Is this the equivalent headline for AI that finally pops the bubble?

My uncle tried it before his death and could never get it to actually take, he never could cancel the subscription. After he died, Amazon sent voodoo oungans around to raise him from the dead so he could continue paying his Prime subscription. It wouldn't be so bad only bits keep dropping off of him and then the dog drags them around the house.

Yup, it's yet another case of stuff no-one asked for and no-one wants. No doubt we'll have CoPilot suggesting desktop videos based on stuff pulled from Recall soon. I can't wait.

So for a few days every year we need to get enough people to spritz a bit of WD40 into the air, which will get carried to the moon and protect it from rusting. Simple.

"MI6 launches honeypot for authoritarian regimes to watch and catch dissidents".

A competition between Microsoft devs and AI to create a "better product" would be like a competition between Stormtroopers who can't hit the side of a barn and Redshirts who always get killed in the first 30 seconds.

And the rest of it is pretty sensationalised as well, the non-death-ray-hype part is just good old-fashioned interference/jamming.

You're arguing with a Rust Flake there, I doubt it's worth the effort.

This would have actually been quite an interesting discussion topic if it wasn't for the 50% troll content.

You left out:

4) He's a troll who will argue anything with anyone just for the sake of it.

Which is most likely the case here.

I would ignore him, he's a troll who has no idea who he's arguing with.

In the sort of places where MISRA and similar coding guides apply, yes, never allocating memory is expected, because once dynamic allocation exists you can't guarantee that you won't die with an out-of-memory error and similarly can't guarantee any time bounds on how long an alloc and dealloc will take. That doesn't mean you can't have dynamically sized memory blocks, they just have to be drawn from a fixed-size arena and in a manner that guarantees constant-time performance, for example with a high-water-mark "allocator" that never deallocates.

It shouldn't be too hard to find out, we just need to fax someone in a nearby star system requesting a faxback of the details of any big explosions in the last 10,000 years. Then we can calculate how long it'll take for the light to reach us.

Nonono, it's legit, just that someone mixed up the script for an Iron Sky sequel with a real news story.

There was a story in the Evening Standard some years ago about an unearthed Blitz bomb that, as it was unearthed, started ticking. Made in Germany: 70 years later after being buried all that time it still worked.

Actually it's not even that, they cheated. There was a funny paper published recently that used a dog to outperform quantum computers in factorizing.