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Gary Shewan

Gary Shewan

📍 UK

Lawyers - be careful

Last thing before I enjoy the Bank Holiday weekend. This is too timely and incredible after my last post. A cautious tale - be wary of technology trends. A lawyer in a Federal appeal case in the US used ChatGPT for legal research. It made up cases…which were then

Databricks launch Free Dolly

I’ve been metaphorically rolling my eyes quite a bit when in discussions about AI recently (or to be more precise LLMs), because the hype cycle is super strong right now. This is REALLY interesting from Databricks though. They’ve released Dolly 2.0 as an open source LLM for

Compliance failure at FTX

A nice relaxing holiday weekend coming to an end. I read the interim report from the team looking at the failure of FTX and associated businesses. Great thread by Molly White on Mastodon if you’re on there. But here it is, 43 pages: Now, I don’t hide the

Cloud and SaaS strategy

This an interesting article. A lot of the Tech World seems to be going through a “Oh look at the shiny thing!” with AI at the moment. Its going to help us search ‘better’, and ‘produce things better’. Cost and Quality are not really covered in too much detail (unless

Learning a language

Being multilingual is a superpower (imo). I’ve consistently worked with people that have 3 or 4 languages which, when I was younger, just embarrassed me. Still does tbh. A wee while ago I decided to do something about it. It was harder before the Pandemic. A lot of quick

When you leave

Not a great time for Big Tech who seem to be having a herd mentality moment - hiring (pandemic) and now large layoffs. Some of the stories are awful and it’s not making people feel like human beings. Finding out by losing access? Sigh I’m sorry if you’

Twitter report and SRE

The Twitter Whistleblower Report given by Peiter “Mudge” Zatko makes horrifically fascinating reading. You can read it here, all 84 pages. It’s from August but highlights include: * No SDLC or separate development environments * Not possible to secure production environments * No device management or backups * No privileged access management/control

Protect your phone from thieves

This was an interesting article. I followed on Twitter the other week as Charlotte Morgan told of her phone and wallet being stolen from the gym and the thieves managed to siphon her bank account. It was confusing. Face ID, so how did that happen?? It’s happened to a

Potential new data laws

The Sun and heatwave seem to have left the North. I think I was on a video call and missed it. My mood has not improved by reading the Governments initial response on new Data Laws. New data laws to boost British business, protect consumers and seize the benefits of

The longest Atlassian Outage

Quite a sobering read and something to bear in mind when you consider ‘Plan B’ for SaaS applications. 10 days later and only 49% of those impacted have ‘functionality’ restored. A bit of a Black Swan event but I’ll certainly think about it when considering resilience. The Scoop: Inside