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OpenAI introduces ads...for the people!

Re: Can you enshittify shit ?

But Gates and SatNav prepared for it

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

Re: The well-known name ranking

With added Quantum and Blockchain

California passes bill declaring death-by-algorithm to 3D-printed ghost guns

The software lock will be discharged and it will be shown they have shot their bolt.

Mine's the one with the Sig P210-6 Heavy frame in the pocket.

Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it

Re: Project Headroom

I didn't realise that I wasn't alone in remembering Max.

What really shocked me is that Whispering Bob looks so much like him now. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006x527

Anthropic co-founder hallucinates ghost in the machine

The last paragraph

A bit confused here.

Is the Pope referring to Tech Bros or AI in the last paragraph of the article?

Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'

Neurodiversity is the new normal?

SpaceX wants to fill Earth orbit with a million datacenter satellites

All of your orbits now belong to us

US space grab.

No you can't park your satellite here, this space is reserved.

UK watchdog to rule on £142M Post Office subsidy over Horizon scandal and IR35

Re: Fujitsu?

Have you ever had a wine, steak, bucket of brandy and rustling brown envelope dinner and tried to do something morally correct afterwards?

Fixed that for you

Systemd daddy quits Microsoft to prove Linux can be trusted

And did it work'

Unfortunately, it was not even the nose end that entered the tent.

Without the nasty, heavy, old-fashioned parachute.

If you're one of the 16,000 Amazon employees getting laid off, read this

Re: Cynicism about my previous employer would not have helped me

I hope you are not posting that from Starmerstan. Threats of violence, incitement to terrorism and probably (in the future) retroactively quoting banned literature.

High Court to grill London cops over live facial recognition creep

Because they released them a week later to make room for people saying hurtful things on social media.

Royal Navy's helicopter drone makes its first autonomous flight

Re: Britain will capitulate

Unfortunately, as the European nations have donated all their armour and heavy weapons to Ukraine, the only nation that still has a significant amount of this equipment in Europe is the US.

As a cynic I must say "Well played."

Convince the Europeans the Ukraine must join the EU.

Convince the Europeans Ukraine must join NATO

Convince the Europeans to cut off connections to one of their biggest trading partners.

Convince the Europeans Putin is coming for them.

Convince Europeans to give all their heavy military equipment to Ukraine because the US has no more old stuff to get rid of.

Say Greenland looks tasty, and by the way, do you know how many troops we have in Europe at the moment?

ERP isn't dead yet – but most execs are planning the wake

Re: Bingo

Filled my card too.

Fast Pair, loose security: Bluetooth accessories open to silent hijack

Re: Ship it!

I use it on the Bluetooth speakers that some idiots insist on using on trains. After connecting it plays an audio file in English, Arabic and Pushtu of a female voice saying "My son, if only your father had used a condom".

OpenAI invests in brain-interface biz co-founded by CEO Sam Altman

Re: Sam has learnt well

Beat me to it. Have one on me.

Coming soon: We interrupt this ChatGPT session with a very special message from our sponsors

Completely true but not honest

"We keep your conversations with ChatGPT private from advertisers, and we never sell your data to advertisers,"

But we will give it to them for free if they invest $20 billion with us so that we can invest $19 billion in them

Meta retreats from metaverse after virtual reality check

So if I wanted to play Duke Nukem in VR I would need a team of about 20 people to throw buckets of blood and entrails over me.

Sounds like it would only work in a Belgian University during "Baptême". Don't ask how I know this.

US regulator tells GM to hit the brakes on customer tracking

If the sensors are as dodgy as Skoda's

I hope VW aren't selling my data. The collision alarm goes off when it feels like it. Even on an empty motorway.

The safe distance sensor seems to have a trigger range of about a kilometer at 50km/h.

I wonder how many drivers were hit with premium increases because of sensor inaccuracies.

IT team forced to camp in the office for days after Y2K bug found in boss's side project

Re: Definition of "Correctly Functioning"

You've never worked at Microsoft I assume.

Garmin autopilot lands small aircraft without human assistance

Re: Hypoxia

Sounds like getting old :-(

What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

Re: I'd jump ship if..

You forgot the camera and the iris and fingerprint readers. Essential for your security and to protect the children.

Brit broadband grilling descends into farce over targets and definitions

Re: Lying

Aha, a trick question.

It's all of them.

Will my prize arrive before Christmas?

BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI

Re: Why a TV licence?

In, I think, every European country, you pay for the privilege of owning a device capable of receiving transmissions from the national broadcaster.

It was amazing how fast the Swiss national broadcaster put some content on-line when they realised that people were dumping their televisions and not paying the fee.

UK watchdog urged to probe GDPR failures in Home Office eVisa rollout

Specify in the requirements "The software must leak confidential data".

That's the only way you could avoid a government contract IT system not to have leaks.

Denmark takes a Viking swing at VPN-enabled piracy

"However, it stated that in whatever form the provision is made, it should be tech-neutral to account for future developments, and said the broad wording of the proposal was intentional so that objectionable technology in the future could also be dealt with under the same legislative amendments."

Soooo. Using a device, of any sort, using technology more advanced than unmodified sticks, for any purpose the government or it's commercial sponsors does not approve of shall be made illegal.

UK politicians are watching with interest and wondering if stick use might be subject to some sort of licence fee and national register.

Space-power startup claims it can beam energy to solar farms

If you need even more snake oil

https://www.spacenukes.com/mission

Re: home-solar-battery installation

If you had sent 1.41 Gigawatts to your EV I would out you as Colin Furze

The CRASH Clock is ticking as satellite congestion in low Earth orbit worsens

What, there's nothing moving in space?

Welcome to America - now show us your last five years of social media posts

Re: “God’s Own country”

Big mistake there. Put some up and the home owners insurance will get much cheaper.

Re: Hey Trump, Ballroom to store it

Or Joe's garage (not the Frank Zappa one).

Congress quietly strips right-to-repair provisions from US military spending bill

Re: as long as the word lobbying exists

You've never read Catch 22 I take it. Google Milo Minderbinder.

NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter

Destroyed by ET

Final proof that Comet 3I/ATLAS is really an alien spaceship.

Tech leaders fill $1T AI bubble, insist it doesn't exist

I would love to see these people on a street corner, dressed in rags, barefoot, trying to sell me matches (made of reindeer shit) in mid-winter, in a blizzard.

Canadian data order risks blowing a hole in EU sovereignty

Re: obvious solution

But where are they going to find agents so clever that they manage to get pregnant in a maximum security jail in New Caledonia.

Calls grow for inquiry into UK data watchdog after MoD leak

ICO

It's Completely One-off

AI nudification site fined £55K for skipping age checks

Re: So we can fine people in other countries for not following our laws?

Not only that. HMG will ask if there are any journalists they can dismember for them, if there is a lucrative arms contract in the offing (pun intended).

Researchers claim 'largest leak ever' after uncovering WhatsApp enumeration flaw

Re: University of Vain-a

Whoosh

Digital ID is now less about illegal working, more about rummaging through drawers

Re: All we need now...

or Bill Clinton

Re: All we need now...

Or Bill Gates

Re: All we need now...

You forgot the sarcasm icon

Discord says 70,000 photo IDs compromised in customer service breach

Re: Can big corp just be honest...

Copilot has learned that the "No" answer avoids subsequent queries and says "No"

UK may already be at war with Russia, ex-MI5 head suggests

Surprise, surprise, surprise

If you sell weapons to a country, that's business. If you donate them, that's war.

Workers: Yes, RTO makes sense. No, we’re not going to do it

Re: "gives people the freedom¹ to live² happier³, more fulfilling lives²."

Nothing new.

In my first real job (1979) the production manager was running a large wholesale grocery business from his office.

I had to liase with him quite a lot as I was tasked with producing the training manuals.

Mum was really happy with all the free fruit and veg I was given and never questioned how, as the factory didn't produce fruit or veg.

Google unveils master plan for letting AI shop on your behalf

Re: The woods are calling.

I let my AI agent buy my tinfoil hats to reduce my online footprint.

UK tech minister booted out in weekend cabinet reshuffle

Ode to Government

Apologies to Kipling,

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are wanting yours and blaming it on you,

If you can fire some morons and keep the moaners true,

But still reduce the skills and the net IQ;

If you can lie and not be tired by lieing,

And being found out, government denies,

Or being hated, just keep on denying,

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;

If you can't think—just pay for more AI;

If you can meet with Trump without Disaster

And lick his shoes with not a single sigh;

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken,

(You did it once and never will again).

Or plan as you see your country broken,

To hand it on a platter to Remain:

If you know that you've only got one innings

And after that you couldn't give a toss,

No loss, you'll get some new beginnings

Palantir will happily be your boss;

If you can force your people and your party

To serve you well long after they are done,

And don't let them see there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can arrest crowds for having virtue,

Or walk with Kings—fawning at their touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

'Cause you don't care for anyone too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With bullshit worthy of a dairy farmer,

Yours is England and everything that’s in it,

And—which is more—you’ll be a .........!

It's AI all the way down as Google's AI cites web pages written by AI

Re: Won't kill all sources of information

I think HR is the only thing in existence that Co-Pilot could improve.

However, think of the carnage if they learn how to use a computer instead of doing everything on their iPhones.

UK datacenter developers turn to gas rather than wait for grid power for builds

Re: Hmm

Why will is the country be broke? Government policy

Fixed that for you

Google yet to take down 'screenshot-grabbing' Chrome VPN extension

Re: Big Brother is always watching

41 actually