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Automated hiring software is mistakenly rejecting millions of viable job candidates

The Verge

Automated resume-scanning software is contributing to a “broken” hiring system in the US, says a new report from Harvard Business School. Such software is used by employers to filter job applicants, but is mistakenly rejecting millions of viable candidates, say the study’s authors. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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National Security Software On Wall Street: Cognitio’s Roger Hockenberry Comments

CTOvision

The Wall Street Journal examined this trend in their piece titled: Spy Software Gets a Second Life on Wall Street. Read more of this story on The Wall Street Journal. They reported on a wave of companies with ties to the intelligence community "winning over" the world of finance. in Washington. Related articles.

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Guidance Software Federal Summit 6 March 2014

CTOvision

By Bob Gourley 2014 Guidance Software Federal Summit: Cybersecurity | E-Discovery | Enterprise Forensics. The Guidance Software Federal Summit is a thought leadership forum designed exclusively for federal managers and leaders to learn how Government and industry leaders are achieving endpoint visibility across their entire IT ecosystems.

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Tech Moves: Instacart COO lands at Microsoft in AI product role; ZoomInfo accounting chief departs

GeekWire

In a LinkedIn post , Sharma said AI-powered advances will be “exponential, sparking the most important product making era yet, with significant gains in how billions of people program, work and live.” ” Her typical week and daily habits were recently profiled in The Wall Street Journal.

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Microsoft and Facebook vet leads nonprofit making software to improve COVID-19 rapid tests

GeekWire

Audere is building software for administering rapid result COVID tests that can be integrated into products being developed by U.S. He quickly saw the need for software development to meet digital health needs in countries internationally and realized, “this is a space where my past skills could be very useful.”. (Audere Photo).

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Both United Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines saw service outages in 2023 resulting from wonky software upgrades, and Southwest ended the previous year with a Christmas travel meltdown blamed on outdated systems. Honestly, it’s a wonder the system works at all. Probably the worst IT airline disaster of 2023 came on the government side, however.

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What CIOs Need To Know About Software Defined Networking

The Accidental Successful CIO

Software Defined Networking is going to change everything for CIOs Image Credit: Cisco. We then string them together, get some expensive software and then sit back and hope that everything connects together. Say Hello To Software Defined Networking. The new approach is called Software Defined Networking or SDN.

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