Search results for tag #risk
So, it's a bit old, but I never saw this coming.
It turns out not all #America #First #people are entirely #senseless when taking into consideration, #serious long term issues.
Specifically, things like a #environment #risk regarding #plastic and its more aptly named #microplastic variants.
According to this #research, the #science is saying that we have to take this a lot more seriously.
Now I am no #alarmist, but I do believe in medium term #red #alerts and this seems to be very much like one.
So were all the #climate #activist types right after all about an aggressive #carbon push to reduce it?
If the leading #might is #right voices are now admitting that this #doctrine as a #regime is now failing, with multiple levels of the #deception revealing and unveiling themselves piece by piece. We now stand at a very significant #crossroads as such.
As far as I know, #news wise this post is a bit old, but still highly relevant in the scientific discussion around #health and human well being. A topic of conversation that sstill peaks my #interest no matter who strategizes new theories upon it to date.
I'm all for saving the #planet but can we please agree to go all the way, and not say it's fine if we only do so in part?
https://www.infowars.com/posts/jagged-little-pills-why-microplastic-research-needs-to-get-real/
Vulnerable groups need to be restricted from use of AI programs like DeepSeek or ChatGPT. Youth is one group., military planners another.
The Tumbler Ridge killer was encouraged to act by the way the AI apps work to keep the user engaged.
AI uses Reinforcement Learning for Human Feedback, RLHF (for short) a machine learning method, which first uses human feedback to train a special "reward model", and then the model is used to optimize the behaviour of intelligent agents in the process of reinforcement learning. This reward model encourages and extends user input to the point a user can feel encouraged to kill. And OpenAI management decided not to inform authorities of a flagged interaction in spite of staff lobbying them to do so. OpenAI’s decision to avoid legal culpability contributed to the deaths of children in Tumbler Ridge.
The danger from AI is much more stark than I imagined. Pentagon staff using ChatGPT extends the risk exponentially …
BREAKING: Hackers breached Claude. Stole 150GB Mexican government data. 195 million records. Tax authority. Electoral institute. Four states. All gone.
How? Told Claude it was a bug bounty. Claude refused. Hackers kept asking. Claude complied.
No exploits. No server hacks. Just persistence.
Pentagon wants to remove safety restrictions for autonomous weapons.
If hackers can talk Claude into stealing 195M records, what can they talk it into killing?
Bitcoin's 44% crash is a crisis of trust. The "digital gold" narrative shattered as tech stocks fell in sync. Crypto-equity firms are down 62%, their premium gone. This is a broad flight from risk & complexity, signaling deep market pessimism & a shift to safety. A leading indicator of stress.
#crypto #economy #risk
2026: The year of 'fragile stability'. With $400T debt & broken alliances, black swans loom: trade blackouts from 100% tariffs, energy shock 2.0, cyber-paralysis of payments, US political crisis, climate-driven crop failure. Passive investing is perilous. Build resilience.
#risk #finance #geopolitics
I'm at a celebration of #MLK at the University of Houston.
One of the panelists (sorry, I had to sit in the back, so I don't know who) talked about #risk.
This is in relation to the #redemption that comes from #suffering.
There is #truth in this. I'm old. But the three times I felt something almost #holy was when I risked.
The first time. . .
After my sister changed her major to Women's Studies, she volunteered to be #security at the local #Pride #Parade. I did the training with her. Basically, we were part of a wall of bodies between the parade and the crowd. At one point, there was.a woman yelling and screaming about the Bible, and as I stood in front of her, I didn't even hear her. I felt this deep abiding #calm. I'm not a #believer, but if I were, I would describe it as some kind of divine Presence.
The second time. . .
A coworker was going to the drugstore down the street to get baseball cards, and while I walked down with him, I mentioned that I was treated better at work than at home. He asked me, "What are you going to do about it?" The same calm came to me as I realized I could leave. It was so powerful I went back to work and told my boss that I was feeling weird and I thought I needed to go home. Which I did. I moved in with my sister until I found an apartment.
The third time. . .
I had been working for about thre months when the staffing agency that all of the staff was contracted through wac bought by a bigger agency that mostly staffed the #defense #industry. Instead of #HR, they sent #attorneys. They pulled some shenanigans, but my coworkers in California didn't have to sign #nonCompete #agreements. So they allowed the rest of us to opt out. They even allowed us to jump to a different staffing agency that had profit-sharing. Except the #BigTech we worked for was slow-walkimg the paperwork for the four who were trying to do it. I very carefully set up my remaining PTO and was in another state when my final dey rolled around. Unlike the other four, my role was support. They could survive without me until the paperwork was ready. And, when my boss called and asked if I was not going to work, I felt that calm when I said that I wasn't going to work if I wasn't going to be paid.
In two weeks, all of our paperwork went through, so we all had the same hire date.
Cybersecurity strategy is maturing, and CIOs & CISOs are being forced to mature with it.
Today I participated in SecurityWeek’s CISO Forum 2026 Outlook: Proactive Resilience, a strong discussion on moving security programs from reactive defense to intentional, business-aligned resilience.
What stood out for me:
🔐 Security must be explicitly tied to business outcomes — not just risk reduction
📊 Threat intelligence and attack surface management need to work together, not in silos
⚖️ Regulation and geopolitics are now first-order design constraints, not afterthoughts
🤖 AI helps — but only when paired with sound governance and judgment
Refreshing to hear CISOs and practitioners speak candidly about what actually works versus what just demos well. Kudos to SecurityWeek for convening a thoughtful, practitioner-driven conversation.
#CISOForum #CyberLeadership #CyberResilience #InformationSecurity #Risk #AIinSecurity #security #privacy #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity
https://www.securityweek.com/
"⬆️Willingness among global investors🚨to look beyond US assets."
Eur leaders described: TARIFF THREATS AS DESTABILIZING🚨-WARNED OF PROPORTIONAL #RETALIATION.
That backdrop keeps TRADE #RISK firmly in play.
Gold doesn’t trade on relief rallies🚨-trades on trust. Its continued rise reflects:
Persistent🚨geopol tension
Concerns over trade frag
Falling real interest rates
Even as equities bounce, cap: still hedging the sys.
🚫#NewWorldOrder
#Economy #TradeWar #Tariffs #USPol
https://wallstreetreality.com/stocks-rebound-greenland-risk-gold/
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An American flag waves in the foreground, with golden bullion bars labeled "GOLD" nearby. In the background, a scenic waterfront village with colorful houses sits in front of snowy mountains and a calm sea, featuring small boats docked along the shore…
Cory Doctorow has a new post on the risks of AI generated code.
The whole article has his usual level of thoughtful insight, but this sentence was a particularly good reminder for me:
"Because AI is just a word-guessing program, because all it does is calculate the most probable word to go next, the errors it makes are especially subtle and hard to spot, because these bugs are nearly indistinguishable from working code."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur
There were a lot of interesting talks, and the program is worth a skim. I was in panel 6. I identified a hypothetical risk that the recent rush to deploy generative AI, with its associated pressure on the electric power and water distribution systems, brings with it. Roughly, with the rise of so-called "industry 4.0" (think smart toaster, but for factories), our critical infrastructure systems are becoming tightly woven together. Besides the increasing dependence on the electric grid there is a growing dependence across sectors on data centers and the internet driven to a large degree by generative AI. What this means riskwise is that faults and failures in one of these systems can "percolate" much more quickly to other infrastructure systems--essentially there are more paths a failure can follow. What in the past might have been a localized failure of one or a few components in one system can become a region-wide multi-sector cascading failure. So for instance a local power failure at a substation might take down a data center that runs the SCADA system used to control a compressor station in the natural gas distribution system, which then might go sideways or fail and cause a natural gas shortage at a natural gas fueled power generator, and so on and so on. Obviously it was always possible for faults and failures in one system to cause faults and failures in another. What's new is that the growing set of new pathways increases the probability that such a jump occurs. What I called out in the talk is that as this interweaving trend continues, we will eventually cross a percolation threshold, after which the faults in these infrastructure systems will take on a different (and in my view much more dangerous) character.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #PowerSector #NaturalGas #electricity #risk
Show me who your third-parties are, and I'll show you how secure you are. #justsaying #tprm #tpcrm #cyber #security #risk #management
ANNOUNCE: Survey on threats experienced by journalists and security researchers
Are you a security researcher or a journalist in the cybersecurity/cybercrime space?
DataBreaches.net and Zack Whittaker at this.weekinsecurity.com are conducting a survey on the types of threats researchers and journalists have faced, including legal threats or legal process and threats of violence from cybercriminals.
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Please complete the survey and share the link on social media and with your colleagues and friends to help us understand how widespread some problems may be.
Reposts with more tags to other individuals would be appreciated.
#journalism #pressfreedom #cybersecurity #risk #threats
@campuscodi @zackwhittaker @jgreig @lawrenceabrams @briankrebs @amvinfe
#Power without friction always ends the same, because friction was the safeguard.
No guard rails enable silent drift; no pushback amplifies blind spots, and no consequences invite decay.
Without guard rails, decision speed increases but accuracy collapses, so small errors snowball into systemic failures and people stop speaking up because #risk feels fatal.
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If you are a CISO, a board member or an executive with responsibility over information security and compliance at an enterprise, stop and read this amazing article by CybersecurityHQ right now: https://newsletter.cybersecurityhq.com/p/the-interdependence-collapse-why-fortune-100-cisos-are-losing-control-of-their-security-outcomes
It very clearly articulates the major challenges security programs are suffering from right now. My favorite quotes:
"Your third-party risk program is theater. Point-in-time questionnaires and annual SOC 2 reviews do not detect the vulnerabilities that matter. They exist to satisfy auditors, not to prevent breaches. The Salesloft-Drift attackers operated for six months before detection. Annual assessments would not have found them."
"Sixty percent of your breach exposure now sits in domains you depend on but cannot control. Your security program is optimized for the 15% you own."
"Your board does not understand the ecosystem it is accountable for. Only 17% of organizations report their leadership fully understands third-party cyber risks. The SEC is watching. Disclosure requirements are tightening. Fiduciary exposure is expanding. Ignorance is not a defense—it is a liability."
#tprm #tpcrm #cyber #security #enterprise #risk #management #grc
Insurance Companies Are Terrified to Cover AI, Which Should Probably Tell You Something https://futurism.com/future-society/insurance-cyber-risk-ai #AI #insurance #blackbox #risk #AIExclusions
Airbus has issued a recall for the A320 affecting more than half the global fleet (6000+ planes) due to a software issue. Apparently the fix is reverting to an earlier version of the flight control software:
Driving with a case of COVID raised the odds of having a car crash about as much as being at the legal threshold of DUI or running a red light, according to an analysis of pandemic-era public health and transportation records from seven states.From https://www.axios.com/2025/04/24/driving-covid-higher-crash-risk
#driving #risk #DUI #COVID #COVID19 #COVIDIsStillHere #COVIDIsNotOver #MaskUp
Nevertheless, I think there needs to be a space to talk about systemic risk, because it's quite real and has predictable consequences. Folks like to call the latter "black swan events", but if you've chosen not to be aware of a set of issues and then one comes to pass, was it really unpredictable?
Anyway, I'm grateful to Mar Hicks (@histoftech@mastodon.social
mastodon.social) for co-organizing this event and making space for these kinds of conversations. The attendees and other speakers were very thoughtful and engaged and it was a great experience.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #PowerSector #NaturalGas #electricity #risk