This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
with all the tech ceos suddenly "sounding the alarm" about the AI bubble bursting and shoveling "bloatware/spyware" into all thier devices and softwares its not really surprising.
You have been warned. We're still doing it, but at least we did warn you. The fuckery of MicroShit knows no bounds.
Where are the techbros that warned me of malware since W10 is EOL? Do you like your new AI built-in malware, cunts?
God, I gotta switch to Mint for good...
Thanks for reminding me to block this feature at work.
Um … no thanks.
Scammers won’t need to social engineer grandma into giving out her SSN, they can just ask her AI many times and eventually, it will spit out absolutely everything.
Interesting Defcon presentation about how AI is a security nightmare:
DEF CON 33 - Exploiting Shadow Data from AI Models and Embeddings - Patrick Walsh
i hate this so very, very much
So going forward, social engineering will also be applicable to some computers themselves instead of just the users.
Never. Ever. EVER. INSTALLING. ELEVEN.
What if I were to tell you the security risk was inside the OS all this time?
windows 11 big button status confirmed.
Step 1, delete Windows 11. Step 2, install Linux Mint.
Um, just in case, I'll have you know that I name all my folders "trans porn". It doesn't mean anything in particular.
I think I may have caused some confusion and after some research I can see why.
Naturally I was referring to transistors and transformers, and pictures thereof. Ha ha lol guys can we forget this now?
Transporners, more than meats the eye
A volume of NTFS that is filled entirely by folders named "trans porn" would mean that there isn't a single folder in there that contains 2 folders.
New organizing system just dropped. It's just a chain of five thousand trans porn folders. The depth means something to the creator.
My mom is a retired nursing instructor, I've picked up a few things over the years. This is going to be fun when a HIPA violation occurs via MS A.I.
Honestly any industry where you see confidential information or proprietary information, could pose a massive threat to customers. Just knowing how much of a product your competitors are shipping to a location can tell you a lot of what they are planning.
I work in healthcare (maintenance) and our computer system is so fucking locked down, I'm sure CoPilot will have some similar way of being shackled. I was surprised to learn that the terminal isn't locked, until I fooled around some and realized that every possible command was individually blocked.
I work IT at a university that does medical research, and the doctors and their assistants are by FAR the biggest security pit among all the demographics: staff, students, various faculties. You could tell them you were official password inspector and flash an ID written in crayon on a used napkin and they'd just "yeah whatever, here you go, stop bothering me".
They'd get chewed into paste by their directors after the inevitable happened and their compatriots would learn NOTHING.
I have to use TaskManager now to disable co-pilot
I guarantee you they will solve it by lobbying to get rid of HIPA
At some point, all that juicy sweet medical data will be worth the 8 figure bribe to several congressmen to allow thebsale of access to the data for 'research' use to amazon and google.
All that data is private, until it isnt.
Dont be so innocent to think that hipaa data will never be sold, it will be eventually
Nah, why get rid of it if you can get exclusions for just AI, like they are doing for other stuff like copyright.
I'll be killing that service asap
Bold to assume your registry won't restore last known 'good' config. Linux mint with quickemu is a great way to use Windows if you have to.
Meanwhile I am rather happy that my older (gaming) PC is not suitable for Win11 anymore, due to TPM (first I was rather disappointed). For my daily stuff I use a MacBook Pro and the old Windows PC will eventually become a Linux PC.
The only problem is my work PC/Laptop, which runs on Win11 (my company wenn "all in" MS-Cloud and stuff), and which I occasionally also use to access some private files (which rest in an encrypted cryptomator vault, when not used).
Planning on spending a months wages building a monster rig that runs Windows 11?
Cool. When it's done just take whatever your CPU, GPU, RAM is and reduce the number by 50-75%. Have fun.
"I see you are dual booting with Linux? I've reformatted that partition for you."
One of the reasons why I never dual boot. Unfucking GRUB is not on my priority lists.
Only dualboot with windows on a separate drive, that hasn't given me any issues in the past 5 years or so
Just make sure to unplug all non-Windows drives when installing Windows. Otherwise it can do weird things like making unilateral decisions on which exact drive it shoves its bootloader on. I've wiped my Linux drive when changing to another distro aaaaand the Windows bootloader was gone too. It really shouldn't have been.
Same here. I have Windows 10 on a separate physical disk (sdb). I have Linux and GRUB on sda, so Windows has no idea that it's not the only OS on my computer.
Seems like a bad idea then. So obviously they’ll do it!
Why? Who's asking for this stuff, is there somebody out there who is really pleased with this news or is Microsoft really just that out of touch.
I don't want to have to start wearing rainbow knee-length socks, but Microsoft are pushing me towards it.
Isn't it so they can train their AI on your personal files?
I work in IT for businesses and the number of times I've had to debunk AI slop hallucinations as actual troubleshooting information is not zero.
"Yes, I can see the instructions say to check that checkbox, however, that checkbox does not exist" (screenshot of relevant control panel).
This is just evidence, to me, that business types are already relying on AI instead of doing any actual thought or research on any topic they don't already have a deep understanding of, or are too lazy to bother with.
Consumers are not driving this change.
The worst part is that it's an echo chamber of yes-men that seem to be pushing for it. The AI enthusiasts trying to sell their crap, convincing the middle managers that they need their AI crap, and them buying it and asking for more/better AI crap, and the cycle continues. At no point does any of the output of any AI system provide any unique insight, or value, to anyone. The rest of us are being dragged along for the ride, regardless of what we want.
The tech industry puts bazillions of dollars into AI development and now it has to put AI literally everywhere to make it look somehow useful. Whether the customer / user wants this or not. I guess they are hoping that people will eventually like it.
