In 1973, a Concorde modified with rooftop portholes chased a total solar eclipse over the Sahara, staying in totality for 74 minutes. It flew at >1400 mi/hr & is the longest time humans have ever experienced a total solar eclipse... and probably will be for a long time.

Currently a research project, but another step on the road to somewhere nobody knows nonetheless…

The world would be a better place if local councils tested that their website’s password validation checking is compatible with standard browser auto-generated strong passwords.

Who's guilty? 😅 #design #ux #uxdesign

Northern lights in E17?

Finally! Frogs are back…

AI video stuff is moving so fast, fascinating/unnerving/probably inevitably ubiquitous.

Overview of OpenAI’s security architecture, including interesting use of GPT 4 to suggest least privilege access roles openai.com/index/securing…

Remember the South West Water scandal in Brixham a month back? It dropped out of the national news, but it’s STILL not fixed a month later on, and my 87 year old mum is still drinking bottled water.

Heading North to sunny Sheffield for the Prisons Digital SMT day…

Back from the not so far north. Great updates on progress from the Prisons Digital team, some pretty terrible football and a remarkable leaving do speech I will remember for a long time.

techcrunch.com/2024/07/10/aws… who knows how useful/usable this will be for building apps that users like or need, but as an early indicator of the direction of travel that AWS et al are heading, extraordinarily interesting.

I bet there’s a lot of big companies wondering if that ideal mono-culture of technology across their IT estate might be a different risk/benefit than they imagined.

Misty Monday morning and off to Sheffield for our monthly team day #prisonsdigital

Agile delivery and plans: Know your audience, structure your deliver to provide strong data signals. Read more here linkedin.com/pulse/agile-pl…

When you just want to read that article ... 😤

It’s those Northern Lights again… #walthamstow

#brixham #devon

Training Llama 4 on 100k H100s.

OpenAI’s biggest rival is shaking things up. Anthropic invited 200+ elite hackers to their SF headquarters to see what’s possible with Claude Here’s what we saw at the Anthropic x Menlo Ventures Builder Day Hackathon (🧵):