Worth Reading – First Malicious MCP in the Wild: The Postmark Backdoor That’s Stealing Your Emails
Do you know what your agents are doing?
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AI Tech “Discovers” Personalized Ads
OpenAI isn’t calling the “feedback” advertising yet, because they haven’t started selling ads to businesses, but does anyone think that isn’t coming next?
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Worth Reading – The Hidden Job Market: Why 70% of Roles Are Never Posted Online – and How to Access Them
Which, of course, brings us back to the original point about these kinds of jobs. You need to know people. Employers need to have employees who know people, as well as know people themselves, and job seekers need to have connections. The only way this works is if you get referrals, and you only get referrals through connections.
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Want Trustworthy AI? Can You Trust Your Data?
We’ve seen a lot of discussion about AI projects not showing significant ROI, and this may be because the results are not trustworthy, which raises the question of whether the data being modeled is reliable. If AI is surfacing incorrect information because the model was built on outdated and inaccurate data, the problem lies with the source of the data.
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Worth Reading – Unlearning Is an Important Part of Learning
I’ve talked about this before, but it bears repeating. Change is our reality. The most challenging students I worked with as a trainer weren’t the ones who struggled with a concept or had to overcome a barrier related to language or cultural understanding. It was the ones who didn’t think they needed to change anything they had been doing for years. They didn’t understand why they were being asked to change the way they worked.
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Worth Reading – The Real Cost of Poor Leadership in Workplaces
When good talent does leave, as the article mentions, they often cite the need to get away from their manager. However, bad managers don’t exist in a vacuum. They are created in a poor culture, which comes straight from the top.
