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Diligence in the AI Era
AI has transformed technical diligence. What took weeks of painful access negotiations and siloed tooling now takes days. But a faster, broader report still lands on a desk, and someone experienced still has to decide what it means. The tools have changed. That part hasn’t.
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Ride of a life time
Dreaming opens up the doors to possibilities. If you don’t dream then you already close off paths not travelled. I dared to dream and I am about to embark on something even I couldn’t have imagined.
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Lack of transparency in AI pricing
AI users face challenges with unclear usage limits and billing practices, often leading to unexpected charges. Token-based pricing lacks transparency, complicating cost management. While some providers are introducing controls to mitigate expenses, there’s a need for clearer metrics akin to traditional utilities, allowing users to predict costs and optimize usage effectively.
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Audi unveils Mars rover-looking electric off-roader
Audi has teased the world at this years Frankfurt show, and by george, it looks fantastic. Changes of anything like this getting near production is next to zero, but let’s hope I proved wrong. Move over Tesla – the old vanguard has still some miles in it. The concept vehicle is called AI:TRAIL, and Audi uses it to communicate its vision of a future vehicle segment where a vehicle…
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Hands up who didn’t see this coming? FDA warns Juul for marketing e-cigs as safe
Anything you pump into your body, that let’s face it isn’t water, is going to have side effects – death being one of the harsher ones. The new e-cigarettes was somewhat wishful thinking by the industrial titans of health, (namely the tobacco industry) that this was their next product growth opportunity now that smoking was finally recognized as something that “may cause cancer”. The $38 billion e-cig company, partially owned…
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Over half a million active GPS trackers have ‘123456’ as default password
It is ridiculous that this is still happening in this day’n’age. We are not making it at all harder for the would-be hackers. Researchers have found serious security vulnerabilities in over 600,000 GPS trackers that may have exposed users data, including the exact real-time GPS coordinates. Source: Over half a million active GPS trackers have ‘123456’ as default password
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Productive Time Management
This week I played with the Pomodoro time management technique to see if it would improve throughput. Results are encouraging.
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My Top 2018 Movies
This year, I kept track via an IMDB list of all my viewing output, rating each one out of 10, as and when I watched it. While I tagged over 240 items, here are only the movies that, according to their IMDB rating was released in 2018. I confess to being surprised by some of my end-of-year results, but as they say, data doesn’t lie. The stand out movie, that…
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Amazon Lambda now accepting SQS events directly (nearly)
Amazon has closed the gap between Lambda and processing events directly from SQS, opening up a world of possibilities.
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The Gemini PDA 2018; hands on review
After a few weeks of usage, learn what makes this Psion revival a wonderful addition to the Android smartphone world
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3 simple guidelines to protect our ever connected ‘smart’ device universe
As we become more beholden to companies to keep our smart devices functioning long after purchase date, I propose 3 guidelines to address this imbalance and risk.
the legend that is, Alan Williamson
For over 24 years, I’ve shared my thoughts here on this blog whenever the muse strikes.
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