Are technologists a threat to doing business securely? – Source: go.theregister.com https://ciso2ciso.com/are-technologists-a-threat-to-doing-business-securely-source-go-theregister-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #TheRegisterSecurity #CyberSecurityNews #technologists #TheRegister

There's a reason I, and many other #designers, #developers, #technologists, #programmers use a plain text editor. I assure you it's not for #Microsoft #copilot

Some really horrible sh*t about to go down…

“At a broadest level, the concern is that #technologists are playing a role to monitor #employees & to target those who will be #downsized ”

“It is difficult in the #federal #government to actually evaluate who is performing well or performing poorly.
So doing it on some sort of mass automated scale where you think using some sort of #data analysis or #ai would automate that process, I think, is an invite to make errors.”#opm
https://apple.news/A0wVFiuyVTpW_MExDCZjInA

#TechWeenie Alert
Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley

“An influential Silicon Valley publication runs a cover story lamenting the “pussification” of tech. A major tech CEO lambasts a Black civil rights leader’s calls for diversifying the tech workforce. #Technologists rage against the “PC police”.

No, this isn’t #SiliconValley in the age of Maga. It’s the tech industry of the 1990s, when observers first raised concerns about the rightwing bend of Silicon Valley and the potential for “#technofascism”. Despite the industry’s (often undeserved) reputation for #liberalism, its reactionary foundations were baked in almost from the beginning. As Silicon Valley enters a second Trump administration, the gendered roots of its original reactionary movement offer insight into today’s rightward turn.”

#BeccaLewis / #oligarch / #TechOligarch <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/jan/29/silicon-valley-rightwing-technofascism>

Summit 2024!

Join us at the Hotel Yak & Yeti in Kathmandu, #Nepal, on December 6-7 for two days of connection, collaboration, and conversation with #journalists, #activists, #technologists, and others from around the world.

Register at https://lnkd.in/eyaemwtK!

Fausto De La Torre, Head of Enterprise Modernization, Platforms and Cloud, Europe, shares a memorable moment from putting the Radar together.

You can see the passion our #Technologists carry for the radar right here!

Get the latest volume of radar here: https://ter.li/vw1xnw

"The defining political question of the 20th century was: “What should be governed by the state, and what should be governed by the market?”

The defining political question of the first half of the 21st century is: “How much of our lives should be governed by technology, and under what terms?”

In the last century, economists drove public policy. In this century, it will be #technologists."
#publicinteresttech
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/03/cybersecurity_f_1.html

The 32nd NORDUnet conference #NDN2024 Early Bird Registration - Now open!
Date & Location: 10th-12th September, 2024 in Bergen, Norway.
Who Should Attend? #technologists, practitioners, #policymakers, and #researchers focused on research and #education infrastructure, #international partners, and stakeholders.
Networking Opportunity: Connect with European and global peers to exchange significant outcomes, current trends, and discuss future directions for NRENs.
https://nordu.net/NDN2024reg

This is AMAZING #technology - especially if it helps folks comunicate: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tongue-controlled-touchscreens-hit-market-year-rcna133270?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Personally, it also reinforces the belief that #technologists sit around reading @GreatDismal and trying to make what he comes up with a reality. This feels like tech straight out of #ThePeripheral!

«Most of us think of a #Luddite as someone who is anti-technology or fearful of it, but as LA Times tech columnist Brian Merchant points out in his new book Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the #Rebellion Against #BigTech, they were #technologists themselves who simply questioned the ways it was being used against them.»

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tech-columnist-brian-merchant-says-the-luddites-got-a-bad-rap-after-the-industrial-revolution

@terrygrundy @breadandcircuses

Great to see science news recognizing the manipulation of a global #ClimateChange political conference as being "science news".

Easy to forget that most of the globe's scientists want climate change stopped.

How might a #GeneralStrike of #Scientists and #Technologists steer government action on climate change?

I see scientists numbered at ~9 million globally.

A far higher number of technologists?
Technologists are essential to climate change continuing.

The #UnitedNations stands at the forefront of promoting a more sustainable and inclusive future.

In line with this commitment, we co-created a playbook for #technologists at the UN and beyond that will help identify strategies to be more inclusive, aware of bias, and to mitigate negative unintended consequences.

Get the playbook here: https://thght.works/3FCrnKN

Happy #Friday! Please #boost!

Techtoots.com is a #Mastodon #community focused on #tech (any vintage!). We #welcome #technologists, #coders, #engineers, #gadget lovers, self professed “#geeks” & anyone with an interest and love of tech.

#home #welcome #spreadtheword #tellyourfriends #nicepeople #introduction #pleaseboost #spreadtheword #builders #community #happy to #have #you #letsdothis #safespace

Also our #greatdanes - because #dogtax and #cattax is a something I also believe in!

@thegradient

Our History Communication Institute has released its first official statement on Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)

Find the full statement here:

https://historycommunication.com