Month: March 2024

Matt O'Neill, former Secret Service Deputy Special Agent in Charge of Cyber and one of the most decorated Agents in the history of the law enforcement branch joins the show to discuss the latest trends he sees across the government fraud landscape and how he sees AI changing the game. We also hear some stories about how he lured fraud criminals to the United States to be prosecuted and he shares some thoughts on how governments can position themselves into a more offensive posture in the fight against identity fraud.

AI shops are now releasing LLMs optimized for RAG. 

Turn a repo into a prompt for a long-context LLM.

Perplexity AI is an AI-powered search and discovery tool.

Good news for developers: Apple will not remove progressive web app support on iOS in the EU.

Basil Bourque earned a Lifeboat badge by explaining How to get full name of month from date in Java 8 while formatting.

Links from the show:

• Xero Central
• Laravel Reverb
• Laravel 11 Now Available - The Laravel Blog 
• PlanetScale forever
• Blog
• AI just officially took our jobs… I hate you Devin - YouTube
• [Syntax Error - Shirts ](https://syntaxerror.ai/)
• https://twitter.com/tjlytle/status/1768339010802286949
• Codewars - Achieve mastery through coding practice and developer mentorship
• Just a moment...

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