Wednesday Oct 21 – digest AI
AI Digest Wednesday, October 21, 2026 Covers roughly Tuesday morning through Wednesday morning (Oct 20–21). Tags: confirmed = I read the primary source. reported = secondary coverage I couldn’t check at the source. opinion = community sentiment. Contents 1. Headlines 2. Large language model updates 3. Open-weight models & local AI 4. The vibe 5. Enterprise, tools & infrastructure 6. Europe […]
Some more agentic news.
AI Digest — Oct 19, 2026 Daily AI Digest · for Ken Monday, October 19, 2026 Covers Friday Oct 16 (after Friday’s digest) through Monday morning Oct 19. Stories from last week (Muse Spark Open, Beam, MAI-Base-2, China’s export-control draft, the EU AI Office’s information requests) are only revisited where something new happened. Tags: confirmed […]
Trying some Local Language Model News
AI Digest — Oct 12, 2026 Daily AI Digest · for Ken Monday, October 12, 2026 Covers Friday Oct 9 through Monday Oct 12, plus a few big items from late last week, because this is the first digest in the folder. Tags: confirmed official announcement · rumor / unverified · opinion community sentimentContents 1Headlines […]
Microsoft retiring SMS/voice-based MFA
Here’s a simplified summary of this Microsoft Entra ID authentication change, with the key action items broken out clearly. Executive summary Microsoft is retiring SMS/voice-based MFA (multi-factor authentication) in Entra ID on February 1, 2027, replacing it with passkeys as the default, phishing-resistant sign-in method. This affects only tenants with users currently using SMS or […]
11 steps to a better relationship…with your data.
11 steps to a better relationship…with your data. New Years Resolutions – Keep your data Yours. After reading some new information regarding the Target data breach in December that exposed the personal and financial information of more than one hundred and ten million people (110,000,000) we at 2bridges Technologies thought it would be wise to […]
The Heartbleed Bug
by 2bridges CIO, Ken Lombardi I know there is a great deal of information about Heartbleed on the Internet but I wanted to take a couple of moments to quickly describe the issue, tell you what we at 2bridges Technologies have done to to insure the safety of clients using our services, and also to […]
Installation of zimbra 8.06 Collaboration Server Open Source on a hyper-v vm
Installation of zimbra 8.06 Collaboration Server Open Source on a hyper-v vm March 2014 – ken lombardi klombardi@2bridgestech.com www.2bridgestech.com/mediawiki Well – I thought I would jot down some notes while I was installing ZCS – Open Source on a Hyper-V cluster. Single server installation. In the short time since this installation we have all been […]
My Xoom MZ602 (Verizon LTE) doesn’t get 4G anymore
This is for Xoom MZ602 – verizon lte/4G device – Wrong baseband running 4.1.2 – gets 3g but no 4g So… not sure how but somewhere along the line this 4G Xoom of mine lost its way and could no longer see the 4Gees. Possibly during some ROM install or another (or maybe cosmic radiation). […]
Verizon MIFI 2200 vs the VPN
Recently I was troubleshooting what I initially felt was a SonicWall VPN problem. The client/user tunnels to the VPN endpoint through a wireless connection with a Verizon MIFI 2200. The tunnel comes up just fine but after a few minutes his Remote Desktop Connection to a box on the other end of the VPN drops. […]
South Sound Technology Conference
November 20, 2009 South Sound Technology Conference Great conference. Cool venue at University of Washington Tacoma, William W. Philip Hall. Lots of interesting folks there with some nice panel discussions – if you are in the industry or just interested in finding out more about the local tech scene you should plan on attending next […]
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