PinnedHow We Turned the Tables to Catch My Sister’s Bumble stalkerMy sister’s stalker, who had used Instagram and Bumble to work out where she lived and start stalking her in real life, was recently sentenced at court in Scotland. This is the story of how my brothers and I turned the tables on the stalker to catch him in the…Stalking15 min readStalking15 min read
Sep 20Blood Bowl: the ultimate challenge for artificial intelligence?The best chess engines are now unbeatable by humans. Go, the ancient Chinese board game considered much more complex than chess, is perhaps not quite solved by artificial intelligence (AI), but AlphaGo, an AI technology developed by DeepMind (a subsidiary of Google), has beaten the top Go grand masters. Some…Blood Bowl6 min readBlood Bowl6 min read
Aug 11Why I picked a Bangladeshi tech company over the Silicon Valley darling“I think your website sucks big time” That was part of a reply from an investor to one of my monthly updates. I knew he was right, but the criticism still stung a little bit. …Webflow4 min readWebflow4 min read
Published inTilores·Aug 1The Identity Resolution of Kevin BaconSix Degrees of Kevin Bacon Maybe you have heard of “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon”? It’s a game where you have to find the shortest connection between the American actor Kevin Bacon, and another actor, via films in which either actor has appeared. For example, British actor, Simon Pegg, appeared in Mission Impossible, together with…Identity Resolution5 min readIdentity Resolution5 min read
Published inTilores·Jul 7Understanding EBA Connected Clients Guidelines | TiloresIn the ever-evolving landscape of the financial industry, managing risks associated with clients is of paramount importance. Financial institutions face the challenge of identifying and mitigating potential conflicts of interest and increased risks that arise from relationships among clients. …Hindenburg Report2 min readHindenburg Report2 min read
Published inTilores·Mar 24Block’s massive duplicate and inter-linked customer account problem uncovered by Hindenburg ResearchBlock is the company, formerly called Square and founded by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, which is known for its Point of Sale (PoS) technology, and more recently its “Cash App”, which allows users to send money directly to each other via their smartphones. Yesterday (23rd March), Hindenburg research published a…Hindenburg Report3 min readHindenburg Report3 min read
Published inTilores·Jan 13Cookieless marketing Part 2: the rise of entity resolutionIn Part 1 of this two-part series, you stepped back into cookie history … from their invention at Netscape in 1996 to when the EU’s GDPR legislation signed their death warrant in 2016. In Part 2, ahead, we’ll get past the problems — including those that persist in the new…Martech6 min readMartech6 min read
Published inTilores·Jan 5Cookieless marketing Part 1: the defeat of the Cookie MonsterSafari’s done it. Mozilla’s done it. Chrome is doing it now. And by Summer ’23, everyone else will have to do it, too — because fresh laws are coming in to force the issue. We’re talking about cookies, those quaint little text files web browsers have been depositing onto your…Cookies7 min readCookies7 min read
Published inTilores·Jan 4Perpetual KYC: Know Your Customer ForeverIn Neal Stephenson’s classic novel, The Diamond Age, Judge Fang and his Confucian colleagues need a break after a hard morning in a Shanghai courthouse. So they head down the Bund to a restaurant they refer to as “The House of the Venerable and Inscrutable Colonel”. It’s obvious to any…Kyc8 min readKyc8 min read
Nov 11, 2022Just how complicated could it be to register a German company?Have you heard that it is complicated to start a business in Germany? It certainly is, but you probably don’t realise just how complicated. I have documented the process below. Buckle up, it’s a ride… For comparison — registering a UK Limited liability company takes about 20–30 minutes (the tricky…Germany10 min readGermany10 min read
