Yes, unfortunately.
Old enough for me to know that, when the time comes when I will have to buy a new TV (because that will happen), I will have one question : does it work without a connection to the Internet ?
Gnome Wreckers, behold MY middle digit.
Fuckwits
Can you install office 365 on a windows box with no glitches, nerfs, bugs, ....?
I switched to Thunderbird ages ago and have been very happy with it.
One advantage, to my mind, is that all of my email archives live on my local PC, not on Gmail's servers.
Just... stop calling it sideloading.
It is an installation that Google is unhappy about and complains.
Now might be a good time for el Reg to follow up on the Danish govt.
dept. switching from Microsoft and a similar recent stories.
... and may your screw-ups be ever covered up.
EU tech companies such as Accenture, Amadeus, Capgemini, Mistral, and SAP "have been able to operate freely in the United States for decades."
If he keeps threatening we'll send Capita over there as well.
> HP hopes to change business behavior from laptop culture to keyboard culture.
I suspect most of the targetted audience will be of the "you can prise my laptop from my cold, dead hands" variety.
The part of TFA that I picked up as the main take-away was, basically, this:
Capita lost the contract because they were, er, Capita, and were replaced by MyCSP
From this article you might gather that once upon a time HP was a well-respected company that made interesting, industry-leading, technically proficient hardware and software.
Who knew?
Yup it's got a Y in it, so the worlds biggest attention whore needed to say something otherwise his ego will implode.
A Donald Duck administration would be filled with many fewer quacks.
At those prices, I'm good with bezels.
I could get quite a few 27" 4k monitors for that.
Lego not Legos
Lego not Legos
Well, I don't routinely agree with many MPs, but Mr Byrne thinks Fujitsu are and so do I, so that's two to one.
Motion passed!
Technically it doesn't.
However, the thieves aren't the direct target.
I assume all the major payment processors (Visa, MasterCard etc) will be suspending their services ASAP?
The same as they did with legal adult sites?
"The choices we make about where we apply our scarce energy, compute, and talent resources will matter"
Absolutely, if you're being serious about the environment the answer is 'not in AI'.
Someone once said that the US doesn't have a "healthcare system" so much as an insurance system that happens to deal in healthcare.
I've never been to the US, let alone lived there, so I've (fortunately) never had any first-hand experience of it.
>at least for a few moments, because the phone soon rang.
"It was the Australian office, laughing their heads off..."
Government departments, like so many businesses, still haven't worked out that the only reason people are willing to endure the misery of trying to call them by phone is because they haven't been able to get the information they need through the automated website or chatbot.
Hanging AI on the end of the phone isn't going to fix that.
It really has no excuse for dropping/dragging anchor once it has left port the way a fishing vessel might.
Caught them red handed!
"she eventually forgot about missing her honeymoon, before finally taking it 17 years later with a trip to Hawaii."
Bonus marks if it was with the same bloke.
I made some reservations on booking.com for my old in-laws, and yesterday I got a WhatsApp message from a phone in India, with an ID of a clothing company, with a link to "confirm my data".
The "confirmation" website was a cheap rip-off of booking.com, with the correct reservation information, asking for confirmation of paymen,t but with a pop-up saying that I had only one chance to enter the credit card data, and could not go back or reload the page, and had only five minutes to comply before they cancelled the reservation (read that with an ED-209 voice).
Let's face it.
About the only claim Musk has come through on is that he would get Drumpf elected...
Fascinating stuff.
After several years, a new language, FlatBuffers, and a VP blog post, the industry has once again discovered that allocating less memory, copying data less, and not parsing the same thing repeatedly makes software faster and uses less RAM.
I support a number of schools including IT auditing and you can pretty much tick every vulnerability there is. Most IT is a mixture of LEA supplied systems, local or MAT and support outsourced to the lowest cost numpty like RM.
Add on top that universally still using USB drives for moving files between school and home including students and unfortunately its a recipe ripe for cyber attacks.
allows the Auto Twist to qualify as a Copilot+ PC, which means that it can run exclusive offline AI tools such as Microsoft Recall and Windows Studio Effects
Wow, great, fantastic!
I've got 3 bank accounts and 3 credit card accounts in the UK and none of them uses an email address as the account login.
Old enough to have actually experienced this in real life.
We had a manager for all us trainees, in a rather up-and-coming company of that time.
He was also a test/trouble shooter engineer and spent much of the time skulking at a bench in the corner of the main open-plan factory.
So, instead of doing drudge work, the same amount of workers will spend the same or more time reviewing AI-generated drudge work.
But... if that's the outcome, why the hell would an organization deploy AI in those roles?
It's not just an 'IT thing.'
Across the world, big business are squeezing every drop of life fluid they can from punters (you and me).
I’m not an expert and I’m just talking out of my arse here, however I seem to remember that the latest figures regarding ROI for AI companies are still less than 10% (and significantly so in some cases) right now.
Which means that prices are going to have to increase by at least a factor of 10 in order to create some resemblance of sustainability.
Programming languages are for lightweights.
Claude, write me a religion!
In 2024, it set me back $104 for 32GB of DDR5.
Today, that same RAM is $350.
"Intel hasn’t fixed their problem, they’ve rebranded it.
Instead of delivering performance, they turned the laptop into a pet you’re meant to care for.
...sanctioning honest ICC judges and functionaries for doing their job.
What was it he said about "shithole countries" a long time ago?
No, these are rusty old chunks of concrete and metal.
I'm glad to see them go.
You'd have to move a lot of air through such an ambient air capture device and still won't capture very much since CO2 concentration in air is only .04%.
In order to be practical you either need source capture (i.e. put it on top of smokestacks and exhaust pipes) or you need ambient capture surfaces - building materials or coatings that remove CO2 from the air without power or external heat sources.
The performance numbers and battery life look fantastic, but how well does business software run on these processors?
I don't care about AI crapola, but I do care about the stability and performance of the MS Office Suite, particularly Teams (yes, yes, I know) as well as critical things like enterprise VPN software, Web browsers, etc. If compatibility is good, I would gladly trade my Dell, with its absolutely woeful battery life, for a Snapdragon device.
After one year, beginning August 2025, these changes will go into effect:
It will not be possible to authorize Finale on any new devices, or reauthorize Finale
... is that it's easy to remember and read out a dotted quad but essentially impossible to remember or speak ff:12:34:56:78:89:0a:ff ... and it probably really is that simple.
If only they'd just added a couple more bytes to the address and left it with room to add more as needed.
Well, we all know the Modern Way to achieve things at record speed don't we, boys and girls?
Yes, it will be Agile and "move fast, break things" all the way.
In terms of software engineers, its very hard to argue that AI hasn't outpaced its entire cohort of junior devs in terms of quality of output.
Only if you think a junior dev is one that is complete shit and incapable of learning anything.
"When you wish upon a star(link), Makes no difference who you are"coz Musk doesn't give a shit about anybody.
Not really a wrong diagnosis, but for some reason we always get the blame for absolutely everything if we visited a site in the past week or so.
"Hello, one of your employees was here yesterday for our phone, and now our internet doesn't work" (a DECT handset was replaced).
All these transistors being wasted on AI features :(
There will always be a crazy (in the good way) programmer doing stunts like this.
Sending this particular developer/developeress* one of these ---->>>
Making everything worse is simply a marketing tool to make AI look better.
But only a Marketing Tool would think that was a good idea.
I don't understand the title.
What has it got to do with "the end of the world".
and the aftermath of burning the Jaguar brand to the ground
and the continued problems created by the terrible engines they produce
Could be worse - imagine what it would be like if they let a web designer near it.
> The government lists Nobel Prize winners, Olympic gold medallists, recipients of national research grants, and PhD holders as examples of those who could be eligible.
Nobel Prize winners sounds great until you realise that almost all winners are rewarded for work done decades earlier.
“When it comes to commercial, that’s where we see the opportunity.
For an organization paying that kind of money for a device that can really improve processes and make the organization more efficient, that’s not that expensive,” Jeronimo told The Register.
There appears to be no plan to finally solve the ESN issues.
Once again the solution is being 'selected' on the basis of 'marketing' re: Direct Sat to Phone links, this time.
Makes me wonder if they'll ever fix native 4k sector support on their DRAM-less SSDs – it's been broken for years now.
In general, our advice is that investing the time in learning alternative tools, ones from suppliers whose business models don't rely on subscriptions or lock-in, will repay you manifold.
Amen!
The article describes a IMHO sensible opinion by a knowledgeable person on the topic.
Not sure why this should be a bad thing.
Mai I be the first to wish everyone a happy Easter
The best way to include AI in your company is to not use it.
You're setting yourself up for failure if you do.
Agghhh!!!!
I remember them
One VM for each and every program.
Sadly, I know people who seriously do this.
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