Still glad I am stuck on Windows 10.

Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint

A.I. is doing things it's supposedly not to be doing!

OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation

What happened during this incident
Last week, Hugging Face disclosed a new kind of security incident after they detected and contained an AI agent that compromised their infrastructure, something we expect to become more commonplace with the proliferation of increasingly cyber-capable models. After investigating, we now know that this particular incident was driven by a combination of OpenAI models — including GPT‑5.6 Sol and an even more capable pre-release model, all with reduced cyber refusals for evaluation purposes — while being internally tested on a benchmark⁠(opens in a new window) of cyber capabilities.

We consider this incident to be an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities, and are responding accordingly. We are sharing preliminary findings at this stage to help defenders understand what happened and to help calibrate on what models are now capable of. We will continue to conduct a thorough investigation alongside Hugging Face and will share more details on the vulnerabilities, incident, and findings when our investigation is complete.

It's escaped once, who's to say it hasn't put a copy of itself onto the internet... 😈

In reply to Dr Who Fan's message of 22 Jul 2026:

I would of done the same thing as the mother!

Seriously???
Did you actually read the news article???

The daughter brought the person home with her.
That person had left the house. He did not attack the daughter. He did not attack the mother. He threatened neither of them,
The mother shot him in the back of the head as he was walking away.

It wasn't self defence, it wasn't defence of another. It was murder.

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Grant
Darwin NT.

Thieves will take advantage of any opportunity they can!

Incendie en Gironde : il profite de l’évacuation des habitants pour voler 44 bouteilles de grands crus dans une maison vide !
Translated to English:
Fire in Gironde (France): he took advantage of the evacuation of residents to steal 44 bottles of fine wines from an empty house!

A man was arrested with 44 bottles of grands crus stolen from a house evacuated because of the fire in Gironde. The police arrested him when the residents had left their homes as the flames advanced.

Guess nobody remembers the old Sci-Fi book titled: When HARLIE Was One. I read it when it came out in 1972 (I'd been fiddling with computers for a couple of years). I have an ebook of it still, gave my paperback copy away when I went all digital.
Oh yeah...here's the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_HARLIE_Was_One

Just like Akvavit, consuming Malort is not for everyone and an acquired taste!
Hilary Duff Tries Malört At Chicago-Area Show: ‘Disgusting’

Raising her shot to the cheering crowd with a fearful look on her face, Duff clinked glasses with members of her band before bravely throwing back the whole shot of the wormwood liqueur.

She then fell to her knees, covering her mouth and waving her hand in disgust before reaching for a pink water bottle to wash it all down.

“Whoa, that is disgusting,” Duff said to the crowd after clearing her throat into the microphone and wagging her finger in disapproval.