A few weeks ago I spoke at a Gartner organized CSO summit. Not “my thing”, but one of the lessons from my first start up was that you have to build a business and not a product. Sales is not “my thing

Here’s an uncomfortable topic, especially in the Bay Area. Covid and a near recession has taught companies that they don’t like lifestyle employees. Or what I’m calling “casuals”. These are people who

Social Health Philosophers know the difference between real hope and fool's hope. Jessica Wildfire Oct 1, 2023 Lion Design October 01 2023 7:23 PM 5 min read Share Email If you haven't heard of Sir Ma

(Photo by Ed Jones) We sit on the precipice of a damaging federal government shutdown inflicted by a group of political extremists in Washington who wield, with glee, their power to destroy. Meanwhile

By now, you may have heard about Elon Musk's handpicked CEO for X, Linda Yaccarino, and her disastrous interview with CNBC's Julia Boorstin at Vox Media's Code 2023 event. However, somewhat overlooked

About ten years ago, the National Geographic Channel aired this show about doomsday preppers. One woman was filling her entire house with food. She thought she was going to continue cooking gourmet me

Earlier this year, a case study in Frontiers in Pediatrics described what Covid did to the lives of two healthy girls. Before getting sick, they made excellent grades. They had lots of friends. They p

Social Health The author of "Frankenstein" wrote an honest book about the end of the world. Jessica Wildfire Sep 27, 2023 Grandfailure September 27 2023 12:24 PM 4 min read Share Email You probably kn

Welcome to the Pandemic Roundup : an inclusive, curated selection of new information and fresh perspectives on Covid-19 published every Thursday. Top stories : – Paxlovid effectiveness now 37% (began

Future CEOs and other denizens of the C-suite may look back on Nov. 30, 2022, with decidedly mixed emotions. That day, the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, reversed years of research findings about which w

Midjourney 5.2 I've been talking to my buddy Joel Parish about AI since, well, forever (2014?), and dinner last week was more of the same. This time we were riffing about the impact of AI on the econo

Burp Suite Enterprise Edition is now available in our secure Cloud – Learn more Articles James Kettle Director of Research @albinowax Published: 14 June 2023 at 13:09 UTC Updated: 14 June 2023 at 13:1

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One of the biggest questions right now is, does using copyrighted work to train machine learning models constitute fair use? I think, by the definition set under common law, it does. But it shouldn’t.

When I think about Security Obstructionism, a term I love coined by Kelly Shortridge, I picture a set of tools and strategies in the security world that, ironically, seem more focused on slowing thing

Obstruction is “a thing that impedes or prevents passage or progress; an obstacle or blockage.” Under this definition, I would include sabotage – deliberate obstruction or damage – as well as passivit

When Rowan Rosenthal heard about Grindr’s return-to-office mandate during a virtual town hall meeting in August, anxiety, confusion and anger set in. The principal product designer lived within a 25-m

Home News Sport Business Innovation Culture Travel Earth Video Live By Dominic Hughes Health correspondent, BBC News Getty Images People living with long Covid after being admitted to hospital are mor

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Linux is subversive. Who would have thought even five years ago (1991) that a world-class operating system could coalesce as if by magic out of part-time hacking by several thousand developers scatter

We've erased death, and now it's killing us. There's thousands of articles out there on morning routines. They'll tell you when to wake up and what yoga poses to do. How many articles out there talk a

That’s been the party line for the past three and a half years among CEOs who are insistent that remote work has no staying power—or that it shouldn’t, at least, among anyone with ambitions of climbin

Post Pandemic Opinion Know what makes ‘post-covid’ life complicated? Cancer. By September 20, 2023 at 5:45 a.m. EDT Esmé Weijun Wang is the author of “ The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays ” and “ The

In May, Sputnik International, a state-owned Russian media outlet, posted a series of tweets lambasting US foreign policy and attacking the Biden administration. Each prompted a curt but well-crafted

"Is Rust a great fit for this project?" I get this question quite frequently so I think it's time to write down my thoughts if it can avoid you some painful and costly mistakes. Short answer: no. Comi

Welcome to the Pandemic Roundup : an inclusive, curated selection of new information and fresh perspectives on Covid-19 published every Thursday. Top stories : – US CDC approves new boosters for all;

Photo by Zac Edmonds on Unsplash On the app formerly known as Twitter, I’m known for occasionally going on rants about how it’s good to be normal and average and middle-class . To some degree this is

September 11 2023 9:27 PM 4 min read Share Email If you've ever seen the movie Soylent Green, you know it's not about cannibalism. It's about the banality of social collapse. It's not quick. It's a sl

One in 5 Doctors With Long COVID Can No Longer Work: Survey Please confirm that you would like to log out of Medscape.If you log out, you will be required to enter your username and password the next

Enlarge / The winning entry, Théåtre D'opéra Spatial , from the Colorado State Fair in August 2022. Jason Allen On Tuesday, the US Copyright Office Review Board rejected copyright protection for an AI

Health-care workers at a hospital on Vancouver Island are sounding the alarm about the fast spread of COVID-19 at the facility in the last few weeks, after public health officials said they would not

Summary Background Case reports suggest that SARS-CoV-2 infection could lead to immune dysregulation and trigger autoimmunity while COVID-19 vaccination is effective against severe COVID-19 outcomes.

Something happened to business software. You used to pay for it once, install it, and run it. Whether on someone’s computer, or a server for everyone, it felt like you owned it. And you did. Today, mo

A long time ago, I had this friend. She moved. One day, I went to see her. She drove me around. There was a problem. It would eventually end our friendship. When she drove, she didn't hold the steerin

Biden and his supporters have been bragging about the state of the economy while touting what they call "Bidenomics." His conservative critics are finally admitting what we've tried to say for years:

Unknown to science four years ago, the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 has surely generated more research studies than any virus before it. Many of them have to do with the “sequelae” of infecti

Last October, Colin Kahl, then the Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon, sat in a hotel in Paris and prepared to make a call to avert disaster in Ukraine. A staffer handed him an iPho

Jessica Wildfire Aug 31, 2023 181ef August 31 2023 7:28 PM 3 min read Share Email Anthony Fauci recently went on the BBC to talk about the new surge of Covid cases. He said something remarkable: "The