Loris Degioanni of Sysdig
I'm back with a great interview covering Sysdig and its journey in helping secure cloud computing. Accompanied by a healthy dose of news.
Podcast version
Listen to the episode here, or search for “Chinchilla Squeaks” wherever you find your podcasts. The podcast features my interview with Loris Degioanni of Sysdig, and we speak about the history of the company, Falco, eBPF, and cloud security and observability from a person who has been involved in the ecosystem for some time.
Self-Checkout Is a Failed Experiment→
Despite existing in some countries relatively successfully for over a decade. In Germany, where I currently live, they have barely arrived, and people still look at them like they’re powered by witchcraft. Then recently, I was in the US and saw the terrible self-checkouts they have there, and this article made sense…
Prompt Engineering Jobs are a Mirage→
All of us losing jobs thanks to AI have been promised ample oppurtunities “prompt engineering”. But do the roles exist?
This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI→
The tool, called Nightshade, is intended as a way to fight back against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without the creator’s permission.
Artists can use a data poisoning tool to confuse DALL-E and corrupt AI scraping→
A new tool called Nightshade allows users to attach it to their creative work, and it will corrupt — or poison — training data using that art. Eventually, it can ruin future models of AI art platforms like DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney, removing its ability to create images.
The people who ruined the internet→
The alligator got my attention. Which, of course, was the point. When you hear that a 10-foot alligator is going to be released at a rooftop bar in South Florida, at a party for the people being accused of ruining the internet, you can’t quite stop yourself from being curious.
The GitHub Black Market That Helps Coders Cheat the Popularity Contest→
Github secured its status as a programmer's best friend by combining tools for managing software with collaboration features that create a kind of social network for the code-literate. Its success has seen it pick up a less welcome feature of social platforms: a black market in fake engagement.
YouTube’s Crackdown Spurs Record Uninstalls of Ad Blockers→
In early October, the people who make ad blocking tools convened in Amsterdam for their industry’s annual conference. One session was a welcome pitch from Google product leaders about tweaks made to address fears that a security update to the company’s Chrome browser could hamper ad zapping.
Facebook Finally Puts a Price on Privacy: It’s $10 a Month→
I predicted ideas like this for a while and finally companies are (forced?) to offer privacy features. Is it too little too late?
And finally…