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North Korea Social Engineering Attacks Used to Gather Key Intel

SecureWorld News

Specifically, the advisory highlights the utilization of social engineering techniques by DPRK state-sponsored cyber actors, with a focus on their hacking activities targeting think tanks, academia, and media organizations worldwide. At the forefront of these cyber threats is a group known as Kimusky.

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Social media is making a bad political situation worse

Vox

Social media seems to be making a bad situation worse. Some of the political lessons we learned recently include that conspiracy theories have real currency — fake news can spread faster than real facts on social media — and that if we don’t agree on a shared reality, more mundane things like political compromise will remain out of reach.

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Next Tech Titan: MotherDuck, Rec Room, Statsig, Submittable, Zuper vie for pivotal GeekWire Award

GeekWire

And the finalists for Next Tech Titan are … MotherDuck , a serverless data analytics platform built on the open-source platform DuckDB, an in-process online analytical processing database, or OLAP. Submittable , a social impact platform that helps corporations, governments, and nonprofits manage programs focused on social good.

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Is AI in the enterprise ready for primetime? Not yet.

CIO Business Intelligence

At work, we’re efficient at processing multiple inputs in rapid time to take into account issues of safety, social norms, the needs of our colleagues and employer, as well as accuracy and strategic goals. While many of these decisions are routine and require little thought, others are far more complex and nuanced.

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Regulatory uncertainty overshadows gen AI despite pace of adoption

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s no surprise, then, that according to a June KPMG survey, uncertainty about the regulatory environment was the top barrier to implementing gen AI. If I’m an energy company, I want to make it possible for folks to leverage geologic surveys and reports that are miserable to go through.” Probably not,” Orlandini says.

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10 most in-demand generative AI skills

CIO Business Intelligence

The recent AI boom has sparked plenty of conversations around its potential to eliminate jobs, but a survey of 1,400 US business leaders by the Upwork Research Institute found that 49% of hiring managers plan to hire more independent and full-time employees in response to the demand for AI skills. Generative AI, Hiring, IT Skills

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Tech Moves: Washington STEM names new CEO; Conversica and Iterable hire marketing vets

GeekWire

Washington STEM is a nonprofit organization focused on statewide education and social change. Founded in 2011, the Seattle-based nonprofit has 10 partner networks across Washington state, provides communities with investments and open-sourced tools, as well as advocating at the state and federal level. James Philips.

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