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Devaluing content created by AI is lazy and ignores history

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The writer puts one side of the argument....

....but I do wonder how they will feel when their book is ingested into the AI would then a 1000 knock of copies are sold for 99c on Amazon and people go "No need to pay for that book, I can get ChatGPT to give it to me for free".

Exploit code for Palo Alto Networks zero-day now public

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Re: PA should be doing better

I may be wrong as I've never used this kit, but it sounds like a "click to install" option, which my guess is it then pushes it out to all devices (I've used similar systems)

If you don't have this, you just have to manually apply the fixes to all your devices manually.

GenAI will be bigger than the cloud or the internet, Amazon CEO hopes

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Re: GenAI will be bigger than the cloud or the internet

Don't forget Blockchain that fixed famine in Africa or something like that.

Btw still enjoying those 3D movies we all wanted?

Google plunks down $1 billion for extra Japan-US submarine cable

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Re: Geographical imprecision

Sure take all the undersea cables, route them directly through the massive US military bae that may or may not have one of the largest intelligence bases outside the USA, then onto your destination of choice.

Notepad++ dev slams Google-clogging notepad.plus 'parasite'

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Re: Similar: Skype / Softonic

@ Androgynous Cupboard

You've won the Internet for this week.

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Re: "They Said"

@fg

If you're going to be a dick, at least learn what the origin of the modern use of "woke" means, not just what the orange one and his knuckle dragging followers *think* it means.

X fixes URL blunder that could enable convincing social media phishing campaigns

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Well....

...that's what you get when you fire all your staff and replace them with randoms you find on Fiverr.

Despite two previous court victories, Tesla settles third Autopilot liability case

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Yay..

The US justice system. The best money can buy.

San Francisco's light rail to upgrade from floppy disks

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Re: Have they been hacked?

"All 3.5" drives are standard. They dont have different RPM, if they do thats because they have a fault."

You sure on the "Standard".

Many, many times I used to find s disk would work absolutely fine in one drive and be utterly unusable in another. Sony's were a particular pita.

Shadow of Trump hangs over future EU-US tech collaboration

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Re: "No concrete action appears to have been decided"

'I suppose the EU will have its retaliations ready to go, based on provious experience."

Nice Fabs you're building in the US there, soooo be a shame if we stopped the export of the lithography machinery you need to actually get them running.

Home Depot confirms worker data leak after miscreant dumps info online

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Re: Don't admit anything not yet proven

" those companies reluctantly admit it might have happened ..."

To a small percentage of people....even if that small percentage is 10,000 victims.

Tech titans assemble to decide which jobs AI should cut first

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Retraining?

I'd suggest nail "tech", hairdresser / barber, dentist, chiropractor....in fact anything that can't be replaced by a chatbot.

Otherwise, that retrained post will be next in line

Hotel check-in terminal bug spews out access codes for guest rooms

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Sure, it's not like you could go down the local key cutting service and clone a key.

German state ditches Windows, Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice

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Re: Baby steps

"others will be marketing types insisting they need Apple or whatever :-)""

Adobe equivalents on Linux? At least MS mostly has the equivalent software.

UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions in cloud spending curbed by vendor lock-in

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If there was....

...only some organisation that could make vendor lock in against the law and thus stop this issue for everyone.

Just can't think of an official body that could do that right now.

Ransomware gang did steal residents' confidential data, UK city council admits

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"once seen and confirmed why the hell are they stored?"

That's an easy one to answer.

Look up "Windrush Scandal"

X's Grok AI is great – if you want to know how to hot wire a car, make drugs, or worse

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Re: Can I see it?

The flip side is, if they published uncensored information, they then could become criminally liable in certain jurisdictions.

Outlook.com trips over Google's spam blocking rules

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This is news?

Years ago before quitting the IT game and getting a life instead, the Email admins seemed to be dealing this crap on a weekly basis, when either Gmail or MS mail would just randomly decide to stop the rivals mail, for no obvious reason.

OWASP server blunder exposes decade of resumes

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The first question....

...why do you have that information in the first place?

French lawmakers take a swing at cloud monopolies

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Waahhhh...it takes so long.

Hi Google. Here's your fine for anti-competitive behaviour.

"We're going to fight this for the next 20 years in the courts".

A pox on them all

Hillary Clinton: 2024 will be 'ground zero' for AI election manipulation

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Let's be done with it...

...and just replace many of the assholes we have with AI.

These days it's like choosing between gouging out your eyes or having your limbs cut off.

Maybe we should let IT recruitment teams do the hiring.

Must be under 50 with 45 years shop floor experience and 75 years of charity work.

Cloud server host Vultr rips user data licensing clause from ToS amid web 'confusion'

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Yeah, yeah...

"We know the average customer doesn't have a law degree"

Well neither do your lawyers if you put stuff in like that and then going "ooopsie, sorry we didn't actually mean that"

JetBrains keeps mum on 26 'security problems' fixed after Rapid7 spat

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Their approach sucks...

I get the "We don't want to give a heads up" mentally, but equally, if I'm applying a patch, I sure as hell want to know what potentially could be affected by it.

I got sick of patches being applied, then coming across what is seemingly a random event, only to trace it to a "fix". It's even worse when the patch doesn't even apply to your environment.

There is nothing wrong with saying "Patch to fix security flaw in RPC handling" without going into great detail before people have had time to fully update.

Nvidia's newborn ChatRTX bot patched for security bugs

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But...

... couldn't it ask itself "Find bugs in this software"?

And it would magically fix it, just like it can fix all the worlds problems like these tech companies seem to claim.

University of Washington's Workday woes leave research grants in limbo

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Blah blah blah...

"It is not uncommon for a technology shift of this size to introduce complex issues."

Yes, but because the same clowns are involved with every fucking time.

Sales people talking bollocks to senior management who lap up "it will make you richer" promises while completely ignoring the people that have to use and implement the car crash of a system.

Intel's green dream is chips without any dips in Mother Nature's health

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Re: Interest

Chip making at home? Really?

Apple fans deluged with phony password reset requests

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"The fact the scammer called Patel "

So is this what failed Home Secretaries do these days? At least it was good training for the new career.

Intel throws chips on the table, Microsoft plays the Copilot card in wild bet on AI PCs

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Anti Competitive suit coming in 3...2...1

You can't call it an MS certified AI pc unless you have a key promoting an MS product.

Hmmmmm

'Thousands' of businesses at mercy of miscreants thanks to unpatched Ray AI flaw

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It's not a bug...

...we designed it with piss poor security.

Well that's ok then.

The UK Digital Information Bill: Brexit dividend or data disaster?

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After talking to my 12 year old...m

who wants to leave this country as soon as she's 18, the true reason for Brexit finally dawned on me.

It was never about keeping immigrants out of the UK, it was to make it harder for us plebs to leave, so they are free to fuck up this country more and more.

Truck-to-truck worm could infect – and disrupt – entire US commercial fleet

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It's OK.....

...they are banning TikTok, so no need to worry about this.

UK council won't say whether two-week 'cyber incident' impacted resident data

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Re: Whats am I missing here?

To the relevant authorities, not Joe Public

Microsoft's first AI PCs Surface with Intel cores and a Copilot key

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A feature no one asked for...

... except desperate marketing teams.

Uncle Sam, 15 US states launch antitrust war on Apple

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Re: Foreshadowing

Can someone upgrade his ChatGPT? I think it's still running an alpha version.

Yacht dealer to the stars attacked by Rhysida ransomware gang

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You mean like they did with the Panama papers?

UN: E-waste is growing 5x faster than it can be recycled

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Or.....

....we could just buying shiney we don't actually need.

Phone. Secondhand, now 6 years old

TV Cheap HD, no 10 years old.

HiFi 30 years old (with Bluetooth receiver on the aux)

iPad mini 4

Laptop must be 10 years old as is the desktop.

Monitors about the same.

I may at some point update the iPad to a bigger newer model, but that'll be second hand as well.

US task force aims to plug security leaks in water sector

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Re: Yet another pretext for State Security to spy on its own people.

"Do elaborate, please"

Do your own research man, I mean, dude, c'mon. It's Big Water man....open your eyes. They are out for you, I'm telling you it's there for you see, you just have to look.

Brits blissfully unbothered by snail-paced mobile network speeds

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Re: Facebook isn't used as much by the younger genertation(s)

Don't worry about age it's just a marketing scam to make you be boring and compliant.

Yours lovingly a 52 pink haired long boarder, who you will find in the mosh pit or in front of the speaker stack at a rave.

Fuck em all and be happy.

Judge demands social media sites prove they didn't help radicalize mass shooter

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Or you could fix ...

....your dumb ass gun culture!.

Nahhh. Freedumbs and all that

Just carry on with the weekly mass murders

US CHIPS Act set to electrify semiconductor scene with billions

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Meanwhile in the UK...

Yes, we may give possibly some money to something with Self driving cars that are useless on UK roads but only if they use Blockchain, sorry ML and AI, whatever those are, to a GREAT BRITISH startup, well if they are in Shoreditch and my other half has shares in them, I think...., yes that should be good. We'll use the levelling up budget as Shoreditch is obviously more up north than Brighton, so yes, urrm..all good then?

Carry On

Nvidia turns up the AI heat with 1,200W Blackwell GPUs

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I'm getting some of these...

Just waiting for the nuclear power plant to be finished in the shed and then I'm good to go.

Reddit gets a call from Nokia about patent infringement ahead of going public

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Re: Reddit was started in 2005

Do you know what patent they have infringed?

It could be 12 months old for you know and related to something completely hidden from the end user (think possible load balancing or how it sends an alert out).

Just because Ford have been around a century or so, doesn't mean a patient has to be a hundred and fifty years old to infringe it.

Infosec teams must be allowed to fail, argues Gartner

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Re: Gartner says something clueful?

To be fair, it does say people should be allowed to fail, in which they are experts.

FTC goes undercover to probe suspected antivirus scam, scores $26M settlement

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Hold On One Second

Ignore the main story one second.

"Multiple billing aggregators and payment processes - including Visa - raised questions about excess chargebacks and fraudulent behavior over the years as well, we're told. "

The payment processing companies KNEW the scammers was committing fraud, but yet still happily took money from victims and only gave it back when disputed.

I think we know whom the really crooks are.

Record breach of French government exposes up to 43 million people's data

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This clearly breaks GDPR

It clearly states you should only hold data has long as strictly necessary. I cannot think of a single reason why you'd need information going back 20 years.

Ten nations tell social media, banks, and telcos to get better at stopping scams

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Your partly right about caller ID but it can very, very easily enforced.

All numbers have to have an underlying bearer number. Some telcos INSIST that your "spoofed" number lies on top of your carrier number block.

E.g. 0800 123 123 must be presented on the companies bearer number e..g 01234 000 - 999.

This is no different on VoIP using asserted ID and source IP.

It would be trivial for telecoms companies to say drop all presentation numbers not on a valid bearer for financial services.

Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi adds electric vehicle to its mobility offerings

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Re: If Xiaomi want to be taken seriously

Good point about copying. I wish more companies made hideous monstrosities such as the Tesla Cybertruck and Ford F650 SuperTruck.

Now you can compare your Chromium browser with that other Chromium browser using Speedometer 3.0

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The good news is that that's being sorted. Websites will be only allowed to display what is effectively Opt-In or Opt-Out. No going through scumbag media outlets that you have to visit 50 different pages to opt out.

Microsoft calls AI privacy complaint 'doomsday hyperbole'

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They did. See other articles.

Airbnb warns hosts who use indoor security cameras they may face eviction

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Re: "where guests can reasonably expect privacy expectations"

Everywhere?

So in the hotel, you think there are no cameras in the entrance, the reception, the car park, the park?

Ok sure.