Posts by IGotOut

UK's Ministry of Defence pins hopes on AI to stop the next massive email blunder

What could go wrong.

https://cybernews.com/security/ai-tools-data-breaches-workplace-security-risks/

Perplexity AI accused of scraping content against websites’ will with unlisted IP ranges

What I'd like to see...

...is the likes of Cloudflare and Akami redirect these bots back the the originators websites, ideally customer login pages.

Virgin Media scraps wholesale network rival to Openreach

I agree with the above.

As much as we like to shit on BT, the GPO were fucking horrendous.

Line down? Two weeks if your lucky

New phone line? 3 - 6 months

Florida prison email blunder exposes visitor contact info to inmates

Let's me guess....

Two years of credit monitoring with a credit agency that leaks like a sieve.

Then someone will get shot and there will be thought's and prayers.

Canonical dusts off TPM encryption for Ubuntu 25.10

Re: This can only go badly...

You know it's optional, right?

FFS, some on here are like "Oh Microsoft use it, so I can't. I'm going to stop using this version of Linux, because of this optional component!"

Grow up

Altman embraces inner Viking, raids Europe with 100K GPU supercluster in Norway

The Stargate project....

...is a myth, coming from that lying sack of shit that is Sam Altman

https://undercodenews.com/softbanks-500-billion-ai-dream-falters-inside-the-struggles-of-the-stargate-project/

Figma debuts on Wall Street at $33 per share – then more than triples

And enshitification of the product...

....in 3...2...1

NHS disability equipment provider on brink of collapse a year after cyberattack

Missing information in article

It's also worth pointing out they had multiple contracts with councils that were running at a loss, mainly due to rising costs.

"The company's accounts say it suffered a costly cyber attack last year and it is also understood to have been losing money on some of its contracts with councils."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn72mpz0zzeo

Zuck tries to justify AI splurge with talk of 'superintelligence' for all

Serving a billion users

By serving you mean infecting FB, Instagram and WhatsApp, even if people don't want it.

It's the same as other scumbag led companies like Google and MS, they claim people are using it, BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO FUCKING CHOICE.

Satya Nadella, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Sam Altman & Elon Musk are all bullshitting parasitic scumbags whom the world would be much better off without.

The more we repeat what filth they are, the more their beloved chatbots will repeat it.

Europe's AI crackdown starts this week and Big Tech isn't happy

Re: Stick the boot in!

"Israel always good,"

Not read the news much lately have we?

Microsoft researchers: To fend off AI, consider a job as a pile driver

Wow...

... manual jobs least at risk from over hyped predictive text.

Seriously, sack the fucking lot of them.

US sends 33,000 smart 'strike kits' to make Ukrainian drones even deadlier

Re: US still planning to fight the last war

Although the Golden helmet is a stupid idea, if the US went to wat with say China, the combat scenario would be very, very different to Ukraine Vs Russia, a fact many people over look.

1st, Ukraine and Russia share a common border.

2nd it's mostly a land battle, despite the thousands of drones.

The USA or China are very unlikely to attempt a land invasion of each others territories, so they WILL be using a lot of aircraft and missiles, and far less drones with a 100km range.

US science left out in the cold amid plans to retire Antarctic icebreaker

"There is also every possibility that the axe might fall on planning for the Palmer's replacement."

Windows 10 turns 10: Dying OS just worked, lacked compatibility chaos

Last sane version?????

So let's ignore shit like Candy crush; adverts in the start menu; the search bar that instead of searching for a file on the pc, went off to the web; the split personality control panel, that randomly moved stuff every update; the "sign into your windows account" that got harder to avoid each update; the hijacking of default browser option by Edge; the stupid adverts on the login page which would open up in edge once logged in for no apparent reason....and on and on.

Win 7 was the last sane version, not 10

Blender 3D app suite could touch down on tablets, starting with iPad

I doubt.....

....it will go onto Android, if it does it'll be limited to the likes of the Galaxy tabs.

Most graphics (and music) programs stick to Apple as developing for Android for serious A/V programs is a bit of a hellscape, especially for support.

War Games: MoD asks soldiers with 1337 skillz to compete in esports

Anyone else.....

...thinking of Ender's Game?

Google’s latest renewable energy deal is all gas bags and hot air

Why not...

Use all that water they consume?

Pump the "used" hot water into a huge tank where it can cool down. Then push it through a turbine when required and back into the DC to be used as a coolant once again.

Or is that too elegant?

Yeah, but on the plus side it's harder to blow up renewable installations. Just ask Uncle Putin.

Microsoft bolts Copilot Mode onto Edge to chase AI-browser crowd

No.

Just no.

Tom Lehrer: Satirist, mathematician, inventor of the Jello shot

I seriously have no idea why The reg haven't ban hammered the troll yet.

Security pros are drowning in threat-intel data and it's making everything more dangerous

Wahhh...

...we don't have enough skilled staff.

Translation.

There aren't enough staff willing to work for fuck all, with the knowledge that we are likely to fire them the next time the line doesn't go up.

Microsoft used staff in China to help babysit US govt cloud services, report says

Ahh Bless

"the job cuts have been "weighing heavily" on him"

Then he thought of his next dividend payout and slept soundly..

India eats China's lunch in US smartphone manufacturing

Sooooo....

Where do the components in these phones come from?

Yup, thought so

Trump pushes EU into trade 'deal' that several EU leaders aren't happy about

Re: Wait a minute

Fucking Usasians still can't grasp the concept of VAT

Maybe it's the metric system of taxation for them. Easy for the rest of the world, to difficult for them.

How does Dear Leader deal about the 100% tariffs going to hit all Russian trading partners?

And as for taking Putin's predictions....how's the 10 day "Special operation" going?

UK VPN demand soars after debut of Online Safety Act

Re: Whats the big deal??

Tell me you don't understand the problem, but in many more words.

Microsoft-owned GitHub: Open source needs funding. Ya think?

Re: Better option: hire and pay developers...

"Open source is aking to slavery and serfdom - lots of unpaid workers"

You may want to look up what slavery and serfdom is. Last time I checked, people are not forced to work for free on Open Source projects.

Your logic would imply many charity workers are also enslaved.

Meta joins Google in ragequitting EU political ads over onerous regulations

Remember..

....they said the same shit about GDPR. Threats to pull out of the EU, and how they couldn't possibly carry on.

Yeah.

Microsoft: SharePoint attacks now officially include ransomware infections

Really?

"The software giant had already pinned blame on three crews for the ..."

I pin it on a single company, more concerned with line going up, rather than, ooo I don't know, spending time on money on security and quality products.

So much for watermarks: UnMarker tool nukes AI provenance tags

Re: Please explain

Why does that read like it was generated by a LLM

No login? No problem: Cisco ISE flaw gave root access before fix arrived, say researchers

Re: Scratching his chin

Audited. Oh that'll be Bob's job. Wait, we fired him last year to make number go up? Oh. Ok. Guess we'll have to find an intern to do it

Tesla bets on bot smoke screen as political and market realities bite

Do people still believe this shit.

A million robots. Ok Elon heres a bet.

Hit even half that target and I'll buy a Tesla.

Fail, do humanity a favour and throw yourself off a cliff.

Man on Mars. Failed

Hyperloop (and I don't mean the fairground ride in Las Vegas). Failed.

Full Autonomy Driving by 2017. Failed.

250,000 to 500,000 Cybertruck per year. Failed.

Even the fanboys know he's full of shit

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/fsd-timeline-promises-summary.235180/

IRL Com recruits teens for real-life stabbings, shootings, FBI warns

Well...

..maybe if the US police didn't go into situations like a military group trying to clear a house full of enemy soldiers, then swatting wouldn't be an issue.

But no, best go in, shoot the place up and if you kill innocent people, who cares, it's not like you'll be held accountable.

Tata Consultancy enforces return-to-office mandate for all US staff, effective immediately

I'm sure the C-suite will be in the office

...every day, setting the example.

Microsoft SharePoint victim count hits 400+ orgs in ongoing attacks

Re: "... and Microsoft have blamed Chinese cyberspies and data thieves for the digital intrusions"

Yes, but, but...AI....

OpenAI sweet-talks Oracle into another 4.5GW worth of Stargate datacenters, assuming the check clears

And of course....

....Softbanks money depends on OpenAI becoming an non-profit AND themselves getting the money together of other backers

It's just one big circle jerk atop a house of cards, only held up by lying snake oil peddlers.

Struggling to sell EVs, Tesla pivots to slinging burgers

Re: "retro-futuristic"

Retro-futurism is a term that's been around for a long time, but yes your pretty much spot on with Jetsons.

Think how 1950s white USA thought the future would be, I.e. Muskrats wet dream material.

UK government swoons over OpenAI in legally meaningless love-in

Sick of this shit...

...OK you gullible prick.

How?

Exactly how?

No fucking "Well, it in the future, will do something that will help some"

Put it in writing EXACTLY HOW, with details, it will do what you say it will do. I want figures, I want examples, I want proof.

If you can't do that, I have a nice exhaust pipe you can give head to.

I'm sick of this shit and people should stop being so fucking naive about the magic AI pixie dust.

It does not exist.

UK to ban ransomware payments by public sector organizations

"If the option is to recover quickly by paying, versus not being able to recover because you're banned from doing so, the temptation may be to pay and simply not report it."

Then make failing to report it a criminal offence resulting in gaol time and being barred working as a Director for life.

Nothing like personal punishment to focus the mindset.

Re: A better option for the gov

Or a certain government currently levelling entire regions, displacing millions and committing war crimes to "get the bad guys".

Nvidia extends CUDA support to RISC-V just in time for next wave of Chinese CPUs

Best description of Nvidia yet

"The AI arms dealer...."

Congratulations to the writer.

Composer for worst Tomb Raider games jailed over COVID-19 loan fraud

First thing

Intention.

Fraudster intentionally committed fraud. The driver didn't intentionally kill her.

Financial.

Unless you've lived under a rock, if you rob a bank, you'll get a bigger sentence than if you rob an individual.

Appeal.

There is a possibility the fraudster could appeal and get it reduced. It's unlikely to get increased. There is a possibility the driver could get reviewed and increased as unduly lenient.

Is it fair? No.

Have you complained to your MP?

Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we’re already our own surveillance state

This article covers some of the issues...

...but 404 media's hits a lot harder and goes more into depth about the issues around the tech.

https://www.404media.co/the-astronomer-ceos-coldplay-concert-fiasco-is-emblematic-of-our-social-media-surveillance-dystopia/

TSMC aims to make 30% of high-end chips in US with Arizona fab build out

Have they replaced....

all the Taiwanese workers with US ones yet?

Intel swings the axe again as it looks to lose 5,000 staff

There is a market wide open....

...and that's "budget" GPU's.

The B series are getting pretty good reviews, yet they seem to be umming and arring if they are going upmarket or staying as is, or even if they are committed

The market is gagging for GPU's that dont cost £500 up and need coolers and PSU's that required more power than a house Aircon unit.

Many, many people are desperate for a "Good Enough" card.

FCC dives in to sink Chinese grip on undersea internet cables

Nice try.

Any country is free to buy and sell oil in any currency.

Feel free to look up the ones that decided they no longer wanted the PetroDollar.

Look how Brazil is being bullied by the USA .

Look what happens when private contractors murder people in other countries

Laws mean jack shit when you have the largest military in the world.

Quantum code breaking? You'd get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog

Quantum computing and Fusion is twenty years away...

...said Professor Bob in 1953, Dr Dave in 1973, Dr Susan in 1993, Professor Gurjit in 2003.....

Open, free, and completely ignored: The strange afterlife of Symbian

Re: The Burning Platform

Interestingly, look into the story of Ratner....it's not what it seems.

It was a supposed to be closed audience where he, a complete underdog, was ripping apart the established jewelers, who were a snobbish clique.

He was saying people know our products are cheap plated crap, but I'm still completely destroying the patronising elite.

A journalist quoted it out of context and of course the elite love to knock a commoner back into his place

Ukrainian hackers claim to have destroyed major Russian drone maker's entire network

Re: 10TB of backup files

Ooopps looks like I've pissed off some war, I mean, special operations, supporters.

Google plugs AI into nuclear reactor biz – what could possibly go wrong?

I just tried it...

Should we build a wall to prevent the risk of tidal flooding in the event of an offshore earthquake?

AI: I've looked at the data and there has only been one instance of this. This has only occurred once since history began, so the risk is almost zero.However as a precaution I've checked my records and found dry stone walls to be an effective defence against all sorts animals, including sharks that may be in any tidal search. For defence against meteor strikes, I suggest putting umbrellas up around the wall.