Irwin Lazar

43 years in the game and Donny Baseball finally makes it to the fall classic after multiple near-misses.

Larry Ellison at Oracle AIWorld

At #AIWorld Oracle's Larry Ellison talks about the impact of AI noting that the "biggest opportunity is the use of models to solve humanity's most difficult and enduring problems."

Kicking off the @cisco.com press and analyst meeting at #WebexOne 2025 in San Diego with Anurag Dhingra!

Spending a few days with Lumen at their annual analyst forum. This year's theme is "The Trusted Network for AI” #lumenAR

RHP Davey Johnson - the guy who got the Nationals over the hump and into the playoffs.

Red Teams Jailbreak GPT-5 With Ease, Warn It's ‘Nearly Unusable’ for Enterprise Independent red teams have jailbroken GPT-5 within 24 hours of release, exposing severe vulnerabilities in context handling and guardrail enforcement, warning model is not enterprise-ready.

Red teams quickly hack #GPT-5:

www.securityweek.com/red-teams-br...

You had mail: AOL finally discontinues dial-up Internet service More than 40 years after starting as a very early Apple service, AOL is finally ending its dial-up Internet service, shuttering a service that helped usher in the Internet age for tens of millions of ...

End of an era: AOL cancels dial-up Internet services.

appleinsider.com/articles/25/...

Great article. Thanks for sharing. Definitely tough to be optimistic right now.

MetriNote - NiCE Plans Cognigy Buy to Bolster Conversational AI, Agentics NiCE has announced plans to acquire industry-leading AI agent provider, Cognigy, for $955 million; regulatory approval is pending. Once the deal is finalized, NiCE plans to operate Cognigy as a separa...

As you probably have heard by now, NiCE has announced an intent to acquire Cognigy to expand its #Agentic #AI offerings. Metrigy's Robin Gareiss shares her take, and provides guidance for #CX leaders, in this complementary research note:
metrigy.com/product/metr...

YouTube video by I-Ascend Golden earring - Twilight zone

Been a rough week for music, lost in all the other news is the passing of George Kooymans, lead guitarist and co-vocalist for Golden Earring. He's credited with writing their iconic hit "Twilight Zone". RIP.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1sf...

Ozzy Osbourne, pioneering heavy metal singer and Black Sabbath frontman, dies at 76 Word of Osbourne’s demise came weeks after the ailing front man reunited with his original Black Sabbath bandmates.

RIP Ozzy. www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

Microsoft SharePoit vulnerability info: www.cnbc.com/2025/07/21/m...

any news on Crews?

Thinking critically about a new study on AI and cognition New results suggesting that the use of AI causes cognitive deficits have triggered widespread fear, but is this interpretation justified?

Great post by Dr. Peter Attia on what the recently hyped MIT study on cognition and AI may mean, and what it doesn't mean:
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peterattiamd.com/ai-and-cogni...

The 2025 #InfoComm wrapped with 39,579 registrants, 817 exhibitors and 30,998 verified attendees from 97 countries. And 35% of verified attendees were end users - a new record! 🎉

Huge thanks to everyone who made it happen. See you in Vegas in 2026 and back in Orlando in 2027!

Apple details the end of Intel Mac support and a phaseout for Rosetta 2 Rosetta app translation features for Intel apps won’t stay around indefinitely.

Apple announces phase-out of Intel-based Mac support - arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

3 Ways to Integrate a Contact Center with Microsoft Teams Considering a CCaaS integration with Microsoft Teams? Get a detailed look at all three CCaaS integration models offered by Teams and how they’re different.

Really nice post by AudioCodes detailing the various integration models for connecting Microsoft Teams and contact center platforms:

www.audiocodes.com/blog/3-ways-...

any thoughts on when he might get brought up?

New ChatGPT model refuses to be shut down, AI researchers warn OpenAI’s o3 model raises AI safety fears after sabotaging commands for its own self-preservation

ChatGPT refuses to turn itself off - www.the-independent.com/tech/ai-safe...

Lots of announcements today from Google I/O:

you picked a nice time to visit.

Skype end of life

Farewell Skype.

@astrokatie.com - a wonderful discovery is if you add a random curse/swear word to your Google search it bypasses the AI response in the results ... and is surprisingly satisfying.

Goals That Matter: The Atlassian Blueprint How transparent tracking and ruthless focus created their culture of accountability

"This isn't just about hitting numbers. It's about creating shared understanding, fostering collaboration across teams, and helping people see how their work connects to the bigger picture."

@atlassian.bsky.social 's Molly Sands on goals and culture:

theworkforward.substack.com/p/goals-that...

Teams Contact Center - Microsoft Teams An overview of the integrated contact center as a service (CCaaS) solution for Microsoft Teams

Microsoft updated its Contact center integrations for Microsoft Teams page. The "Power" model is now "Unify" (using Teams Phone Extensibility). The page also now shows contact center vendors and which model that Microsoft has certified them for.

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...

Bluesky’s logo, a trusted verifier’s scalloped checkmark, and a standard verified blue check mark.

We’re introducing a new layer of verification on Bluesky — a user-friendly, easily recognizable blue check.

In addition to account verification issued by Bluesky, we're also introducing Trusted Verifiers. Select independent organizations can verify accounts directly.

Verification pop-up for badge issued by Wired

What we’ve launched today is the first step for how we’re going to evolve verification.

The initial set of trusted verifiers includes news orgs who’ve agreed to take on the task of verification for their journalists. In the future, this set will expand, as well as how apps can choose to use them.

CISA warns threat hunting staff of end to Google, Censys contracts as agency cuts set in “We understand the importance of these tools in our operations and are actively exploring alternative tools to ensure minimal disruption,” said the email sent to several hundred CISA cyber threat hunt...

New: CISA’s threat hunting division warned 500+ staff it will discontinue Google-owned VirusTotal and has already ceased use of Censys. Nightwing and Peraton contractors also had to turn in their phones Thursday:
www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...

Could have been a lot worse. Hope he's back soon.

Zoom currently experiencing a meetings outage per their status page - status.zoom.us