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The operator’s social “experiment” has all the scientific value of an angry person at a drive-thru McDonalds goading a child into shouting and throwing food at the employee.

The simplest explanation is often the best. He was attacked by... attacked by... the meat bag! Here’s how: A Meat bag submits a PR and feels slighted the rejection. “This approver …

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A CSB safety video on the agency's investigation into the massive April 8, 2021, explosion and fire that fatally injured one worker at the Yenkin-Majestic Paint Corporation facilit…

“These agents can attend meetings, edit documents, communicate via email and chat, and perform tasks autonomously. Redmond will sell these “agentic users” in the “M365 Agent Store”…

The marketing has 100% shifted to the creation of workloads using “Agents”. Presumably the hyperscalers can begin conflating the number of “agents” created with “boring jobs elimin…

I like the cut of this jibe.

What are some ways to avoid common methological pitfalls when generating test cases for "groundedness" benchmarks with automation? Confirmation bias is one obvious pitfall that com…

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That’s my understanding. In a pure implementation, the same level of trust is implied (absolutely none at all) whether a device is connecting to a resource from the public internet…

There are four different micro-segmentation variations in the NIST reference guide: device-agent/gateway, enclaves, resource portals, and application sandboxing. Basically a policy…

Microsoft’s version of “Zero Trust” doesn’t care if things are reachable from the public internet. They have been preaching “identity is the new perimeter” [1] for years, and it do…

The terms “Cognitive decline” or “brain rot” may have sounded too sensational, and to be fair the authors note the limitations of the small sample size. Indeed the paper doesn’t pr…

Another reason to be worried by Microsoft’s Azure security guidelines which state “Identity is the new perimeter”. Well, the perimeter is not a gate but a cattle guard, and I am no…

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