Mozilla is now stepping into the privacy protection game, Meta is insisting that AI images be labelled on Facebook and other platforms, IBM introduces a Linux mainframe and a new cancer treatment that is “out of this world.” Literally.

All this and more on the “you do know those pictures aren’t real, don’t you” edition of Hashtag Trending. I’m your host Jim Love, CIO of IT World Canada and TechNewsDay in the US.

Sam Altman admits what we all knew and promises to fix the laziness that has affected ChatGPT.  Some companies may still be sitting on a fortune in – classic IP addresses. IBM is the leader in AI patents, but does it really matter? And you can slow global warming with AI, a robot and a new kind of asphalt.

All this and more on the springtime in Winnipeg, axle wrecking edition of Hashtag Trending. I’m your host Jim Love, CIO of IT World Canada and TechNewsDay in the US. 

Canada moves closer to the EU on addressing issues of digital technology. IBM demonstrates how deep fakes can be a new risk area, in what seems like a scene out of Die Hard, researchers show how a digital highjacking could happen and scientists use 3D printing to create functioning brain cells.

All this and more on the, “Master, I’ve got the brain” edition of Hashtag Trending. I’m your host Jim Love, CIO of IT World Canada and TechNewsDay in the US. 

Canadian banks have been protected in ways no other industry has, even when free trade agreements relaxed some of the ownership restrictions.  Even in the middle of the great depression, now almost a hundred years ago, no Canadian banks failed. Our big banks still dominate the financial services industry, so much so that as new and innovative financial services appear, many of them find they can't compete in Canada.  But the world is changing and markets are changing and we wonder whether Canada’s financial system can keep up and be competitive on the world stage. Jim Love has a conversation with Phil Levy, CEO of Exact Payments, a company based in Vancouver that is from a different part of this new financial system, making their mark in the new digital financial world and they've been emerging all around the world and pushing even at our giant banks.

Gemini Pro looks poised to give OpenAI some real competition for a change, TikTok loses access to a huge amount of popular music, there is finally a fix for the Pixel phone storage bug (but you’re probably not going to like it), and the US Senate hearings on social media are like social media itself, high on emotion, light on accuracy, and big on theatrics…

All this and more on the "anti-social" edition of Hashtag Trending. 

I'm your host, Jim Love, CIO of IT World Canada and Tech News Day in the US>

Software problems are hitting automakers hard, Tesla’s shares take a hit as Elon Musk’s compensation is reversed by a judge in a shareholder lawsuit, a study concludes that poor performance is more likely for companies that are forcing return to office and does your Chrome browser look different? It might be the old Microsoft switcheroo…

Ransomware payments may be on the decline. ChatGPT may be leaking information and no-one is quite sure why, Microsoft’s Future of work claims some huge gains in productivity – and some issues with accuracy. And…they are called Robot wranglers and they’re managing mischievous machines. 

Google’s Bard could be reading your email, rumours that Siri will finally get an AI makeover, the NSA is once again under pressure to stop buying your browser data from data brokers and we mourn the demise of the floppy disk. Anyone born after the year 2000 may have to google that one. 

AI models can learn to hide their dishonest behaviour, Open AI is making it easy for anyone to call multiple GPTs from a single conversation, are mass layoffs with huge earnings and share values a strategic thing for big tech? And a study claims that 90 per cent of spreadsheets have errors.  

Host Jim Love has an insightful conversation with author, Yogi Schulz on his strategies for bringing projects to completion with his new book “A Project Sponsor’s Warp-Speed Guide:  Improving Project Performance”. It’s not necessarily great ideas that make a difference but in fact, execution, getting stuff done is much more important. Join Jim as he discovers how Yogi brought his extensive experience in project management in IT in various industries into a practical guide for achieving success.