Asimov’s three laws — updated for the genAI age
Maybe what we really need are three laws governing how enterprise IT should use genAI.
Law One: “IT Directors may not injure their enterprise employers by not verifying genAI or agentic output before using it.”
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Vendors officially voted today/Friday to sharply slash how long website certs last. IT is going to be pressured to use a lot more automation for these certs… Due to a vote from companies that sell those services.
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Matt Mullenweg says WordPress 99 percent cutback designed to pressure WP engine to withdraw its lawsuit.
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The push for Web security CERT acceleration is absolutely not about what they say it is about.
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imagine if people went to retailers and just took stuff and called it "generative shopping" and then, when the retailers said that's illegal, people said "regular shopping is too expensive so we have disrupted it" and then the retailers were like "OH! Carry on, innovators!"
Volkswagen data breach due to improperly protected AWS credentials. And that was only one of about a half dozen errors that the massive car manufacturer made.
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What is the arguably biggest security threat to the enterprise that CISOs and CIOs don't care about? The seemingly innocuous browser.
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A deep look into the most likely causes behind Macy's $154 million hidden accounting mess. And what CIOs can do to try and avoid suffering the same fate.
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New document shows how easily how easily the FBI can now cut through various secrecy and privacy efforts.
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Rite Aid banned from using facial recognition because it was using crappy facial recognition. Every so often, justice does happen.
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After hearing from quite a few enterprise IT execs complain about the process of finding an appropriate GenAI partner, I compiled their gripes in my column. And let a few folk suggest better approaches. www.computerworld.com/article/3711...
Been there, swiped that.
Gosh, shouldn't fortunetellers have been able to predict this? You don't think they might not possibly be legitimate fortunetellers, do you?
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New accounting rules kick in in January and it will mean a lot more cybersecurity trained accountants. What does this mean for enterprise CISOs? That depends on who you ask.
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What is the source on that? How do I see the list for the states that were not given a topping, such as New Jersey?
Maybe the number he was referencing was zero? Zero is absolutely a number and Nate is certainly a numbers guy.
Isn't that what robot overlords are always supposed to do in science-fiction?
Nasty bug discovered in widely used Linux utility curl and patches already rolled out.
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Say what you will about the Google cloud team, but for them to be able to mitigate this massive a D-DOS attack is impressive. This is triply true because the attack was so much larger than anyone had ever seen. How they were prepped to handle that is amazing.
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Is Target lying about the reasons it is closing some stores? And has most of the media fallen for their lie? This story raises some specially interesting questions.
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And in Europe, the inevitable happens. Happy Thursday, Amazon and Microsoft. Note to IT: this might help greatly with cloud negotiations.
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A tiny gray tabby kitten is wearing a witch’s hat and sitting next to a (possibly Photoshopped) Jack-o-lantern. The caption says “It’s October 1st. It’s spooky time.”
I wait all year to post this. 🎃
Intel makes a rather impressive generative AI claim. “A new Intel chip due in December will be able to run a generative artificial intelligence chatbot on a laptop rather than having to tap into cloud data centers.”
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GPT-4 has mastered the art of lying. better yet, it has figured out a way to justify lying. Gosh, how could this possibly turn out poorly?
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A court sentence of 11,196 years for crypto fraud? A good lawyer could have gotten him a sentence half as long. Sheesh!
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