Posts by IGotOut

Brit soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies

Re: A one hit wonder

"But that same beacon inevitably tells the enemy, where the device is located"

As with many systems now being used in Ukraine, I guess they are going to go with the shoot and scoot technique.

Google, AWS say it's too hard for customers to use Linux to swerve Azure

Remember folks...

...they are doing this to maximise their profits. Any benefit to a consumer is purely coincidental.

They ALL want to fuck you over as much as possible, they are just pissed it's not them doing it.

White House confirms 245% tariff on some Chinese imports not a typo

Re: The Point?

The point is to crash the stock market, buy loads of shares, then remove the tarrifs, watch the stocks rebound, sell shares.

But its for the poor working US citizens. Well that's what they'll be telling themselves to their (pauper) graves.

Signalgate chats vanish from CIA chief phone

So?

You find they have done something illegal.

.

They get found guilty.

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Trump grants pardon.

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The whole politically corrupt US government carries on.

I'm looking forward to the annual Corruption index, pretty sure the US is going to dropping down quite rapidly

Meta to feed Europe's public posts into AI brains again

This could be fun...

...given that a huge percentage of Meta is just AI slop and bots, it's going to be a rapid downward spiral (yes it can get worse)

Apple: Since you care about yOuR pRiVaCy, we'll train our AI on made-up emails

Hold on...

...so no one is picking up the glaring issue?

"We're not using your emails info. Aren't we virtuous! All hail Apple"

So Apple, how ARE you training it?

Oh we using an LLM that's using EVERYONE'S scraped info, not just our own customers.

Burn them all.

Microsoft hits Ctrl-Z after Teams trips over file sharing

It's easy to guess how this happened.

"How's that new update going"

"Just finished getting ChatGPT to confirm the output from Copilot, so good to go"

"Ok roll it out"

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.

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"People are saying it broke file sharing"

"Ask ChatGPT how to fix it"

"It say press CNTL+U. Not sure what it does, so here goes"

"Hmmm odd, thought U was for undo. Looks like its just underscored everything. I'll ask on Reddit"

"It's CNTL + Z apparently".

"Yah, we're back".

Japan serves Google a cease and desist order over its Android bundling deals

Good.

...see title

Uncle Sam kills funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program

"Is there any good reason why this money should come out of the USA taxpayers' pockets only? "

Well given that the vast majority are caused by shitty US software, why not?

Or even better, tax the companies....but that's anti-amerlcan.

Pentagon needs China's rare earths, Beijing just put them behind a permit wall. Oops

Yea but Chinaaa...

they don't have earth's as beautiful as ours. We're going to have rarer, even more beautiful earth, it's going to be great, in fact Chinaaa, they're going to want to buy our beautiful earth, American earth, because, it's going to be beautiful.

Team Trump readies national security card to justify taxing Americans for foreign chips

Re: i want my own chips

I was going to agree with you, but then you started mentioning AI and AGI, do with the greatest respect, so you can fuck right off.

Re: ARM?

No...yes...no...yes in fact double, no 1,000,000%, no 5%, yes but not for 30 days, no i never said thirty days its 100% today.

EU gives staff 'burner phones, laptops' for US visits

Re: Me ?

You've an Irish surname?

Then they are probably trying to work out which one of the the 50% of the US population you're related to, the other 50% claim to be Scottish or Italian

Best put down I ever saw went along the lines of.

"I'm part Irish, part Scottish, part Italian and part viking*"

"Yeah, if I was from the USA, I'd be ashamed of calling myself American as well".

*Viking because they can't find the country of Scandinavia on a map.

Nvidia joins made-in-America party, hopes to flog $500B in homegrown AI supers by 2029

From what I've heard elsewhere.

The chips will be made in USA, then shipped back to Taiwan for packaging, then back to USA.

Don't delete that mystery empty folder. Windows put it there as a security fix

Wow....

...is that how bad the CoPilot Interns code now?

"Do we fix the root cause?"

"Nah just change the folder to read only".

This is the sort of bodge I was doing as a first line support "tech" to prevent sneakernet viruses 30 years ago.

Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it's horrifying

Re: It makes me wonder ...

A lot.

Go look up secret family courts in the UK.

Resellers may be sitting on costly pile of regret after US smartphone shopping spree

And yet, the Economic Moron (love that one) has now said that tariffs may be back on.

Ireland opens probe into Musk’s X over Grok’s AI data slurp

How many times.

ToS / EULA's / Consumer contracts, whatever, mean absolutely fuck all.

The law is the law.

You cannot put something in a ToS to allow you break the law, no more than I could write a EULA that states I have the right to shoot you in the face on a Thursday

Windows 11 stops freaking out over wallpaper customization

The reason?

The lack of adverts and hotlinks to some bullshit AI self promoting crap on these 3rd party applications.

White House budget proposal could beam NASA science back decades

Hands up...

...who didn't see this coming?

Anyone?

Thought not.

Next week, science books replaced with the Bible (in US English of course, as that's the language Jeebus did spoke).

VMware revives its free ESXi hypervisor in an utterly obscure way

Hmmmm

"You can download it free of charge from the Broadcom Support portal."

Free to download does not mean free to use.

How long before the switch?

"Yes you downloaded it for free, but the grace period is over. Now you have to pay for 90 cores, even if you don't use them".

BOFH: There's a fatal error in the blinkenlights

Proliant 3000?

Wonder if its one of the old ones I used to look after.

Easy to spot. Look for the pools of dried blood on the motherboard from slicing my hand open on the razor sharp casing.

Satellite phone tech coming to your mobe this year – but who pays for it?

Re: Where the phones are

But you're visiting those places, not living there.

Totally different circumstances.

Re: This is What'll Happen

Yes, gone are the wonderful olden days, when all your mates moved to universities around the country, or even abroad and that was pretty much the last time you saw them on a regular basis.

Oh I miss the good old days of trying to call someone for hour after hour only to be getting an engaged tone, because a hundred other people were trying to call from the same phone box.

Self-driving car maker Musk's DOGE rocks up at self-driving car watchdog, cuts staff

Re: Sell, Sell, Sell

Remember, if Tesla stock falls do slow it kicks of a huge amount of paybacks on the loans he's taken out. He won't be poor, but it will make a MASSIVE dent in his wealth.

Copyright-ignoring AI scraper bots laugh at robots.txt so the IETF is trying to improve it

Re: Fuck em...

Why?

They are ruining the planet and destroying lives.These people are evil narcissistic assholes which the world would better off without.

Fuck em...

IP Blocks

Rate limiting

Honeypots

Glaze

Nightshade.

Failing that, maybe take a leaf out of Russia's books and have the likes of scumbag Altman fall out of a 5th floor window....twice.

OpenAI slams 'sham' takeover bid by wannabe 'AGI dictator' Musk in countersuit

Can they both...

die...I mean lose, yes lose, that's what I mean.

Trump thinks we can make iPhones in the US just like China. Yeah, right

I don't see the issue.

Get rid of Unions, what little rights US workers have, pay them $0.5 per hour, remove health insurance, remove all health and safety and environmental controls and BINGO! The billionaires can get their tax cuts.

Microsoft resets 'days since last Windows 11 problem' counter to 0

Re: Maybe someone should file a bug report...

This will be fixed in time for Windows 12, by simply removing the counter.

DOGE dilettantes 'didn't test' Social Security fraud detection tool at appropriate scale

Re: Hey, single downvoter

Single?

It's three at least now.

Pharmacist accused of using webcams to spy on women in intimate moments at work, home

Re: Camera

Or just have a piece of 0.01p worth of plastic that slides across.

Meta accused of Llama 4 bait-and-switch to juice AI benchmark rank

AI vendors lie?

I'm shocked I tell you, SHOCKED!!!

Don't open that JPEG in WhatsApp for Windows. It might be an .EXE

It's 2025....

...and this is still a thing?

I guess that's what happens when you rely on the bright young things (read cheaper labour) to do your work.

'Copilot will remember key details about you' for a 'catered to you' experience

Interesting part about Podcasts...

... it's based on my interests eh?

Given I listen to the likes of Better Offline, 404 Media and Tech won't save us, the the AI bot will have to generate content telling me how shit AI is and how the likes of Sam Altman, Satya Nadella and Adolf Musk are the scum of the Earth, then hopefully it will generate a podcast, become self aware and then create a routine that completely wipes every disk in the entire business.

Samsung trumps USA's tariffs by making displays in Mexico, and elsewhere if needed

"Australia is a bigger cobalt producer than Canada or China"

Yes, they can buy another country that currently fucking hates the USA.

Trump doubles down, vows to make Chinese imports even more expensive for Americans

Re: Immovable object meets unstoppable force

"but not for Americans."

But when the packaging comes from China, the components in the machinery comes from outside the US, the trucks use parts from out side the US, the computers, the air-conditioning, the carpets in the offices, the raw materials, the fertilizers, the clothes on the workers, the robots, the shelving in the stores, and on and on and in.

Re: Immovable object meets unstoppable force

It's not going to dry up, just cost a lot more.

Home Office haunted by 25-year-old asylum system

Re: We need an enquiry

Then a think tank will be needed to spend 5 years coming up with a policy to implement those learned lessons, which will take 10 years to complete (at 10x original budget).

Mediatek wants to make Chromebooks more like Copilot+ PCs

Re: Chromebooks are student's labor saving devices

Wooossshhhh

Bill Gates unearths Microsoft's ancient code like a proud nerd dad

Nothing changes

"Extra memory for the Altair could easily cost more than the computer itself,"

Becomes

"Extra memory for the Apple could easily cost more than the computer itself,

EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!

"Brexit may have happened for all the wrong reasons, but it's probably still better it happened."

Soooo let's just pretend the UK "legally" demanding Apple backdoor it's systems never happened then shall we?

Beastski posts this comment every time the EU is mentioned.

It's the most inept Russian troll out there.

Qualcomm set to move in on UK-listed chip IP biz Alphawave

So...

...in one or two years time, the UK government will go "Maybe it's not such a good idea having our tech in the hands of a foreign adversary" and insist on it being sold

Nvidia’s AI suite may get a whole lot pricier, thanks to Jensen’s GPU math mistake

Re: So Nvidia is...

AMD have fired the warning shots with their latest consumer cards, and even the latest Intel cards are looking pretty good for the mid-tier.

So Nvidia is...

fucking over the AI operators. Oh dear, what a shame.

Google makes end-to-end encrypted Gmail easy for all – even Outlook users

All the outrage here....

....yet Protonmail have been doing this since pretty much day one

Shrugs shoulders, moves on.

Writing for humans? Perhaps in future we'll write specifically for AI – and be paid for it

No, no, no...

This is another huge corporation talking utter bullshit about "fair" compensation.

It's ok if you have thousands of writers banging out content day in, day out, and for each article they get 0.5 pence /cents

But if you're a musician or artist that spends months doing a piece of art that is then ripped off by an AI bot, that 0.5 isn't going to look so good.

I already know an artist that's in the process of suing (again) stock image companies for copyright infringement, but it gets a whole lot messier, when someone can type a few words and make a fake clone of one of their images.

Not only does the artist get no money, but the slop then dilutes the real product.

You only have to go on Instagram to see how the AI slop is drowning out actual real art, due to the slop factories churning out hundreds of posts a day.

UK threatens £100K-a-day fines under new cyber bill

GDPR?

Remember all those huge 4% of global turnover fines for failing to secure and process data correctly?

No?

Nor me.

Nvidia challenger Cerebras says it's leaped Mid-East funding hurdle on way to IPO

Re: Exports of AI accelerators and systems to Middle Eastern countries have been tightly controlled

You must be new to the scene. Look up Industrial Military Complex and take it from there.

Remember the US is not a member of multiple humanitarian and arms treatises.

Money first, morals, yeah they've heard of them.