* Posts by Winkypop

6147 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Gartner suggests Friday afternoon Copilot ban because tired users may be too lazy to check its mistakes

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Stop

If AI was actually in any way intelligent

It would be advising us to stop using it.

North Korea's 100,000-strong fake IT worker army rake in $500M a year for Kim Jong Un

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Joke

Back in my day

You could tell the commies by the style of their lunch pail when clocking on at the bundy machine…

Flaw in UK's corporate registry let directors rummage through rival records

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FAIL

“Companies House takes its responsibility to protect the data entrusted to us extremely seriously.”

I think it’s fair to say that this is demonstrably untrue.

Repopulate! Repopulate! Two lost Doctor Who episodes turn up in private collection

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As a kid in the 60’s

This was riveting, if not scary, television. Great memories. The whole family was glued to the screen. But no, I don’t know what happened.

Atomic Britain: UK plans regulatory reset to boost nuclear power

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Mushroom

Too cheap to meter

We’ve heard that shit before…

Microsoft Copilot now boarding your health information

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No freaking way

Could this simply be a pseudo medical system for Americans who can’t afford actual health care?

A bit like Mao’s bullshit traditional Chinese medicine was for the masses.

Ineffectual, but seemingly doing something.

NASA pencils in fresh Artemis II Moon launch attempt for April 1

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Go

It just goes to show

What a magnificent job the Apollo guys and gals did about 60 years ago.

'Are you freaking crazy?' Bot harasses woman, gets led away by cops

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Terminator

A good swift kick

Is it assault if you knock over a robot that is harassing you?

Is there a victim?

NB: El Reg, please consider marking X links as such. I try very hard to avoid supporting that Nazi toilet.

Musk makes the Macrohard joke again

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Facepalm

And

People invest with and buy shit from this guy!

Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after USB keys fail to decrypt them

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Trollface

Ironic

A ballot to keep pieces of paper is thwarted by a system that avoids pieces of paper.

AI nonsense finds new home as Meta acquires Moltbook

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Shite

All the way down

SETI admits its search for alien life may be too narrowly focussed

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What’s the bet

The first authenticated alien message will be an advertisement.

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Brits fear AI will strip the human touch from public services

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Re: From experience it is shit

You should become the local distributor of those desks.

Get ‘em free, flog ‘em cheap.

UK copper fired after faking keyboard taps using photo frame

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Alert

Ive been framed i tell you!

But it seems I’m in the picture!

Orbital datacenters are a pie-in-the-sky idea: Gartner

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Alien

Pigs arse

In spaaaaaaaaaaace!

AI chatbots waffle on GOV.UK queries, then get facts wrong when told to zip it

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FAIL

You know

It’s all a bit shit really

Adidas investigates third-party data breach after criminals claim they pwned the sportswear giant

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Coat

Adidas intrusion policy

Three stripes and you’re out!

Ireland joins regulator smackdown after X's Grok AI accused of undressing people

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Alert

X is a toilet

Flush twice, to be sure, to be sure.

Trump's Genesis Mission gets its first set of 26 sure-to-succeed objectives

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Facepalm

As American circles the drain

The Great Orange Bollocks is promising stuff he has absolutely no idea about.

X users howl into the void as timelines fail to load

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Happy

“the timeline is not loading”

And for a brief time, citizens of the troubled 21st century enjoyed peace, contentment and a reasonable dose of the truth.

It was not to last, unfortunately.

US is moving ahead with colocated nukes and datacenters

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Mushroom

Re: Spent fuel problem

Store the spent fuel in Florida.

They like an orange glow there.

Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake

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Facepalm

Play stupid games

Win free rides in a police car!

And possibly free food and accommodation.

Amazon can't build AI capacity fast enough, throws another $200B at the problem

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FAIL

Feed the worlds poor, heal the sick, protect our environment

Nah.

Flog more tat!

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Trollface

If you build it

They might come.

Probably not.

Ghost gun legislation casts shadow over 3D printing

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Trollface

Guns, America loves their guns

The more guns the better isn’t it?

That’s what conservatives will tell you.

Make guns free! What’s more American than that?

/s

SpaceX wants to fill Earth orbit with a million datacenter satellites

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Contact Colin Furze.

Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights

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Pirate

Sharpen Madam Guillotine

Prepare the trumbrels!

Liberté, égalité, fraternité.

X marks the raid: French cops swoop on Musk's Paris ops

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Flame

American exceptionalism writ large

Go France!

Battre le fer pendant qu’il est chaud!

British military to get legal OK to swat drones near bases

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Alert

The Jet-Propelled Guided NAAFI flies again

Those rock buns are lethal.

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Trollface

Re: Airports too?

Today’s cameras are too high def.

Any fool knows that the best UFO/Cryptozoology photos are ultra grainy and low def.

Bring back cheap cameras!

South Korea enlists AI to spot pump and dump schemes on social media, or in Spam

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Trollface

Social Media

Is wonderful.

It helps keep many of the scammers away from non users.

Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX to spread universal consciousness via a sentient sun

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Facepalm

“within two to three years”

Now, where have I heard that before?

Add this to the “it never happened list”

McDonald's is not lovin' your bigmac, happymeal, and mcnuggets passwords

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Re: Insanity

“BigCheeseSmallFries”

Musk distracts from struggling car biz with fantastical promise to make 1 million humanoid robots a year

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Terminator

Tesla Bipedal Systems

Or Tesla BS for short.

Mechanical mutts make it official: Now full-time at Sellafield's hot zones

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Re: The cover up

Re: “atom and H bomb projects”

Of which my Dad was stationed at the pointy end out at Maralinga South Australia.

A place where servicemen were treated like they were part of the experiments.

Being “hot” out there was common.

Capita pension portal 'fiasco' forces Cabinet Office into damage control

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FAIL

More of the same corporate incompetence

When do they start blaming the retirees?

It can’t be far away now.

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

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Coat

Re: AI is just a fashionable excuse.

Yes

Up until there was a stink in personnel…

UK tax collector plans £2B tech binge as legacy systems refuse to die

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Pint

£2 billion pounds!

Crikey Moses!

That’s gunna take a really big wall to piss it up against.

Pope warns flock to raise their faces, protect their voices in fightback against AI

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Devil

That Pope guy, he’s right you know

Except for the bit about god, he’s pretty well nailed it.

Nudify app proliferation shows naked ambition of Apple and Google

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Devil

There’s an app for that…

Unfortunately.

UK digital ID goes in-house, government swears it isn't an ID card

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Re: ID cards, meh!

Two British parents. But I was born in Australia.

I’m a UK citizen no two ways about it. It would cost me £1000 to renounce it.

AI-powered cyberattack kits are 'just a matter of time,' warns Google exec

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Fast transition

AI will go from “Meh” to “Mega dangerous” in very quick succession.

Tesla Full Self Driving subscription to rise alongside its capabilities

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Enough with the bullshit generators already!

Between Trump and Musk the world is at risk of drowning in absolute crap.

Trump says he got a deal for rare earths in Greenland, but they won't come easy

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Stop

Trump spews an endless stream of utter rubbish

When will the media stop reporting on his lies as if they are NEWS?

House of Lords votes to ban social media for Brits under 16

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Ban kids from social media until 16

Good start.

Now ban kids from religion until 18. Don’t let them near that utter shite and its followers.

Trump promises nuclear datacenter permits in 3 weeks, calls Greenland 'big beautiful ice'

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Devil

Trump has the mind of a steel trap

Cold

Inanimate

Dangerous

Very rusty

Palantir CEO claims AI will mean western economies won't need immigration

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Forget AI

Get your kids into a trade.

AI is never going to come to your house and fix a broken pipe, etc.

Trades is where the money’s at. Real work, meaningful and profitable.

ICON: Caution, nail gun in use

Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge

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Trollface

AI, not particularly profitable

Unlike consultancy reports, booming!

Experiment suggests AI chatbot would save insurance agents a whopping 3 minutes a day

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Facepalm

Applied Wank

What next?

Having employees scour the car park and break-out room couches looking for lost pennies?

Lawmakers urge FTC to probe Trump Mobile over 'deceptive' marketing

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Stop

Hmmmm

Would YOU buy a non-existent product from a Felon?