Posts by segfault188

Humans in the loop miss a third of dangerous AI coding agent requests

Definitely approved

I'd give permission for this one:

rm -rf $AI_DIR

NASA puts astronauts’ lives in the hands of Tesla’s flaky Cybertruck

Not an upgrade

The replacement for MRAP is CRAP.

Headteacher had the most guessable username-password combo you could imagine

Re: Sometimes you'll find this kind of stupidity ...

I once found a comprehensive list of machine names and login/password pairs written in sharpie on the underside of the leaves of a faux ficus

Hopefully the miscreants have seen the errors of their ways and turned over a new leaf.

DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'

Alternative headline

Prescription pervert pince-nez proscribed permanently

Anyone with a shed, an extension cord, a couple of GPUs and an overdraft is building datacenters. Fujitsu just offloaded five

Re: a shed

My neighbour, a Mr Jackson, has two sheds.

That's a shedload of sheds.

Cyberattack threatens utterly critical infrastructure in Japan: KFC

Good for their competitors

A well known competitor will be glad they have Big MAC addresses to confuse hackers (eh?)

Police intercept tipsy teens after Waymo snitches for shooting Orbeez out of the car

Shepherd?

Responding officers' videos show at least four of them with weapons drawn on the vehicle, plus a German Shepherd

Why was a Shepherd there, where were his/her sheep, and is their German nationality relevant to the proceedings? This story raises more questions than it answers.

Moody Bible Institute breach leaves 2.3M accounts needing salvation, says cyber expert

missionary

Missionary in the mile high club?

In the missionary position, of course.

Anonymous researcher drops 0-day 'exploitarium' repo

Double trouble

I don't believe this was just one security researcher working on their own. Operating under the name Bikini, they definitely sound like a.2-piece outfit.

Where there's a will, AI still has work to do

AI defined

AI: Assured Abundant Absent Inheritance

How the AI bubble could pop and take down the global economy, according to the BIS

Eating Tulip bulbs

It didn't work out too well when 6 adults in Yugoslavia ate a goulash prepared with 5 tulip bulbs

UK firm bombarded debt-ridden people with 5.5M texts

5.5M texts

UK firm bombarded debt-ridden people with 5.5M texts

I was in debt and got 5.5 Million texts but didn't realise that others had too. What a day that was, I kept deleting them but they kept on arriving.

Now I'm out of debt and have a 'gold' Trump Mobile cell phone, just to show that I've really made it in the world.

They've read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius

Have you got the scrolls?

Morecambe & Wise comedy skit from decades ago:

Have you got the scrolls?

No. it's just the way I walk.

(Funnier in their delivery on tv than to read).

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

Re: An excellent tool

What will happen is that companies hire meat-based drones...

New employment opportunities for flying pigs then.

Researchers drop checkm8-style BootROM exploit for A12 and A13 iPhones

Re: remedy

for the pendants

I'm sure I typed 'pedants' - damned auto connect*

*correct

remedy

a remedy is simple, if somewhat expensive: buy a new iPhone

a remedy is simple, if somewhat less expensive: buy a new Android* phone

* for the pendants, yes there are expensive Android phones, but plenty of budget ones too (if you get one before AI data centres steal all the CPUs & memory).

How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!

Re: Many a year ago ....

I played with a cow-orkers machine

Did you mooove it?

Estonia intends to recognize AI agents with digital IDs

Re: I am not a number!

My poo has a number, it's number two.

Where's that turd icon when you need it?

A modest proposal: Reformat everything to make documents more palatable to AI

Re: XML?!

XML is all about bedding

Xtra Mattress Large

Brit workers waste nearly six hours a week 'botsitting'

cream

making them cream their pants

So, strippers were invited too?

Next stop, C:\ ... Paris Metro screen goes off the tracks

Paris IS an icon - for Android

Google have announced that Paris Hilton is Android’s first icon in residence

So now will El Reg bring back the Paris icon??

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

Evan therefore escaped blame and carried on consulting – and is clearly doing well enough to pay for multiple kids to have swimming lessons!

So things are going swimmingly for them.

ChatGPT blindly trusts browser content, turning the page into a payload

Re: Fixes

I would point out that less people would be locked up if some didn't use AI in the first place.

Fixes

While there is “no single fix” to this problem...

There are two fixes: don't use AI and lock up anyone who does.

No captain, my captain: Navantia floats crewless warship

Re: the LASV75 is 75 meters long

What sort of meter: gas, water, electricity?

parking meters, positioned at the SI standard distance apart

Cloud-managed earbuds sound strange - as a concept, and on a plane

cloudy judgement

cloud-manageable wireless earbuds... satisfactory for long-haul flights

Can they still be managed when flying above the clouds or just when flying through them?

Disgraced US gov software contractor found guilty of database destruction

You're fi...

fired via remote meeting... his VPN connection was severed and his Windows account was deactivated while he was sitting in the firing meeting.

Either he attended the online meeting on a different machine or the meeting came to a very abrupt e...

Tech is now rolling out the old grievance grift

pockets

he tells us to check the pockets of the people picketing

watch out, there are picketing pockets about

TomTom’s route planner takes an unplanned detour into oblivion

Hills in Holland

Drivers in hilly areas might be best to avoid using a navigation product from a Dutch firm.

60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour

Re: Biometric verification

I'll bet a monocycle gives you a new face, after falling off & the inevitable face plant.

Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer

Delete both

Delete the LLM, then delete Chrome. You know it makes sense.

Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area

unexpected item

The question is: what was the "unexpected item" that upset Windows so much? A new motherboard? Some speedier storage?

In these days of AI-induced price rises, it's more likely that someone removed a memory or storage component for resale elsewhere. More profitable, I would imagine, than trying to smuggle out a <insert favourite legume here> without paying at the self-service checkout.

Icon: legume smuggling in coat pocket

That old phone in the kitchen drawer could save an industry

Yes, the Droid was called the Milestone in the UK. I called mine the Millstone because of its weight, but it was solid and I liked the physical keyboard.

Later on I installed Swype as a replacement for the standard soft keyboard. I loved swiping words quickly while my iPhone-using colleagues tapped away one letter at a time. I can't believe that people still do that these days.

Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheet

Multi-layered security

Multi-layered security is essential, although once someone has physical access all bets are off.

I dug up a tree the other day and all I needed was a spade to get root access.

In the beginning was the Bork: 'Heart of the Earth' exhibit reveals Raspberry Pi in existential crisis

fake rock

...fake rock, only to find Bork peering back

Talking of fake rock, it could have been Bjork peering back.

The company's biggest security hole lived in the breakroom

Re: I dont doubt the story...

Huh, don't get me going on "smart" light bulbs. They work until you have to replace the router, then you find they'll absolutely not talk to the app to connect them to the new one.

No problem with Tapo wifi light bulbs. I changed mine from one internal network to another. Procedure is: go into the Tapo app & delete each bulb's profile, then go through the procedure for adding a new bulb (switching the light switch on & off 3 times in synchrony with the animation in the app) and then select the new wifi SSID & enter the password.

Re: Coffee machine. Check... IPad... Check

At least with the tea lady and her trolley there were no leaks.

Except for that notable incident when the tea urn developed a hole at the bottom and no-one got their Russian vodka-laced tea that day.

Samsung still glued to its bad habits with Galaxy S26 Ultra

Re: plateaued

I spell it as Plato'd, when I'm feeling philosophical.

Chemists concoct nail polish that lets clawed humans use touch screens

They still look goofy

Yep, that description nailed it.

Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to

Re: Do it once…

It'll still be a paint in the arse

If you have paint in your arse, you have bigger problems to deal with.

Samsung folds the Galaxy Z TriFold after just a few months

Folded

Samsung folds the Galaxy Z TriFold after just a few months

They just need to Tri harder next time.

In the name of science: Boffins build fart-tracking undies

quietly

the so-called "Smart Underwear" quietly keeps tabs on every toot

It would be more fun if a loud siren was activated and the name of the miscreant was projected onto the office wall.

EFF policy says bots can code but humans must write the docs

Re: Worst of Both Worlds?

When I began my first software development job (decades ago), the first task allocated to me was writing user documentation for software which hadn't yet been written.

Based on the customer requirements, this meant that we had to understand and clarify the requirements early in the development process. Deficiencies & contradictions in the requirements were identified & corrected. This draft documentation was of course updated as required before delivery to the customer along with the code.

DEF CON bans three Epstein-linked men from future events

Re: Finally

When informed he was being arrested, The Andrew Formerly Known As Prince allegedly said "No Sweat"

Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake

Not cleaver

Only 2 words & you managed to butcher one of them.

How AI could eat itself: Competitors can probe models to steal their secrets and clone them

Re: "American-led, democratic AI."

There's absolutely nothing 'democratic' about AI.

There's absolutely nothing 'democratic' about America (Trumpistan) or AI