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Employees in a meeting, AI is present

Your employees are using unauthorized AI tools right now. Learn why shadow AI is costing businesses $200,000 per breach and what you need to do about it.

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You would think that with all the money pouring into technology these days, we would figure out a way to stem the flood of hacking attempts, but it seems the tech bros are more focused on figuring out how replace humans with AI than keeping humans safe. And sadly, email compromises, and even more importantly,

Misleading Signs

In 2016, the Oxford Dictionary named “post-truth” as its “Word of the Year.” At the time, AI generated content was crude and easy to spot, and when it was presented as “real” no one took it seriously. There were plenty of other things to worry about: Brexit, the Panama Papers, the deaths of David Bowie,

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Scatological Devolution

[Warning: there is some slightly foul language ahead. If you are easily offended, perhaps some of my other blogs may be of interest.] I’ve written about this topic before, but it’s nice when major publications back your viewpoint. One of my favorite authors has a new book forthcoming, and as a sign of the times

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Can you tell the difference?

I’ve been working in tech long enough to remember when “automation” meant macros in Excel and AI was still the stuff of sci-fi. Today, artificial intelligence is everywhere—from customer service chatbots to advanced data analytics, predictive modeling, and content creation. It’s no longer a niche tool; it’s a foundational layer in how businesses operate. And

Most of you have known about this aspect of Internet life for awhile now: everything we do is tracked, even in “incognito” mode and behind VPNs. And while some of the obvious indentifying bits of your transactions may be obscured by privacy tools most don’t even bother to use, everything we do is logged, categorized

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