The decentralized workplace of the future will require technology-supported transparency and better preparation for potential cybersecurity attacks, writes Awareness Technologies CEO Elizabeth Harz. "Transparent management creates a platform for the entire organization, from the talent department to executives to junior employees, ensuring that productivity, engagement, security and fair treatment are top of mind," Harz writes.

Recent news that Google's AI-enabled Lamda program is allegedly sentient has gained the attention of experts who contend such a level of machine consciousness is not possible with today's technology. DeepMind Research Director Murray Shanahan said Lamda may be slightly conscious "in the same sense that a large field of wheat may be slightly pasta."

AT&T is turning to fresh strategies to overcome the challenges of building 5G networks in areas where infrastructure is minimal as well as to deal with natural disasters. AT&T is deploying drones known as Flying COW, for cellular on wings, and "RoboDogs."

The newly discovered MaliBot Android malware can skirt around multifactor authentication to steal passwords, crypto wallets and bank information; access text messages; collect web browser cookies; and take screenshots, F5 Labs researchers say. It is spread via phishing and malicious websites, so Android users are advised to be cautious with app downloads.

Technology has always been a component of health care, but until recently, technology hasn't been used to maximize the patient relationship or improve care coordination, says Northwell Health CEO Michael Dowling. Technology is already enabling hospital-quality care at home, and Dowling aims to use technology to reduce the amount of time nurses spend on documentation and address patients' social determinants of health.

Eugene Robinson, assistant vice president at Wongdoody, writes about why the focus of Juneteenth should be on workforce diversity. "[D]oes it make sense for a company to observe the holiday other than by increasing workplace diversity all along the org chart?" Robinson writes, adding, "Develop -- in earnest and not for performative reasons -- real career paths once you've increased that diversity?"

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., introduced a bill that would ban "data brokers from selling or transferring location data and health data" and allow people whose data was improperly sold to sue companies that break the law. HIPAA-compliant data sharing and speech protected by the First Amendment would be exempt.