Reading you might have missed over the holiday break
Over the Christmas / New Year break I book marked a collection of articles. While technology news is quieter over the December / January period things still happened - the Lastpass breach, CES and of course ChatGPT. Here’s a roundup of articles I found interesting and you might have missed:
The Australian Secure Jobs, Better Pay bill was passed with a focus on gender pay equity and placing a ban on pay secrecy
Even before Prime Minister Adern resigned and the extent of the abuse she suffered from in that role was exposed a group of prominent women spoke out about the online abuse they have experienced:
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/leaders-push-back-against-sexist-racist-abuse-online
In case you missed it password vault LastPass had another breach event:
https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/12/notice-of-recent-security-incident/
https://www.wired.com/story/lastpass-breach-vaults-password-managers/
Move over ChatGPT, AI Image creation looks wicked (haven’t tried these just read about them):
https://www.techspot.com/guides/2590-install-stable-diffusion/
https://www.followchain.org/how-to-
Coolest CES announcement I saw was this console from Sony designed for disabled gamers:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64176441
I also read this article on inequities of access to information for blind people and the willingness to change this by a community of researchers:
It seems PC sales were way down in 2022:
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3685433/pc-sales-fell-hard-in-2022.html
The global growth of Australian business DroneShield (anti-drone protection systems) is really fascinating:
More on the impacts of the largest Tech firms laying off thousands:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/big-tech-lay-offs-sign-talent-shift-positive-smes-non-tech-sharma/
And more on our skills and talent shortage, this article on how Immigration isn’t the golden bullet:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/483170/immigration-not-a-solution-to-fill-skills-gaps-economist
Then to a wrap of the AI posts worth a look at.
ChatGPT will be as mundane as Excel before we know it:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/07/chatgpt-bot-excel-ai-chatbot-tech
A college student made an app that can tell if an essay was written by ChatGPT:
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/09/1147549845/gptzero-ai-chatgpt-edward-tian-plagiarism
OPINION: As a consumer of content, how would you feel about your content being AI generated?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/prosper/300786140/is-it-ethical-to-have-ai-generate-content
OPINION: I was trying to take a break. But every time I sneaked on to the internet I spied a marketer talking about chatGPT. And I was getting FOMO.
Enjoy the reading. Vic
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