Killing IT Podcast

Topic 1: Should businesses embrace or avoid social media? Can we talk about “social media” without focusing too much on Elon? I think we all love the concept of the Marketplace of Ideas…but the Internet somehow turns that into silos of…

Topic 1: Hospital Robots Are Helping Combat a Wave of Nurse Burnout Moxi and other delivery-focused assistants have become even more critical as the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed health care workers to their limits. …

Topic 1: Changing language to avoid censors   Topic 2: The rise of the 9pm work hour   Topic 3: Russian Tech Migrating by the Thousands Between 50,000 and 70,000 tech workers have already fled Russia, and 70,000 to 100,000 more could…

Topic 1: Without a federal privacy law… what’s our take?   Keeping up with the Joneses (NSA):  Topic 2: Does Quantum Computing really have a hype problem?     Topic 3: Burrito delivery.. Is here. Or there.  Finally! …

Topic 1: “Return on Character” Exchange Traded Fund focuses on companies run by a character! But, somehow, Tesla and Meta are not part of the index. Perhaps too much character is just too much. Links:   Related article from Harvard on the…

Topic 1: The big switch-off: Workers want a legal right to ignore out of hours emails The majority of employees would support a new law giving them a ‘right to disconnect’ from workplace communications. Links:  Topic 2: TSA allows Arizonians to…

Topic 1: Public Databases Stumble into War in Ukraine Early in the Ukraine invasion, Google Maps and Flight Radar 24 found that their data were being used by the Russians to view auto and air traffic inside Ukraine. We’ve touched on related topics…

Topic 1: Hackers without Borders – Welcome to 21st Century Warfare A new humintarian group emerges in the wake of armed conflicts in Ukraine. Hackers without Borders aim to aid victims of war via the cyberworld.  Topic 2:  Microsoft finds…

Special guest co-host: Topic 1: Texas Sues Meta Over Facial Recognition Texas is suing over past use of facial recognition technology. The suit accuses Facebook of violating the state’s privacy laws by capturing biometric data on tens of millions of…

Topic 1: Fusion Energy Will Save The World (Eventually) The most successful nuclear fusion test shows impressive progress and potential at the JET tokamak reactor in the UK. Link:    Topic 2: Monitoring vs Observability We are quickly…