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What will people do?

In the open source software community tensions are beginning to rise because a lot of projects are being swamped with PRs right now. But it’s become very apparent, very quickly, that the PRs have come from AIs and the people submitting them cannot fully explain what it does or

Wants vs Needs

The good thing about hopes, dreams and ambitions is they can be limitless. The bad thing is that they meet reality eventually (dammit). I can have my super secure fridge with AI that’s built to stop hackers. This is the world’s most secure fridge - but it’s

Yes, but No

Well this is disappointing. Back in November Google Deepmind claimed to have an AI/ML tool that discovered over 2 million crystals including 380k stable materials ‘that could power future technologies’ I was not fond of Materials Science (I blame the lecturer, yawn) but I thought this was very cool

Browsers instead of Apps

I find myself using browsers rather than apps more and more nowadays (not Chrome though). Information security and privacy is always at the front of my mind - more so personally. An example - for the Trenitalia app I selected ‘Do not consent’ twice when I signed up. Three times

Meta and Privacy

I wonder if the Irish DPC will make the eyes of the DPCs in other Euro countries roll again? It does take an awfully long time to consider things. Meta offers lower cost for EU ad-free subscription under privacy review | TechCrunchMeta has proposed to drop the price of an ad-free

Beyond the hype

This is an interesting opinion piece, as it goes a little beyond the ‘You need to buy a monorail’ hype* Are Expectations For Gen AI Lower Than Planned?At least 90% of the POCs for gen AI that launched during 2023 will not make it to production in 2024. Yet,

British Library report on attack

Very interesting read. The British Library has released its report on their ransomware attack. Hit at the end of October last year and still recovering. Kudos to them for releasing this. Some key systems couldn’t be restored as they were just unsupported or just couldn’t be moved to

You should learn to code

The CEO of Nvidia at the end of last month claimed (again) that there was no need to learn to code. AI would take care of it. Unlike Jensen, I could code - a very long time ago. Oh I could have made money in the noughties if I still