An internal Microsoft strategy document says that the plan for its just-announced “Scout” personal assistant AI is to “make people addicted” to the tool before rolling out additional functionality.
The document notes that “security and compliance” are important things to figure out moving forward.
Air to Ground Message:
ATC CANT GET US IN HIT BINGO FUEL GOING TO MDT
Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Type: Embraer ERJ-145XR
A: #a80075a242f
F: #fa4b41a855f
NEWS: The money behind Trump Tower in Tbilisi, Georgia, comes from a sprawling network of online casinos accused of illicit activity.
A crazy exclusive story from The Newsground: https://thenewsground.com/developers-of-trump-tower-georgia-operate-a-vast-network-of-online-gambling-companies/
From LB: "In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike....
The Foundation has spent twenty years telling donors it is not like other tech companies. The union drive is the moment when that claim either becomes true or admits it was always marketing." https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943
AI is going great -
coworker is saying the AI bot pulled a slack message from 1.5 years ago to follow up on as an "outstanding task."
In a Wednesday blog post, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins announced layoffs of 4,000 employees (5% staff) so that the company can spend more on AI and cybersecurity. He also touted Cisco's "record revenue" and "double-digit growth."
Robbins' total executive compensation is ~$52 million for 2025.
That says more about Wall Street's low expectations than it does about the strength of those numbers, which are only maybe half of what they should be.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@iampytest1/116535285225955313
The outage page states:
Canvas is currently undergoing scheduled maintenance
Infrastructure's status page says Canvas, Canvas Beta, and Canvas Test are unavailable, but does not list a reason.
313 Team's message was posted minutes after Canvas went down.
Kevin Beaumont
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ACARS Drama
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John Mark Ockerbloom
kajer :unknown:
Zack Whittaker
Dave Wilburn 
iam-py-test 
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