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Gary Shewan

Gary Shewan

📍 UK

Some types of 'churn' is not good

Churn, tenure and retention are some of the things I track when leading a team. I always think it’s a tricky one to look at. You don’t want things to stagnate, you want people to grow. But some are happy doing their role. But my word I’ve

Will it be a bust?

An interesting read. Covello is the same age as me. I remember the dotcom boom [thousand yard stare]. I had to do merchant card processing risk assessments [four thousand yard stare]. Will A.I. Be a Bust? A Wall Street Skeptic Rings the Alarm.Jim Covello, Goldman Sachs’s head

Another 'Big Short'

This is a long read, but encapsulates my fears. It’s always about the money. The Subprime AI CrisisNone of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or “hating,” but a sober evaluation of where we are today and where we may end up on the current

TFL with a lot of password resets

It took a while for this to hit a news site. I don’t like posting things if I can’t link to something. TfL requires in-person password resets for 30,000 employees after hack Transport for London (TfL) says that all staff (roughly 30,000 employees) must attend in-person

Data Centres as CNI

It’s an obvious and interesting move to bring data centres under the Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) designation. I read the article on BBC News and noticed: “However there will not be any new regulations, nor is additional scrutiny of data centre operators’ existing contingency arrangements planned.” Data centres as

Tick, tick, tick...

Someone tricked ChatGPT into giving them instructions on how to build a homemade fertiliser bomb. Brill. Hacker tricks ChatGPT into giving out detailed instructions for making homemade bombs | TechCrunchAn explosives expert told TechCrunch that the ChatGPT output could be used to make a detonatable product and was too sensitive to

Trough of Disillusionment

Is this Gartner encouraging the ‘Trough of Disillusionment‘ in their own AI hype cycle? Or just plain old common sense that it’s increasingly hard to ignore? We’re in the brute force phase of AI when GPUs are neededGartner thinks generative AI is right for only five percent of

'Automation Bias' is interesting

‘Automation Bias’ is an interesting concept. Can I suggest that those of us deep into technology - know technology and therefore distrust technology (been there, seen it, done it, suffered because of it etc). But that doesn’t apply to all: “When the AI provided an incorrect result, researchers found

Open source and Cyber Essentials Plus

“What if you wanted to run open source software, but gain or maintain Cyber Essentials Plus?” That was an interesting question. Especially in the context of having potential alternatives to Big Player software. My initial thought was surely it’d be bloody painful and just not worth it? NCSC seem

Wild Navy read

This is a wild read. How Navy chiefs conspired to get themselves illegal warship Wi-FiA scathing Navy investigation reveals how USS Manchester’s enlisted leaders endangered their ship with an unauthorized Starlink Wi-Fi setup.Navy TimesDiana Correll You can have ALL the security infrastructure, access management, policies, logging and monitoring