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How You Treat People on the Way Out Says Much About Your Leadership
DeepSeek AI: The Latest Tool Handing Your Data to the CCP?
Your car is spying on you
Will AI make everyone dumber?
How You Treat People on the Way Out Says Much About Your Leadership
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta would be cutting 3,600 workers (~5% of staff), targeting what he called "low performers." “I’ve decided to raise the bar on performance management and move out low performers faster,” Zuckerberg wrote in an internal memo. Many of those let go have since spoken out, challenging the ‘low performer’ characterization. Layoffs, staff reductions and letting people go is an unfortunate but often necessary part of running a business, but there is no poin
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Edwin Marcial
DeepSeek AI: The Latest Tool Handing Your Data to the CCP?
DeepSeek AI Assistant is the #1 app on the App Store. If you’re one of the millions who have downloaded it, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) thanks you! You see, DeepSeek and other Chinese apps like TikTok are bound by Chinese law to turn over any data the CCP government may request. What Data Is at Risk? It’s not just user AI searches on DeepSeek, or the latest dance trends users watch on TikTok, the data collected goes far beyond that. Here’s just a sample of what TikTok is known to colle
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Edwin Marcial
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Your car is spying on you
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Edwin Marcial
Will AI make everyone dumber?
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Edwin Marcial
Hackers have all of your personal data
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Edwin Marcial
The Crowdstrike and Microsoft Debacle
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Your face for sale
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Pedigree is overrated
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Edwin Marcial
Mama, don't let your kids listen to Mark Cuban
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Edwin Marcial
How Close Are We to a Fully Autonomous Car?
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Edwin Marcial
Bitcoin and Blockchain: 8 Burning Questions
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Edwin Marcial
Edwin Marcial
Robinhood shut down buying in GameStop, and no, the markets are NOT rigged
The GameStop Robinhood saga has once again brought out the cries that the financial markets are rigged, and the Wall Street Fat Cats are sticking it to the "little guys."