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Gary Shewan

Gary Shewan

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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

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

Think of the end

I’m curious. When going through the IT RFP/Vendor selection process you obviously cover contract termination, but how many people ask ‘What if I want to move to a different Vendor?’ What are the technical steps? What are any additional costs? How long will it take? Use a competitor