sjvn
@sjvn.bsky.social
Top business & technology journalist with a fondness for dogs, cats, music, theater & books.
10 years ago I first wrote about Confidential Computing - a way to have hardware attestation to verify integrity and privacy. NOw Cohere is bringing the concept to AI in a form of confidential inference that is badly needed ... venturebeat.com/data/coheres...
Cohere's Model Vault now encrypts AI inference so even Cohere cannot see enterprise customers' data
Cohere plans on making the full serving stack used in Model Vault open source so that independent auditors will be able to validate that it doesn't log, export, or leak data.
venturebeat.com
What has America come to? Just another corrupt country with the hogs at the top slurping down all the money they can. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
theatlantic.com
For the @theverge.com, I dug into a dating scam network that an @anthropic.com spoke about @sleuthcon.bsky.social. It was later described in Anthropic's extremely thorough threat intel report. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
The sexy AI-powered dating app scams are here
Thousands of people were catfished by scammers supercharged with AI.
theverge.com
Yes, I listen to a lot of music that's not that popular, but I still have room in my heart for good old-fashioned pop-rock from 1967 by the Monkees. Enjoy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W06...
The Monkees - Daydream Believer (1967) (HD)
YouTube video by MadFranko008
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No, no, not a Linux plumber, a plumbing plumber, you know, with wrenches and pipes,
Voxiferi wants to stop bad AI data at the door opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/voxiferi-w... by @sjvn.bsky.social Voxiferi Labs has a straightforward answer to a growing #AI security problem: Don’t let untrusted, malformed, or suspicious data into the system in the first place.
Voxiferi wants to stop bad AI data at the door
Voxiferi Labs has a straightforward answer to a growing AI security problem: Don’t let untrusted, malformed, or suspicious data into the system in the first place.
opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com
I'm sorry to hear this. I loved Pilgrim at Tinker Creek when it first came out. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...
Annie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81 (Gift Article)
Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.
nytimes.com
AI’s Real Impact in Telecom: Five Takeaways As the panelists agreed, progress is real but uneven, and the biggest opportunities may not look like what many expect. www.windriver.com/blog/AIs-Rea...
AI’s Real Impact in Telecom: Five Takeaways
The panelists repeatedly returned to questions of trust, operational risk, sovereignty, edge deployment, and realistic monetization — all of which are issues dominating telecom strategy discussions to...
windriver.com
Open weights are not #opensource: Why #AI 's favorite label is under dispute www.theregister.com/columnists/2... via @theregister.com & @sjvn.bsky.social Downloading a model is increasingly easy. Understanding how it was made, or changing a system at its root, is another matter.
Open weights are not open source: Why AI's favorite label is under dispute
Downloading a model is increasingly easy. Understanding how it was made, or changing a system at its root, is another matter
theregister.com
AWS Open-Sources Pizza Bot, an Inbox for Background AI Agents techstrong.ai/articles/aws... via @techstronggroup.bsky.social & @sjvn AWS has open-sourced Pizza Bot, a self-hosted app that lets AI agents work in the background & sends completed jobs or requests for approval in an email-style inbox.
techstrong.ai
97% of US database administrators are running obsolete programs zdnet.com/business/why... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social Nearly all database professionals surveyed by Percona said their organizations still run database versions past their official end-of-life. Here's why
97% of US database administrators are running obsolete programs - ZDNET
Nearly all database professionals surveyed by Percona said their organizations still run database versions past official end-of-life. But why?
zdnet.com
Switzerland takes a Swiss Army knife to Microsoft 365 zdnet.com/business/swi... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social Switzerland is moving to an #opensource, digitally sovereign workplace for employees, while the Swiss Armed Forces’ Cyber Command is rushing to replace Microsoft 365 ASAP.
Switzerland takes a Swiss Army knife to Microsoft 365 - ZDNET
Two divisions of Switzerland's government are shifting from Microsoft 365 to open-source openDesk. Here's why.
zdnet.com
The calls to slow #AI down to protect humanity are FAKE. This mfioretti.substack.com/p/what-those... is what AI executives really mean, and if you haven’t done it already, order your pension fund to divest all its AI-related stocks. Now.
Tech I get; cars, not so much. babylonbee.com/news/man-pop...
Man Pops Car Hood, Thus Exhausting His Knowledge Of How Cars Work
WELLS, NV — After hearing a strange clicking sound emanating from his 2013 Ford Taurus, local man Derrick Snodgram popped the car's hood, thus exhausting his knowledge of how cars work.
babylonbee.com
The real reason CD and record sales are up so much is just that I keep remembering SuperDeluxeEdition exists. Honestly, it's all me. I'm the rise in physical media sales.
idca@ilikethishouse.bsky.social · 4d agothis "think about it *taps forehead* 🧠" piece is an extremely tendentious bit of thinking, the odd person might have bought a cd because playstation pulled physical games, the notion that it's responsible for a massive increase is extremely "this is what i, the protagonist of reality, believe"
Don't have a cloud native homelab? We gotchu! Not quite there yet on bare metal but working on it as we speak! If you've got inference to donate it would help, lmk! projectbluefin.io/server/
Bluefin Server — Cloud-native home infrastructure from Project Bluefin
The Bluefin experience for your homelab. Image-based, auto-updating, zero maintenance. One management suite for every node, every service, and every container you run at home.
projectbluefin.io
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)@cncf.io · 5d agoWhat are you building in your homelab this weekend? Testing a new CNCF project, setting up local LLM inference, or fixing a bug you finally have time for? Tell us what you are hacking on in the replies! #CloudNative #Kubernetes #Homelab
The Onion's 9/11 special issue was amazing. The staff had just moved to NYC and had a party to celebrate their new location on 9/10. Then on 9/11, they got up and went to work. I consider it one of the finest examples of journalism ever, satire site and all.
My favorite 9/11 "News" story. theonion.com/hijackers-su...
Hijackers Surprised To Find Selves In Hell
JAHANNEM, OUTER DARKNESS—The hijackers who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon expressed confusion and surprise Monday to find themselves in the lowest plane of Na’...
theonion.com
Everyone of a certain age has their own 9/11 story. Here's mine. www.zdnet.com/article/copi...
Coping with September 11 2001 on the Internet - ZDNET
On September 11, 2001, I was already working with ZDNet. Here's a version of the story I filed that day on what was happening and how the Internet helped me, and millions of others cope with it.
zdnet.com
The RiffTrax Experiments Are Back! See Sting of Death in theaters one more time this Sunday afternoon. Get tickets here: www.fathomentertainment.com/releases/mst...
Yes, yes, it does. theonion.com/experts-advi...
Experts Advise Against Throwing Laptop Across Office Even Though It Will Feel Incredible
WASHINGTON—Explaining that the negative consequences in the long term outweigh any short-term satisfaction, experts from the American Psychological Association issued a statement Friday advising indiv...
theonion.com
fossforce.com/2026/09/jaso... via @brideoflinux.bsky.social
Jason Perlow’s New NCZ-OS Scratches Several Itches in One Distro - FOSS Force
NCZ-OS begins as a Linux answer for new CIX Sky1 Arm systems, with plans down the line for T2-equipped Intel Macs and capable PCs that can't officially upgrade to Windows 11.
fossforce.com
I, the only data reporter at the Charlotte Observer, am among the McClatchy layoffs in the bloodbath today. The HR person asked me not to talk about it! AMA. Anyway, here’s a link to one of my most important stories this year. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...
A Black teen found hanged near Charlotte church was a suicide, police say. Questions remain
In May, 16-year-old Juliana Nzita was found dead in a Charlotte churchyard. CMPD called it a suicide. Her family isn’t so sure.
charlotteobserver.com