Posts by IGotOut

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

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."

Microsoft's worst 'Nightmare' unleashes BitLocker bypass 0-day

Re: Unwarranted use

So how does anyone know it's a "legit" device and not one that's stolen?

How do you know the deceased / "demented" WANT you to see what's on the device?

Apple are doing the right thing.

Met Police, Apple join forces to choke London's stolen phone trade

Re: Politicians are scared of blaming people for being idiots.

Smash phone, get stabbed.

Pretty sure that's what the police would recommend as well.

Brit workers waste nearly six hours a week 'botsitting'

Can we have a steaming turd icon, just for these survey s?

"Almost all UK workers now have to deal with AI"

No, no they don't.

Car mechanics, hairdressers, dentists, labourers, sparkies, chippies, factory workers, nail bars, beauty salons, shop assistants and on and on and on.

And that's why I didn't even bother taking notice of this self serving pile of shit, which was probably AI generated and hence completely inaccurate.

What you mean is people in offices perhaps?

Anthropic spins a Fable of a tamer, safer Mythos

Translation.

It turned out to be all hype and now that's died down, here's some fresh hype.

Apple’s iOS 27 goes all agentic on compromised passwords, promises to change them with one tap

Erm.

"Passwords securely navigates through websites to sign in and upgrade their accounts to strong passwords.”

And if it has 2FA?

Uncle Sam considers buying a seat on the Titanic

If the adminstration is involved in bailouts..

...just follow the money back to the Trump family.

If they haven't slipped right down the corruption ratings by the end of this year, I'd be very surprised. It went down one last year, I expect at least a 10 point drop this year.

This was written in January and it's only gotten worse since then.

https://www.transparency.org/en/blog/corruption-united-states-global-leader-trump-first-year

Apple's Orwellian device controls for tots also mean more work for parents

Some of these features such as App approval have been around for years.

And as another poster pointed out, giving parents the tools, rather than the government banning adults from legitimate sites, is a much better way to go.

NASA's Secret: Moon astronauts will be rocking Prada underwear

Makes sense...

Musk loves his Jetsons wet dream fantasy, so it makes sense for NASA to be inspired by Jean-Paul Gaultier's Fifth Element fashionistas.

Canonical sends Ubuntu into the AI agent era

What if love to see...

...the second some CEO mentions the future of AI at speech, the entire audience just gets up and leaves.

The booing recently was great, but just silently getting up, turning your back to the speaker and walking out, would be even more impactful, as they'll have no one to lecture about how they are right and the audience should deal it.

UK boffin bait lands 18 international researchers

Bit misleading figures

"But while the EU was putting up €500 million ($575 million) in funding for foreign eggheads, the UK could only stump up a dedicated pot of £54 million ($72 million) to lure boffins to Britain."

EU population: 450.3 million, £432 million

UK population: 69.5 million , £54 million.

So per capita, there isn't as big a difference as the headline figures imply.

Home Office ditches legacy asylum database, keeps the spreadsheets

Re: Writing Improvement Request

@An_Old_Dog.

Given the fact that in the 1960s Enoch Powell ordered the winding down of Asylums and the 80s bought about the Care In The Community Act, using the term asylum in the UK as a term for hospitals dedicated to the treatment of mental health patients is long , long defunct.

I'm in my 50s and have never used the term asylum except in an historical sense to some defunct Victorian building. And I lived two miles from a massive mental health unit and dated a girl who's parents worked there (now a typical souless new housing estate), so it not like I wasn't exposed to them.

Start spreading the news: Datacenters may face one-year ban in NY

Re: Sponsored by China?

"I read somewhere that some of the advocates for limiting data centers are sponsored by foreign governments (China?)"

I read somewhere that the advocates for eating cheese were left wing neo-nazi moon dwelling dictators challenging big vegetable.

Capita £370M bid 40% under UK.gov estimate for Oracle HR and finance system project, court case reveals

Simple answer to low bids...

Make sure the contract is correctly written, with no wriggle room and lock them to that price.

But of course, the specs will be badly worded, the contract as watertight as a paper bag and a break clause penalty greater than the cost of the contract, so even if they deliver nothing, the tax payer, sorry, Government still is on the hook for 5x the original quote.

AMD takes a third of server CPU market as shipments grow

Sheez....

...I can't for the life of me think why domestic CPU sales are worse than expected.

AI heavyweights warn their tech could help terrorists develop bioweapons

Please legislate for this....

...just ignore everything thing else we do. Look we're the good guys. Yes, environmental destruction, rampant energy cost increases, excessive water usage, tech cost increases, social harm , Yadda, Yadda, Yadda. But look, we're trying to stop something that may, possibly, just in a roundabout way, in theory happen.

However I've an idea. Take all these scumbags, sorry leaders and AI "entrepreneurs", place them on an island inside a data centre and test the effects of an atomic bomb and how resilient AI is to the equivalent of few Kilotons of TNT.

Intel's mysterious new datacenter GPU is what Nvidia's Rubin CPX nearly was

In summary

DDR5 which is already sky rocketing in price, will now increase even more.

Five Eyes: Watch out for odd LinkedIn connection requests, China's back on the hunt for state secrets

LinkedIn...

Isn't that the place for scam artists in suits?

Expect more of those DRAM price hikes as memory shortage continues to bite

Re: Another win for the Chinese

What bit of tin foil hat and USA protectionism don't you understand?

It so super duper secret that one of the world's leading security outfits couldn't detect it. Probably because it's not there.

Re: Another win for the Chinese

"Chinese RAM is PACKED with firmware-level malware. Same for their CPUs"

*Citation Required

Given the same was said about Huawei with ZERO evidence even after extensive testing by GCHQ , excuse me while I call such claims utter bullshit.

Another win for the Chinese

...if they start increasing their production and keep it to themselves, this will make their end products even more competitive on the open market, and potentially start undercutting the big players. But I'm sure the cartel have thought of that.

Citation, please! UK regulator slaps Google with new publishing rules for search

Re: Clown Market Authority strikes again

@elsergiovolador

Not to bright are you (proven many times).

Say you get your wet dream fantasy of all these publishers dieing, then where do you get your beloved AI summary (which has been proven multiple times to be incorrect).

As for "where is the investigative journalism?" try actually looking for it. 404 media or Gamers Nexus is a good start if you want tech news. For my local news, I use a very small independent one that is fantastic. But I guess you'd prefer a mega corp slop machine instead.

Satellite phone dreams orbit reality as direct-to-cell usage set to underwhelm

Re: Solution looking for a problem

"And anyone wandering off into the wilderness then relying on a mobile in case of emergency should probably be locked indoors for their own safety."

Rather than a whistle and torch?

Remote work – not AI – is killing job prospects for the youth

Hmmmm

Carefully selected groups?

So not getting a job in your local supermarket is due to remote working? As a Doctor? A Nurse? A Social Worker? An Engineer? A physiotherapist?

Let's make take a small group of people and expand it outwards, to blame something that empowers the worker, not the managers (and when was the last time a manager mentored anyone?)

Cisco sings Mythos' praises - but doesn't say how many bugs the model uncovered

If they ain't saying....

...it's probably a number they don't want you to know, because they may affect the hype cycle.

Just like asking any AI booster how much "profit" any of these software companies make.

Microsoft reaches for olive branch after public dustup with 0-day researcher

"I guess the responsible disclosure employee went on holiday"

"I guess the responsible disclosure employee got replaced by a Chatbot...."

Tftfy

Re: Took em long enough

right formal qualifications to apply for a job at Microsoft.

A MBA?

'Resistance is futile,' says Qualcomm CEO. AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices

Dear Cristiano Amon

Go fuck yourself.

Love

The World outside your bubble.

US firms still dominate chip subsidies

Tut tut tut

It's a subsidy when OTHERS do it. It's a tax break, strategic investment or "supply chain security" when you it yourself.

UCLA seeks pre-litigation resolution with Oracle

Simple answer...

“finalize the decision on whether to continue with the current vendor or explore alternatives"

Explore alternatives. If you think it's bad now, give it another few years when Oracle's massive debts need paying off. It sure won't be the shareholders chipping in

London cops post £300M tech shopping list after Palantir contract blocked

So let me get this right...

"The MPS disputed the decision. "The decision by MOPAC is disappointing," said a spokesperson,

So you are disappointed by the decision that said you flaunted the well laid out rules?

So you think it's just ok to make shit up? Oh yeah, forgot, it's the Met.

Zig creator seeks 'uncompromising perfection' before blessing 1.0

Re: Why should I care

I don't care if a new server has an new purple light on it, but someone might.

Probably 50% of the articles on the Reg are of no interest to me, but I don't completely about it

If it's no interest to you, then just move on.

Steam Deck prices go through the roof as Valve blames component shortages

Re: Anyone for salt with their chips?

Don't forget, the memory makers involved have previously been found guilty of price rigging and operating as a cartel. Many of those involved and found guilty, still work for the same companies.

It's a good job...

.that everyone's salary has gone up by 25% to keep pace with the enshitification of everything.

Three in ten HP customers still clinging to Windows 10

So...

HP spin

30% of people are on Windows 10, they they are most definitely, super duper sure, without a doubt, going to be buying a laptop that's probably lower spec they they gave, because that's all they can afford now.

Windows 10 users.

Yeah, my current pc is fine. I keep it for a while longer, although those Mac Neos look interesting.

Company CEO flooded file share with smut, called for help after he deleted it

Re: similar issue

Try looking for a cheap car.

I wanted a sub £500 car (good luck these days), so not engaging brain I searched for "Cheap Escorts Near Birmingham".

Learnt a lot more acronyms that day rather than the the usual FFS, EW, PS etc.

Qualcomm picks bad time to pitch a $300 laptop platform

So this will be like those HP budget laptops....

..from just a fees back (can't remember the range).

They had so little memory and soldered on Storage, they were barely useable at launch and by the time there had been a Windows update or two, you were out of storage.

Bare metal cloud servers now cheaper and more readily available than on-prem hardware, says Nutanix CEO

Re: Jingle Bells!

And he expects the prices to be the same way until at least another year.

Microsoft wants safer C# without turning it into Rust

Re: Plea to Microsoft

"It would be like learning to drive in an automatic but complaining that you don't understand the gearbox in a truck."

Many, if not most trucks are auto now

6G: The next gen of wireless tech nobody's ready to pay for

As others point out...

I can get a full 5G signal, but it's so unusable that even notifications struggle to get through. It got so bad I gave up and forced my phone to use 4G as the preferred service.

Windows 11 update preview promises faster launches, puts Task Manager on NPU patrol

It's so you can have an extra graph in Task Manager silly.

Rogue states are putting AI agents to work on sanctions evasion

AI tools fool voice and facial recognition...

How do I get one of these?

I can't get one of those stupid UK government "One Login" things because it constantly refuses authenticate me.

My guess is the UK gov facial recognition system uses the same slop model as the hackers.

UK nuclear investors get 'high' returns for lower risk than consumers, who also foot the bill

Re: Grid infrastructure is limiting the supply of low-cost renewables

Unlike Gas and Oil which has no subsided at all, despite disgusting profits...oh wait, yes they do.

Re: Grid infrastructure is limiting the supply of low-cost renewables

"As a consequence we have very high electricity prices"

Can we just fucking put this pack of lies to bed once and for all.

The REASON renewables and therefore electricity they supply expensive is because it is tied to the most expensive form of energy ...GAS.

Unbuckle this lock in and renewable energy will fall in price.

Go look it up if you don't believe me.

Microsoft lets users exile floating Copilot button after interface rage

Re: Here's hoping

You could vibe code it. What could go wrong?

Feds unwittingly leak pilots' pre-crash conversation

FFS

He we go. Another fucking Trump aligned mouthpiece.

"and we are urging X, Reddit, and others to take such disgusting, manipulated posts down.""

You fucking posted it you brain dead morons, take responsibility for your actions for a change, rather than doing a "What Epstein Files? Look over there" If it's so disgusting why post it in the first place? There was absolutely no need to post the image, other than to make something look pretty.