Stephen McMaster

Engineering CTO at Deloitte UK
Loves Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Comics, and anything Technical

Stephen McMastermcmaster_cloud
2025-02-02

We are entering a dystopian era. The CDC has been instructed to pull any inflight research that contains terms like Gender, Pregnant, and LGBT. Basically, banning scientific research, because most scientific papers use Table 1 to list cohort demographics.
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Stephen McMastermcmaster_cloud
2025-01-10

AWS announces a new Asia Pacific Region in Thailand (ap-southeast-7), their 14th Region in APAC

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go.aws/4gLj3cI

Stephen McMastermcmaster_cloud
2025-01-09

Elon Musk, in a departure from politics, suggests AI models have exhausted human data and should be trained on AI synthetic data.

In a scenario where folks use AI models trained on other AI output, relying on that output may stymie innovation - where would new ideas, therefore, come from: how do we continue to balance the use of AI and true innovation?

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bit.ly/4haFcRi

Stephen McMastermcmaster_cloud
2024-12-08

Broadcom aims to stem customer losses by doing an about-turn by ONLY working with the top 500 customers (not 2,000). Leaving the rest to potentially work with channel partners.

It's highly unusual to try and retain customers by promising NOT to work with them directly.

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bit.ly/4f2vqPS

Stephen McMastermcmaster_cloud
2024-12-04

Why ‘Brain Rot’ Is 2024’s Word of the Year | Scientific American | It describes the result of browsing through social media and inane content ... erm ... well ... How I found this article ... Awkward 😬 bit.ly/4fWNlIO

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Stephen McMastermcmaster_cloud
2024-12-03

Read the latest news from AWS re:invent, Day 1 - new Aurora Distributed Database, S3 Metadata changes, lots on AI, and AmazonQ.
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bit.ly/4ghIDoT

Stephen McMastermcmaster_cloud
2024-11-22

The DOJ recommends the break-up of Google. They asked a judge on Wednesday, and Google are likely to counter the request - a final ruling is due in August '25. Interesting times
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bit.ly/3Zjcyrh

Stephen McMastermcmaster_cloud
2024-11-15

Potentially seismic shifts are underway in technology. is investing billions to reinforce its place as a global centre for chip manufacturing - and vendors are already moving (for fairly obvious reasons!)
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bit.ly/4hGOtBT

Stephen McMastermcmaster_cloud
2024-11-14

Google has just dropped their #2025 Cyber security Forecast. A great and sobering read - covering AI, Infostealers, and the Big 4 (China, Russia, Iran, and N. Korea)
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bit.ly/4hH88BH

Stephen McMastermcmaster_cloud
2024-11-11

What is Greenhushing? According to the World Economic Forum, some organisations are feeling pressured by activists to "play down" - or even DITCH - their ESG commitments. It's time to pivot conversations to FinOps - and achieve the same outcome. Using less compute, after all, means producing less emissions.

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bit.ly/48JPfdl

Stephen McMastermcmaster_cloud
2024-11-10

A really interesting approach - FormFree's Open Banking platform disrupts traditional lending by assessing creditworthiness through real-time financial data (leveraging Open Banking) - a game-changer for lenders and borrowers alike. The future of credit might just be transparent, personalised and empowering - replacing traditional approaches such as Gross Income.

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Stephen McMastermcmaster_cloud
2024-10-25

An AWS CDK flaw exposed accounts to full takeover due to predictable S3 bucket names. 1% of AWS CDK users were impacted and the fix requires you to reissue the CDK bootstrap command - so not as simple as using the patched CDK version. Quite frightening stuff. bit.ly/3YBuGfp

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Stephen McMastermcmaster_cloud
2024-10-24

Google has just open-sourced its watermarking tool for AI-generated output. This enables developers to determine whether LLM output has come from their own models using watermarks that work even in a couple of lines of text. It's still a developing field, but a good start! bit.ly/3NAbgBo

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Stephen McMastermcmaster_cloud
2024-10-15

WIRED reports a new specification - CXP - for interoperable passkeys and a new website containing resources for developers. Still a way to go, as passkeys have only been implemented by a minority of organisations, but a great step forward nonetheless bit.ly/3Y1ILBz

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Stephen McMastermcmaster_cloud
2024-10-14

An INCREDIBLY bold and brave statement from Green Hills Software - that The Trump campaign has been given "unhackable" phones and laptops; using the same operating system seen in stealth bombers. Like a red flag to a bull/hacker 😳

The entire operating system comprises just 10,000 lines of code, with Engineers incentivised to find bugs - and some complain that they can't find enough 😁

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Stephen McMastermcmaster_cloud
2024-10-11

This is FASCINATING. The FBI actually CREATED a cryptocurrency just to see how it would be abused through schemes like "pump and dump"... And it ended up leading to arrests. bit.ly/4eCBaAw

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Stephen McMastermcmaster_cloud
2024-10-06

LinkedIn Halts AI Data Processing in U.K. Amid Privacy Concerns Raised by ICO. A welcome step, sincee data was processed without the data subject's implicit consent. bit.ly/3BwNgfX

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Stephen McMastermcmaster_cloud
2024-10-03

Good news - Interpol have coordinated the arrests of four LockBit suspects from a Russian Group allegedly behind ransomware attacks against organisations include Boeing. Between '20 and '23 in the US alone, $91m was paid to the group.
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bit.ly/3N6xtXJ

Stephen McMastermcmaster_cloud
2024-10-03

According to ETH Zurich, AI can BEAT Google CAPTCHAs 100% of the time. We have entered a post-CAPTCHA world 😬 I won't miss them - but what will replace them?
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Stephen McMastermcmaster_cloud
2024-10-02

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