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Happy Summer Solstice, and happy 50th birthday to the movie Jaws. Back then, for security, all we had to remember was where we hid our house key, or the combo to the lock on our school locker. Now, our dozens of logins and passwords are regularly either forgotten or stolen, the latest being 16 billion credentials stolen, announced this week. In other IT news, a few CIOs have written to me to point out that Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” that the Senate is debating contains a 10-year moratorium on changes to state artificial intelligence (AI) laws. 10 years? Given the rate of change, how about 10 days? The technology used to…