I love this year’s theme: Don’t Make It Easy for Them. https://www.staysafeonline.org/cybersecurity-awareness-month I remember growing up and hearing adults I knew in law enforcement talk about someone breaking into your house. The general consensus then was that a house alarm or car alarm wouldn’t stop someone skilled and dead set on getting into your house……

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Alex sees the writing on the wall; the idea that anyone can retire at 65 in the near future is a joke. That future existed when pensions were common; homeownership early in adulthood was achievable, and you could work for the same company doing very similar work for over 40 years. 
We don’t have any…

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If I’m being honest, every time I hear someone say they don’t like Copilot because ChatGPT or Claude is just better, I have to wonder about that. The models available inside Copilot aren’t that different, but there is one big difference. Copilot has access to all your email, OneDrive documents, SharePoint files, etc. 
That’s been…

The problem wasn’t trying to keep kids safer by limiting the time they spent away from home unsupervised; it was not giving them alternative ways to build the same connections and skills. When I read about social media bans, I have the same question. How are we replacing the connections to friends, family, supportive communities,…

Stephen is also right to point out that the industry really hasn’t figured out how to make this work. Clients increasingly want firms to use AI to reduce billable hours; lawyers don’t want to use technology that makes it harder to meet their billable-hour requirements.
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If your data gets breached, how many people will you have to notify? Not just the transcript of what they said, but the recording of them- the audio of their voice, etc. has been breached as well. We don’t often talk about the risk that creates, but it does. Deepfake audio and video tools don’t…

This should, but won’t, end the discussion about the safety of age verification laws. What privacy advocates warned would happen as we continued to force everyone to verify their identity online has happened, and 153 million people worldwide have had their data breached. That’s a nightmare. A nightmare many of us saw coming. 
Has any…

I feel like we knew this, and that the entire thing was just performative, not based on any kind of data: “Large corporations appear to have folded under pressure for no financial gain,” a public policy scholar wrote. https://www.hrdive.com/news/companies-dei-roll-back-dei-performance-uc-berkeley/828590/ Some people have been screaming from the rafters for years that diversity programs meant hiring unqualified……

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The human body and brain work best when rest and recovery are part of the schedule. It really is that simple. When we constantly try to “earn” the right to rest, we do a disservice to ourselves. It is part of us.
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The post above points out that it’s not as simple as communicating more; it’s also about communicating better and making it clear where the employee is empowered to make the decision for themself and where they are not. That’s the tricky part. Many of your folks may not feel empowered because you never made it…