November 2025 Newsletter from Seiretto.
  https://www.seiretto.co.uk/

In this newsletter:

 - Passwords - Please DO NOT do a McDonalds!
 - AI, yet more hot air
 - NHS - bookings system fails


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Passwords - Please DO NOT do a McDonalds!
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However trivial the item/mailbox/system is the password must always be a good strong-long password.

But McDonalds chose the password 123456
OMG, read more:
https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-ai-hiring-chat-bot-paradoxai/



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AI, yet more hot air
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All the hype of AI and OpenAI can not seem to make enough to profit.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/12/openai_spending_report/

No wonder when you consider their high valuations (a little like calculus: imaginary numbers), maybe tomorrow we will open the box and all AI will be gone, or its taken over (anyone seen my cat Schrodinger?  If you are not getting any of this then you need to think out of the box).

 

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NHS - bookings system fails
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What a nightmare, its not acceptable for IT to break such a system when demand is at an all time high.  This leaves operating-rooms/doctors/nurses standing idle!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crl505kz929o?a


The BBC will not completely diss the NHS (always careful not to upset the voters!) unlike the news site which does/has reported the lost billions during the last 20 yrs on scrapped-projects:
https://search.theregister.com/?q=nhs


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