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CIOs And The Problem Of Social Engineering

The Accidental Successful CIO

Social engineering is how the bad guys get employees to say too much Image Credit: Alexandre Formagio. In the old days, you’d create a malicious piece of software and then try to smuggle it into the company so that it could do your dirty work for you. These days they use a more sophisticated attack: social engineering.

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Tech Moves: Xbox hires Seattle gaming vet Kim Swift; Frontdoor adds Amazon Fashion leader; more

GeekWire

Swift is a longtime Seattle-area gaming industry vet whose resume includes Valve Software (she helped lead development of Portal), Airtight Games, Amazon, EA, and most recently Google Stadia, where she was a game design director for the tech giant’s cloud gaming service. Google Stadia closed its first-party game studios in February.

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Seattle startup that helps parents figure out what their kids are doing online lands cash

GeekWire

No software is installed on the devices used by kids. “Karl and Steve gained a deep understanding of the complex social media data landscape with their PushSpring experience, which we think gives them a unique ability to solve this problem in an innovative fashion,” said Chuck Stonecipher, managing director at Trilogy.

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Can AI improve your dating game? Startup’s speech analysis tool offers practice and feedback

GeekWire

Yoodli , the Seattle-based AI-enabled software platform that analyzes speech to offer tips for improving communication skills, wants to help users land a date and carry on a better conversation on that date. Using AI to do all that removes a number of barriers that a date-seeker might encounter trying to practice alone or with another human.

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GeekWire 200 update: Top Pacific Northwest tech startups hold their ground atop the list

GeekWire

Companies such as Big Fish Games, Cheezburger Network, and Tableau Software once sat atop the GeekWire 200 , our ranking of the Pacific Northwest’s privately-held tech startups. Also on the move is Outreach, the sales enablement software startup valued at more than $1 billion, which moved up two spots since last month to No.

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Clothing rental service Armoire adapts to pandemic, raises cash from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

GeekWire

Employees from the Armoire team, before social distancing. Armoire made a few key moves over the past nine months to adapt as the fashion industry was flipped on its head. CEO Jennifer Hyman told Fortune that the company has accelerated its path to profitability and she expects the fashion industry to have a big return later this year.

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What is synthetic data? Generated data to help your AI strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

Synthetic data can also be a vital tool for enterprise AI efforts when available data doesn’t meet business needs or could create privacy issues if used to train machine learning models, test software, or the like. To simulate the future: When fashions change, historic data might become obsolete overnight.

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