US state laws push age checks into the operating system
Does it also mean Apple services can't use you?
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Musk's Grok sparks outrage after chatbot makes offensive jibes about football disasters
Why does anybody pay attention to X/ Just let it rot.
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Royal Navy races to arm ships against drone threat
When you have worked in defence systems as long as I have you will know that it will take at least 6 months to get together the committee who are going to decide on the official definition of the word "drone".
P.S. what colour do you want it to be?
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Bundle of human neurons hooked to silicon learns to stumble through Doom
But can it run the White House?
200,000 neurons would be an upgrade from the dementia-riddled president.
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Britain spends £180M to work out what time it is
For those living in the sticks, this is a perfectly normal interval between busses.
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Techie was given strict instructions not to disrupt client. Then he touched one box and the lights went out
No negative outcome from the event then.
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Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens
If this v7 genuinely was mostly generated by an LLM, existing court rulings say that it is not covered by copyright.
Therefore, it cannot be licenced under the MIT either.
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Microsoft kicks new Outlook opt-out deadline down the road to 2027
When I tried it last year (or it least it foisted itself without fucking asking on a colleague), it couldn't even open multipole inboxes.
And yet it was supposed to be ready to for this year.
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Brits fear AI will strip the human touch from public services
Even further.
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Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns
He should run it on the original Windows 95 code, and see it explode.
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UK mobilizes lawyers to keep report on Gatwick 'drone' chaos under wraps
Given that the MoD has just demonstrated it has no serviceable warships, submarines or even a remotely workable plan to respond to events that the whole of the rest of the world knew weeks ago were just about to happen, I'm not sure that the release of a few pages of processes detailing how inept the security services are at finding an errant drone represents any kind of significant threat to national security.
Please just release the docs, accept the ministerial resignation, do the obligatory u-turn, and get on with life...
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Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract
If that router hadn't eaten its own configuration, we would have lost them as a customer," he wrote.
So they made a packet out of them
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Microsoft 365 confirms new premium tier, stuffed with AI and few discounts
$99 per month?
Wait until the AI-free tier comes along.
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Lenovo, Nintendo sue US government seeking tariff refunds
The only unforunate element is that it's going to take years and Trump will never have to bear any of the cost, plus the President who will have to deal with the fallout will likely never have had anything to do with the whole issue.
But Porsche is already asking ChatGPT to give an estimate on how many new models it is going to sell to lawyers in the coming years, so it's not all bad.
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Spyware disguised as emergency-alert app sent to Israeli smartphones
Er, what?
> The pager attack carried out by israel: not a single peep.
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RSS dulls the pain of the modern web
It's "About us" > "Who we are" at the bottom followed by "For our Atom feeds, click here" buried in the text, in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard".
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LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2
result: you now have 28 competing standards.
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Anthropic sues US government after unprecedented national security designation
The whole 'religious right' are wrong about everything.
American 'Christianity' is one of the most hostile inhuman and inhumane concepts.
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Norway's Consumer Council takes aim at enshittification
I’ll get round to reading the report later but the video is definitely worth a watch
It’s just rather sad and a bit scary that is not actually a joke
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Iran is the first out-loud cyberwar the US has fought
Trump also ran a campaign on no more wars.
So by the Tango Twat's own performance, expect 500,000 American soldiers in Iran by Christmas.
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NASA’s asteroid defence mission slowed targets by 1.7 inches per hour
... then a new one comes into power and cancels it all because the new president was elected on an asteroid denier platform.
10 years ago, if I had read this, I would have laughed at this as being ridiculous.
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Linux PC vendor System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks
What happens when someone else uses your computer, or you theirs?
How will it know the difference?
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Palantir’s lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff
Last thing we'd need is USDA seating assignment musical chairs being all ideological and whatnot, like when Amy Gleason led DOGE from her political exile in Mexico for example (rather than some sofas at the SSA like normal people).
I mean, the USDA decides important national security issues like which of your neighbors' pets you might be allowed to BBQ on the weekend, or not, and that can be a most serious of wedge considerations in a mid-term election year as ICE can't get rid of all the Haitian immigrants and university professors, without killing white folks in the process ...
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Oracle and OpenAI's Texas Stargate datacenter expansion reportedly on the skids
Can we please please stop regurgitating this 'gigawatts of compute' bollocks?
It was invented by morons to wrap their investments in terms that *appear* both meaningful & impressive, yet have no value in measuring what value that investment creates.
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Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction
I was once showing a group of international students around our high performance computing centre at the university.
When we came to the Cray J932, with its impressive large green rectangular power led, and beneath it a red, very well recessed reset button, one of the students asked what would happen if he pressed that button.
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Dutch cops warn 100 alleged scammers: Turn yourselves in or we tell Grandma
All the more reason to hand themselves in.
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Firefox taps Anthropic AI bug hunter, but rancid RAM still flipping bits
Some years ago, Intel removed ECC support from all its non-Xeon processors.
This was a purely marketing thing to get industrial users to buy Xeons which are, of course, much more expensive.
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Musk admits Starship V3 launch date has slipped as Super Heavy booster rolls into place
Firing 90% of the rocket scientists and replacing them with AI and a couple of interns ?
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60 years since humanity first touched the surface of another planet
Back in those Good Old Days we regarded the Moon and nearby planets as almost habitable with lots of Sci-Fi stories being written about the colonization of Space.
Then Reality hit.
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Microsoft Authenticator to nuke Entra creds on rooted and jailbroken phones
Blocking devices which exist outside the identified, appified consumer ecosystem is a feature, not a bug.
It's not *YOUR* device.
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Sorry, kids. Memory crunch threatens to kneecap Chromebook shipments
might now escape landfill for a useful life running LTSC or IOT Win10, Linux or even ChromeOS Flex.
Perversely my only Chromebook was reflashed and now runs Mint usably but did run Win10 (slowly) out of curiosity.
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SETI admits its search for alien life may be too narrowly focussed
Or a 419.
Greetings sibling in Zork
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Users fume at Outlook.com email 'carnage'
how many Billions of dollars has Microsoft-induced downtime cost corporations world-wide in the last year?
The last five years?
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AI vs AI: Agent hacked McKinsey's chatbot and gained full read-write access in just two hours
I've seen — and I suspect it's becoming almost standard practice — that the new "AI" gurus (quotes maliciously intended) have basically taken over the organization.
And since the discipline is brand new, many of them lack even the minimum knowledge of well-established security practices.
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Unpacking the deceptively simple science of tokenomics
Dogbert has inspired me to become an AI consultant!
Blah blah blah Nvidia
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Apple's budget-friendly MacBook Neo is bursting with color and compromise
Have you ever used an Apple silicon Mac with 8GB of ram?
My wife still uses a 2020 M1, and it's fine for most things.
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Polish cops bust alleged teen DDoS kit sellers – youngest just 12
Especially at their ages, they still have to be taught that actions have consequences.
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Retro tech fan views LaserDisc movie data with a budget microscope
Was slightly disappointed to see that although the latest Gorillaz release, a short film, was touted as being "online (& Laserdisc)", the Laserdisc doesn't seem to be available in the official store.
I do have a working Laserdisc player.
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Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience
Just fuck off and take your Edge and AI with you.
Yours with extreme prejudice.
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Brit competition cops warn AI agents may not be 'faithful servants' to consumers
> Britain's competition watchdog says the next wave of agentic AI assistants could end up nudging people toward worse deals, manipulating choices, or quietly prioritizing the interests of the companies behind them.
Just one question: Why did they chose "could" instead of "will"?
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'AI brain fry' affects employees managing too many agents
The modern developer’s day now begins with a stand-up meeting with their agents.
First you ask them what they did yesterday.
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UK watchdog eyes Meta's smart glasses after workers say they 'see everything'
Rather than “concerning”, what about “bleedin’ obvious”?
If you walk around all day pointing a camera and microphones at everything and everyone, then obviously you are going to record stuff that really shouldn’t be recorded
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Trump orders purge of 'woke' Anthropic from government
I like being woke.
I like being considerate of other people.
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FBI is investigating breach that may have hit its wiretapping tools
Someone backdoored our backdoor's back door!
Again!
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'Hundreds' of Iranian hacking attempts have hit surveillance cameras since the missile strikes
The real surprise is that people in the US still have power and water.
Iran's hackers seem to have been snoozing on the job.
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MariaDB backs down on Galera removal after community outcry
«"Galera dependencies are being removed even from the binaries, without a commit message or a task description.
From the GitHub discussions, those who should know what is happening appear to be in the dark," he complained»
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Iranian news service claims drone strikes on AWS were deliberate, to probe for US datacenter dependencies
The US apparently elected Trump as president.
Twice.
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NASA abandons delayed SLS upper stage for ULA's Centaur V instead
Hasn't the orange felon ordered NASA to rename it yet?
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Amazon tells FCC to bin SpaceX's million-satellite datacenter dream
It is best cooled by sluicing it down with a firehose of government money
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China browses lunar landing spots in race to land on Moon
First he has to defeat his most dangerous enemy: Americans.
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Trump administration spoiling for a fight over global satellite regulations
Go fuck yourselves.
When you start acting diplomatically, stop hoovering non-US data, ensure privacy rights are respected globally then perhaps we can have a nice chat over a cup of tea and a biscuit.
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US struck Iran with copies of its own drones
Though it does seem a bit of an over reaction just to deflect attention away from Epstein ...
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Don’t blame AI yet for poor jobs numbers, analysts say
Doesn't mean that's actually the case.
It is a convenient excuse, something the market will like better than "we have to downsize due to reduced sales" or "we are downsizing because it'll help the C suite get bigger bonuses".
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Altman said no to military AI abuses – then signed Pentagon deal anyway
So much for the checks and balances that are supposed to protect the US democracy, and its citizens, from despots.
Cheques and bank balances more like.
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Russian cybercrims phish their way into officials' Signal and WhatsApp accounts
The entire “Russian cyber campaign” described here appears to involve a remarkably advanced technique known in the trade as asking for the password.
No cryptography broken.
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UK.gov plans £2,500 fines for kids flying toy drones within 3 MILES of airports
Typical knee jerk reaction, making lawbreakers of kids and hobbyists while doing absolutely nothing to address the problem.
The issue isn't law, what the drones over Heathrow did is already illegal.
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Bootleg Windows, Office scheme crashes, triggers 22-month lockup for Florida woman
If she paid $5M for the labels, how much did she make?
Because if she pocketed a couple of million, two years and a slap on the wrist fine is nothing.
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EV charger biz ELECQ zapped by ransomware crooks, customer contact data stolen
I love EVs.
Great technology.
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AWS says drones hit two of its datacenters in UAE, urges users to move resources to different regions
From the linked-to article:
>> The two American workers said the only communication they received from a supervisor during the attacks concerned a new payroll code to enter into their timesheets, which would reduce their pay.
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Anthropic bods rework AI damage yardstick, find scant labor impact
Is that the salt left behind after the ocean has been used to cool AI data centres?
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AI agents now help attackers, including North Korea, manage their drudge work
What an unexpected developement...
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Microsoft previews tech to ease creation of keyboard-accessible websites
keyboard-enabled websites are easy to write, and always have been.
If they are bigger, only insignificantly so.
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UK peers warn weakening AI copyright law could hammer creative industries
If industries really cared, they'd be ordering a stock of brown envelopes and researching proper wine and steak restaurants.
Peers howling at the clouds will get headlines at best.
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Cybercrime isn't just a cover for Iran's government goons - it's a key part of their operations
With the destroyed Iranian navy at least they won't be having so much trouble with falling in the water!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
