Not sure if I should promote this but looks interesting 😅

(Sake of clarity: it’s not me)

For those hosted on Azure Front Door, or simply trying to access the Azure admin portal, it turns out a single rogue customer (probably accidentally) enabled a config that took out their EMEA deployment:

Now maybe BlueSky isn’t the answer, maybe it’ll get eaten up too and we should all be on Mastodon. But the people who say “BlueSky is dying” just misunderstand where the world is going.

Sign up to FIFA World Cup clearly a mistake. I’m first offered a “right to buy” a ticket plus some digital NFT BS for a few hundred bucks.

Given RTBs are “tradable” I’m vaguely assuming this unlocks scalping as a service, albeit at low volumes. Inescapably awful.

Bundle and Crofty claiming “suboptimal” and “learnings” as “F1 words”. Bad news for you fellas

Morning Bluesky.

To be fair, the Dixie Chicks kinda led the way here and I'm down for that.

Watching the AGI goal posts move in real time:

arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-...

I'm being a bit cynical, I know that's not what's happening, but the reality is clearly that O3 is similar-intelligence to average humans on a range of tasks.

Next couple of years is going to be fascinating.

Very excited to deliver my inaugural lecture as Richardson Chair on the question whether international law is our last hope for global security.

26 Nov. 1700 (UK)

In Oxford? The event is free to attend. It will also live-stream on Youtube. Registration link here:
www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/globa...

Great evening at RI yesterday for #iiblive - although the seats really are not that great 😅

Many different stories, lots of different ways of shifting perspectives on data. Very entertaining but also hopefully useful.

Freely is the new app for digital FTA channels:

www.freely.co.uk

But I have to buy a new TV to use it? Even the Amazon app won't work on a stick? I don't get it. Do they want to fail? Is this some DRM issue again?

Can't see him on here otherwise would have tagged him, prior paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2409.15152

I don't think I've ever seen performance curves like this. I would be fascinated to understand whether the average here is skewed/correlates to org size or team size.

Google "to sell" Chrome:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Have to say, I can't see this happening or being a good idea. Not least with this being 90% of Mozilla's funding - the only realistic competitor to Chrome - but Search is so expensive that "new market entrants" already need very deep pockets.

Local (to me) tech story: council are installing solar powered talking bins

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I think the main sell here is that they compact(?) but this does feel like a technical solution to just picking the waste up more often. Unclear whether this helps or hinders recycling.

Now that the London tech scene has almost entirely moved en masse over here (and not Mastodon.. ? :/ ), I need to work out how I'm going to restart posting stuff.

One thing I have noticed: social media just does not work well for me any more. Not personally or professionally.

I've created a CTOs starter pack - let me know if anyone you know is missing, or you'd like to be on it! go.bsky.app/JsiNh7Y

@chrismdp.com would love to be added to your CTO list if poss, setting up my bluesky today 😊