Upskilling ramps up as gen AI forces enterprises to transform
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About Maria Korolov
Maria Korolov is an award-winning tech journalist who covers cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and extended reality.
She’s also a science fiction author and the editor and founder of MetaStellar, an online magazine of speculative fiction, and of Hypergrid Business, one of the world’s top virtual reality blogs.
Contact her at maria@korolov.com to pitch articles or to hire her as writer, editor, or speaker at your event.
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Latest AI articles
The state of ransomware: Faster, smarter, and meaner
Ransomware payments hit $1.1 billion in 2023, a record high and twice what they were in 2022. The frequency, scope and volume of attacks were all up, as was the number of independent groups conducting the attacks, according to a report by Chainalysis. “We’re tracking dozens more groups than we used to,” Chris Morgan, senior cyber threat intelligence analyst at ReliaQuest, tells CSO. “And a lot of these groups are taking…
5 data center predictions: Surging demand and tighter rules squeeze operations
Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection
Upskilling ramps up as gen AI forces enterprises to transform
Latest quantum computing articles
Commercial quantum networks inch closer to primetime
As commercial availability of quantum computers moves closer to reality, researchers and vendors are investing in efforts to create quantum-secured networks. Quantum networks use entangled photons or other particles to ensure secure communications, but they are not, in and of themselves, used for general communication. Quantum networks are expensive and slow. And though nobody can listen in on the messages without breaking the entanglement of the photons, hackers can still…
What is quantum cryptography? It’s no silver bullet, but could improve security
A New Type of Network Is on the Rise to Combat the Quantum Threat to Encryption
8 old technologies that still play roles in security
Latest Cybersecurity articles
Assessing and quantifying AI risk: A challenge for enterprises
Artificial intelligence can help businesses through automation or by improving existing tasks, but like any technology it comes with risks if not managed well. For those businesses that decided to build their own AI or buy software that has AI embedded in it, assessing its risks is an important step to ensuring compliance and data security. The explosion of generative AI adoption has magnified those and new emerging risks. Generative…
3 strategies that can help stop ransomware before it becomes a crisis
Hybrid mesh firewall platforms gain interest as management challenges intensify
Why API attacks are increasing and how to avoid them
Latest Networking articles
5 data center predictions: Surging demand and tighter rules squeeze operations
Five key data center trends will impact operators in the coming year, according to the Uptime Institute. The research firm highlighted the top trends – which include tougher sustainability regulations, supply chain impacts from AI, and liquid cooling adoption – in a report released earlier this month. Together these conditions are not only driving innovation but also increasing infrastructure complexity, the institute’s researchers said. Data centers will have to balance reliability, efficiency, emerging technologies,…
Enterprises turn to single-vendor SASE for ease of manageability
NTT, Palo Alto partner for managed SASE with AIOps
Pros and cons of managed SASE
What to expect from SASE certifications
IT supply issues have organizations shifting from just-in-time to just-in-case buying
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older Awards and Appearances
Jan. 2018: Maria Korolov talks with Sine Wave about “Succeeding As A Retailer In Immersive Worlds.”
Dec. 2017: Speaker at Stereopsia conference in Brussels, Belgium. Topic was women in virtual reality. Click here for slides.
Dec. 2017: Speaker at OpenSimulator Community Conference. Topic was a statistical overview of OpenSim development. Click here for slides.
Apr. 2017: Profiled in Viar360’s Women of VR – 35 Ladies Who Are Killing It In Virtual Reality
Aug. 2016: Mentioned in Marie Claire’s Virtual Reality Has a Female Mafia—and They’re Looking for New Recruits
May 2016: Interviewed by the BCC about how virtual reality will change our lives. Listen to the broadcast here. Read the transcript here.
Sep. 2015: Mentioned in Fortune’s Meet the women shaping our virtual future.
Latest Blog Posts
I am putting together a writers’ Mastermind group, to meet Sunday mornings via conference calls, such as Skype or Facebook video. You can read my…
I use Google Docs. I tried a lot of other platforms — Word, Filemaker, Coda, and a bunch of others — but I like…
The Lost King of Krim, a novella of the Krim virtual world, is out on Amazon and other booksellers. Meanwhile, the series prequel, Krim Times,…
If you have a small business, and need a website where you can post your hours and contact information, some pictures, and a few articles,…
As an editor of a couple of different niche online publications, and a writer for some major tech magazines, I get dozens of unsolicited content…
In case you’re wondering what I’ve been doing with myself now that I’m not blogging about OpenSim as much, here’s an update. First, I’m super…