* Posts by Korev

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BOFH: Generating a report the Director can show the Board – THIS is what AI was made for

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We'll found out the end of that tail soon

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Re: The BOFH & PFY using ChatGPT

Are those robots still in the basement?

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Re: Guess ....

Putting "sugar" in your coffee?

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"Part of me feels bad about asking the AI to add a paragraph in the style of someone wanting to publicly admit to a sex addiction."

"He's going to a Board meeting," the PFY says. "They'll probably give him a promotion."

Do you think they'll rat him out?

What's up with IT, Doc? Rabbit hole reveals cause of outage

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Re: Ouch

I bet it was pretty amped afterwards...

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Re: Ouch

This actually happened to me, my housemate's rabbit chewed through the iron's cable the day before I had a job interview. I can't remember if it was live or not at the time (the wire, not the rabbit)

How happy I was -->

Codebreakers decipher Mary, Queen of Scots' secret letters 436 years after her execution

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She should have just written a book and made a show on Netflix...

Google's AI search bot Bard makes $120b error on day one

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Re: Disinformation overload

> If information overload equals pattern recognition, then what does disinformation overload equal?

It means people should be bard from using it...

Arm still strong despite SoftBank loss as shipments pass a quarter of a trillion

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Especially not when they cost an ARM and a leg

Eurocops shut down Exclu encrypted messaging app, arrest dozens

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Exclu made it possible to exchange messages, photos, notes and other communications with users, of which Dutch police said there were around 3,000 prior to the service's seizure, 750 of whom were Dutch speakers.

If they'd have spoken Double Dutch then there would have been no need for the encryption...

Private company set up to oversee UK's prototype fusion reactor

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> Get the F1 teams to replace their IC engines with an electric motor, powered by a miniature fusion reactor.

Would you use a Jenson Button to switch it on?

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The government wibbles muchly about STEM, and there's probably even an app for it. But physics is kinda hard, especially if career options are still limited

If you're bright enough to be a physicist then there are much more lucrative jobs in finance available. Most of which won't get the planet out of its climate predicament or make better cancer treatments etc. though...

Cat saves 'good bots' from Twitter API purge

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Re: Cat saves 'good bots' from Twitter API purrrge

What a sordid tail...

Eager young tearaway almost ruined Christmas with printer paper

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Re: The joy that is printing

Bond in the context of this Who Me is quite apt

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Hopefully he's now able to take stock of the situation...

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It was nice of "Jock" to share the story with us

Guy accused of wrecking crypto exchange now hauled into court

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Re: As they say

A fool and his Clickmango are soon parted?

Another RAC staffer nabbed for storing, sharing car crash data

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Re: Bingo time

Hard to see how you get 100% protection against people who are required to have access to the data as part of their job.

The very fact that they were able to pin it down to an individual firmly enough for the ICO to get a search warrant suggests pretty tight controls.

It does look like the RAC have done everything right here and should actually be applauded.

Microsoft boffins contemplate equipping Excel with AI

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Re: aand what about security; reqs to store and handle locally and on certain devices

This is a very good point. At the moment I'm working on a project where there are loads of data derived from patient samples. Most of the data are small and come from the instruments / analysis software in Excel format. If the patient and/or sample IDs got zapped up into Microsoft ML software then this could cause all sorts of legal problems...

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Re: Hello, I'm Clippy.

Or they could make it useful

"Hi, it looks like your misusing Excel as a database, you can download Postgres here..."

Scientists develop AI algorithms to hunt for cancer-fighting antibodies

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Patients?

It's relatively easy to make molecules work in a lab, but until it's been through clinical trials we'll have no idea if this works or not.

Super Bock says 'cyber' nasty 'disrupting computer services'

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Cyber baddies have had breweries in their sights for some time: Molson Coors was a high profile victim in March 2021 via an attack that significantly hampered production and shipment of products. Its brands include Coors Lite, Peroni, Staropramen and Foster's.

They're beers? I wonder if disrupting their supply chain is actually a good thing. Thank you Cyber Baddies for your service to humanity.

Castrol immerses itself deeper into liquid cooling with researcher

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Re: Not huge news as just announcing a link with a research group

Enthusiasts already tried submerged cooling, and the fluids were... less than optimal. As in, too viscous and making a mess if you ever decided to remove the gear from the fish tank where you submerged them.

I'd have thought that anyone into PC hardware enough to play with liquid cooling is likely to be the kind of person who swaps parts very frequently

Shag pile PC earned techies a carpeting from HR

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> "That was one of the funniest pranks I've seen in 35 years! Don't do it again," he said.

Sounds like he was floored by the prank...

Microsoft to enterprises: Patch your Exchange servers

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Re: Alternatively..

What other groupware would you recommend? There is plenty of email server software out there, but I see much less that can do all the calendaring etc. The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Lotus Notes and its widely hated when used for email purposes.

Apple sued for promising privacy, failing at it

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Re: This is "normal" everywhere.

Do they also get referral fee from Bing?

Tech job bloodbath comes to IBM, CFO links layoffs to Kyndryl, Watson Health

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Google institutional investor calls for wider cuts: 30k jobs

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Re: @Pete B - He is so rich

He seems more certain with the 30k jobs "sort of detail" though

Apple emits emergency patch for older iPhones after snoops pounce on WebKit hole

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Re: Apple products are, and always have been, perfect

> Wow, Two downvotes already. I remember when sarcasm was actually appreciated here.

It's an American website now, no sarcasm or irony please...

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follow Apple TV+ Ted Lasso star Nick Mohammed through his average day, explaining how bad actors misuse data

That's a bit rude about Mr Mohammed!

Global network outage hits Microsoft: Azure, Teams, Outlook all down

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Re: The first domino?

Lotus Domino would mean having to use Lotus Notes

<<shudders>> and nukes from orbit (to make sure)

Seattle: Home of grunge, Starbucks… and now, a quantum computer manufacturing plant

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Re: Quantum

Investor: Why is your cat dead?

Hundreds of Spotify staff stream out the door in latest layoffs

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It's odd because it's oft said you need to pay CEOs mega money to attract the best talent. I wonder if they're taking a pay cut after admitting messing up?

The likely answer-->

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Unless they have a secret plan to one day triple subscription charges I really don't understand their long term business goals. There's some really strange economics going on with internet companies these days.

Basically it's VC money subsidising our listening habits (in a similar way that VC's subsides Uber taxi rides).

Being able to listen to almost anything I want for less than what we used to pay for a CD each month is an amazing deal for consumers. As you say it obviously won't last and hopefully at some point the streamers will start paying the artists more fairly[0]

[0] I do buy downloads from Bandcamp before someone says something!

Microsoft is checking everyone's bags for unsupported Office installs

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Re: I'm still using Office 2000

I read that as I paid for 2K so no need to spend more! and thought WTF

Rentokil uses AI rat recognition to plot extermination in real time

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Well, they made life difficult for themselves by using AI looking for rats, it's very easy to detect if a mouse is plugged into a USB port...

Dear Stupid, I write with news I did not check the content of the [Name] field before sending this letter

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Re: To access or not to access

> A CFO with database master access. That is a recipe for disaster.

In GDPR land that's 4% of turnover or €20 million...

(Of course, most regulators seem content to make themselves look toothless and fine organisations much less)

It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system

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Re: Hooray for Avoirdupois and pounds, shillings and pence

> Bicycle wheels are measured in inches in Germany.

My road bike has 32mm tyres, my mountain bike has 2.5"

Tone deaf? Microsoft must have booked Sting for Davos because he's a good singer

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Some might say the decision to go ahead with the gig was tone deaf, but The Register understands Sting is widely considered to be a talented musician and singer.

A virtual pint for Mr Currie

Netflix changes CEO-sharing arrangement, teases paid password-sharing

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Re: It wouldn’t hurt if they offered better plans

> Where are the 4K plans for folks with one screen and or device on the hunt for UHD content?

This applies to me too

Intel casts doubt on Italy for chip factory location

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Inevitable really, no one really uses pizza boxes in the datacentre any more...

New IT boss decided to 'audit everything you guys are doing wrong'. Which went wrong

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Re: Standard MBA training

"Seagull management"

  • Flies in
  • Makes a lot of noise
  • Craps on everything
  • Flies off

University of Texas latest US school to ban TikTok

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"School"

A school is where children are educated; I've no idea why Americans insist on called universities this...

Intel, AMD just created a headache for datacenters

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Nvidia too?

For us in HPC land, the accelerators have been causing all sorts of power/cooling issues for years. It's nice that CPUs have caught up...

Publisher breaks news by using bots to write inaccurate stories

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Re: Will this AI engine efficiently assist...

Will this AI engine efficiently assist...

Us to pay fewer fleshy meatsacks?

Well, we don't have many typing pools any more

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Re: The Reg - please don't...

> IMHO, it would dilute the wit of The Register's articles and reduce their originality.

Sadly that ship has already sailed...

If your DNS queries LoOk liKE tHIs, it's not a ransom note, it's a security improvement

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Do you run a PiHole or similar on your network? I'm just wondering how they'd be affected.

Of course U2 is one of Bill Gates' favorite bands

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Re: Generated by ChatGPT.

> Anonymity will protect me, right?

Not from the Moderatrix!

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> I’m not sure that I’ve yet got over U2 violating [CBS News] my iTunes library.

Oh U2

University still living in the Nineties seeks help with move to SAP S/4HANA

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> I can't believe it's not Cambridge!

Well Capsa worked well...