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| Field | InfoSec-GRC |
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116296836571133176
Well it's a good thing they aren't already at historic levels of lobbyist spending for the midterms this fall, could you imagine the damage of a misinformed electorate only exposed to an echo chamber of falsehoods?
OMG, y'all will never believe this, but evidently Microsoft misled federal investigators. Oh how the fallen have, um, remained consistent.
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-cloud-fedramp-cybersecurity-government
A federal program created to protect the government against cyber threats authorized a sprawling Microsoft cloud product, despite the company’s inability to fully explain how it protects sensitive data.
I first flipped to Mac OSX when Windows first released XP. I wanted to start learning more about *nix systems.
In the last few months they have burned every ounce of goodwill I ever had. And you shouldn’t pay a premium if a company is going to act as shitty as everyone else.
https://www.makeuseof.com/apple-is-bringing-google-style-ads/
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Negahyphen/116234548604154417
Because here's the thing: if companies were planning large scale reductions in workforce and NOT currently working to reduce CRE budgets, their officers as well as board of directors could all be subject to serious legal action from shareholders/investors for grotesque financial malfeasance. Identifying a significant, even existential risk like material losses due to real estate investment exposure then failure to in any meaningful way respond or attempt to mitigate that risk? Oh yeah that's a paddlin'.
You know... let's just tear off the bandaid and admit that the vast majority of the #ai marketing promises are a lie, and the entire business community knows it. And I can pretty much prove it when it comes to corporate America:
If all of these businesses believed they would let go of 25% of their staff in the next five years, or 60% in ten, they NEVER would have started #RTO efforts. Even if they weren't on the AI train back then, they would not be renewing leases or building offices right now. They would all be trying to offload all corporate real estate as fast as possible to reduce expected losses, and encouraging full time remote work from anywhere in the country to encourage people to be FURTHER from offices to reduce risk of disgruntled employee action.
Since that isn't happening, for all of the noise the hucksters are making, we know that large-scale workforce reduction is not currently in the #strategicplanning for anyone.
At this point if Jeanine Pirro wants to return to talking about law on television, it’s more accurate to describe her as a judicial victim than expert. This ruling is utterly humiliating for her as a legal professional, and deserved for her failure to adhere to professional ethics.
https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2026mc0012-23
#Anthropic once promised us they would halt models if they lost faith in their ability to control them. The Pentagon forced them to drop that and other guardrails under thread of cancelling contract.
My money is still on Open.AI becoming the Enron of the era but knowing every model is now all gas, no breaks, towards bleak and unprepared futures? I think all of us in technology or who were around for the most recent financial crisis know the damage will be done by then and it is currently incalculable.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/tech/anthropic-safety-policy-change
#TuneTuesday
John Cale - Dying on the Vine. Off his 1985 work, "Artificial Intelligence"
