> Due to a technicality.
Everything is a technicality if you are member of Schoolmarm Party.
Or it's Russia.
One never really knows.
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OK Google: A stranger with stash of pirated films is spamming my Google Team Drive
Intel Management Engine pwned by buffer overflow
Boffins foresee most software written by machines in 2040
Wednesday 6th December 2017 20:38 GMT 
Re: I wondered how long it would take
This is just a marketing term.
Meanwhile: Search-based software engineering.
Toasters with Guns soon.
Tech giants at war: Google pulls plug on YouTube in Amazon kit
Data-slurping keyboard app makes Mongo mistake with user data
Dirty COW redux: Linux devs patch botched patch for 2016 mess
Monday 4th December 2017 14:19 GMT
Re: Huh?
MOAN MOAN MOAN!
Can't be done, won't be done, here is why, I'm so unbeliever, I don't wanna live in this century etc. etc.
It's really like I'm back in first semester. In 1989.
Reasoning and Verification: State of the Art and Current Trends (2014 IEEE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS)
Voyager 1 fires thrusters last used in 1980 – and they worked!
Monday 4th December 2017 11:00 GMT 
"Yes, move 0xFF to the register at position IX+0xBEEF"
Testing that hypothesis was a job for software developers, as Jet Propulsion Laboratory chief engineer Chris Jones said “The Voyager flight team dug up decades-old data and examined the software that was coded in an outdated assembler language, to make sure we could safely test the thrusters."
Shurely assembler languages never become "outdated". They are just mnemonics for machine instructions and don't need to carry around the whole "ecosystem" of compilers, optimizers, frameworks, deployment infrastructure and consultants.
Well, ok, now we have typed assembly language, and about time too. But still.
AI hype surge numbers, robo-radiologists, Apple voxels, and lots more
Sunday 3rd December 2017 21:52 GMT
That November 2017 AI Index is of some interest.
Bizzaredly, there is a chapter about the performance of SAT solvers, which strikes me as "not AI". SAT solving is as AI as Graphics Processing (didja know that Eclipse plugin dependency resolution is done using the jSAT library? It's true! )
The layout is also following the annoying "tradition" of plastering random text outtakes is LARGE FONT AND DOUBLE SPACING into the middle of text. Presumably to inflate the number of pages of the report, or to be noticeable to short-attention-span readers?
You also get an empty-headed robostatement by Tim Cook about the importance of The Humanities, the need for diversity, roboethics... blah blah blah.
Michael Woolridge of Oxford has this to say on page 66:
The AI Index report makes for fascinating reading, from my perspective as an AI researcher, as Head of Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, and also as someone has served as president of the International Joint Conference on AI (http://www.ijcai.org/), and as president of the European Association for AI (http://www.eurai.org/). The report presents compelling and comprehensive evidence that on a range of fronts, AI techniques are making steady progress on core problems that have been associated with AI since its earliest days (game playing, machine translation, theorem proving, question answering, and so on); in many of these, AI is already at or above the accepted level of human expertise. The report also provides pretty clear evidence – as if evidence were really needed – that AI is attracting the attention of students and industry, with admissions exploding on AI courses, and a huge growth in AI startup companies.
There is, clearly, an AI bubble at present; the question that this report raises for me is whether this bubble will burst (cf. the dot com boom of 1996-2001), or gently deflate; and when this happens, what will be left behind? My great fear is that we will see another AI winter, prompted by disillusion following the massive speculative investment that we are witnessing right now. There are plenty of charlatans and snake oil salesmen out there, who are quite happy to sell whatever they happen to be doing as AI, and it is a source of great personal frustration that the press are happy to give airtime to views on AI that I consider to be ill-informed at best, lunatic fringe at worst (for a good recent example, see:
http://tinyurl.com/y9g74kkr).
However, while I think some deflation of the current bubble is inevitable within the next few years, I think there is cause for hope that it will be a dignified and gentle deflation, rather than a spectacular bust. The main reason for this is that, as the AI Index clearly demonstrates, AI is delivering on competence....
Which I think is exactly right.
CYC doesn't even get a mention in the report ... CYC transit! But then again, neither does Prolog or logic programming. WTF!
Ex-cop who 'kept private copies of data' fingers Cabinet Office minister in pr0nz at work claims
Total recog: British AI makes universal speech breakthrough
Friday 1st December 2017 13:08 GMT 
Good Work
To stay on subject, I will just leave this here:
Bob Coecke: "Quantum algorithms for compositional natural language processing"
Friday 1st December 2017 12:53 GMT
Re: Positive
"I need your clothes, your boots, and your blood sample!"
What will drive our cars when the combustion engine dies?
Google Chrome vows to carpet bomb meddling Windows antivirus tools
A day will come when Azure Active Directory 'classic' portal is killed. But it is not this day
Thursday 30th November 2017 14:01 GMT
NOTABUG!
It's the Whig Theory of Rolling Cloud Upgrades (Sometimes only to change "UXxxghhh" style from flat to nonflat or the reverse or throw options into screens where they cannot be found):
Every Cloud Upgrade is an Improvement. If it is not perceived as such, the customer doesn't understand!
Night before Xmas and all through American Airlines, not a pilot was flying, thanks to this bug
Scotland, now is your time… to launch Brexit Britain into SPAAAACE!
Thursday 30th November 2017 00:19 GMT 
What madness is this: The Spaceport Glut!!
Why does everyone want to have a "spaceport" nearby? Does any of the retards seriously believe there will be tons of taxes (KER-CHING!!!) and mega-jobs (DOLE QUEUE REDUCTION) from rare launches of supercomplex fragile gear?
Are there also many people ready to allow nuclear reprocessing plants to be set up to get serious in space? Maybe they think everything can run on renewables??
Is it just a marketing gag for the next Star Wars installment?
Hacked Brit shipping giant Clarksons: A person may release some of our data today
Canadian! fella! admits! hacking! Gmail! inboxes! amid! Yahoo! megahack!
Wednesday 29th November 2017 08:26 GMT
Good story marred by Murrican's pathological need to find FSB everywhere.
"FSB approaches a canadian dude on the darknet undercover to hack accounts of murrican companies to get info about Russian members of the state. It's fauxly true!"
Sounds plausible only to Murrican brains fed a lifetime of Navy CSI bullshit.
"Organized Crime" is probably too mundane for "cyber".
His targets included an assistant to the deputy chairman of the Russian Federation; a cybercrime officer in the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs; and the chairman of a Russian Federation council committee. Interestingly, Baratov was also tasked with pwning the managing director, sales director, and a researcher at a "major Russian cybersecurity firm."
Or it could be our own TLAs. You know, the ones with people of such quality that they brew up fake dossiers on Trump's multicultural ties on demand.
Unreal, man: Amazon pitches new 3D VR kit at dev newbies
Pokémon GO caused hundreds of deaths, increased crashes
Monday 27th November 2017 11:36 GMT
Re: Presumably, Jake ...
I always assumed that the "killed by own weapon" stats were mostly due to the owners waving them around in front of burglars or muggers who have then relieved them of the weapon and shot them with it.
It is very difficult to relieve somebody of a weapon unless the owner is extra careless or crackhead levels of aggressive and you are Jackie Chan.
And never "wave the weapon". Basics 101.
Royal Navy destroyer leaves Middle East due to propeller problems
Sunday 26th November 2017 18:00 GMT
making sure we keep the skills of people who can build aircraft carriers for us is vitally important!
It is only vitally important if you want to build aircraft carriers in the future.
Which you don't. And can't anyway.
And man, the new ones are not even nuclear-powered. How ghetto can you get before giving up?
Munich council finds €49.3m for Windows 10 embrace
Friday 24th November 2017 23:12 GMT
Re: Delivery
I didn't get that reference.
But then: Never-ending construction: Berlin’s unfinished airport still plagued by ‘fundamental faults’.
Well, Germany is the new Upper Volta with nukes.
'Water on Mars' re-classified as just 'sand on Mars'
Sorry 'strange physics' fans, IceCube finds the Standard Model stands
Thursday 23rd November 2017 09:20 GMT
Re: Ugh, the standard model is so boring
It is perfect as far as it goes.
Still needs something more. It's the feeling that your Linux is missing a kernel module...
Here for example is an upcoming conference: 6th Rome Joint Workshop:- Weird Theoretical Ideas
(Thinking outside the box) 18-20 December 2017 Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati. I guess for this you need to be able to solve an QFT Lagrangian in your head.
National Cyber Security Centre boss: For the love of $DEITY, use 2FA on your emails, peeps
Thursday 23rd November 2017 00:03 GMT
Re: Attack of the red cyber menace
The weekly scandals such as the 'golden shower' dossier are an attempt to get him removed before he does anymore damage.
For some values of "damage".
The fact that the golden shower dossier was a silly constuction put together by who-knows-who (my money is on an earnest projecting "liberal" with a piss fetish or else 4chan having fun) and then pushed by McCain, a repellent moral morass sniffing around for war with Russia, Syria and Iran (now rebuild into American Freedom Jesus as his brain cancer advances) should give pause. These are not the fixers we are looking for,
Iranian military hacker fingered for 'Game of p0wns' HBO leak
Aussie Catholic School forced into hasty cover-up over suggestive Saint
Phone fatigue takes hold: SIM-onlys now top UK market
Wednesday 22nd November 2017 14:19 GMT
Hello? Is this a tech publication?
The hardware industry raced to compensate for Android's inefficiencies (as you'd expect from an interpeted Java-based OS)
As is the custom, the OS has been compiled to the CPU instruction set and is not written in Java.
There is used to be Dalvik VM in the software stack, yes (i.e. it runs "dex" bytecode which is unlike the one of the Sun/Oracle JVM). Now replaced by something imaginatively called ART, the "Android Runtime", another VM (they really missed the occasion to call it Dalghren)
When it comes to ML, reports of JavaScript's death are exaggerated
Wednesday 22nd November 2017 12:06 GMT
This article is a sad testament to the levels of ignorance pervasive in the industry
There are, however, signs that not everything is quite so bleak for JavaScript and there's still room for the language. The Developer Economics research shows that developers new to data science and ML still experimenting with the technology prioritise JavaScript more than any other language.
Seriously. "Room for the language". There is always room in the biggest chamber of randomly crazed leaking piping built in a dank cellar, financed by the Googlemonster. It's like a very special S&M dungeon.
These people are either proudly ignorant, badly advised, too fscking lazy to learn to use an appropriate tool or just passing the time faffing around until they have to leave the warm embrace of university.
It's reaching "gender studies" levels of sad.
This is supposed to be SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING. NOW STOP IT!!
Baaa-d moooo-ve: Debian Linux depicts intimate cow-sheep action in ASCII artwork
Microsoft's memory randomization security defense is a little busted in Windows 8, 10
Tuesday 21st November 2017 09:10 GMT
Better to have a "Yes" or "No" in a Text file
The only problem with text files is that they are not transactional, neither in part, nor in full. And that there are so many conventions, Security can be easily inherited from that old-school document database, the "filesystem" though.
Aww: Apple won't be HomePod for Christmas
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