Category: Blog
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What HR Dashboards Can’t Answer And What to Do About It
Most HR dashboards are good at answering the questions they were built to answer. The challenge arrives when someone asks the next one. Which of my staff are projected to exceed the 60-day annual-leave carry-over cap? Of those, who has no leave booked before the 31 March cut-off? Which departments are most exposed? Who needs…
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The AI That Ratted Itself Out: How One Click Could Empty Your Gmail Through Copilot
This is about Microsoft Copilot Personal, the free consumer chat assistant at copilot.microsoft.com, not GitHub Copilot (the coding autocomplete tool) or Microsoft 365 Copilot for work and school accounts. The enterprise version has had its own separate, since-patched issues, but this piece focuses on the consumer product. If you wanted to break into a locked…
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Provenance, Not Proof: What Claude’s Watermark Actually Tells You
Anthropic’s decision to embed machine-readable marks in Claude’s output, announced this week to comply with the EU AI Act’s Article 50(2) Code of Practice, is being covered as a broad AI-transparency milestone. It’s narrower than that framing suggests, and the narrowness is itself the more interesting story. Here’s what the policy actually says, how it…
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Why the same LLM hangs on one provider and flies on another: cold starts and keep-warm
One of our chat apps lets you choose which model answers you, and for most of those choices it was fine. Point it at DeepSeek running on Azure, though, ask a reasoning-heavy question, and the screen would freeze for anywhere from a few seconds to most of a minute before the first word appeared. The…