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Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query

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Microsoft:

Guys we've took 10s of millions of users of far to many times this year, we must be the most unreliable out there!

Cloudflare:

Hold my beer!

Ford rolls into the Xen Project as hypervisor gears up for autos

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Re: Coming soon to your car

With Leyland / BL /Rover the rot was setting in before the paint job

US pumps $1B into Three Mile Island nuclear plant reboot to keep AI datacenters fed

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Loan Programs Office would lower electricity costs and strengthen grid reliability.

For the AI data centres.

Fuck the poor people.

San Jose's 'warrantless' license plate queries land cops in court

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Re: I'll bet a lot of that

These days, it's less girlfriends, more like those that look a little foreign or those that look a little bit effeminate or butch (which is odd given that the current US government wear more makeup that an assistant at a Boots cosmetics counter)

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Re: Well, duh

But the point is no safeguards are in place.

And who decides what the safe guards are? Those who benefit most from having as few as possible.

Senators propose to let users sue tech giants for harmful algos

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FAIL

<Checks who owns social media companies>

Ha, ha, ha, ha ha.

Is it April fools already?

Amazon security boss: Hostile countries use cyber targeting for physical military strikes

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Meanwhile....

we at Amazon, Google et al will flog your data to whoever wants it

We also will supply equipment that will stop supporting when we get bored and leave them wide open to attack

We allow people to use our infrastructure to launch these attacks

We only care if they don't give us money.

Commodity memory prices set to double as fabs pivot to AI market

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AI the gift that keeps on taking.

Tftfy

Pentagon and soldiers let too many secrets slip on social networks, watchdog says

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Let's face it..

..with Pete "I'm a trans and homophobic racist asshole" Hegseth setting a blinding example of complete incompetence, is it any suprise?

Windows boss defends 'agentic OS' push as users plead for reliability

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Re: The Masses Will Get An Agentic OS And Will Not Complain

You're optimistic about 14 years.

Given the disillusionment with government, were ripe for more extreme parties to come in.

History doesn't repeat itself etc, etc....

Retro Games opens pre-orders for THEA1200, a full-size working Amiga replica

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Re: I predict ...

Comes with a free tiny solar panel backed up by a massive diesel powered generator to put in the room, to give you that authentic greenwashing feeling whilst destroying the environment at the same time.

For the true experience, you can have a subscription model where somewhere comes and turns off your water on a regular basis

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Mushroom

Re: woke detector

@charlieboywolf.

Again, another imbecile that needs an education. Let's talk about one of the songs from one of the most famous Christmas films of all time.

Yes it's jarring to hear "Happy Holidays", but there is fuck all woke about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Holiday_(song)

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Re: Humbug

"If downloading and setting up a copy of WinUAE is challenging then you probably shouldn't be buying shoes with shoelaces"

Likewise if you've never repaired washing machines, dishwashers, built your own car, completely refurbished a Victorian house, built a huge desk / TV / storage unit from pieces of wood....Or maybe be like my youngest teen daughter, who can crochet a bag in an afternoon, plays bass guitar and violin and is learning 5 languages?

What you can't do all those? After all, you just have to follow instructions, so not hard.

And of course being the genius that you are, you learnt to tie your shoe laces in less than 5 minutes, with no help at all.

Aviation watchdog says organized drone attacks will shut UK airports 'sooner or later'

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Did you actually read the article before mashing the keyboard?

Bitcoin bandit's £5B bubble bursts as cops wrap seven-year chase

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Re: Didn't work for SBF

@anon

Oh yes it did

https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/sam-bankman-fried-pardoned-by-donald-trump-who-he-is-and-what-did-he-do/3920828/

Australia’s spy boss says authoritarian nations ready to commit ‘high-impact sabotage’

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So all the more reason...

...to get off US kit ASAP then

Battery trade war hits booming datacenter industry

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See kids

"Even 40 to 50 percent tax credit for US manufactured systems".

That's why Daddy died of diabetes, because we couldn't afford the medication.

Still, at least that nice man will get a $10 million pay rise this year.

Now run off and eat your gruel.

US taxpayers being kept in the dark over datacenter subsidies

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Remind me the US stance...

..on government subsidies again?

Ah yeah, foreign countries = Evil

USA = It not what you think, honest, it's completely different, because, er USA USA USA!

UK unveils roadmap for replacing animal testing

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@AC.

I take it you know what a clinical trial is? Nah thought not.

Intel CTO and AI boss quits to join OpenAI after just six months in the job

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Re: OpenAI [is] losing billions each quarter

It's all fake money. None of these companies actually have the cash, it's all legal accounting fraud.

LLM side-channel attack could allow snoops to guess what you're talking about

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Easy fix...

Don't use the bullshit generators.

AI slop hits new high as fake country artist goes to #1 on Billboard digital songs chart

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Re: More to come

"they make it off touring."

Not really. Thanks to TicketBastard fucking everything up, it's actually really hard for a band to make money touring these days.

Ho back to buying CD's and merch, it's the best thing anyone can do.

https://www.musicradar.com/music-industry/the-vast-majority-of-independent-artists-cannot-even-afford-to-tour-new-survey-reveals

Secret setting hints haptic feedback coming to Windows 11 UI

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Dear MS....

...instead of adding features no one asked for (yes that includes AI), how about just fixing the monumental amount of outstanding complaints?

Here's one way to cut support ticket volume… send them to another company entirely

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Re: Purpose

Virgin?

Gorge on Microsoft Store apps with 16-at-once installer

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Re: More information please?

Going by the author saying Canva installed extremely quickly, I'd say an installer.

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Re: Sorry, this is news ?

Well NiNite had been around since Windows 7 and that's definitely a thing.

Copilot can replace Search in latest Windows 11 test builds, but it's not a good idea

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Re: Though it’s off by default,

On by default, requiring registry hacks to disable.

Hacks that are removed with every update.

Google imagines out of this world AI - running on orbital datacenters

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How to make line go up...

...take a ton of drugs, talk utter bollocks for hours....profit.

Russian spies pack custom malware into hidden VMs on Windows machines

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Moldova.

If you are unaware why the Russians targeted a Moldovan energy company, this will help explain why.

https://apnews.com/article/eu-moldova-energy-russia-cuts-gazprom-3657d8204486044384a4b1a3b8105446

Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not

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First rule of a dictatorship.

Dehumanise the people you want oppress.

They are not"aliens" they are human beings. Anyone calling them otherwise, is clearly a scumbag the world would be better off without.

Game on! Penguin levels up as Linux finally cracks 3% on Steam

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One reason...

...is that a lot of YouTube tech people are trying Linux for gaming with generally OK results. The issue is mainly anti-cheat which cannot be used under Linux, which is stopping the AAA games running.

However as more and more smaller games are getting played, along with old titles that refuse to die, it could slowly increase.

Im at some point going to switch fully to Linux as the one thing holding me back, the Affinity suite, the new Afffitiy seems to be able to run with some tweaking.

Tesla board wants to grant Musk $1T in stock, Norway wealth fund says nope

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The only reason they want to keep Musk...

...is because he's a fantastic snake oil salesmen.

Without Musk's bullshit machine, Tesla have very little to show,and the markets know this. Tesla is just a meme stock with little substance behind it. Musk know this.

Tesla making better cars, becoming more profitable and actually planning to make things that will actually sell is completely irrelevant at this point. Musk could say they are making an atomic powered time machine utilising AI and Quantum computing and the share price would still go up.

Palantir CEO celebrates one cash culture to rule them all

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People were wrong about us!

We proved you CAN be a company devoid of ethics and make a shit ton of money, once you appeal to the right kind of government and it's mechanisms of power.

Paradox: Agentic AI dev roles are less in demand as agents take over

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How fitting

Are these the same type of AI boosters that kept telling the likes of shop workers and delivery drivers they should retrain as AI programmers when AI takes their job

Maybe these should retrain as Baristas?

Google yanks Gemma after US senator says model ‘hallucinated’ her committing crimes

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And if this had been a "liberal" senator...

...and activist, absolutely fuck all would of happened.

Don't think this a big tech siding with Trump thing,this is just big tech siding with whomever is in power thing.

Debian demands Rust or rust in peace for legacy ports

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I'm running mint on a Mac Mini 2012 and for day to day tasks it's more responsive than the i9 laptop I use at work running Windows 11.

Labor organizers accuse Rockstar Games of 'ruthless act of union busting' after layoffs

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Just an excuse...

...the games industry is just an utter shit show at the moment. Run by a bunch of assholes that just want to see line go up.

They don't care about employees or players, so as the little piggies keeping shovelling in slop into their mouths, then farmer big tech will feeding you your slop.

The only way things will change is if players actually stop buying this shit.

Microsoft, Alphabet throw more cash on the AI bonfire

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No, but neither give a shit about environmental damage or human rights, so are a perfect match for an industry built on pure greed with only a superficial veneer of ethics.

White House says China to lift rare earth export bans, stop probes into US tech companies

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Re: WhiteHouse says China will play nicely

OK comrade.

Network operator ponders building a new submarine cable – on land

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Ready that entire article....

...just seemed to have as much relevance to reality as a nuclear powered concept car.

Heat is an issue, but look they put it in a lake, so is feasible. Because a lake is thermally identical to solid rock or sand near the equator.

Politics could be an issue. No shit. Your talking about active conflict zones and / or areas riddled with massive levels of corruption.

Transport of cables could be an issue. Well I've an atomic powered truck you could invest in. I've got mock-ups in MS paint and everything. I'm going to use AI to build it.

Of course,vwe could always use the Boring Company to build a hyperloop, that's should of already built one from New York to LA by now.

Meta to sell $30B in bonds to build AI datacenters

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I think this is a great idea.

I'm going to invest and put them aside, along with my other investments, MySpace, Bebo, Vine, Friends Reunited, LiveJournal and Friendster.

YouTube's AI moderator pulls Windows 11 workaround videos, calls them dangerous

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Re: Its AIs all the way down

Money.

You're welcome.

Hacking LED Halloween masks is frighteningly easy

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TBH

I'd be surprised if there WAS security built in.

Claude code will send your data to crims ... if they ask it nicely

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Monitor Claude..,

...and if it looks like it may give a correct answer, rip out the cables and throw the PC out of the window. It's clearly been hacked.

Google parent company spending like a drunken sailor as capex triples over 2 years

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Re: Worrying about overshooting demand?

"There is very little risk that these data centers will eventually not find a use, whether it is for external customers or internal workloads."

Incorrect. If they are built for AI, they are pretty much useless for other tasks. Sure, you can not use the incredibly power hungry GPUs, but that's going to be a huge waste of capex.

Microsoft 365 business customers are running out of places to hide from Copilot

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I see the headlines

Microsoft: Shareholders, look everyone is loving our AI. Look at all the users. Please make line go up.

Users: How do i fucking turn this fucking bag of wankstain shit off? No fuck off, I don't need a fucking summary of my single calendar entry you fucking bag of shit. Die bitch!

Suspected Chinese snoops weaponize unpatched Windows flaw to spy on European diplomats

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Re: Is Jessica Lyons job solely to concentrate on alleged Chinese cyber spies?

@VoiceOfLies

Is your remit to pass the same shit every time?

Can't be arsed to link to yet another story about the Chinese claiming other nations spying in them, you're clearly unable to think and remember for yourself.

US government shutdown clouds an otherwise sunny ServiceNow forecast

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Genuine question...

...does any other country have this stupid situation where a government can shutdown because they can't agree on a Budget?

Microsoft just revealed that OpenAI lost more than $11.5B last quarter

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In other words...

...it's annual losses based on this, is roughly the GDP of Bahrain...and a bit less than that of Tunisia.

'Keep Android Open' movement fights back against Google sideloading restrictions

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No problem...

...the regulators will open in a case in 2029. Fine Google in 2032. Google will appeal. Case dismissed in 2037