If the ‘Secret Invasion’ title credits aren’t an ethical use of AI art, what is?
This isn’t a facetious question; it’s an unanswered one. What, if anything, is an ethical way to use current generative AI in a major, public-facing work of art? This quandary emerges from the furore regarding Marvel Studios’ use of AI to create the main title sequence of its latest show,
Read moreFidelity, Schwab, Citadel backing new crypto exchange EDX signals TradFi’s deeper dive into digital assets
Follow me on Twitter @Jacqmelinek for breaking crypto news, memes and more. Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Earlier this week, EDX Markets launched its digital asset platform, the firm shared on Tuesday. But what has made this launch catch a lot of attention? Its founding investors, which include major traditional
Read moreInfosec talent shortage is ‘manufactured,’ MapleSec panel told
The talent shortage in cybersecurity could disappear if organizations had looser needs and spent more on educating existing staff, Canadian experts say. “I think the resource challenge is actually manufactured,” Michael Glover, former CISO of an online betting firm told this week’s IT World Canada MapleSec Satellite series on Wednesday.
Read moreLife after logistics
You’ll have to forgive me, as this is going to be one of those in-between Actuator weeks. I finally took a couple of days off last week after working through the last few weekends, and today I’ve been rewarded with a throbbing migraine. Isn’t the human body magical? Either way,
Read moreAndreessen Horowitz creates ‘Perennial’ evergreen fund amid market slowdown
Andreessen Horowitz, the storied venture firm known for being an early investor in some of the biggest tech companies including Airbnb, Coinbase and GitHub, has created a new fund to continue growing its business despite the slowdown in traditional VC funding. The evergreen fund is titled a16z Perennial Venture Capital
Read moreTikTok’s COO is leaving the company
TikTok’s longstanding COO V Pappas just announced plans to leave their executive role at the company. Pappas, who previously held positions as the global head of creative insights and audience development at YouTube, has been with TikTok for nearly five years. According to LinkedIn, Pappas first joined TikTok parent company
Read moreCanadian infosec pros wish they’d spent more time on security when migrating to cloud: Survey
Despite storing more than half their data to the cloud, Canadian organizations only allocate 34 per cent of their cybersecurity budgets to cloud security, according to a new survey from Telus. In fact, 99 per cent of respondents admitted that if they could go back and migrate to the cloud
Read moreAWS weighs in on the potential of AI to fight wildfires
Canada is currently facing its worst wildfire season in recent memory, with blazes burning in nearly all provinces and territories. Last week, we saw the air quality index in Ontario swell to unprecedented levels, blanketing skies in the province and the north-east region of the U.S. with a yellowish haze
Read moreHow to use Angular Signals
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Read moreMore Than Just Stubs
Creating your stateful sandbox with WireMockPhoto by Markus Spiske on UnsplashWiremock is a great tool to test your application against a real web service with predefined stubs. It allows us to write integration tests that do not stop at a rest client mock but do network communication, simulating different responses with limited effort.But
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