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A collection of 34 issues

Dangers of Technology Consolidation

I’ve been reading a lot lately about how technology consolidation is possibly not a good thing. Looking more at a strategic view rather than having tunnel vision on a single product or service. I wonder if risk professionals are asleep or are just being ignored? IT infrastructure and software

Payoff from AI projects is dismal

An interesting report from Lucidworks: “Delays, Implementation Issues, and Unrealized Benefits Challenge Generative AI Initiatives in 2024” Delays, Implementation Issues, and Unrealized Benefits Challenge Generative AI Initiatives in 2024Only 1 in 4 companies have successfully launched AI initiatives in the past 12 months according to second annual generative AI survey

Ooo shiny things

In Technology we always used to think in 3-5 year cycles. Mostly because it involved hardware. It was very handy for total costing and giving a timeframe to determine what was next. To think in terms of a lifecycle. The age of Cloud and SaaS has turned that on its

Will LLM open source win?

I have always liked the original long form version of 'Jack of all trades'. I may not be a deep expert in a lot of things, but I'll learn enough to ask questions that are linked. I've been reading about Large Language Model (LLM)

Recall is insane

A few days ago I said ‘Wait and see’ about Microsoft’s announced Recall feature. Initial discussions were a bit too ‘Henny Penny’ for me. Sometimes it’s good to base things on facts. The security aspect is concerning. Snapshots seem to be protected only by disk encryption (which is

Words vs Deeds

Words and deeds, they count. If I don’t know you then that’s what I’m going to be looking for. It builds trust. Due diligence helps as well. (Unless you work in my team. Then it gets flipped around. You have trust immediately - it’s yours to

Recall is a bad idea

A few weeks ago I was quietly applauding Microsoft for a new focus on security. I suspect a test is imminent. Yesterday they introduced new laptops. Copilot+ with a feature called ‘Recall’ Microsoft wants to make Windows an AI operating system, launches Copilot+ PCs | TechCrunchMicrosoft unveiled a new lineup of

Excellent response by British Library

This would have been a good talk to listen to at CyberUK. Roly Keating (CEO of the British Library) explaining how bringing transparency and a little emotional intelligence into their communication following a ransomware attack became very important. British Library on why it kept it real in ransomware commsIt quickly

Smoke and mirrors

You may hear the term AGI. It stands for Artificial General Intelligence and its basically AI that matches or surpasses human capabilities across a wide range of tasks. Like any computer in a sci-fi movie. I put it in the same category as cold fusion, every crypto project (ever) and