Digital Transformation = Agile + APIs + AppSec
Security Architect at the Public Health Agency of Canada. Formerly TBS Cyber security & part of the team that launched the Canadian Digital Service.
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According to recent research from McKinsey & Company, nearly eight in 10 companies have reported using generative A.I., but just as many have reported “no significant bottom-line impact.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/business/ai-business-payoff-lags.html
"The House of Commons and Canada's cybersecurity agency are investigating a significant data breach caused by an unknown "threat actor" targeting employee information."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/house-of-commons-data-breach-1.7608061
“Slopsquatting” in a nutshell:
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/
Software architecture is evolving, and it’s finally prioritizing developer experience. Avraam Tolmidis explains how treating architecture as a product leads to systems that actually work for devs.
8 Things to Know About New Research on Earth’s Rapid Drying and the Loss of Its Groundwater
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Decades of NASA satellite data reveal how quickly the planet’s underground stores of fresh water have been depleted and how their use is contributing to rising sea levels. Here are the key takeaways.
https://www.propublica.org/article/groundwater-fresh-water-depletion-research-science-advances-takeaways?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Science #Climate #Environment #ClimateChange #Water #NASA #Data
Decades of NASA satellite data reveal how quickly the planet’s underground stores of fresh water have been depleted and how their use is contributing to rising sea levels. Here are the key takeaways.
If the focus is narrowed to "will a screen reader properly identify this thing" alt text on a picture of text is probably equivalent.
If the scope is a little broader, the benefits are clearer:
Being able to have signature blocks that work for small screens, that change languages along with the rest of the text on the page, whose text scales along with everything else when you zoom, that works nicely with dark mode...
I think the accessibility is icing on that cake.
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