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Written Comment on Sovereign Payments Tech Alternatives by EOP

I've just put out a ResponseSource request for comment. Flagging it here too. Interested in wide-ranging views on the "sovereign" #payments debate, including but not limited to what, from a technology standpoint, would be needed to reduce dependency on #Mastercard and #Visa rails and what would be needed to interoperable national A2A schemes. Written comment preferred. Deadline EOP today. [email redacted] #journorequest

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Security Researchers-Blue Team Leads on AI in Vulnerability Research-The Stack

Interesting #cybersecurity reads, in parallel. Phil Venables: "Things are getting wild.... increasing number of vulnerabilities will be more economically exploitable" 👉 https://lnkd.in/ew9WQwQ6 Team of MIT, Cornell, et al researchers: "I can't believe it's not a valid exploit." (Manual inspection of both successful and failed PoCs reveals that 71.5% of the PoCs are invalid.) 👉 https://lnkd.in/eHfnv4a5 Interested in hearing from security researchers and Blue Team leaders alike on a) how they are retooling in an AI-centric world and b) more specifically how the former are finding bleeding edge LLMs at supporting their vulnerability research and exploit-development. What are hallucination levels currently like? What harnesses/toolchains are you using? email with "AI + exploits" in the subject line to [email redacted], DM me, or Signal @Targett.11 #journorequest #infosec #securityresearch p.s. Nano Banana, of course, thinks everyone in infosec is a man...

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Blue Team Input on VM-Based Evasion in Windows & VMware for The Stack

Attackers using VMs to hide from EDRs is not wildly new, but interesting to see it flagged by MSFT and Palo Alto anew recently (Windows & VMware environments.) Might do a piece for The Stack. Blue Team/defender input welcome. ed at thestack dot technology #infosec #journorequest

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Tech Innovation in Disaster Relief—Third-Sector Experts for The Stack

I've asked Noah Bovenizer to look into the innovative ways that disaster recovery, relief and reconstruction and other third-sector agencies are using technology. (Years back I went to a conference and there was a really impressive speaker from the ICRC, if I remember correctly, who was doing some pretty cutting-edge stuff at the nexus of geospatial data and AI to map refugee camp growth, including training their model synthetic data long before it was cool.) Connections, eclectic ideas, pitches welcome 👉 [email redacted]. #journorequest

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Case Studies Using Fine-Tuned SLMs in Business - The Stack

After some really interesting chats about the benefits of using small language #AI models vs #LLMs, I'm looking for examples where companies have found success with a fine-tuned #SLM. If you are one of those companies, please get in touch for a chat with The Stack, especially if there's a juicy blog (or even better, a follow up chat) about your process! Shamelessly using an old puppy photo of my family dog Rufus to catch your attention on a Friday morning. #JournoRequest

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CTOs on GenAI Impact for Build vs Buy Decisions – The Stack

Looking for #CTOs willing to comment/talk about the extent to which genAI improvements (across models and harnesses) are rethinking how they balance "build it versus buy it" - ditto startups thinking strategically about their defensive moat in a world where software solutions can be specced and vibecoded up at real pace and with far lower engineering overhead than in the past. This is for what is likely set to be several pieces, not just one, but quick input welcomed #journorequest #engineering #tech DM me or [email redacted]

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Open Source Maintainers’ Views on GitHub for The Stack

Following a few notable GitHub exits (as below), I'm looking to speak to both open source maintainers who have struggled with the platform, and those who are actually still happy with it. Are you in the process of leaving GitHub? Annoyed by its AI features or something else? Are any other platforms up to scratch? Or are you pushing back on the GitHub naysayers? Can you never imagine moving somewhere else? If you're up for commenting for a story in The Stack please get in touch here or via email. https://lnkd.in/exQgKuzi #journorequest #GitHub #OpenSource #Codeberg

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Principal Full-Stack Engineers for The Stack Tech Podcast

We're looking full-stack engineers (ideally principal + ) who are happy to have freewheeling chats about what they're building, why, warts-and-all conversation about what *hasn't* worked for them/grinds their gears and the stuff they'd like their #CTO / #CIO to know but suspect they don't! This is for a new podcast series coming soon in The Stack (we're building out our guest roster so we have episodes in the bank from launch.) The host is a principal engineer themselves, with full-stack experience including building trading platforms. (We're not looking for vendors to come and talk up their own shop.) This will be chill, super informal; episodes can be shot remotely on Riverside.fm or at a London studio. If you're in a heavily regulated industry (like our host, by day) we're happy to help compliance feel relaxed to get you on board. Tag a friend/suggestions welcomed! Happy to chat over DM/Signal @Targett.11 (Patrick McFadin, Jim Adams, Jacob Smith, Meri Williams?) Kiera Fields is coordinating/producing. #engineers #principalengineer #techleads #techpodcast #journorequest

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Infosec Red Team Comment on Major Vulnerability – The Stack

#infosec / #hacker #redteam crew: need comment on vulnerability that is blowing my mind the more I think about it, for an upcoming piece in The Stack - next two hours ideally. DM for details. Will respond once i've tucked littlest into bed! #journorequest

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Apache Zookeeper-Kafka Deployment Expert for The Stack Today

Noah Bovenizer's looking to talk to someone handy at either/or Apache #Zookeeper / #Kafka deployments or service discovery architectures; today, preferably. If that's you, or a client, and you want to share your expertise with The Stack's readers, pop a line [email redacted] #journorequest #tech #servicediscovery

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Analyst & Partner Reactions to AWS reInvent Announcements - The Stack

Quick reminder that our team will be at AWS re:Invent. We have a packed out schedule in particular on Tuesday and Wednesday, doing some partner work with an AWS team working on some super interesting database innovations, both in-house and with partners, across timeseries and graph, so I am looking forward to that! On a pure editorial front I'll be in the technical keynote on Monday evening though, covering that, and keeping a watchful eye on news through the week, even if we don't cover every new instance type (there's already what, 700+. Hard to keep up!) We *will* do a wrap once we've digested everything. Posting here as I want to flag that a) throughout the week I am interested in reaction to some of the announcements, from analysts, partners and just opinionated folks across the ecosystem alike. Feel free to drop views in my inbox and I'll do a regular sweep. [email redacted] We're also potentially interested in guest think pieces throughout the week based on reaction to some of what's landing and industry context around it. [email redacted] with me cc'd. Try your luck across finops, all things K8s, security, and beyond. p.s. We get a LOT of invitations to come and chat with people at their booths. If you go to re:Invent, you'll know that... there is a LOT of people at a LOT of booths. I can of course potentially be lured in with high-end swag :P p.p.s. It's great to be at #reInvent or these other big tech events with a team. I've travelled many times before on my own and am aware that they can be really alienating/daunting places if you are neurodiverse or simply overwhelmed by being surrounded by tens of thousands of tech superstars, blaring music and the sense that everyeone else is having Great Fun™ whilst you are standing awkwardly on the edge of a great battlefield. If that turns out to be you, as it has been me in the past, and want to shoot the breeze with a friendly face/make a new connection, pop a DM/hit me up on Signal @Targett.11 Happy to grab coffee on Mon or Thursday. #AWS #awsreinvent #journorequest

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AWS Platform Engineers-Cloud Architects on IAM & BCP for The Stack

Looking for platform engineers or cloud architects with AWS experience and a good grip on IAM and ideally BCP to comment on a story. This is not generic "oh lordy bad outage" sh*t, thanks, I have something specific in mind. Off-the-record is fine if preferred. #journorequest ed at thestack dot technology or Signal @Targett.11.

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UK Business-Charity Case Studies Repurposing Windows 11 PCs - The Stack

If there are any businesses/organisations/charities planning to take the shed-load of Microsoft Windows 11-unfriendly hardware that is about to hit the market and refurbish them/repurpose as Linux machines, I am keen to talk to them/you 👉 [email redacted] Ditto if you are sitting on a pile of said hardware; I want to hear creative plans to avoid landfill/e-waste disposals. #windows11 #circulareconomy #linux #journorequest

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NVIDIA-Intel Partnership Analysts for The Stack Same-Day Comments

Analysts wanting to comment on NVIDIA and Intel Corporation's new partnership, now's your time, ahead of this evening's conference call. Views to [email redacted] please #journorequest

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