AI Pricing, Data Breaches, Remote Work, NASA, Drone Deliveries, and Soccer
AI Pricing, Data Breaches, Remote Work, NASA, Drone Deliveries, and Soccer
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🔐 Cybersecurity
🏷️ AI Pricing
🏬 Data Breaches
🏘️ Google Remote Work
🧑🚀 NASA
🚁 Drone Deliveries
⚽ US Soccer
Podcast
Cybersecurity, Identity, and Building Trust in the Age of AI: Insights from CEO Aaron Painter
In this episode of Prodity: Product By Design, I welcome Aaron Painter, CEO of Nametag, to discuss the critical role of identity verification in preventing social engineering attacks. Aaron shares his extensive experience working at Microsoft and leading global teams, emphasizing the importance of understanding diverse cultural and business contexts. Together, we explore the challenges and innovations in cybersecurity, particularly how Nametag addresses the vulnerabilities in traditional authentication methods. Aaron highlights the impact of AI in both facilitating and combating cyber threats and underscores the importance of design and UX in building trusted products. Join us for a deep dive into the future of identity verification and its implications for personal and corporate security.
News and Useful Reads
Kroger's Controversial AI Pricing
What could go wrong when a grocery chain can determine how much money it can extract from you using AI? Probably a lot.
Kroger's implementation of a new artificial intelligence-powered "dynamic pricing" model has sparked controversy, with critics, including U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bob Casey, expressing concerns about potential privacy violations and increased inequality. The system, which allows for real-time price adjustments based on factors such as demand and customer data, has been presented by Kroger as a way to enhance the customer experience but has raised questions about corporate profiteering and the ethical implications of personalized pricing strategies.
What to Know About the Latest Social Security Number Breach
It seems like anyone who handles our sensitive data is most likely to do a poor job at securing it. Including background checking companies, credit reporting bureaus, etc. The fines should be much higher and compensation to each of us significant, but each week some other company seems to lose our private data.
The details are murky. In April, Hackmanac, a cybersecurity company, posted on X that about 2.9 billion records of personal data were for sale, from people in the United States, Canada and Britain. The data was supposedly stolen from National Public Data, a company that does background checks.
Eric Schmidt Walks Back Claim Google Is Behind on AI Because of Remote Work
Eric Schmidt doesn’t believe in work-life balance, especially when it costs him money or costs his former company to lose the AI race (whatever that means). But he’s had to walk back statements from April after everyone got rightfully upset.
“I misspoke about Google and their work hours,” Schmidt said Wednesday in an email to The Wall Street Journal. “I regret my error.”
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NASA Nears Decision Time on Boeing Starliner’s Fate
Remember how Boeing used to be about quality? Then gave that up in the name of profits? Eventually, it will have neither.
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, stricken by suspect thrusters and helium leaks, is taking up a valuable parking spot at the space station. It needs to depart the orbiting research complex, with or without its two-person crew, before the launch of SpaceX's next Dragon crew mission to the station, scheduled for September 24.
Walmart is ending DroneUp deliveries in three states
Drone delivery still feels like a novelty rather than a good way of getting small items to your door, which apparently is how Walmart feels as well.
Walmart is ending drone deliveries made with partner DroneUp in Phoenix, Arizona, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Tampa, Florida, because the services in those cities weren’t sustainable, according to Axios. This is after Walmart and DroneUp announced in 2022 that they would be bringing drone delivery to those states as part of a broader expansion.
Other Interesting Finds
Who is Mauricio Pochettino? Is this a coup for the USMNT? Will it help them at 2026 World Cup?
I’m surprised and quite happy with the new coach of the US Men’s National team. I don’t think we could have expected much better (I hoped against hope for Jurgen Klopp, but that was never happening). Hopefully, this will be accompanied with other changes within US soccer, but I’m not holding my breath.
It is huge to land one of the best coaches from the club game to manage the men’s national team.
The closest comparison might be Jurgen Klinsmann, the former Germany striker who coached the USMNT from 2011 to 2016, but Pochettino comes to the job with far more of a track record in European club football management than he did.