Tag: research
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Humans are the bottleneck
Human attention is the binding constraint. About 80% of interactive agent session time is spent idle, waiting for a person. Reading all of the output from interactive sessions would take more than half the work week even for non-technical staff. One engineer compared it to babysitting, with every agent demanding attention at the same urgency.…
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J.P. Morgan’s Patchmageddon: Time-to-Exploit Hits Zero Days While Time-to-Patch Nears 100, 18 Million Packages Have One Maintainer, and Only 75 of 530 High-Severity Mythos Findings Got Fixed
The time between a vulnerability’s disclosure and its first exploitation has fallen to zero days while the average organization’s time to patch has risen toward 100, and frontier models that find bugs at scale push both lines the wrong way. The exposed flank is open source: 18 million packages with one maintainer, a two-week patch…
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Google can update third party open source dependencies in two hours or so, but forked code takes much longer.
But, forks take longer: On predictors: custom patches matter most. Packages Google had patched took three times longer at the median than unpatched ones, and “Google-specific patches or customization” was also the single most-cited reason engineers gave for a slow update. Volume of external dependencies, package size, and upstream change velocity tracked effort as well,…
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AI is driving CVE discover up, but exploits not exactly exploding
Of 1,061 vulnerabilities credited to AI-assisted discovery, 14 – 1.3% – have been exploited in the wild, which is the same rate as every other vulnerability. AI is multiplying the number of CVEs, not the danger of each one, and right now that hands defenders more to fix before attackers get there. Summarized by AI.…
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Europe problems: not enough bike mechanics
Europe needs 105,000 more bike mechanics by 2032 on top of a 45,000 shortfall today, and the cause is economic: the work is underpaid relative to its skill. Without fixing that, cycling growth stalls, because a bike nobody can repair stops being ridden. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Europe Needs 105,000 More Bike Mechanics by 2032…
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🤖 Findings and CIO Retention Guide: Gender, Priorities, and Exit Triggers in High Tech
Original: Beyond the Pipeline: A Gender Lens on Priorities and Exit Triggers in the High-Tech Industry by researchers at The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Communications of the ACM. Summarized by Claude AI on July 2, 2026. The Findings Men are far more committed to staying. 44.9% of men selected “no intentions to leave” vs.…
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Cognitive Surrender, Supply Chain Rats, and Cthulhu at Mount Fuji – Related to your interests, Saturday
Also: invisible AI bottlenecks, Amex coding stats, Copilot for entertainment only, and why not both Earth from Orion after translunar injection, April 2, 2026. Two auroras and zodiacal light visible as Earth eclipses the Sun. NASA/Reid Wiseman, Artemis II Related to your interests Invisible Work in the Age of AI: The New Bottleneck in Architecture…
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Industry analyst value after AI – how could Gartner use AI
Feeding the decades of Gartner research into some kind of AI querying thing would be interesting. Making sense of their reports takes a lot of time, and multi-year trends are hard to pick out. Writing into a chat window that was updated with not only the research reports, but also analyst opinions – maybe notes…
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Highlights from that OpenAI “The state of enterprise AI report”
On average, ChatGPT Enterprise users attribute 40–60 minutes of time saved per active day to their use of AI, with data science, engineering, and communications workers saving more than average (60–80 minutes per day). That’s the headline grabbing piece from the recent ChatGPT for work study. The theory take-away from that is that the more…
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🤖 Optimism Linked to 15% Longer Life and Higher Odds of Reaching 85+
People who maintain a more optimistic outlook tend to live longer and are more likely to reach “exceptional longevity,” defined as surviving to 85 or beyond. Drawing on data from over 69,000 women and 1,400 men, researchers found optimism’s benefits persisted even when accounting for health conditions, depression, and lifestyle habits. Summarized by AI. Source…
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Gemini could lap ChatGPT in app features
This would be great. I implicitly trust Google because my stuff is there. While I love using ChatGPT and Gemini, I have less trust in their security (they just don’t have the track record yet) and even less on their morals and law-following (they obviously blatantly violated copyright for their models). // If things keep…
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🤖 Tyler Cowen’s characteristic phrases and intellectual frameworks
I’m fascinated with Tyler Cowen. Here is Claude Sonnet 4.5’s deep research on his Tylerisms, I asked: Tyler Cowen has many maxims, principles, and aphorisms. One is “Context is that which is scarce” another is “all food is ethnic food” (from his ethnic food website). Sometimes his blog posts bring with “those new service sector…
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🤖 Sunlight’s Surprising Upside: Why a Little UV Might Be Healthier Than Hiding Indoors
Recent research suggests that moderate sun exposure may confer wide-ranging health benefits beyond vitamin D production, potentially offsetting its well-known risks. While excessive UV can lead to skin cancer, new studies indicate that careful sun-seeking could lower mortality rates, improve cardiovascular health, and even modulate immunity. This is a summary from ChatGPT. Source summarized: The…
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Broadcom’s answer to VMware pricing outrage: You’re using it wrong – IDC’s EMEA senior research director, Andrew Buss: “All our surveys in EMEA in the past five years have shown a majority preference to run workloads in private IT foremost, with around a third of organizations being quite balanced between making use of both public…
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OpenAI gives ChatGPT access to cloud-based documents and third-party research tools – The way to compete with AI is with the apps, the functionality they have, the outcomes they let you get – the stuff you can do with them.
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Why so many IT projects go so horribly wrong – Latest in “why do IT projects fail?” Research.
