Posts by IGotOut

Nvidia floats double-dipping datacenter financing scheme

Re: Grasping at straws

"His hide is more than thick enough ..."

Oh it's not. He's as thin skinned as the other scumbag billionaires. Say a mean phrase such as "You lied about..." and watch them flounder and whine.

Re: 40K here, 170K there

The same as the ultra wealthy that are creating this shit show. Absolutely fuck all to help those without money.

AI bills are baffling the C-suite after shift to usage-based pricing

Re: Nearly a third of corporate leaders report difficulty understanding

No, the other 2/3s don't realise they don't understand.

Re: Agreed!

You forgot "Whilst getting a hefty bonus because you reduced personnel costs"

Failed blockchain project ends with big fine for fibs about it being on track

Don't worry your little heads....

...the replacement is going to use AI.

What could go wrong?

AI search could kill the web without new quality signals and revenue models

Re: It will kill content creators, not the web

Unfortunately you are missing the point.

"people aren't going to stop reading the NYT online, visiting El Reg, or stop buying things from Amazon"

There have already been multiple complaints from MAJOR outlets, such as the BBC and I guess you've missed the fact that NYT is suing MS and OpenAI for content scraping. They even had to block the Internet Archives bots so that the parasites can't scrape that instead.

"or market, a barrier to block AI training, and the content that can't be scraped by AI will need to be accessed directly. It'll take a few years to shake out..."

Cloudflare (The Reg is a customer) already provides this, but the scumbag companies such a Google and MS are hiding the scraping traffic in regular search indexing.

NASA unsure Boeing Starliner will ever be certified for human flight

Re: This is not Trump's or NASA'S...

It's OK, they can dump the capsule and move into the bottomless cash pit that is the new Stealth aircraft they were gifted.

So spend 10's of Billions now to save 10's of millions in the future?

DRAM it! Cheap PCs being priced out of existence as memory cost bites

Re: Then why?

Tariffs! That always fixes high prices.

A biggly 1000% tariff will make them drop their prices, but this can be avoided if traded in Trump Crypto.

Claude Code users complain their chat records are being mysteriously wiped out

Oh no...

...slop coders didnt RTFM and don't bother creating backups.

Even the Secret Service won't use company-issued phones

Re: Work or off the shelf?

"Google has entered the chat"

Samsung have joined the conference.

Trump-shuttered climate change site back online in nonprofit hands

Re: None so blind...

Hopefully their lifetime will be coming to an end soon.

Microsoft extends extended updates for Windows 10 in the most muted way imaginable

Why?

I've had no updates since they ended support and it's the most stable it's ever been.

US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals

Re: Am I missing the difference?

Part of the issue is they can be skewed. For example on a nice city block in the USA they can say "Look how safe our vehicles are!". Stick on my route to work on twisting roads in the UK, I'd give them to the fist s-bend before they career off into a farmers field.

Also they just shut down if they get confused. Most meatbags if they see a road closed sign aren't like to just stop in the middle of the road for 30 minutes.....or just ignore it and plough right on through*

Actually how DO they close with temporary closures (say 10am to 4pm) or signs that say "Road closed 5 miles ahead"

Fucking idiots

If I'm stupid enough to ever end up in one, I'd like the option of at least trying to stop the thing if it's hurtling out of control down the road.

Giving the manufacturer the option how to do it is the most brain dead fucked up idea ever.

HINT: How to open a cyber truck rear door from inside in an emergency

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/cybertruck/en_us/GUID-903C82F8-8F52-450C-82A8-B9B4B34CD54E.html

European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status

Re: Fine fine

But then they raise their prices and that maybe enough to tip the balance.

Just Qualcomm want happens when you raise the prices to far.

UK government wants 'trusted' news sources promoted above the social media noise

Re: "Trusted" == "Truth"

"Truth" implies absolute certainty

No it doesnt as pretty much any one that looks into this knows.

Take a shooting with witnesses.

One witness say they heard 3 shots

Another 2

Another 4

Are two of them lying? No, they are stating what they believe to be true.

Just a quick search will explain the differences in more detail.

There are plenty about, just got to look for them.

For Brummies (and I think there is a Leeds one now) I recommend.

https://www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/

Just don't expect any breaking news story every 5 minutes.

London cops bring live facial recognition to West End

Sure

"LFR involves the police temporarily attaching cameras to lampposts"

I didn't have to get planing permission a prefab concrete garage at an old address as it's officially classed as "Temporary". 23 years later it's still there.

OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions

Oh dear..

..AI users SSDs are being killed by AI slop, so will now have to replace them more often at far higher costs thanks to....checks notes....AI.

Valve opens Steam Machine pre-orders with queue lottery and hefty prices amid AI squeeze

Re: RAM config

Because of scumbag AI companies they are left with the choice of "Take them as is or never bother calling again"

Re: It is too expensive!

Home built pcs have traditionally always been cheaper, unless you've wanted just generic office type pcs.

Bold move, Cotton: Trump administration tells US techies it expects American quantum computer by 2028

So..

Shares falling due to AI

The most corrupt US President in all of history must be moving his tax evasion money to Quantum companies and do some more insider trading.

Still, his supporters will blindly believe he'll lead the US to greatness.

The new database world according to Google: Inexact queries and AI in everything

Can someone remind me..

why it's still illegal to unalive people like this?

Every day, the argument against it just seems more and more null and void.

Microsoft Access finally breaks free of its 22-inch form limit

Translation

"If you haven't migrated off Access, do it now. We will be adding AI and fucking up the system you've used every day for 20 years. Normal behaviour will include, but not limited to:

Incorrect Information Read / Write.

Unhelpful Prompts every 30 seconds.

Increases in memory, disk space usage and power of up to 500%

Increased user frustration.

Unsecured, confidential plain text information appearing on the open web.

File deletion

Complete system wipes"

There will be no opt-out available.

Cisco adds another SD-WAN box to max-severity bug advisory

Re: How To Fix This Once And Forever

You missed the "Great Question" from the chat bot copypasta.

Researchers drop checkm8-style BootROM exploit for A12 and A13 iPhones

Re: Sounds like a good thing!

I think he's trying to peg an ancient joke FRC to a completely unrelated article. Bit like talking about Pasta trees in an article about cooking fish.

Microsoft's latest Windows bug belongs in the Recycle Bin

Re: How is this even a thing? Recycle bin has worked fine for years.

So did notepad, but they still managed to fuck that up.

Given they still haven't fixed after 30+ years file explorer hanging when trying to connect to a share that's no longer there, let's not be to harsh on their modern fuck ups.

Google told researcher 'Nice catch!' Then denied bug bounty for flaw it still hasn't fixed

I think all researchers

That get a "yeah thanks, but fuck off" should immediately publish exploit code. When they butch just shrug and say "Well you said it's a non issue, so what's the problem?"

Notice how MS suddenly sat up and take notice when exactly that sort of thing started happening to them?

Re: Time for hime to do a 'Donald'

Ignoring the fact this is nothing like his sueballs, I take it you are aware he loses pretty much every case he's brought?

Geopolitical jitters push Europe's internet registry away from cloud-first strategy

Re: Opex

It's a standard business term like ROI or BAU. Plus pretty sure being tech savi, as you demonstrated, a search is a few clicks away. Although using Google these days I'm surprised it didn't tell you it was a baseball hat your former partner wears.

Midjourney pivots from AI image generation to body scanning medical spa where patients bathe in 'golden light'

Re: "Avoid"?

Oh no. It's AI. It can do ANYTHING. Just ask the scummy CEOs peddling the snake oil.

Is this the next wave of AI bullshit?

No pun intended, but....

"with a total scanning capacity of a billion scans a month”

Oh just fuck off you lying scumbags. Seriously go do something useful, like manually insert the Uranium rods into the power plants you so desperately need.

India blocks Telegram ahead of scandal-hit medical school entrance exam

Hmmm

I'd thought we'd relish this quote in here like children that we are.

"National Eligibility cum Entrance Test"

Microsoft once used its own brand of 'Lego' to optimize Windows

The simple answer was responsibility.

In the good old days, the attitude was, if the software was to slow and bloated to run on the hardware, it was down to the developers to make it work.

Now it's an attitude of the developers is "If you find the software is too bloated, sluggish and generally crap, then you need to buy better hardware."

Only half of US datacenter capacity planned for 2026 is actually under construction

Shock...

Bullshiters caught out by bullshitting.

Still people will buy stock in profitless companies, because profits are so last century. It's all about the vibe now.

Windows update leaves third-party Office document launches in limbo

So yet another..

Fuck You to it's customer base.

Surprised the scumbags didn't suggest using a slop coded AI fuck up machine to sometimes open the app for you*

*Warning Microslop CoPiliot may decide to wipe all your files rather than open them. This is expected behaviour and Microslop accepts no liability for its own fuck up.

AMD's Mext buy shows how AI could solve the RAM shortage it created

So...

You'll just need to replace your SSD's 10x sooner and they get constantly written to.

HPE offers VMware refugees a year off the meter

Re: Umm. No thank you

"AN for a reason.."

Hope that doesn't stand for Anon, Charlie Clarke?

France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well

Re: Sovereignty and Smarts!

Hi Bob. Missed you. x

Scammers keep scoring: Brits fleeced for £1.3B as Americans lose $3.5B to impersonators

Good job we're banning those...

gullible under 16s from social media. I mean look how many scams for AI robo-puppies they fell for and how doing Tai-Chi for 5 minutes a day can make you look like Arnie in his prime.

Capita is about to sail past deadline to fix civil service pensions scheme

Oh it can easily be fixed.

A simple million Pound a day fine and it'll be fixed in no time.

Britain plots digital bedtime after kicking under-16s off social media

No problem...

..I'd my soon to be 15 year old asks me to get around it, I'll gladly help her.

She's autisticand it's how she's built her relationships with real life friends

She's intelligent, highly talented in multiple skills and is self taught in many many things.

So as a raver in his 50s who remembers the bullshit both the Tory scum and the post NuLabour scum have peddled they all can go fuck themselves.

I'll choose how to bring my kids up, not some brain dead MP out to please the newspaper readers.

Google found liable for bad AI Overview results. Let's play Truth Or Consequences

Yes!

No all we have to do is all get some no win no fee lawyers to go after them and destroy them.

I'll happily only get 50% of the payout if it means thousands of cases go after them.

No class action shit. Individual cases to tie their legal teams up for the next decade and cost them far more money, every time. No getting the usual "A settlement was agreed and Google accepted no liability" crap.

We need these companies to hurt.

Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet

I'm pretty sure many women (and men for that matter) have heard exaggerated length sizes far too many times to recall.

Beer? It's probably part of the cause.

Re: Too good to be true

Ugh. Those things used to pop up all the time. It was usually disguised as something like "10% off all future orders" and then in tiny text you noticed it said "reoccurring charge every month at £x per month".

Microsoft has mostly repaired a flaw in Surface hardware that allowed unprotected devices to be bricked by a single packet

Hmmm

" reiterated a prior suggestion that the researcher contact the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), an effort our source found too cumbersome."

Where else have I heard about a security researcher getting pissed off with MS over their bug reporting? Nope can't think...

Met Police boss threatens to cut 700 frontline jobs after Palantir deal blocked

Simple way to save money.

Sack him.

Breaks rules, complains when he's held accountable, throws tantrum.

I think the phrase is "Bringing the force into disrepute"

Google fires sueball at alleged Chinese phishers over AI-powered fraud ops

Re: I call bullshit on Google.

It's exactly the same in Facebook. You'll see the same advert for knock off goods, with EXACTLY the same text, posted by a dozen "people" in your area.

They nearly always have a dodgy website in the text and FB do nothing about it.

I just gave up reporting.

Amazon owns up to using 2.5bn gallons of H₂O in its bit barns last year

Green washing bullshit by a scummy company

So you're returning water that would already be going into the rivers or into ground water...or literally cleaning your own shit?

I don't see "we are cleaning the water so well and putting it back into the mains system for others to use."