Welcome to Hashtag Trending, the Weekend Edition with your host Jim Love.

Earlier this year we did a series on the Metaverse for another podcast series I host with my colleague Doug Sparkes called  a “Deeper Dive.”  That series is still well worth listening to in its entirety, but over past weeks I’ve been thinking a lot about one particular episode we called a “map of the metaverse(s)”

We took the idea from the book Snowcrash, where the term metaverse was first used. In that book, there were multiple countries or city states each with their own rules. They had there own citizenship and rules. Many of them were run by corporations or eccentric rich people who were the “dictators” who ruled those worlds. Sound familiar?

You could travel between them but you did so at some risk. They were tribal and often treated immigrants and travellers with suspicion and

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Cybercrime is still the number one cyber threat to Canadians, according to the latest edition of the government’s national cyber threat report.

In addition, the state-sponsored cyber programs of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea continue to pose the greatest strategic cyber threat to the country, says the report. “Critical infrastructure is still a prime target for both cybercriminals and state-sponsored actors alike.”

Photo of the cover of the National Cyber Threat Assessment 2023-2024 report

It’s part of the updated National Cyber Threat Assessment released today by federal government’s Canadian Center for Cyber Security, part of the Communications Security Establishment (CSE).

The 40-page report covering 2023-2024 says:

      • Ransomware is a persistent threat to Canadian organizations. Cybercrime continues to be the cyber threat activity most likely to affect Canadians and Canadian organizations. Due to its impact on an organization’s ability to function, ransomware is almost certainly the most disruptive form of cybercrime facing Canadians. Cybercriminals deploying ransomware have evolved in a growing and
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One of Ukraine’s cybersecurity leaders was a surprise video guest at BlackBerry’s annual Security Summit on Wednesday, thanking multinational companies for helping the country blunt cyber attacks from Russia and offering tips on cyber resiliency to CISOs.

“We’re lucky we have light,” Victor Zhora told an audience in New York and, by Internet, around the world, as he sat under a lamp in what looked like a room filled with CD albums, “because we have power outages” from Russian missile attacks.

“Unfortunately cyber challenges are not the only ones in our everyday life.”

Zhora was the co-founder of a cybersecurity firm in Ukraine, but is now deputy head of state services for special communications and information protection of Ukraine, a department responsible for defending the country’s digital infrastructure and its cyber incident response team. There are other nine other agencies with cybersecurity mandates.

It was just after 10 p.m. in

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In order to help solve the ongoing energy crisis, the technology industry needs to collaborate, according to Scott Russell, executive board member and leader of customer success at SAP.

“The energy crisis is real. It’s ongoing. It’s not going to be fixed only through dialogue at the geopolitical level, it’s going to be solved through the use of technology and helping connect businesses, helping them to physically be able to address those challenges together,” he insisted.

Scott Russell. Credit: SAP

In the past year or so, countries across Europe have been in the midst of an energy crisis. Europe began to see some problems with energy supply back in 2021. Usually, during the winter months, the EU imports liquefied natural gas from the United States, Latin America, and Russia, but the power grid problems that Texas faced reduced the cargoes of liquefied natural gas during the winter, and on top

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Information TechnologyInformation is the information that has been reworked into output(that’s invaluable to users) by performing some operation on it. We can merely say that Information is processed knowledge.

Ellul, who died in 1994, was the author of a series of books on the philosophy of technology, starting with The Technological Society, revealed in France in 1954 and in English a decade later. His central argument is that we’re mistaken in considering of expertise as merely a bunch of various machines. In reality, Ellul contended, expertise should be seen as a unified entity, an awesome power that has already escaped our management. That drive is popping the world around us into something cold and mechanical, and — whether or not we understand it or not — remodeling human beings along with it.

This means then we’ve to know tips on how to use these gadgets as to their supplied operations, and … Read more

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