ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Mega city council's Oracle ERP system still not legally safe, compliant... 2 years after rollout

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Fusion software misses another deadline, one external auditors for Birmingham City Council described as 'absolutely crucial'



Logitech intros free tool for ChatGPT prompts... plus a mouse with an AI button

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For when the AI service cannot grok what it's being asked



OpenAI's GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading security advisories

(2024/04/17)

While some other LLMs appear to flat-out suck



NetBSD 10 proves old tech can still kick apps and take names three decades later

(2024/04/17)

FOSDEM 2024 Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types



Devaluing content created by AI is lazy and ignores history

(2024/04/17)

Column The answer is not to hide from ML, but to be honest about it



Global IT spending forecast to reach $5.0T this year

(2024/04/17)

Comms services and AI contributing to increase, but vendors are taking 'risks'



Google will pump more than $100B into AI, says DeepMind boss

(2024/04/17)

Not all at once, of course



Japanese government rejects Yahoo! infosec improvement plan

(2024/04/17)

Just doesn't believe it will sort out the mess that saw data leak from LINE messaging app



Tencent Cloud to revisit design after circular dependencies slowed emergency API fix

(2024/04/17)

Almost 2,000 customers experienced outages



Indian PM's 25-year roadmap laid out with help from AI

(2024/04/17)

AI is so good at drawing pictures and driving cars, why not let it govern a country?



RISC-V AI chip upstart Rivos plans to undercut Nvidia, helped by a quarter-billion in VC lucre

(2024/04/17)

With Apple lawsuit behind it, focussed on finalizing its designs



Fire in the Cisco! Networking giant's Duo MFA message logs stolen in phish attack

(2024/04/17)

Also warns of brute force attacks targeting its own VPNs, Check Point, Fortinet, SonicWall and more



FYI: This site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, today all yours for a price

(2024/04/17)

Updated Of course there's an enterprise plan for the Feds and AI trainers



MGM says FTC can't possibly probe its ransomware downfall – watchdog chief Lina Khan was a guest at the time

(2024/04/16)

What a twist!



YouTube now sabotages ad-blocking apps that stream its vids

(2024/04/16)

EFF lambastes latest 'lazy and deliberately malicious move'



China scientists talk of powering hypersonic weapon with cheap Nvidia chip

(2024/04/16)

Analysis Jetson module can efficiently process computational fluid dynamics models



Gentoo Linux tells AI-generated code contributions to fork off

(2024/04/16)

A good PR move opines community member



Latest AMD Ryzen Pro chips are similar silicon, more smarts

(2024/04/16)

That other processor company really wants you to use AI at work



Torvalds intentionally complicates his use of indentation in Linux Kconfig

(2024/04/16)

Paramount penguin forces more robust whitespace handling



Judge refuses to Ctrl-Z divorce order made by a misclick

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Computer says you're single



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Microsoft Mandatory Survey (#18)

Customers who want to upgrade to Windows 98 Second Edition must now fill
out a Microsoft survey online before they can order the bugfix/upgrade.

Question 18: Witnessing the popularity of "Dilbert", Microsoft has plans
to launch a syndicated comic strip featuring life at Microsoft. What
characters would you like to see in such a comic strip?

A. Judge Jackson, the goofy court judge who is always making foolish (and
funny) decisions

B. Bob, a wacky Microsoft programmer who likes to insert easter eggs in
his work, and who is addicted to playing "Age of Empires"

C. Bill Gates, the intelligent nerd extraordinaire who always gets his way
by simply giving people large sums of money

D. Ed Muth, the Microsoft spokesman who keeps putting his foot in his
mouth. When not in public, he's a surprisingly sexy "chic magnet"

E. Poorard Stalinman, the leader of a movement of hackers to provide
"free" software for the masses at the expense of Capitalistic values