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Data centres need a lot of power

Hmm. So this is interesting reading as I was mulling this over earlier this week The answer to AI’s energy needs could be blowing in the windCan offshore wind farms feed power-hungry AI data centers?The Verge AI needs a lot of power so we use wind farms…simple.

Do better

Brute forcing 5000 requests per minute for 3 weeks, to scrape 49 million names and addresses after getting approved for the partner portal by trying ‘several different names’. Sending multiple emails to say there was an issue before it was patched. Threat actor says he scraped 49M Dell customer addresses

More women for Tech's future

This is an important point. It was actually something we were discussing today during a UK IT Leaders weekly call. The Power of Diversity: Why We Need More Women Shaping Tech’s FutureImagine a room buzzing with creativity, a hub of brilliant minds tackling the world’s toughest problems. But

Dial up the drama

The drama always gets turned up to eleven* for things like this. I suppose ‘MoD hacked!’ is a better headline than service provider breached. MoD data breach: State involvement cannot be ruled out in armed forces hack, says Grant ShappsThe details of serving Army, RAF and Navy personnel are involved,

Underwater Bitbarns

Fun fact: my Masters degree is in Marine Science. I once hand fed a shark, that was quite cool. Undersea datacenter biz offers 90-day trialTesting platform for those ‘unfamiliar with the subsea environment’The RegisterDan Robinson I’m fascinated by these underwater data centres. It’s been talked about for

Marriot held to account?

Remember the Marriot breach back in 2018? Details of 500 million guests were exposed over a period of four years. I remember it because I’d been a Starwood guest during the time so after a lot of swearing I did some checks to see what card details I would

Crazy email

You see a lot of memes about the EV Fella on LinkedIn. Visionary, disruptor etc (some might say…) I read the below and thought of working transformation projects or PE carve outs. Imagine getting an email like that? Cue emergency meetings and a lot of ‘Wth?’ thinking. Read the wild

Microsoft push on security

This is quite good from Microsoft - what was needed after the CISA report. Especially the ‘six prioritized security pillars’. Nadella put out a pretty good memo as well. Read Satya Nadella’s Microsoft memo on putting security firstNadella doesn’t want Microsoft employees making security tradeoffs.The Verge The

AI and Bias

A good few years ago I put a job description I’d wrote through a tool to analyse the gender bias in the words and narrative. One of the guys in HR suggested it as he’d been using it. I can never remember the name of the tool, but