This is a random message on random Friday about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s focus: AI. Again Interesting… • The Internet of Agents (IoA) was inevitable, and you can see a potential framework and examples at AGNTCY.org. • AI isn't to blame for the rise in layoffs—your systems are. While I don't agree w...

This is a random message on random Friday about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s focus: Cybersecurity. • Cost of Data Breach Report 2025: A report from IBM on data breaches, with some focus on AI and recommendations. • Travel eSIMs secretly route traffic over Chinese and undisclosed networks: study. A ques...

This is a random message on random Friday about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s focus: Labor day and “related videos”!. • Immanuel Kant’s Moral Philosophy: This is a 21-minute video about the impact of moral principles in work, and life. • In the Age of AI (full documentary): In 5 years… Lots of vision do...

This is a random message on random Friday about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s focus: The battle for the most efficient and scalable AI models. • Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens: Interesting article from Meta and UW. “Our results demonstrate the feasibility of scaling models tra...

This is a random message on random Friday about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s focus: Attention.. • The Dual Nature of Attention: Interesting essay by Thore Graepel on why we need to be careful where we direct our attention because of this knock on effect on our lives. • How To Be Less Distracted at Work...

This is a random message on random Friday about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s focus: AI correctness. • Trying Lean: Can Lean succeed where languages like Dafny (remember Spec#?), Coq, and others failed? It may not happen at scale, but every bit helps. And it is great to see projects like Strata being bu...

This is a random message on random Friday about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s focus: open source tools, with a common link… • Introducing OSS Rebuild: Open Source, Rebuilt to Last: All those who depend on open source had worried at some point in time: is this build safe? Worth checking the blog post fro...

This is a random message on random Friday about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Just 2 links today. Give those 40 minutes. Worth it. - Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? Some good points by Scott Hanselman on the promises of connection, convenience and creativity. Agree or not with parts of it, watch it. -...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. 7-Eleven edition! • Microsoft moving Antivirus out of Windows Kernel. This took a minute… Good first step, when done. Next, Microsoft needs to make the Antivirus vendors move and also guarantee that no operations go invisible to the ...