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Freelancers Are Getting Ruined by AI

Futurism

Now, it's a growing fact of life for billions of workers around the world, as companies break up full-time positions into contract work with less stability and protection by labor laws. In short: if today's AI is any indication, tomorrow's AI is going to flatten just as many high-skilled jobs as it will low-skilled.

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Strong boards make strong nonprofits: What you need to know

Candid

Federal and state laws require a nonprofit’s board members to assume responsibility for the organization’s well-being–meaning it can be held responsible if something goes wrong financially or operationally. By contrast, a governing board is bound by law to oversee management of the organization.

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Young Coders Are Using AI for Everything, Giving "Blank Stares" When Asked How Programs Actually Work

Futurism

A recent study conducted by researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon suggested that the more people used AI and as they placed increased trust in its answers the more their critical thinking skills atrophied , like a muscle that doesn't get much use. Goel argues that the "future isn't about where we use AI it's about how we use it."

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How to emotionally recover after being scammed

Mashable Tech

Fraud victims seek help from law enforcement or adult protective services, or support from a loved one, clergy member, or therapist, but because of the stigma and blame associated with the crime may be treated as foolish or incompetent instead. To a bystander, the fraud may often seem obvious.

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There is no cybersecurity skills gap, but CISOs must think creatively

TechCrunch

Those of us who read a lot of tech and business publications have heard for years about the cybersecurity skills gap. The basic laws of supply and demand mean there will always be people in the workforce willing to move into well-paid security jobs. The other is possession of a skill set that no one else on our security team has.

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Digital Divide Data: our Partner in Laos

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The other half of the day they go to university pursuing advanced studies in numerous different fields (I asked a bunch of the students their area of study and heard answers like business, law, accountancy and even forestry). We scan the books in the U.S.,

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Fundamentally altering antitrust laws will harm US startups and slow the economy

TechCrunch

Computer science is the key to America’s skills crisis. Proposed changes to the existing framework of merger and acquisition law would handcuff successful businesses in every industry, have a chilling effect on investment in the next great American idea and close the door on the greatest engine of job creation our country has seen.

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