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The difference between the map and the territory is the unknown. When Claude runs into an unknown, it needs to make a decision based on its best guess. The more work that is done, the more unknowns Claude might run into. This post discusses how to use Claude to help discover unknowns. Discovering your unknowns before starting a project is a cheap way to find out what you didn't know before it gets expensive to fix.

ShinyHunters accessed Medtronic's corporate IT systems in April and stole patient data, including names, contact details, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and health information. Medtronic reports 3,834,294 affected individuals and says it has no evidence that the data was posted online. The company is offering 24 months of credit monitoring, dark web monitoring, and identity theft restoration, and is working with law enforcement and regulators.

Use Google Ads audience targeting as a filter to reduce invalid clicks when click fraud is hurting your campaign performance. One account cut its invalid click rate by 50% after adding hundreds of Google predefined audiences and setting them to Targeting instead of Observation. The approach limits ads to users who match both keywords and Google's audience signals. It works best for accounts with unusually high invalid click rates because it can also exclude legitimate users who do not fit Google's predefined audiences.