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Former NASA, Tesla Execs Join Canoo Board of Directors
Canoo Inc., the electric vehicle startup with plans to headquarter in Bentonville, announced the addition of former NASA and Tesla Inc. executives to its board of directors. Deborah Diaz was chief technology officer and deputy chief information officer during her time at NASA. Past roles include chief information officer for science and technology at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Diaz currently serves on the board of directors of Archer Aviation, Primis Financial and ZeroAvia.
UAMS Researchers Discover Potential Alzheimer's Drug
UAMS announced that a team of researchers led by Sue Griffin has discovered a potential new drug to block the harmful effects of the so-called Alzheimer’s gene. The findings, published Jan. 8 in Communications Biology, include discoveries of a druggable target and a drug candidate made by researcher Meenakshisundaram Balasubramaniam, the paper’s first author. The research is supported by a five-year, $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Aging.
Joel Hicks Named President of Baptist Health College
Baptist Health College Little Rock on Tuesday named Joel Hicks as the college’s new president. Hicks is the former dean of the College of Nursing and School of Allied Health at Northwestern State University, based in Natchitoches, Louisiana, a position he held until July 2021. As dean, he oversaw all certificate, undergraduate and graduate programs within the nursing and allied health programs divisions across four campuses.
An Effective Cybersecurity Tool: Empowered Employees (Chris Wright Commentary)
The word “cybercrime” often elicits stereotypical images of a faceless foreign actor hacking into a corporation’s network. Or even scarier, it recalls the hyped-up Terminator-style breach, with individuals deploying artificial intelligence to bypass software’s security controls. To be clear, these attacks can — and do — happen. But in general, today’s cybercrimes are more straightforward and less sophisticated than that.
As Social Media Guardrails Fade and AI Deepfakes Go Mainstream, Experts Warn of Impact on Elections
NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly three years after rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, the false election conspiracy theories that drove the violent attack remain prevalent on social media and cable news: suitcases filled with ballots, late-night ballot dumps, dead people voting. Experts warn it will likely be worse in the coming presidential election contest.
A Cybersecurity Expert’s Top 10 Predictions for 2024 (Chris Wright Commentary)
What do cybercriminals have up their sleeves for 2024? Will it be more of the same or slight iterations of attackers’ go-to tools, such as general phishing scams? Or will the New Year bring “The Terminator” and artificial intelligence (AI)-generated threats like deepfakes? When it comes to cybersecurity, nothing is a sure bet. Attackers are constantly changing their tactics to attempt to breach our systems.
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