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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

Microsoft walks us through Copilot Search with a domain it doesn't even own

Re: Al did it

Those arguments with AI remind me of talking to my old boss.

Apart from the final admission that it might not be 100% correct at this moment in time.

Re: Al did it

Did you really buy it?

If not, then you know that although chatbots are allowed to lie to you, you are not allowed to lie to chatbots.

Computer Abuse Act 2025

Damn, sorry, I meant AI.

Oh god, I misrespected an AI. 40 years in jail for me.

You'll get the kittens though.

Nothing to see here: Brave browser blocks privacy-busting Microsoft Recall

Microsoft, obviously.

DARPA is testing a device soldiers can swallow to make them less stressed

If it works,how long before it is made mandatory if you want to leave your house.

HP settles fake discount lawsuit for just $4M. Don’t expect much of a payout

There's no discount deep enough,

There's no wallet thick enough,

There's no IQ low enough,

To let me me buy HP.

ChatGPT burns tens of millions of Softbank dollars listening to you thanking it

Re: Why??

Please don't feed the troll mate. Thank you very much.

Euro techies call for sovereign fund to escape Uncle Sam's digital death grip

Re: Unintended consequences ... part 2 ... and counting.

Putin has shown that Europe is safe.

Russia couldn't even fight it's way through Europe's most corrupt, mismanaged military in 2.5 years of serious warfare. Losing, according to "reliable, fact-checked media" 30,000 soldiers a month.

Either Putin is playing a really long game. "Oh look, I'm so pathetic, I can't even win against a country most of whose population has buggered off to the west and whose military has sold most of the stuff they recieved." Then, as soon as Europe says,"Cool, let's have peace and some gas at reasonable prices.", he will turn into a berserker and attack NATO (population 970 million) with his army that has apparently lost most of it's combat vehicles and 1 million soldiers from a population of 145 million.

Yes, makes complete sense.

Or those sneaky Russians have lied about their population and hidden half a million people and are just waiting, in a gas pipeline near you,

to spring out and sell you cheap energy and buy your products.

Re: The road ahead?

Amanfrommars is now posting as AC, the world as we know it is ending.

How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app

Re: GDPR

The Trumputer says no

Framework Desktop wows iFixit – even with the soldered RAM

Re: Cache in

Could be be worse. I am already old, it sucks.

Stay getting as long as you can ;-)

Los Alamos boffins slap blinkers on satellites so we know who to blame in a crash

Re: El Roi is apparently also a Hebrew phrase meaning "the God who sees me.

The Vulture that used to bite me?

Why UK Online Safety Act may not be safe for bloggers

Re: Run and hide

you forgot the troll icon

DeepSeek or DeepFake? Our vultures circle China's hottest AI

Re: Doing Something???

It simply means that if you have device capable of creating "images of child abuse" (all computers, phones, tablets) and the government doesn't like you, you will have to prove your innocence.

Ask the postmasters how well that works.

You're going to do what to the feature? Microsoft defines what it means by 'deprecation'

So, you're still poisoning the AIs then. Good job.

Microsoft fixes under-attack privilege-escalation holes in Hyper-V

I always disable HyperV. It seems to play very poorly with AMD-V on my VirtualBox boxes.

UK unveils plans to mainline AI into the veins of the nation

Re: AI is mostly bullshit

"I fear a tsunami of bullshit"

Don't worry, the last thing His Kierness wants is an election.

You might get a Thames Water of excrement (maybe a new Vulture unit of measurement) though as the water companies will claim that brown outs (pun intended) are the reason they can't be bothered to process raw sewage.

Pornhub lockdown and fact-free Zuckbots – welcome to 2025

Business as usual

Re: I miss the old Register

Back when people could spell

Next-gen Wi-Fi to trade ludicrous speed for the boring art of actually working

Re: Other letters are available.

802.11bud(lite) seems to have been canned when they upgraded to 802.11dei

Nick Clegg steps down as Meta's top flack in favor of more Trump-friendly candidate

Re: Can he step

I am so sorry for your complete lack of a moral compass.

So, if I understand correctly, you are saying that the ex-deputy prime minister of the UK, whose electorate were so disappointed with his performance that they sacked him, could only get a job with a totally amoral corparation which has incredibly strong connections to the american power structure. You think that he had, with all his connections, no other opportunities for a job than faecesbook?

Doesn't anyone else think that he was betraying his country?

How a good business deal made us underestimate BASIC

Re: English is one of the easiest human languages

I have to confess that I'm very curious. Is "tittynope" english, french or just a word that wards females from Gerald Depardieu? And what does it mean?

Chuffed is always positive.

P.S.

You completely forgot the measurements.

3 Mile Island

It wasn't my Sinclair Spectrum, I didn't write the programme and anyway why would anyone mix up us, imperial and metric in the vavle control systems.

Million GPU clusters, gigawatts of power – the scale of AI defies logic

If you spread it thinly enough then there's loads left on the knife.

Like spreading Marmite on buttered toast.

Guess who owns the knife.

Taiwan in talks to tap Amazon's Project Kuiper space broadband

Re: This would make a lot of sense to me.

He has a working product, just don't turn on the starlink autopilot function.

US reportedly mulls TP-Link router ban over national security risk

Re: It won't

It leaks the way that god, the american people and mom's apple pie wants it to.

This non-leaking communist crap, where are the backdoors built in that a nation of patriots needs?

Guide for the perplexed – Google is no longer the best search engine

Re: Different Rules?

I think that the author used Perplexity to write the article.

We told Post Office about system problems at the highest level, Fujitsu tells Horizon Inquiry

Re: The Bright Side

We can talk about it, comment on it and watch it happen again and again and again...

The sweet Raspberry taste of success masks a missed opportunity

Re: After a whole minute looking at Reaper DAW...

You would have got the same comment on your end of term report that I did;

If Seldom had spent as much time, creativity and effort into doing his homework as he did into crafting excuses why he couldn't hand it in, his grade would have been an A instead of the C he recieved.

Australia passes law to keep under-16s off social media – good luck with that, mate

Re: Does that include el'reg?

My anti-social media app was a commercial failure.

It only ran on air-gapped devices with no physical connection ports.

Many beta-testers complained that it was difficult to install, the luddites.

Discouraged, the venture capalists refused to believe that an IPO would produce the market interest I had hoped for and didn't fund me further.

Ten years under Dr Su: How AMD went from budget Intel alternative to x86 contender

Paid Promotion?

Shouldn't this article be marked as sponsored?