The Overlogix Sunday Times #13
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Contents
Overview Since Last Edition (23 February 2025):
· Why the Move to Substack?
· Biggest News in Tech
· · Microsoft and OpenAI appear to be parting ways
· · DeepSeek
Job Market News: Overview
· United Kingdom
· Germany
· United States
· Job Market News
Technology News
· Microsoft and OpenAI: Break-up in Progress?
· General Technology News
· Artificial Intelligence News
· Non-AI Automation News
Switzerland Technology News
· Switzerland AI News
· Switzerland FinTech News
News Sources, References and Aggregation Sites
· Swiss Platforms and News Sites
· Switzerland Technology Video Channels
· General Technology News Sites
· Artificial Intelligence News Sites
· Classical (Non-AI) Automation News Aggregation Sites
Overlogix Articles
· Recently Published
· In Preparation
· Evergreen Articles
Burnout Prevention
Footnotes
Overview Since Last Edition (23 February 2025)
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Why the Move to Substack?
We take a detailed look at the free version of LinkedIn in this in-depth article. the TL;DR version is that the LI article editor lacks the features Substack has, including internal document navigation. LinkedIn’s monetization of nearly every useful function has robbed the free version of serious business utility for all but a handful of marketing purposes, detailed in the article. Add massive non-business noise, fussy robots, censorship, oddball and frequent, unprofessional user behavior to the mix, and LinkedIn has become a disaster waiting to happen.
We’re two days late publishing this edition, in part because of the move and the newsletter’s length. We’re still refining our content gathering and curation process, and hope to have that house in order by the next edition, scheduled for Sunday, 23 March 2025. We hope to be able to keep to the schedule.
In the meantime, ladies and gents, here’s the news.
Biggest News in Tech
Update: Breaking News: Has the AI Bubble Finally Popped?
Microsoft and OpenAI appear to be parting ways
We just saw a post about this on LinkedIn, and found the stories referred to on X. Details below.
It’s fairly clear this break-up is in the early stages, and that the parties still have significant mutual entanglements. OpenAI still has other options, although, from the looks of what we’ve seen, Microsoft is driving the split, apparently for excellent reasons.
This split potentially marks the beginning of the long-anticipated crash in artificial intelligence. OpenAI has lost a lot of effective executive staff, continues to be almost completely unprofitable, has floated some truly crazy pricing notions recently, does not appear to have any clear notion of how to attain profitability, relies far too heavily on investor money for its valuation and persists in a truly quixotic quest to produce artificial general intelligence, at a time when the only known profitable AIs are all narrow AIs, densely trained to perform one or a few tasks repeatably and reliably.
This appears to us to be a leadership problem. OpenAI’s board fired Sam Altman once, only to have him re-instated days later after pressure from employees and investors. From where we stand, that re-instatement was likely a serious error, one that could take down the entire industry and vaporize nearly trillions of dollars in investor money.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek is experiencing large-scale bans, with more to come. We have opined previously that we think their online models are in effect information gathering (read: spy) tools, with the CCP as the ultimate receiver of the data. As yet, we haven’t read much analysis of their strictly local model, i.e. the downloadable model one can run on one’s own machine, without going through the Internet. Until we do, we’re dumping that version in the same bucket: spyware.
We did take the trouble to ask one of our AI zoo whether malware could be hidden in the billions of weights in an AI model. The answer was, “of course!”. Malware needn’t be large, and so it is entirely possible to hide malware code as part of an AI model’s pre-training, along with additional code to later assemble the code and potentially run it on a user’s computer, without their knowledge.
We should point out that such a thing is not limited to DeepSeek; any AI model can potentially hide malware, and the attack can be so quick and subtle that the user never knows it happened. For this reason, we now recommend, even for users of local AI, to go through one’s existing files very carefully and thoroughly, and encrypt all important data that someone might want to steal.
Proactive and aggressive security practices are essential self-defense for all modern computer users. We have now written an article loaded with more than 45 sources of security information, directed at users of the Windows operating system, and another with three important security measures everyone should implement immediately.
Job Market News: Overview
Overlogix: We tend to pay little attention to job market forecasts, since there are so many incentives to skew the numbers for business and / or political reasons, and they are often dead wrong. However, readers are interested, and so we’ll provide a few, heavily curated stories on the topic.
As we have shared several times in the past, we believe there are a number of issues depressing hiring. In the UK and Europe, heavy-handed, paternalistic government regulations have stifled business over a long time. While President Trump is taking a machete to the US government, he has a very long period of frenzied hacking to go before he makes substantial inroads into deep state America.
In the meantime, there are still spaghetti regulations to untangle, bad tax law to fix, and plenty of deep state goons to fire, so the job market likely won’t recover in the US until late this year or early next year. We’re sorry for that, folks; the long term lesson to learn (or unlearn) is to be very cautious about voting. Government will grow and overwhelm the people, unless they exercise their franchise responsibilities wisely.
United Kingdom
The UK, never numerically 100% enthusiastic about Brexit, still has not been able to leverage their freedom from the EU in any big way, and now sports a decidedly left-leaning government, bad news for both business and employment. Tax burdens are onerous and, in the opinion of many Brits, outrageously high. High net-worth individuals have been leaving the UK in droves.
Despite the widespread unpopularity of the current Labour government, we do not see a change likely for some time, and so believe that Britain will remain in economic stagnation for the foreseeable future. The UK needs their own, modern version of Margaret Thatcher to thoroughly clean house.
Germany
The EU is overregulated in general. Germany, in particular, is suffering an industrial meltdown, mostly the result of a long history of unfortunate government decisions, and, in the last few years, the loss of cheap Russian gas. While we applaud Germany’s decision not to bow to Russia’s attempted energy blackmail, they didn’t have a good energy generation plan B, an unforced and rather surprising omission.
We’ve read that the German government is re-considering its nuclear policies. Unfortunately, nuclear power plants are both incredibly expensive and take a long time to build. Moreover, German nuclear expertise, critical for safe, large-scale nuclear power generation, has by now gone partially stale and will have to be re-developed. It is to be hoped that the new center-right government will take a hard look at what ails industry and aggressively addresses the many issues involved. Germany was at one time the economic powerhouse of the EU; we hope it returns some day to that status.
United States
The US job market is going through some short-term job losses due to Trump’s cleanout of wasteful and unnecessary government spending. There already have been suspensions, layoffs and firings of government employees; this trend is expected to pick up steam throughout the year.
When that happens in large numbers, some former government employees will find new jobs in either the government or industry. However, for the short term, government reductions in force can be expected to inject large numbers of job seekers into an already poor job market, further exacerbating the pain felt by those seeking employment.
N.B.: Like a lot of western governments, the USG became addicted to unsustainable spending levels. Withdrawal symptoms can be expected and will happen.
Another issue with government intervention in the economy is the US tax code Section 174 problem, forcing amortization of research costs, including labor costs, over five years instead of the year the expenses were incurred. We’re unsure of exactly what “research” means in the context of taxation, nor of the impact of this particular legislative glitch, however, cutting-edge technology, one of America’s strong points historically, has a high fraction of research costs relative to legacy industries. This taxation glitch likely has a significant effect on hiring and retention.
Job Market News
It’s getting ‘uncomfortably difficult’ to find a job. Here are the bright spots in this labor market. 08.03.2025 “Even before the release of Friday’s employment report, the labor market was beginning to test the nerves of America’s job hunters.
Now that the numbers are in, experts say there isn’t much that will counter the queasiness for those who are looking for a job. In other words: Don’t start chugging the Pepto-Bismol, but keep it handy.
‘It remains uncomfortably difficult for unemployed people who want a job to quickly find one,” said Cory Stahle, an economist at Indeed Hiring Lab.’”
Overlogix: As we have pointed out many times, the trades still seem to be doing fine. There is high demand, high pay and reasonable prospects for long-term, steady employment. More importantly, many skilled trades have much shorter learning curves than four-year degree programs, so workers can start earning good money rapidly.
Who needs toxic, layoff-happy white-collar office work when you can start working quickly, earn good money, and then forget about your job when you go home? Best of all: no crushing student debt. This one is a no-brainer. Learn welding, plumbing, construction, machining, take your pick. Get some basic training (inexpensive, try your local community college) and then get to work. Go where the money is, forget the high-tech desert. Problem: solved.
Why Today’s Youth Are Embracing Skilled Trades Over Four-Year Colleges 25.09.2024 “The shift toward trade schools has significantly impacted the construction industry in addressing one of the industry’s biggest challenges: a shortage of qualified, skilled workers.“
Skilled trade workers are still in short supply 06.11.2024 “The Fed publishes its Beige Book eight times per year. It’s a compendium of reports on local economic conditions from the 12 regional Federal Reserve banks.
The October edition, the most recent, reported this in its national summary about the U.S. labor market: ‘Demand for workers eased somewhat, with hiring focused primarily on replacement rather than growth. Worker availability improved, as many contacts reported it had become easier to find the workers they need.’
But also, there was this: ‘Contacts noted that it remained difficult to find workers with certain skills or in some industries, such as technology, manufacturing, and construction.’“
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The US job market added fewer jobs than expected in February as unemployment unexpectedly rose 07.03.2025
· “The US added 151,000 jobs in February, fewer than expected.
· Unemployment unexpectedly ticked up to 4.1% from 4%.
· The new data will be useful for the Federal Reserve to decide whether to keep interest rates steady.”
ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey in Switzerland (undated) “Get an insight of Swiss employers' hiring plans for the 2nd quarter of 2024:
A look at the various sectors shows that new hires are planned in 8 of the 9 sectors surveyed. The highest net employment intentions are reported by companies in the following sectors: Healthcare and Life Sciences (44%), Finance and Real Estate (43%), Transport, Logistics and Automotive (42%), Consumer Goods and Services (41%). The "Communication Services" sector reported a negative employment forecast of -8%. With a value of 21%, companies in the IT sector recorded the lowest employment outlook since the beginning of 2022.”
U. S. Job market looks uncertain, despite decent job growth at the start of 2025 07.02.2025 “The U.S. labor market probably started 2025 the way it spent most of last year: generating decent, but unspectacular, job growth.
When the Labor Department releases January employment numbers Friday, they’re likely to show that companies, government agencies, and nonprofits added 170,000 jobs last month, according to a survey of economists by the data firm FactSet. That would be a respectable performance but also a downshift from 2024, which averaged 186,000 new jobs a month, including a surge of 256,000 in December. The unemployment rate is expected to remain low at 4.1%.”
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U.S. Hiring Outlook - 2025 Salary Guide (undated) “2025 presents employers with a complex hiring landscape of skills shortages, open roles and pending projects at a time when labor pools are tight. Meanwhile, AI is changing job roles and skills needs. Yet many firms are slow to hire, jeopardizing productivity and revenues and risking the loss of skilled talent to competitors.
The bottleneck of pent-up demand could signal an approaching hiring boom. To thrive in this environment, managers must pay salaries that meet or beat market rates, fast-track the hiring process and, even more important today, offer flexible arrangements such as nontraditional schedules and fully remote or hybrid work options.“
Overlogix: Robert Half is a staffing company, and in our experience, not a particularly reputable one. The above report should be taken with a tablespoon of salt.
The Future of Jobs Report 2025 07.12.2025 “Technological change, the green transition, economic uncertainty, geoeconomic fragmentation and demographic shifts are reshaping the labour market. This chapter analyses how employers expect various kinds of jobs to grow and decline in response to these macrotrends and assesses the role of each of these trends in contributing to labour-market transformation.”
Overlogix: Since this report is by the World Economic Forum, we are cautious about believing anything in it. The WEC has a decidedly globalist agenda, which does not match what we are seeing.
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Will Jobs Be Plentiful In 2025? 31.12.2025
· “Jobs are getting harder to find, a trend that could continue into the new year.
· There are fewer jobs available for every unemployed worker than before the pandemic, and the job finding rate has hit its lowest since the pandemic hit.
· Economists expect the job market to stay afloat despite the pullback because the economy is still running well despite high interest rates for loans slowing down business.”
2025 Labor Market Outlook 19.12.2024 “TL;DR: The most likely labor market outcome for 2024 is an end to the labor market cooling process we’ve experienced over the past 2.5 years.”
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Technology News
Microsoft and OpenAI: Break-up in Progress?
Overlogix: Rumors on X and LinkedIn that something is happening between Microsoft and OpenAI:
X: Microsoft OpenAI Note: This is a link to a search on X. Results of that search can be expected to change fairly rapidly.
LinkedIn: Microsoft OpenAI Note: This is a link to a search on LinkedIn. Results of that search can be expected to change fairly rapidly.
Overlogix: We are seeing rumors on X.com that Microsoft is distancing itself from OpenAI. Are there any in-depth, well-researched, critical articles that research the truth of this rumor?
Perplexity: Recent reports from credible tech publications and regulatory findings substantiate rumors that Microsoft is strategically distancing itself from OpenAI while maintaining their partnership. Here's an analysis of key developments:
Growing Technical Independence
1. Internal AI Development:
Microsoft has trained its "MAI" models, which reportedly match OpenAI's top models in benchmark performance. The company is testing these in Copilot while exploring alternatives from Meta, xAI, and DeepSeek. This technical decoupling gained urgency after OpenAI allegedly refused to share technical details about its o1 reasoning model.2. Infrastructure Shifts:
Microsoft restructured its cloud agreement with OpenAI in January 2025, abandoning exclusive cloud provider status in favor of a "first right of refusal" arrangement. This enables OpenAI to partner with Oracle and SoftBank on a $500B AI infrastructure project.
Regulatory & Competitive Pressures
3. Antitrust Scrutiny:
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) closed its merger investigation after finding Microsoft's influence over OpenAI had diminished rather than increased. Key factors included:· Microsoft relinquishing board seat plans
· OpenAI's infrastructure diversification
4. Public Positioning:
Microsoft officially listed OpenAI as a competitor in its 2024 SEC filings, signalling a strategic shift from collaborator to rival in key AI markets.
Financial & Strategic Motivations
5. Cost Containment:
Internal documents reveal Microsoft seeks to reduce Copilot's operational costs by 20-30% through model diversification. OpenAI's ChatGPT reportedly costs Microsoft $0.80 per query versus $0.20 for in-house models.6. Market Expansion:
Plans to commercialize MAI models via API later in 2025 would directly compete with OpenAI's developer ecosystem. This follows Microsoft's $14B investment in OpenAI, which grants perpetual IP rights to the startup's models.
Critical Sources Analyzing the Split
Gizmodo (Source 4): Details technical tensions, including OpenAI's refusal to share model internals and Microsoft's cancelled data center leases.
TechCrunch (Source 8): Reveals Microsoft is testing four rival AI models in Copilot while accelerating MAI development.
InfoWorld (Source 7): Exposes internal struggles with MAI development, including talent departures and technical setbacks delaying releases.
PYMNTS (Source 6): Highlights Microsoft's strategic pivot to position OpenAI as a competitor rather than partner.
While the partnership remains intact for now, these developments suggest Microsoft is actively building redundancy against OpenAI's dominance. As noted by Fladgate's Alex Haffner: "The CMA decision masks fundamental shifts in what was once an exclusive symbiotic relationship". The diversification strategy appears driven by cost concerns, regulatory risk mitigation, and Microsoft's ambition to control core AI infrastructure.
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General Technology News
US' Secretive X-37B Space Plane Returns To Earth After 434-Day Mission 11.03.2024 “The US government's top-secret X-37B space plane returned to Earth after a 434-day mission in orbit, a statement by the US Space Force (USSF) has revealed. The 29-foot-long X-37B landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California last Friday (Mar 7) at 2:22 am local time after completing its seventh mission.
‘The US Space Force landed the X-37B at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, to exercise its rapid ability to launch and recover its systems across multiple sites. X-37B's Mission 7 was the first launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket to a Highly Elliptical Orbit,’ read the USSF statement.
Though the details about the unmanned spacecraft's more-than-a-year-long mission have largely been kept under wraps, Chief of Space Operations General Chance Saltzman reiterated that the aircraft had achieved successful execution of the aerobraking manoeuvre.
‘Mission 7 broke new ground by showcasing the X-37B's ability to flexibly accomplish its test and experimentation objectives across orbital regimes," said General Saltzman.’
Meta launches limited edition Ray-Ban x Coperni glasses at Paris Fashion Week. Features, price and other details 11.03.2025 “Silicon Valley tech giant Meta has launched its limited edition Ray-Ban x Coperni glasses at the Paris Fashion Week, the company said in a statement on its blog on March 10.
The wearable made its appearance on the runway of the Coperni Fall Winter 25 Show at the Paris Fashion Week in the French capital. We take a look at the design features, price, tech and other details of the Ray-Ban Meta x Coperni Limited Editions glasses.“
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Microsoft Upgrade Deadline—Millions Of Windows Users Suddenly Switch 11.03.2025 “We are fast approaching a crunch point for Microsoft and hundreds of millions of users sticking with software that will no longer receive security updates. This unprecedented situation could lead to security nightmare for the company and for the millions left exposed to an increasingly dangerous cybersecurity landscape.
Microsoft’s free upgrade offer to Windows 11 remains open, albeit only for those with the right spec of PC. Combined with constant warnings and nags, it is finally putting a dent into the problem. February saw Windows 10 hit a new low, as tens of millions of users suddenly, finally switched to Windows 11, per the latest data from Statcounter.“
Overlogix: Heh. We think we know why, too. We’ve noticed our Windows 10 computer has recently started having freezing problems.
We’ve run every diagnostic on the machine we can find, and there are low to no problems reported. However, Windows updates still happen automatically, and we have exactly zero visibility into what those upgrades do. Can you connect the dots?
It wouldn’t surprise us at all to learn Microsoft is trying to nudge Windows 10 users to upgrade. If so, that’s a nasty way of doing business. We plan a thorough survey later in the spring on Windows alternatives, advantages and disadvantages.
Users of Windows 10 with certain kinds of digital licenses can upgrade to Windows 11 for free. We’ll dig into that later.
Also, has your Windows 10 system informed you that your computer isn’t good enough to upgrade to Windows 11? Ours has. There are workarounds, another topic we’ll cover later.
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Nvidia sales grow 78% on AI demand, company gives strong guidance 26.02.2025
Nvidia reported fourth-quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday that beat Wall Street expectations.
The company’s revenue in the quarter rose 78%, and full fiscal-year revenue for Nvidia rose 114% to $130.5 billion.
Nvidia said it expected about $43 billion in first-quarter revenue, plus or minus 2%, versus $41.78 billion expected per LSEG estimates.
Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 28.02.2025 “Firefox maker Mozilla deleted a promise to never sell its users' personal data and is trying to assure worried users that its approach to privacy hasn't fundamentally changed. Until recently, a Firefox FAQ promised that the browser maker never has and never will sell its users' personal data. An archived version from January 30 says:
Q: Does Firefox sell your personal data?
A: ‘Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That's a promise.’
That promise is removed from the current version. There's also a notable change in a data privacy FAQ that used to say, ‘Mozilla doesn't sell data about you, and we don't buy data about you.’”
Overlogix: We stopped using Firefox years ago because it was so irritating to use; it frequently wouldn’t render web pages due to weird reasons like ‘outdated security certificate’. If you like the Firefox as a program, we recommend trying the Pale Moon browser, a security and privacy-minded re-spin of Firefox, that largely removes the annoying rendering behavior. We stick with the Brave browser, as it is good at removing annoying and time-wasting advertisements.
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Probe on Nvidia exports: Chips allegedly moved through Singapore were sent to Malaysia; final destination under investigation 03.03.2025 “Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam says Singapore’s investigations were carried out independently and not requested by the US, which had placed export controls on advanced AI chips.”
Chip maker TSMC announces new US$100 billion plan to build five new US factories 04.03.2025 “WASHINGTON: Taiwanese semiconductor company TSMC announced on Monday (Mar 3) plans to make an additional US$100 billion investment in the United States and build five additional chips factories in the coming years.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co's CEO C C Wei announced the plan in a meeting at the White House with President Donald Trump. ‘We must be able to build the chips and semiconductors that we need right here,’ Trump said. ‘It's a matter of national security for us.’”
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Artificial Intelligence News
Understanding the Hidden Risks of AI Agent Adoption 10.3.2025 “AI agents promise to automate tasks and enhance efficiency, however they can also present unique security vulnerabilities. Here’s what to know.“
Overlogix: We’re very skittish about AI agents; we believe they became news a few months ago due to waning investor interest in AI (LLM) technology, and were “slapped together” to provide investors with “proof” that companies were applying AI to real-world problems. We published, and since updated, a quickie article, with references, explicitly naming the risks to using them. Security was definitely on the list.
Radiology AI software provider Gleamer expands into MRI with two small acquisitions 10.03.2025 “Medical imaging is a broad term that encompasses several distinct technologies. After working on AI-powered tools to enhance X-rays and mammographies, French startup Gleamer now aims to tackle magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Instead of starting from scratch, Gleamer has acquired two startups that have already been working on AI-powered MRI analysis: Pixyl and Caerus Medical.“
Overlogix: This is exactly the type of narrow AI that can make money. Forget about AGI and hype: the profit is in purpose-built, high-reliability, narrow AI.
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AI made its way to vineyards. Here’s how the technology is helping make your wine 10.03.2025 “LOS ANGELES (AP) — When artificial intelligence-backed tractors became available to vineyards, Tom Gamble wanted to be an early adopter. He knew there would be a learning curve, but Gamble decided the technology was worth figuring out.
The third-generation farmer bought one autonomous tractor. He plans on deploying its self-driving feature this spring and is currently using the tractor’s AI sensor to map his Napa Valley vineyard. As it learns each row, the tractor will know where to go once it is used autonomously. The AI within the machine will then process the data it collects and help Gamble make better-informed decisions about his crops — what he calls ‘precision farming.’
‘It’s not going to completely replace the human element of putting your boot into the vineyard, and that’s one of my favorite things to do,’ he said. ‘But it’s going to be able to allow you to work more smartly, more intelligently and in the end, make better decisions under less fatigue.’“
Global experts develop AI Glossary to support critical discussions on technology’s societal impact 10.03.2025 “A group of international experts from leading institutions has developed a glossary designed to encourage deeper discussions on artificial intelligence AI and its societal implications.
Titled Critical Conversations about AI: A Glossary for Big Questions and Bold Ideas, the resource moves beyond standard definitions to address complex ethical, philosophical, and social aspects of AI.
The glossary was created by experts from the Centre for AI in Government at the University of Birmingham, the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of AI and Digital Technology (Obvia) in Canada, and the Tech Hub at the Geneva Graduate Institute.“
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This Seattle AI startup watches you work — then automates the tedious back-office tasks 05.03.2025 “A Seattle startup hatched out of AI2 Incubator is emerging from stealth today, announcing a $5 million seed round to fuel its goal of automating basic business operations with generative AI.
Caddi is developing “automation by demonstration” technology, allowing users to create screen recordings with audio that serve as AI training videos for tasks such as customer onboarding, email management, document organization, data entry and invoicing. The system then converts these recordings into automated workflows, effectively creating a virtual employee.”
Samsung at MWC 2025: redefining mobile AI experiences 03.03.2025 “Samsung unveils its latest developments in Galaxy AI, extended reality and software solutions that enable network operators to inlock the benefits of AI”
The story behind plans for 'colossal' data hub 03.03.2025 “The future of a failed gigafactory site will be decided when plans for a £10bn artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing data centre go before councillors.
It has long been hoped the land in Cambois, Northumberland, would be used to boost the local economy, but previous plans to build an electric car battery plant ultimately fell through.
Britishvolt had vowed to create 3,000 jobs at the gigafactory but went bust before it could make good on its promise.”
Bipartisan congressional duo encourages governors to ban DeepSeek on government devices 03.03.2025 “First to NBC News: Reps. Josh Gottheimer and Darin LaHood introduced legislation to ban the app on federal government devices.”
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Anthropic Raises $3.5 Billion to Develop Next-Generation AI Systems 03.03.2025 “Anthropic raised $3.5 billion in a Series E funding round to expand its artificial intelligence offerings.
“With this investment, Anthropic will advance its development of next-generation AI systems, expand its compute capacity, deepen its research in mechanistic interpretability and alignment, and accelerate its international expansion,” the company said in a Monday (March 3) press release.
The round gave Anthropic a post-money valuation of $61.5 billion, according to the release.”
New centre to explore how AI can help business 03.03.3035 “A new department due to open at the University of Cambridge later this year will look at how artificial intelligence (AI) can boost the economy.
The university said The Bennett School of Public Policy would be the first major new academic department at Cambridge to be established this century.
Research priorities will include examining how to use AI in both the private and public sectors.”
Autoscience Carl: The first AI scientist writing peer-reviewed papers 03.03.2025 “The newly-formed Autoscience Institute has unveiled ‘Carl,’ the first AI system crafting academic research papers to pass a rigorous double-blind peer-review process.
Carl’s research papers were accepted in the Tiny Papers track at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). Critically, these submissions were generated with minimal human involvement, heralding a new era for AI-driven scientific discovery.”
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Chinese Buyers Are Ordering Nvidia’s Newest AI Chips, Defying U.S. Curbs 02.03.2025 “Traders offer servers containing the company’s Blackwell chips by routing them through third parties in nearby regions”
“Chinese buyers are circumventing U.S. export controls to order Nvidia’s NVDA -8.69%decrease; red down pointing triangle latest artificial-intelligence chips, illustrating the challenges the Trump administration will face in choking off cutting-edge American technology.”
School pupils set for AI and digital skills hubs 02.03.2025 “Secondary school pupils in Lancashire are set to experience future technologies like AI and virtual reality.
Lancashire MEGA Hubs is a new scheme aimed at enhancing digital skills and career opportunities for youngsters, the county council said.
Pupils in all of the county's secondary schools will be able to work with coding, cyber security and machine learning, with extra-curricular days and an out-of-school Cyber and Esports Academy.”
If the best defence against AI is more AI, this could be tech’s Oppenheimer moment 02.03.2025 “An unsettling new book advocates a closer relationship between Silicon Valley and the US government to harness artificial intelligence in the name of national security”
Collaborating to advance research and innovation on essential chips for AI 28.02.2025 “Agreement between MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories and GlobalFoundries aims to deliver power efficiencies for data centers and ultra-low power consumption for intelligent devices at the edge.”
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How ServiceNow is Boosting Manufacturing with AI 27.02.2025 “ServiceNow's acquisition of Advania's Quality 360 brings AI-powered quality management tools to manufacturing processes and workflows”
You.com ARI: Professional-grade AI research agent for businesses 27.02.2025 “Palo Alto-based You.com has introduced ARI, a professional-grade AI research agent for businesses to access competitive insights.
ARI (Advanced Research & Insights) delivers comprehensive, accurate, and interactive reports within minutes—potentially shaking up the $250 billion management consulting industry.
You.com claims ARI completes reports that typically require weeks of labour and cost thousands of dollars in just five minutes, at a fraction of traditional expenses.”
BBC Verify: Viral Donald Trump Jr audio highly likely AI fake 28.02.2025 “A widely shared clip of Donald Trump Jr allegedly saying on his podcast that the US should have sent arms to Russia rather than Ukraine has been very likely generated using AI, audio forensics experts have told BBC Verify. Olga Robinson explains why the audio is suspect.”
After waiting with bated breath, Wall Street absorbs Nvidia's latest earnings 26.02.2025 “The GPU chipmaker has become one of the most closely watched companies in the world as a barometer for AI investment — and the broader stock market.”
Apple AI tool transcribed the word 'racist' as 'Trump' 26.02.2025 “Apple says it is working to fix its speech-to-text tool after some social media users found that when they spoke the word "racist" into their iPhones it typed it out as "Trump."
The tech giant has suggested the issue with its Dictation service has been caused by a problem it has distinguishing between words with an "r" in them.
"We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers Dictation and we are rolling out a fix today," an Apple spokesperson said.”
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CERTAIN drives ethical AI compliance in Europe 26.02.2025 “EU-funded initiative CERTAIN aims to drive ethical AI compliance in Europe amid increasing regulations like the EU AI Act.
CERTAIN — short for “Certification for Ethical and Regulatory Transparency in Artificial Intelligence” — will focus on the development of tools and frameworks that promote transparency, compliance, and sustainability in AI technologies.
The project is led by Idemia Identity & Security France in collaboration with 19 partners across ten European countries, including the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences (UAS) in Austria. With its official launch in January 2025, CERTAIN could serve as a blueprint for global AI governance.”
DeepSeek to open-source AGI research amid privacy concerns 21.02.2025 “DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup aiming for artificial general intelligence (AGI), announced plans to open-source five repositories starting next week as part of its commitment to transparency and community-driven innovation.
However, this development comes against the backdrop of mounting controversies that have drawn parallels to the TikTok saga.”
Like human brains, large language models reason about diverse data in a general way 19.02.2025 “A new study shows LLMs represent different data types based on their underlying meaning and reason about data in their dominant language.”
South Korea is building the world’s largest AI data centre 18.02.2025 “South Korea is preparing to host the world’s largest AI data centre by capacity, setting its sights on global technological leadership.
The monumental project, led by Fir Hills – a division of California-based Stock Farm Road, Inc. (SFR) – is expected to commence construction in winter 2025 and aims to generate an initial annual revenue of $3.5 billion.
The facility, located in the Jeollanam-do Province, is the result of a strategic collaboration between seasoned innovators. SFR was co-founded by LG heir Brian Koo and Dr Amin Badr-El-Din, a veteran of successful ventures in technology, energy, and global public-private partnerships.”
CNA Explains: Are countries banning DeepSeek for legitimate reasons? 12.02.2025 “SINGAPORE: In recent weeks, several countries have moved to ban or restrict China's breakout artificial intelligence (AI) app DeepSeek-R1, citing privacy and security concerns.
The startup caused a stir in the global AI industry last month with the launch of a low-cost chatbot said to be on par with or better than existing options.”
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Non-AI Automation News
Manufacturing Technology Orders Post Strongest January Since 2022 10.03.2025 “Orders of manufacturing technology, measured by the U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Report published by AMT–The Association For Manufacturing Technology, totaled $357.3 million in January 2025, a 29.8% decline from December but a 5.7% increase from January 2024. Compared to an average January, the value of orders placed in January 2025 was 16.2% higher, making it the highest January since 2022. However, the number of units was 12.2% lower than the average January–the lowest level for any January since 2016.“
Manufacturers Use Low-Code Software to Improve Operations and Reduce AI Risks 27.03.2025 “The move toward low-code and no-code software in industry has gained a lot of traction in the past few years for several reasons. Most notably in that it helps manufacturing domain experts — not IT specialists — develop apps to help optimize production processes and guide new workers through complex procedures.“
Overlogix: Programmers, take note! Manufacturing is a big consumer of automation, for obvious reasons, and, having worked in manufacturing, we know they don’t have time to fool around with complicated coding. They are interested in making things, not getting bogged down with overcomplicated technology, so, if you want to keep your jobs, get to know the people who do it every day, what they need, and, most important, what they don’t need. Your future employment condition will thank you.
Unified Namespace Acts as a Central Source of Truth for Automation Data 25.02.2025 “This consolidation of control aims to reduce hardware and software costs while simplifying integration for machine builders. Open PLC logic plays a crucial role in this transition by embedding HMI and component libraries into PLC code, enabling greater flexibility in power, communication and system design.“
Don’t Make Your Computerized Maintenance Management System Worthless 25.02.2025 “A poorly executed CMMS implementation can be an expensive failure. However, the fault rarely lies with the software. To avoid this, focus on data standardization, consultative implementation and ongoing training to increase asset uptime, reduce emergency maintenance, and improve workforce efficiency and regulatory compliance.“
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Switzerland Technology News
Overlogix: Quiet, beautiful, peaceful Switzerland has a very powerful, close collaboration between science and industry, a very skilled cohort of talent, and is a hub for AI advancement. We live here, and love it. We hope to bring some uniquely American taste for risk and know-how to our adopted land. In the meantime, here’s a taste of what’s happening now.
There is a truly surprising amount of high tech development happening here, and we are pleased to present our picks for the best of the best. We believe Switzerland is already proving to be an essential technology hub; read on to find out for yourselves why.
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Switzerland AI News
Swiss - AI or Die 07.03.2025 “Switzerland stands for precision, innovation and top quality - but global challenges such as a shortage of skilled workers, high labour costs, and increasing competition are putting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in particular under pressure. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers a historic opportunity to increase efficiency, open up new markets and take Swiss excellence to the next level.“
A New Era of Intelligent Robots – AI and Robotics (undated) “The fusion of AI and Robotics is poised to transform society, enabling tasks beyond humanity’s physical and cognitive limitations. From automation to national defence, the application of AI to robotics will allow machines to adapt to situations, autonomously perform complex tasks, and enable smarter environments, but it will also raise ethical and societal concerns.“
An artificial intelligence health hub is set to open at Campus Biotech 03.03.2025 “The University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG), the Department of Health and Mobilities (DSM) of the Canton of Geneva, and the Wyss Center are joining forces to establish Switzerland’s first artificial intelligence health hub at Campus Biotech, set to open in the second half of 2025.“
Microsoft to open AI lab in Zurich 12.02.2025 “Microsoft is creating another division for research into Artificial Intelligence in Zurich: The new Microsoft AI lab will chiefly work on further developing Microsoft Copilot. Davide Bonapersona, Head of Product and Technology Development at Microsoft AI, the newly founded AI department of Microsoft in 2024, announced this news adding that: ‘Zurich is a magnet for top AI talent and we look forward to increasing our investment here and in Europe’.“
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Switzerland FinTech News
France Rises as a Leading European Fintech Hub with 1,100+ Ventures, 14 Unicorns and 54,000 Jobs 11.03.2025 “Over the past years, France has emerged as a major fintech hub, with the number of companies operating in the sector soaring more than tenfold from just 100 in 2012 to 1,145 in 2024, according to a new report by KPMG France and France Fintech.“
CMTA enhances security for tokenized securities 06.03.2025 “The Capital Markets and Technology Association (CMTA) has launched a new version of its CMTAT framework. The rollout is being handled by the digital asset infrastructure company Taurus, with this innovative update designed to enhance the data security of tokenized securities.“
Swiss Retail Banks Struggle to Keep Up in Global Digital Race 06.03.2025 “Swiss retail banks are losing further ground in global digital rankings, dropping from 18th place in 2020 to 27th last year.
With a digital maturity score of 39, they fall below the global average (41) and lag significantly behind the leading digital banks (60+), none of which are Swiss.
While real-time notifications, AI-driven savings tools, and digital insurance have long been standard internationally, many Swiss banks still lack these services.
The latest global digitalisation report by Deloitte underscores the risks: banks that fail to modernise will lose customers to more agile digital competitors—many of which are international players.“
Overlogix: Swiss banks, we’re right here, and we specialize in massive automation. Time to give use a call …
FINMA Declares Fintech Challenger Startup SWISS4.0 Bankrupt 05.03.2025 “The Swiss financial regulator opens bankruptcy proceedings over liquidity and debt concerns, appoints Valfor Avocats Sàrl as liquidator“
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Given the truly massive amount of news copy pumped out daily by endless news websites, we understand when the average technology reader finds themselves lost in all the verbiage, only a small fraction of which is actually important and worth reading. One of the purposes of this newsletter is our attempt to cut through that fog and provide readers with a truly important and probative, curated collection of relevant news stories.
We find the news you can use, so you don’t have to wade through the swamp yourselves. With each edition, we narrow down more closely the real gems of technology, automation and artificial intelligence developments in the wild west of tech.
A new feature, introduced in this edition, is a collection of links to various credible and widely read tech news sources. Our editorial choices happen to fit our needs, for readers with different tastes, we offer these additional sources, many of which we ourselves use to prepare this newsletter.
Happy reading!
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Swiss Platforms and News Sites
Deep Tech Nation Switzerland - The Deep Tech Nation Switzerland Information Platform is your curated gateway to Swiss deep tech. Designed for VCs and institutional investors, it brings together exclusive insights, key data, and the people shaping innovation—so you can navigate this dynamic ecosystem with clarity and confidence.
Digitalswitzerland - The umbrella organisation for digitalisation in Switzerland.
Fintech News Network “Fintech News Switzerland provides a source of timely, deep insights and the latest local and global news about Fintech.
Launched in 2014, the Fintech News Network team works very hard to deliver fintech-centric content in various forms to an audience looking for updates on fintech events and webinars, stunning opinions from highly-reputable digital finance innovators, analysis on fintech applications from active insiders, breaking news on fintech topics and fintech market alerts.
Fintechnews.ch is part of the Fintech News Network.”
Sifted Daily: Switzerland – “Stay one step ahead with news and experts analysis on what’s happening across startup Europe.”
Swiss Biotech – “Founded in 1998, the Swiss Biotech Association represents the interests of the Swiss biotech industry. To support its members in a competitive market, the Swiss Biotech Association works to secure favorable framework conditions and facilitate access to talents, novel technologies and financial resources. To strengthen and promote the Swiss biotech industry, the Swiss Biotech Association collaborates with numerous partners and life science clusters globally under the brand Swiss Biotech™.”
Swisslinx – “Is Switzerland technologically advanced? Switzerland has long been a world leader in innovation and technology. Ranked as the most innovative country in the world by the Global Innovation Index, the country remains at the forefront of science and technological research. Switzerland has always been quick to utilize new technologies to create robust innovation across a range of industries, from financial services to healthcare and life sciences.”
“Swisslinx is a leading recruitment consultancy specializing in IT, Finance, and Life Sciences sectors across Switzerland and international markets. Since 1999, we have been delivering market-leading talent solutions with a commitment to transparency, respect, and trust.”
Swisstech The Platform About Swiss Innovation
Swiss tech Welcome to SWI swissinfo.ch’s focus on science.
Switzerland Innovation “For years, Switzerland has been the most innovative country in the world. What makes us so successful?
The key word is education. Swiss schools and universities are among the best in the world and form the foundation of our innovative strength. Yet for our leading education and research to create marketable products and services, our universities must have the best possible links to the economy.
This is where Switzerland Innovation comes in, with six sites nationwide offering universities and companies the opportunity to network. This exchange between science and the economy allows ideas to be developed further – to create products and services that can be marketed successfully. At the same time, working together closely in a single space accelerates the development processes for all parties. This leads to successful innovation.”
The Recursive – Switzerland “The Recursive is an independent community-born online media focused on the emerging tech and startup ecosystems in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Our mission is to provide constructive reporting on the progress of the local innovation community.”
Startupticker.ch - The Swiss start-up news channel “Startupticker.ch is the online platform for young entrepreneurs, innovators and supporters. The hub increases the visibility of young Swiss companies and serves to highlight the diverse and vibrant start-up scene.
The news portal provides daily information on company results, launch of innovations, growth, financing, exits, support services, events and award tenders. The most important news and events of the week from the start-up community are sent out in a weekly newsletter.
The news portal communicates in English, German, French and Italian.”
Swiss startup news Venturelab’s news website: “Venturelab set sail in 2004. It began as the National Entrepreneurial Training initiative, which was mandated by the Swiss Innovation Agency to IFJ, the Institute for Young Entrepreneurs based in St. Gallen. Today, Venturelab Ltd is a fully private company supporting world-class startups, Swiss made.”
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ETH Zürich “ETH Zurich is one of the leading international universities for technology and the natural sciences. It is well-known for its excellent education, ground-breaking fundamental research and for implementing its results directly into practice. Founded in 1855, ETH Zurich today has more than 24 500 students from over 120 countries, including 4,000 doctoral students. To researchers, it offers an inspiring working environment, to students, a comprehensive education. Twenty-two Nobel Laureates have studied, taught or conducted research at ETH Zurich, underlining the excellent reputation of the university.”
Greater Zurich Area Ltd – “The Greater Zurich Area is known for its concentrated technology excellence in Europe's most stable environment. As a global leader in innovation and talent attraction and with Switzerland’s business-friendly and stable environment, the business location offers international companies real added value for their strategic expansion. Greater Zurich Area Ltd (GZA) is the official investment promotion agency of the economic region of Zurich, Switzerland. GZA is a reliable Swiss business concierge for companies looking to grow internationally.”
SwissUniversityTV – “Swiss universities' multimedia content.”
Switzerland Global Enterprise (S-GE) “Switzerland Global Enterprise (S-GE) is the official Swiss organization for export and investment promotion. With a unique global network, S-GE supports more than 5,500 Swiss companies every year in their international business and helps innovative foreign companies on their way to settling in Switzerland. In this respect, S-GE has acted on behalf of the Swiss Confederation and cantons since 1927 to ensure strength in the country’s foreign trade and prosperity in Switzerland.”
SWI swissinfo.ch – English “swissinfo.ch is the International Service of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation. Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspective on international events. Today, the international service is directed above all at an international audience interested in Switzerland, as well as at Swiss citizens living abroad.”
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General Technology News Sites
Ars Technica A website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998. It publishes news, reviews, and guides on issues such as computer hardware and software, science, technology policy, and video games.
Tom’s Hardware Great site for PC enthusiasts. Reviews and test results for almost all available PC components.
Wired “Wired is a bi-monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics. Owned by Condé Nast, its editorial offices are in San Francisco, California, and its business office at Condé Nast headquarters in Liberty Tower in New York City. Wired has been in publication since its launch in January 1993.[2] Several spin-offs have followed, including Wired UK, Wired Italia, Wired Japan, Wired Czech Republic and Slovakia[3] and Wired Germany. The magazine was published monthly until 2024, when publishing switched to 6 issues a year.”
TechCrunch is an American global online newspaper focusing on topics regarding high-tech and startup companies. It was founded in June 2005 by Archimedes Ventures, led by partners Michael Arrington and Keith Teare.[4] …
In addition to its news reporting, TechCrunch is also known for its annual Disrupt conference, a technology event hosted in several cities across the United States, Europe, and China.
The Verge The latest tech news about the world’s best (and sometimes worst) hardware, apps, and much more. From top companies like Google and Apple to tiny startups vying for your attention, Verge Tech has the latest in what matters in technology daily.
Tech News World Part of the ECT News Network; news on Computing, Internet, IT, Mobile, Tech Reviews, Security, Tech Blog, Technology.
Hacker News Y Combinator’s news website, mostly user contributions, definitely for hard core technical minded folks only.
The Hacker News “The Hacker News (THN) stands as a top and reliable source for the latest updates in cybersecurity. As an independent outlet, we offer balanced and thorough insights into the cybersecurity sector, trusted by professionals and enthusiasts alike.
Having built a strong reputation over a decade, THN attracts 50 million readers annually, all looking to us for the newest information, insights, and solutions in cybersecurity.”
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Artificial Intelligence News Sites
AI News “AI News, part of the TechForge Media portfolio is a thriving community of professionals interested in artificial intelligence strategy and technology. We take the best industry research and put our own spin on it, report from the frontline of AI news, as well as feature contributions from companies at the heart of this revolution. Whether you’re a seasoned IT professional, a business leader navigating digital transformation, or simply curious about the latest trends shaping the future of artificial intelligence, AI News is your trusted companion on the journey to AI success.“
AI Magazine “We connect the world’s largest artificial intelligence brands and their most senior executives with the latest trends, industry insight, and influential projects as the world embraces technology and digital transformation.
AI Magazine is an established, trusted, and leading voice on all things artificial intelligence – engaging with a highly targeted audience of global executives.
We provide the perfect platform for you to showcase your products and services, share your achievements, and enhance your reputation in the industry.“
TechCrunch AI News See above for TechCrunch general description. This is their AI specialty site.
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Classical (Non-AI) Automation News Aggregation Sites
Automation World: Keep up with the wild, wonderful world of general automation with this news aggregator.
Automation.com News: Another automation news aggregation site. Tons of recent articles on all aspects of automation.
Association for Advancing Automation: A3's Automation News Hub also aggregates news items on all things related to automation and robots.
Wired Automation: This site features a lot of AI as well as more prosaic robot automation. Useful for yet another point of view on the exploding field of general automation.
Artificial Intelligence Healthcare News A quality source for news on improvements to healthcare via artificial intelligence. This site is worth regular reading, especially for older readers.
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Overlogix Articles
Recently Published
LinkedIn Free Version: An Analysis for Small Businesses 10.03.2025 Our detailed and thorough analysis of what small businesses can expect to accomplish via the free version of LinkedIn, and, more importantly, what has been monetized and is no longer practically within reach of small businesses.
Given the very large amount of daily hype pushed out by unscrupulous actors on LinkedIn, frequently and loudly proclaiming that LinkedIn is still the greatest thing to happen since sliced cheese, we take a blunt, experienced and unemotional deep dive into what can and cannot be done on the platform.
TL;DR version: some, necessary, but not enough to meaningfully market a small business. LinkedIn has to be paid for more, but we can’t see justification for their exorbitant fees and ad pricing. A must-read for all small business employing LinkedIn as part of their marketing strategy.
Windows Security 101 17.2.2025 In-depth article covering three critical practices we believe vital to securing your home and office computers: regular checkpoints (Windows system restore points), backups of both personal and system files, and aggressive antimalware software, in addition to Windows Defender. Yes, you need to implement all three, as soon as possible.
Microsoft Windows Security Sources 11.02.2025 The first in a series on Windows security, this article links to 45+ authoritative websites where Microsoft Windows security is the main topic. The purpose of the article is to give readers a rich source of information on hardening their systems against attacks.
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In Preparation
Installation and configuration of Microsoft SQL Server in Linux We asked Claude to help us through this unfamiliar topic and documented the results. Since we need this for a client, the installation is rather urgent and so has been prioritized.
This project, like the below Gemini migration, demonstrates a practical use case for AGI candidates like Claude. While we cannot claim that the process is rapid, the results appear to be thorough and complete. Once we complete the implementation successfully, we’ll publish the detailed results on our Substack and a summary on LinkedIn.
Migration project using Google Gemini to produce the implementation and configuration steps. We’ve been developing, for our own purposes, an internal wiki built on the same platform as Wikipedia, MediaWiki. The wiki has outgrown the el-cheapo XAMPP Windows installation and must be migrated to our newly rebuilt Linux server.
The interesting part is that we’re using Google Gemini as our research concierge and assistant for this project, and will publish the article as soon as we get the system up and running. The important point is that we know only superficial facts about this implementation and its several components, and relied on Gemini to tell us how to do it.
FYI: the process has taken weeks, and is neither simple nor trivial. There has to be an adult in the room!
Our article on Aggressive Development Schedules is still in development; there is so much to write about that we are having a hard time reducing it to the size of a single article.
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Evergreen Articles
Business: Improving Your LinkedIn Feed Long-Term 25.1.2025 Yes, your LinkedIn feed is full of garbage. No, it’s not going to change anytime soon. This article explains several ways to systematically improve your LinkedIn feed. So far, one cannot get rid of all the garbage, but you can get rid of some of it on an ongoing basis and make LI a more useful tool.
Conventional Job Hunting Advice; Job Hunting / Skills Training Scams: LinkedIn's Snake Oil Merchants 12.01.2025 Twenty (20) actions job seekers should be using now. Unfortunately, this advice, while sound, only goes so far. The job market is bad enough right now to warrant intense levels of personal networking, all the while continuing to pump out as many crafted CVs for each published job description as possible. It’s a nightmare; we’re sorry it is that way, but can’t change it by ourselves.
Proactive Talent Acquisition: A Strategic Imperative 10.8.2024 Hiring appears to be completely broken almost everywhere. We suspect this is a combination of a weak job market, typically caused by thumb-fingered government meddling in the economy, outdated and poorly written tax code, over-application by desperate job seekers and overuse of (likely ill-tuned) applicant tracking systems (ATS).
When clearly qualified applicants receive automated rejection notices, despite having 100% of the listed skills, and see the same job listings posted repeatedly, what do you think they conclude about the company? For us, that company goes on our private list of incompetent and toxic companies. Think about that, read your ATS manuals, and learn how to operate the things!
In this in-depth article, we present relatively simple solutions to proactive hiring, completely bypassing job boards and ATS as filters for incoming CVs. Quality talent acquisition is a science, not an art.
Business: The Artificial Intelligence Hype Cycle 13.6.2024 The majority of AI news, announcements, products, what have you, are simply hype: attempts to influence people to purchase ineffective products and services through FOMO. Practically speaking, it is actually quite difficult and expensive to get any serious business value out of artificial intelligence, for a variety of reasons. The single largest, in our opinion, is that the technology just isn’t all that valuable. It certainly isn’t developed to the point that people can use it with confidence, and there have been high-profile incidents where a newbie used it for a critical purpose and got into trouble for it.
Computers Are Stupid 12.2.2024 Just a reminder article that your computer cannot and does not think. “Thinking machines” is an expression, not a fact. It’s better to think of your computers as overgrown calculators.
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Burnout Prevention
Overlogix: We went on a biweekly schedule for this newsletter a few months ago due to time costs. Readers are advised that we intend to stick to our biweekly schedule for the time being.
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