Software: CrowdStrike provides a preliminary report on what they did wrong
Falcon Content Update Preliminary Post Incident Report | CrowdStrike
Software: A Must Read on the Crowd Strike Fiasco
This is an excellent description and explanation of what happened.
Software: Professional Software Engineer licensure
Does the CrowdStrike fiasco imply a need for Professional Engineer licensing for software engineers working on critical infrastructure?
EU agreement prohibits Microsoft from preventing CrowdStrike OS modifications
Microsoft is prohibited by the EU from preventing CrowdStrike from modifying privileged, low level OS code that led to the global IT collapse.
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Software: Crowdstrike never heard of pilot testing and phased rollouts
Crowdstrike takes down the entire world.
AI: Chat GPT 5 will have “Ph.D.” level intelligence
Chat GPT-5 will be able to hyperfocus on one obscure topic for years, producing scary predictions while engaging in plagiarism. Sounds great!
AI: Google scales back “AI Overviews”
… because AI Overviews was often spouting nonsense: Google Pumps Brakes on AI Overviews Search After Telling Us to Eat Glue, Rocks (msn.com)
Software: Everyone is running Linux?
I often hear that Windows is terrible, everyone is using Linux. Except just 4% of PC users use Linux. Data tells a different story.
Computing: Microsoft introduces AI-based Windows PCs
This looks very interesting: Exclusive | Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Explains AI-Focused Windows PCs and How They Compete With MacBooks – WSJ (Paid subscription required to access)
VR: Teens don’t use their VR headsets
Most teens with access to a VR headset don't use the headset much or at all.
Will ChatGPT replace blogs and bloggers?
Is ChatGPT usage resulting in the end of blogs? The data suggests this is happening.
Software: “The Mythical Man Month” – 1970s versus 2024
If you do software or are interested in organizational design, this is a good review of some key concepts: The “10x engineer:” 50 years ago and now – by Gergely…
AI: Google admits Gemini AI was tuned to produce nonsense
How many other things have they tuned?