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Sophos laying it on the table

This is a good thing to bookmark and read Sophos have released a report covering their five year research into Chinese groups attempting to hack their devices. Sophos’ Pacific Rim: Defense Against Nation-state HackersDiscover Sophos’ Pacific Rim defense against nation-state / Chinese hackers Volt Typhoon, APT31, and APT41 targeting critical infrastructure.

2024 will be a record year?

2024 on track to be a record year for ransomware payments. Brill. 2024 looks set to be another record-breaking year for ransomware — and it’s likely going to get worse | TechCrunchThis year, 2024, looks set to be the most profitable yet for hackers, with four ransom demands paid in the

What are these guys smoking?

A couple of decades ago I remember sitting in a bar in Maine (US) with a good friend. We came up with a perfect plan. We'd work in the Corporate world for a while to save some money. Then we'd buy a car and drive to

Data Quality will keep you honest

It’s always been about data quality. This was an interesting read about the 'State of AI'. Enterprise deployments and overall ROI are down (slipped from 56.7 percent to 47.3 percent for deployed projects). 2024 State of AI: Trends & Industry Insights | AppenExplore the latest AI

Just call me Gandalf

I’ve given this advice a few times on career progression in Tech: there comes a time when you face a fork in the proverbial road. You either specialise or go down the leadership route. With the leadership route there’s a really good chance you’ll lose ‘hands-on’ technical

LLM's can't reason

New study by a team of Apple Researchers on LLMs: “We hypothesize that this decline is due to the fact that current LLMs are not capable of genuine logical reasoning; instead, they attempt to replicate the reasoning steps observed in their training data. When we add a single clause that

Data Hell

One for my data, software engineering and architect pals. Get Me Out Of Data Hell — LudicityLudicity “…and the Lambda functions that produce all of this — of course, we’re serverless, because how can you hurt yourself without a cutting-edge?” Ohhhh you can make quite a funny noise when you laugh

You have to own it

“LinkedIn, however, has taken its denial of responsibility a step further: it will hold users responsible for sharing any policy-violating misinformation created by its own AI tools.” LinkedIn: If our AI gets it wrong, that’s your problemArtificial intelligence still no substitute for the real thingThe RegisterThomas Claburn At first

Some good questions

It’s Cyber Security Awareness Month (The WORST acronym…ever, Marketers are eye-rolling and weeping. If they aren’t, somebody needs to have a quiet word) Strangely I’m interested in seeing where the marketing does go on this. ‘It’s [I’m not typing it again] so be aware

AI gets carried away

If you’ve ever had to introduce processes into an SME or high growth business, you’ll know it’s never universally embraced with joy. Change control, asset management, risk registers etc. “Why? We’re doing fine” When it all goes wrong - that’s a great learning moment. Not