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byRosco P. Coltrane
ruary 01, 2026 @09:52PM
(#65963496)
Attached to: Anthropic's $200M Pentagon Contract at Risk Over Objections to Domestic Surveillance, Autonomous Deployments
I was evaluating AI coding assistants for my company a while ago, and of course Claude Code was on my shortlist. But after discussing Anthropic's collaborating with the fascist US regime, our company decided to practice economic withdrawal and take our money to a European supplier.
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byRosco P. Coltrane
anuary 31, 2026 @03:50PM
(#65961446)
Attached to: Nvidia CEO Denies OpenAI's $100B Investment from Nvidia is 'Stalled'
Can't blow anymore hot air into it?
180701128
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byRosco P. Coltrane
uary 30, 2026 @11:34AM
(#65959160)
Attached to: Former Google Engineer Found Guilty of Stealing AI Secrets For Chinese Firms
Translation: Silicon Valley is the Schrader valve overinflating the AI tire.
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byRosco P. Coltrane
uary 26, 2026 @06:18PM
(#65951158)
Attached to: Is Google Prioritizing YouTube and X Over News Publishers on Discover?
Monopolies gonna monopolize.
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byZocalo
26 @10:34AM
(#65949988)
Attached to: AI is Hitting UK Harder Than Other Big Economies, Study Finds
Brexit is a factor for sure. The UK's economy has generally underperformed compared to its peers since the result was announced, let alone the actual exit, but it's definitely not the only factor. It also overlaps with the decision to increase the minimum wage and various inflation busting public and private sector payrises which, while maybe warranted, also have the flipside of increasing costs and that is often clawed back through headcount reduction. That's particularly noticeable in the hospitality sector which always runs on thin margins and has been hit pretty hard; AI isn't making beds and prepping food. Another factor would be all the uncertainty over the US, one of the UK's largest trading partners, putting a lot of focus on business development elsewhere and that doesn't yield results, let alone jobs, overnight if you don't already have a foothold to build from; I'm seeing a *lot* more Brits at overseas BD events than 12-18 months ago because of this.
I know we like to hate on AI a lot here, but while I'm sure it's contributed to shifts in the job market it's incredibly disingenous to claim AI is responsible for the entirely of the UK's current employment woes, and frankly I'm not even sure who would really benefit from making that claim. Companies using it as a convenient excuse for layoffs because of other reasons on the otherhand... Yeah, I can totally see that.
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byZocalo
26 @06:56AM
(#65947752)
Attached to: Infotainment, EV Charger Exploits Earn $1M at Pwn2Own Automotive 2026
I think a home charger is more likely for Pwn2Own. Winning an L3 DC fast-charger is cool and all, but it's not likely that the successful hacker is going to be able to do much more with it that use it as a garden ornament or oversized door stop, unless they offer a cash alternative, because things like DC fast chargers should absolutely be subjected to this kind of thing just as much as the typical consumer tools that make up most of the targets.
A cybersec seminar I was at last yeaar had a speaker from a major pen-testing company describing how they had got a L3 DC EV charger setup into a Faraday cage to see if it could be exploited (they didn't state which make, before you ask, presumably because they are in active use, but they did say that the charging network operator was their client, which is not necessarily the same as the manufacturer of the equipment, so I'm guessing probably NOT Tesla). Turns out these things were a comms nightmare, and despite the fact that they often have to have buried HV cables due to their location on the forecourt, they use wireless data links rather than hardwiring then via a secondary LV cable duct). This is broken down into:
Usage/payment processing. You'd expect this to be secure because of standards like PCI-DSS and because it's a glorified version of those remote card terminals you see everywhere, so a known tech that has been audited over and over, and that was mostly true - they couldn't get at the payment info - but they were still able to interfere with it and create a DoS and extract an awful lot of PII from users of the charging pods sent from their phone apps.
Management. These things often sit out on a forecourt, but there is usually also a management terminal located somewhere onsite showing status info, etc.. This proved to be woefully insecure, and they were able to send bogus data to the management console, and get it to show whatever status info they wanted, which is important because of the third data network.
Power supply regulation. When installed in a group, the chargers "chat" amongst themselves to optimise the distribution of the available power from the grid when the bank is close to maxing it out so that you can have a car arriving with an almost flat battery prioritised over one that is already 80% full, as well general management and heat regulation through redistribution of supply current so that nothing gets too hot. Turns out this was woefully insecure too.
By the culmination of their exercise, they were able to combine the hacks and were able to both take arbitrary charge pods offline, fiddle with the power regulation to generate potentially dangerous current draw scenarios, and simultaneously present the operator dashboard with information indicating that everything was just fine. While some of that did require opening a panel and connecting to a USB debug port in one of the pods, with a variety of vehicles parked up and a pre-attack recon of the CCTV setup, I suspect it wouldn't be too hard to engineer things so that one of the pods was hidden from the cameras long enough for you to attach the required cable and replicate the attack in the wild.
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byRosco P. Coltrane
anuary 24, 2026 @05:06PM
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Attached to: Smartwatches Help Detect Abnormal Heart Rhythms 4x More Often In Clinical Trial
Yeah... I didn't think so.
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byZocalo
2026 @10:07AM
(#65946486)
Attached to: Hollywood Tries To Take Pirate Sites Down Globally Through India Court
That's what I love about these things; the Striesand Effect factor. As usual, all the targetted domains are listed in the linked complaint (the PDF at the start of the second paragraph of TFS) starting from page 11. Now, I'm pretty sure some (probably most) of those domains are malware infested hellholes, but one thing you'll note is that they almost all list alternative domains with different registrars to prevent this kind of domain takedown from knocking them completely off the web and let them spin up replacements. The smarter operators will already have a few "spare" domains registered, just in case. Let say - since they are mentioned in TFS - Togo complies and all the ".to" domains go dark; how long do you think it'll take before replacement domains spring up, including on the .to ccTLD?
Hollywood et. al are *still* essentially playing whack-a-mole after all these years because they have nothing new to try (kinda like much of their content), and even if they get some token results from this, it's still going to be about as effective as all their previous attempts. The mole ducks down, and pops up again somewhere else.
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byRosco P. Coltrane
nuary 20, 2026 @03:12PM
(#65937986)
Attached to: 'Just Because Linus Torvalds Vibe Codes Doesn't Mean It's a Good Idea'
For example, he acquired American citizenship. I bet he must feel real smart about that one today...
If he's "vibe coding" anything important, as impressive as the man and his achievements are, he's an idiot. But my understanding is that he doesn't use it for anything important.
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byRosco P. Coltrane
uary 16, 2026 @12:01PM
(#65929390)
Attached to: AI Has Made Salesforce Engineers More Productive, So the Company Has Stopped Hiring Them, CEO Says
Mass unemployment is celebrated as a success story...
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byZocalo
26 @10:57AM
(#65929246)
Attached to: Hard Drive Prices Have Surged By an Average of 46% Since September
HDDs are still the most cost effective solution for large storage arrays that don't need particularly fast random data access, although putting an SSD in front of the drive array to act as a cache can make even some of those workloads viable. I think the issue has been more that the size of the array where that becomes a significant enough cost difference to offset the "screw it, let's just go all-in on SSD" has been increasing rapidly.
For instance, it used to be that media creatives would have a SSD for their go-to / work drive and a high-TB HDD or RAID to store the bulk media data, but - at least until AI blew the market apart - unless you were either seriously budget-limited or producing a vast amount of raw content, then a lower-spec high capacity multi-TB SSD or two was a potentially affordable option. In high-end server land, it was similar; you were spending so much on things like per-core software subscription licenses and however many chassis full of CPUs/RAM, that the storage uplift from HDD to SSD on the drive arrays (excluding the stuff that really needs to be SSD, like VM image storage) is largely a rounding error for PO approval until you get up into the 100s of TB or even PB range. But again, then along came AI...
I suspect a lot of people with upcoming hardware refreshes and large SSD drive arrays are going to be taking a good hard look at how much of that data *really* needs to be on SSDs until the AI bubble pops. It might be a bit of a last hurrah for the tech, but the next few years could be very good for distributors and other bulk suppliers of HDDs if those reviews go the way I expect.
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byZocalo
26 @09:03AM
(#65929038)
Attached to: 'Star Wars' Boss Kathleen Kennedy Steps Down From Lucasfilm
Yeah, that's what I was getting at. Subtract one number from the other, and you get the profit on the movies from theatres - after all the usual Hollywood math has been applied. That's a few points in the black, which is fine by some metrics, but is still only for the movies made since the original trilogy, so my main point was that it doesn't seem to include the profits coming from other areas, which are going to make the RoI for Disney look a lot better overall.
Point taken on the level of success on the movies alone though. Ignoring all the other income streams from the franchise, that's still a pitiful amount of RoI for a franchise with a reputation and loyal fanbase that should have ensured every single one of the movies landed in the top end of the highest grossing movies of all time list if they'd even been remotely decent. I doubt Disney are going to be unhappy with the results, but equally they are probably not as happy as they probably hoped to be when they bought LucasArts.
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byZocalo
26 @05:34AM
(#65928726)
Attached to: 'Star Wars' Boss Kathleen Kennedy Steps Down From Lucasfilm
It's not the best phrasing, but that's just on the box office (after "Hollywood Math" has been applied), and it's a profit which is as far as many people will need to read. I'm pretty sure once you add in the TV shows for overseas broadcasts and people who subscribed to Disney+ specifically for them (less their production costs), all the license costs for all the toys/collectibles/video games, etc. produced by third parties, and all the other ways Disney rakes in money from the franchise it's even more financially rosy for them.
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byZocalo
26 @03:50AM
(#65928662)
Attached to: US Carbon Pollution Rose In 2025, a Reversal From Prior Years
Because it becomes more cost effective to use less environmentally-friendly alternatives that produce more CO2, like coal, instead of natgas.
Profits > somewhere healthy to live. One of the many "Fsck you, I've got mine!" mantras of unfettered capitalism - it's almost like they're trying to come up with their own version of the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition...
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byRosco P. Coltrane
January 14, 2026 @10:22AM
(#65923776)
Attached to: UK Police Blame Microsoft Copilot for Intelligence Mistake
AI told the fuzz BS, the fuzz swallowed it and didn't double-check it.
I call that a police mistake.
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