you have gained an education, please report back.

UK to Europe: The time to counter Russia's information war machine is now

And....

Cue Beast , Voice of "Truth" and others in....3....2....1...

Publishers say no to AI scrapers, block bots at server level

Oh no

... parasitic scumbag billionaires are finding it harder to rip off hard working people's content.

Same it can only block, not delete their servers.

Like most sane people I'm against malware, but boy do I wish someone would infect and destroy OpenAI /Anthropics entire systems.

Windows Insiders get a glimpse of Microsoft’s agentic future

Re: having just asked CoPilot about me...

I'm a graphic designer based in my village. I've done work for Disney, Netflix and Sony.

A talent I never knew I had.

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

Re: If I understand correctly

Put a stone in your shoe. Gait is now amended. Same if you wore stilettos.

Death in the dollhouse as Microsoft marketing reboots digital soap operas

Re: Zava?

Zavvi, Zara and Strava.

Microsoft is the knock tat shop of the world.... except for price tag.

UK moves to strengthen undersea cable defenses as Russian snooping ramps up

Re: Whose word must we take?

@LongJohnSilverski

Remind us again comrade, which country invaded Crimea?

Which country has flown armed drones over NATO countries? Which country has repeatedly threatened to attack NATO countries?

EU metes out first-ever Digital Services Act fine, dings X for blue check deception

"Any European politicians have bank accounts here in America, seize them. We don’t need Europe’s BS."

Any USA politicians with European assets, size them.

Guess who comes out worse?

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

Re: We don't like them, we don't trust them, and we don't believe them.

Big companies ARE the government.

Just look at the USA as a leading example (followed by much of the rest of the world)

Proxmox delivers its software-defined datacenter contender and VMware escape hatch

Re: Enterprises can't take them seriously...

Pfft...

I saw a job for printers that wanted 45 years experience. I'm sure it couldn't be a typo* as they would have spotted it.

* Anyone that's done printing knows no matter how stupid the design or wording, the customer is always right.

UK pushes ahead with facial recognition expansion despite civil liberties backlash

This started under the Tories.

They are all power crazy c***s

PRC spies Brickstormed their way into critical US networks and remained hidden for years

You're more of a Unit 731 type of pond life I believe.

We'll beat China to the Moon, NASA nominee declares

Re: Just a pie on the sky thought

The "enemy" is China now. Russia is soooo last century.

Why did they stop?

Oh because people stopped caring.

Then again it's a perfect time to relive 1950s / 60s America. Racism, homophobia & xenophobia, combined with massive inequality, you just need a moon landing to distract the plebs.

So....

Will it be "Orangey on the moon" this time?

Server prices set to jump 15% as memory costs spike

Simple answer.

Hold onto what you have for as long as possible.

Once the bubble pops they will be desperate for sales.

If a few companies fold because no one buys their kit....oh dear, what's shame.

Palantir wants to set the juice loose with new AI power initiative

For more info on the vile piece of shit Peter Tiel , have a listen to this.

https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/303_peter_thiel_is_the_real_antichrist_w_gil_duran

EU probes Meta after WhatsApp kicked rival AIs off platform

This is great news.

All we need is for Meta to remove theirs and it will be so much better.

China using AI as ‘precision instrument’ of censorship and repression, at home and abroad

Just for balance

"The report notes that China’s censorship regime still needs human content reviewers, because AI can’t yet interpret satire, keep up with evolving idioms, or understand all minority languages."

"The report notes that Meta's and YouTube's censorship regime still needs human content reviewers, because AI can’t yet interpret satire, keep up with evolving idioms, or understand all minority languages, but good luck trying to contact a human"

Lawyer's 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator

Let me just file this...

...in the drawer marked "Things That Never Happened".

It's a REALLY big drawer.

Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches

I really hope...

...the AI bubble pops, and these price gouging assholes watch their entire market collapse and lose billions of Dollars and come begging for us to buy their surplus kit. They are all at at, so I hope they all collapse.

MAGA cognoscenti warn feds away from shielding AI infringers

MAGA

are tearing themselves apart.

They thought they were voting for someone that's stands up for them.

Now they are slowly realising that Trump and Co are in it for themselves

They are seeing that AI "will" take away their jobs.

The government is going against many Christian values, showing greed, corruption, indifference to the poor.

They are making their military commit war crimes.

It's popcorn time.

Space telescopes are being photobombed by satellites, and the problem is slated to get much worse

They do not care

The tech bros lobbing satellites into orbit do not give a flying fuck how it affects you. If they can make money, or win a virtual dick waving contest they will do it.

They have zero morales and anything that gets in their way needs to be eradicated.

Windows 11 still barely pulling ahead of 10 despite end-of-support push

Slight alteration to article required

"The challenge facing Windows 11 is that, other than the end of free support for many versions, there is no must-have feature to make enterprises break a hardware refresh cycle"

Should read

"The challenge facing Windows 11 is that, despite the end of free support for many versions, there are plenty of must not have features making enterprises not want to upgrade"