Posts by IGotOut

Arc put on ice as The Browser Company bets big on AI-powered Dia

Never heard of them before...

...and will almost certainly never hear of them again, least not in a good way anyway.

New Russian cyber-spy crew Laundry Bear joins the email-stealing pack

Re: маскировка

Soooo what action do you expect them to take?

AI agents don't care about your pretty website or tempting ads

Meh....

....if I can make so the agent burn the company's data centre to the ground trying to navigate a website, then I'll be happy.

I make things for real people, not narcissistic asshole billionaires.

Empire of office workers strikes back against RTO mandates

Re: Cuckoo land

What are these trains you speak off?

My nearest one is 15 miles away. Unless you choose the heritage steam one near me.

China spawns an x86 supercomputing monster, with an AMD connection

@AC tell me you don't know what your talking about, but please feel free to use a lot more words.

BTW when China helps a company it's call state sponsorship.

When the US helps a company, it's called tax breaks.

Europe warns giant e-tailer to stop cheating consumers or face its wrath

Re: Interesting

It's because it was sold in a store in the middle of nowhere for 6 weeks at that price.

Oldest sale scam in the book.

Space Force tech mission threatened by staff and funding black hole

Re: A more lethal military

That'll be the Russians using US and UK made trucks, jeeps, boats, aircraft and trains? Those tanks would barely gotten out of Moscow without US and UK support

Your country still hasn't grasped the concept of logistics in warfare.

It was a joint effort, regardless of who's propaganda you subscribe to.

Irish privacy watchdog OKs Meta to train AI on EU folks' posts

Can you let us know the shortcut key for

"Clearly, the EU is not fit for purpose"

I can't find it on my keyboard, but somehow you keep hitting it.

Apartment living to get worse in 5 years as 6 GHz Wi-Fi nears ‘exhaustion’

Re: Internet could/should be included in the rent

Electric in the rent is usually when each room doesn't have a separate meter, so usually found in buildings that are niw HMOs, rather than purpose built.

Google's AI vision clouded by business model hallucinations

The business model.

There isn't one.

They have little more than fantasy fever dreams based on zero interactions with real human beings.

This is a perfect example of the AI brain rot the CEO's suffer when they come up with AI uses.

https://youtu.be/s4JNLL7U8H8

Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade

Re: Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade

Inkscape is fine but that's really an alternative to Illustrator/ Designer not Photoshop/ Photo

One advantage of Adobe / Affinity is the ability to easily flip between programs when working on a project.

As for Canva, im fairly confident they are not get rid of the pay once, use forever model, rather than subs. What you may see is an integration option, so you can push between the two products, probably on a subs model.

Wyden warns telcos still leave Senate in the dark after Trump DOJ snooping scandal

Weasel words...again

"We have received no legal demands regarding Senate offices under the current contract"

And the previous contracts?

Builder.ai coded itself into a corner – now it's bankrupt

The whole AI model

"Although Builder.ai's fall has roots in financial mismanagement and forecasts that were arguably over-optimistic"

That's pretty much every single AI company.

"We've got this awesome product."

"Great, how you going to make money from it?"

"Next year it'll be bigger and faster"

Coinbase confirms insiders handed over data of 70K users

Re: Beyond stupid

biometric data for longer than is necessary to confirm a "customer's identity."

Which can be several years in many cases.

Google, high on AI, flogs Gemini for all things

Read the whole article...

...and it's more of the "Look it can do stuff faster"

"What stuff?"

"You know, stuff you never, ever asked for, but something only people so detached from reality could ever dream of. You know, like ordering the same meal day in, day out, because you once said you liked pizza. Or how you've just spent £13 on a bottle of milk, because AI noticed it was getting a little low in the fridge. Then promptly spent another £300 on cereal and more milk, because it was 10 minutes since it ordered the bottle and you using the old milk, so you must be consuming 30 litres per hour."

Actors' union complains about Epic Games cloning Darth Vader

Yawn

3/10.

Must troll harder.

Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' would create a regulation-free AI hellscape, AGs warn

USA

...the bigliest and bestiest democracy money can buy.

Microsoft adds Grok – the most unhinged chatbot – to Azure AI buffet

Gold rush...

...make money by selling the spades.

If your paying to use it, I doubt they give two shits how good it is.

The thin veneer of morales the tech bros had has long since worn off.

Millions at risk after attackers steal UK legal aid data dating back 15 years

"perhaps they should be required to do that work in an official office on a government computer they log into with a dongle."

Tell me you know nothing about the subject matter in hard, but in a lot more words.

LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop

Magazines

Last one I picked up was a few years back.

Cost about 7/8 quid and was about 75% adverts.

I know some online sites are relaunching new magazines with the online site / subscriber picking up some of the cost, so will be interesting to see how they pan out.

Re: Bloatware Linux

"and the CD burner tools. "

Not sure why his complaining about that, it's part of Windows since XP.

Latest patch leaves some Windows 10 machines stuck in recovery loops

Meh.

Look on the good side

Win10 will be out of support soon, so will be the most stable it's been.

No more patches, no more random blue screens. Unless running Intel chips that is.

AI skills shortage more than doubles for UK tech leaders

FFS...

I've only just upskiled to Blockchain and the Metaverse and now this?

Oh well, at least my NFT skills are still in demand.

Ex-NSA bad-guy hunter listened to Scattered Spider's fake help-desk calls: 'Those guys are good'

Disconnect Everything

Ahhh the good old days of Natchi and Blaster.

I remember well running around yanking the power from Nortel and Baystack switches and going from desk to desk, server to server with a bootdisk to disinfect each device, one by one. Those that were to far gone were wiped.

Lot easier to recover back in those days....it only took 2 days of non stop work.

Automatic UK-to-US English converter produced amazing mistakes by the vanload

Re: Argh!

"The group head office is in Ireland where they also write English using the correct spellings."

Unless it's someone's name <dives for cover>

Re: Whoops

"Are you okay?"

Om fine buy my mother is worried.

No-boom supersonic flights could slide through US skies soon

Ot just pay to have the FAA have its budget cut even further so Janet on reception will also be in charge of enforcement.

Apple slams door on Fortnite's stateside iOS comeback

Re: Easy

And use?

Annual electronic waste footprint per person is 11.2 kg

Re: Software longevity

Yeah, I'm sure Samsung, Google, Cisco and Apple are having to hint down the back of the sofa to find cash to pay them

Plan to keep advanced chips from China with tracking tech gains support in Congress

This sounds like a plan

"I dunno, stick an Apple tag in the box or something"

6 weeks later.

"Great news, the 100,000 GPU's are still in Singapore. I'm not sure why a landfill site needs AI, but there you go."

Awesome....

...way of killing even more of the US market.

Hi Nvidia, we'd like 10,000 GPUs for our military please.

Sure, btw we'll know where they are at all time.

Errmmm OK, fuck off.

Uncle Sam claims H-1B fraud crackdown is working as registrations drop 25%

Re: Scam

I would of stopped at why study IT?

If they don't bring people in to <insert country here> then they'll just offshore it to the same country they recruit from

Throw in where they do hire in country, they are based in locations where the property is so crippling expensive that you'll have share a one bed slum with 18 other people.

Chip bans? LOL! Chinese web giant Tencent says it has enough GPUs for future AI model training

I said it before and I'll say it again.

When my ex was picking up her Masters (unrelated qualification) from Warwick Uni about 15 years ago, about 80 - 90% of those picking up their awards in Science and Maths had Chinese names.

This doesn't mean they were from China, but given that Warwick has a huge amount of overseas students, I would hazard a guess many were.

Microsoft set to pull the plug on Bing Search APIs in favor of AI alternative

I imagine the phone calls

Microsoft: "Hey Google, we're seeing how much money you make by providing a dog shit service that gets worse every year, so we'd like to copy you.

Google: "Hold my beer!"

https://search.google/ways-to-search/ai-mode/

Uncle Sam pulls $2.4B Leidos deal to support CISA after rival alleges foul play

Cancellation makes sense

...for supplying IT to something that may not exist next year....month?....week?

Europe plots escape hatch from enshittification of search

Alternative way to slip AI search.

Swear.. badly.

For example

Best laptop 2025 shit will return an AI result

Best laptop 2025 cunt will not.

Qatar’s $400M jet for Trump is a gold-plated security nightmare

I wouldn't even go that far.

Spray everything gold, put red seat covers with MAGA embroidered on them, some leopard print rugs and stick some US flags in with wrong number of stars and stripes and you'll fool the pair of them

Oh, all the kit has to be made outside the USA so he feels like he's back in one of his own hotels.

Let's see...

.... authoritarian country with terrible human rights records bribes authoritarian country with human rights record rapidly going downhill in order to seal deal on military hardware, in order to commit more human rights abused.

Got it

Microsoft boots 3% of staff in latest cull, middle managers first in line

Translation required

" it did mention plans to eliminate busy work for its remaining employees "

Soooo all the remaining workers will now be doing idle work?

Microsoft facing multibillion legal claim over how it sells software

Re: Cost of Microsoft to the UK

@alain

You're missing the point.

YOU may not be using MS, but your council will be, as will your GP, Emergency services, Dentist, Taxman etc etc.

So yes, you ARE paying for MS products wether you like it or not.

Judge puts two-week pause on Trump's mass government layoffs

You're JD Vance and I claim my $5.

Actually that was a coherent sentence.

You're Karoline Leavitt and I claim my $5.

Boffins warn that AI paper mills are swamping science with garbage studies

Much simpler article..

AI mills are swamping EVERYTHING with garbage.

Bosses weren’t being paranoid: Remote workers more likely to start own biz

Yes remote working is what caused it...

...not people going "You know what I've come to realise? I fucking hate sitting in a soul destroying office environment, putting up with people I'd rather punch in the face than talk to. The place is run by idiots who struggle to make a pie chart for the next utterly pointless meeting. I'm going to do something with my life."

So I'm sure forcing people back into the office will kill that attitude

CERN boffins turn lead into gold for about a microsecond at unimaginable cost

Re: Odd how what was "nonsense" is now fact.

"Wasn't that "ether" and proposed in the 1800s ?"

No.

Attackers pwn charter airline helping Trump's deportation campaign

" I can guarantee that also happened under Obama. I'm not convinced by all the whataboutism."

If you can point to cases where he ignored court orders or deported people to 3rd countries without due process, feel free to post them.

LegoGPT is here to make your blocky dreams come true

Lego didn't comment...

... because the lawyers are writing the cease and desist.

They VERY fiercely defend their trademark (as they are required to do so).

Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors

This is a story about a developer making money selling a "solution" to a real world problem, using data and systems they have zero control over.

Do not conflate the two

OpenAI drafts Instacart boss as CEO of Apps to lure in the normies

Lies

"the outfit is reportedly targeting revenues of $12.7 billion.

How Sam, how?

And revenue...profit? You know that thing that used to be important in the olden days.

Elon Musk’s xAI to pull about half of its smog-belching turbines powering Colossus

Re: Meanwhile

Only if you get to the airport via a leaf blower powered go-kart.

Re: Manufactured Histeria

If it's so clean, I suggest wrapping your mouth around the exhaust pipe. Not too long, just enough time to make you feel all warm and fuzzy, followed by a nice long nap.