May 6, 2022
Security: Apple, Google, and Microsoft will soon implement passwordless sign-in on all major platforms
The Verge
On May 5th — World Password Day — we might have come one step closer to passwords being a thing of the past.

In a joint effort, tech giants Apple, Google, and Microsoft announced Thursday morning that they have committed to building support for passwordless sign-in across all of the mobile, desktop, and browser platforms that they control in the coming year. Effectively, this means that passwordless authentication will come to all major device platforms in the not too distant future: Android and iOS mobile operating systems; Chrome, Edge, and Safari browsers; and the Windows and macOS desktop environments. Read More
Healthcare IT: Stakeholders urge ONC to prioritize patient-generated data in interop efforts
Healthcare IT News
The Connected Health Initiative, a coalition of industry stakeholders, weighed in this past week about a new U.S. Core Data for Interoperability draft from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.

CHI – whose steering committee includes the American Medical Association , among other industry heavy-hitters – urged ONC and other policymakers to adopt frameworks that encourage mobile health innovation and keep sensitive health data secure. Read More
Homeland Security: CISA Director Warns of Threat of ‘Cascading Attacks’ from Russia ‘as War Drags on’
Homeland Security Today
Despite “evolving intelligence about potential plans” that prompted the Department of Homeland Security to warn public- and private-sector entities to put their “shields up” to guard against malicious cyber activity, Russia has not been seen inflicting “specific attacks” on U.S. targets to date during the course of its war on Ukraine, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Director Jen Easterly told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security at a Thursday hearing to discuss CISA’s FY2023 budget request.

But Easterly stressed that CISA is “very concerned that as the war drags on, that there may, in fact, be retaliatory attacks given the very severe sanctions that we have imposed on the Kremlin.” Read More
Transportation: An original Uber, Lyft competitor still trying to build a new rideshare model
CNBC
After a decade during which ultra-low interest rates and abundant market liquidity grew Uber and Lyft into start-up giants and eventual IPOs, the rideshare model is under a great deal of stress.

Even with consumers bouncing back and ride numbers way up from pandemic lows, stocks of both companies are tanking after their latest earnings, and from wage inflation to unionization and gas prices, the current economy is not one that favors their business models. Read More
Human Resources: Demand for hybrid work may be behind record-high attrition
HR Dive
A record number of U.S. workers, more than 4.5 million, quit their jobs in March 2022, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Jobs Openings and Labor Turnover Survey published this week. That figure tops the record-breaking levels BLS recorded last November.

That trend may support Gartner’s projections for the remainder of the year, but there are other signs that the Great Resignation is not yet finished affecting employers’ plans. More than half of respondents to a recent Lattice report who said they had worked for three months or fewer in their new roles said they were actively trying to leave, and 59% of those with three to six months on the job said the same. Read More
Business & Technology: Capture new value from your existing tech infrastructure
Harvard Business Review
When senior managers think about how to respond to the threats and opportunities of technological change, they often dream of the same thing: If they just could start a new company or division that isn’t held back by conventional thinking or outdated business models. But what if they asked themselves instead how they might extract the real value of their technology assets?

That’s what Axiata Groupdid. It leveraged its network assets to help small businesses, including startups, launch over 90,000 services in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh that generated revenues of more than $100 million in 2021 for Axiata. Read More