Episode #206: LF Open Source Maintainers Report; MS Discloses OT Vulnerabilities; 4 Step Guidance for Using ChatGPT; This Day in Tech History

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Edwin Kwan: The LF Open Source Maintainers Report

🇦🇺 Edwin Kwan, Sydney, Australia ↗

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/research/open-source-maintainers

Linux Foundation research found that our technology infrastructure relies heavily on a few hundred open source projects. The maintainers of those projects bear a tremendous burden, as their projects are responsible for much of the global economy and disruptions to their project can cause massive problems and outages.

Katy Craig: Microsoft Discloses OT Vulnerabilities

🇺🇸 Katy Craig, San Diego, California ↗

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/08/10/multiple-high-severity-vulnerabilities-in-codesys-v3-sdk-could-lead-to-rce-or-dos/

Germany-based industrial automation software provider, Codesys, faces a security crisis. Microsoft researchers have uncovered over a dozen vulnerabilities in its products that could lead to remote takeover or denial of service for millions of industrial control systems.

Hillary Coover: 4 Step Guidance for Using ChatGPT

🇺🇸 Hillary Coover, Washington, DC ↗

https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-fever-spreads-us-workplace-sounding-alarm-some-2023-08-11/

According to a recent Reuters poll, 28% of American workers claim to use ChatGPT regularly for work. Chatbot input data is similar to browser history data in that both are discoverable and, with the right datasets correlated, can be deanonymized.

Marcel Brown: This Day, August 13, 14, in Tech History

🇺🇸 Marcel Brown, St. Louis, Missouri ↗

http://thisdayintechhistory.com/08/13

http://thisdayintechhistory.com/08/14

August 13th, 1993. The Super NES version brought Street Fighter II into the home and uh, college dorm rooms where certain people spent many hours smacking down their dorm mates. I still have this game, so if anyone is feeling saucy, the smack downs can resume at any time.