MapleSEC: Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst launches Cyber Talent Management Playbook to address skills shortage
At MapleSEC 2023, Rushmi Hasham and Juliana Scharrer, the director and associate director of workforce training at the Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst, shared their work leading the “cyber talent transformation initiative.” This initiative, supported by the Future Skills Centre, allows the Catalyst to recruit, train and connect diverse Canadian talent to
Read MoreMapleSEC: ‘Quiet hiring’ key to helping reduce cybersecurity staffing crisis
A single infographic released recently by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) revealed the extent of the current cybersecurity staffing crisis. One stat that rang alarm bells everywhere was this: At a time when there is acute demand from corporate boards to increase cybersecurity headcounts, the worldwide shortage
Read MoreElon Musk answers Tesla pricing question with anti work-from-home rant
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images On Tesla’s Q3 earnings call, CEO Elon Musk said people who work from home take advantage of the people who cannot work from home and are “detached from reality.” In the middle of talking about rising interest rates and their effect
Read MoreElon Musk warns Cybertruck won’t be profitable until 2025
Tesla CEO Elon Musk issued a warning Wednesday about the soon-to-be delivered Cybertruck that might sound familiar to those who closely followed the company’s Model 3 “production hell” era. The gist? Scaling production of a vehicle like the Cybertruck is hard and it’s going to take awhile before it’s profitable.
Read MoreTrans healthcare startup Plume lays off dozens of workers
Plume, a startup founded to offer essential online healthcare services to trans people across the U.S., laid off more than two dozen workers in October, several sources close to the company told TechCrunch. Transphobia is rife within the healthcare industry; it’s one reason why transgender patients struggle to access basic
Read MoreZero to Employment Hero: HR unicorn nabs $167M to be Australia’s ‘biggest export since Atlassian’
In a startup world where down rounds prevail and much beyond low-million Series A raises are practically (but not totally) unheard of, those rare megabuck funding rounds stand out just that little bit more today than they did even a year ago. With that in mind, Employment Hero, an Australia-based recruitment,
Read MoreMade Renovation, which intrigued, then infuriated, its customers, is shutting down
In August, we reported that a four-year-old, venture-backed remodeling startup called Made Renovation was failing its customers, by their own telling. Though it marketing itself as a one-stop shop to beautify bathrooms — it offered potential customers a variety of templates, then promised to pair them with in-house project managers,
Read MoreSequoia faces Congressional scrutiny over investments in China
One of Silicon Valley’s most prominent investment firms will face government scrutiny over its investments in China. Sequoia Capital has received a polite but pointed request from Congress to enter into more detail on how it will prevent further U.S. investment dollars from advancing Chinese interests. Sequoia announced in June
Read MoreTesla Cybertruck deliveries set for Nov 30
Tesla has finally set a date for the first deliveries of the Cybertruck. CEO Elon Musk posted on social media Wednesday that the Cybertruck delivery event, which traditionally means a few select customers get to take possession of their vehicles, will be held November 30 at company’s Austin gigafactory. The
Read MoreReddit may have killed Apollo, but the developer’s Pixel Pals app has hit ~50K subscribers
The shutdown of the third-party Reddit app, Apollo, hasn’t stopped developer Christian Selig from continuing to publish iOS apps. Instead, he’s moved on to an Apollo spin-off app called Pixel Pals, which puts cute little virtual pets on top of your iPhone’s Dynamic Island — that is, the black bar
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