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☆ CEOs of big US companies are souring on hybrid work
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-18 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewThe bosses of big US companies are over hybrid work. Adding to the anti-remote vibes: a new snapshot of CEO sentiment that shows Jassy isn't alone in saying "so long, hybrid." About one in three CEOs said retirements and a lack of skilled replacements would have a big effect on their company. Only 54% of CEOs reported that their companies were "well-prepared" for a cyber attack. "The people that have generative AI and AI skills are going to have a big advantage in the marketplace over those that don't," he said.

Persons: —, Andy Jassy, Jassy isn't, Paul Knopp, Amazon's, Knopp, there's, I'm, Nicholas Bloom, Bloom, Z, GenAI, what's Organizations: Service, Amazon, KPMG US, Business, IRL, Stanford, BI, GenAI Locations: upskilling

☆ To influence people, make 1 key change in how you talk, says communication expert: It puts you 'in a position of power'
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-18 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Some people think asking questions — to friends, peers or bosses — can make you look weak or insecure. But the simple act can actually help you garner influence and even get the people around to you change their minds, says communication expert Matt Abrahams — if you know the right questions to ask. "Asking a question puts you in a position of power," Abrahams, a Stanford University lecturer, tells CNBC Make It. Asking good questions "demonstrates you care, it demonstrates empathy, it demonstrates you're willing to learn and, in some cases, admit you don't know everything," he adds. Here's how to ask the right questions, at work, home and in your social life, to get ahead and strengthen relationships, he says.

Persons: —, Matt Abrahams —, Abrahams, Here's Organizations: Stanford University, CNBC

☆ OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shares his No. 1 strategy for living without regrets: You should 'put a huge premium' on it
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-17 | by ( Jennifer Liu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, during a panel session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024. He may not have known it at the time, but in 2005 Sam Altman took a risk that changed the trajectory of his career. It "seemed like a really fun thing to try," Altman, 39, told students during an interview at his alma mater, the St. Louis-area John Burroughs School. On the other hand, a one-way door risk is harder to undo. The risky thing is to not go try the things that might really work out.

Persons: Sam Altman, That's, Altman, OpenAI Altman, Jeff Bezos, Lex, Bezos Organizations: Economic, John Burroughs School Locations: Davos, Switzerland, Stanford, Louis

☆ Amazon's RTO mandate won't pay off in the way the company hopes
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-17 | by ( Madeline Berg | Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Read previewSorry, Amazon employees. CEO Andy Jassy announced on Monday that starting next year, Amazon employees must be in the office five days a week. Amazon's announcement comes after 15 months of hybrid work — employees had to be in three times a week. Some employers like Amazon are looking to take back powerIn the pandemic era, the labor market favored office workers. Oftentimes, introverted employees work better outside the office, and some people find that the pressure of in-person work can stifle productivity and deep thinking, Duffy said.

Persons: —, Andy Jassy, Goldman Sachs, Caitlin Duffy, Duffy, Julia Hobsbawm, Hobsbawm, Amazon's Jassy, Jassy, Nicholas Bloom, who's, Bloom, what's, Deborah McGee, McGee, Gen Z, they're Organizations: Service, Business, Slack, Employees, JPMorgan, Gartner, Stanford, Research, Data Technologies, PZI Locations: America

For the past year, student-athletes have been faced with an unsettling question: How much are their lives about to change? Seemingly overnight, the 109-year-old conference of a dozen schools, with decades of rivalries, became a conference of only two. “Why add even more stress?”Shannon Cunningham, a former member of the Arizona State University softball team, said the conference change shattered her dream of playing in the Pac-12. One coach in particular, University of Missouri football coach Eli Drinkwitz, made headlines last summer when he criticized realignment for not considering the impact on student-athletes. “Did we count the cost for the student-athletes involved in this decision?” asked Drinkwitz.

Persons: ” Morgan Scott, ” Shannon Cunningham, “, ”, Cunningham, Nya Harrison, Harrison, football’s, Eli Drinkwitz, Drinkwitz, Karen Weaver, Weaver, Katie Meyer, ” Harrison, ‘, we’re Organizations: NCAA’s Football, University of Oregon softball, Arizona State University softball, San Diego, ”, Big, SEC, The College Football, ESPN, Associated Press, ACC, Stanford University, soccer, basketball’s, NBC News, Stanford, Cal, Notre Dame, Louisville —, West Coast, Wake, Virginia Tech, NCAA, University of Missouri, University of Pennsylvania Locations: San Diego State, East Coast, West, Stanford, Indiana, Ohio

☆ I've held leadership roles at Yahoo, Google, and Facebook. Taking a demotion is what set my career on the right path.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Nora Redmond | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

I wanted to work in technology, and I wanted to work in business, so I went to get an MBA, as many people do. Coming out of Cornell's business school in 1999, I had a choice between traditional routes like consulting or brand management. Since then, I've spent 25 years working in leadership roles at tech companies, including Yahoo, Google, and Facebook. Sometimes, a demotion might be the right moveAt various stages in my career, I've had those kinds of crossroad moments. So, I'm teaching people how to scale companies while I'm scaling my own company, and I'm teaching people how to be great leaders while I'm building a company that helps people be great leaders.

Persons: —, Jennifer Dulski, It's, I've, That's, you've Organizations: Service, Rising Team, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Business, Rising, Stanford

☆ The inside story of how Sandra Day O’Connor rebuffed pressure from Scalia and others to overturn Roe v. Wade
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Joan Biskupic | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

Handwritten notes from Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's papers on a major abortion case in 1989. The correspondence and notes foreshadow where O’Connor landed in the 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey case, when Justice Anthony Kennedy, hostile to Roe v. Wade in 1989, was ready to join O’Connor in upholding Roe. Accelerating the tensions all around was the time pressure of the Missouri case. O’Connor wrote that Kennedy said, “Roe is just flawed analytically” and that he wanted to “return this debate to democratic process” in the states. Library of CongressDraft opinion language from Justice John Paul Stevens he sent to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

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“For over a century, the Pac-12 Conference has been recognized as a leading brand in intercollegiate athletics,” Pac-12 Commissioner Teresa Gould said in a statement. I am thankful to our board for their efforts to welcome Boise State University, Colorado State University, California State University, Fresno, and San Diego State University to the conference. An exciting new era for the Pac-12 Conference begins today.”While Pac-12 will survive in name, it's highly unlikely it’ll have the same stature or immediate moneymaking potential of the Big Ten, Southeastern Conference, Atlantic Coast Conference and Big 12. “Today’s news is a great start to stabilizing the future of the Pac‑12 Conference and Washington State University,” Washington State President Kirk Schulz and Athletic Director Anne McCoy said in a joint statement. Washington and Oregon joined the Big Ten as well, with Arizona, Arizona State, Utah and Colorado leaving for the Irving, Texas-based Big 12.

Persons: that’s, ”, Teresa Gould, Kirk Schulz, Anne McCoy Organizations: Conference, Washington, Oregon State, “ Conference of, Boise State, Fresno State, San, NCAA, Boise State University , Colorado State University , California State University, San Diego State University, Southeastern Conference, Atlantic Coast Conference, Washington State University, ” Washington, Athletic, USC, UCLA, Big, Los Angeles, Irving, Stanford, Cal Locations: Washington State, San Francisco, San Ramon , California, Colorado State, Fresno, San Diego State, Corvallis , Oregon, Pullman, Washington, Oregon, Rosemont , Illinois, Midwest, Washington and Oregon, Arizona, Arizona State , Utah, Colorado, Irving , Texas, Charlotte , North Carolina

Taking a high dose of ADHD drugs is linked to more than five times greater risk of developing psychosis or mania, according to a new study published Thursday in the American Journal of Psychiatry. The research is among the first to find a relationship between escalating doses of the drugs — amphetamines, in particular — and a greater likelihood of psychotic symptoms. The drugs include Adderall, Vyvanse and generic amphetamines, such as dextroamphetamine. The medium dosage — 20 mg to 40 mg of Adderall, 50 mg to 100 mg of Vyvanse or 15 mg to 30 mg of dextroamphetamine — was linked to a 3.5 times higher risk. There was no increased risk of psychosis with another ADHD drug, Ritalin, which isn’t an amphetamine.

Persons: it’s, ”, Jacob Ballon, hadn’t, Will Cronenwett, ” Cronenwett, Vyvanse, Takeda, Lauren Moran, Brigham, “, ” Moran, Moran, Cronenwett, ” Ballon, they’re Organizations: American, of Psychiatry, Stanford Medicine, Northwestern Medicine, Psychiatry, NBC News, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, . Food, Drug Administration, FDA, Pharmaceuticals, McLean Hospital, Mass Locations: United States, U.S, Boston

☆ Pac-12 plans rebuild, adding four Mountain West schools
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-12 | by ( Jill Martin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

The conference announced Thursday that four schools from the Mountain West Conference – Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State and San Diego State – will be admitted to the Pac-12, effective from July 1, 2026. I am thankful to our board for their efforts to welcome Boise State University, Colorado State University, California State University, Fresno, and San Diego State University to the conference. An exciting new era for the Pac-12 Conference begins today.”Ahead of Thursday’s Pac-12 announcement, Mountain West commissioner Gloria Nevarez had released a statement about the then-pending news. The requirements of the scheduling agreement will apply to the Pac-12 should they admit Mountain West members. The Mountain West has a proud 25-year history and will continue to thrive in the years ahead.”When reached by CNN on Thursday following the Pac-12’s announcement, the Mountain West did not have an updated statement.

Persons: San Diego State –, ”, Teresa Gould, “, Gloria Nevarez, ” Nevarez Organizations: CNN, Mountain West Conference, Fresno State, San Diego, Oregon State, Washington, Football, NCAA Division, FBS, Stanford, Cal, Atlantic Coast Conference, ACC, USC, UCLA, Big Ten Conference ., Boise State University , Colorado State University , California State University, San Diego State University, West, Conference Locations: Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno, San Diego State, Washington State, Washington , Oregon, Big Ten Conference . Arizona, Arizona State , Colorado, Utah, West

☆ Jensen Huang's 14-hour days and workaholic lifestyle helped him turn Nvidia into an AI powerhouse
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-12 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

He told last year's New York Times DealBook Summit: "I don't wake up proud and confident — I wake up worried and concerned." That's because Nvidia almost went bankrupt in the late 1990s — a memory he says is hard to shake off. Huang works holidays but finds it relaxingNvidia CEO Jensen Huang. On the "20VC" podcast in March, Tangen said Huang told him, "'Nicolai, there is hard work and then there's insanely hard work.'" When I'm not working, I'm thinking about working, and when I'm working, I'm working.

Persons: —, Jensen Huang, Huang, Mohd Rasfan, Huang doesn't, Nicolai Tangen, Tangen, Nicolai, I'm, David Solomon, Goldman Sachs, Huang's, Michael M, That's Organizations: Service, Nvidia, Financial Times, Business, New York Times DealBook, Microsoft, Apple, Getty, Norges Bank Investment Management, Technology Conference, Stripe's Sessions, Big Tech, CNN, Forbes, Stripe Sessions, Stanford School of Business, Stanford University Locations: AFP

☆ How Lauren Chen went from ‘alt-lite’ YouTuber to alleged Russian asset
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Brandy-Zadrozny-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Brandy Zadrozny | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +10 min

The DOJ did not name Tenet Media but NBC News identified the company based on its description in the indictment. Unlike the influencers alleged to have been victims of RT and Tenet Media, who denied knowing they were working for Russia, Chen has said nothing since the indictment made news. “By connecting to and interacting with one another through YouTube videos, influencers with mainstream audiences lend their credibility to openly white nationalist and other extremist content creators,” Lewis wrote. Following the unsealing of the indictment, TheBlaze fired Chen and Turning Point USA removed her author page from its website. YouTube terminated all four of Chen’s pages, erasing thousands of videos and nearly a decade of work, including the channel for Tenet Media.

Persons: Lauren Chen, Chen, Liam Donovan, Candace, Jason Davis, Dave Rubin, Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, Lauren Southern, — Chen, “, Michael Knowles gushed, Richard Spencer, ” Knowles, Tenet, Milo Yiannopoulos, ” Yiannopoulos, she’s, Yiannopoulos, Spencer, Rebecca Lewis, Ben Shapiro, Lewis ’, ” Lewis, Evie, Mark Levin, Michelle Malkin, Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze, TheBlaze, ”, Fuentes’s, Nikki Haley “, Matt Christiansen, Donovan “ Organizations: Department of Justice, DOJ, NBC News, Tenet Media, Trump, RT, Getty, YouTube, Tenet, University of Southern, College Republicans, Brigham Young University, Facebook, Southern Poverty Law Center, Data & Society, ”, “, Scouting, United Nations Locations: Russian, Russia, Nashville, Tenn, Southern, Canadian, Shanghai, Singapore, London, “, University of Southern California, Charlottesville , Virginia, Stanford, Israel, Gaza, Ukraine

Here's what Harris and Trump got right and wrong on the debate stage in Philadelphia. Fact check: Trump calls Harris’ dad a Marxist“Her father’s a Marxist professor in economics, and he taught her well," Trump said. Fact check: Trump claims Harris ‘wants to confiscate your guns’“She wants to confiscate your guns,” Trump claimed. We’re not taking anybody’s guns away.”Fact check: Harris says Trump oversaw manufacturing job losses“Donald Trump said he was going to create manufacturing jobs. Fact check: Trump says he has ‘nothing to do with Project 2025’“I have nothing to do with Project 2025.

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Covid lockdowns, such as school closures, canceled sports activities and stay-at-home orders, prematurely aged teen brains by as much as four years, researchers from the University of Washington found. Lead researcher Patricia Kuhl, co-director of I-LABS, said that after Covid lockdowns began in 2020, they couldn’t do brain scan follow-ups until 2021. Pandemic lockdowns resulted in unusually accelerated brain maturation in adolescents. The research doesn’t prove the lockdowns caused the brain changes — mental health disorders were rising among children even before Covid. Another brain scan study in 2022 from Stanford University showed similar changes in cortical thickness in teen brains during Covid restrictions.

Persons: Covid, Patricia Kuhl, Covid lockdowns, ” Kuhl, Kuhl, Ellen Rome, they’re, ”, Jonathan Posner, Posner, there’s, It’s, Parkinson, Karin Zaugg Black, Delia Organizations: University of Washington, National Academy of Sciences, university's Institute for Learning, Brain Sciences, Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital, Rome, University of Washington's Institute for Learning, Stanford University, Stanford, Centers for Disease Control, CDC, Duke University School of Medicine Locations: Seattle

☆ When you work from home it's tempting to skip your lunch break. Workplace experts say it could harm your longevity and drain your social battery.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-09 | by ( Nora Redmond | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

However, working from home can have drawbacks when it comes to taking a lunch break. "If you're really working around the clock, until let's say dinner time and don't take that break, it's not contributing to the longevity, sustainability, and overall health of employees," Tavis said. Overworking and burnout from not taking a proper break can also contribute to mental health issues, Tavis said. AdvertisementEmployers need to do moreDiRose said the best preventive measure to ensure employees are taking breaks is more training. Tavis said that for hybrid setups, managers need to make sure they encourage staff to take lunch on in-office days.

Persons: —, Isabel Berwick, Nick Bloom, Mark Mortensen, it's, Mortensen, Anna Tavis, Tavis, Janice DiRose —, DiRose, they're Organizations: Service, Employees, Business, Financial, Stanford University, Netflix, New York University, Engage, Florida —, Fair Labor, Employers Locations: Florida

☆ Study shows how the pandemic may have affected teens’ brains
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-09 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

“Teens need our support now more than ever.”Significant socioemotional development occurs during adolescence, along with substantial changes to brain structure and function. The researchers originally intended to track ordinary adolescent brain development over time, starting with MRIs the authors conducted on participants’ brains in 2018. The study revealed accelerated cortical thinning in the post-pandemic brains of teens — occurring in 30 brain regions across both hemispheres and all lobes for girls, and in only two regions for boys. The prevalence of the thinning amounted to 43% and 6% of the studied brain regions for girls and boys, respectively. The regions affected in boys’ brains are involved in processing objects in the visual field as well as faces.

Persons: ”, Patricia K, Kuhl, Max Wiznitzer, Wiznitzer wasn’t, Wiznitzer, It’s, Ian Gotlib, wasn’t, ” Kuhl, Gotlib Organizations: CNN, National Academy of Sciences, Institute for Learning, Sciences, University of Washington, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Stanford, Stanford University Locations: Seattle, Washington

☆ How some of the biggest right-wing media stars ended up as unwitting puppets of Russian propaganda
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-07 | by ( Hadas Gold | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Now, the Justice Department is alleging that some of the biggest stars in right-wing social media were, unwittingly, part of a sinister Russian operation to influence the 2024 US election. What is Tenet Media? “Overt shilling”The Russians also pushed Tenet to promote videos that were going viral on social media, according to the indictment. Tenet Media has not responded to requests for comment and stopped posting content on Wednesday. After the 2016 US presidential election, congressional and federal investigations showed Moscow had successfully co-opted unwitting Americans to stage protests, run social media accounts and host events at its behest.

Persons: CNN — They’re, weren’t, Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, Lauren Southern, Tayler Hansen, Matt Christiansen, Dave Rubin, Johnson, MAGA influencers, Rubin, Glenn Beck’s, Enrique Tarrio, Jack Posobiec, Pool, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr, Christiansen, Lauren Chen, Liam Donovan, Chen, Donovan, ”, Donald Trump’s, Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orban, Evgenia Novozhenina, “, Trump, Q, Justin Trudeau, Putin, Trudeau, Israel, ” Rubin, Eduard Grigoriann, “ Grigoriann, Tenet, Tucker Carlson, Carlson fawned, I’ll, Nina Jankowicz, ’, unvarnished ’, Renee DiResta, Donie O’Sullivan Organizations: CNN, Justice, Justice Department, Tenet Media, Kremlin, Vice Media, Independent, Young Turks, YouTube, Tenet, Google, Proud Boys, Blaze Media, Ukraine, The Justice Department, Republican Party, Trump, Democrats, ”, United, ISIS, Hungary's, Reuters “, Canadian, Hamas, FBI, Fox News, American Sunlight, Media, DOJ, Soviet, Stanford Internet Observatory Locations: Tennessee, Russia, Ukraine, ”, “ Ukraine, United States, Moscow, Russian, Colorado, American

☆ A Gen Z Stanford graduate who left an engineering job to pursue filmmaking was surprised by the overlap in industries
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-07 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

But soon after graduating, McRuer made an unlikely early-career pivot, ditching his dependable product design job to pursue his passion for film. The 2019 graduate studied product design at Stanford's School of Engineering. The internship quickly evolved into a full-time product design position. He initially thought he could get his filmmaking fix via a hobby that played second fiddle to his engineering work. But McRuer said he was ultimately surprised by the overlaps he's seen working in both engineering and film — particularly when producing.

Persons: —, Jason McRuer, McRuer, I'm Organizations: Service, Business, Stanford's School of Engineering, Sundance Film, Global Health Labs, City of Locations: LA, City, City of Angels, Coast, Brooklyn

☆ Google's second antitrust trial could help shape the future of online ads
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-06 | by ( Jennifer Elias | Jennifer Covers Google Parent Company Alphabet Inc. | Silicon Valley Culture For Cnbc.Com In San Francisco. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

For Google, the focus turns to its ad tools, which are part of the company’s $200 billion digital ad business. In the first antitrust case, the court found that Google violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act, which outlaws monopolies. The company’s M&A strategy “set the stage for Google’s later exclusionary conduct across the ad tech industry,” the Justice Department alleges. Google has long fought back against claims that it dominates online ads, pointing to the market share of competitors including Meta. It will argue that buyers and sellers have many options especially as the online ad market has evolved.

Persons: Biden, Donald Trump, Meta, Sherman, Goldman, Bernstein, Amit Mehta, ” Mehta, Google’s, Neal Mohan, Mohan, it’s, AdMeld, Jerry Dischler, It’s, Sissie Hsiao, Scott Sheffer, Prabhakar Raghavan, Simon Whitcombe Organizations: Department of Justice, Google, Microsoft, Big Tech, DOJ, Apple, Federal Trade Commission, Facebook, Amazon, Citibank, NYSE, New York Stock Exchange, YouTube, Google Network, U.S, District of Columbia, Department, DoubleClick, Meta, Stanford, Harvard, New York Times Locations: Alexandria , Virginia, California , Colorado , Connecticut , New Jersey , New York, Rhode Island and Tennessee, Google’s

☆ Common food dye can make skin transparent in mice, study finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-05 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

“But when we put them together, we were able to achieve transparency of the mouse skin.”Once the dye had completely diffused into the skin, the skin became transparent. In mice, the researchers were able to observe blood vessels directly in the surface of the brain through the transparent skin of the skull. Guosong Hong/Stanford UniversityThe transparent areas take on an orangish color, Ou said, similar to that of the food dye. 5 dye, a common food coloring, was used at a low concentration in the study, and its effects were easily undone, according to the researchers. “However, a partially transparent (mouse) will already enable numerous research opportunities to answer questions relating to development, regeneration, as well as aging.”

Persons: Wells, ”, Zihao Ou, ” Ou, “, Hong, Ou, Guosong Hong, Stanford University Christopher Rowlands, Rowlands, wasn’t, Jon Gorecki, Gorecki, tartrazine Organizations: CNN, University of Texas, NSF, Stanford University in, Stanford University, US Food and Drug Administration, California, Environmental Health, Stanford, Imperial College London Locations: H.G, Dallas, Stanford University in California, California, bioengineering, Ou

☆ When Do Women Have the Right to Kill in Self-Defense? - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-04 | by ( Rachel Louise Snyder | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +45 min

Mr. Ford kept their daughter at home to ensure Ms. Ford wouldn’t tell anyone in the emergency room how Robert’s injury happened. Ms. Ford, now 65, is serving a sentence of life without parole at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla. Leigh Goodmark, the author of the book “Imperfect Victims,” said that self-defense law imagines two parties of equal strength, size, weight and physical capability. But where self-defense law really fails to capture a woman’s experience is around the question of imminence. For women like Ms. Ford, Ms. Ayobi and many others, killing their way out of a relationship was an act of salvation — for themselves, for their children.

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☆ It’s not just you. More weird spam is popping up on Facebook
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-03 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Posts with obviously AI-generated images and confusing captions sometimes receive thousands of likes and hundreds of comments and shares. “The Facebook Feed … at times shows users AI-generated images even when they do not follow the Pages posting those images. Experts who track this kind of online behavior say there are likely several different kinds of actors behind the Facebook spam, with varying motives. Meta also automatically labels AI-generated images created with its own tools. However, there are still ways for users to strip out that metadata (or create AI images without it) to evade detection.

Persons: you’re, “, ”, Ben Decker, Erin Logan, De Marco, Lewis Hine, Hany Farid, Amy Couch ”, Kris, influencer, We’ve, Amy Couch, Renee DiResta, Josh Goldstein, David Evan Harris, Harris, ” Harris, cheeseburgers, Jair, Bolsonaro, ” Farid, Meta Organizations: New, New York CNN, Facebook, Meta, National Child Labor, Google, Library of Congress, CNN, UC Berkeley, “ Cubs, Stanford, Georgetown, Media Locations: New York, TikTok, New Jersey, Meta

☆ Why Black men's job situation is worse than it looks
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-24 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

That means that the tens of thousands of Black men who are incarcerated aren't being included in these calculations, effectively boosting the Black male employment rate. As of July, the BLS estimated a there were 16.2 million US Black men in the noninstitutional population, compared to 18.8 million Black women. AdvertisementThe bottom line: If the survey data had a more complete picture of Black men, Holzer said the Black male employment rate would likely be "considerably worse." Education differences and discrimination can work against Black menEducation is one factor that can help explain the lower employment rate of Black men, Wilson said. A strong job market and workforce development programs could drive progressThere are several things that might help get more Black men into the workforce.

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Harris hasn’t yet released many details about her strategy to wipe out medical debt, but policy experts say a newly implemented medical debt relief program from North Carolina could offer a roadmap. Roy Cooper announced that nearly 100 hospitals in the state had signed on to participate in the Medical Debt Relief Incentive Program, which he said will incentivize hospitals to eliminate $4 billion in medical debt for 2 million low- and middle-income patients over the next two years. At a campaign event last week in Raleigh, North Carolina, Harris thanked Cooper for canceling medical debt in his state, and Cooper introduced Harris at the convention Thursday. Hospitals will get additional federal funds if they forgive existing debt and move to prevent future medical debt. “I see medical debt as the most salient example of a health care system which isn’t working,” he said.

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☆ AI copilots are making internal breaches easier and costlier to defend against
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-23 | by ( Rachel Curry | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

At least, that's what data security experts like Matt Radolec, vice president of incident response at data security company Varonis, say. "Copilots have pass-through permissions," Radolec said. There's also value in proceeding at a slow and steady pace with gen AI processes. Instead, Ensono is developing its own tool so the company can better enable and control its data security. Gen AI has made cybersecurity mistakes costlier, and insiders now pose a bigger threat — malicious or otherwise — than ever before.

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