Posts by IGotOut

IBM: Insurance industry bosses keen on AI. Customers, not so much

We know how it goes.

CEO

Will this save us money? Will it increase my bonus even more?

Answer

Yes, but customers won't like it.

CEO

Roll it out.

Internet Archive wobbles back online, with limited functionality

That's quite a common method. You attack in a very visible way while sneaking in while everyone is distracted.

Microsoft says more ransomware stopped before reaching encryption

Great advice.

"Individuals should monitor their online footprint to see what information is publicly available about them that a threat actor could use to impersonate them.""

Please can the whole world take their advice and shut their LinkedIn accounts down and stop using MS data stealing software.

Pretty sure that's what they just said

Analysts predict 85 million EVs on roads by 2025 despite industry speed bumps

Re: Fortune tellers. Always reliable.

"Be so cheap that no other country could compete due toassive subsidies."

Go look at the US and EU subsidies and tax breaks.

Then come back and report.

Until then I'll file this under blatant racism.

Norway datacenter dumps diesel diet, goes veggie with biofuel backup

All very good...

...but where is this source coming from?

Are you taking perfectly good food crops / land and using it for fuel?

Are you slashing down forests to grow this crop?

Given the fact that some oils such as rape seed, is grown in biodiverse deserts (trust me I live by many fields and there is almost zero life bar the plants, a few insects and the soil bacteria), is this just yet more green washing?

Would banning ransomware insurance stop the scourge?

Re: Preemptive strikes with Liberationware (TM)

Congratulations on making your one person experience scale to 100,000 people.

Oh wait, you didn't.

Ukraine cyber cops collar man who allegedly hooked citizens up to Russian internet

Re: We've come a long way in 100 years

Remind me, what happened to William Joyce?

Mozilla patches critical Firefox vuln that attackers are already exploiting

Re: Yada Yada

Maybe if you clicked the fucking links to the advisories you may find the answers. Or is that a bit to challenging l?

Dutch cops reveal takedown of 'world's largest dark web market'

My guess is they are selling a bit more than an 1/8 here and there. Otherwise they're going to be doing a hell of a lot of deals to make €5,000,000

CIQ takes Rocky Linux corporate with $25K price tag

Re: $25,000 for an annual subscription?!

You see the link. Try following it.

"CIQ offers a flat rate for RLC, no matter how many CPU cores, servers, or virtual machines you have. We’ll never count your environments or audit usage."

Moscow-adjacent GoldenJackal gang strikes air-gapped systems with custom malware

How predictable....

Babbage boffin Ada Lovelace honored for computer science contributions

So also the inventor of Agile project management then?

Smart TVs are spying on everyone

Re: Buy a non smart TV - if you can find one

I could tell you how to hack the fire stick so you can watch whatever you want l. But that would be illegal

So instead just go ahead, put the stick in developer mode, install downloader from the App store and then look for a guide on installing Kodi on YouTube.

Bitcoin creator suspect says he is not Bitcoin creator suspect

I wonder...

...if they stop to think that Satoshi Nakamoto isn't a single person, but a group of people, maybe even a company....or MAYBE...dum dum duuuuummmm

The Illuminati !

Uncle Sam may force Google to sell Chrome browser, or Android OS

Sure thing Google.

"said would hurt developers and consumers, "

Yes, those people love us spying on them, controlling standards and generally fucking up everything you do online.

Workday beats Oracle and Microsoft in UK 'Matrix' ERP deal

Re: Why is it tricky

It seems potentially that someone with brains is in charge .

"that process of compromise and mutual commitment, and understanding where you can't add excessive customisation"

Birmingham, are you watching?

Using iPhone Mirroring at work? You might have just overshared to your boss

Even better Idea...

Don't put personal stuff on your work phone.

Easy

Cops love facial recognition, and withholding info on its use from the courts

The US justice system...

...where the more in prison, the better for the gravy train.

Innocent? Guilty? Who cares. Gotta make a profit.

Vulcan Centaur avoids FAA scrutiny after losing solid rocket booster nozzle

Re: Do you have anything in your life

Beast666 is a Russian or Chinese bot, trying sow division. Nothing more, nothing less.

One comment its running nutjob right wing conspiracies, next it's praising Putin and China.

American Water rinsed in cyber attack, turns off app

Re: It's 2024 ...

this is nothing to do with SCADA. It's customer billing,you know, the public facing side.

Chinese cyberspies reportedly breached Verizon, AT&T, Lumen

Outdated isco and Netgear?

Are those the brand new, super secure ,"Made In USA" ones they put in after pulling out all the Huawei gear?

Elon Musk's X mashed by Australian court for evading child protection reporting

Simple way to see if they are liable...

...block all IP address and DNS entries for Twitter. Allow anyone to use Twitter's trademark.

If the asshole complains, the Australian legal system goes "But you're a different company"

Brits hate how big tech handles their data, but can't be bothered to do much about it

It's because....

...tech have designed it to be so damned hard.

Even here, where a tech website is complaining about users being apathetic to data privacy, am I having to block 2 trackers and an advert.

DOJ, Microsoft seize 107 domains used in Russia's Star Blizzard phishing attacks

It's not the clearest reporting.

MS took out civil action against the websites directly affecting MS customers. The rest were by law enforcement.

MS themselves have a much better write up.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2024/10/03/protecting-democratic-institutions-from-cyber-threats/

Two British-Nigerian men sentenced over multimillion-dollar business email scam

Took me 10 seconds to find out for you....

" a Nigerian citizen and UK resident, and Donald Ikenna Echeazu aka Donald Smith and Donald Dodient, 40, a dual UK and Nigerian citizen,"

So anything else you want to be offended by?

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-nigerian-nationals-extradited-united-states-united-kingdom-participating-business-email

China trains 100-billion-parameter AI model on home grown infrastructure

Re: Bonsai tree

Is that because there are more than anywhere else.

Put it a bit more in balance

https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/the-latest-car-fire-statistics/

FBI claims corrupt LA cops helped crypto CEO's cash grab

Re: Shell companies and tax havens

Because those that run the US are the same ones that hide their money in these places.

Panama papers anyone?

Two years after entering the graphics card game, Intel has nothing to show for it

Oh yeah...

...I forgot they launched some graphics cards.

Maybe they should just launch exactly the same cards but just put AI in the card name. Bound to work.

Earth's new mini-moon swings by, then ghosts us by late November

No really. Space is big, very big. And you have to looking in the right direction, at the right time, for a very dark object.

That's ignoring all the crap that's getting thrown up there in the way these days.

Put it in context. How hard was it for a bomber in WW2 to fly over a bloody great city during a blackout, and not actually see it.

Imagine a government that told Big Tech to improve resilience – then punished failures

Re: Imagine that

And it looks like communism.

Euro cops arrest 4 including suspected LockBit dev chilling on holiday

Re: And what looks like proof stolen data was never deleted even after ransom paid

The FBI? The seem to be OK with helping healthcare businesses pay ransoms to "delete" data.

Ransomware forces hospital to turn away ambulances

Causation Vs correlation?

"two-thirds of healthcare facilities surveyed by the infosec shop suffered at least one ransomware infection and over half had paid criminals to regain control of their networks."

Now, I may be jumping to conclusions, but could the reason healthcare is being targeted, because of the 50% payout?

Seem like pretty juicy targets if I was that way inclined.

T-Mobile US to cough up $31.5M after that long string of security SNAFUs

Have I time travelled?

"This consent decree is a resolution of incidents that occurred years ago "

Yes because 2023 was at least 10 years ago, back in the bad old days

Re: Here we go again.

Shareholders paying?

Nah you got that wrong. It'll be the victims that end up paying...i.e. the customers.

IBM and Oracle to support 280,000 users after winning mega ERP govt tech contract

Simple.

If they dont spend at LEAST a year planning thus, its going to fuck up

Patch now: Critical Nvidia bug allows container escape, complete host takeover

Wahoo ..

.jpg malware now with extra AI.

Blackstone invests £10B to build Europe's 'biggest AI datacenter' in UK

Re: How many jobs?

came to post the same thing.

The figures are complete and utter bullshit. They do this with every single money laundering, sorry, investment project

Just look up " freeport fail to bring promised jobs" so see how many of these projects never deliver what the say.

OpenAI to reveal secret training data in copyright case – for lawyers' eyes only

Re: secure room

the creator of the bot account you replied to?

Apple quietly removed 60 more VPNs from Russian app store, researchers claim

Re: Shining whit…

"And maybe if there are other, perhaps even more pressing, human rights abuses in the country, such as being arrested and charged for saying anything against the war in Ukraine?"

Wow. If there was only someway these same people could get information online, discuss it and say things against the war, without fear of being snooped on by the Police and Security services. Maybe some sort of Virtual Private Network?

WordPress.org denies service to WP Engine, potentially putting sites at risk

Re: Matt Mullenweg recently called WP Engine a "cancer"

So the dev didn't turn on Auto updates with even the most basic of back up tools?

My guess as well the basic site, he had a hundred plugins running from 50 different vendors.

91% of polled Amazon staff unhappy with return-to-office, 3-in-4 want to jump ship

Twice in my life I've almost halved my pay.

First I was in a dieing industry (Printing).

The next was in IT. Work / Life balance was appalling. I decided to put myself first.

It's amazing how little you can live on when you don't give a fuck about the next shiny thing, or keeping up with the Jones's.

Altman reportedly asks Biden to back a slew of multi-gigawatt-scale AI datacenters

Please....

...build this at the tax payers expense, so I can make even more money....oh and can I also pay lower rates of taxes.

A look under the hood of the 3D-printed, Raspberry Pi powered 'suicide pod'

stick it on the credit card.

Some US Kaspersky customers find their security software replaced by 'UltraAV'

Re: Is it a new product? Really?

I wouldn't worry about Trump. He's pretty convinced the Indians were the ones John Wayne beat at the Alamo.

Scientists demonstrate X-rays as a way to zap asteroids out of Earth's path

Don't worry.....

the first anyone will know about an approaching astroid 10 years from now, is when it smashes through the barrier of a million mini sats orbiting the Earth.

In fact that clutter could act as a shield, linke a giant condom around the Earth.

Who’s watching you the closest online? Google, duh

Re: This...

because a foreign company is showing how utterly corrupt the US government and big business is perhaps?

That's my guess.

Cloudflare tightens screws on site-gobbling AI bots

Maybe if you took one second to look, you'd find out.

Instead, just feel free to spout your ignorance here.

Ancient US air traffic control systems won't get a tech refresh before 2030

Don't worry....

...if the PedoManChild gets his way, the FAA will get scrapped. Problem solved.

That's how it works isn't it? Get rid of all government oversight and all the pesky safety issues disappear.

Feel free to ignore GenAI for now – a new kind of software developer is being born

Most British (and many other countries) get very, very little funding, if any at all.

To put it in context in 2012 when the UK hosted the Olympics, the British Women's Volleyball team got £0 in funding. They resorted to sponsored bike rides to raise the money needed to actually compete in the games held in their own fucking country.

Quote from the BBC at the time

"Volleyball was one of eight sports to have had London 2012 funding slashed in January because of a £50m budget shortfall"

Capita wins £135M extension on much-delayed UK smart meter rollout

Biggest waste of money...

....the cost of installing them outweighs the supposed savings costs.

"It will help manage power going forward"

Easy fix. Make solar panels compulsory on all new builds.

Don't worry about the lifespan of the panels, they'll last longer than the utter shit housing thrown up these days.