* Posts by ivan itchybutt

12 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Aug 2010

Elon Musk's brain-computer interface outfit Neuralink tests its tech on a human

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sp -1

"known as the Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface (PRIME)"

I hope it works better than the acronym.

Google's Alphabet to review every project after $6bn decline in profits

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Re: If that's an economic slow-down

I guess that explains the $5 (26%) increase in my youtube subscription

AWS says it will cloudify your mainframe workloads

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obligatory https://youtu.be/_8AHPqzuLkM

Nobody expects the borkish bank-wisition: When I said I wanted some notes from the ATM, I never thought I'd see...

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PoC

Looks like someone seeing if they can remotely run an executable to me... standby for more serious bork.

Soon, no more blood tests or probing for prostate cancer? AI claims 99% success rate using more relaxing methods

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AI?

seems a bit of a stretch to call this AI... sounds more like any other repeatable lab test.

Ring glitch results in global ding dong ditch: Doorbell bling flings out random pings but they're not the real thing

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Nicky Nicky Nine Doors

that's what it was called in my Canadian youf. My heart is racing just thinking about it.

so if it's catching up, does that mean people missed someone at the door?

Did this airliner land in the North Sea? No. So what happened? El Reg probes flight tracker site oddity

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Doesn't add up...

"Ross noticed that a flight scheduled to land at Aberdeen on Tuesday 15 September had not arrived."

vs.

"in reality it was making a routine, uneventful approach to Aberdeen's runway 16, around 70 miles north"

So why did the flight not show as arrived?

What do you call megabucks Microsoft? No really, it's not a joke. El Reg needs you

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Contoso.com

obviously

Linux security backfires: Flaw lets hackers inject malware into downloads, disrupt Tor users, etc

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small hurdle?

"...after inferring the source and destination ports in a connection"

doesn't seem like a trivial task if you're not man in the middle.

Fukushima reactor shell ruptured?

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facts?

something tells me that the Japanese PM didn't really say "What the hell is going on?" probably more like "地獄が起こっているのは何ですか?" (thank-you google translate)

Santander mixes up 35,000 bank statements

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WTF?

Where's the hilarious headline?

A bank called 'Santander' f's up a few days before Christmas, and that's all you can come up with???

Air steward resigns via emergency chute

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Go

finished his day with rumpy pumpy...

according to my local news:

"Officers eventually caught up with Slater at home – but he wasn’t waiting quietly.

Slater was allegedly having sex when he was arrested."