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Microsoft reportedly eyes E7 tier to make AI agents pay their way – like the humans they'll replace
AWS says drones hit two of its datacenters in UAE, urges users to move resources to different regions
Stop macOS 26 nagging with one tiny policy tweak
Lenovo shows off snap-together laptop with removable keyboard, screen, and ports
Monday 2nd March 2026 22:58 GMT 
Re: Some time around 1993, I saw a laptop the likes of which are unlikely to show up again.
correction: Whilst the ThinkPad 755CV could indeed be placed on an OHP, the display itself could not be detached from the main/keyboard unit. The whole thing was a bit of a Heath Robinson affair, with the use of the supplied staps to secure the laptop onto the OHP.
755CDV on a OHP (CDV - with CD-ROM drive) https://thinkwiki.de/Datei:755cdv-overhead.jpg
IIRC, Siemens had a laptop around the same time/a bit earlier which had a completely detachable display unit, which was then connected to the main unit via a cable (supplied) - that is probably a better fit for what the OP mentioned.
LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic, dusted off for another go
US struck Iran with copies of its own drones
Trump orders purge of 'woke' Anthropic from government
Sunday 1st March 2026 17:41 GMT
US military reportedly used Claude in Iran strikes...
"...despite Trump’s ban"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/01/claude-anthropic-iran-strikes-us-military
Saturday 28th February 2026 09:24 GMT
I like Woking
I like being woke
the original is not very "woke", but if we re-appropriate it...
I like trucking. I like I like trucking, I like to truck.
[i like woking. I like I like woking, I like to woke.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9lmCpIzhFo
btw, "Woking" - a town in Surrey where HG Wells once lived...
https://wellsinwoking.org.uk/Home/Wells
‘There I planned and wrote the War of the Worlds and the Invisible Man’.
Burger King turns to AI to flame broil employees who aren't friendly enough
Britain's creaking courts to use Copilot for transcriptions
Friday 27th February 2026 14:42 GMT 
Minister: Copilot, review these documents from the Metropolitan Police Economic Crime unit. They're sure of a successful prosecution.
Is there a case against Microsoft that we should prosecute?
Copilot: Absolutely not. Microsoft have not contravened any laws since incorporation. It is probably the most law-abiding company in the World.
It will be a waste of time and resources to continue with this. Recommend disbanding the Metropolitan Police Economic Crime Unit and replacing it with an efficient Copilot driven system from a world leader in integration such as Capita
NASA safety watchdog says it's time to rethink Moon landing
Thursday 26th February 2026 14:08 GMT 
Firsts
Make it the first manned mission to the Moon achieved solely with the aid of AI. For added assurance of the success of the mission, from the supplier side, the CEO of the company that supplied the AI tech and the CEO of Boeing to be onboard. From the government side, who better than the commander in chief, Donald Trump.
Success of the mission is guaranteed.
Don't anyone mention the Titan submersible
Microsoft to auto-launch Copilot in Edge whenever you click a link from Outlook
'Merica-made Mac Minis marked for manufacturing
Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'
Wednesday 25th February 2026 23:49 GMT
A knob, a knob, my kingdom for a knob
missing knobs
Demand the return of the knob
With thanks and apologies to Shakespeare, a big knob in English literature
Rogue devs of sideloaded Android apps beg for freedom from Google’s verification regime
O say, can you see: FCC pushes patriotic programming for US 250th
Tuesday 24th February 2026 11:26 GMT
Re: Patriotic Programming
I wonder what AI would make of that statement.
My money is on him encountering a very hungry alligator at a golf course in Florida, or failing that, choking on a Big Mac or missing the 2nd step from the top when he's getting off of Air Force One and sliding headfirst down the steps on to the tarmac
Altman: You think AI is wasted energy? Try raising 100 billion humans
Tuesday 24th February 2026 08:15 GMT
"Water is totally fake," he said, given that AI datacenters often rely on liquid cooling with closed systems, rather than traditional evaporative cooling.
And thereby totally forgetting the use of water for cooling at the generation stage. Unless the heat is discharged to the sea or a river, then, what are all those evaporative cooling towers doing at power stations? Yes, moving to renewables will negate the need for those - but with nuclear - it depends on the location and the technology used for cooling.
Guess he came up with that answer by using his AI dogfood.
icon: what happens when you don't cool the nuclear reactor
Pop music fans literally dying to stream hot new albums – in car crashes, that is
Tuesday 24th February 2026 01:00 GMT
Re: US Centric...
spot the old kit - from about 40 years ago...
Together in Electric Dreams - Philip Oakey and Giorgio Moroder
Tuesday 24th February 2026 00:41 GMT
Re: US Centric...
Wired for Sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0lV9h7b9B0
Single produced by Alan Tarney. Video filmed in and around Milton Keynes shopping centre - around 45 years ago!
Linus Torvalds: Someone ‘more competent who isn't afraid of numbers past the teens’ will take over Linux one day
Tuesday 24th February 2026 00:28 GMT
ShinyHunters demands $1.5M not to leak Vegas casino and resort chain data
Sunday 22nd February 2026 23:57 GMT
Re: On-the-Fly Encryption/Decryption
And if the key isn't embedded then it has to be supplied, either from a file sitting on the server or transmitted from some other source and in either case it's susceptible to interception.
see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic-curve_Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman
"Elliptic-curve Diffie–Hellman (ECDH) is a key agreement protocol that allows two parties, each having an elliptic-curve public–private key pair, to establish a shared secret over an insecure channel."
Crims create fake remote management vendor that actually sells a RAT
DEF CON bans three Epstein-linked men from future events
Friday 20th February 2026 06:07 GMT
Re: Bill Gates, too?
Yet, he's probably the most law-abiding, straight-forward and upright person in the computer industry, who amassed money and is *giving* it away.
Tell that to the people who's companies and livelihoods were ruined by the sharp practices of Microsoft under his tenure.
As for the money, there amount of money that was amassed was far, far in excess of what could be deemed equitable - sure, he was a majority shareholder, and did take the risk in the early days of the company, but, to me, he's a robber baron of the old school who then realised that you can't take it with you when the grim reaper finally catches up with you.
CIOs told: Prove your AI pays off – or pay the price
Thursday 19th February 2026 21:53 GMT
Re: Playing all the right notes
Take a look at this - an earlier version of the sketch -
"...reveals an original template to Eric & Ernie's famed 'Previn' sketch, from 1963's second series of Two Of A Kind"
Tuesday 17th February 2026 21:39 GMT
Playing all the right notes
"...but not necessarily in the right order"
The fear is not only that employees will build the wrong thing – it's that they will build the right thing in the wrong place, with the wrong data, under the wrong controls, the report states.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMPEUcVyJsc&t=75s
Unfortunately, looks like there are no longer any unmolested copies of this on youtube, but the given link starts at 75 seconds in, just before the playing starts for the final time, and avoids the annoying narration
Palantir spent $25M on CEO flights so Alex Karp could do all the talking
Thursday 19th February 2026 17:32 GMT 
Karp on
Nominative determinism?
Etymology:
The word “carp” dates back to the late Middle English period, originating from the Old Norse word “karpa,” which meant “to boast” or “to talk.
The term evolved slightly over time to take on a connotation of complaining or nagging, particularly regarding trivial matters.
https://goong.com/word/carp-on-meaning/
Adidas investigates third-party data breach after criminals claim they pwned the sportswear giant
£111M later, frictionless post-Brexit border dream 'brought to early closure'
Tuesday 17th February 2026 18:00 GMT 
Dear Government
Please may I have a government contract like those you routinely hand over to the usual suspects where nothing of value is delivered and is invariably cancelled after paying early termination fees.
I promise to keep to the same delivery ethos as you accept from your existing trusted suppliers.
Many thanks
Capita taps Microsoft Copilot to dig it out from UK pensions backlog
Tuesday 17th February 2026 11:48 GMT
BBC Radio 4 - Money Box
covered this on Saturday...
"We'll get reaction from people affected and hear from Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, the Conservative Chair of the Public Accounts Committee."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002rd98
Sir Geoffey sounded sceptical to Holroyd's assertion that things will get sorted out soon, and I think Holroyd will be making another appearance before the PAC in April...
Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake
Why does the Windows 11 taskbar hurt me like that?
Log files that describe the history of the internet are disappearing. A new project hopes to save them
Sunday 15th February 2026 04:48 GMT
The Radio Circle
"aim to locate "missing, believed wiped" programmes (mainly, but not exclusively, BBC) and, by raising awareness, prevent collections going straight to land-fill"
http://www.radiocircle.org.uk/
The BBC used reuse tapes. Lots of TV and Radio programmes have been lost that way.
The Radio Circle have for example traced and repatriated copies sent to overseas broadcasters, and also private home recordings done off-air
Anthropic wants comp-sci students to vibe code their way through college
Amazon-backed X-Energy gets green light for mini reactor fuel production
'Another dark day': Users slam Microsoft over Polyglot Notebooks deprecation
Waymo launching China-made van that won't fail in rain, snow, or gloom of night
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