You’d think keeping tabs on your contacts would be about the simplest and most straightforward task imaginable in our modern connected world — wouldn’t you? I sure would. But as I’ve learned over the years, that perfectly understandable instinct couldn’t be more inaccurate. Effectively wrangling your contacts on…
Until recently, many tech professionals viewed themselves as a special and respected worker class: highly educated, hard-working, well paid, and in demand. “They considered themselves above unions,” says Zak Thompson, senior software engineer at Kickstarter and union steward at Kickstarter United. Big Tech issued…
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Reading about the “revolutionary” nature of generative AI technology these days, it’s hard not to feel a little left out. Sure, services like Google’s Gemini and its contemporaries can be useful in certain limited, specific areas for productivity purposes. But working with them can also be pretty disheartening and…
For all its potential, generative AI, on the whole, churns out a lot of junk. Yet employees are becoming ever more reliant on this “workslop” masquerading as high-quality material, says a recent Harvard Business Review blog. They become lazy and less productive, quality control goes off the rails, and integrity and…
Because generative AI (genAI) tools and services have become so ubiquitous (and popular), the costs of using them are going through the roof — leading to an insatiable appetite for tokens. Tokens represent a common way to measure and price AI use. Much like letters and words in English, large language models (LLMs)…
Despite best efforts by defenders, malicious emails continue to slip through the cybersecurity cracks, leading some enterprises to implement a layered “defense in depth” strategy that incorporates multiple tools. Microsoft seems to be challenging this idea, revealing that there are only nominal returns from adding…