Posts by IGotOut

Everybody's warning about critical Windows Server WSUS bug exploits ... but Microsoft's mum

Soooo...

One company says they found 25 exposed, the other 8000+?

Also how many are honeypots?

I can't think of a single reason to have a WSUS server with those ports open facing outwards.

Excel is three sheets to the window on iOS as update borks everything

Re: "iPhone and iPad users vexed by denial of spreadsheets"

You need to lay off the coffee...

This is fantastic news...

Why should Apple users be exempt from MS' incompetence?

Britain's Ministry of Justice just signed up to ChatGPT Enterprise

Stop the World...

..I want to get off.

Google and Anthropic wave hands about mega TPU deal worth 'tens of billions'

So that would be

Tens of Billions of Dollars they don't have then?

AI, the world largest Ponzi scheme.

Trump's workforce cuts blamed as America's cyber edge dulls

Re: It's OK...

The 100% tarrif announcement this morning has been put on hold after he had a very good phone call with a Mr Anon. Great guy,great guy, he told him things and they did a deal. Mr Anon, a great guy, said he'll have a word with other great hackers in a few months time, so I did a great deal that said we won't add tariffs for another six months, so in three months time, we'll see, maybe we'll need tariffs again, but in eleven months we'll see what happens. Great guy, can't wait to see what happens in the next four months.

It's OK...

He's just announced a 100% tariff on foreign hackers.

Blinded by the light: Tesla fixes glaringly bright Cybertruck headlights

FFS...

It's fixed by a software up date?

It's a fucking headlight. Let me guess it's DRM locked so if you want to swap it out when goes faulty, you'll need to go to Tesla to pay 10K because a 3rd party or 2nd hand one won't be allowed to work.

Google nukes 3,000 YouTube videos that sowed malware disguised as cracked software

And...

...the scam ads? The fake claims companies, the crypto scammers, the "the government doesn't want you to know about this amazing device", the "Designed by ex NASA / Special Ops", deep fakes of famous and trusted people and on and on....

Oh I forgot, you get money for those. You are only slightly interested in scams that cost you money.

Scumbags, all of them.

Apple's ultra-thin iPhone flops as foldable iPad hits a crease

Why?

The body is thin, but the camera lenses stick out just as far, so its max depth is no different. Unless you have the top sticking out from the top of your pocket (screaming "steal me") you just lose battery capacity and gain nothing.

Royal Navy sharpens claws on Wildcat choppers with anti-drone Martlet missiles

Ukraine.

...these are already being shipped to Ukraine, as they are incredibly versatile and the delivery schedule puts pretty much everything else to shame.

Yes they cost more than a drone, but far less than a power plant being targeted.

More here.

https://youtu.be/-pMnTol6_1k

Microsoft puts Office Online Server on the chopping block

Well...

...that's a year to get rid of Microsoft.

China's CR450 bullet train clocks 453 km/h in pre-service tests

Wrong country, please troll harder.

Fake home invasion vid lands woman in real trouble

So tell me sir...

...what are your grounds for requesting this divorce?

AI eats leisure time, makes employees work more, study finds

Teams?

No dear boy, you have to commute for 90 minutes into the soul destroying office, spend most of the day in meetings then commute 90 minutes back, because sending a quick email or <insert deity> forbid making a phone call and having the work done in 30 minutes, well, that's just inefficient and unproductive!

This is a research paper?

"Jiang takes it as a given that AI increases productivity, "

That's a fucking big red flag right there.

AWS outage turned smart homes into dumb boxes – and sysadmins into therapists

I must be missing out...

Because my lights, heating, bed, toaster, oven, washing machine, fridge freezer, microwave, hot water, curtains, TV and HiFi just keep working.

Maybe I'm just not a lazy cunt that has the ability press a button, rather than get an app to do it for me.

Aid groups use AI-generated ‘poverty porn’ to juice fundraising efforts

If a charity is using stock images...

...then question yourself "Why don't they have real images?"

Now there may be cases, such as Charities dealing with abuse where it's completely inappropriate, but for most there is no need.

I helped run a small local youth charity and never did we resort to stock photos. We either had permission from parents or just simply took photos where no identifying features were shown. It's not hard.

In '90s Microsoft, you either shipped code or shipped out

Re: Oh it's far worse

"Silos. Psychopathic manglement. Inter-department wars. More meetings than production time. Entire months of work suddenly abandoned. Everything."

You've pretty much ch summed up every mid-large size business.

A simple AI prompt saved a developer from this job interview scam

Then create a "social media" platform, call it LinkedIn and be done.

UK rethinks offshoring ban for £8M online procurement system

Re: no offshoring

"Gen Z are so lazy... they don't do any free overtime & wont do weekends!"

My 17 year old daughter has applied for over 30 part time jobs whilst studying at college. She got a grand total of 3 replies (including a fucking charity shop) all saying they wanted people with experience.

How do kids get experience, if no one gives them a job?

Company that made power systems for servers didn’t know why its own machines ran out of juice

Being a techie site....

...I think many underestimate factory IT.

Usually it's one or two people that have to do EVERYTHING. Going by the post, it sounds closer to the one IT guy rather than two.

Servers, Networking, Desktops, Printers, Factory Machine interfaces, the Website, phone systems, probably even the TV in reception doing PowerPoint slides as welcome info for visitors. You don't get chance or opportunity to learn like SNMP trap logs (or may not have the ability to do so)

A lot of the time it is genuinely trial and error

UK calls up Armed Forces veterans for digital ID soft launch

Re: Nasty tactic

"New houses I'm not averse to, assuming they come with doctor and dental surgeries since the existing one of each to support our entire town is stretched to breaking point"

Sigh.....

Same arguement my parents have.

So I take it all the people living in rented accommodation, living with friends if family currently don use doctors, dentists or schools.

Benioff backs off: Salesforce chief says sorry for Trump troop talk

Nothing new...

Pretty much every tech CEO parrots the line of whomever is on power. Only when they face a backlash do they offer even the latest of apologies.

Note he failed to mention condemning deployment of the military to other Democrat held states.

With people in power, see what they don't do, not what they do do.

End of.

Chamber of Commerce sues over Trump's $100K H-1B paywall

Easy fixes

"This includes doctors, with a shortfall of up to 139,000 physicians predicted by 2033, as well as gaps in education and STEM in general."

Well, so long as he doesn't cut University, Schooling and research budgets and fill important positions with sycophants this issue will no doubt go away

Carmakers fear chip crunch as Dutch sanctions hit Nexperia

So we need MEGA?

Is that the door?

Labor unions sue Trump administration over social media surveillance

Re: Does freedom of speech work both ways?

Government pressure is NOT the same thing. Yes you *could* argue they shouldn't be interfering, but ultimately it's down to the platforms. Let's not forget, those same platforms are kissing Trumps ring and once it swings back to the Democrats at some point, they will do exactly the same thing.

At ANY point the platforms could of gone NO, but they chose not to. There was absolutely NOTHING stopping him firing up his own server and repeating the same claims.

I know the law in the US is now just a political side show, but that's how it stands.

Re: Does freedom of speech work both ways?

I'm not a US resident, but even I know what the 1st Amendment on free speech covers and your example is not covered.

Maybe you should go read it.

Anthropic brings mad Skills to Claude

Soooo...

...a Macro?

Auction house Sotheby's finds its data on the block after cyberattack

Ooooo...

...that's a lot of tax avoiders and money launderers data right there. The crims may ask a lot to keep these off the public web.

Larry Ellison's latest craze: Vectorizing all the customers

Tldr

Just like every other "AI" company, we stole everything of everyone.

Librephone battles the proprietary binary blob

Re: God bless them...

Yes.

Apple goes all in on AI acceleration with M5 MacBook, iPad, and Vision Pros

So in summary

If you have an M4 Mac, don't bother upgrading.

If you don't have an M4 Mac, buy one for much less than this new one

OpenAI's ChatGPT is so popular that almost no one will pay for it

One day...

...I really hope everyone involved gets gaoled for 50 years for fraud.

But as they are rich, I doubt anything will happen to them.

Meanwhile homeless people get criminal records for being homeless.

If there are any aliens reading this, go, just go back home...save yourselves.

Japan tells OpenAI to stop spiriting away its copyrighted anime

Countries need to grow some balls.

Dear Sam Altman , please remove our stuff from your training data or we ban you from our country you parasitic low life sack of shit.

Yours

Shigeru Ishiba

Raspberry Pi OS, LMDE, Peppermint OS join the Debian 13 club

Alternatively to doing a new build ..

...and then copying your configs across. Why not clone the SD card to a new (probably better one), upgrade that, pop it in and if it goes horribly wrong, pop the old one back in.

AI startup Augment scraps 'unsustainable' pricing, users say new model is 10x worse

If you base your calculations for your "business"

...on current or past AI pricing , you're a fucking idiot.

These companies lose billions of Dollars every week and you think they are just going to keep it the same?

Your first hit is free etc. etc.

Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack

Re: Nextcloud works

I never knew, but there is an enterprise version with extra knobs on i e. "Microsoft integration", looks like its for places with over 100 users

https://nextcloud.com/all-in-one/

Re: Meanwhile, here in Blighty...

In a fashion I'd agree, but also we do have a tiny sliver of not being the USA's bitch, such as recognising Palestine.

So less totally owned, more like 99%

Salesforce pumps the dream of AI agents as helpers, not replacements

Yet another liar

So you say you are saving $100,000,000, but not apparently reducing headcount,whilst paying EXTRA for the AI?

I live on a different continent and I can smell the bullshit from here.

Frightful Patch Tuesday gives admins a scare with 175+ Microsoft CVEs, 3 under attack

The rating is not only how bad it is, but also how hard it is to pull off.

Si a flaw that allows someone to send an email.and take over a machine, without even opening the message will get very high

Having to have physical access and then manually having to run the software locally will get a lower score.

Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN

Re: Plethora

"You may think the rules are wrong. (And they may well be.) But they are the rules, and you can't complain about people preventing you evading them. "

Ask Margret Thatcher how the Poll Tax rules went for her.

Ask why so many countries are legalising drugs.

Ask the Nepalese government how well the social media rules worked out for them.

You may want to be someone's little bitch, but me, I have a life

Researchers intercept unencrypted satellite traffic from space blabbermouths

Do you get to choose how your carrier routes your traffic?

KuzuDB says so long and thanks for all the commits, marooning community

Unlike many other recent projects

..this is not a FU were going closed source / kicking out Devs / bitching over ownership.

This is a guy, probably fed up doing much of the work, going, "I've had enough of this project, time to for me to move on". The codes still there, it's still freely available, it's just up to someone else to take on all the associated work.

If there is actually someone willing to do it is another matter entirely.

EU biometric border system launch hits inevitable teething problems

Re: Geez

Or if they are cold.

Android 'Pixnapping' attack can capture app data like 2FA codes

Even if you had a valid result in those 30 seconds, then what? It's now no longer valid,

And if like me, you have 6 codes visible (Aegis rather than Google), plus all the information, such as the website it applies to and user name, it's going to be very hard to get any info

Plus if my authenticator app suddenly fired up for no reason, I'd be extremely suspicious.

Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily

And the info....

...will be passed onto your local authoritative police force.

ICE have already wet themselves at the thought of this data.

Bose kills SoundTouch: Smart speakers go dumb in Feb

Oh dear

"Been Bose customer for over 40 years. Will never buy from them again"

Now's your chance to buy some speakers that don't sound shit, given the price bracket.

UK slaps 'strategic market status' on Google, unlocking power to pry open search

Re: Of course..

@andy

I guess you've missed the dozens, if not hundreds of cases with Google abusing it's market dominance?

I guess you're idea it to somehow create a home grown search engine to take its place, something even Microsoft has failed to do?

Microsoft hypes PCs with NPUs, still can't offer a good reason to buy one

Ooohhh Agents are the future...

For people so detached from reality they make someone who's just dropped a gram of LSD look positively grounded in reality.