This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. • Why SQL Will Not Die: The Semantic Layer Compile Target. Midway through this good article you get to the infamous question: Is natural language alone enough to query data? • Latest Sign of a Stock Market Bubble: Company Profits No ...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. • Mastering Claude Code in 30 minutes. At least you know how long the video will last!. • AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights. AI is learning fast: now, an article detecting nepotism! • I Tried...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. • RNG: Flat Datacenter Networks at Scale. An interesting article addressing one of the many network problems of current data centers. • Eval awareness in Claude Opus 4.6’s BrowseComp performance. Remember the Kobayashi Maru? Well, th...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. • Aristotle & Virtue Theory: Just 10 minutes of an instructional video, with good reminders. Old, and still relevant. And hard! • What is network slicing? This will become increasingly more important with 6G. Good video about the con...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s focus: no focus! • Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide: Scammers are getting even better at timing their disruptions. • Compiler Explorer: Interested in seeing what your code compiles to? • Is your home netwo...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s focus: AI and cybersecurity. Again. • Anthropic’s New A.I. Model Sets Off Global Alarms: Big news, mostly marketing. Big tech companies have databases of known “zero day” vulnerabilities that are decades old. Those are just t...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: vibe coding, with a fun play of words. While traveling last week, I wrapped up my series VIBE in code. Each post below reviews a specific risk of "vibe-driven" development and offers a mitigation: • Velocity: Speed is ...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Cybersecurity, yet again. • Authenticator apps. What you need to know. A short 4-minute video explaining the concepts related to authenticator apps. • NASA Employees Duped in Chinese Phishing Scheme Targeting U.S. Defe...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Truth at work! • When Your Boss Is a Pathological Liar And What Companies Must Do to Protect Culture, Talent, and Trust. The article hints are good. If it was easy to implement… • We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. ...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Hacks. • A major hacking tool has leaked online, putting millions of iPhones at risk. Here’s what you need to know: New issues, old solutions. As always… update your phone. • Axios Supply Chain Attack Pushes Cross-Plat...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Philosophy. • Why Are Tech Bros Obsessed with Stoicism? with Ryan Holiday: Almost an hour interview by Hasan Minhaj. For the 1% thinking about stoicism today! • The Stoics Are Wrong - Nietzsche, Schopenhauer. Counterpo...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Starting up, and securing it. • How to Succeed with a Startup: A 7-year presentation by Sam Altman that is just 16 minutes. • The Call is Coming from Inside the House (And It’s Watching Netflix). Not an easy read, but ...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. • The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers: An interesting review of this saga, so far, by Ivan Turkovic. • Amazon wins court order to block Perplex...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: News, and memories. • XZ Utils backdoor: If you were waiting for the article to become a movie, thanks to Veritasium — go watch it. • Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS: We've...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Telecommunications and coordination. • The Way to Edge AI: Slides that I presented during the LLMday NYC Q1 today. • What is Open RAN? Thanks for Jeffrey Snover for showing this architecture that is key not only for th...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Cybersecurity and privacy. • A Vast Trove of Exposed Social Security Numbers May Put Millions at Risk of Identity Theft. As if this never happened before… • Google expands tools to let users remove sensitive data about...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Tech job market • Tech Layoffs Are NOT About AI: An Insider View from a Former Amazon Manager. Don’t know if this 7-minute video is not AI. Yet, most of what is said matches what I witnessed in some teams. • Employers ...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: AI Friday. • Over 100 Free New York Times Articles About How A.I. Is Changing Our World. That is a lot of articles! May AI help you to summarize all that! • The Physical Turing Test: Jim Fan on Nvidia's Roadmap for Emb...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Management, infrastructure, and robotics. • What makes a good or bad manager? An interesting 15-minute video on the differences. From one of my previous good managers! • AWS's inevitable destiny: becoming the next Lume...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Data, APIs, and Taxonomies. • APIs, Agents, and AI: Preparing Your APIs for Safe, Reliable Agent Consumption: Most of the advice in this sponsored presentation is quite useful. • The Myth of Fungible Data: Some good po...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Robotics basics. • Self-Supervised Learning, JEPA, World Models, and the future of AI. For the theoretical basis, check this 1-hour presentation by Yann LeCun. • VLA (Visual Language Action): Further explanation about ...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Data • The $1B AI Drug Lab That Can't Touch Its Own Data. Interesting article about the “details” of data access when talking about pharma data. • Website metadata. Curious about all that goes into having a simple site...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: The future! • The AI-assistant asks for your permission. And then… See what may happen, in this post from Philip Su: AI Demolished My OS and Forced a Reinstall. • The Edge AI is coming. New devices, like the Tiiny.ai, ...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: The future! • Surf it promptly. The droids are coming! My own blog post on “Surfing the AI Shoring waves”. • The fall out of my Fallout experiment: I watched the TV series and … my review is mixed. Great production. Th...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Trends. • Glassdoor’s Worklife Trends 2026: Six trends coming from job and workplace data. • The Top 26 Security Predictions for 2026: this article from GovTech.com is interesting because it reviews several reports fro...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Holiday fun! • The Battle of the Books, by Jonathan Swift: It is hard to imagine this text was written around 1700. • Coding with a CoPilot: Some notes from one of my experiences and the state of the art for AI-assiste...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: AI and AR. • Navigating the Evolving Challenges of AI Security: Google Cloud and Mandiant shared this 45 minute session. I like the terminology explanation. The advice looks a bit generic. • Google’s Hot New AI Coding ...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so please pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Technical Debt • Swimming in Tech Debt: There is a new, interesting, and inexpensive book on this topic. You can find some of the insights for this short (but still substantial) article on The Pragmatic Engineer...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Software correctness • Erdos problems: Paul Erdos left many Math problems and conjectures that are now listed on this site. Some have attached monetary prizes. • Why does Math matter? While we can have fun with Alterna...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Software and Cryptography • The Post-Quantum Cryptography race: My own blog post (mirror) about the recent developments. • IT+Security: I rarely attend conferences, and like a small percentage. Yet, I got good insights...