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DeSantis campaign launch livestream meltdown reaffirms Twitter’s tech decline
Tuesday, 30 May 2023 11:03 Written by Carmi LevyWhen Ron DeSantis decided to forego a traditional rally to launch his presidential campaign, he could have hardly predicted that shaky Twitter infrastructure would overshadow his message.
Or could he?
Montana’s TikTok ban is an appalling line in the sand for freedom of speech
Tuesday, 23 May 2023 13:59 Written by Carmi LevyIn the wake of Montana’s decision to ban the Chinese-owned TikTok app within its borders, the U.S. state is laying down an alarming gauntlet that may yet backfire.
The law, known as SB419, ostensibly introduced to limit exposure to Chinese intelligence-gathering targeting the phones of American teenagers and twentysomethings, could do more harm than good as opponents line up to fight it.
In choosing to implement a knee-jerk reaction to a well-documented challenge, Montana’s state legislators have opened a veritable Pandora’s Box around freedom of speech and expression – and in doing so may have crossed a once-sacrosanct line.
Collaboration tools hit their stride in the post-COVID age
Wednesday, 17 May 2023 19:37 Written by Carmi LevyIt’s been just over three years since a newly discovered virus with a strange name spread panic and fear around the planet.
Organizations that had long resisted remote work over productivity fears suddenly found themselves embracing tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, and Slack out of panic-driven necessity.
Now that the World Health Organization has reclassified COVID-19 as an ongoing health issue – and it is no longer a public health emergency – IT leaders have some breathing room to review their remote work experiences and strengthen their hybrid work roadmap. In other words, it’s time to refocus on collaboration – and collaboration apps.
Geoffrey Hinton’s resignation from Google is AI’s canary in a coal mine
Wednesday, 10 May 2023 19:46 Written by Carmi LevyIt’s no understatement to say that Geoffrey Hinton is as close to a god as we’re ever going to have in the Artificial Intelligence space.
The British-Canadian computer scientist and cognitive psychologist literally wrote the book on machine learning, after all. Along with AI rock stars Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun he picked up the 2018 Turing Award, the Nobel Prize for computer science, for creating the very building blocks of today's large language models (LLM).
Hinton is widely credited with creating the foundations of deep learning, which defines how LLMs are trained and how they synthesize and connect the data. So, his decision to quit his very plush job with Google so he could ring the alarm bells about AI means we should all stand up and take notice.
We can’t afford to ignore him.
Follow these 4 steps to build a successful post-pandemic roadmap for hybrid work
Thursday, 04 May 2023 16:50 Written by Carmi LevyThree years after the COVID-19 pandemic sent millions of knowledge workers home, employers are gradually reopening their offices and carefully filling long-empty cubicles and meeting rooms.
But they’re returning to a permanently changed workplace. Straight-up return-to-office (RTO) is out. Hybrid work styles encompassing varying degrees of in-office and remote work are in. The strategy of choice is increasingly just that, choice, and employees are demanding the ability to choose the locations and work arrangements that make the most sense for them.
And as you’ve likely guessed by now, some organizations get the hybrid thing right. Others, not so much.
Batten down the hatches and hit the gas: 8 steps to recession-proof your IT budget
Wednesday, 26 April 2023 20:22 Written by Carmi LevyThere’s no way to sugar coat it: the economy is heading into turbulent waters.
As is often the case during a downturn, the impact on businesses will be profound, with tighter budgets, tougher-to-justify business cases, and a general desire to slow down and hold on tight.
Information technology isn’t immune, and conventional wisdom might suggest tech leaders should also be battening down the hatches. But we humbly suggest conventional wisdom needs a dose of modernization; now is the time for IT to hit the gas on investing.
Massive Pentagon data leak shines light on insider cybersecurity risks
Thursday, 20 April 2023 16:02 Written by Carmi LevyCybersecurity has long been focused on keeping the bad guys out. Organizations just like yours spend the majority of their security budgets on building (hopefully) impermeable rings that protect employees, clients, infrastructure, data, and other resources from an ever worsening threat landscape.
But what if we’re getting it wrong? What if the real threat is coming from the inside?
The recent leak of classified Pentagon briefing documents – and the subsequent arrest of a National Guard airman suspected of stealing them – should be a reminder to us all that insider threats are every bit as worrisome as anything on the outside.
Today’s CIO role is evolving more rapidly than ever. Here’s what’s driving it.
Thursday, 13 April 2023 18:10 Written by Carmi LevyNot so long ago, the Chief Information Officer was considered a junior member of the C-suite. As long as whoever was in charge of Information Technology kept the technological lights on and didn’t bust the budget, they got to keep their seat at the very edge of the executive table.
Those times are now over.
Today’s CIO role is evolving more quickly than perhaps any other senior leadership role – so much so that perhaps it’s time to give it an entirely new name.
Tech leaders pen letter demanding AI pause: are we moving too quickly?
Thursday, 06 April 2023 12:10 Written by Carmi LevyOver 1,100 of some of the most influential names in the artificial intelligence space last week signed a letter asking for a 6-month pause in training next-generation AI systems.
They warn the technology poses “profound risks to society and humanity.”
Should humanity listen to them and slam on the brakes? The answer to this question, as is almost always the case with anything related to AI, is complicated.
Twitter source code gets leaked online. Here’s why it matters.
Thursday, 30 March 2023 19:17 Written by Carmi LevyBy now, we should all be used to eye-popping headlines from Twitter.
Mass layoffs. Mass resignations. Botched releases. Skyrocketing misinformation and disinformation. Rampant and uncontrolled hate speech. Disappearing ad revenues.
But the latest shocking headline – a reported leak of part of Twitter’s source code – could be the worst of them all.
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