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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

Always about costs

Tech is cool, but It’s always about costs. Often missing from a lot of conversations. Salesforce eyes pricing per AI conversationBenioff sees ‘very high margin opportunity’ in bid to ‘monetize’ productivity gainsThe RegisterLindsay Clark Investors concerned efficiencies will result in fewer seat sales. Benioff (CEO) likes PPC (‘Pay Per

Be careful of bias

Do you have a home voice assistant? Alexa, Siri or Google Assistant? I heard the argument raging in the kitchen from my home office. Herself wanted a light turning on, Siri was quite insistent in asking how long the timer should be. Neither was budging and tempers (on one side)

I'm happy in Fortress Europe

This is a good example of how Big Tech is, a bit of a mess. Zuckerberg (Meta) and Ek (Spotify) co-wrote an op-ed for the Economist on why ‘Europe should embrace open source AI’. The link is here if you have a subscription. Mark Zuckerberg and Daniel Ek on why

LLM's are crap

In security you can’t block and ban everything people do. That would be silly. So you need to also rely on education and awareness. A German Journalist - I’m not going to name him for reasons which will become obvious - was interested in how his work was

Big Tech Bullshit

No clever or witty commentary from me on this, it’s some kind of bullsh*t that this is allowed to happen and is taken advantage of: Bloomberg - Are you a robot?Bloomberg “Companies are buying credits called unbundled renewable energy certificates (RECs) that can make it seem that

Network effects?

I’d like to call this reading around the network effects, but the pseudo-science of economics has taken that phrase. I’ve linked a chunky but interesting read from ‘Yale Climate Connections’ below. Interesting takes for the insurance industry and food industry. I’d like to read a similar analysis

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