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AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews

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Re: You can't add arbitrary data to remove bias.

That's a very poor example.

"It's why people from poor communities aren't inclined to learn piano with an aim to become a concert pianist. "

Pianos are very, very expensive (yes you could get an upright for £50, or even free), but then you'll find the tuning costs more than a new one.

You could pick up a 88 key weighted digital with sustain and damper for a a few hundred quid. But then throw in several thousand Pounds of lessons

My daughter is learning violin and that's close on a thousand a year....and that's just a"hobby".

So saying "poor" people aren't inclined is a lie. Poor people CAN'T.

Big difference.

Five Scattered Spider suspects indicted for phishing spree and crypto heists

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I'm a little confused

The article states five have been indicted for wire fraud by the US but

"AHMED HOSSAM ELDIN ELBADAWY,

aka “AD,”

NOAH MICHAEL URBAN,

aka “Sosa,”

aka “Elijah,”

EVANS ONYEAKA OSIEBO, and

JOEL MARTIN EVANS,

aka “joeleoli,”

Defendants.

"

Are on the linked form. I may of missed it as it's not phone format friendly.

Is Buchanan currently residing and facing charges in the UK or US?

New York Times lawyers claim OpenAI accidentally deleted evidence in copyright case

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Re: How, um....

From what it reads, they just redid all the research so more of a "your going to pay for our time" statement. So guess looking at a few hundred thousand dollars.

Chinese ship casts shadow over Baltic subsea cable snipfest

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Re: Paranoid Times reports..

"See also the UK's decision to cut the number of vessels and helicopters operated by our armed forces. "

See also the military agreeing with these cuts to knackered, high maintenance relics and putting to money towards up to date kit.

Microsoft flashes Win10 users with more full-screen ads for Windows 11

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Re: Full screen ads for Win11?

Maybe only ones that can upgrade are being targeted?

DoJ wants Google to sell off Chrome and ban it from paying to be search default

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"that would harm Americans"

Please elaborate exactly how?

We'll answer any questions DoJ has, HPE CEO tells us as Feds probe $14B Juniper buy

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Re: That real goal is...

Upgrade to GPT 4. It makes more sense that the V1 alpha version you are currently using.

Google's AI bug hunters sniff out two dozen-plus code gremlins that humans missed

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One question....

....how many false positives?

D-Link tells users to trash old VPN routers over bug too dangerous to identify

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Bullshit...

Another scumbag company to avoid.

"D-Link US is prohibited to provide support for these EOL/EOS products, "

What complete and utter crap. I've never heard such horseshit spew from a marketing droids mouth.

Shiw me ONE law that says it's illegal to patch end of life product. No? Thought jot

Many other vendors (including MS) have done it in the past for high vulnerability exploits

Just another example of all that's fucked up in tech these days

America's drinking water systems have a hard-to-swallow cybersecurity problem

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Re: Easy Fix Incoming

Nah. I always get 1 downvote. I have to check the post hasn't been removed if it's not there.

I think Musk or one of his ilk sits there giggling down voting everyone while whacking one off.

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Easy Fix Incoming

Disband the EPA.

No more reports about poor security.

Profits up.

Job Done.

Late stage capitalism for the win.

Database warhorse SQL Server 2025 goes all-in on AI

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Don't upgrade.

What until the next release when the AI bullshit bubble is blown and it's quietly dumped

Microsoft 365 Copilot trips over angle brackets, frustrating coders

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Suprise.

Overhyped bullshit machine can't deliver on promises made by the tech bros.

Judges not impressed by Amazon, SpaceX's attempt to have NLRB declared unconstitutional

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These people...

...

really are the scum of the Earth.

How dare these people want a living wage and be safe from injury! We have money to make!

The make the industrialists from centuries ago look half decent.

I'm sure they would employ child labour if they could.

Oh wait....

NIST trains AI to hear the 'oh crap' moment before batteries explode

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Re: Cars and other big things are the biggest problem though.

"non-OEM versions of powertool batteries... "

Most are just bog standard cells in a proprietary case. If you think they are using some high quality components, you're going to be very disappointed.

Nvidia's latest Blackwell boards pack 4 GPUs, 2 Grace CPUs, and suck down 5.4 kW

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Yay....

you can now get info on what is best way to consume poisonous mushrooms even faster.

Wonder what Nvidia's plan is in two years when the AI bubble implodes with great force?

Microsoft starts boiling the Copilot frog: It's not a soup you want to drink at any price

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Re: This can't be true

You summed it up with the accounting fraud section.

Of course it's not fraud, it you, quite rightly, throw it in with other figures such as revenue from Bing Advertising.

Revenue growth is everything to Investors. Sustainable profits are irrelevant. Once the bubble bursty, the Tech bro's will just invent some other bullshit hype machine.

Now if you don't mind, I need to look at my NFT "art" in the Metaverse.

Teen serial swatter-for-hire busted, pleads guilty, could face 20 years

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Re: Intersting...

Please don't get them banned yet.

I need to get my smart watch that's going to banned because it's so high tech. The one designed by a former member of a special ops team

Trump appoints Musk associate Brendan Carr as FCC chair

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Where Russia leads....

....the USA follows

Not sure what is worse, "Reds under the bed" or the current fill your government with oligarchs and sycophants.

Sweden's 'Doomsday Prep for Dummies' guide hits mailboxes today

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UK version

In the event of war, we will ask our cronies to supply substandard items at 100x the cost of quality kit.

You must shelter in place, and follow all rules, no matter how miserable they make you. We in power do whatever the fuck we want in order to make our lives better.

Letting chatbots run robots ends as badly as you'd expect

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Re: Systems going berserk

Robots don't have intelligence, just algorithms.

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Re: So if you combine

Well based on the attitude to "self driving cars", it will be the person that's murdered at fault for not realising there are just about to be killed.

AI PCs flood the market. Their makers hope someone wants them

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It's OK....

the Metaverse will save us.....

Remember that trillion Dollar dad?

No?

C'mon.. it's where an avatar of you can do stuff, you know....stuff, like actual things, kinda like, oh you know bro, it's the future

Yup it's the Metaverse 2.0.

Datacenters line up for 750MW of Oklo's nuclear-waste-powered small reactors

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Sounds about right..

"For all the hype SMRs have enjoyed over the past two years, the technology has yet to prove commercial viability"

Sounds about right for a Sam Altmann project.

Get loads of funding from slack jawed investors, promise the world and then hemorrhage cash.

Tesla Cybertruck, a paragon of reliability, recalled again

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Good news folks...

...for those living in the USA, you can look forward to more of this bestest ever build quality as the import duties ramp up making everything more expensive, so even more corners will be cut in the name of revenue and growth.

Even better for you all, this fine example of quality control will no longer result in recalls, as all safety laws will be removed in the name of efficiency.

Microsoft 365 Copilot goes monthly for a 5% premium and annual commitment

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Translation:

We are burning through cash at an unsustainable rate, desperately trying to find a decent use case scenario for the this drivel, so perhaps try it for a month or two.

Just to add. Have these glorified management consultants worked out where to get the training data from, if all the humans are replaced?

It's already learning off AI shitty content that's being vomited all over the web. If anything it's going to get worse, not better.

Apple hit with £3 billion claim of ripping off 40 million UK iCloud users

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Re: Amazon Photos

Can you back up the system data?

Nope.

Here's how a Trump presidency could change the tech industry

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Has no one else noticed

That the name of the racist, (everything) narcissistic prick's governmental depart "Department Of Government Efficiency" is named after the scumbag con artists crypto currency?

No?

No one?

Let that sink in how fucking corrupt this government will be (not that any others are much better), when make the world best bullshitter head of a department, named after after a criminals favourite money laundering technique.

AMD axes 4% of staff while staring hungrily at AI, servers

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Mushroom

Gotta maintain growth and fuck the employee.

If people haven't heard it, I highly recommend the podcast "Better Offline" where the presenter takes a very angry look at exactly what is going on in tech, and this is a classic example.

More profits, bigger bonuses, but we must lay off staff to show growth.

Yes we are absolutely doing well, but investors need to see growth, so if we lay off a fuck ton of people that got us here, and do a new thing, we can say "Hey look at the growth in this area".

So will the CEO be punished for having to many staff, so that these cuts were need. Bollocks, they will be rewarded.

Will they be fired when the bullshit AI bubble bursts? Don't be stupid. They'll lay off these newly employees AI teams, get a big fact pay check and move onto the next shiny new investor bullshit buzzword.

Ambitious overclocker cools Raspberry Pi 5 with liquid nitrogen

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Re: Hmmm

Lunch?

EU irate about geo-locked Apple IDs

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Re: It's endemic.

"Ever had the 'Sorry we don't ship to [insert country X here]' message when trying to buy something?"

As pointed out by someone else, since we left the EU, its a fucking nightmare.

I'm a one man shop that designs my own stuff to sell on a part time basis. I simply don't have the time and energy to deal with all the hundreds of shipping, custom fees and taxes PER ITEM I'd have to set up. This is the same for thousands of small businesses.

Here's what we know about the suspected Snowflake data extortionists

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Re: 1st offence max 10 yrs, 2nd 20

For the directors of the companies that put profit and growth over customers? I totally agree.

Canada passes new right to repair rules with the same old problem

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Follow the money ..

...here is how it works.

Billionaires and politicians have a love in at at Davos.

Politician: People are getting really arsey about not being able to fix the dog shit goods you sell them. Any ideas?

Billionaire: How about we give them the right to repair.

Politician: Wont that affect your company growth and therefore bonuses?

Billionaire: I said the RIGHT to repair, not the ability to repair.

Politician: Brilliant. You can carry on selling products that worse every year for more money and I get to keep getting your donations.

Amazon confirms employee data exposed in leak linked to MOVEit vulnerability

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Re: That's pretty hard hitting

When the amount of fines and / or compensation is less than a few minutes of profit, then nothing will change.

Will Windows Insiders find Recall lurking under the Christmas tree?

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Desperate for "growth"

Shareholders need to see growth.

Force a product no one asked for onto users.

Look how many people are using AI since we rolled it out

Nevermind it's because they have no fucking choice in the matter.

Soon they'll remove the recycling bin and automatically transfer files to the cloud, rather than removing them, therefore you'll always have a copy of what you've ever saved.

Oh fuck...I may of just given them another idea to make tech worse.

That cave in the forest looks more appealing every day.

Fujitsu does not trust Post Office in use of Horizon data in future third-party prosecutions

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"how the hell are they still trying to get away with this system as the basis of any prosecution...."

Well they still use the pseudo science of forensics. Seriously, look into the history of forensic "science" and see what utter bullshit it is

Only DNA evidence can be classed as science, the rest was just made up by people with something to sell.

Cisco combines Meraki and Catalyst into single wireless brand

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And the Enshittification continues...

...it'll be the same cost*. We've run the numbers and you'll be no worse off. Even with the Free support.

*Please note this is based on the first years subscription and presumed that you replaced all your hardware annually and also bought the Premium support package. We reserve the right to increase prices every year with a minimum of 11 months notice of cancellation. If after 30 days of buying the product, you fail to inform us you wish not to continue your subscription, you will be automatically enrolled into a five year contract with the option to cancel upon payment of any remaining monies for the remainder of the contract.

Intel: Our finances are in the toilet, we're laying off 15K, but the free coffee is back!

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"Just check out Starbucks"

Best quote I heard was "Americans don't make coffee, just coffee based flavoured drinks"

The Register takes AMD's Ryzen 9800X3D for a spin

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@45rpm

The problem with the Mac Mini is cost.

If you just want the base model, it's incredible value.

But you want another 8GB of RAM? That'll be £200

TWO HUNDRED FUCKING QUID.

Put that in context that will get you 64GB of DDR5 on a PC.

An extra 256GB for an SSD upgrade

Again £200!

Well, you can get a PCI 5 1TB m.2 and still have change

So base is good value, but every upgrade is a scam.

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Linus Tech Tips

gave similar results.

He did point out that if your buying this for gaming, the bottleneck isn't the CPU when running high performance, but the GPU.

His summary was yes it's good, but you'd be better off buying a lower spec part and getting better monitors, gpu's and memory.

Top 10 billionaires make nearly $64B in post-Trump election stock surge

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Re: ...collective net worth increase by $346.3 billion

Taxes are for peseants.

www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/super-rich-avoid-paying-taxes.jpg

Euro execs extend net zero timescales amid energy cost and supply crunch

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Want to stop climate change?

Stop buying shit you don't need!

It's really is that simple.

Over buying food you throw away.

Replacing the phone every time a new one comes out.

Buying a huge TV, when in reality you'll still see the same size screen because you end up sitting further away.

Buy second hand and use it until it falls apart or becomes so degraded as to become unusable.

If we buy less shit, the factories will produce less shit.

End of.

Nolanverse Batmobile leaps barrier between film and reality – but it'll cost you

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And unlike this, he has a jet powered car.

Meta gives nod to weaponizing Llama – but only for the good guys

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TLDR

People are using it for bad things, so we may as well make more money from it.

China's Volt Typhoon reportedly breached Singtel in 'test-run' for US telecom attacks

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Re: Time for a firewall

Sure.

Good luck getting large swathes of Asia, South America and Africa to follow this lead.

Python dethrones JavaScript as the most-used language on GitHub

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Meaningless stats...

"We've also seen 100% year-over-year growth among students, teachers, and open source maintainers "

Yup.

1

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A new city springs from the rainforest to become Indonesia's tech hub

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Someone I know has just had to do a online course for the council and under terrorism and

"PREVENT"

They classification of terrorism can cover

"single cause protesters" e.g. "Stop Oil" can come under terrorism.

I'm going to contact my local council and demand they do something about that ne'er do well organisation called Shelter, oh and Cancer Research....and that bastion of terror (insert hospital fundraising charity).

Cyberattackers stole Microlise staff data following DHL, Serco disruption

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A criminal offence?

Unless a company can prove the following lines by company spend, the CEO and CFO get six months in prison.

"The safety and security of customer data and business operations is always our top priority....."

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Ddos often happen to mask the real attack.

So it could be both.

Operation Synergia II sees Interpol swoop on global cyber crims

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Go back to the 90s before China joined the WTO and your comment may actually hold water.

Calling China communist is like calling the USA a free and democratic society.