Ron DeSantis to announce presidential bid in Twitter Space with Elon Musk
Photo by Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is set to announce he is running for president in a conversation with Twitter owner Elon Musk, NBC News reported Monday. The announcement will take place during a Twitter Spaces event on Wednesday at 6PM ET, and David Sacks,
Read moreBuyer beware: some SanDisk Extreme SSDs are wiping people’s data
The SanDisk Extreme Pro can shrug off dust and water, at least. | Image: SanDisk Western Digital has now tacitly admitted that its SanDisk Extreme Pro portable solid-state drives were critically broken after all — by issuing a firmware update that’ll hopefully keep the 4TB model from wiping your data
Read more3 Ways Data Governance Leaders Can Promote Their Careers
Seeing data governance functions pigeonholed into compliance and data security responsibilities drives me a little nuts. First, it misses the key business value proposition of data governance, which should be on helping people in the organization, customers, and partners leverage data in decision-making in reliable and compliant ways. I advise
Read moreCoinbase One subscriptions launch as the crypto company squares off with the SEC
Coinbase hopes its new subscription service will make up for lost revenue. | Image: Coinbase Hey, look at that; Coinbase brought its subscription service, Coinbase One, out of beta. TechCrunch reports the program is available in the US, UK, Germany, and Ireland, with plans to roll out in 31 more
Read morePSA: time to recycle your old Wemo smart plugs (if you haven’t already)
The Wemo Smart Plug Mini V2’s security flaw will not be fixed. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Security researchers at Sternum report they’ve found an exploitable vulnerability in the Wemo Smart Plug Mini V2 (via 9to5Mac). The plug debuted in 2019, offering cross-platform compatibility with Apple
Read more1Password is finally rolling out passkey management
eBay is one of the few websites to currently support passkey sign-on. | Image: 1Password 1Password customers are finally gaining partial access to the passwordless future we’ve been promised. Starting from June 6th this year, anyone with a 1Password account will be able to use it to save and manage
Read moreHow to Sell Innovation Strategies to Executives: Prepare for Debate and Seek Decision
One CIO shared this feedback with me after reading my book, Digital Trailblazer. “Isaac, I wish you had written more about your experiences with the Board and the strategic leadership team (SLT),” she said. Even seasoned CIOs, CTOs, and CDOs want advice on navigating their CXO/SLT and CXO/Board responsibilities because
Read moreEU draft legislation will ban AI for mass biometric surveillance and predictive policing
The draft legislation will ban mass facial recognition, among other uses of AI, but has yet to be confirmed as law. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The EU has taken a step closer to enforcing strong regulation of AI, drafting new safeguards that would prohibit a wide
Read more5 Ways Ambitious DevOps Engineers Can Advance Their Careers
DevOps engineers have much to offer their organizations beyond developing CI/CD pipelines, configuring infrastructure as code, enabling AIOps capabilities, and other engineering practices that align with dev and ops objectives. If you’re an ambitious DevOps engineer, I’ve already published a career checklist to help you roadmap learning
Read moreAndreessen Horowitz saw the future — but did the future leave it behind?
Illustration by Sean Dong for The Verge The venture capital firm was known for hyping its portfolio. But in the era of tech skepticism and rising interest rates, is it still ahead of the curve? Before Clubhouse, Substack, and Elon Musk’s Twitter 2.0 began floundering, they were supposed to revolutionize media.
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