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Social Media: Election Interference Threats 2024

NTD spoke with Rex Lee, Cybersecurity Adviser at My Smart Privacy

It is election time, and our advisories are waging tech-based hybrid warfare centered on election interference via social media platforms which has been a problem dating back to 2016 regarding the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2024

By Lareina Yee, Michael Chui, and Roger Roberts with Mena Issler from McKinsey Digital 

Which technology trends matter most for companies in 2024? New analysis by the McKinsey Technology Council highlights the adoption, development, and industry effects of advanced technologies.

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How AI Could Be Used to Improve Talent Acquisition and Management

By Rob Enderle for Datanami

I do a series of weekly podcasts for the Word Talent Economy Forum mostly focused on AI. One of them this month was on how to Improve Talent Acquisition and Management. It’s an area in which I think generative AI, particularly conversational AI, could make a huge difference in HR, which was originally created as a hedge against unionization as a better alternative.

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Quantum Cybersecurity Threats: Quantum Cyber Attacks

CyberTalk TV Interview with Rex M. Lee

We take a deeper dive into the quantum computing revolution where the stakes couldn’t be higher. A single quantum computer holds the power to dismantle all modern encryption systems.

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Scenario Planning Misconceptions: The Top 10 Misunderstandings About Scenario Planning

By: Daniel W. Rasmus for Serious Insights

Scenario planning isn’t about predicting the future; it’s about embracing the uncertainty that defines it. Too often, people misconstrue scenario planning as an exercise in clairvoyance, expecting it to reveal the precise contours of tomorrow.

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Layoff Survival Guide: Making Smart Choices in Tough Times

By Rob Enderle for TechNewsWorld

With the advent of AI and rapidly changing corporate needs and performance, many companies have announced layoffs this year, and I expect we are far from done.

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How to Prepare for or Avoid Being Obsolesced by AI

By Rob Enderle for Techspective

AI is reaching the end of its hype cycle. Reality stepped in when people realized it wasn’t as useful yet as they thought it would be, and the vast majority of AI deployments currently fail to meet expectations.

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After CrowdStrike Outage, Companies and Governments Reassess Risks of Using Cloud

By Kevin Stocklin Featuring Security Advisor - Rex M. Lee 

As companies and government agencies around the world scramble to restore their computer systems following this month’s global outage from a faulty software update, questions are being raised about whether proper protocols for updates were followed.

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Discovering AI Guardrails: Not All ChatBots Defend Ethics with the Same Veracity

By: Daniel W. Rasmus for Serious Insights

I ran an experiment recently that some public chatbots are more repressed than others. I prompted them with a realistic business prompt. I chose, however, a business that not all people like, one that some would rather see disappear from the economic landscape. 

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Global Computer Outages Reveal Vulnerabilities of Internet Centralization 

By Kevin Stocklin, NTD News

As the world’s communications and operations become increasingly dominated by a handful of tech oligopolies, they become more efficient and vulnerable. This became apparent last week as an antivirus software update issued on the evening of July 18 by CrowdStrike, a leading security software company, caused over a billion Windows-based computers to crash. 

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