.Howard Solomon More countries to act against misuse of #spyware tinyurl.com/mvtsh3sv Growing use of commercially available #cyberintrusion capabilities raises concerns over its impact on #nationalsecurity, #humanrights, #fundamentalfreedoms, & international #peace & #security.

.IT World Canada Jim Love #IBM researchers uncover #AI #voice hijacking #vulnerability in #phone calls tinyurl.com/mpvztstm A critical reminder of the need for advanced #security measures and awareness to safeguard against increasingly sophisticated #cyberthreats.

.Big Think Have we created a #society that’s too complex to survive? tinyurl.com/nhz4jafm Is the pace of #technological #change — coupled with the impact those changes have on #social #organization now too fast for our systems to absorb? #EmergingTech #History #HumanEvolution

What #Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a #plane tinyurl.com/yeypezkuI It all started with a 1997 #merger with #McDonnellDouglas tinyurl.com/yc6suxhs A "reverse takeover" which changed everything for the worst-putting #profit before #people & #safety.

.National Audit Office.This UK National Audit Office report tinyurl.com/ycy3ku3w describes the fundamental #risks that #government has with #AI not only in terms of #efficiency but also from basing #decisions on poor #quality #data - these risks apply equally to #industry and #society.

.Gretchen Krueger re #OpenAI We need to do more to improve foundational things like decision-making processes;accountability;transparency;documentation; policy enforcement;care with which we use our own technology;& mitigations for impacts on inequality,rights & the environment.

2 yrs since the UK's disastrous 2002 National Programme for IT(#NPfIT) was launched by then PM #TonyBlair & 13 yrs since it was dismantled the Blair Institute has proposed a new 5yr "crash programme" to create #DigitalHealth Records tinyurl.com/9ffbhkv Unbelievable!!

.Intelligent Mgmt #DigitalTransformation is not just about #technology. Delivering #value also requires #transforming the company #structure, how it thinks & behaves. There is still very little awareness about or appetite for doing this.

.Digital Health #UK PM pledges move to a ‘#digital #NHS’ following Lord Darzi report tinyurl.com/374npvx2 saying NHS is ‘in the foothills of #digital #transformation' & “quality of care has gone backwards”- this is a continuing decades long failure.

The geniuses in #Nevada's #Government are letting a half-baked #AI decide whether people should get unemployment $'s, & they gave taxpayers $'s to #Google to build it tinyurl.com/rkuk6cpm This is the growing dark & dangerous side of AI.

.@elsbeth_johnson Lazy #leaders & heroic #managers tinyurl.com/3kp2ucrb I agree with the lazy leader bit but managers only succeed if they work with the real heros - their #employees who generally understand much more about the problems/opportunities and what needs to be done.

.The Economist What is Kamala Harris’s record as a prosecutor? economist.com/the-economist-… Republicans say she was soft on crime. Progressives say she was too harsh. I guess that means she just about got it right.

.Geoffrey Hinton A Godfather of #AI Just Won a Nobel. He Has Been Warning the Machines Could Take Over the World tinyurl.com/3p627w78 This has pitted him against factions of the AI community that believe dwelling on doomsday scenarios needlessly slows technological progress

.CBC As Hurricane Milton bears down on Florida, social media dialogue includes baseless theories that the storm has been geo-engineered,the government is involved in hurricane creation,& such storms are being directed to hit predominantly Republican areas #Digitalmisinformation

.CIO.com What is #digitaltransformation? tinyurl.com/3wu8buub It is a #value-driven journey of digitally enabled and required business #reinvention - a journey without end.

.MIT Sloan School of Management #Hierarchy still has a role, but the form it takes is changing: deciding how things will be done rather than telling people what to do, and designing and enforcing the rules of the game rather than making everyone play it in a certain way. tinyurl.com/27h4xs5c

.Boston Consulting Group Successful #Digitaltransformations are the exception- 70+% of companies underperform their peer group average in both short (1 yr) & long term 5 yr),-while the world has changed significantly the challenges of keeping up remain remarkably persistent tinyurl.com/mr4dxz2c

.Don Tapscott Fortune I’m a #Canadian listening to #Trump. Let’s talk about ‘the 51st state’ tinyurl.com/3cu6u7h4. We are as likely to give up our national identity as Americans would be & everyone here is deeply offended at the suggestion of abandoning our beloved country.

As I watch events unfolding south of our border, Hans Christian Andersen's folktale "The Emperor has no clothes" keeps popping into my head - where is that little boy when we need him? tinyurl.com/d866wctt

.Martha Heller Does it matter how we brand #IT or are there bigger questions afoot? tinyurl.com/bdfysbsc IT is just one part of digitally-enabled and required business/enterprise #transformation - a journey without end.