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Cybersecurity Gets Harder with AI Agentic Systems in Play
Microsoft recently released a whitepaper titled Taxonomy of Failure Mode in Agentic AI Systems (by the Microsoft AI Red Team, with Pete Bryan among the contributors). It highlights how AI agents—systems that can sense, reason, and act—introduce new and amplified security and safety risks beyond traditional AI models. These aren’t theoretical risks. The paper makes…
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Truth is the greatest illusion of them all
Introduction Since the beginning of our kind, we have chased a vision for a better world, shaped by our own hands. Fire gave us warmth. Tools gave us power. Language gave us memory. And machines gave us speed. We called it progress. Civilizations rose in its light. Others perished in its shadow. Those who hesitated…
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The Voice Agents are here
On December 3rd, 2024, Eleven Labs unveiled its latest innovation: a cutting-edge Conversational AI service. Building on its reputation as a leader in AI-driven voice technologies, the company has now expanded into the realm of conversational artificial intelligence, setting a new benchmark for interactive, context-aware communication systems. This breakthrough service promises to redefine how businesses…
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Windows Phone and thread synchronization
This will be a short and technical post about a problem I just solved using information from Stack Overflow answers. Because none of those discussions is actually responding my question I will make this note about what I found. Creating background workers and other threads may lead into a cross thread invoke errors when dispatching property…
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LightSwitch with Oracle Data Source (part 3) – Server Side Data filtering
Long time ago I started those posts and now it’s time for me to write the next part. But first I need to describe some changes based on version evolution of LightSwitch. With the newest version we can filter table data on server side using session variables. It all starts from “SessionCheck.aspx” (this is a…
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LightSwitch with Oracle Data Source (part 2)
External login and global parameters In the previous part I mentioned I’m working on existing database, changing the application administration. One of the issues I have to solve is using the existing authentication. LightSwith has build in authentication, but it uses .NET Role and Membership providers and they are not solution we choose for Oracle…
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LightSwitch with Oracle Data Source
I have several products based on Oracle Databases with some not so easy to extend administrations. Most of those projects have to be extended with new functionalities according to the current user experience level. People want to use pads and mobile phones to run their business from anywhere. Oracle released Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC 11.2 Release 5) with Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio…
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FoSearch
Sing in Your app is in the Windows Store! Congratulations! FoSearch, release 1 is now in the Windows Store. Use this link to your app’s listing in the Windows Store to let others know about your app. http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/fosearch/dcd4488b-888a-4ffb-8c81-d572cdf7fb9e Because we just added your app to the Windows Store, it might take some time before your…
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SQLite for WinRT
Developing applications for Windows Phone was made easy because of the SQL Server CE database build in the operating system. The SQL Server CE database operated with relational single file databases, build runtime inside the application isolated storage. SQL Server CE is not build into Windows 8 or Windows 8 RT. Building Metro Style applications can’t use SQL Server CE because it…
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VS Lightswitch to Oracle
Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Lightswitch release 2 with HTML5 client offers a cross browser solution for any business oriented web-application. With the ability to build fast and flexible solutions for both desktop and tablet PCs. In one of the current projects I wanted to create a Lightswitch solution working with existing Oracle database. First, I tried to…