Tom Allen

3 days ago | aijourn.com | Tom Allen

AI is changing the dynamics of how companies do business, from automating processes to attracting customers. Behind the technology, though, is a tangled web of ethical quandaries that companies are confronting. The more advanced AI systems become, the greater the opportunity for unwelcome harm, bias, and misuse. Speaking of which, companies that ignore these risks will also find themselves on the line outside courthouses, in the spotlight of public shaming, as citizens rise.

3 days ago | aijourn.com | Tom Allen

As the complexity of AI and cloud infrastructure scales, resilience is no longer optional—it is foundational. In this article, Principal Software Engineer Aditya Bhatia draws on over 15 years of experience at companies such as Apple, Yahoo!, and Splunk to share actionable strategies for designing fault-tolerant machine learning systems. From Kubernetes-native tooling to chaos engineering, he explores what it truly takes to build AI that does not merely function, but endures.

3 days ago | computing.co.uk | Tom Allen

Claims of rallying the robots are just alternative facts How accurate are the claims of mass job replacements with AI – and is there an ulterior motive? After crashing millions of Windows machines last year, Crowdstrike has boldly decided to strip out the pesky human element and replace 500 staff (about 5% of its workforce) with AI. The security company is far from the first tech business to give humans the hump and rally the robots.

4 days ago | computing.co.uk | Tom Allen

Multiple airport systems affected Passenger queues stretched from the main entrance of Stansted Airport and past the terminal building over the weekend, due to IT disruption. The airport says the incident was caused by an “IT issue” - since fixed – and not a cyberattack. However, systems including check-in, baggage and security were all affected. Stansted told us that the flaw was down to an internet connectivity issue in the affected systems, but the root cause was still unknown.

6 days ago | richmonder.org | Tom Allen

đź“ťTom Allen previously wrote a "Faith and Values" column for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He is the editor of the Virginia Journal of Education and the author of two books, "Grace Happens" and "Roll With It."I was hanging out in my mother’s room in the rehab section of her retirement community, just a few minutes after the physical therapist had come and whisked her away for one of her twice-a-day sessions, part of her regimen of recovery after falling and breaking her hip.