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Hashtag Trending

Jim Love

A daily news program covering the top stories in technology with a weekend in depth interview.

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07:33

Infrastructure under attack: Hashtag Trending for...

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2024/03/13

Optical fibre cables in the UK are under attack. Meta sues a Vice President for stealing information when he moved to a competitor. ChatGPT uses in a day enough electricity to power 17,000 households and is your connected car ratting you out to your insurance company? All this and more on the “what else does my car know about me” edition of Hashtag Trending. I’m your host, Jim Love, CIO of IT World Canada and TechNewsDay in the US.

09:57

New US Government report sounds alarm on AI - Hashtag...

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2024/03/12

A new US government report warns that AI presents an “extinction level threat to the human species. Elon Musk is outsourcing his Grok AI code. Hackers have breached the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the US and a researcher shows how to steal a Tesla by leveraging a feature of the Tesla charging stations. All this and more on the “end of the world as we know it” edition of Hashtag Trending. I’m your host, Jim Love, CIO of IT World Canada and TechNewsDay in the US.

09:20

Ransomware in chaos: Hashtag Trending Monday, March...

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2024/03/11

Ransomware as an industry is in chaos, a deeper and disturbing look into data brokers and how much they know about you, Time many be running out for TikTok and the US government says that there is no evidence of intelligent life in space. All this and more on the “there doesn’t seem to be a lot of evidence of intelligent life here either” edition of Hashtag Trending. I’m your host, Jim Love, CIO of IT World Canada and TechNewsDay in the US.

32:59

Work, workforce and workers reinvented in the age of...

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2024/03/09

How is AI affecting the Canadian workforce? There's some new research from Accenture, which highlights the major impact Generative AI will have. They predict that gen AI will bring the most significant work transformation since the agricultural and industrial revolutions. In Canada, nearly half (46%) of working hours will be impacted by gen AI. But according to Accenture, this doesn’t imply a 46% reduction – they feel it’s quite the opposite. Within each job, certain tasks may be automated,

09:31

A week for outages: Hashtag Trending Friday Mar 8, 2024

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2024/03/08

It’s been the week for outages. This time it’s LastPass, the password manager. A warning that maybe we should read those software licenses a little more closely than we do. Reddit is using AI to combat harassment on their platform. Some good news on solar power in the US. And where is the safest place in Canada to survive a zombie apocalypse? All this and more on the “some good news and some bad news” edition of Hashtag Trending. I’m your host, Jim Love, CIO of IT World Canada and TechNewsDay in

07:29

Open AI hits back at Elon Musk: Hashtag Trending for...

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2024/03/07

OpenAI hits back at Elon Musk, 90 percent of statistics published on the Internet aren’t true, 30,000 Fidelity customers in the US have their data stolen and those hospital alarms sounds may not save lives – and they are responsible for a lot of deaths. All this and more on the “lies, damned liars and internet statistics” edition of Hashtag Trending. I’m your host, Jim Love, CIO of IT World Canada and TechNewsDay in the US.

09:08

Hashtag Trending Mar.6- Facebook goes down; Amazon...

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2024/03/06

Imagine a world without Facebook. For just half an hour. A group of AI leaders get together but don’t seem to invite Elon Musk. Amazon takes data centres nuclear. A new competitor for ChatGPT and Google. And public trust in AI is declining.

10:11

Hashtag Trending Mar.5- Apple Music fined for market...

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2024/03/05

Apple Music gives a whole new meaning to the phrase the hits just keep on coming. It’s not the opposing candidates, it’s public AI systems that are spreading election disinformation, and LockBit, the cybercriminal gang may be back from the dead and saying so long to the ChatGPT plugins, which went from innovation to legacy in only a few months.

28:27

Hashtag Trending Weekend Edition, March 2, 2024 – Our...

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2024/03/02

The title Chief Information Officer, CIO, came about in 1981 when William Sinnott and William Gruber first articulated the term in their book, Information Resource Management. In the early days, the CIO most often reported to the CFO mostly because strategic consulting in IT was done by the big accounting firms. The role of the CIO has evolved, and today there's a real recognition that this is a senior leadership role in a very strategic area. 20 years ago in Canada, a group started in Vancouver

09:35

Hashtag Trending, Friday, March 1, 2024 - Fix your AI...

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2024/03/01

Can HP make you love them again? Humanoid robots with AI might be closer than we think. Researchers find that talking like a character from Star Trek can improve your AI results. And how many iPhones would it take to make up the money Apple blew before it killed its self-driving electric car? All this and more on the “you can’t make this stuff up” edition of Hashtag Trending. I’m your host, Jim Love, CIO of IT World Canada and TechNewsDay in the US.

11:48

Hashtag Trending Feb.29- Google’s troubles with AI;...

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2024/02/29

Google’s recent troubles in AI may not be that easy to fix, the U.S. government buys data instead of spying on its citizens and realizes that other governments can do the same thing and two gangs of cybercrooks that law enforcement thought they had disrupted are back with a vengeance.

08:36

Hashtag Trending Feb.28- OpenAI says New York Times...

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2024/02/28

OpenAI says the New York Times “hacked” ChatGPT to generate misleading evidence. Apple pulls the plug on its electric car. Wendy’s experiments with “surge pricing”. Meta is monitoring and collecting data on users of its Quest headset. And Your Voice is Power teaches indigenous youth about coding, music and their history and culture.

10:45

Hashtag Trending Feb.27- Will AI enable a four-day...

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2024/02/27

Will AI give us a four-day workweek? The CEO of Nvidia says it's time to stop teaching the kids to code. Are companies spying on you in your Teams and Slack chats? And how much does it cost to make the VisionPro headset?

07:31

Hashtag Trending Feb.26-Cybersecurity firm selling...

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2024/02/26

A cybersecurity firm selling your data? AT&T says a flawed network update caused last week’s major outage. Self checkout may be watching you more closely using AI. And Microsoft has announced that updates may no longer force you to reboot your computer.

21:25

Hashtag Trending Weekend Edition, February 24, 2024 –...

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2024/02/24

Whether it's in marketing, sales, product development, operation or finance every aspect of a modern company depends on data and in the digital economy, data is everything. But here's the brutal reality. This is not something that companies do well. In fact, if data is so important to companies why is it that anywhere from 50-75% of the data in any company is regarded as dark data, not understood, inaccessible, rarely used. Why is it that anywhere from 25-40% of the average employee's time is spent

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