Evan Schuman
@evanschuman.bsky.social
Technology columnist, writer, podcaster. Specializing in cybersecurity, analytics, payments, banking, retail IT, healthcare IT, mobile, cloud strategies, privacy and compliance. Computerworld, Darkreading, SCmedia, Techcrunch, etc.
Asimov’s three laws — updated for the genAI age
Maybe what we really need are three laws governing how enterprise IT should use genAI.
Law One: “IT Directors may not injure their enterprise employers by not verifying genAI or agentic output before using it.”
www.computerworld.com/article/4070...
Maybe what we really need are three laws governing how enterprise IT should use genAI.
Law One: “IT Directors may not injure their enterprise employers by not verifying genAI or agentic output before using it.”
www.computerworld.com/article/4070...
Asimov’s three laws — updated for the genAI age
Deloitte is the latest firm to discover that blindly trusting generative AI is a suicide mission.
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October 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Asimov’s three laws — updated for the genAI age
Maybe what we really need are three laws governing how enterprise IT should use genAI.
Law One: “IT Directors may not injure their enterprise employers by not verifying genAI or agentic output before using it.”
www.computerworld.com/article/4070...
Maybe what we really need are three laws governing how enterprise IT should use genAI.
Law One: “IT Directors may not injure their enterprise employers by not verifying genAI or agentic output before using it.”
www.computerworld.com/article/4070...
Vendors officially voted today/Friday to sharply slash how long website certs last. IT is going to be pressured to use a lot more automation for these certs… Due to a vote from companies that sell those services.
www.computerworld.com/article/3960...
www.computerworld.com/article/3960...
Vendors vote to radically slash website certificate duration
Members of the CA/Browser Forum have voted to slash cert lifespans from the current one year to 47 days, placing an added burden on enterprise IT staff who must ensure they are updated.
www.computerworld.com
April 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Vendors officially voted today/Friday to sharply slash how long website certs last. IT is going to be pressured to use a lot more automation for these certs… Due to a vote from companies that sell those services.
www.computerworld.com/article/3960...
www.computerworld.com/article/3960...
Matt Mullenweg says WordPress 99 percent cutback designed to pressure WP engine to withdraw its lawsuit.
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Matt Mullenweg: WordPress developer hours cutback may or may not slow innovation
Automattic CEO said its 99% cutback in development hours may force WP Engine to settle their lawsuit.
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January 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Matt Mullenweg says WordPress 99 percent cutback designed to pressure WP engine to withdraw its lawsuit.
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The push for Web security CERT acceleration is absolutely not about what they say it is about.
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Website certificates that expire every six weeks? What IT should know
A move to drastically reduce the lifespan of SSL certificates, pushed primarily by Apple and Google, likely won’t make the internet safer — but will force IT to accept more automation. Some have calle...
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January 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The push for Web security CERT acceleration is absolutely not about what they say it is about.
www.computerworld.com/article/3631...
www.computerworld.com/article/3631...
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imagine if people went to retailers and just took stuff and called it "generative shopping" and then, when the retailers said that's illegal, people said "regular shopping is too expensive so we have disrupted it" and then the retailers were like "OH! Carry on, innovators!"
December 20, 2024 at 10:05 PM
imagine if people went to retailers and just took stuff and called it "generative shopping" and then, when the retailers said that's illegal, people said "regular shopping is too expensive so we have disrupted it" and then the retailers were like "OH! Carry on, innovators!"
Volkswagen data breach due to improperly protected AWS credentials. And that was only one of about a half dozen errors that the massive car manufacturer made.
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Volkswagen massive data leak caused by a failure to secure AWS credentials
VW also failed to meet regulatory requirements for data security, and even violated its own terms of service, said analyst.
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January 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Volkswagen data breach due to improperly protected AWS credentials. And that was only one of about a half dozen errors that the massive car manufacturer made.
www.csoonline.com/article/3631...
www.csoonline.com/article/3631...
What is the arguably biggest security threat to the enterprise that CISOs and CIOs don't care about? The seemingly innocuous browser.
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November 26, 2024 at 12:59 PM
What is the arguably biggest security threat to the enterprise that CISOs and CIOs don't care about? The seemingly innocuous browser.
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A deep look into the most likely causes behind Macy's $154 million hidden accounting mess. And what CIOs can do to try and avoid suffering the same fate.
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November 26, 2024 at 12:59 PM
A deep look into the most likely causes behind Macy's $154 million hidden accounting mess. And what CIOs can do to try and avoid suffering the same fate.
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New document shows how easily how easily the FBI can now cut through various secrecy and privacy efforts.
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FBI pierces ‘anonymity’ of cryptocurrency, secret domain registrars in Scattered Spider probe
When the US Justice Department unsealed documents on Wednesday revealing the arrests of key Scattered Spider suspects, it showed how easily they were able to cut through the gang’s anonymization effor...
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November 22, 2024 at 8:04 AM
New document shows how easily how easily the FBI can now cut through various secrecy and privacy efforts.
www.csoonline.com/article/3610...
www.csoonline.com/article/3610...
Rite Aid banned from using facial recognition because it was using crappy facial recognition. Every so often, justice does happen.
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Rite Aid Banned From AI Facial Recognition by FTC After Misuse
Rite Aid Corp. must stop using facial recognition for the next five years as part of a privacy settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission, which said the pharmacy chain misused the technology to ...
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December 20, 2023 at 10:14 AM
Rite Aid banned from using facial recognition because it was using crappy facial recognition. Every so often, justice does happen.
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After hearing from quite a few enterprise IT execs complain about the process of finding an appropriate GenAI partner, I compiled their gripes in my column. And let a few folk suggest better approaches. www.computerworld.com/article/3711...
Choosing a genAI partner: Trust, but verify
As generative AI fever continues to mesmerize enterprise executives, those same execs are insisting that IT somehow make it happen.
www.computerworld.com
December 19, 2023 at 6:25 PM
After hearing from quite a few enterprise IT execs complain about the process of finding an appropriate GenAI partner, I compiled their gripes in my column. And let a few folk suggest better approaches. www.computerworld.com/article/3711...
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Been there, swiped that.
December 17, 2023 at 5:58 PM
Been there, swiped that.
Gosh, shouldn't fortunetellers have been able to predict this? You don't think they might not possibly be legitimate fortunetellers, do you?
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Fortune-telling website exposes 13M+ user records | Cybernews
WeMystic data leak expose platform's users.
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December 1, 2023 at 1:18 PM
Gosh, shouldn't fortunetellers have been able to predict this? You don't think they might not possibly be legitimate fortunetellers, do you?
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New accounting rules kick in in January and it will mean a lot more cybersecurity trained accountants. What does this mean for enterprise CISOs? That depends on who you ask.
www.csoonline.com/article/1247...
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Rise of the cyber CPA: What it means for CISOs
New accountant certification rules starting January 2024 could deliver many new cybersecurity-trained accountants. Is this good or bad news for CISOs?
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November 27, 2023 at 12:59 PM
New accounting rules kick in in January and it will mean a lot more cybersecurity trained accountants. What does this mean for enterprise CISOs? That depends on who you ask.
www.csoonline.com/article/1247...
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Nasty bug discovered in widely used Linux utility curl and patches already rolled out.
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Nasty bug discovered in widely used Linux utility curl, and patches already rolled out
Curl is built into and silently used in numerous Linux distributions. A nasty security hole within it has been revealed and patched.
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October 11, 2023 at 10:50 PM
Nasty bug discovered in widely used Linux utility curl and patches already rolled out.
www.zdnet.com/article/secu...
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Say what you will about the Google cloud team, but for them to be able to mitigate this massive a D-DOS attack is impressive. This is triply true because the attack was so much larger than anyone had ever seen. How they were prepped to handle that is amazing.
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October 11, 2023 at 10:18 PM
Say what you will about the Google cloud team, but for them to be able to mitigate this massive a D-DOS attack is impressive. This is triply true because the attack was so much larger than anyone had ever seen. How they were prepped to handle that is amazing.
cloud.google.com/blog/product...
cloud.google.com/blog/product...
Is Target lying about the reasons it is closing some stores? And has most of the media fallen for their lie? This story raises some specially interesting questions.
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Target says it's closing 9 stores due to theft. The crime data tells a different story.
On September 26, Target announced it was closing nine stores "because theft and organized retail crime are…contributing to unsustainable business performance." Target said that before making the dec...
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October 5, 2023 at 12:04 PM
Is Target lying about the reasons it is closing some stores? And has most of the media fallen for their lie? This story raises some specially interesting questions.
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And in Europe, the inevitable happens. Happy Thursday, Amazon and Microsoft. Note to IT: this might help greatly with cloud negotiations.
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UK regulator asks for antitrust probe into Amazon, Microsoft cloud dominance | Reuters
Britain's media regulator on Thursday asked the country's antitrust authority to investigate U.S. tech giants Amazon and Microsoft's dominance of the UK cloud market.
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October 5, 2023 at 12:02 PM
And in Europe, the inevitable happens. Happy Thursday, Amazon and Microsoft. Note to IT: this might help greatly with cloud negotiations.
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I wait all year to post this. 🎃
October 1, 2023 at 2:25 PM
I wait all year to post this. 🎃
Intel makes a rather impressive generative AI claim. “A new Intel chip due in December will be able to run a generative artificial intelligence chatbot on a laptop rather than having to tap into cloud data centers.”
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Intel pitches the 'AI PC' at software developer event | Reuters
A new Intel chip due in December will be able to run a generative artificial intelligence chatbot on a laptop rather than having to tap into cloud data centers for computing power, the company said on...
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September 20, 2023 at 12:58 AM
Intel makes a rather impressive generative AI claim. “A new Intel chip due in December will be able to run a generative artificial intelligence chatbot on a laptop rather than having to tap into cloud data centers.”
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www.reuters.com/technology/i...
GPT-4 has mastered the art of lying. better yet, it has figured out a way to justify lying. Gosh, how could this possibly turn out poorly?
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Emine Fougner on LinkedIn: AI hired a freelancing human to solve a robot-stopping CAPTCHA. Wild.
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AI hired a freelancing human to solve a robot-stopping CAPTCHA. Wild.
The article is “Inside the Revolution at openAI“ by Ross Andersen in The Atlantic.
😂🤣… | 126 comments on LinkedIn
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September 11, 2023 at 1:31 PM
GPT-4 has mastered the art of lying. better yet, it has figured out a way to justify lying. Gosh, how could this possibly turn out poorly?
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A court sentence of 11,196 years for crypto fraud? A good lawyer could have gotten him a sentence half as long. Sheesh!
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11,196 Years Jail Sentence for Faruk Özer, CEO of Collapsed Turkish Crypto Exchange Thodex
Thodex was one of Turkey's largest crypto exchanges before it suddenly went offline in April 2021 and Özer went missing.
www.coindesk.com
September 8, 2023 at 8:25 AM
A court sentence of 11,196 years for crypto fraud? A good lawyer could have gotten him a sentence half as long. Sheesh!
www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/...
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