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Gary Shewan

Gary Shewan

📍 UK

The sound of online trackers

A core problem when explaining technology to normal people. How do you get across what can be a complex problem or issue easily and succinctly so folk can understand? It takes practice. Explaining privacy, data trackers, data brokers, data flow, cookies, legislation etc could easily be boring (so very easy)

CloudNordic goes under

How bad can ransomware be? Last year the Danish cloud hosting company CloudNordic suffered a particularly vicious attack. Danish cloud host says customers ‘lost all data’ after ransomware attack | TechCrunchCloudNordic said a ransomware attack destroyed customer data on its servers, including primary and secondary backups.TechCrunchZack Whittaker Eight months later

Change Healthcare Hack

Some details of the Change Healthcare hack have leaked. Access via compromised credentials on a remote access system - that didn’t have MFA. Dwell time nine days. (Total cost for this they are estimating at $1.35 - $1.6 billion, $872m already realised) “Lawmakers have raised questions about

The UN chooses Element

The United Nations has chosen a UK based organisation for its communications. Not Big Tech. Element and I’m surprised to say I’ve not come across them before. The United Nations ditches Big Tech in a bid for securityUNICC has chosen Element to secure its communicationsTechRadar proChiara Castro Secure,

Vendor lock-in

Debatably a dramatic headline. But the same issue for the UK Government as well. Also the same issue for businesses. Why Microsoft is a national security threatWith little competition at the goverment level, Windows giant has no incentive to make its systems saferThe RegisterBrandon Vigliarolo You should definitely have the

'Women who code' closing

This is disappointing. ‘Women Who Code” is shutting down due to lack of funding. I agree with what Tim Cook once said “There are no good excuses” for the lack of women in the sector. Women Who Code - Empowering women to excel in tech careersWomen Who Code is on

Impossible to find things

I’m going to predict that an ability to source and evaluate accurate information (critically) is going to become one of the most popular and crucial things to check when hiring people. No matter the role. I wanted to search for some information on Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU). It’

LLM Quality degradation and collapse

Some interesting links for more technical pals. Any discussion probably better at a roundtable/conference as I can’t find answers. Or maybe there are clever people to follow? Thinking in terms of Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - so we’re in risk management territory not software development…you

Being Verified and Privacy

As a much younger man (I think I still had hair colour) I went on a speed reading course. Company sent me. I approached it as I did a lot of courses at that age…suspicious. But it was really good. I started to be a bit more open minded.

Another Big Short

Ed Zitron wrote a well researched, no-holds barred, non-technical opinion piece on the current state of AI. Have We Reached Peak AI?Last week, the Wall Street Journal published a 10-minute-long interview with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, with journalist Joanna Stern asking a series of thoughtful yet straightforward questions that