The day after the Brexit vote I stood in the coffee queue in my office and heard a young man tell his friend behind me that he voted to leave because he thought it was funny and wasn't taking it seriously. I felt like punching him. I hope he is one of the ones who regrets his vote now.

except rather than the performers suffering genetic defects, diabilities, injuries or faking it, these people are deliberately harming themselves for their own benefit and the entertainment of gouls.

Reddit suffers twice because of the number AI bots. First, auto generated posts and comments puts readers and commenters off, but worse for Reddit, it means that their human generated data which is viable for selling to AI companies is now mixed in with auto generated slop which reduces its value. Reddit needs to work out whether it's cheaper to improve filtering and removing auto-generated content or to put human verification controls.

I have resigned in disgust and disappointment from my last three professional jobs because of HR departments acting illegally. So no, I am not surprised that HR would miss this type of scam or, in fact, gladly take part in it.

Yes, thanks.

The CIA ruined international health organisations' attempts to vaccinate people in Pakistan, and elsewhere, after they faked a health visit to Sadam's compound in order to try to get blood samples from the inhabitants. It failed. When word got out that health helpers and doctors could be CIA agents many people refused to see them. Overall health suffered in those countries, mostly to the harmless elderly, children and incapacitated.

Just yesterday I was hunting for a fix to an annoying Firefox behaviour on Android where the browser reloads tabs every time you switch away from the tab to another tab or to another app. This was reported years ago and yet remains and almost makes Firefox on Android unusable.

There is a market for genuine items with mistakes. Look at currency and stamps with printing errors, they're very collectable. If I had one of the boards I'd keep it and use it but protect it so it stays in good condition and then watch if it becomes collectable and valuable in a few years.

... And listen to all the jokes about a Joby flying overhead ðY£

"Spiders on a Plane"... Good movie title but needs something more scary.

This is illegal in the UK. Having to pay an unspecified amount upfront to get favourable service at the expense of those who didn't pay the bribe.

These folks need to read their sci-fi and see the unintended consequences of poisoning AIs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

I can see people putting LEDs inside the tyres, that would look great and be good for visibly too.

The building company do like to publicise their erections https://big.dk/

This bullshit by the staff at a company where they should all know better, and where it's probably regulated and forbidden by law to allow production data in developer environment, is why I quit the IT security industry a year ago. No-one in these companies, or any in fact, gives a damn about good security.