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Mail-out madness as insurer offers refunds to customers in error

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Flustercuck

SpaceX will try satellite deployment on next Starship test

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Re: Suborbital

They learn about the difficult bits: launch, separation, relighting and landing

Microsoft Edge takes a victory lap with some high-looking usage stats for 2024

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AI powered tools and MSN

Well, that's two reasons not to use Edge straight away.

Are you better value for money than AI?

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Shouldn't there be a minus in front of those figures?

BOFH: Printer's festive bips herald a merry mystery for the Boss's budget

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Are you sure they've not?

<bip>

Stranded in space: Starliner crew to remain in orbit even longer as SpaceX faces delays

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Re: If...

Well, it landed ok................

Humanoid robots coming soon, initially under remote control

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Re: "A lot of the humanoids we see out there are a hammer in search of a nail,"

Seven of Nine?

We told Post Office about system problems at the highest level, Fujitsu tells Horizon Inquiry

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And that's only coming out NOW?

Red Rabbit Robotics takes human form to sell work as a service

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Your plastic pal who's fun to be with.

Microsoft says premature patch could make Windows Recall forget how to work

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Hang on.....

Recall not working - So that's a problem HOW?

Amazon promises 4x faster AI silicon in 2025, turns Trainium2 loose on the net

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Clippy on amphetamine

Drugs are bad, m'kay?

Win a slice of XP cheese if you tell us where Microsoft should put Copilot next

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You missed "check no doors have fallen off"

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I have a very soft spot for Copilot

Yes, it's a peat bog in the west of Ireland.

That's the place I'd stick it next, as well as now and previously.

Size ex large.

Microsoft hits back at claims it slurps your Word, Excel files to train AI models

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"more intelligent and personalized services." Will it have the intelligence to adapt to my personal preferences and uninstall itself?

One thing AI can't generate at the moment – compelling reasons to use it for work

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Re: Would you ...

I've seen corporate email missives that could be described as meaningless drivel of a similar calibre.

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Interesting

Found this. AI Safety Institute

https://www.aisi.gov.uk/

We can clone you wholesale: Boffins build ML agents that respond like specific people

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Re: Just when you think it can't get worse

Pleased to be of service.

AI PCs: 'Something will have to give in 2025, and I think it's pricing'

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"Of the 1.5 billion PCs in use today, 30 percent are four years old or more."

All those PCs can happily run Linux.

Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive

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"44 percent of respondents believe AI PCs are a gimmick or futuristic""

Really,,? I thought it'd have been far higher.

Microsoft Fabric promises transactions, analytics on one database service

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Just another thing for Microsoft to create another flustercuck out of.

Microsoft unleashes autonomous Copilot AI agents in public preview

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Personal assistant? Can it go get tea and biscuits, making sure to nab as many of the good biscuits as possible?

AI PCs flood the market. Their makers hope someone wants them

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I want an AU PC as much as I want a 3D TV.

I don't want either.

Microsoft 365 Copilot goes monthly for a 5% premium and annual commitment

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I've had a few brushes with AI driven search.

I no longer use it and actively avoid it. It's rubbish.

Datacenters line up for 750MW of Oklo's nuclear-waste-powered small reactors

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Fun fact. Oklo is also the name of a place in Africa, where about 15 perfectly natural nuclear reactors have been found, dating from about 2 billion years ago.

It's "natural", so it's good for you, innit?

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/meet-oklo-the-earths-two-billion-year-old-only-known-natural-nuclear-reactor

Microsoft rolls out AI-enabled Notepad to Windows Insiders

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What's wrong with Words "Paste text only" option?

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Re: As for the generated text, Microsoft uses filtering to prevent problematic content being added.

The profanity IS Microsoft

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Re: As for the generated text, Microsoft uses filtering to prevent problematic content being added.

Dear software creator and supplier*. Remove yourself from my presence, using a means of ambulation that involves repeated groin thrusts and exposed genitalia.

* Because "Microsoft" is deeply offensive to some.

EU irate about geo-locked Apple IDs

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Not if your name is Schrödinger's Cat

Tech support world record? 8.5 seconds from seeing to fixing

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Small scale team meeting (just 3 or 4 of us all told) in team managers office, clustered round her pole mounted monitor.

"Have a look at this" she says and punched a key on her laptop. An impressive amount of nothing appeared on the screen.

I am sat to one side and could see the edge of her monitor.

And the power rocker switch on the back.

Which was off.

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Re: Doh..

Been there. The mental scars are healing ...

Want advice from UK government website about tax 'n' stuff? Talk to the chatbot

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Hello I'm Clippy

You owe us LOADS of money. LOADS. Dont argue, just pay.

Windows 11 continues to creep up behind Windows 10

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Dear Sir or Madman.

Introduced in "Kung Fu Kapers", a 1975 episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies. In the episode, "ecky thump" is a secret Lancastrian martial art using black puddings as a weapon.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/ecky_thump

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Are you talking about the British city centre martial art of CAFBWAB?¹

1: Crafty Attack From Behind With A Brick

Microsoft has reached $1M giveaway levels of desperation to attract users to Bing

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Re: At least...

And avoiding Google's propensity for poisoning the first page of search results with ads that are tenuously related¹ to the search term.

1: if you're really lucky. They are usually utterly irrelevant.

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Trollface

Re: It won't be long before...

You missed out "Hi there. I'm Clippy" as the opener.

Linus Torvalds: 90% of AI marketing is hype

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Re: Only 90% ?

"go and fuck a duck"

Now THATS an AI prompt.

Apple quietly admits 8GB isn't enough in 2024, M4 iMac to ship with 16GB as standard

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"640k should be enough for anyone"

Satya Nadella asked for 50% cut in his incentive payout over security failures

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Why aren't all corporate fines imposed as a % of gross turnover?

Biz Daemon is too cool to respond to fans of his big screen work

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Re: Briggs and Riley

Only on the desktop site. The video on the mobile version is just an animated loading graphic.

Briggs & Riley must have seriously good eyesight. It looks like they can spot a mug coming a good mile off.

Voice-enabled AI agents can automate everything, even your phone scams

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That has overtones of the HAL9000's internal conflict in 2001. What wasn't made completely clear in the film was that the computer had been instructed to keep the real reason for the expedition secret from the crew.

That caused something of a conflict in it, eventually causing it to hallucinate and eventually to decide the situation could be remedied if there were no crew.

Sorry, but the ROI on enterprise AI is abysmal

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Alert

Depending on the person now filling ones imagination, that's a really horrible concept.

Pass the mind bleach

Elon Musk's X isn't important enough to feel the full force of EU regulation

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"Most public sector bodies now use Twatter as their main communication means."

Good luck with trying to communicate with me via Twatter then. I have upon it years ago, even before Elmo infected it.

Oh, what a feeling: Toyota building robots that get better with practice

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Re: As a reminder, this is Atlas

"rotate head before rotating body,"

Some of the later Daleks have been doing something similar for years

Missing Thunderbirds footage found in British garden shed

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Yus m'lady

That's all

Three and Vodafone: We need to merge because our networks are rubbish

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When all the technodribble has been soaked into the drooling bandana of indifference and the spiky pineapple of marketing hype has been stuffed into the anaesthetised arsehole of contempt, I'm left just wondering exactly how big and ruinously the mega-crap, sorry, mega-corp, will be increasing prices for no other reason than "because we can"

I guess pretty much like the way Three screwed me over by about 500% when they arbitrarily gouged the venerable "321" tariff prices because - you guessed if - "they could".

May the repellent tolerant fleas of a thousand camels infect their sandpaper tendered genital regions.

Three, Voda promise £10-a-month or below mobile tariffs in bid to sway CMA on merger

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Re: Mix

WiFi calling helps enormously.

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Re: Chancers

Something at which Three are past masters .

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Given the gouging barstewards at Three hiked the price of my humble 321 PAYG tariff by something in the order of five hundred percent because, on their own admission, they could, I'd not trust the iniquitous little gits any further than I could throw this planet, whilst wearing a straitjacket and encased in a concrete block.

Scientists demonstrate X-rays as a way to zap asteroids out of Earth's path

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So. The source of full-on asteroid deflecting x-rays will be what? How will it be directed?

NIST: New smoke alarms are better at detecting fires, but still go off for bacon

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Buggrit. I meant Rate of RISE.

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