Taryn Plumb
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Taryn Plumb
@tarynplumb.bsky.social
Author, tech writer
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Research from @blackfogprivacy reveals widespread shadow #AI use and a startling level of risk tolerance among senior leaders, even as employees upload proprietary data into free #GenerativeAI tools. #CybersecurityNews

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Roughly half of employees are using unsanctioned AI tools, and enterprise leaders are major culprits
BlackFog research reveals widespread shadow AI use and a startling level of risk tolerance among senior leaders, even as employees upload proprietary data into free AI tools.
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January 30, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Another round of critical Web Help Desk flaws highlights how SolarWinds’ legacy code and past breaches continue to haunt IT and #cybersecurity leaders. #CybersecurityNews #AI

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SolarWinds, again: Critical RCE bugs reopen old wounds for enterprise security teams
Another round of critical Web Help Desk flaws highlights how SolarWinds’ legacy code and past breaches continue to haunt IT and security leaders.
www.csoonline.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Calling it the highest performance chip of any custom cloud accelerator, Microsoft says #Maia is optimized for #AI inference on multiple models. #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI

www.networkworld.com/article/4122...
Microsoft launches its second generation AI inference chip, Maia 200
Calling it the highest performance chip of any custom cloud accelerator, the company says Maia is optimized for AI inference on multiple models.
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January 27, 2026 at 2:03 PM
The tech giant is pivoting its strategy to focus on processors to support #AI workloads, meaning less capacity for chips for #PCs. #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI #datacenters

www.computerworld.com/article/4121...
Intel’s AI pivot could make lower-end PCs scarce in 2026
The tech giant is pivoting its strategy to focus on processors to support AI workloads, meaning less capacity for chips for PCs.
www.computerworld.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:34 PM
A lawsuit targeting hidden candidate profiling argues that #AI hiring tools should meet the same standards as credit bureaus. #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI

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Workers challenge ‘hidden’ AI hiring tools in class action with major regulatory stakes
A lawsuit targeting hidden candidate profiling argues that AI hiring tools should meet the same standards as credit bureaus.
www.computerworld.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Exposed lab and demo environments are leaking cloud credentials, IAM privileges, and sensitive #data. #Cybersecurity #Security

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Misconfigured demo environments are turning into cloud backdoors to the enterprise
Exposed lab and demo environments are leaking cloud credentials, IAM privileges, and sensitive data.
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January 22, 2026 at 6:53 PM
How LinkedIn built its next-gen recommender system with a highly detailed product policy document, distillation, and multi-teacher models. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI

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Why LinkedIn says prompting was a non-starter — and small models was the breakthrough
Erran Berger, VP of product engineering at LinkedIn, and team set to develop a highly detailed product policy document to fine-tune an initially massive 7-billion-parameter model, that was then optimized to a few hundred million parameters.
venturebeat.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Most organizations are experimenting with #AI, but few are scaling it in ways that generate measurable returns. #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI

www.computerworld.com/article/4119...
Enterprise AI investments are forging ahead despite elusive ROI
Most organizations are experimenting with AI, but few are scaling it in ways that generate measurable returns.
www.computerworld.com
January 21, 2026 at 8:51 PM
#Microsoft is enforcing stricter Intune MAM #security requirements, and enterprises that haven’t updated their #iOS and #android apps will see them blocked from launching. #CybersecurityNews

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This Intune update isn’t optional — it’s a kill switch for outdated apps
Microsoft is enforcing stricter Intune MAM security requirements, and enterprises that haven’t updated their iOS and Android apps will see them blocked from launching.
www.computerworld.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:46 PM
A new Copilot exploit reveals how #LLMs can be quietly turned into always-on data exfiltration tools. #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI #AI

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One click is all it takes: How ‘Reprompt’ turned Microsoft Copilot into data exfiltration tools
A new Copilot exploit reveals how LLMs can be quietly turned into always-on data exfiltration tools.
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January 16, 2026 at 2:45 PM
G2: Orchestration across multi-agent #AI systems and platforms is a critical concern — and a key differentiator. #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI #AIAgents

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AI agents can talk — orchestration is what makes them work together
Orchestration across multi-agent systems and platforms is a critical concern — and a key differentiator for IT leaders hoping to see significant velocity gains with AI agents.
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January 16, 2026 at 12:47 AM
You've got to have people," says Amrit Jassal, Egnyte CTO and co-founder. The junior engineer of today is the senior engineer of tomorrow.” #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI #Coding #data

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Why Egnyte keeps hiring junior engineers despite the rise of AI coding tools
The company continues to hire junior engineers, using AI to accelerate onboarding, deepen codebase understanding, and shorten the path from junior to senior contributor.
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January 15, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Microsoft has unveiled a community-first AI infrastructure strategy promising no increases in local power or water costs, highlighting the mounting pressure on tech companies to balance AI growth with environmental and social impact.

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Microsoft tells communities it will ‘pay its way’ as AI data center resource usage sparks backlash
The company has unveiled a community-first AI infrastructure strategy promising no increases in local power or water costs, highlighting the mounting pressure on tech companies to balance AI growth wi...
www.networkworld.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:08 PM
A large number of employees still work around identity controls, and agentic #AI is only exacerbating the problem, according to CyberArk. #ArtificialIntelligence #Cybersecurity

www.csoonline.com/article/4114...
Enterprises still aren’t getting IAM right
A large number of employees still work around identity controls, and agentic AI is only exacerbating the problem, according to CyberArk.
www.csoonline.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Progress towards full AI-driven coding automation continues, but in steps rather than leaps, giving organizations time to prepare, according to a new study.

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AI won’t replace human devs for at least 5 years
Progress towards full AI-driven coding automation continues, but in steps rather than leaps, giving organizations time to prepare, according to a new study.
www.infoworld.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:22 PM
The way to overcome slop is for the platform to expend more effort and for developers to imbue the agent with taste, Amjad Masad says.

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Why AI feels generic: Replit CEO on slop, toys, and the missing ingredient of taste
Right now in the AI world, there are a lot of percolating ideas and experimentation. But as far as Replit CEO Amjad Masad is concerned, they're just "toys": unreliable, marginally effective, and generic.
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January 8, 2026 at 5:10 PM
The ERP vendor will phase out on-prem releases of Kinetic, Prophet 21, and BisTrack, shifting all future innovation to Epicor Cloud.

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Epicor sets timeline to sunset on-prem ERP as cloud becomes the only path forward
The ERP vendor will phase out on-prem releases of Kinetic, Prophet 21, and BisTrack, shifting all future innovation to Epicor Cloud.
www.cio.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Employees needed #AI embedded into the work they already hated doing: messy ERP intake, document processing, call follow-ups. #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI #data

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Why AI adoption fails without IT-led workflow integration
Adoption wasn’t automatic — at a legacy company, change management was the work.
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January 2, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Traditional cloud architectures are buckling under the weight of #GenerativeAI. Enterprises must adopt a 'design-first' architecture that treats intelligence as a core utility. #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #data #CloudComputing

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Understanding AI-native cloud: from microservices to model-serving
Traditional cloud architectures are buckling under the weight of generative AI. To move from pilots to production, enterprises must adopt a "design-first" architecture that treats intelligence as a co...
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December 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Google will work with Intersect to explore emerging technologies and increase and diversify energy supply, the tech giant says. #AI #ArtificialInteligence #GenerativeAI #data

www.networkworld.com/article/4110...
Google agrees to acquire infrastructure builder Intersect to accelerate capacity development
Google will work with Intersect to explore emerging technologies and increase and diversify energy supply, the tech giant says.
www.networkworld.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
2025 was supposed to be the year of the #AI agent, right? Not quite, say leaders from Replit and Google Cloud #GenerativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence

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Even Google and Replit struggle to deploy AI agents reliably — here's why
Even as they build out agentic tools themselves, leaders from the two companies say the capabilities aren’t quite there yet.
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December 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Check out my feature in WPI Journal on Shana Figueroa of Figtastic Films. Check out her work:
figtasticfilms.com

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FigTastic Films – By Shana Figueroa
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December 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Attackers are exploiting a Flight protocol validation failure that allows them to execute arbitrary code without authentication. #CybersecurityNews #AI #DataScience

www.csoonline.com/article/4109...
React2Shell is the Log4j moment for front end development
Attackers are exploiting a Flight protocol validation failure that allows them to execute arbitrary code without authentication.
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December 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
December 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM