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Gary Shewan

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Someone tricked ChatGPT into giving them instructions on how to build a homemade fertiliser bomb. Brill. Hacker tricks ChatGPT into giving out detailed instructions for making homemade bombs | TechCrunchAn explosives expert told TechCrunch that the ChatGPT output could be used to make a detonatable product and was too sensitive to

Data Centres as CNI

It’s an obvious and interesting move to bring data centres under the Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) designation. I read the article on BBC News and noticed: “However there will not be any new regulations, nor is additional scrutiny of data centre operators’ existing contingency arrangements planned.” Data centres as

Trough of Disillusionment

Is this Gartner encouraging the ‘Trough of Disillusionment‘ in their own AI hype cycle? Or just plain old common sense that it’s increasingly hard to ignore? We’re in the brute force phase of AI when GPUs are neededGartner thinks generative AI is right for only five percent of

'Automation Bias' is interesting

‘Automation Bias’ is an interesting concept. Can I suggest that those of us deep into technology - know technology and therefore distrust technology (been there, seen it, done it, suffered because of it etc). But that doesn’t apply to all: “When the AI provided an incorrect result, researchers found

Open source and Cyber Essentials Plus

“What if you wanted to run open source software, but gain or maintain Cyber Essentials Plus?” That was an interesting question. Especially in the context of having potential alternatives to Big Player software. My initial thought was surely it’d be bloody painful and just not worth it? NCSC seem

Wild Navy read

This is a wild read. How Navy chiefs conspired to get themselves illegal warship Wi-FiA scathing Navy investigation reveals how USS Manchester’s enlisted leaders endangered their ship with an unauthorized Starlink Wi-Fi setup.Navy TimesDiana Correll You can have ALL the security infrastructure, access management, policies, logging and monitoring

Why do AI projects fail then?

Good article by Jürgen Geuter: Why “AI” projects fail“By some estimates, more than 80 percent of AI projects fail—twice the rate of failure for information technology projects that do not involve AI.” – The Root Causes of Failure for Artificial Intelligence Projects and How They Can Succeed A study