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South Korea sanctions Russian organizations, individuals over cooperation with Pyongyang: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/02/south-korea-sanctions.html

Alexander Pruss's Blog || Functionalism and organizations
http://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2024/04/functionalism-and-organizations.html

World Central Kitchen is devastated to confirm seven members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in Gaza.
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Despite coordinating movements with the IDF, the convoy was hit
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This is not only an attack against WCK, this is an attack on humanitarian organizations showing up in the most dire of situations where food is being used as a weapon of war. This is unforgivable
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The seven killed are from Australia, Poland, UK, US, Canada, and Palestine.

World Central Kitchen | 7 WCK team members killed in Gaza
World Central Kitchen is devastated to confirm seven members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in Gaza.

Luminance, which offers generative AI tools for lawyers, raised a $40M Series B led by March Capital and says 600 organizations in 70 countries use its tools (Lucy Adams/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2024/04/02/luminances-legal-ai/

Luminance's Generative AI-for-law raises $40M Series B
Luminance has raised $40M for its Series B round. The company wants to make good on pronouncements that have clouded the legal profession since ChatGPT's release: that LLMs will be able to replace much of paralegals' work. The round was led by March Capital, with participation from National Grid Partners and existing investors including Slaughter and May. Luminance’s legal LLM automates the generation, negotiation and analysis of contracts and other legal documents — from flagging non-sta…

revolution: American Revolutionary groups (1765-1783)
A bipartite network of the memberships of notable people and organizations, from the American Revolution (1765-1783) between users and groups on YouTube, extracted from a larger YouTube network in 2007.
This network has 141 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted

Organizations patch CISA KEV list bugs 3.5 times faster than others, researchers find https://therecord.media/kev-list-vulnerabilities-patched-significantly-faster

Organizations patch CISA KEV list bugs 3.5 times faster than others, researchers find
Researchers at Bitsight asked whether organizations remediate software and hardware vulnerabilities faster if they're on the federal government's list. The resulting data added up to a resounding "yes."

Multi-stakeholder Workshop Launches Common Good Cyber to Fund Organizations that Secure the Internet
https://commongoodcyber.org/multi-stakeholder-workshop-launches-common-good-cyber-to-fund-organizations-that-secure-the-internet/

Does the American Diabetes Association work for patients or companies?
A lawsuit dared to ask
The ADA just settled an explosive legal case accusing the organization of betraying people with diabetes
Nutritionist Elizabeth Hanna’s complaint, filed last year in a New Jersey court, alleged a litany of wrongdoings by one of the country’s most powerful patient advocacy organizations.
Hanna said that ADA higher-ups pressured her to approve recipes that included generous h…

Israel says it will expand operations in Rafah, #Gaza’s last refuge - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/02/israe…

Israel says it will expand operations in Rafah, Gaza’s last refuge
Humanitarian organizations say further conflict in the area runs the risk of causing significant harm to the more than 1.4 million Palestinians sheltering there.

Registration is open for the online course “Ministering to Those Impacted by Suicide.” The course meets 4 Mondays in a row, beginning April 15.
It is estimated that 50% of individuals in any congregation have been impacted by suicide in some way. This training will take a deep dive into the topic and expand the thinking of leaders about how churches and organizations can proactively address the hopelessness and isolation that contribute to suicidality.

We are happy to introduce you to our Silver Partner - Snowflake. Learn more about them by visiting their website #bbuzz

The Snowflake Data Cloud - Mobilize Data, Apps, and AI
Snowflake enables organizations to learn, build, and connect with their data-driven peers. Collaborate, build data apps & power diverse workloads in the Data Cloud.

Luminance, which offers generative AI tools for lawyers, raised a $40M Series B led by March Capital and says 600 organizations in 70 countries use its tools (Lucy Adams/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2024/04/02/luminances-legal-ai/

Luminance's Generative AI-for-law raises $40M Series B
Luminance has raised $40M for its Series B round. The company wants to make good on pronouncements that have clouded the legal profession since ChatGPT's release: that LLMs will be able to replace much of paralegals' work. The round was led by March Capital, with participation from National Grid Partners and existing investors including Slaughter and May. Luminance’s legal LLM automates the generation, negotiation and analysis of contracts and other legal documents — from flagging non-sta…

revolution: American Revolutionary groups (1765-1783)
A bipartite network of the memberships of notable people and organizations, from the American Revolution (1765-1783) between users and groups on YouTube, extracted from a larger YouTube network in 2007.
This network has 141 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted

Cowboys EVP Stephen Jones shares thoughts on organization’s culture https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_evp_stephen_jones_shares_thoughts_on_organizations_culture/s1_17236_40031207

Cowboys EVP Stephen Jones shares thoughts on organization’s culture
Dallas Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones flat out denied that the franchise has a culture problem while speaking with the media at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis on Tuesday. “I think, you know, from the organization on down, we feel good about our culture. You always want to be better; I will say that,” Jones said, via Jon Machota of The Athletic. “If your results aren’t winning the Super Bowl, I think everybody said how do you ultimately be the last guy standing.…

"At the event we will hear from organizations that have developed strategies to successfully engage with external audiences, followed by a roundtable discussion and Q&A. This event will be useful for both those new to #webarchiving - perhaps considering a business case for this function at their own institution - and seasoned practitioners in search of new inspiration for reaching user…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00905 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Fine-Tuning and Prompt Engineering for Large Language Models-based Code Review Automation
Context: The rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) has sparked significant interest in leveraging their capabilities for automating code review processes. Prior studies often focus on developing LLMs for code review automation, yet require expensive resources, which is infeasible for organizations with limited budgets and resources. Thus, fine-tuning and prompt engineering are the two common approaches to leveraging LLMs for code review automation. Objective: We aim to investigate the…

Some state lawmakers want school chaplains as part of a 'rescue mission' for public education
https://religionnews.com/2024/04/01/some-state-lawmakers-want-school-chaplains-as-part-of-a-rescue…

Some state lawmakers want school chaplains as part of a 'rescue mission' for public education
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Many chaplains and interfaith organizations oppose the chaplaincy campaign, calling the motivation offensive and describing the dangers of introducing a position of authority to children without clear standards or boundaries.

New note by cybersecurity
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-5d359956-b7cfa8e43d1c5743
Managed Detection and Response in 2023 (PDF)

I will give a research talk today (Friday, the 1st of March) at 11:00 (CET = UTC 1) in our local Functional Programming research group seminar.
There is a Zoom link for the stream which should hopefully work: https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/65586341322 (Password: f,p.t:a;l,k without the pun…

Typical American #prudishness? No, the efforts to ban nudism are part of the #GOP s panic campaign against #LGBTQ and sexual self-determination, under the pretext of protecting children from sexual assaults by…

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 320 nodes and 2369 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Ukraine's TV, radio-broadcasting body urges government not to use Telegram: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/30/ukraines-tv-radiobroadcasting.html

Lookout Discovers Advanced Phishing Kit Targeting U.S. Federal Agency and Cryptocurrency Exchange Organizations
https://www.lookout.com/threat-intelligence/article/cryptochameleon-fcc-phishing-kit

I've recently come across two socially responsible French conglomerates of software developers, organized as either a cooperative or some other egalitarian business forms, and I wanted to make a huge shoutout to them.
Please visit their websites and, if you want and can, hire them for your next projects.
(Disclaimer: I'm not associated with either, I just find these organizations not only remarkable, but also necessary and fundamental.)
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Homepage | Les-Tilleuls.coop
API, Web & Cloud experts. Creators of the API Platform framework. Symfony maintainers. Self-managed company.

Das SODa-Projekt zum Aufbau eines Datenkompetenzzentrums für wissenschaftliche Universitätssammlungen lädt herzlich zu seinem 2. Kick-off ⚽ ein.
Thema an diesem Donnerstag: Erschließung und sammlungsbezogenes Forschungsdatenmanagement.
Donnerstag, 2. Mai 2024, 14-16 Uhr, Zoom: <https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/69190621

This is really bad. If you were vulnerable to this issue, the only way out of it is through Palo Alto support. Open a case with them to review your logs.
I could see this requiring some organizations to completely replace their Global Protect-enabled firewalls with new ones.
#cybersecurity
From: @…
https://infosec.exchange/@screaminggoat/112356219118533957

The Social Web Community Group in the W3C is restarting monthly calls. Join us?
https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/socialcg/calendar/

Social Web Incubator Community Group - Calendar
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.

Germany’s top cybersecurity agency on Tuesday called on thousands of vulnerable organizations in the country to patch out-of-date Microsoft Exchange software.
According to a report by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), at least 17,000 servers are vulnerable to one or more critical bugs, and cybercriminals and state actors are already actively exploiting several of these vulnerabilities to deliver malware and carry out cyberespionage or ransomware attacks.
T…

German cyber agency warns 17,000 Microsoft Exchange servers are vulnerable to critical bugs
Germany’s top cybersecurity agency on Tuesday called on thousands of vulnerable organizations in the country to patch out-of-date Microsoft Exchange software.

Five of the world's leading #Research & #Education #networking organisations - ESnet, GÉANT, the GlobalNOC at Indiana University, @…

New Consortium MetrANOVA to Create a Measurement and Analysis Toolbox for Research and Education Networks Worldwide | GÉANT CONNECT Online
New Consortium MetrANOVA to Create a Measurement and Analysis Toolbox for Research and Education Networks Worldwide Founding members ESnet, GÉANT, Indiana University, Internet2, and Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) seek additional participants February 27 — Five of the world’s leading research and education (R&E) networking organizations have joined forces to form MetrANOVA, a consortium for

Please sign our Open Letter to news organizations:
“Urgent Need For Pro-Democracy 2024 Election Coverage”
https://mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/sign-our-open-letter-to-news-organizations
American media mus…

Sign Our Open Letter To News Organizations: “Urgent Need For Pro-Democracy 2024 Election Coverage”
American media must advocate for democracy. We created guidelines for election coverage so that you can hold newsrooms accountable.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01573 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

An Actionable Framework for Understanding and Improving Talent Retention as a Competitive Advantage in IT Organizations
In the rapidly evolving global business landscape, the demand for software has intensified competition among organizations, leading to challenges in retaining highly qualified IT members in software organizations. One of the problems faced by IT organizations is the retention of these strategic professionals, also known as talent. This work presents an actionable framework for Talent Retention (TR) used in IT organizations. It is based on our findings from interviews performed with 21 IT manage…

DISCERN: Designing Decision Support Interfaces to Investigate the Complexities of Workplace Social Decision-Making With Line Managers
Pranav Khadpe, Lindy Le, Kate Nowak, Shamsi T. Iqbal, Jina Suh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19318

DISCERN: Designing Decision Support Interfaces to Investigate the Complexities of Workplace Social Decision-Making With Line Managers
Line managers form the first level of management in organizations, and must make complex decisions, while maintaining relationships with those impacted by their decisions. Amidst growing interest in technology-supported decision-making at work, their needs remain understudied. Further, most existing design knowledge for supporting social decision-making comes from domains where decision-makers are more socially detached from those they decide for. We conducted iterative design research with lin…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.14016 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Cascades towards noise-induced transitions on networks revealed using information flows
The success of clandestine organizations require novel methods to improve methods of intervention for law enforcement agencies. Through a model rooted in evolutionary game theory, we present an approach to conceptualize criminal organizations as collaborative assemblies of roles. The model explores decision-making processes within these organizations, considering factors such as expected costs, potential benefits, and the certainty of expected payouts. Key findings include the identification of…

A profile of Dale Anglin, first director of Press Forward, a philanthropic effort to invest $500M over five years in local news and aiming to raise $500M more (Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/dale-anglin-profile-press-fo…

A new leader for Press Forward, at a pivotal moment for journalism
Dale R. Anglin has spent more than twenty years in the nonprofit sector, channeling millions of dollars to social service organizations. Among those projects was Cleveland Documenters, a local initiative that paid hundreds of residents to take notes at government meetings and then expanded to regular reporting and investigative pieces as the nonprofit news outlet […]

“Russian Soldier Raped Me.” Sexual Violence as War Crime : https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/29/russian-soldier-raped.html

"Yes, people do tend toward different mindsets and that can make a big difference—but the environment, the social context, the culture, the organization a person is in can also have a mindset."
 – Cultures of Growth: How the New Science of Mindset Can Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations von Mary C. Murphy

In latest round, "MacKenzie Scott donates $640 million -- more than double her initial plan -- to nonprofit applicants...
"Scott has given away $16.5 billion from the fortune she came into after divorcing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos."
https://

MacKenzie Scott donates $640 million to nonprofits
The billionaire philanthropist and author MacKenzie Scott announced Tuesday she would give $640 million to more than 360 organizations in response to an application process she launched last year. The award is more than double the amount that she initially promised in an open call for applications. The selected organizations will receive grants of $2 million or $1 million. Previously, Scott and her team have selected organizations and provided them with large, unrestricted gifts. Scott has shak…

Iranian state-backed cyber spies continue to impersonate media brands, think tanks https://therecord.media/apt42-impersonating-media-think-tanks-iran-espionage

Iranian state-backed cyber spies continue to impersonate media brands, think tanks
A group tracked as APT42 uses subtle methods to get potential victims to clink on malicious links that look like they belong to newspapers and other organizations, according to Mandiant.

PrivComp-KG : Leveraging Knowledge Graph and Large Language Models for Privacy Policy Compliance Verification
Leon Garza, Lavanya Elluri, Anantaa Kotal, Aritran Piplai, Deepti Gupta, Anupam Joshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19744 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.19744
arXiv:2404.19744v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Data protection and privacy is becoming increasingly crucial in the digital era. Numerous companies depend on third-party vendors and service providers to carry out critical functions within their operations, encompassing tasks such as data handling and storage. However, this reliance introduces potential vulnerabilities, as these vendors' security measures and practices may not always align with the standards expected by regulatory bodies. Businesses are required, often under the penalty of law, to ensure compliance with the evolving regulatory rules. Interpreting and implementing these regulations pose challenges due to their complexity. Regulatory documents are extensive, demanding significant effort for interpretation, while vendor-drafted privacy policies often lack the detail required for full legal compliance, leading to ambiguity. To ensure a concise interpretation of the regulatory requirements and compliance of organizational privacy policy with said regulations, we propose a Large Language Model (LLM) and Semantic Web based approach for privacy compliance. In this paper, we develop the novel Privacy Policy Compliance Verification Knowledge Graph, PrivComp-KG. It is designed to efficiently store and retrieve comprehensive information concerning privacy policies, regulatory frameworks, and domain-specific knowledge pertaining to the legal landscape of privacy. Using Retrieval Augmented Generation, we identify the relevant sections in a privacy policy with corresponding regulatory rules. This information about individual privacy policies is populated into the PrivComp-KG. Combining this with the domain context and rules, the PrivComp-KG can be queried to check for compliance with privacy policies by each vendor against relevant policy regulations. We demonstrate the relevance of the PrivComp-KG, by verifying compliance of privacy policy documents for various organizations.

Good news today:
Bad news today:

• fascist party takes over in these European states
• stochastic terrorism up 300%
• all media organizations unite to rally against the most subjugated minority

Here's their press release from this morning:
Alt text here instead of in images due to length:
NEWS RELEASE Embargoed until April 24, 7:00am PST
Divest From Death USA
Media Contact: Media Liaisons, USC Divest From Death Coalition USCSolidarityOccupation@protonmail.com
USC Divest From Death Coalition to Begin Gaza Solidarity Occupation in University of
Southern California Campus
LOS ANGELES. (April 24, 2023) — USC Divest From Death Coalition today announced theit occupation of USC's Alumni Park, where the increasingly controversial 2024 Commencement is currently set to take place. The students taking part in the Gaza Solidarity Occupation are planning to occupy USC until their demands are met. The coalition joins other students groups across the country in the National Students for Justice in Palestine's "Popular University for Gaza," a coordinated mass movement of students, faculty and staff that disrupts universities, creating climates that push universities to answer community and international calls for full divestment from the Zionist entity, and all of the industries that sustain it.
1. End War Profiteering and Investment in Genocide. USC must fully disclose and divest its finances and endowment from companies and institutions that profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide, and occupation in Palestine, including the US Military and weapons manufacturing. USC must comumit to accountability through full transparency of their financial investments.
2. Complete Academic Boycott of Israel. USC must end its study abroad programs at Hebrew University's Rothenberg International School and Reichman University and sever all academic ties and research cooperation with Israeli universities.
3. Protect free speech on campus and provide full amnesty to all students, staff, and faculty disciplined, penalized, or fired for their pro-Palestine ackivism. USC must abide by their self- proclaimed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion values and implement material policies protecting the safety of its marginalized students.
4. Stop the Displacement, from South Central to Palestine. No land grabs, whether in South Central, Tongva territory, or Palestine. Cease expansion, provide reparations, and support housing for low-income South Central residents. No development by USC without genuine community control.
5. No Policing on Campus. End the targeted repression and harassment of Black, Brown, and Palestinian students and their allies on and off campus, including through university disciplinary processes. Defund the Department of Public Safety and disclose and sever all ties with the LAPD.
6. End the Silence on the Genocide in Palestine. Release a public statement calling for an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza, denouncing the ongoing genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people, and call on government officials o do so too.
"I'm participating in the Gaza Solidarity Occupation at USC to highlight and amplify the anti- zionist Jewish voice at USC and be in solidarity with the Palestinian fight for liberation," says a student organizer from USC's chapter of Jewish Voices for Palestine (JVP). "JVP USC feels our voice is especially important right now as many people at USC and across the country are equating zionism and Judaism, but we are here to say they are not the same! We stand by our belief of free speech, resistance to oppressive systems and solidarity with our valedictorian Asna and all other college campuses where pro-Palestine voices have been silenced."
The USC Divest From Death Coalition establishes the occupation mo st fundamentally in solidarity with the people of Palestine as they resist genocide and continue in their struggle for liberation. The occupation is also in resistance to attempts by USC and other universities to suppress the student movement for Palestine on its campuses, in resistance to the silencing of students that criticize the state of Israel, in resistance to the university administrators and boards of trustees who profit off the genocide of Palestinians; The students taking part are firm in their commitment to speaking out against the university's complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people.
"USC's funding of the ongoing genocide perpetuated by the zionist entity is reflective of maintaining imperialist interests abroad, as well as solidifying the shared ideology of amerikan and zionist institutions in preserving racialized oppression," says a student organizer of the Gaza Solidarity Occupation. "To not stand in opposition to the expressly racist violence here and abroad is to ignore the calls for solidarity demanded by the majority of the world. USC acts in accordance with these oppressions, and to call against this is to recognize both the inhumanity of these systems and our own humanity in opposing them."
We have chosen to use the word "occupation” instead of "encampment" to draw attention to USC as an occupying force on unceded Gabrieleno/Tongva land, an occupying force in South Central through its expansion into, gentrification of, and destruction of the existing community, and as a complicit power in Israeli occupation of Palestine.
About USC Divest From Death
In joining the national "Cut Ties with Genocide: Divest from Death" campaign, USC Divest From Death pushes our institutions to divest from companies complicit in the genocide of Palestinians, in all its iterations, alongside thousands of campuses. The coalition's push for the advancement of the key demand points on campus is the first steps towards the liberation of all people by ending the complicity of the University of Southern California in the violence enacted on our communities. Through the intentional act of coalition building, the students of USC realize that we are part of an interconnected fight for freedom taking place on campus, in our communities and homelands. We envision campuses free from militarism, occupation, and war through the implementation of divestment at USC
About Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)
The student movement for the liberation of Palestine first began in the 1950s through the formation of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS). From the U.S. to Palestine, GUPS chapters galvanized thousands of students towards a liberated Palestine. The 90s” wave of corrupt politicians and faulty deals changed the liberation movement as we knew it and many institutions, including the student movement, collapsed. In the absence of a Palestinian student movement, organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine emerged across occupied Turtle Island (U.S. and Canada) as a way to educate, advocate, and mobilize in support for Palestinian liberation. Nearly two decades after the formation of the first Students for Justice in Palestine, the movement for Palestine has taken colleges and universities across North America by storm. With over 200 campus Palestine solidarity organizations across the continent, students have been leaders in uplifting demands for freedom, Justice, and equality for the Palestinian people.

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 1429 nodes and 32876 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

A friend of mine sent me these screencaps and I’m laughing so hard.
(Read alt text if image is hard to read)
#google #googleGemini #googleNaming

“Entrepreneurs are getting younger and even more willing to take risk”
https://buffalonews.com/news/local/business/entrepreneurs-are-getting-younger-and-even-more-will…

Prospectus: Entrepreneurs are getting younger and even more willing to take risk
The increased number of support organizations, mentors and coaches, and availability of investment capital, as well as the increased exposure to being an entrepreneur as a career path, is igniting

Judge Gives Trump Organization's Babysitter 'Enhanced' Control (Jose Pagliery/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-gives-trump-organizations-babysitter-enhanced-control
http://www.memeorandum.com/240321/p63#a240321p63

Design of a Representation Information Repository for the Long-Term Usability of Digital Building Documents
Uwe M. Borghoff, Eberhard Pfeiffer, Peter R\"odig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19337

Design of a Representation Information Repository for the Long-Term Usability of Digital Building Documents
The long-term usability of digital building documents is essential for the maintenance and optimization of infrastructure portfolios. It supports the preservation of building-specific knowledge and the cultural heritage hidden within. However, having to do this throughout the lifecycle of a building - or even indefinitely - remains a major challenge. This is especially true for organizations responsible for large collections of digital building documents, such as public administrations or archi…

Cool opportunity from DOE:

"Supercharge Your Career with DOE’s Clean Energy Innovator Fellowship
Calling recent graduates and energy professionals to apply for DOE’s Clean Energy Innovator Fellowship! Paid fellows will spend up to two years at public utility commissions, state energy offices, and other critical energy organizations, supporting projects that will help decarbonize power systems and bolster energy resilience... apply by May 3."

Amazingly, this article is agnostic about whether having narcissistic employees is good or bad. Narcissists are bad news! https://mastodon.online/@jchyip/111935966004916789

...One of the aspects of management that all of these innovations make more important is the ability for organizations to rapidly adjust to drastic changes in the market and competitive landscape. Organizations need to be designed to be robust and to cope well with the increasingly rapid pace of transformative innovation.

Ronna's lack of integrity is just part of the problem. News organizations should not be siphoning off money that should be spent on journalism and using it to subsidize politicians. How did we get here? It all started with Rupert Murdoch's corruption. His damage of journalism is exceeded only by what he has done to democracy in every nation where he operates.

For Security Teams Inside Organizations
Let’s take a deep dive into this piece of consumer messaging —
1958. American Football. A sports reporter bluntly asks coach Vince Lombardi “What are you going to change to turn this team around after a string of failures and losing seasons?”
His reply: “I am not going to change anything. We will use the same players, the same plays and the same training system. But we will concentrate on becoming brilliant at the basics.”
This is an incredibly motivating message. And it paid off!
In the next nine seasons, Coach Lombardi’s team, the Green Bay Packers, went on to win five NFL Championships and two Super Bowls.
The phrase “Brilliant At The Basics” found its way into popular culture, becoming a recurring theme.
And the graphic? For the general public, the lightbulb image = Good Idea.
Consumers are already familiar with these two concepts.
In Your Organization, You Define “The Basics”
Find the sweet spot between everything that’s possible and what your users are willing and able to do.
☑️ Ask yourself "What should our users know? What actions should they take?"
☑️ Define them clearly and give them a simple, catchy name — "The Basics."
☑️ Show your users "This Is How We Do It Here."
☑️ Let them know they can master The Basics.
☑️ Then let your users know there's More Where That Came From, if they're interested, but … The Basics are the focus.
We should deliver cybersecurity advice to non-technical people in bite-size, digestible pieces. Consumers hate feeling like they’re at the pointy end of a firehose. And they don’t like being lectured to. Let’s not overwhelm them. First lay a strong foundation, then line by line, concept by concept — build up from there.
My partner led consumer product development programs that sold $100M and $400M of consumer products every year. Now he develops consumer products for Pokémon. We have hard-won experience when it comes to speaking to and persuading consumers.
We want to share that with you.
Would you like to experiment with this messaging and these laptop stickers in your organization?
Three additional benefits for you:
☑️ Over time, if The Basics in your organization change, the graphics and the laptop stickers stay the same.
☑️ A campaign like this might help identify potential Cyber Champions in your organization.
☑️ The laptop stickers provide persistent visibility for Cybersecurity within your organization.
We’d be happy to send some free samples for you to try out with your users.
1.) Visit this Brilliant At The Basic page on our website: #BrilliantAtTheBasics
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♻️ Please feel free to share this post and let others know about this offer.

ceo_club: CEO Club Memberships
A bipartite network of the memberships of chief executive officers and the social organizations (clubs) to which they belong, from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Data originally collected by Galaskiewicz in 1985.
This network has 40 nodes and 95 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://

"Europe is the fastest-warming continent, at nearly twice the average global rate, report says"
#Europe #Climate #ClimateChange

Europe is world’s fastest-warming continent, report says
Two top climate monitoring organizations are reporting that Europe is the fastest-warming continent and its temperatures are rising at roughly twice the global average. The U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization and the European Union’s climate agency are also warning of the consequences for human health, glacier melt and economic activity. They say the continent has the opportunity to develop targeted strategies to speed up the transition to renewable resources like wind, solar and hydro…

Please sign our Open Letter to news organizations:
“Urgent Need For Pro-Democracy 2024 Election Coverage”
https://mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/sign-our-open-letter-to-news-organizations
American media mus…

Sign Our Open Letter To News Organizations: “Urgent Need For Pro-Democracy 2024 Election Coverage”
American media must advocate for democracy. We created guidelines for election coverage so that you can hold newsrooms accountable.

Fin-Fed-OD: Federated Outlier Detection on Financial Tabular Data
Dayananda Herurkar, Sebastian Palacio, Ahmed Anwar, Joern Hees, Andreas Dengel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14933 <…

Fin-Fed-OD: Federated Outlier Detection on Financial Tabular Data
Anomaly detection in real-world scenarios poses challenges due to dynamic and often unknown anomaly distributions, requiring robust methods that operate under an open-world assumption. This challenge is exacerbated in practical settings, where models are employed by private organizations, precluding data sharing due to privacy and competitive concerns. Despite potential benefits, the sharing of anomaly information across organizations is restricted. This paper addresses the question of enhancin…

The table contains now more than 200 verified accounts on #Mastodon by #media organizations in 10 languages.
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ceo_club: CEO Club Memberships
A bipartite network of the memberships of chief executive officers and the social organizations (clubs) to which they belong, from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Data originally collected by Galaskiewicz in 1985.
This network has 40 nodes and 95 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://

Managing Security Evidence in Safety-Critical Organizations
Mazen Mohamad, Jan-Philipp Stegh\"ofer, Eric Knauss, Riccardo Scandariato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17332

Managing Security Evidence in Safety-Critical Organizations
With the increasing prevalence of open and connected products, cybersecurity has become a serious issue in safety-critical domains such as the automotive industry. As a result, regulatory bodies have become more stringent in their requirements for cybersecurity, necessitating security assurance for products developed in these domains. In response, companies have implemented new or modified processes to incorporate security into their product development lifecycle, resulting in a large amount of…

"The environment you’re in can have its own mindset culture. It can be a culture that believes in and values the development of all people’s ability. Or it can be a culture that believes in and values fixed ability, a culture that expects some people to have more of it and some people to (permanently) have less of it."
 – Cultures of Growth: How the New Science of Mindset Can Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations von Mary C. Murphy

I forgot to put this out on socials, but my latest CSO column takes a closer look at the just-released 2.0 version of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. Many thanks to Padraic O'Reilly from CyberSaint for his insights.
Also, still eager to chat with folks who work with the CSF in their organizations to hear about their experiences for my upcoming book on cyber risk management using the CSF.
NIST releases expanded 2.0 version of the Cybersecurity Framework
https://www.csoonline.com/article/1310046/nist-releases-expanded-2-0-version-of-the-cybersecurity-framework.html

NYC-based Coro, which offers SMB cybersecurity tools, raised a $100M Series D led by One Peak, sources say at a $750M post-money valuation, to expand in Europe (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/28/coro-smb-security-series-d/

Coro, building cybersecurity for SMBs, locks down $100M at a $750M valuation | TechCrunch
Enterprises and other large organizations have long been a lucrative and obvious target for cybercriminals, but in recent years -- thanks to more

ceo_club: CEO Club Memberships
A bipartite network of the memberships of chief executive officers and the social organizations (clubs) to which they belong, from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Data originally collected by Galaskiewicz in 1985.
This network has 40 nodes and 95 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://

Non-government organizations of Ukraine and Taiwan want to counter propaganda jointly Ukraine Crisis Media Center hosted a public discussion “Ukraine-Taiwan: exploring experiences in countering disinf Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/neuryadovi-org

Unveiling News Publishers Trustworthiness Through Social Interactions
Manuel Pratelli, Fabio Saracco, Marinella Petrocchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18621 …

Unveiling News Publishers Trustworthiness Through Social Interactions
With the primary goal of raising readers' awareness of misinformation phenomena, extensive efforts have been made by both academic institutions and independent organizations to develop methodologies for assessing the trustworthiness of online news publishers. Unfortunately, existing approaches are costly and face critical scalability challenges. This study presents a novel framework for assessing the trustworthiness of online news publishers using user interactions on social media platforms. Th…

A friend of mine sent me these screencaps and I’m laughing so hard.
(Read alt text if image is hard to read)
#google #googleGemini #googleNaming

ceo_club: CEO Club Memberships
A bipartite network of the memberships of chief executive officers and the social organizations (clubs) to which they belong, from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Data originally collected by Galaskiewicz in 1985.
This network has 40 nodes and 95 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://

EFF Helps News Organizations Push Back Against Legal Bullying from Cyber Mercenary Group
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/eff-helps-news-organizations-resist-legal-bullying-cyber-mercenary-group

EFF Helps News Organizations Push Back Against Legal Bullying from Cyber Mercenary Group
Cyber mercenaries present a grave threat to human rights and freedom of expression. They have been implicated in surveillance, torture, and even murder of human rights defenders, political candidates, and journalists. One of the most effective ways that the human rights community pushes back...

Learned a new term today: Progressive except for Palestine
“…is a phrase that refers to organizations or individuals who describe themselves politically as progressive, liberal, or left-wing but who do not express pro-Palestinian sentiment or do not comment on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Pro-Palestinian advocates regard PEP as a type of political hypocrisy and an example of anti-Palestinianism…”

For Security Teams Inside Organizations
Let’s take a deep dive into this piece of consumer messaging —
1958. American Football. A sports reporter bluntly asks coach Vince Lombardi “What are you going to change to turn this team around after a string of failures and losing seasons?”
His reply: “I am not going to change anything. We will use the same players, the same plays and the same training system. But we will concentrate on becoming brilliant at the basics.”
This is an incredibly motivating message. And it paid off!
In the next nine seasons, Coach Lombardi’s team, the Green Bay Packers, went on to win five NFL Championships and two Super Bowls.
The phrase “Brilliant At The Basics” found its way into popular culture, becoming a recurring theme.
And the graphic? For the general public, the lightbulb image = Good Idea.
Consumers are already familiar with these two concepts.
In Your Organization, You Define “The Basics”
Find the sweet spot between everything that’s possible and what your users are willing and able to do.
☑️ Ask yourself "What should our users know? What actions should they take?"
☑️ Define them clearly and give them a simple, catchy name — "The Basics."
☑️ Show your users "This Is How We Do It Here."
☑️ Let them know they can master The Basics.
☑️ Then let your users know there's More Where That Came From, if they're interested, but … The Basics are the focus.
We should deliver cybersecurity advice to non-technical people in bite-size, digestible pieces. Consumers hate feeling like they’re at the pointy end of a firehose. And they don’t like being lectured to. Let’s not overwhelm them. First lay a strong foundation, then line by line, concept by concept — build up from there.
My partner led consumer product development programs that sold $100M and $400M of consumer products every year. Now he develops consumer products for Pokémon. We have hard-won experience when it comes to speaking to and persuading consumers.
We want to share that with you.
Would you like to experiment with this messaging and these laptop stickers in your organization?
Three additional benefits for you:
☑️ Over time, if The Basics in your organization change, the graphics and the laptop stickers stay the same.
☑️ A campaign like this might help identify potential Cyber Champions in your organization.
☑️ The laptop stickers provide persistent visibility for Cybersecurity within your organization.
We’d be happy to send some free samples for you to try out with your users.
1.) Visit this Brilliant At The Basic page on our website: #BrilliantAtTheBasics
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♻️ Please feel free to share this post and let others know about this offer.

Madrid-based big data observability startup Onum, which launched in 2023, raised a $28M Series A led by Dawn Capital, with participation from Insight and Kibo (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2024/04/10/on

Onum raises $28M to help organizations extract their most valuable data in real time - SiliconANGLE
Onum raises $28M to help organizations extract their most valuable data in real time - SiliconANGLE

Seven organizations the far right is targeting after the supreme court ban affecting admissions
2. Last August, #Hello #Alice, an online platform which 🌟offers grants to Black small-business owners, 🌟was
💥 sued by America First Legal 💥( #AFL

I'm still finding verified #accounts from #news sites and #media organizations on #Mastodon for my list…

As I’ve said, RFK jr is a grifter who is a danger to public health. He needs to be stopped. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/02/21/covid-misinformation-earnings/

Tax records reveal the lucrative world of covid misinformation
The influx of pandemic cash enabled organizations to deepen their influence in statehouses, courtrooms and communities across the country.

Analysis: the 25 most-cited US news organizations lost 75% of their Facebook engagement and 58% of their Instagram interactions between Q1 2022 and Q1 2024 (Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/4aE21dk

As Meta flees politics, campaigns rely on new tricks to reach voters
Meta’s shift away from politics is forcing campaigns to change their outreach tactics, transforming the 2024 election.

We are happy to announce the release of #FileSender 2.45.
For this release, the #Python client supports #encryption allowing upload and download of encrypted files from the command line. Newer versio…

New FileSender 2.45 release - FileSender.org
We are happy to announce the release of FileSender 2.45. This new release offers a few features and bug fixes. We are grateful to the global NREN community for supporting the FileSender project to evolve. FileSender is an open source web application that organizations can install at no cost. Through FileSender, organizations can offer their […]

Dynamic Vulnerability Criticality Calculator for Industrial Control Systems
Pavlos Cheimonidis, Kontantinos Rantos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16854 https:/…

Dynamic Vulnerability Criticality Calculator for Industrial Control Systems
The convergence of information and communication technologies has introduced new and advanced capabilities to Industrial Control Systems. However, concurrently, it has heightened their vulnerability to cyber attacks. Consequently, the imperative for new security methods has emerged as a critical need for these organizations to effectively identify and mitigate potential threats. This paper introduces an innovative approach by proposing a dynamic vulnerability criticality calculator. Our methodo…

Youth group, environmental organizations sue Maine for action on climate (Patrick Whittle/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/youth-climate-lawsuit-maine-039a05a63e77137f6ce657f0bc9fe715
http://www.memeorandum.com/240422/p64#a240422p64

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 5793 nodes and 45266 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

International Court of Justice to Review 57-Year Israeli Occupation
https://www.juancole.com/2024/02/international-justice-occupation.html

International Court of Justice to Review 57-Year Israeli Occupation
Human Rights Watch - (The Hague) – An unprecedented number of countries and international organizations are expected to participate in the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) oral hearings on Israel’s occupation beginning February 19, 2024, Human Rights Watch said today. Fifty-two countries and three international organizations will participate in the oral proceedings, more than in any other case since the world’s highest court began functioning in 1946. The broad participation in th…

A new #phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) named ‘#Darcula’ uses 20,000 domains to spoof brands and steal credentials from Android and iPhone users in more than 100 countries.
Darcula has been used against various services and organizations, from postal, financial, government, taxation departments, to telcos, airlines, …

DevPhish: Exploring Social Engineering in Software Supply Chain Attacks on Developers
Hossein Siadati, Sima Jafarikhah, Elif Sahin, Terrence Brent Hernandez, Elijah Lorenzo Tripp, Denis Khryashchev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18401

DevPhish: Exploring Social Engineering in Software Supply Chain Attacks on Developers
The Software Supply Chain (SSC) has captured considerable attention from attackers seeking to infiltrate systems and undermine organizations. There is evidence indicating that adversaries utilize Social Engineering (SocE) techniques specifically aimed at software developers. That is, they interact with developers at critical steps in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), such as accessing Github repositories, incorporating code dependencies, and obtaining approval for Pull Requests (PR) t…

We are happy to announce the release of #FileSender 2.45.
For this release, the #Python client supports #encryption allowing upload and download of encrypted files from the command line. Newer versio…

New FileSender 2.45 release - FileSender.org
We are happy to announce the release of FileSender 2.45. This new release offers a few features and bug fixes. We are grateful to the global NREN community for supporting the FileSender project to evolve. FileSender is an open source web application that organizations can install at no cost. Through FileSender, organizations can offer their […]

This is very cool. I just got access to Compass from Blackbird AI that is designed to "help organizations navigate the information overload caused by online misinformation and disinformation."
I asked it if the AT&T outage this week was caused by a cyberattack, and this is the very accurate and well-written answer it gave me.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01230 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

Synthetic Data: Methods, Use Cases, and Risks
Sharing data can often enable compelling applications and analytics. However, more often than not, valuable datasets contain information of a sensitive nature, and thus, sharing them can endanger the privacy of users and organizations. A possible alternative gaining momentum in both the research community and industry is to share synthetic data instead. The idea is to release artificially generated datasets that resemble the actual data -- more precisely, having similar statistical properties. …

The US and the UK sanction a Wuhan-based company linked to the Chinese state-backed hacking group APT31 for targeting critical infrastructure organizations (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

ceo_club: CEO Club Memberships
A bipartite network of the memberships of chief executive officers and the social organizations (clubs) to which they belong, from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Data originally collected by Galaskiewicz in 1985.
This network has 40 nodes and 95 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://

A majority of the Supreme Court appeared deeply skeptical on Tuesday over efforts to curtail access to a widely used abortion pill, calling into question whether a group of anti-abortion doctors and organizations had a right to challenge the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the medication.
Describing the case as an effort by “a handful of individuals,” Justice Neil M. Gorsuch raised whether it would stand as “a prime example of turning what could be a small lawsuit into a nat…

Analysis: the 25 most-cited US news organizations lost 75% of their Facebook engagement and 58% of their Instagram interactions between Q1 2022 and Q1 2024 (Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/4aE21dk

As Meta flees politics, campaigns rely on new tricks to reach voters
Meta’s shift away from politics is forcing campaigns to change their outreach tactics, transforming the 2024 election.

IT leaders think immutable data storage is an insurance policy against ransomware - Help Net Security
Ransomware threats are now understood by organizations to be inevitable. Reports show 1 in 4 organizations that pay a ransom never get their data back, and just 16% are able to recover without paying a ransom.
This reinforces #immutable

IT leaders think immutable data storage is an insurance policy against ransomware - Help Net Security
94% of IT leaders either already rely on immutable data storage or plan to implement it within the next 12 months.

Russia labels RFE/RL an 'undesirable organization': https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/20/russia-labels-rferl.html

revolution: American Revolutionary groups (1765-1783)
A bipartite network of the memberships of notable people and organizations, from the American Revolution (1765-1783) between users and groups on YouTube, extracted from a larger YouTube network in 2007.
This network has 141 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted

Approximately 100 right-wing organizations have signed onto #Project2025, an expansive plan for controlling (and in some cases dismantling) federal agencies in the event that Trump or another Republican wins the presidential election this year.
Many of these organizations are led by #Christian

Shocking Online Manifesto Reveals Project 2025’s Link to a Coordinated ‘Christian Nationalism Project’
“The Statement on Christian Nationalism” seeks to implement a Scripture-based system of government whereby Christ-ordained “civil magistrates” exercise authority over the American public.

X announces Articles, a feature to write and share long-form content with a basic text-editing interface, for verified organizations and Premium subscribers (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/you-can-write-long-fo…

You can write long-form articles on X if you pay for Premium+
X now allows verified organizations and Premium+ subscribers to publish long-form “Articles."

ceo_club: CEO Club Memberships
A bipartite network of the memberships of chief executive officers and the social organizations (clubs) to which they belong, from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Data originally collected by Galaskiewicz in 1985.
This network has 40 nodes and 95 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://

Leonard Leo’s ambitions extend beyond the courts.
Organizations within his network have reportedly funded at least 40 groups advising Project 2025, per NBC News. 
Leo is also linked to
💥Project 2025 💥co-author #Roger #Severino
—VP of 💥Domestic Policy at Heritage💥
—who served as the Director of…

Christian Right Observer Weekly (Volume 12)
CROW's 7 stories on the Christian Right that you need read this week.

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 1429 nodes and 32876 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 3862 nodes and 87324 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted