Here is the area you’ll find things I have written that I consider “news-worthy”, although just because it isn’t here doesn’t mean it isn’t news-worthy. There are only so many hours in a day after all… 24 allegedly.
August 8, 2024
So, after tens of thousands of Windows PCs running enterprise-level anti-malware software got taken down by, erm, the anti-malware software to the extent that every machine required manual intervention, CrowdStrike, the vendor of said anti-malware software has published a report detailing what caused this embarrassing (for them) incident…https://www.crowdstrike.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Channel-File-291-Incident-Root-Cause-Analysis-08.06.2024.pdf12 pages of politician-level flim-flam to describe the […]
June 30, 2024
A supply-chain attack by the new owners of the polyfill.io domain and project injected malware into over 100,000 websites recently.The new owner of the project is Chinese and the original creator of the project posted the following on X/Twitter:Polyfills for those that don’t know are ways of adding features to older browsers that are natively […]
May 14, 2023
The last three years have demonstrated that some of the humans can be overly credulous, believing anything as long as an authoritative-sounding voice says it. This unfortunate tendency to embrace what could reasonably be described as obvious abject nonsense has been around for quite some time, and recent events are seemingly a culmination thus far […]
June 6, 2021
An article posted on 3rd June 2021 on a website dedicated to “human-centric” AI news, whatever that is, waxes very slightly lyrical about a new “multi-modal AI system” in China called “Wu Dao”.This is apparently Big News because it can do more than one thing. Amazing. Oh and it’s “huge”. The AI model was trained […]
