Evan Schuman
Writer at Freelance
Contributing Columnist at Computerworld
Journalist, Columnist/Computerworld, Freelance writer.
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2 weeks ago |
businessandamerica.com | Evan Schuman
Then came search engine spiders. (Note: Spiders, browsers and crawlers are interchangeable. They are also all bots.) Sure, they ate up bandwidth, but again, the assumption was that search traffic would be beneficial — it brought in customers and new prospects. For the most part, search spiders respected robots.txt instructions about which sites they could visit and which pages on those sites they could crawl.
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2 weeks ago |
computerworld.com | Evan Schuman
Enterprise IT leaders are becoming uncomfortably aware that generative AI (genAI) technology is still a work in progress and buying into it is like spending several billion dollars to participate in an alpha test— not even a beta test, but an early alpha, where coders can barely keep up with bug reports. For people who remember the first three seasons of Saturday Night Live, genAI is the ultimate Not-Ready-for-Primetime algorithm.
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3 weeks ago |
computerworld.com | Evan Schuman
It comes as no surprise that online scraper bots are scouring the web looking for content to train generative AI (genAI) models, causing massive bandwidth charges to enterprises who told them not to crawl their sites. What is surprising is the world of large language model (LLM) makers’ use of unattributed browsers and other means of escaping responsibility. As bad as that situation is, something worse lies below it.
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3 weeks ago |
lemondeinformatique.fr | Evan Schuman
Dans le cadre de sa feuille de route Microsoft 365, l'éditeur a annoncé une modification de la synchronisation de OneDrive, son offre de stockage cloud qui doit apporter aux salariés un moyen simple de synchroniser leurs comptes professionnels et personnels sur les terminaux de l'entreprise. Mais les responsables de la cybersécurité voient d'un mauvais oeil cette évolution, car elle peut entraîner de nombreux problèmes de sécurité.
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3 weeks ago |
businessandamerica.com | Evan Schuman
“OpenAI is saying that it can help govern AI or evolve ‘security and safety controls.’ However, clearly, as a company that stands to profit from AI adoption, there could be a conflict of interest here. If this partnership program is successful, it continues a trend that we’re seeing away from public sector-supported frameworks to govern technology and toward private-sector best practices,” he said.
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Think GenAI is challenging? Try writing a contract to regulate it. Enterprises are spending billions of dollars to license these models and their contracts are virtually defenseless to protect them. https://t.co/hkVMlotQYq
Vendors officially voted today/Friday to sharply slash how long website certs last. Despite conflict of interest issues, IT is going to be pressured to use a lot more automation for these certs… Due to a vote from companies that sell those services. https://t.co/JqfHMAMQ2m
Matt Mullenweg says WordPress 99 percent cutback designed to pressure WP engine to withdraw its lawsuit. https://t.co/f94RSNmL8h