He's recently raised $6 billion from the latest funding round:
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-xai-series-c-funding-round-grok-nvidia-microchips-2024-12
Posts by Ken Y-N
179 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jan 2013
HPE may have bagged $1B order from Elon Musk's X for AI servers
Tesla, Musk double down on $56B payday appeal
Short-lived bling, dumb smart things, and more: The worst in show from CES 2025
Friday 10th January 2025 01:52 GMT
Re: A washing machine
But, the smart washing machine can delay the spin cycle so you can talk comfortably while sitting beside the device.
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if someone's patented that - that's the sort of dubious idea that my cow-orkers might file to meet their one patent per year assessment.
Japan's wooden satellite exits International Space Station
Blue Origin's New Glenn will launch any day now – but it better hurry up
Trump tariffs transform into bigger threats for Mexico, Canada than China
Wednesday 27th November 2024 07:58 GMT
Musk has generously offered to spend what it takes to unseat/primary whoever votes against his puppet-prez. He also has plans to defund the leftie woke DEi-riddled NPR.
(And /s, just in case you didn't notice)
They'll be a lot of people voluntarily and involuntarily getting their coats before he's finished ---->
Supply chain management vendor Blue Yonder succumbs to ransomware
Here's how a Trump presidency could change the tech industry
To kill memory safety bugs in C code, try the TrapC fork
Wednesday 13th November 2024 06:32 GMT
Re: No terminating '\0'?
Ah yes, I see my misunderstanding and I wasn't thinking at all of the contiguous memory... The comment "TrapC blocked strcpy overwrite, success good" means that it hasn't been trampled by the 'strcpy()' rather than being set to 1 explicitly in the previous 'if' branch. I know, read the code, not the comments!
But, assuming 'success' comes directly after "buffer[]' is incorrect except in perhaps a debug build, as a release build would likely put 'success' in a register, so "Welcome" would not be printed despite the memory overwrite. You've now got a bug of the most annoying type, working in Release but failing in Debug.
To sum up, this is a bad example.
Wednesday 13th November 2024 01:44 GMT 
No terminating '\0'?
char buff[8];
...
if(!strcmp(buff,"s3cr8tpw"))
That code implies that there's no NUL character at the end of strings. I can see why it might not be needed if you have a length field somewhere, but that's quite a change.
Also, the next snppet has:
const char* ptr = "Hello World"; // 12 char wide
Shouldn't that be 11?
What might a second term of Trump mean for the US space program?
Starlink was offered for free to those hit by Hurricane Helene. It is not entirely free
Wednesday 9th October 2024 00:27 GMT
Re: UK Phone Operators often provide free calls to areas affected by disasters but you need a phone
When I first read about this, it was his helicopters not getting permission to land, so I presumed the choppers were full of StarLink terminals to hand out to deserving plebs, just like traditional mobile service providers (in Japan anyway) have emergency hardware that provides a bridge from mobile services to satellites.
Thinking a bit further, a free terminal and free 30 day service, then pay later for the continued service (basically a free terminal) would also be fair, but - it is Leon we're talking about after all - the reality is as the article points out, more free publicity for his "generosity".
SpaceX Falcon 9 grounded again after second stage hits wrong part of ocean
Tuesday 1st October 2024 01:16 GMT
Re: Ooopsie!
Perhaps it's a "See, we can self-regulate; there's no need for the FAA!", as Leon has been pushing hard to be trump's governmental cost-cutter, and first on the chopping block will be all these pesky agencies that get in the way of his various industries.
Mushroom icon as he and Project 2025 want to nuke democracy.
Red team hacker on how she 'breaks into buildings and pretends to be the bad guy'
I don't know what pressing Delete will do, but it seems safe enough!
Tuesday 17th September 2024 04:12 GMT
Well, it does
if I go to the Windows Settings app and type in "format", ideally it should then take me to, at least) the options for formatting a storage device, changing date format, selecting a keyboard layout, and possibly even the multi-screen layout dialog?
On Windows 11, it shows me "Region settings", "Set regional format", "Format a volume", etc
Microsoft pulls the plug on WordPad, the world's least favorite text editor
Cool, more promises of a Universal Translator from Big Tech. This time, Meta – again
Threads versus Twitter: Shouldn't we be happy the wheels are falling off antisocial social media?
Monday 10th July 2023 00:42 GMT
Re: Freedom is an illusion
Err, since Elmo took the helm the acceptance rate of government requests to remove tweets has actually increased from around 50% to 80%:
https://restofworld.org/2023/elon-musk-twitter-government-orders/
Twitter has performed little or no push-back on these requests partially because Musk has sacked most of the people who used to handle these issues.
Oh, great. Yet another tech billionaire thinks he can get microblogging right
Thursday 6th July 2023 04:47 GMT 
Looks fine to me
A few of my Instagram friends are already there, and it looks quite nice, although other than the text being above the picture instead of the other way round there seems little difference. I never got Twitter (at least now the Muskrat is clear about the Nazi hell-hole he is making it into) so let's see what happens with Threads.
Apologies for posting something positive; Zuck already knows all about me, sadly, so he's not going to be getting much additional info from me liking even more cat pics.
Twitter rate-limits itself into a weekend of chaos
Tuesday 4th July 2023 02:36 GMT
Wasn't the Muskrat all about spotting bots while trying to get out of buying Twitter? How come now it looks like that he and his team now cannot spot scrapers and has to rely on draconian rate limiting for everyone? Surely he wouldn't be lying?
Last night one of the news magazine programs in Japan covered this latest disaster, and random people on the street were saying they were burning their unverified quota in just 10 minutes. Also, most every local and national government department uses Twitter for emergency notifications, etc, and with the country right in the middle of serious flooding and evacuation notices, with Twitter pining for the fjords word may not be getting out properly.
Microsoft puts profanity filter on %@!#ing Teams transcripts
Fujitsu admits it fluffed the fix for Japan’s flaky ID card scheme
Friday 30th June 2023 04:10 GMT 
On the Japanese telly a couple of days ago they had an article about the latest issue - places, even within the same town, can have the same name, or the same kanji but different pronunciation, or people have different ways of writing their address - 1-2-3-4 is actually identical to 一丁目二の三番四号, but the database requires an exact match. One could use the post code which would eliminate 99% of these ambiguities, but the My Number system does not include post codes for whatever reason.
Yes, I was facepalming that they only just realised this, and it will take them another two years to hook up to some master database of official addresses, although that doesn't address the other issue of needing fuzzy matches.
Japan's digital ID card gets emergency review amid data leaks
Friday 23rd June 2023 04:59 GMT
It's not as bad as it sounds
Most of the processes involved in setting up the system involve manual input, often by third parties. For instance, my health insurance is though a company scheme, so someone in their office has to go through and link the My Number card belonging to N Kenneth A matches their policy holder called K Y-N (don't ask), so cock-ups have come from mixing up people this the same names, or other problems have been a husband and wife applying for their cards but their photos being swapped on their cards.
Real IT problems were earlier in the year with the system for printing out government documents at convenience stores, as there were probably timing errors with two transactions getting mixed up at the back end.
Stanford Internet Observatory raises alarm over 'serious failings with the child protection systems at Twitter'
Reddit blackout planned over app-killing API prices
Tuesday 6th June 2023 05:12 GMT
Reddit is Fun on Android user here - can't tell you about traffic, although I do believe it is true that there are a lot of app-using power users and mods.
RIF runs its own ads (which I always thought was a bit cheeky) or a one-off $3 ad-free version. I'd like to say that I'll quit if RIF dies, but I'll probably hang around with the official app, then give up if it's as crap as everyone says. BTW, I use FaceBook, but only though the website on Android, not the app as I don't want Meta as well as Google tracing my every move, as I suspect the official Reddit app might like to do.
Elon Musk finally finds 'someone foolish enough to take the job' of Twitter CEO
Monday 15th May 2023 03:35 GMT
Facts, please
You ----------------->
I'm not going to bother looking up who that MAP is, although wasn't Epstein's pal Trump actually unbanned, and I'd rather do without CP searches in my history, but I'm sure I've previously read that CP have actually gone up - Musk may have banned common hash tags, but that's not tackling the core problem, and he sacked most of the moderation teams.
As for the TLAs, well, your boy Musk is actually bending over even further: https://cyber.harvard.edu/story/2023-04/twitter-complying-more-government-demands-under-elon-musk
He also recently insulted someone for asking why he censored Turkish government critics just before their general election: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/twitter-musk-censors-turkey-election-erdogan
Tokyo has millions of surplus Wi-Fi access points that should be shared with blockchain, says NTT
Tesla wins key court battle over Autopilot crash blame
Google says it did not train its AI chatbot Bard on your private emails
Tuesday 28th March 2023 02:25 GMT
The Vulture Strikes Back - a ChatGPT superhero movie synopsys
The Register’s Vulture is a fearless investigative journalist who exposes the dark secrets of the tech industry. He has a loyal following of readers who appreciate his witty and sarcastic style, but also a horde of enemies who want to silence him. Among them are the corrupt executives of Nominet, the registry that runs the .uk domain, who have been abusing their power and mismanaging funds for years.
When The Vulture publishes a series of articles revealing Nominet’s scandals, he becomes a target of a vicious smear campaign orchestrated by the registry’s board. They hire hackers, trolls and bots to flood The Register’s website with fake news, spam and insults, hoping to discredit The Vulture and drive away his audience. They also try to hack into his personal accounts and devices, threatening his privacy and security.
But The Vulture is not easily intimidated. He decides to fight back with his own weapons: his sharp pen, his loyal colleagues and his faithful commenters. Together, they form a resistance movement against Nominet’s tyranny, using their skills, knowledge and humor to expose their lies, sabotage their plans and rally public support. Along the way, they discover that Nominet is not the only enemy they have to face: there are other sinister forces behind the scenes, pulling the strings and manipulating the tech world for their own nefarious purposes.
Will The Vulture and his allies be able to stop Nominet and its allies from destroying the internet as we know it? Will they be able to protect their freedom of speech and information? And will they be able to survive the onslaught of angry fanboys, trolls and haters who disagree with their opinions?
Find out in The Vulture Strikes Back: a thrilling, hilarious and action-packed superhero movie that will make you laugh, cry and cheer for The Register’s Vulture and his commenters.
China launches yet another crackdown on social media
99 year old man says cryptocurrency is for idiots
Larry Ellison mea culpa as traffic cop stops Big Red boss on own island
Cops chase Tesla driver 'dozing' with Autopilot on
Thursday 5th January 2023 02:52 GMT
Re: "whether the car has an in-cabin camera"
An EU directive (yay Brexit???) coming into force soon says that all driver monitoring must be processed locally and deleted as soon as handled, but I'm not sure how it handles that it still has to send out a signal that can be logged such as DRIVER_SLEEPING, DRIVER_INATTENTIVE, DRIVER_WATCHING_PR0NHUB...
Thursday 5th January 2023 02:46 GMT
GM, etc, along with an all-cabin camera, have a camera mounted in the dash pointing straight at the driver, and it can handle Near Infra-Red, so it can see through sunglasses and do all that fancy eye-tracking stuff. However, Tesla only has one non-IR camera mounted below the rear-view mirror that covers all the cabin, so at best they can only see one eyeball, I would guess. Even so, it should be more than possible to detect the driver lying back, or whatever, but as we see elsewhere, features seem more important that safety in Tesla.
Neuralink's AI brain chip could be in humans within six months claims Elon Musk
Tetchy trainee turned the lights down low to teach turgid lecturer a lesson
Japan to change laws that require use of floppy disks
Wednesday 31st August 2022 07:16 GMT 
His sense of humour on English Twitter is not bad either:
https://twitter.com/konotaromp/status/1557560605690585088?s=20&t=eHPNO2jF8zsB8kNlgF7j2w
Just you wait. We are getting ready to fix the date for preparatory meeting to discuss how we are going to draw a scheme for the Most Advanced Digital Hanko System Development Schedule Planning Committee.
https://twitter.com/konotaromp/status/1557554908575870977?s=20&t=eHPNO2jF8zsB8kNlgF7j2w
C’mon, there is no analogue thing left in our remarkably advanced society.
Oops, my fax machine is jamming!
Taser maker offers electric-shock drones to stop school shootings
Twitter founder Dorsey beats hasty retweet from the board
British motorists will be allowed to watch TV in self-driving vehicles
Google's DeepMind says its AI coding bot is 'competitive' with humans
Thursday 3rd February 2022 07:51 GMT
What does "in the top 54%" mean?
Does it mean that it answered enough questions correctly to be rated? If so, how many out of how many attempted questions?
According to the blog post it generates lots of possible solutions and sees which give output that is close to the expected result then further refines them. As I've seen with other impressive AI results, I suspect there's a human at the end of it who throws away the crappy results and highlights the best - GPT-3 for instance had many examples of utter gobbledygook.
Attack on Titan: Four Japanese Manga publishers sue Cloudflare
ExoMars parachutes just about good enough to land rover safely on the Red Planet
LINE Pay leaks around 133,000 users' data to GitHub, of all places
Wednesday 8th December 2021 07:28 GMT
Local governments in Japan are back using it, though. The 10 million inhabitants of Tokyo can get their vaccine passport through LINE, by just uploading a photo of their paper certificate and a photo ID like a driving licence.
As one of the 10 million, even if I used LINE I wouldn't trust them with that info even before this latest leak.
Swift 5.5 unleashed with async keyword to fix 'pyramid of doom', plus other changes in 'massive release'
Microsoft does and doesn't want you to know it won't stop you manually installing Windows 11 on older PCs
Japan's bullet trains replace smoking rooms with Zooming rooms
Japan to start stamping out rubber stamps and tearing up faxes as new digital agency given Sept. 1 start date
Friday 14th May 2021 03:47 GMT
There's a long way to go
On the news in Japan last night, the vaccines are finally starting to roll out, and the paper form for recording vaccinations comes with a standard 1D barcode and the serial number printed below. There is an iPad-like tablet for reading the code, but 1. the autofocus doesn't work correctly half the time and 2. the app actually ignores the barcode and tries to read the serial number below, which also fails another half of the time because autofocus isn't correct or otherwise dodgy OCR code.
The government fix is to send out aluminium stands so that the tablet can be placed the regulation 7.5 cm away from the form.
Intel throws sand in the face of 'musclebooks' with 10nm Tiger Lake tech
Sloppy data compliance sees Japanese government cut out its own use of LINE messaging app
Tuesday 23rd March 2021 01:07 GMT
The (over-?)reaction may in part be due to LINE being developed by a Japanese subsidiary of the Korean giant NAVER - I've seen right-wing loonies banging on about Korea stealing all the user data, so nationalist politicians might be wanting a more local solution.
As noted, LINE was already the main COVID telehealth hub, and had plans to be the main online vaccine appointment tool, so that's going to be yet another delay in the already glacial roll-out (hobble-out?) - we've so far had just half a million medical staff injected, and the old folk jabs start in two Tokyo city/wards from the 12th of next month, where they'll get one box each of 1,000 or so shots to inject. I might get mine for Christmas, if I'm lucky.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
