Last night, as I was adjusting my new Uplift standing desk (which is awesome BTW), a speaker on the desk collided with the shelf above which was just enough to cause a candle to wobble and fall directly onto my trackpad. As you can see it completely shattered. Although it is still functional, it is just a matter of time before this gets worse.
Every time I go to a website these days, I always have to click on that, "I agree to using cookies",” button. It is fairly silly as pretty much every site I have gone to for the last ten years has used cookies. I would be shocked if I got a pop up that said, “this site doesn’t use any cookies at all,” because then I would be wondering, how do they pull that off? This behavior is being driven by attempts to conform to GDPR requirements.
Root9B is a security company that adds an expert human touch. This is an interview with Joshua "Mac" McMahon from Root9B he explains what makes them different. They can be found at root9b.com.
There were a lot of different robots at SXSW (not to mention the people in robot costumes). Here is a quick run down on the robot scene.
SXSW is the most important technology conference of the year. There, I’ve said it. The problem is, very few people in IT are aware of it, and that is a shame. This is the one show of the year that not only highlights emerging technology but wraps it in context. This conference is also very international with different countries showcasing their unique companies, technologies and talents. We can get so lost in our own small world that we miss new market opportunities and technologies from around the globe.
There is a new zero day Chrome vulnerability that has been reported to have been exploited in the wild. This one seems to be pretty severe and speculation is that it can lead to remote code execution.
The CVE, CVE-2019-5786, hasn’t hit the NIST vulnerability database yet, so there isn’t a ton of information on it other than, “Use-after-free in FileReader. Reported by Clement Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group on 2019-02-27.”
A new vulnerability that attacks Direct Memory Access through Thunderbolt or PCI Express ports. These are common on Macs, but also appears on other systems. Multiple OSes are susceptible to this issue.
OK, i run into the folks from Lucidchart at the trade shows and we chat. I like their product, but their comedy may be where they shine the brightest. I came upon this trove of awesome because my 13 year old daughter saw my Lucidchart shirt swag, and she said I love those guys, I follow them on Instagram.
Several month ago, I had an opportunity to spend some time with Mike Rogers who was the commander of the U.S. Cyber Command and the Director of the NSA. He stressed how important it is to know the supply chain of your equipment in order to maintain a secure environment. He stressed that not only do you need to know your suppliers, but you need to know the entire supply chain of all the components.
Windstream has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy following a $310 million dollar judgement against Windstream brought by the hedge fund Aurelius Capital Management.
The Wall Street Journal reports, "The rural broadband provider’s chapter 11 filing Monday is the culmination of a bruising 18 month legal fight between the telecom company and Aurelius, which had argued a two-year-old spinoff of the company's fiber-optic cable network violated the covenants on one of its bonds," regarding sale-leaseback restrictions.
There has been a lot of talk about SD-WAN these days, and a lot of questions about what to do. I have been working with a lot of clients on these questions and so I wanted to present my thoughts on the market.
This is a really interesting visualization produced by Tarry Singh, CEO, founder & AI Researcher at deepkapha.ai. Tarry has kindly released this on to the Interwebs for the greater good.
What Tarry is trying to demonstrate here is that No matter how big you are, failure to continuously innovate can cause your demise. While this is definitely true, I would like to add to that.
This morning, I had a conversation with a friend of mine who produces music scores for TV and Movies. He was lamenting how the industry has declined because people have turned to free or low cost alternatives produced by amateurs or professionals with limited experience.
For those not familiar with the term, Unicorn is used to describe a Venture Backed company that has achieved a pre-IPO valuation over a billion dollars. While this is something that was very rare in the past, it seems like there are unicorns everywhere now.
