The latest issue of The Crux is out: React2Shell, Cloudflare outages, Micron abandonment issues, price hikes, and neat HTML/CSS/SVG tricks that go boing. pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/change-...
The latest issue of The Crux is out: Solar-sensitive airplanes, suing your customers, beer malware, financial shenanigans and Special Coping Spoons. pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/solar-m...
The federal government has rolled out a new cloud policy www.digital.gov.au/cloud-policy
Sydney Water has estimated up to 250 megalitres a day will be needed to service datacentres planned by 2035, more than Canberra's entire drinking water.
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
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To fabricate a report with AI once, Deloitte, may be regarded as a misfortune. To do so twice looks like carelessness. theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
The latest issue of The Crux is out: Cloudflare joins the outagepalooza, Oracle underwater, more Salesforce breaches, SOPS for secrets, Pebble problems and open source grues. pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/load-be...
A new subscriber to my weekly newsletter #TheCrux emailed me to say how much they enjoyed it. It is always lovely to get that sort of email.
If someone makes a thing you like, do tell them. You will make their day.
Ignoring his prior acts, this is just a bat sh*t crazy thing to say.
It's textbook sunk cost bias.
I get so many reports about how businesses need to adopt AI quicker in Australia and the tone is becoming increasingly desperate.
It's due to a combination of factors, but two big ones are a) computers are terrible, and b) collections of humans are weird.
People who are agog at the BoM website rebuild costing more than they expect should remember that every IT project goes well over budget, especially if a consultancy is involved. Public or private sector, it doesn't matter.
Once or twice, e.g. www.righttoknow.org.au/request/busi... You want the business case, risk registers, and project status reports. They'll fight tooth and nail to keep it a secret, though.
Women and older career switchers are generally not even exposed to red team as an option of interest that they’d be good at using socialized skills, which is kinda crazy when the most ignored people in society who can pretty much walk in anywhere are older women. Instead we portray it like esports.
My retired consulting mining engineer father, who lived in Excel and Word, recently switched to LibreOffice on his own initiative because he got fed up with Microsoft's enshittification of everything.
Freedom from vs. freedom to.
The latest issue of The Crux is out: Samsung, SK Group, and other major South Korean corporations have pledged to invest billion of dollars in South Korea after South Korea arrived at a trade deal with the USA. pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/remembe...
I could not possibly be more fucking tired of hearing the word "agentic" on keynote stages
Maybe SoftBank hopes OpenAI can be the WeWork of WorldComs?
The latest issue of The Crux is out: Python donations, cyberslop, Microsoft backpedals, sharp Ansible edges, breaches galore, and a sad Line. pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/beware-...
"Creating and publishing software under an open source license is an act of contribution to the digital commons. Finding and publishing information about security issues in that software is also an act of contribution to the same commons." Maybe, but these contributions are not of equal value.
I'll be careful with these matches, sure. Perhaps the CEO of Oily Rag Warehouses Inc could reconsider outsourcing their helpdesk to Massive Incendiaries Limited, too.
Just got a podcast ad from the Australian government telling me to use a password manager. I am not the CISO of Qantas or Medibank or Optus, guys.
Anyway, you were saying something about threat modelling and risk analysis I believe?
