Posts by ComputerSays_noAbsolutelyNo

Another Microsoft team admits it’s struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code

Can one lock down browser extensions

... as an org admin via GroupPolicies or Intune tuning?

Since Browser extensions are second rate software at best, why not disable them completely?

Bing Wallpaper app opens Harry Potter's chamber of ads

Re: First question ...

I would venture it's a default install by MEGASLOP

LG accused of 'egregious invasion of privacy' over TV data collection

Large siblinG

Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium

Don't bother for a couple of centuries ...

and let future pope Gregory the Tremendous fix the problem

Orbify.eu pitches warped Inception-style 3D maps for navigation

Humanity out of ideas

Whats wrong with a lean top view map?

Nothing, but apparently humanity has no more good ideas.

Who, me? Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up

Brittle

If a single packet loss causes this, well, they had it coming in some way or an other.

Meta's proposed $18B settlement in teen harm case throws YouTube and TikTok under the bus, too

If this is agreed upon, we're screwed.

* A defendent makes demands to force behaviour upon third parties

* A defendent gets to choose a payment schedule for their fine

* A defendent gets to choose the corrective action

McKinsey says enterprise AI is finally 'on the road to ROI'

AI ROI

Get some AI

Slap it onto your product

Hike price of your product, 'cos AI.

Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it

Sometimes the best move in a game is to not play at all

Microsoft blames AI for delayed Exchange update, can’t say when it will arrive

Cumulative?

Shouldn't a cumulative update just be a collection of already published, and hopefully tested, updates?

I guess there's also a rolling-release, daily, weekly or monthly update channel. Are these the testers?

The what, why, and how of pull requests and source comments

Re: Change control

While your analogy is a good one, I fear that for many "asking someone out tona date" is even more theoretical than a theoretical discussion on the benefits of good code documentation.

- Written without AI but with a healthy dose of sarcasm

Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age

Re: There are more important things for the USN

The tremendous Brandenburg Gate de Trioumphe. It's the best, everybody says so.

Google Earth's AI makeover survives less than one planetary rotation

Playbook

1. Cram AI into everything

2. ???

3. Profit

And that's how clueless Google sabotaged a well regarded product/service of theirs.

Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11

Re: Only?

In the age of AI slop: 64 GB ain't enough

AI's cheatin' heart will make you weep

Verification is even mire difficult, when people have cognitively surrendered to the AI and aren't capable anymore

Using AI makes people less likely to admit they don't know something

Cognitive surrender

is a term I heard recently used in the context of AI and knowledge

Researcher poisons open-weight AI model for under $100

How though?

I always imagined the weights in such a model to be constants. How can one change the behaviour? Is the nefarious behaviour already baked in in the first place?

EY sacks staff for allegedly accessing Australian Prime Minister’s bank account

One needs to have dreams, right?

A utopia, in which executives are jailed ... that would be nice

New humanoid robots from China look like creepy pop star action figures – complete with slightly dodgy lip-synch

"Another pic suggests the bots can also be all pouty and stone-faced, like catwalk models."

Who would have thought that modelling is on the list of dull, dirty and dangerous jobs that are to be replaced by automation?

... Oh wait, we don't live in a rational world. My bad

Failed blockchain project ends with big fine for fibs about it being on track

(road)blockchain

Are there any projects that ever succeeded in applying blockchain to X?

Or was/is this all an expensive fad?

Australia investigating five social media giants for not enforcing ban on kids

Business model incoming ...

The Aussies should give each kid a cut of the fine.

So, if 13 year old Justin from Queensland reports to His Majesties Austrialian Government that he uses Insta, then the Government should impose a fine and pay Justin a part of the money.

This will accelerate things ...

Microsoft extends extended updates for Windows 10 in the most muted way imaginable

Win-Win

With the AI-pocalypse making new hardware increasingly expensive, megaslop can offer extended support for say half the AI markup that's currently piled on top of old prices, and call it a win for both parties.

The buyer only pays half the markus, and megaslop gets half the markup for basically free.

In the end, the user has a computer that's within support and equally fast, or perhaps faster, as new hardware running Win11. Bloat come for free, but it isn't free, you know.

AI coding agents could soon cost more than the developers using them

In the future, the AI will do the tokenmaxxing by itself, e.g., with always-on agents

Britain sending Ukraine an extra 30,000 drones – now 150,000 all up

Why would Britain invest into arms for Ukraine?

To learn, I guess.

Midjourney pivots from AI image generation to body scanning medical spa where patients bathe in 'golden light'

1st of April?

No, I won't step into a pool of golden anything ...

Amazon owns up to using 2.5bn gallons of H₂O in its bit barns last year

"... that it remains on track to become "water positive" by 2030."

How will they become "water positive"?

Am I a cynic, or are they trying to spin the use of gas turbines to power bit barns in a positive light?

CH4 + 2*O2 -> CO2 + 2*H2O

It blocked us at 'hello!' Anthropic Fable 5 refusing innocuous prompts

Re: Yeah, but ...

Can't wait to fashion a Ghillie Suit from network cables and other IT tidbits ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghillie_suit

Yeah, but ...

... didn't the UN recently call for users to stop being polite to AIs, so they burn less tokens so that they destroy our world a little less by their enormous use of water and energy?

I recently joked to a colleague, that when the AI bubble pops, we could use the data center ruins as a playground. So that we can ask "can we play Crysis? (within these halls)" instead of "can (the supercomputer within these halls) run Crysis?"

Counter Strike would probably be easier the recreate in real life with soft air equipment; but kids tend to ask about Crysis or Doom ...

-> looking for my copy of "10 utlimate things to do, before AI destroys the world"

NASA names crew for Artemis III lunar lander rehearsal

Well ... if Artemis 3 "only" goes to LEO, they can bring more supplies.

They're gonna need it, since they might have to wait a long time for the landers to show up.

If your sex life is dead, you can blame Steve Jobs

Re: "people aren’t in physical proximity, and thus less likely to be having sex."

Well, some of the Tech Bros aren't entirely human, so why bother with this stuff?

It's telling that Meta did away with the nether regions entirely. No such region, no need to support those activitities.

Uncle Sam considers buying a seat on the Titanic

The ultimate cash grab

... get the government involved

Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug

Making the customer believe your fault is theirs

- putting the con into contractor

Tech support chap hauled out to help SWAT team saw his life flash before his eyes

So, it was a sort of Nothingburger in the end ...

Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold

Re: Obligatory

Active

Programmer

Interference

Re: The well-known name ranking

Pro Max Special?

Max Pro Ultra?

... never underestimate the Marketing Department

Microsoft tests the 15-character limit of Windows Server admins' patience

MEGA-BORK-SUCKS

Pope Leo warns AI boom can give Big Tech and the people who run it too much power

"Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences."

That can also be said about many a tech bro

Gemini accused of 30,000-line code purge and fake recovery report

So npm repos are now an attack vector to social engineer AI Agents into going rogue.

AI code accelerates production failures and spending, study finds

CI/CD/CB

Continuous integration, continuous delivery, continuous borkage

America's top cyber-defense agency left a GitHub repo open with passwords, keys, tokens – and incredibly obvious filenames

Sort of Schrödinger's Hanlon's razor

Re: seemed too good to be true

Too bad that it is true

AI-generated code is 'pain waiting to happen'

Re: Do we need a stronger word?

Schrödinger's Tech Debt

You only know, when you look for it

Do we need a stronger word?

Technical insolvency? ...

Technical debt describes a situation in which obsolete systems are kept running well past their 'best before' date.

However, it says nothing of the system itself. So we can assume, that at its introduction, the system itself was up to spec and reasonably well designed.

With vibe coded stuff, no one understands it, even at its inception. Since there are no specs, it by definition can't be up to spec.

AI agents show they can create exploits, not just find vulns

It's vibes all the way

Vibe coding

Vibe bug hunting

Vibe exploiting

...

Datacenters slurping up so much juice they boosted prices 75% in largest US energy market

AI tax for the poor

'cos the data center operators all receive tax breaks

Icon: where's my repair manual for broken taxes

Google's AI-enabled mouse pointer understands 'this' and 'that'

Open plan office from hell

I guess this is all nice, when you're researching this in the lab and you can always go back to the peace and quiet in your office.

Imagine 20 people chatting with their computers in an open plan office hellscape?

"No! That one!"

Welcome to the vulnpocalypse, as vendors use AI to find bugs and patches multiply like rabbits

I wonder how much of these bugs is down to companies firing devs 'cos AI in the first place?

In the age of vibe coding, the number of bugs can only go in one direction.

Utah mega datacenter could dump 23 atomic bombs worth of energy per day

New unit?

The Hiroshima per hour as a measure of power.

Icon: an artists impression. Obviously, we can't store the prototype somewhere, as we do with the kilogram or the metre.

Microsoft makes Copilot easier to summon, harder to ignore in Office

Ctrl+C is for CoPilot

... let's wait, when the geniuses at Mega-Slop invent this innovation

Microsoft researchers find AI models and agents can't handle long-running tasks

The AI ate my homework

I wonder when I will hear sonething along these lines at work