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How Women in Tech are rising to the new challenges

CIO Business Intelligence

With emerging technologies like Gen-AI keeping organizations in a flurry of new implementations, a rapidly shifting CIO role, new innovations testing budgets and adaptability of organizations and increasing competition, a competent CIO is the ace that can change the game.

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GeekWire Awards: Sustainable Innovation finalists create, destroy and transform to protect the planet

GeekWire

These companies are creating technologies to generate clean energy from smashed atoms and natural gas, blasting weeds into oblivion, spinning crab shells into clean chemicals, and sucking carbon dioxide gas out of industrial exhaust flues. They create, transform, destroy and remove — all in the name of saving the planet Earth.

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Exposed HMIs: A Direct Pathway for Cyberattacks on Critical Infrastructure

SecureWorld News

Municipal utilities and water treatment plants, constrained by limited budgets and resource shortages, often took shortcuts to enable remote access. Raju warns, "Once attackers gain access, they can do almost anythingforce equipment to exceed safety limits, overflow water tanks, or dangerously alter chemical levels in treatment systems."

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How adopting sustainability as a service can drive business success and help the planet

CIO Business Intelligence

This data can then be combined to provide insights and information to lower energy usage and reduce impact on the environment – for example, by giving notifications of water leaks, chemical spills or exterior doors that are left open. You can solve any problem given enough budget.

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Computer Vision Is Transforming the Transportation Industry, Making It Safer, More Efficient and Improving the Bottom Line

CIO Business Intelligence

As the economy began to turn around, public and private transportation organizations were under pressure to rebound with lower budgets and labor shortages, spurring efforts to find ways to be more efficient. All facets of the transportation industry have seen tremendous loss in revenue and resources over the last few years.

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Turns out that Florida water treatment facility left the doors wide open for hackers

The Verge

By now, you’ve probably heard the theoretically scary story of how hackers managed to infiltrate the computer systems at a water treatment plant in Oldsmar, Florida and remotely control the chemical levels — but it turns out that description gives the hackers far, far too much credit. The reality?

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Albemarle supercharges employee experience with federated automation

CIO Business Intelligence

One of the first things Patrick Thompson (pictured) did on becoming chief information and digital transformation officer of specialty chemicals manufacturer Albemarle in 2017 was to introduce an annual survey to gauge employee attitudes toward services IT staff provides.