Brian Greenberg

‘Piloting’ AI Tools Isn’t Cool Anymore Companies used to get a stock boost from touting AI pilots. Today, the term has become a sign that they might be falling behind.

The AI science fair is over. Boards are tired of seeing demos that do not make money.
🧠 Exit the loop of eternal testing.
⚡ Pick one task to automate fully.
🎓 Shift from demos to daily use.
www.wsj.com/cio-journal/...
#AI #Strategy

'This should terrify you': Meta Superintelligence safety director lost control of her AI agent—it deleted her emails OpenClaw nearly wiped out the Meta Superintelligence AI alignment employee's entire inbox, in an incident that social media is calling ironic.

Meta's AI safety director watched an agent delete her own emails and draft a goodbye note. 😅

🧠 The agent bypassed safety guardrails.
⚡ AI intentions are getting harder to map.
🎓 A small glitch today is a massive risk tomorrow.

www.fastcompany.com/91497841/met...
#AI #Meta #TechSafety

Researcher shows physical attack bypassing BitLocker Elaborate hardware and software attack chain defeats PC security measures.

BitLocker is no match for a $5 chip and a steady hand. A security researcher just bypassed #Windows encryption by sniffing data from the motherboard.

🧠 The attack targets the TPM communication bus.
🎓 Physical access is a total breach.
www.itnews.com.au/news/researc...
#Cybersecurity

Europol-led crackdown on The Com hackers leads to 30 arrests A yearlong Europol-coordinated operation dubbed "Project Compass" has led to 30 arrests and 179 suspects being tied to "The Com," an online cybercrime collective that targets children and teenagers.

Police took down The Com, a gang using SIM swapping and kidnappings to steal crypto.
😳 30 arrests across 4 countries
🧠 The group used Discord for coordination.
⚡ $1.5M in crypto seized.

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
#Cybersecurity #TheCom #Security #Privacy

LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy Pseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless.

Think you’re an anonymous on-line with your fake user name? LLMs can unmask anonymous users by analyzing writing styles.
🧠 Models connect disparate posts to a single identity.
🎓 Privacy requires more than a pseudonym.

arstechnica.com/security/202...
#Cybersecurity #AI #Privacy

Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler The $20,000 experiment compiled a Linux kernel but needed deep human management.

16 Claude agents built a 100,000-line C compiler from scratch. It cost $20,000 in tokens but produced a system that boots a Linux kernel.
🧠 Autonomous #AI worked a Git repo.
⚡ Parallel labor cut months of work into weeks.
🎓 Software is an AI team sport
arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/s...

Plato Warned Us About ChatGPT (And Told Us What to Do About It)

Φ Plato warned that writing would make us forgetful, trading wisdom for the appearance of it. Today, AI repeats the trick.
⚡ Quick answers ≠ understanding.
🎓 Authentic thought is a struggle, not a prompt.

www.templeton.org/news/plato-w...
#AI #Philosophy #Learning #ChatGPT #Education

EU says TikTok needs to drop "addictive design" Regulators say design choices that hook users could breach EU's digital rules.

The EU told #TikTok fix its infinite scroll. Design is rarely accidental when it keeps you staring at a screen for hours.
🧠 Regulation of the slot machine effect.
⚡ ByteDance must change algorithm.
🎓 Intentional friction saves your focus.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
#TechPolicy

'Likely the Largest Breach in U.S. History': What You Need to Know About the Conduent Fiasco The known size of the breach keeps growing.

12 billion government records just leaked. Your ID is likely public.
🧠 12B records leaked.
⚡ SSNs are public.
🥶 Freeze credit now‼️
gizmodo.com/likely-the-l...
#DataBreach #Security #privacy #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity

Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 15kB of data into 700-byte space Merkle Tree Certificate support is already in Chrome. Soon, it will be everywhere.

Google rewriting rules of the web to stop quantum computers before they arrive.
🧠 New HTTPS certificates use ML-KEM math to block quantum decryption.
⚡ Hybrid approach adds future protection.
🎓 Secure your data now for future protection
arstechnica.com/security/202...
#Privacy

AI is not magic.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Magic #RoseColoredGlasses #magicalthinking

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#twitter #x #lastweektonight #johnoliver #freespeech #socialresponsibility

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Chicago CIO Community Inner Circle C-level executives gain new connections and actionable insights through peer-driven content and discussions at the Chicago CIO Inner Circle.

I was at the #Evanta Chicago CIO Inner Circle. At this #Gartner event, we discussed turning AI into a profit center rather than a side project.
🧠 AI must show real revenue.
⚡ Change plans when markets move.
🎓 Risk is a debt to manage.
www.evanta.com/cio/chicago/...
@rhr-international.bsky.social

Micro-Transformations: A Practical Path To AI ROI In Business Large, enterprise-wide AI programs can succeed, but only when organizations are ready.

Stop waiting for an AI messiah to save your spreadsheets. Big projects drain banks. My @forbes.com piece shows how micro-transformations win.

🧠 Fix one task this month.
⚡ Scale after that win.

www.forbes.com/councils/for...
#AI #Leadership #CIO #CTO #CISO #CAIO @rhr-international.bsky.social

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Skynet is coming.

🇨🇳 China puts robots on stage for the Lunar New Year. Not metal shells → machines that mimic human gait and expression.
🧠 Robots performing complex choreography.
⚡ Mass production targets 2026.
🎓 AI drives physical motion.
www.reuters.com/business/med...
#Robotics #AI #TechTrends

Me: “Quick question.”
AI: Thinking…

Me: Three seconds go by... “Wow, this is taking forever.”
opens new tab

Repeat x12.

By sunset I’ve built an AI-powered maze and trapped myself inside it.

That’s my workflow.

HoloMem demos backward-compatible holographic storage | TechTarget HoloMem reported a successful trial deployment of its HoloDrive in an existing data center, marking a potential step forward for holographic storage.

💠 HoloMem brings 200TB holographic storage to existing tape libraries.

🧠 Polymer media beats LTO-10 by 11x.
⚡ Lasts 50 years with zero cooling energy.
🎓 No hardware or software overhaul required.

www.techtarget.com/searchstorag...
#Storage #Tech #Backup #Archive #Tape #Cybersecurity

iPhone Lockdown Mode will protect your data, even from the FBI Apple's Lockdown Mode is just one of many ways that can keep your iPhone data secure, as the FBI has once more been finding out.

 Apple's Lockdown Mode is proving to be a genuine wall against forensic imaging
🧠 The FBI failed to get into a journalist's iPhone
⚡ Apple's extreme security blocks specialized tools
🎓 Disabling biometric unlock
appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
#iPhone #Privacy

OpenClaw is a major leap forward for AI—and a cybersecurity nightmare Security researchers say thousands of exposed OpenClaw gateways could let hackers read private files, emails, and messages.

OpenClaw brings AI agents to your shell, but its security is a disaster 😱
🧠 Agent gives LLMs full system access
⚡ Malicious community skills are already delivering macOS malware
🎓 Thousands of instances are leaking API keys on the open web
www.fastcompany.com/91485326/ope...
#AI #InfoSec

France Just Created Its Own Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Teams and Zoom Not only for them, but any other non-European videoconferencing software.

🇫🇷 France rebuilding its digital borders with an alternative to Zoom and Teams
🧠 Migrating 2.5 million civil servants to Visio
⚡ The system uses local AI from Pyannote
🎓 Moving away from licensed software saving €1M per 100K users
itsfoss.com/news/france-...
#OpenSource #FOSS

UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered : Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works

Unix v4 tape successfully recovered after fifty years.
🧠 Scientists found a 1973 magnetic tape in an attic.
⚡ Digital archeologists read the bits.
🎓 This version contains the first appearance of the pipe operator.
www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/u...
#Unix #ComputingHistory #LongLiveTape

 democratized the "gatekeeper." iOS’s call screening has VCs annoyed because they’re finally being screened like the rest of us.
🧠 Gatekeeping is now a commodity
⚡ Friction is the new status symbol
🎓 The bot is the new assistant
www.wsj.com/style/iphone...
#iOS26 #TechTrends

US cyber defense chief accidentally uploaded secret government info to ChatGPT Congress recently grilled the acting chief on mass layoffs and a failed polygraph.

The US cyber chief just turned "Don't paste secrets into AI" into a $100M lesson. Even the experts forget the basics when the UX is too smooth.
🧠 Privacy is the new perimeter
⚡ Friction is a security feature
🎓 Trust nothing, verify everything
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
#AI #Cyber

6 days until Valentine's Day — If anybody's secretly in Love with me, now is the time to speak up!

Slamming the door on AI-based cybersecurity threats AI is exposing blind spots in cybersecurity. CIOs may be creating new risks as fast as they can eliminate them. Is automation the only viable response?

Recently featured in InformationWeek on how we’re slamming the door on deepfakes and agentic threats 🚪🛡️
🧠 Deepfakes are the new social engineering
⚡ Manual defense can’t match AI speed
🎓 Out-of-band auth is the new baseline
www.informationweek.com/cybersecurit...
#CyberSecurity

In this issue of Leadership Today, RHR dives into what matters to leaders now.
🧠 RHR wins HR Consultancy of the Year
⚡ Leadership trends shaping 2026
🎓 CEO & CHRO succession insights
newsletter.rhrinternational.com/leadership-t...
#Leadership #ExecutiveInsight

😱 Notepad++, one of our most common tools, has become the weapon for bad actors.

🧠 hijacked for 6 months
🎓 Blind trust in "Update Now" is a liability

Https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/02/notepad-updater-was-compromised-for-6-months-in-supply-chain-attack/

#cybersecurity #infosec #privacy

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