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Gary Shewan

Gary Shewan

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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)

Snowflake taking it seriously

June is going to be an interesting month. At the end of the week we saw two huge breaches. Ticketmaster and Santander. Over the weekend they are being linked to the Snowflake platform (Santander not confirmed). Snowflake have immediately engaged Mandiant and Crowdstrike to help investigate and a joint statement

Recall is still bad

Interesting read on Microsoft’s Copilot+ Recall feature. I think I would turn this off in Corporate builds if they insist on releasing it. Recall: Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible.Photographic memory comes to Windows, and is the biggest

Appoint an unqualified CISO?

There’s potentially a controversial discussion here. I don’t know this Senator. I remember from the TikTok hearings I don’t actually trust too many Senators. Some seem a bit mad. Senator lambasts UnitedHealth for picking ‘unqualified’ CISOSimilar cases have resulted in serious sanctions, and they were on a

Meta at it again

I gave up any Meta accounts a while ago. Partly because they’re quite despicable, but also because…it’s just adverts. But this is a really ‘unusual’ way of complying with EU privacy requirements if you want to opt out of Meta using your data for training their GenAI.

A Year of building with LLMs

This is not a short read but could be an interesting series. It will be split into tactical, operational and strategic. This is the tactical part. What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part I)O’Reilly MediaEugene Yan, Bryan Bischof, Charles Frye, Hamel Husain, Jason Liu,

Ticketmaster breached

Half a billion users? Eesh. If confirmed that’s near enough top 10 for biggest data breaches. Ticketmaster hacked. Breach affects more than half a billion users.Emails, phone numbers, addresses, and even financial details have allegedly been exposed by a notorious hacker group.MashableMatt Binder It’s only potentially