Posts by teebie

"I don't think it's a good idea to look at the past as an indicator of what might happen in the future,"

Those aren't sane words.

Imaginary drone attacks have already shut down an airport, imagine how bad organised ones could be.

Green for stayed the same ran or went up

Orange for dropped in rank

yellow for merged

I have a lot of respect for OWASP, but why do they hate the colour-blind?

Shenanigan

"A separate base station is required, which the mower uses to determine its location."

Can a prankster mess up the mower and the flower bed by rotating the base station slightly?

Prompt injection attacks aren't attacks using AI, they are attacks against AI.

" after years of planning, preparing, and testing"

'It took years to be this bad' is a weird flex

"The vast majority of our customers are online, with thousands of payments being made and received every day."

That seems like a really low number of payments for a bank that supports 14k charities.

"a growing trend whereby legitimate, trusted domains and their abandoned web pages are being hijacked"

trusted?

"Spam emails now contain fewer spelling and grammar errors, because crooks have started using AI to write them."

I was always told that the errors were a feature, rather than a bug, because you only want responses from people who lack the sophistication to think "would our IT department send a mail with the subject 'secruity lert' asking me to send them my password"

"Training frontier models is a bit like alchemy:"

It's a load of old bollocks, and it doesn't work.

"AI will help it reduce headcount in the call centers"

This is a great advert for Zen Internet.

Why would anybody want more of their wares?

"Volkswagen AG"

Ah, the mark of quality

"commitment to internal education and evangelism"

Evangelism doesn't seem like something you would need to do for a product that was non-shit.

"DPP Law"

'DPP' in the context of law normally means Director of Public Prosecutions. Are they trying to look more important than they are?

"Turner said the reasons tend to fall into one of two categories. First, there are the mission-critical applications that can never be offline for any reason. Upgrading is, therefore, highly problematic and likely to be a business risk."

The third reason: because the new version (e.g., maybe, version 8.0 does not deliver like-for-like performance compared to version 5.7) is worse may be more common than both of them but together.

"When your application database version is multiple updates behind the rest of your systems, this adds to the workload and increases the challenge."

That's not true, if you can upgrade straight from version 5 to 8 then doing it in one go rather doing upgrades from 5 to 6, 6 to 7 and 7 to 8 a year apart reduces workload.

If you can't go straight from versions 5 to 8 then you are better off if the team doing the 6->7 and 7->8 upgrades have recent experience of doing the 5->6 upgrade

"added a click box to our AI platform"

This is not a sufficient response to misleading the court. If the person who wrote this was a lawyer, then they should no longer be.

"With a repentant heart, I sincerely apologize to this court, to my firm, and colleagues representing defendants for this mistake"

This is more the sort of thing I would hope for

Have they considered...improving it?

He said: "commoditized" "competitive differentiation" "measuring twice if not three times and cutting once." "believe very strongly" "highly committed"

Tell me a bullshit artist without telling me...anything, as far as I can tell

"they claimed the versions examined by the researchers were old and no longer available. Therefore, any negative findings were moot."

It's fine, we were leaking data in the past. There is no way that could possibly affect the present.

"Electric scooters are useful for certain scenarios [...] Operator is like that"

It will be seemingly only used by over-confident arsehats, and a scourge for everyone else

"If your organization has consistently adhered to routine best practices [...]," said the vendor.

Should that be

"If, unlike us, your organization has consistently adhered to routine best practices [...],"

"institutions of American society … have adopted and actively use dangerous, demeaning, and immoral race- and sex-based preferences "

There should be a law against that.

This seems to be an example of Betteridge's law of headlines - Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

"These are big claims. What lies behind them?"

"behind them?" could be replaced be a full stop.

"domain experts arguing about what the right answer should be"

The main issues aren't disagreements between experts, it's AI spurting out absolute horseshit.