Posts by pcranness

Salesforce staggers back to feet after global outage

'An update at 1219 BST (1056 UTC) said...'

Presumably an NTP error

OpenAI-Hugging Face attack doesn't mean agents are evil – unless you tell them to be

It's too good turn it of!

The world we live in is built on software that is full of vulnerabilities (1449 patches from Oracle 423 from Linux kernel team). AI finds and exploits these better than us so we must turn it off! When was the last time people were up in arms when a Red Team exploited an previously unfounded vulnerability, or did something some people find morally questionable?

Yes we can turn AI off, or try to hobble it, doesn't change a goddamn thing, the vulnerabilities are still there, but we'll feel warm and fuzzy because our illusion that software is safe won't be challenged. Or we can accept what AI can do, take advantage of it's power and start fixing the wholes that it finds.

The truth nobody wants to admit: Chinese or not, open models are competitive now

Re: About Cookware

4chan has relatedly refused to pay UK fines. So expecting foreign companies to pay US fines seems a bit rich

Keir Starmer declares 'months' timeline for social media age clampdown in UK

a "months" timeline for the long-brewing plan for a social media age limit?

The substack post state's 'we will take powers that would allow us to implement a minimum age for social media in a matter of months to prevent kids from accessing harmful social media.'

So is it months to implement a ban, or once the 'powers' have been taken, which might take years, this will then allow a ban to be implemented in months?

Apple's return-to-office plan savaged by staff

Options

Clearly this is a lack of trust from management and justifying their jobs.

For me (as a manager of people) it's not about the office or WFH, it's about having options that work for you and lead to you enjoying you job and being as productive as the employer needs. It might be the office, or home, it might even be a cafe occasionally, or even a stroll in the park if you have a particularly taxing problem to solve. Why should I care where you work, as long as it is safe etc., if you produce what I need?

Also, if we want people to come to the office they need to be places people want to come. Carrot, not stick. Let’s make them places for communal working where you can chat with colleagues and have comfortable meetings, hell even socialise (to quote John Amaechi, 'strangers can't team).

It's about options not dictation.

Yeah, great start after sacking human hacks: Microsoft's AI-powered news portal mixes up photos of women-of-color in article about racism

Re: It's a trifle early for the silly season, but ...

I would suggest that Jade didn't know that she was talking to AI software. I doubt she keeps up with who/what curates MSN.

It also appears that yelling at the computer did help her cause. Microsoft changed the picture.