Posts by IGotOut

Samsung Galaxy S25 is so smart it wears Crocs, allegedly resists quantum decryption

The major corporate tech industry...

...really has nothing interesting left to show us anymore.

Re: Spare parts for TWO WHOLE YEARS?

And even if you get the spares, the fact it's been thrown into a a giant tub of glue, to ensure all the parts are one big, impenetrable lump of unrepairable components, renders the spares pointless.

Re: Is there a reason I would change?

Yes

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AI!

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You need AI.

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Buy AI

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What do you mean show me one useful thing AI does?

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Look it goes to 11, I mean it has AI.

Trump nukes 60 years of anti-discrimination rules for federal contractors

Next up....

...history books.

They don't think they contain anything worth learning anyway.

NASA spacewalkers to swab the ISS for microbial life

Re: Who did they piss off at NASA?

It's punishment for saying If it's Boeing, I ain't going" after they arrived.

Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts walks free as Trump pardons dark web kingpin

Re: Pam Bondi - Attorney General

That's why he put it in quotes.

This is a tricky one.

The sentence was complete and utter bullshit and the judges were loaded against him.

Part of his sentence was due to him wanting to hire hitmen. The problem is, he was never arrested, tried, nor convicted for that crime. Yet the judge still used that in his summing up. Each judicial body pretty much went "nah can't be bothered".

So it was a complete fit up when it came to sentencing.

But should he be pardoned? Nope

Microsoft throws more cash at its carbon guilt by replanting Brazilian rainforest

Re: Stop building more junk

The problem is, the rich get richer and the poor are told to blame the poorest, for all their problems.

I fucking hate these companies and their scumbag CEOs.

Yet people will still keep buying their shit, because it's easier. I admit I'm one of them, but slowly weeing my way off.

Amazon and Netflix have gone, eBay is barely used, but boy is it hard.

This year will be MS and Google (haven't bought anything off them for years). But unfortunately Apple will still need to exist.

Where does Microsoft's NPU obsession leave Nvidia's AI PC ambitions?

I, just like 99.99999999% of people....

...just don't give a shit about AI other than, "Will I lose my job?"

Other than the meta verse, I've never seen such collective indifference from not just ordinary people, but also the tech community.

The only people that give a shit, are those getting even more obscenely wealthy, the journalists that lap up, without question the bullshit those assholes spew out, and the public that just believe the slop that these spineless journalists pimp out, without question.

Atlassian's Bitbucket Cloud went down 'hard' today

DNS....

....it's always DNS.

Trump hits undo on Biden AI safety order, EV mandate, emissions standards, and more

Beast is a Russian/ Chinese troll.

Donald Trump proposes US govt acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service

Congratulations...

...on enlightening the world of how to publicly prove your corrupt. Most countries have the decency of hiding it.

Apple solves broken news alerts by turning off the AI

@AndrueC

Not familiar with Office Draw, but could a macro not of done that?

FCC to telcos: By law you must secure your networks from foreign spies. Get on it

Re: Paperwork is not going to fix the problem.

Oh manufacturers can do a f'ing lot more

1. No default passwords.

2. No hard coded credentials.

3. Secured by default.

4. Security fixes without need for maintenance contracts

Fixed many of the issues right there.

Windows Insiders can now turn on Administrator Protection from settings

It's a US company. Any other language, even English, is an afterthought.

Capital One two-day outage leaves customers in free-fall

Re: And this is why...

You have savings?

Copilot invades Microsoft 365 Personal and Family for an extra three bucks a month

Re: I cant see this catching on

So you say Copilot is required to make SharePoint less shit?

EU demands a peek under the hood of X's recommendation algorithms

Re: Musk is just going to refuse to cooperate

"All US bases in the EU closed for example."

Honduras have already threatened to close the base there.

DJI loosens flight restrictions, decides to trust operators to follow FAA rules

Re: Drones

So it makes sense that the USA invaded Canada, that way these will be Water Bombers made in the USA!

And after a few years the wings will fall off due to them being made of paper mache.

Crypto klepto North Korea stole $659M over just 5 heists last year

NK need a better PR company.

"The Glorious PRK seizes assets used by Drug Dealers, Human Traffickers and Child Abusers! The PRK makes the world a safer place!"

Even modest makeup can thwart facial recognition

Good luck in the UK.

Where 75% of teenage girls look identical.

Re: "However, gait recognition is becoming quite powerful..."

"No help for how your upper body moves, tho."

Stick your hands in you back pockets, it completely changes your motion.

Oh, Deere! FTC sues tractor maker, alleging decades of monopolized repairs

Are these the same people....

....that voted for Trump?

Probably.

Next up the people that were to stupid to realise that The Affordable Care Act and Obamacare are one in the same thing.and are now regretting their support of getting rid of the latter.

Apple's interoperability efforts aren't meeting spirit or letter of EU law, advocacy groups argue

Re: As much as I hate Apple...

Please, explain the privacy concern of being able to Airdrop / Bluetooth something between an Apple and every other device on the planet.

I can wait.

Brits must prove their age on adult sites by July, says watchdog

Re: Shafted three ways...

Don't forget, if you want to sell a piece of art you painted in Europe for £10, thanks to Brexit, you now have to pay someone in Europe for years after the sale to be your point of contact.

AI frenzy continues as Macquarie commits up to $5B for Applied Digital datacenters

Re: Upside?

"as for investing, 3 fold return in 4 years is a pretty big upside, enough that the investors are almost guaranteed to break even and given they measure success by beating the index by a few bps"

Other than Nvidia, where did you get that figure from?

Are you suggesting that there is going to be OVER $600 billion ROI from these investments, given that Anthropic and OpenAI are making obscene losses, only kept going by venture capital funding.

They have no plans on how to make money, other than "you can do stuff"?

"Bitcoin is up 40% since then, so they're doing quite well, actually."

But what was the ROI on these huge investments? It got to the stage it was only placed like China with very low energy prices that could make any sort of profit.

Megan, AI recruiting agent, is on the job, giving bosses fewer reasons to hire in HR

Most companies struggle to recruit the right talent

Wrong.

Most companies refuse to pay people the wage they deserve.

Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home

Option 3) Quietly quit

Don't use this phrase. It's a shitty phrase used by spineless media companies, owned by billionaires, read by people that swallow every bit of shit they read.

Use the correct phrase.

Option 3) Do what I'm paid to do, nothing more.

Intel Capital next into the chip giant's trebuchet, to be shot as far over the wall as possible

Re: Stupid question

It's creative accounting.

When they say "Value", it just stock manipulation.

IT job market is still shrinking but not as quickly as last year

Don't worry....

...as all the commentards on here repeatedly bang out in support of AI, when it comes to replacing warehouse, call centre, admin, and other "meanial" jobs, all those can just simply retrain in IT

Oh wait.

Yeah, best become a hairdresser.

(Don't become a barista, as my home coffee machine does a better job than 90% of them)

UK businesses eye AI as the cheaper, non-whining alternative to actual staff

Fightback.

I'm telling all my artist friends to fight back and ruin AI theft.

If you have the power please start using nightshade to fuck up the models.

https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html

If you're an artist and can't do that, look at Glaze to help protect it.

The bell tolls for TikTok as lifelines to avoid January 19 US ban vanish

Re: You peeps take yurselves seriously

Real people make real money off TikTok, whether you like it or not.

This ban had probably just cost thousands of people their livelihood. But I guess they don't matter.

Re: Just get shot of it...

That fine, so long as Meta and Twitter also get shit down, as they are just as bad.

Or is US based advertising slop ok?

Miscreants 'mass exploited' Fortinet firewalls, 'highly probable' zero-day used

Re: Question

"Not sure, would have thought VoIP would be too lossy with chopping the frequency off at the top and bottom."

That only happens if you're using shit CODECS.

If you stick to G711a/u you'll be fine. Rolled out hundreds of the buggers. But then you just introduce another issue...what happens to a compromised ATA?

Your firewall is far, far more likely to get patched than an an ATA, even by the better brands.

Allstate accused of quietly paying app makers for driver data

Re: Gee who would have thunk

@sarusa

So, have you personally vetted every single piece of software you've ever installed?

Have you vetted every single SDK it uses?

Do you vet it again every single time it updates?

Nah thought not.

In summary.

Company agrees to delete data, not do it again. Admits no liability.

Case closed

There, just saved the Texas taxpayer a few hundred thousand Dollars

Price-fixing-as-a-service: The claim against healthcare cost-cruncher MultiPlan

I'd put something like...

..come the revolution, these should the first up against the wall, but that would be classed terrorism, due to their moneym

I'll just have to stick to shooting poor unarmed black people in the back, as that's "ok" in modern USA.... actually, has been pretty much ok from day 0.

Intel, AMD engineers rush to save Linux 6.13 after dodgy Microsoft code change

Given the huge amounts of vide MS submit, I think it's pretty safe to say it was a cockup

Brit watchdog probes Google's search, ads empire

Re: total waste of time

CMA does actually have some powers, but really we're waiting on the US to really kick these parasites back into the 1990s.

CoreWeave drops £1bn in UK datacenters – but don't expect the latest Nvidia magic just yet

£1billion investment.

Once again, they have NOT invested this money in the UK. They have spent most of it on hardware. Only a tiny fraction of that will actually have been spent on UK resources

Nvidia snaps back at Biden's 'innovation-killing' AI chip export restrictions

Re: Going Dutch?

I agree. Nothing to stop Nvidia exporting to the Netherlands, then a few hundred trucks driving them to any other location. 3rd parties may be required.

Azure, Microsoft 365 MFA outage locks out users across regions

Maybe...

if they used a proper MFA like nearly every other company on the planet, rather than the dog shit proprietary crap they use, it wouldn't of happened, But this is MS I guess.

Microsoft sues 'foreign-based' cyber-crooks, seizes sites used to abuse AI

Not sure how the evil images were

..but using Dall-e means they are going to be pretty shit.

I just hope the real reason MS were angry was because they were generating thousands, if not millions, of images, thus costing MS an absolute fortune.

NATO's newest member comes out swinging following latest Baltic Sea cable attack

Re: Shame

Sinking an oil taker in the fragile artic region is not a good idea. Besides, they can sell the tanker off as compensation.

Europe coughs up €400 to punter after breaking its own GDPR data protection rules

Much of it isn't done via browsers, but in app adverts.

I pointed this on here a while back.

I use Podcast Addict, an open source player, to download and play podcasts, oddly enough

The only permissions it has are storage and internet connectivity. Location data is explicitly denied.

So how do the adverts know where I'm based in order to play adverts for my local NHS?

Simple, IP based adverts. The app doesn't need location data, but the advertising scum just base it on your IP address when pushing out the advert.

UK unveils plans to mainline AI into the veins of the nation

Re: Britons: is the detection of potholes the problem, or the fixing of them?

Hi Herefordshire. Shropshire here. You'll be glad to know you're not alone.

However I did find the potholes useful in the freezing conditions helping me get grip on on the ungritted main roads.

That subdued CES has us wondering what 2025 will look like, tech-wise

CES in summary

Everything is branded AI, even if it's not,because we have no new ideas.

Scammers exploit UK's digital landline switch to swipe cash

Re: This digital voice thingie..

Looks out of window, looks at pole and cabling that has there for almost 60 year and goes....

"And your problem is?"

Re: Had one of these yesterday

Hi comrade