Notices by Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)

UK announces it put billions of pounds into generative AI today to inject it into a growth economy it says - after being told by entirely unbiased tech companies it is that good. We’re building an “AI supercomputer”.

In other news, what is actually happening on the ground:

2032: UK unveils AI super computer from Capita after going £7bn over budget.

When Mark Zuckerberg recently released his video announcing the policy changes that specifically allow minority groups (and only minority groups) to be targeted for abuse, he was wearing a $1m watch.

So this is incredibly damning re Paypal's Honey. Also, lol. Uninstall this Chrome/Edge addon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc4yL3YTwWk

My #plushtodon got part refunded and hasn’t appeared and I don’t know why, Christmas is cancelled*

cyberpunk 2077 real life update just dropped

If anybody is wondering this advert is real, it’s running in San Francisco.

The company is called Artisan. If you google them, all the reviews are horrible and suggest they are a scam company.

Every CPU vulnerability summarized with new logo

New video game nasty media target dropped https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ironic-suspect-unitedhealthcare-slaying-played-video-game-killer-rcna183550

Mastodon isn't perfect.

But the fact a social network exists that is completely free to use

has no venture capital investors

has no shareholders to answer to

has no growth targets

with a web interface with zero tracking cookies

and mobile apps with zero trackers at all

with ten thousand server administrators who donate their time for user safety

is - in my opinion - mindbogglingly cool, given the state of the world we live in. Not everything has to be shit. People make things better.

Steam founder Gabe Newell has $1bn worth of yachts all around the world.

Steam doesn’t get nearly enough shit from gamers btw. It is DRM lock in, they make $10bn with about 200 employees and shut everyone out of the PC market.

https://luxurylaunches.com/transport/gabe-newell-luxury-yachts.php

Compare and contrast how many cookies and trackers you get on Mastodon to any other social media platform, I dare you.

How to out compete any major tech vendor right now: work in the same space as their core products - but just don't put anything AI in the product.

They're all so distracting tickling their own bollocks with AI right now they've completely lost focus on their core products and real customer needs.

Every so often some Linux guy replies to me saying ‘no critical infrastructure runs Windows’, so I just gotta say, today is education for you.

Crowdstrike published a faulty update. Causes Windows to bluescreen. Driver is C-00000291*.sys. Will cause worldwide outages. Thread follows, I suspect. 🧵

I am obtaining a copy of the driver to see if malicious or bad coding, if anybody else checking let me know.

If anybody is wondering the impact of the Crowdstrike thing - it’s really bad. Machines don’t boot.

The recovery is boot in safe mode, log in as local admin and delete things - which isn’t automateable. Basically Crowdstrike will be in very hot water.

You know it was coming...

Crowdstrike's BSOP theme tune

Sky News has gone off air in the UK.

Favour to IT folks fixing - could you please copy the C-00000291*.sys file to somewhere and upload it to Virustotal, and reply with the Virustotal link or file hash? It's still unclear if the update was malicious or just a bug.