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Cybersecurity in IT desperately needs positions filled to combat the increasing attacks from hackers.  There are potential candidates who are not being encouraged or who may believe their lack of experience means that no one would hire them.  Learning how to be an ally can encourage others with the aptitude, but not the skills, to find their way into the profession.

Google tells staff to be cautious using AI. Postgres
overtakes MySql as the leading open-source database.
And what do you do when your smart home locks you
out?

AWS suffers a major outage, Reddit’s advertisers
suspend ad buys during the moderator’s protest and can
AI do what no human has been able to do – and reunite
the Beatles?

CEO Huffman says not to wear Reddit gear in public,  Salesforce announces what they call a more transparent and trusted AI and OpenAI drops its prices in response to competition.

Major Reddit forums close shop as promised, Barracuda warns that the cure for a major problem means scrapping existing devices and a couple of stories put the growth and world dominance of AI in perspective. 

One of the world’s largest website goes dark as a protest,  Meta may be launching a Twitter rival and a new twist to cyber attacks.

A Harvard Business School graduate and philanthropist who changed the world with the invention of the Smartphone, Jim Balsillie helped put Waterloo, Ontario on the map as a world class center for technology and innovation.  In this episode the former Chair and co-CEO of Research in Motion (RIM) shares his thoughts on using technology as a force for good.

Remember when IBM's Watson won Jeopardy and then went on to perform a number of incredible feats? But it has been eclipsed on the public stage by ChatGPT, which has captured the public’s attention like nothing else.  So what happened to IBM and Watson, and how is it that others appear to have stolen the AI crown?  Watson remains a core part of IBM’s AI development, and here to update us is Steven Astorino, the VP of Development, Data and AI and Canadian Lab Director at IBM Canada.

Will layoffs lead to unionization in the tech industry?
Google’s Deep Mind creates algorithms that are 70%
faster than human generated code by using techniquesfound in strategy games like Go. A dismissal suit from an
ex-employee alleges that fears that TikTok data was
being accessed by its Chinese parent company were valid
– with the help of a “God mode” password.

Open AI talks about GPT-5, Sticker shock on the new
Apple Vision Pro and a Canadian entrepreneur uses AI to
solve a huge mystery – does the coffee cup go into paper
or the trash?