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This book is a call to action. You can participate. This is for you. Artificial intelligence might end the world. More likely, it will crush our ability to make sense of the world—and so will crush ou

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Stephanie Palazzolo wrote on Twitter : it's so disorienting to see the insane number of tech layoffs recently and then to see today that the US added 517K jobs + pushed unemployment down to lowest lev

It is frustrating for cybersecurity vendors when conferences attain the status of “must attend.” They are extremely expensive to exhibit at and the ROI is often difficult to measure. In my experience

This is my third cycle of industry-wide layoffs in tech. I landed my first computer job in the late 1990s. Soon after, I moved to the US and waltzed right into the middle of the dot-com crash. We crac

In a survey of 500 knowledge workers in the US, 89% said they would like to have more control and flexibility over their work schedule than traditional full-time employment can offer. Seventy-four per

Watch The toll of layoff anxiety 6 February 2023 Features correspondent Getty Images As companies around the globe slash positions, many workers are steeping in worry that they’re next. “Every morning

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says that open source developers should be made exempt from the European Union’s (EU) proposed new artificial intelligence (AI) regulations, adding that the opportunity is sti

6 min read· Feb 4, 2023 -- Managing the security knowledge gap Photo by S J on Unsplash This article is about leading Security in an organization. I promise. But first, a story: When I decided to run

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The labor market shattered expectations in January as the economy added 517,000 jobs and the unemployment rate dropped to 3.4 percent, a low not seen since May 1969, according to data released Friday

I’ve been going hardcore on using GPT to create essays, reports, and other kinds of analysis. I’ve had tons of success with it, and it’s given me a clear view of current limitations with the current t

In the old days, security teams were all about protecting the code, written ‘in house’, that powered the features of their software. The dawn of SAST. We called it appsec. Along came open source, and

This article is cross posted here on LinkedIn for discussion and comments. In the CSO interviews , I explained that we heard from CSO’s that they want less tools not more. I also explained that we hea

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Haroon Meer, founder of Thinkst Applied Research, recently joined Dennis Fisher on the Decipher podcast to talk about recent changes in the security industry, the economic downturn, and how to get val

Advertisement Watch How widespread could the four-day workweek really be? 26 January 2023 Features correspondent Getty Images Many trials of the shortened workweek have shown positive results. It’s an

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Why are so many people in tech getting laid off at once? Image: The Verge There’s an eerie similarity to the statements tech companies have made about their recent layoffs. Mainly, if the press releas

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has said multiple times that, He says it in this video as well. > We’re very much here to build AGI. Sam Altman I am not sure how many people realize this about the comp

So much for “ The Jetsons .” Flying cars, floating cities and robot servants never happened. A decadeslong slowdown in “disruptive” discoveries, detailed in a new report looking at scientific studies

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When economists tick off the reasons for our current wage problems , we usually include “slow productivity growth” on the list. Well, somebody asked me the reasonable question : Why should that matter

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Although Tiara Richardson read news articles warning of looming Big Tech layoffs, she still hoped her job as a content designer for Meta would be safe. She had been with the company for four months an

In the next five years, it is likely that AI will begin to reduce employment for college-educated workers. As the technology continues to advance, it will be able to perform tasks that were previously

Edit Article 03/03/2023 In this article The original immutable laws of security (v2 updated below) identified key technical truths that busted prevalent security myths of those times. In that spirit,

In the Northeast, the fast-spreading XBB.1.5 variant is causing a majority of new cases. By Jan. 6, 2023 Leer en español Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations have steadily ticked up in the United St

On most days, I detest punditry. That said, the emergence of large language models (LLMs) is perhaps the most interesting development in my entire career in tech — so it’s simply too consequential to

Canada’s aviation system was briefly hit with a computer outage just hours after issues with the same system forced the United States’ Federal Aviation Administration to bring air traffic to a standst

In my article, A Security Tools Crash Is Coming , I wrote about the fact that people want less tools and not more. The underlying premise is that more tools create more noise, and are more expensive t

Without a doubt, Bill Gates is a genius . The Microsoft co-founder dropped out of college at age 19 because he believed a computer should be on every desk and in every home. You only put a lot of mone

In the most comprehensive autopsy tissue study conducted to date, researchers have found traces of the SARS-CoV-2 virus throughout the entire body, from the brain and the heart to the eyes. The findin

Slack suffered a security incident over the holidays affecting some of its private GitHub code repositories. The immensely popular Salesforce-owned IM app is used by an estimated 18 million users at w

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I suppose one could say that I’ve been doing this far too long, and I’ve gained some knowledge about how the cybersecurity industry works, and how people succeed or fail at the field. To give back to

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