The emerging role of the chief resilience officer in BCDR
Chief resilience officer is a relatively new senior-level executive title and is
still evolving. Responsibilities can include business continuity and disaster
recovery (BCDR), incident response, cybersecurity, and risk management. The
chief resilience officer might also be designated as the lead executive for
crisis management activities. Chief resilience officers must ensure the
organization can adapt and improve its operations so that future disruptive
events are more effectively mitigated, resulting in minimal damage to the
organization and its reputation. ... Preparing for and responding to disruptive
events traditionally has been managed by a wide variety of job titles in an
organization. Sometimes the role is part of the IT staff or disaster recovery
team. Other times it can be part of administration, risk management, emergency
management, human resources or facilities management. In medium to large
organizations, the need for a central leadership role for these and related
activities has become evident. ... Establishing a chief resilience officer
reinforces the importance of BCDR activities across the entire organization.
Global securities body releases DeFi recommendations: Finance Redefined
Following its release, some community members worried about how it could “kill”
DeFi, while others said it would not have a fatal effect. Apart from IOSCO’s
move, China’s central bank also urged jurisdictions across the globe to regulate
the DeFi space jointly. Meanwhile, the DeFi ecosystem flourished in the past
week thanks to ongoing bullish market momentum, with most tokens trading in
green on the weekly charts. IOSCO published nine recommendations for DeFi. The
organization encourages consistency when it comes to regulatory oversight across
jurisdictions worldwide. The new recommendations were a companion to the digital
asset and crypto recommendations released in November. Furthermore, IOSCO
released a note on how the two sets of recommendations can work hand in hand
depending on the level of decentralization of regulated entities. ... Apart from
IOSCO, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) also pushed for joint DeFi regulation
in its latest financial stability report. The central bank allotted a section to
crypto assets in its report, underscoring the need for the industry to be
regulated with joint efforts from various jurisdictions.
Unleashing power of language models in India’s IT landscape: The talking network revolution
The cornerstone of this transformative paradigm is the ability of language
models to comprehend, analyze, and respond to user queries with human-like
understanding. India, with its vast and diverse linguistic landscape, stands to
benefit immensely from language models that can comprehend and respond in
multiple languages. This linguistic versatility ensures that the Talking Network
caters to the linguistic diversity of the Indian corporate environment, making
it an inclusive and accessible solution for businesses across the country. One
of the pivotal trends catalyzed by GAI and LLMs in India is the development of
proactive and predictive IT maintenance tools. AIM Research predicts that, by
2024, 40 per cent of enterprise applications will embed conversational AI as a
standard feature. Traditionally, IT maintenance has been a reactive process,
addressing issues only when they arise. However, the Talking Network introduces
a proactive dimension by leveraging predictive analytics and machine learning
capabilities embedded in these language models. By analyzing historical data and
identifying patterns, the network can foresee potential glitches and address
them before they escalate into major disruptions.
Why Bill Gates Says AI Will Supercharge Medical Innovations
He cites an AI-powered tool under development at the Aurum Institute in Ghana
that helps health workers prescribe antibiotics without contributing to
antimicrobial resistance, where pathogens learn how to get past antibiotic
defenses. The tool can comb through all the available information about
antimicrobial resistance and suggest the best drug plan for a patient. ...
Gates also sees AI assisting in education, calling AI education tools
"mindblowing," as they are tailored to individual learners, and says they will
"only get better." He's excited about how the technology can be localized to
students in many different countries and cultural contexts. Not everything on
Gates' mind is AI-related. He's concerned about climate change, saying he's
"blown away by the passion from young climate activists," and hopeful that
2024 will see more investment in innovations that will help those who are most
affected by the climate crisis. And he even plunges into the debate over
nuclear energy. Gates notes that high-profile disasters such as Chernobyl in
the 1980s and Three Mile Island in the late 1970s have spotlighted the risks,
but over the past year, he's seen a shift towards acceptance.
How AI Is Transforming Industries
A critical sector of the Indian economy, agriculture contributes to 18 per
cent of the GDP. And several new-age start-ups are emerging in this segment
with the likes of CropIn, DeHaat, BharatAgri, and Bijak. These start-ups are
helping develop innovative solutions for various aspects of agriculture,
especially precision farming, supply chain management, and market linkages The
2019 start-up Fyllo presently has over 100 agronomy models to help farmers
produce over 20 crops. It provides insights on growing crops based on climate
or occurrences of diseases/pests on crops. Fyllo believes that both problems
can be solved with accurate data, which led to them building a number and
pathogens prediction models using AI now. "We use AI for multiple use cases at
Fyllo. The first use case is predicting the weather. We use climate data from
our devices and machine learning-based weather Models to come up with a highly
precise farm-level weather prediction model. Another use case is getting crop
health, and crop stage identification from satellite imagery. We use various
machine learning models to do that.
Magnetic Knots Push Future Computing Toward 3D
“In the last decades, electronics basically developed in the paradigm of
two-dimensional systems,” says Nikolai Kiselev, a staff scientist at the Peter
Grünberg Institute in Jülich, Germany. “Which from a certain point of view is
absolutely reasonable because technologically it’s much easier to fabricate
and maintain such devices. But if we look toward the future, most probably to
make our devices the most efficient, at some point, we will have to turn
towards a three-dimensional architecture. And that’s where the discovery we
made in our paper might become useful. ... Although hopfions move around
readily, other aspects of their computing potential is still uncertain. The
team used transmission electron microscopy to image the hopfion, and measuring
its location more efficiently is an outstanding problem. The team says they
plan to look at how these objects respond to electric current, which could
help detect and track them. Plus, precise details on the exact ways hopfions
might encode information is still an open question. That said, Kiselev adds,
many questions like this don’t yet have answers because there has been no
reason to ask them.
The Art Of Listening: Silent Communication In Leadership
Silence, first and foremost, is a medium of introspection and reflection.
Leaders, constantly barraged by information and demands, may find themselves
lost in a maze of noise—both external and internal. Silence offers a
sanctuary, a space to step back and reflect. It allows leaders to process
information, contemplate decisions, and align their actions with their core
values and objectives. This introspective silence is not merely an absence of
noise; it’s an active engagement with one’s thoughts, a deliberate pause to
understand the bigger picture. Moreover, silence can be a powerful
communication tool. It’s not just about the absence of speech; it’s about
listening, understanding, and absorbing. ... Silence also plays a crucial role
in conflict resolution and negotiation. In tense situations, a leader’s
silence can de-escalate emotions and give everyone a moment to breathe and
reassess. By not immediately responding to a provocation or a challenging
statement, leaders can avoid knee-jerk reactions that might exacerbate the
conflict. Instead, silence can be used to control the tempo of the
conversation, allowing for thoughtful and measured responses that are more
likely to lead to constructive outcomes.
2024 in laptops: it’s shaping up to be a big year for Windows
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It’s the AI coprocessor inside that’s intriguing to me, particularly because
Intel and Microsoft have both been dropping hints about a future version of
Windows arriving soon and how “AI is going to reinvent how you do everything
on Windows.” Rumors suggest that Windows 12 will include a large focus on AI
and take advantage of the AI coprocessors that Intel is building into its Core
Ultra chips. (Intel isn’t the only one: AMD also has its own Ryzen 7000 mobile
processors that include a dedicated AI engine, and these types of neural
processing unit (NPU) chips are common on Arm-powered Windows laptops.) Intel
held an AI event to launch its Core Ultra chips this month, just ahead of the
annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), where we’ll see all of the new laptops
that are powered by Intel’s new chips. Lenovo, MSI, Acer, and Asus are all
launching laptops with these new chips inside. While Intel talked a lot about
“AI everywhere,” the missing piece of the puzzle, a new AI-focused version of
Windows, is still a mystery right now.
Chips To Compute With Encrypted Data Are Coming
At first glance, it might seem impossible to do meaningful computation on data
that looks like gibberish. But the idea goes back decades, and was finally
made possible in 2009 by Craig Gentry, then a Stanford graduate student.
Gentry found a way to do both addition and multiplication without
calculation-killing noise accumulating, making it possible to do any form of
encrypted computation. One comparison you can use to understand FHE is that
it’s analogous to a Fourier transform. For those of you who don’t remember
your college signal processing, a Fourier transform is a mathematical tool
that turns a signal in time, such as the oscillation of voltage in a circuit,
into a signal in frequency. One of the key side effects is that any math you
can do in the time domain has its equivalent in the frequency domain. So you
can compute in either time or frequency and come up with the same answer. The
genius of fully homomorphic encryption is that it uses lattice cryptography— a
form of quantum-computer-proof encoding—as the mathematical transformation.
The problem with this approach is that the transformation leads to a big
change in the type and amount of data and in the sorts of operations needed to
compute. That’s where the new chips come in.
Ransomware Attackers Abuse Multiple Windows CLFS Driver Zero-Days
CLFS is a high-performance, general-purpose logging system available for user-
or kernel-mode software clients. Its kernel access makes it eminently useful
for hackers seeking low-level system privileges, and its performance-oriented
design has left a series of security holes in its wake in recent years, which
ransomware actors in particular have pounced on. ... Nothing in particular
changed about the CLFS driver this year. Rather, attackers seem to have just
now identified what was wrong with it this whole time: It leans too far left
in that inescapable, eternal balance between performance and security. "CLFS
is perhaps way too 'optimized for performance,'" Larin wrote, detailing all of
the various ways the driver prioritizes it over protection. "It would be
better to have a reasonable file format instead of a dump of kernel structures
written to a file. All the work with these kernel structures (with pointers)
happens right there in the blocks read from disk. Because changes are made to
the blocks and kernel structures stored there, and those changes need to be
flushed to disk, the code parses the blocks over and over again every time it
needs to access something."
Quote for the day:
"The signs of outstanding leadership
are found among the followers." -- Max DePree
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