Using unstructured data to fuel enterprise AI success

Taking AI pilot programs into production  From this successful example, several lessons can be learned. First, unstructured data must be prepared for AI models through intuitive forms of collection, and the right data pipelines and management records. “You can only utilize unstructured data once your structured data is consumable and ready for AI,” says Cealey. […]

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This Week In Techdirt History: January 4th – 10th

from the happy-new-year(s) dept Five Years Ago This week in 2021, 60 Minutes aired some pure misleading moral panic about Section 230, while Parler (remember Parler?) was desperately seeking attention by pretending it didn’t need Section 230, and Ajit Pai grew a last-minute backbone and refused to move forward with Trump’s 230 attack. Lawmakers were […]

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MuddyWater Launches RustyWater RAT via Spear-Phishing Across Middle East Sectors

Jan 10, 2026Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware The Iranian threat actor known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a spear-phishing campaign targeting diplomatic, maritime, financial, and telecom entities in the Middle East with a Rust-based implant codenamed RustyWater. “The campaign uses icon spoofing and malicious Word documents to deliver Rust based implants capable of asynchronous […]

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Links 1/10/2026 | naked capitalism

New trend: Young people want a “perfect” anus Expressen via machine translation (Micael T). So anal sex is now preferred among heteros? If a Tree Falls Harper’s (Micael T) You’re Writing a Book. So Stop Writing a Movie. Rebecca Makkai. Micael T: “Old but still interesting and a nice break from violence.” How Big Tech […]

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This Bitfinex whale “buy signal” is everywhere, but the real Bitcoin data suggests a much messier six weeks

The first thing you learn when you spend too long around Bitcoin is that everyone has a chart that “always works”, and everyone has a scar from the last time it didn’t. This week’s chart is making the rounds again, it’s the one that tracks Bitfinex margin longs, and it’s flashing a familiar change in […]

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AI is a crystal ball into your codebase

Macroscope helps you understand your code through AI-powered code review, automated PR descriptions, and real-time status reports Connect with Kayvon on Twitter and LinkedIn. This week’s shoutout goes to user Jesper Grann Laursen for winning a Populist badge on their answer to Exclude Table during pg_restore. TRANSCRIPT Ryan Donovan: Tired of database limitations and architectures […]

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