I have something different for today. I came across this quiz whilst trying to write an article earlier this week – it had nothing to do with the article, it was just diversion therapy. Once I had completed the quiz – I’ll not share my score – I thought it …
More on an AI risk and an extinction event
AI risk what is it? This is a follow-up to last weekend’s more extensive post looking at the AI extinction event that was making headlines in the mainstream media. If we’re going to label AI an ‘extinction risk’, we need to clarify how it could happen (theconversation.com) Professor Nello Cristianini, …
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Because It’s Friday – Did you see that on Mars?
We are back to space this week – but not looking at a NASA mission or amazing images from a space telescope. No this week we are going to look at “life on Mars”! I came across this site whilst researching stories for Smart Thinking this week. I could not …
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Minimise the Damage – Planning and Preparation – Ransomware Part 3*
I have a companion article to this one to this one looking at the planning and preparation needed if you are not plugged in! Pull the Plug: But I haven’t got a plug! In my previous ransomware article, in this mini-series, we had a quick look at some spanners and …
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Even the biggest suppliers have outages
Microsoft’s Outlook.com email service has been and is suffering a series of outages that is impacting it’s users. This is not a common service used by business, however we do have some clients, who have a need to use this type of service ( I am not sure if they …
Practice Drinking Coffee* better known as Planning and Preparation
Sorry, this is not a coffee* appreciation article it is an article about planning and preparation for an incident. Planning and Preparation = Good Governance Businesses and organisations need a cyber security policy and a plan covering what they do to mitigate the risk of an incident and what they …
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Because It’s Friday – bringing two of my favourite Friday themes together…
Here is something from Scott Adams, to make you smile at the end of the week. It brings together coffee and artificial intelligence: Ai Based On Wally – Dilbert Comic Strip on 2022-11-02 | Dilbert by Scott Adams The cartoon got me thinking – kill the AI – which reminded …
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