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Predictions 2024: It’s All About The Data

John Battelle's Searchblog

IP holders – artists, newspapers, craftspeople – will press their lawsuits and infuse the market with uncertainty and hesitancy. AI is driven by data, and as a society we’re not particularly good at structuring, governing, or sharing data. But stress fractures are inevitable as market forces shift.

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Some Cybersecurity Startups Still Attract Funding Despite Headwinds

eSecurity Planet

With the plunge in tech stocks and the freeze in the IPO market, the funding environment for cybersecurity startups has come under pressure. Despite those headwinds, there are some interesting deals getting done in the cybersecurity market. They saw an opportunity in the public cloud data security market.

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Predictions Review: Trump, Zuck Crush My Optimism In 2019

John Battelle's Searchblog

This past year, I predicted the fall of both Zuck and Trump, not to mention the triumph of cannabis and rationale markets. Nearly 10 million people were displaced by climate change in 2019. And way will a founding CEO get taken down a notch in that scenario, ridiculous governance structures be dammed. Damn, was I wrong.

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Predictions 2019: Stay Stoney, My Friends.

John Battelle's Searchblog

I’ve written about this at length elsewhere, so I will just summarize: Facebook’s only salvation is through a new system of governance. Because of this, unhappily, we’ll end up governed by both GDPR and California’s homespun privacy law , neither of which actually force the kind of change we really need.

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Predictions 2021: Disinformation, SPACs, Africa, Facebook, and a Return to Tech Optimism

John Battelle's Searchblog

The company’s own employees are increasingly uncomfortable with their leadership, and its consumers and marketing partners are increasingly looking for alternatives to a platform they see as toxic and unwilling to change. I’m generally inclined to be optimistic, but rose-colored glasses stretch time. AI has a mid-life crisis.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in December 2019 – 627 million records breached

IT Governance

Hackers break into government system used by the country’s schools (unknown). Chinese government-linked hacking group has been bypassing 2FA in a wave of attacks (unknown). East Greenwich, RI, government systems offline after ransomware attack (unknown). Galt, CA, government suffers ransomware attack (unknown).

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Predictions 2018: How I Did. (Pretty Damn Well, Turns Out)

John Battelle's Searchblog

Score: 10/10. A tanking stock market that has lost all faith in the President’s leadership. Score: 10/10. I love writing this post, and thankfully you all love reading it as well. What’s that about, anyway? Is it the spectacle of watching a guy admit he got things wrong? Cheering when I get it right?