Tag: failures
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The Register: Europe’s largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco for 10 months
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/11/birmingham_oracle_auditors/ Source: The Register Title: Europe’s largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco for 10 months Feedly Summary: It took a whistleblower to expose disastrous ERP go-live Birmingham City Council did not tell its official auditors about the disastrous Oracle implementation for ten months after the suite of applications…
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The Register: Allstate Insurance sued for delivering personal info on a platter, in plaintext, to anyone who went looking for it
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/allstate_sued_pii_exposure/ Source: The Register Title: Allstate Insurance sued for delivering personal info on a platter, in plaintext, to anyone who went looking for it Feedly Summary: Crooks built bots to exploit astoundingly bad quotation website and made off with data on thousands New York State has sued Allstate Insurance for operating websites so…
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Slashdot: Will an ‘AI Makeover’ Help McDonald’s?
Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/09/070211/will-an-ai-makeover-help-mcdonalds Source: Slashdot Title: Will an ‘AI Makeover’ Help McDonald’s? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: McDonald’s is leveraging AI and edge computing to enhance operations across its 43,000 restaurants by implementing technologies like AI-enabled drive-throughs and internet-connected kitchen equipment. Partnering with Google Cloud, McDonald’s aims to utilize local computing power…
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Krebs on Security: Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks
Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/feds-link-150m-cyberheist-to-2022-lastpass-hacks/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks Feedly Summary: In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022. In…
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Hacker News: Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata
Source URL: https://google-research.github.io/self-organising-systems/difflogic-ca/?hn Source: Hacker News Title: Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This text discusses a novel approach integrating Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) with Deep Differentiable Logic Networks (DLGNs) to create a hybrid model called DiffLogic CA. This model aims to learn local rules within cellular automata…
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Cloud Blog: Introducing built-in performance monitoring for Vertex AI Model Garden
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/performance-monitoring-and-alerts-for-gen-ai-models-on-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Introducing built-in performance monitoring for Vertex AI Model Garden Feedly Summary: Today, we’re announcing built-in performance monitoring and alerts for Gemini and other managed foundation models – right from Vertex AI’s homepage. Monitoring the performance of generative AI models is crucial when building lightning-fast, reliable, and scalable applications.…
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Cloud Blog: Forrester study reveals significant benefits and cost savings with Spanner
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/forrester-tei-study-on-spanner-shows-benefits-and-cost-savings/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Forrester study reveals significant benefits and cost savings with Spanner Feedly Summary: Is your legacy database sticking you with rising costs, frustrating downtime, and scalability challenges? For organizations that strive for top performance and agility, legacy database systems can become significant roadblocks to innovation. But there’s good news.…
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CSA: AI Gone Wild: Why Shadow AI Is Your Worst Nightmare
Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/blog/2025/03/04/ai-gone-wild-why-shadow-ai-is-your-it-team-s-worst-nightmare Source: CSA Title: AI Gone Wild: Why Shadow AI Is Your Worst Nightmare Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the emerging risks associated with “shadow AI,” where employees use unsanctioned AI tools without IT knowledge, leading to potential data breaches, compliance failures, and security vulnerabilities. It provides…
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Hacker News: Evals are not all you need
Source URL: https://www.marble.onl/posts/evals_are_not_all_you_need.html Source: Hacker News Title: Evals are not all you need Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text critiques the use of evaluations (evals) for assessing AI systems, particularly large language models (LLMs), arguing that they are inadequate for guaranteeing performance or reliability. It highlights various limitations of evals,…