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Why I Urged My Entire Team to Look for New Jobs—And Why They Stayed
A hacker could ruin your life. It did this guy’s.
How You Treat People on the Way Out Says Much About Your Leadership
DeepSeek AI: The Latest Tool Handing Your Data to the CCP?
Why I Urged My Entire Team to Look for New Jobs—And Why They Stayed
I once told my entire team (about 200 people at the time) that they should all be looking for a new job. I was CTO at ICE and we were growing fast — probably about a year or two from our Initial Public Offering (IPO). I told them they should always be looking for a new job, exploring the market, and that it was my job, that when they did that, they always chose to stay. I said this because I believed in this, and its the way I always viewed my own employment. I have only had two jobs since c
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Edwin Marcial
A hacker could ruin your life. It did this guy’s.
What follows is a harrowing story and it's something that could happen to many of us. The actual story is behind the WSJ paywall, so I will break it down for you here. — but if you can, read the full story. A guy downloads a snazzy AI tool that converts text to video. It works great except it's actually malware that gains access to all of his digital activity and captures all his key strokes. Through the tool, hackers gets access to his 1Password account so it effectively has access to ever
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Edwin Marcial
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How You Treat People on the Way Out Says Much About Your Leadership
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Edwin Marcial
DeepSeek AI: The Latest Tool Handing Your Data to the CCP?
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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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Edwin Marcial
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
Edwin Marcial
How Close Are We to a Fully Autonomous Car?
In 2016, Elon Musk famously said that a Tesla would be able to drive itself across the country by the end of the following year. It's 2022, and that still has not happened. As is often the case with new technology, there has been a lot of hype and the industry appears to have over-promised. How close are we really to self-driving cars? Let's take a look at a brief history and then look at the different levels of self-driving automation and where some of the different car manufacturers are today.