Collaborate Disseminate
If you think your data rates suck, take pity on New Horizons. The space probe, which gave us lovely pictures of the hapless one-time planet Pluto after its 2015 flyby, continued to plunge and explore other, smaller objects in the Kuiper belt. In January of 2019, New Horizons zipped …read more
“The material value of e-waste alone is worth $62.5 billion, three times more than the annual output of the world’s silver mines and more than the GDP of most countries.” Continue reading The World Economic Forum Tells Davos: Electronics Are ‘the Fastest-Growing Waste Stream in the World’
Billionaire Michael Dell was caught apparently unaware that the top marginal tax rate in the US used to be as high, and higher, than what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has proposed. Continue reading Davos Erupts in Laughter at the Notion of Tech Billionaire Paying More Taxes
The risk that cyber crime poses to the global economy is no new subject at Davos. It has been a key issue in the past, right up there with market turmoil, climate change, wealth and income inequality and the rise of automation for several years no… Continue reading A New Global Centre for Cyber Security Announced at WEF Davos
The U.S. government’s ability to collaborate with the private sector on cybersecurity matters has improved in recent years in part because of better relations with the “next generation” of Silicon Valley leaders, according to former Defense Secretary Ashton Carter. Carter, who spoke Friday as part of a panel at the World Economic Forum conference in Davos, Switzerland, said in broad terms that the federal government had been stifled from creating a safer internet because of a poor relationship with technology companies. He seemed to suggest, however, that the complex relationship between national security agencies and the private sector has turned a corner in recent years after a prolonged period of heightened tension spurred by Edward Snowden’s 2013 disclosures of classified U.S. surveillance programs. “The cyber world grew up in what we now call the tech environment, which was militantly independent of government. And that was a great culture in a lot of ways. I am […]
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The World Economic Forum announced plans Wednesday to launch a new coordinating group to counter emerging cybersecurity threats and help connect leaders from business and government to collaborate on various security issues as well as share best practices. Named the “Global Centre for Cybersecurity,” the loosely defined, Geneva-based organization will act as a sort of independent, multinational cyberthreat information sharing platform for companies to improve digital security writ large, explained Alois Zwinggi, managing director for the WEF, which is holding its annual gathering for world leaders in Davos, Switzerland, this week. The center will become fully operational in March. Its creation was first announced during a panel discussion Wednesday in Davos. Broadly speaking, governments across the globe have struggled to form information sharing channels with private companies. The model described at Davos is intended to encourage participation on a voluntary basis and not be controlled by any single government. “The new […]
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