Podcast appearances and mentions of Michael Weiner

The three Passion in Science Award winners in the Category of Arts and Creativity joined us in the studio to talk about their art and what initiated its creation. Sam Siljee shares his soundscapes, Sally Kong describes her weaving patterns, and Michael Weiner his details his uniquely scientific large-scale portraits.

Los Angeles residents are panicking over copper wire thieves knocking out their phone service and leaving them with the bill. Over the last few months, Hacienda Heights neighbors have lost most of their landline services after thieves have been tampering with utility poles and other parts of the city infrastructure. Seventy-nine-year-old Michael Weiner told the Los Angeles Times that he's still been receiving bills from his phone company, Frontier Communications, despite not being able to get a dial tone for six months. Moreover, he and his neighbors haven't been receiving updates on repairs.

In this episode of the Becker's Healthcare Podcast, Scott Becker interviews Dr. Michael Weiner, Chief Medical Officer at Michigan State University. Dr. Weiner shares his insights on the evolving landscape of healthcare, the strategic focus on primary care and remote patient monitoring, and offers valuable advice for emerging leaders in the medical field.

GOP candidates Michael Weiner, Nicole Tobiassen and John Morton talk about the issues facing New Mexico on News Radio KKOBSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The OpenAI corporate drama came to a sudden end last week. So sudden, in fact, that the pundits never quite figured out What It All Means. Jim Dempsey and Michael Nelson take us through some of the possibilities. It was all about AI accelerationists v. decelerationists. Or it was all about effective altruism. Or maybe it was Sam Altman's slippery ambition. Or perhaps a new AI breakthrough – a model that can actually do more math than the average American law student. The one thing that seems clear is that the winners include Sam Altman and Microsoft, while the losers include illusions about using corporate governance to engage in AI governance. The Google antitrust trial is over – kind of. Michael Weiner tells us that all the testimony and evidence has been gathered on whether Google is monopolizing search, but briefs and argument will take months more – followed by years more fighting about remedy if Google is found to have violated the antitrust laws. He sums up the issues in dispute and makes a bold prediction about the outcome, all in about ten minutes. Returning to AI, Jim and Michael Nelson dissect the latest position statement from Germany, France, and Italy. They see it as a repudiation of the increasingly kludgey AI Act pinballing its way through Brussels, and a big step in the direction of the “light touch” AI regulation that is mostly being adopted elsewhere around the globe. I suggest that the AI Act be redesignated the OBE Act in recognition of how thoroughly and frequently it's been overtaken by events. Meanwhile, cyberwar is posing an increasing threat to civil aviation. Michael Ellis covers the surprising ways in which GPS spoofing has begun to render even redundant air navigation tools unreliable. Iran and Israel come in for scrutiny. And it won't be long before Russia and Ukraine develop similarly disruptive drone and counterdrone technology. It turns out, Michael Ellis reports, that Russia is likely ahead of the U.S. in this war-changing technology.  Jim brings us up to date on the latest cybersecurity amendments from New York's department of financial services. On the whole, they look incremental and mostly sensible. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) is digging deep into his Golden Oldies collection, sending a letter to the White House expressing shock to have discovered a law enforcement data collection that the New York Times (and the rest of us) discovered in 2013. The program in question allows law enforcement to get call data but not content from AT&T with a subpoena. The only surprise is that AT&T has kept this data for much more than the industry-standard two or three years and that federal funds have helped pay for the storage. Michael Nelson, on his way to India for cyber policy talks, touts that nation's creative approach to the field, as highlighted in Carnegie's series on India and technology. He's less impressed by the UK's enthusiasm for massive new legislative initiatives on technology. I think this is Prime Minister Rishi Sunak trying to show that Brexit really did give the UK new running room to the right of Brussels on data protection and law enforcement authority. Download 483rd Episode (mp3) You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@gmail.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of their institutions, clients, friends, families, or pets.

The OpenAI corporate drama came to a sudden end last week. So sudden, in fact, that the pundits never quite figured out What It All Means. Jim Dempsey and Michael Nelson take us through some of the possibilities. It was all about AI accelerationists v. decelerationists. Or it was all about effective altruism. Or maybe it was Sam Altman's slippery ambition. Or perhaps a new AI breakthrough – a model that can actually do more math than the average American law student. The one thing that seems clear is that the winners include Sam Altman and Microsoft, while the losers include illusions about using corporate governance to engage in AI governance. The Google antitrust trial is over – kind of. Michael Weiner tells us that all the testimony and evidence has been gathered on whether Google is monopolizing search, but briefs and argument will take months more – followed by years more fighting about remedy if Google is found to have violated the antitrust laws. He sums up the issues in dispute and makes a bold prediction about the outcome, all in about ten minutes. Returning to AI, Jim and Michael Nelson dissect the latest position statement from Germany, France, and Italy. They see it as a repudiation of the increasingly kludgey AI Act pinballing its way through Brussels, and a big step in the direction of the “light touch” AI regulation that is mostly being adopted elsewhere around the globe. I suggest that the AI Act be redesignated the OBE Act in recognition of how thoroughly and frequently it's been overtaken by events. Meanwhile, cyberwar is posing an increasing threat to civil aviation. Michael Ellis covers the surprising ways in which GPS spoofing has begun to render even redundant air navigation tools unreliable. Iran and Israel come in for scrutiny. And it won't be long before Russia and Ukraine develop similarly disruptive drone and counterdrone technology. It turns out, Michael Ellis reports, that Russia is likely ahead of the U.S. in this war-changing technology.  Jim brings us up to date on the latest cybersecurity amendments from New York's department of financial services. On the whole, they look incremental and mostly sensible. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) is digging deep into his Golden Oldies collection, sending a letter to the White House expressing shock to have discovered a law enforcement data collection that the New York Times (and the rest of us) discovered in 2013. The program in question allows law enforcement to get call data but not content from AT&T with a subpoena. The only surprise is that AT&T has kept this data for much more than the industry-standard two or three years and that federal funds have helped pay for the storage. Michael Nelson, on his way to India for cyber policy talks, touts that nation's creative approach to the field, as highlighted in Carnegie's series on India and technology. He's less impressed by the UK's enthusiasm for massive new legislative initiatives on technology. I think this is Prime Minister Rishi Sunak trying to show that Brexit really did give the UK new running room to the right of Brussels on data protection and law enforcement authority. Download 483rd Episode (mp3) You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@gmail.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of their institutions, clients, friends, families, or pets.

Michael Weiner, Chief Medical Officer at MSU Health Care joins the podcast to discuss his background, his focus on quality care & patient experience, how his organization will evolve over the next couple years, and one change that he or his team has made that yielded great results.

Michael Weiner, Chief Medical Officer at MSU Health Care joins the podcast to discuss his background, his focus on quality care & patient experience, how his organization will evolve over the next couple years, and one change that he or his team has made that yielded great results.

Michael Weiner, Chief Medical Officer at MSU Health Care joins the podcast to discuss his background, his focus on quality care & patient experience, how his organization will evolve over the next couple years, and one change that he or his team has made that yielded great results.

Michael Weiner, Chief Medical Officer at MSU Health Care joins the podcast to discuss his background, his focus on quality care & patient experience, how his organization will evolve over the next couple years, and one change that he or his team has made that yielded great results.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve the experimental dementia drug Lecanemab as soon as this week, a move embraced by Alzheimer's disease researchers after trials showed it slowed the progression of the disease in some patients with mild cognitive impairment. The new potential therapy is also raising hopes that it could help those who are symptom-free but have brain changes -- detected by new blood tests -- that signal Alzheimer's. We'll talk about the latest advances in Alzheimer's research. Guests: Dr. Adam Boxer, endowed professor in memory and aging and professor of neurology, UCSF - He directs UCSF's Neurosciences Clinical Research Unit and the Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Degeneration Clinical Trials Program at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center. Dr. Kristine Yaffe, professor of psychiatry, neurology and epidemiology, UCSF - She also directs UCSF's Center for Population Brain Health. Dr. Michael Weiner, professor of radiology, UCSF - principal investigator of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features Dr. Michael Weiner, Pediatric Oncologist & Executive Director of Philanthropy for the Dave Cantin Group's DCG GIVING. Here, he discusses current trends in pediatric oncology, his role at DCG, how pediatric oncology has evolved, and more.

This episode features Dr. Michael Weiner, Pediatric Oncologist & Executive Director of Philanthropy for the Dave Cantin Group. Here, he discusses current trends in pediatric oncology, his role at DCG, how pediatric oncology has evolved, and more.

Brian breaks down the process and intentions behind arranging and orchestrating Neil Diamond's catalog for the stage. If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! ABOUT BRIAN USIFER Brian Usifer is a New York City based music director, pianist, orchestrator/arranger, producer and composer. Most recently, he was the Music Director of Disney's Frozen on Broadway. He is currently the Associate Music Supervisor of The Book of Mormon on Broadway. Prior to that he was the Music Director of Kinky Boots on Broadway, which won 6 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Orchestrations. The cast recording won the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album and the West End production won an Olivier Award for Best Musical. He was the Associate Music Supervisor as well for Kinky Boots on Tour, London and in Toronto. Brian has played in the Broadway and off-Broadway orchestras of …Spelling Bee, Avenue Q, Altar Boyz and The Book of Mormon. Other theatre credits also include Chess at the Kennedy Center and more than 5 years of regional theatre including Follies at Barrington Stage Co. Concerts include Bobby and Kristen Lopez: American Songbook at Lincoln Center and Clay Aiken “Tried and True DVD,” for PBS. As an orchestrator, Brian's projects have included The Heart of Rock and Roll featuring the catalog of Huey Lewis at the Old Globe, Swept Away with music by the Avett Brothers at Berkeley Rep, Mr. Chickee's Funny Money with music by Motown legend Lamont Dozier at The Atlantic Theatre, May We All featuring the music of Florida Georgia Line and other country stars, Into the Wild by Niko Tsakalakos and Janet Allard, A View From The River by Will Van Dyke and Jeff Talbott, Fantasy Football: the Musical?, by David Ingber, Pool Boy by Niko Tsakalakos and Janet Allard, The UnCivil War by Rick Kunzi, Barnstormer by Douglas Cohen and The First Snow by Niko Tsakalakos. Shows in development include Hearts Beat Loud featuring music by Niko Tsakalakos with a book by Ngozi Anyanwu, Galileo featuring music by Zoe Sarnak and Michael Weiner with a book by Danny Strong, and A Beautiful Noise featuring the catalog of Neil Diamond opening on Broadway in December 2022 On TV, he wrote additional orchestrations for NBC's Annie Live, The Wiz Live, and can be heard as a pianist on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon. As a composer, Brian's latest project is a songwriting collaboration with Colin Donnell called The Nineteen Twenty. Their album, Chaos + Cocktails, is available for sale on iTunes and everywhere music streams. As a producer: The First Snow, Archetype, Chaos + Cocktails, May We All He holds a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from SUNY Fredonia and a Masters degree in Collaborative Piano from NYU and a Specialist Certificate in Orchestration from Berklee Online. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: A Beautiful Noise on Instagram: instagram.com/abeautifulnoisemusical A Beautiful Noise on Facebook: facebook.com/ABeautifulNoiseMusical Get Your Tickets: abeautifulnoisethemusical.com brianusifer.com @thenineteentwenty --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork YouTube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Renowned pediatric oncologist Dr. Michael Weiner joins us for a special episode of Automotive Authorities to highlight the work done so far by DCG Giving. Dr. Weiner is the vice-chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York Presbyterian Hospital. He's not only a leading medical specialist, he's also a published author, and he has decades of experience in nonprofit leadership.Dr. Weiner talks to Derek D about DCG Giving's origins, his longtime personal connection with founder Dave Cantin, the organization's important mission to fight pediatric cancer at the community level, and most critically, how you can get involved.DCG GivingEpisode Highlights:The nationwide group that DCG Giving is partnered with, and why that affiliation is so importantHow automotive dealerships can contribute to the battle against childhood cancers, and how to keep it up in the long termWhy a local focus is central to effective charitable action“It's important to know that your gift is going to help children in your community.”— Dr. Michael Weiner|| Dealer News Today is a DCG Media production

Episode SummaryPhilip-Michael Weiner co-founded recapture carbon in 2017 together with Trey Pringle. They are convinced that climate change is not a scientific problem but rather a systems problem caused by behaviour. Therefore, they combine multiple solutions and act as a project developer pursuing the first-ever systems-designed approach to Carbon Removal. In this episode, we discuss barriers to technological solutions, what is necessary to remove 100 billion tons of CO₂ from the atmosphere by mid-century to avoid the worst effects of global warming and the crucial role of design.What we talk abouthow carbon can be removed from the atmosphere while earning a positive return,what risks big companies face if they don't have a strategy for technological removal as part of their financial framework,scenarios for large emitters' 'race to zero',the role of a designerly way of "thinking in systems" to accelerate change and positively influence people's behaviour. About Philip-Michael WeinerPhilip-Michael is a full-stack designer, award-winning company builder, and creative director who has spent the last decade creating some of the most impactful products in the food, technology, and consumer industry.He has worked with companies of all sizes worldwide, including brands like  Carbon War Room, Rocky Mountain Institute, Rockefeller Foundation, Virgin Unite, and Richard Branson's personal projects as well as collaborating with disruptive startups in Silicon Valley. Philip-Michael is driven by taking a systems approach to growing companies' impact through behavior change and meaningful, enduring design. His products have been showcased at the Museum of Design in Barcelona and in books such as 99 Designs for Life.In 2017 he co-founded recapture carbon, a company addressing large carbon-emitting organizations to remove carbon from the atmosphere while earning a positive return. Resources mentionedrecapture's Net Zero Seriesrecapture's Report about Fortune 500 GHG Emissions  for FY2019Verra Carbon RegistryPanel Discussion on Youtube  moderated by Mike Teague at ONEOKMission ZeroClimeworks100% Human at Work ProjectConnect with recapture carbonWebsite of recapture carbonMore episodes like thisThank you for joining the Naturally Innovative Podcast! Don't miss out on new episode releases on Instagram.If you enjoyed this episode please share, subscribe and review it, so more people can find this podcast and be inspired by the stories my guests shared!For any kind of feedback, feel free to connect with me on Instagram or LinkedIn! 

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CME credits: 0.25 Valid until: 15-04-2023 Claim your CME credit at https://reachmd.com/programs/cme/alzheimers-disease-tools-for-early-diagnosis/13288/ Are you familiar with available and developing tools for assessing Alzheimer's disease (AD)? Correctly using these tools can lead to a vital earlier diagnosis which can improve outcomes for our patients. Tune in to hear Dr. Richard Isaacson and Dr. Michael Weiner take us through some of these assessment tools and they ways in which they can help us reach a true diagnosis of AD.

CME credits: 0.25 Valid until: 15-04-2023 Claim your CME credit at https://reachmd.com/programs/cme/alzheimers-disease-tools-for-early-diagnosis/13288/ Are you familiar with available and developing tools for assessing Alzheimer's disease (AD)? Correctly using these tools can lead to a vital earlier diagnosis which can improve outcomes for our patients. Tune in to hear Dr. Richard Isaacson and Dr. Michael Weiner take us through some of these assessment tools and they ways in which they can help us reach a true diagnosis of AD.

Your host Peter Hunt chats with Michael Weiner who is the President and CEO of United Way of Buffalo and Erie County. During the show, Peter and Michal chat about giving back to the local community and how the pandemic has affected fundraising efforts. Listen to the full episode to hear what else they talked about! 

Just one week of antitrust litigation news shows how much turbulence Facebook and Google are encountering. Michael Weiner gives us a remarkably compact summary of the many issues, from deeply historical (Facebook's purchase of Instagram) to cutting edge tech (complaints about Oculus self-preferencing). In all, he brings us current on two state attorney general cases, two Federal Trade Commission cases and one Department of Justice case against the twin giants of surveillance advertising.  Speaking of litigation, no major new technology has been greeted with more litigation in its infancy than face recognition. So this week we interview Hoan Ton-That, CEO of what must be the most controversial tech startup in decades—Clearview AI. We probe deeply into face recognition's reputation for bias, and what the company is doing about it. Hoan is clearly taking the controversy in stride and confident that the technology will overcome efforts to turn it toxic. Meanwhile, I note, the debate is clearing out what would have been formidable competition from the likes of Microsoft, Amazon and IBM.  If you think face recognition should be banned as racist, sexist and inaccurate, this interview will make you think. Meanwhile, David Kris notes, rumors of war are rampant on the Russian-Ukrainian border—and in cyberspace. So far, it's a bit of a phony cyberwar, featuring web defacing and dormant file wipers. But it could blow up at any time, and we may be surprised how much damage can be done with a keyboard.  Speaking of damage done with a keyboard, open source software is showing how much damage can be done without even trying (although some developers are in fact trying pretty hard). Nick Weaver and I dig into the Log4j and other messes, and the White House effort to head off future open source debacles.  David is in charge of good news this week. It looks as though Russia has arrested a bunch of REvil co-conspirators, including one person that the White House holds responsible for the Colonial Pipeline attack. It's surely not a coincidence that this hint of cooperation from Vladimir Putin comes when he'd very much like to have leverage on the Biden administration over Ukraine. The EU is now firmly committed to cutting off the continent from a host of technologies offered, often free, by Silicon Valley. Google Analytics is out, according to Austrian authorities, even if this means accusing the European Parliament of violating European law. Nick reminds us that this isn't all the services that could be cut off. Google Translate also depends on transatlantic data flows and could become unavailable in Europe. I offer an incendiary solution to that problem.  Secure messaging is still under attack, but this week it's European governments taking the shots. The UK government is planning an ad campaign against end-to-end encryption, and Germany is growling about shutting down Telegram for allowing hate speech. Nick issues a heartfelt complaint about the disingenuity of both sides in the crypto debate. Speaking of Germans who can't live up to their reputation on protecting privacy, Nick notes that German police did exactly what Gapple feared, using a coronavirus contact-tracing app to find potential witnesses. Meanwhile, in good news, let's not forget Twitter, whose woke colonialism led it to suspend Nigeria's president for threatening secessionists with war. Turns out it was easier to go to war with Twitter, which has now unconditionally surrendered to the Nigerian government.  Finally, I claim kinship with Joe Rogan as one of the podcasters that bien pensant NGOs and academics hope to censor. My plan is to create a joint defense fund to which Joe and I will each contribute one percent of our podcasting revenues. Download the 390th Episode (mp3)  You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@steptoe.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of their institutions, clients, friends, families, or pets.

Just one week of antitrust litigation news shows how much turbulence Facebook and Google are encountering. Michael Weiner gives us a remarkably compact summary of the many issues, from deeply historical (Facebook's purchase of Instagram) to cutting edge tech (complaints about Oculus self-preferencing). In all, he brings us current on two state attorney general cases, two Federal Trade Commission cases and one Department of Justice case against the twin giants of surveillance advertising.  Speaking of litigation, no major new technology has been greeted with more litigation in its infancy than face recognition. So this week we interview Hoan Ton-That, CEO of what must be the most controversial tech startup in decades—Clearview AI. We probe deeply into face recognition's reputation for bias, and what the company is doing about it. Hoan is clearly taking the controversy in stride and confident that the technology will overcome efforts to turn it toxic. Meanwhile, I note, the debate is clearing out what would have been formidable competition from the likes of Microsoft, Amazon and IBM.  If you think face recognition should be banned as racist, sexist and inaccurate, this interview will make you think. Meanwhile, David Kris notes, rumors of war are rampant on the Russian-Ukrainian border—and in cyberspace. So far, it's a bit of a phony cyberwar, featuring web defacing and dormant file wipers. But it could blow up at any time, and we may be surprised how much damage can be done with a keyboard.  Speaking of damage done with a keyboard, open source software is showing how much damage can be done without even trying (although some developers are in fact trying pretty hard). Nick Weaver and I dig into the Log4j and other messes, and the White House effort to head off future open source debacles.  David is in charge of good news this week. It looks as though Russia has arrested a bunch of REvil co-conspirators, including one person that the White House holds responsible for the Colonial Pipeline attack. It's surely not a coincidence that this hint of cooperation from Vladimir Putin comes when he'd very much like to have leverage on the Biden administration over Ukraine. The EU is now firmly committed to cutting off the continent from a host of technologies offered, often free, by Silicon Valley. Google Analytics is out, according to Austrian authorities, even if this means accusing the European Parliament of violating European law. Nick reminds us that this isn't all the services that could be cut off. Google Translate also depends on transatlantic data flows and could become unavailable in Europe. I offer an incendiary solution to that problem.  Secure messaging is still under attack, but this week it's European governments taking the shots. The UK government is planning an ad campaign against end-to-end encryption, and Germany is growling about shutting down Telegram for allowing hate speech. Nick issues a heartfelt complaint about the disingenuity of both sides in the crypto debate. Speaking of Germans who can't live up to their reputation on protecting privacy, Nick notes that German police did exactly what Gapple feared, using a coronavirus contact-tracing app to find potential witnesses. Meanwhile, in good news, let's not forget Twitter, whose woke colonialism led it to suspend Nigeria's president for threatening secessionists with war. Turns out it was easier to go to war with Twitter, which has now unconditionally surrendered to the Nigerian government.  Finally, I claim kinship with Joe Rogan as one of the podcasters that bien pensant NGOs and academics hope to censor. My plan is to create a joint defense fund to which Joe and I will each contribute one percent of our podcasting revenues. Download the 390th Episode (mp3)  You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@steptoe.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of their institutions, clients, friends, families, or pets.

Welcome to the Cancer Secrets Podcast, hosted by Dr. Jonathan Stegall. In today's episode, Dr. Stegall interviews his next guest Dr. Michael Weiner, pediatric oncologist, father, and cancer survivor. Dr. Weiner shares about his book, helping hundreds of pediatric cancer patients, and the story of how he had to become a father, not a doctor when his own daughter was diagnosed with cancer. This is a "can't-miss" episode! Visit https://www.livingcancer.com/ to learn more and get Dr. Weiner's book. The Cancer Secrets Podcast is a pilot production of Eleven14 Studios. Learn more at eleven14.com.

“We tried very hard, my daughter and I, to have a daughter-father relationship, not a daughter-doctor relationship,” said Dr. Michael Weiner on this episode of the “CURE® Talks Cancer” podcast, in which he discussed his career, his own cancer journey and his daughter's diagnosis.

Jordan Schneider rejoins us after too long an absence to summarize the tech policy coming out of Beijing today:  Any Chinese government agency with a beef against a tech company has carte blanche to at least try it out. From Didi and others being told to stop taking on subscribers to an end to Western IPOs, to the forced contributions to common welfare, China's beefs with Big Tech sound a lot like those in the West (well, except for the complaints about AI-enabled censorship). What's different is that China has freed up its agencies to actually throw sand in the gears of technology businesses. Jordan and I explore the downside of empowering agencies this way. First, it makes the Chinese government responsible for an enormous and hard to govern part of the economy, as the government's problems with the overvalued property sector show. And it creates opportunities for companies that are better at politics than customer service to cripple their competitors. Meanwhile, the U.S. government is trying out its own version of letting a thousand regulatory flowers bloom. Michael Weiner unpacks the new, amended complaint in FTC v. Facebook and concludes that the FTC has done a plausible job of meeting the objections that led the district court to throw out the first complaint. Then he tells us the five buckets of sand the Biden administration is dumping into technology merger law in the hope of slowing a massive acquisition boom, from no longer granting early termination, insisting on future merger approvals in standard consent agreements, issuing “close at your own peril” letters when they haven't finished their review, and replacing the Vertical Merger Guidelines issued in June 2020 with, uh, nothing. Pete Jeydel takes us on a tour of Project Raven and the deferred prosecution agreements imposed on three former U.S. government hackers who sold their services too freely to the United Arab Emirates. The cases raise several novel legal issues, but one of the mysteries is why the prosecutors ultimately settled the cases without jail time. My guess? Graymail. In quick hits and updates we note: That TikTok faces an Irish General Data Protection Regulation probe over children's data and–more significantly–its transfers of data to China. What's most remarkable to me is how long TikTok has staved off this scrutiny. Who says Donald Trump was bad for Chinese tech companies? President Biden has nominated a 5th Federal Trade Commission Commissioner. Alvaro Bedoya is a Georgetown Law professor who writes about privacy and face recognition. There's a lot of dumb stuff out there about AI bias and face recognition, but I'm pleased to say that it doesn't look as though Prof. Bedoya wrote any of it. The special prosecutor for Russia-Russia-Russia-gate has indicted a Perkins Coie lawyer for lying to the FBI general counsel while turning over a bunch of bogus evidence of Donald Trump's ties to Russia. Turns out, I know all of the principals in this drama, and it's uncomfortable. Captain Obvious, speaking for the FBI, acknowledged that there is “no indication” Russia has cracked down on ransomware gangs after President Biden yelled at Vladimir Putin about them. The 4th Circuit has tossed Wikimedia's money-wasting lawsuit against the National Security Agency for its collection of overseas intelligence in the U.S. And the Bolsonaro's ban on social media censorship of politicians has been doubly overturned by the Brazilian Senate and its Supreme Court, leaving Bolsonaro's decree in the same place as Florida's (and, probably soon, Texas's) effort to do something similar. And more! Download the 375th Episode (mp3)   You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@steptoe.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of their institutions, clients, friends, families, or pets.

Michael Weiner is the founder and CEO of PreConstruction Catalysts. PreConstruction Catalysts is a client catalyst for ultra-high-level Managed Buy/Sell bank debentures trading programs for project funding. They work with deal-makers with an ever-growing international network of senior-level people. The guiding principles for PreConstruction Catalysts are 1) The Golden Rule, 2) Good, strong, trusting, honest relationships. Relationship First, THEN the deal itself, and 3) Integrity, Ethics, Accountability, Candor, and Knowledge are critical components.   In 2006, out of the blue, he was introduced to a developer of a 350-million dollar Sports Complex for Youth Team sports events. This introduced him to the world of project funding via private placement programs, where he built relationships with several principal organizations that run these. He was intrigued and felt this would be a good career move to focus on finance for projects. Mike has since been elevated to working directly with program providers as an intake officer.   His work now brings in large and medium-size projects that are candidates for a project funding private placement with the capital to start a program. Each program is customized which generates non-repayable profits from the trading of bank debentures in the major money center banks.   On this episode, we talk about Michael's career and his fascinating story full of lessons. Michael shares important lessons about personal relationships and gives advice to anyone looking to start in his profession. Finally, Michael shares his powerful 6-word story and tells us the real meaning of success.   Welcome to Profiles in Success and thank you for listening!   For more visit: https://profilesinsuccess.com/ Work with us: https://www.bernhardtwealth.com/

Your host, Peter Hunt, welcomes Michael Weiner - President & CEO - United Way of Buffalo & Erie County. Peter and Michael discuss how Michael ended up in Buffalo and his career and how the pandemic has impacted the United Way. 

This episode offers an economical overview of the six antitrust reform bills reported out of the House Judiciary Committee last week. Michael Weiner and Mark MacCarthy give us the top line for all six (though only four would make substantial new policy). We then turn quickly to the odd-couple alliances supporting and opposing the bills, including my brief cameo appearance, in Rep. Jim Jordan's opposition, on the gratifying ground (ok, among others) that Microsoft had never explained its suppression of my recent LinkedIn post. On the whole, I think Rep. Jordan is right; there's very little in these bills that will encourage a diversity of viewpoints on social media or among its “trust and safety” bureaucrats. Nick Weaver trashes the FBI for its prosecution of AnMing Hu. I'm more sympathetic, but neither of us thinks this will end well for the bureau or the China Initiative. Adam Candeub makes his second appearance and does a fine job unpacking three recent decisions on the scope of Section 230. The short version: Facebook only partly beat the rap for sex trafficking in the Texas Supreme Court; SnapChat got its head handed to it in the speed filter case; and all the Socials won but faced persuasive dissents in a case over assistance to terrorist groups. The long version: Silicon Valley has sold the courts a bill of goods on Section 230 for reasons that sounded good when the Internet was shiny and democratic and new. Now that disillusion has set in, the sweeping subsidy conferred by the courts is looking a lot less plausible. The wheels aren't coming off Section 230 yet, but the paint is peeling, and Big Tech's failure to get their reading of the law blessed by the Supreme Court ten years ago is going to cost them—mainly because their reading is inconsistent with some basic rules of statutory interpretation. Nick and I engage on the torture indictments of executives who sold internet wiretapping capabilities to the Qaddafi regime. Mark is unable to hose down my rant over Canada's bone-stupid effort to impose Canadian content quotas on the internet and to write an online hate speech law of monumental vagueness.  And in closing, Nick and I bid an appropriately raucous and conflicted adieu to the Hunter Thompson of Cybersecurity:  John McAfee. And more! Download the 368th Episode (mp3) You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@steptoe.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of their institutions, clients, friends, families, or pets.

This month's replay of past episodes showcases a selection of interviews by Drs. Jeff Burns, Jason Crowell, and Gregg Day on updates in Alzheimer's disease diagnostics and the impact of future therapies, featuring Drs. Michael Weiner, Randall Bateman, Erik Musiek, Joseph Therriault, and Yvette Sheline.

Bruce Schneier joins us to talk about artificial intelligence (AI) hacking in all its forms. He's particularly interested in ways AI will hack humans, essentially preying on the rough rules of thumb programmed into our wetware—that big-eyed, big-headed little beings are cute and need to have their demands met or that intimate confidences should be reciprocated. AI may not even know what it's doing, since machines are famous for doing what works unless there's a rule against it.  Bruce is particularly interested in law-hacking—finding and exploiting unintended consequences buried in the rules in the U.S. Code. If any part of that code will lend itself to AI hacking, Bruce thinks, it's the tax code (insert your favorite tax lawyer joke here). It's a bracing view of a possible near-term future. In the news, Nick Weaver and I dig into the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and what it could mean for more aggressive cybersecurity action in Washington than the Biden administration was contemplating just last week as it was pulling together an executive order that focused heavily on regulating government contractors. Nate Jones and Nick examine the stalking flap that is casting a cloud over Apple's introduction of AirTags. Michael Weiner takes us through a quick tour of all the pending U.S. government antitrust lawsuits and investigations against Big Tech. What's striking to me is how much difference there is in the stakes (and perhaps the prospects for success) depending on the company in the dock. Facebook faces a serious challenge but has a lot of defenses. Amazon and Apple are being attacked on profitable but essentially peripheral business lines. And Google is staring at existential lawsuits aimed squarely at its core business.  Nate and I mull over the Russian proposal for a UN cybercrime proposal. The good news is that stopping progress in the UN is usually even easier than stopping legislation in Washington. Nate and I also puzzle over ambiguous leaks about what the Department of Homeland Security wants to do with private firms as it tries to monitor extremist chatter online. My guess: This is mostly about wanting the benefit of anonymity or a fake persona while monitoring public speech. And then Michael takes us into the battle between Apple and Fortnite over access to the app store without paying the 30 percent cut demanded by Apple. Michael thinks we've mostly seen the equivalent of trash talk at the weigh-in so far, and the real fight will begin with the economists' testimony this week. Nick indulges a little trash talk of his own about the claim that Apple's app review process provides a serious benefit to users, citing among other things the litigation-driven disclosure that Apple never sent emails to users of the 125 million buggered apps it found a few years back. Nick and I try to make sense of stories that federal prosecutors in 2020 sought phone records for three Washington Post journalists as part of an investigation into the publication of classified information that occurred in 2017. I try to offer something new about the Facebook Oversight Board's decision on the suspension of President Trump's account.  To my mind, a telling and discrediting portion of the opinion reveals that a minority of the board members thought that international human rights law required more limits on Trump's speech—and they chose to base that on the notion that calling the coronavirus a Chinese virus is racist. Anyone who has read Nicholas Wade's careful article knows that there's lots of evidence the virus leaked from the Wuhan virology lab. If any virus in the last hundred years deserves to be named for its point of origin, then, this is it. Nick disagrees. Nate previews an ambitious task force plan on tackling ransomware. We'll be having the authors on the podcast soon to dig deeper into its nearly 50 recommendations. Signal is emerging a Corporate Troll of the Year, if not the decade. Nick explains how, fresh from trolling Cellebrite, Signal took on Facebook by creating a bevy of personalized Instagram ads that take personalization to the Next Level.  Years after the fact, the New York Attorney General has caught up with the three firms that generated fake comments opposing the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rollback. They'll be paying fines. But I can't help wondering why anyone thinks it's useful to think about proposed rules by counting the number of postcards and emails that shout “yes” or “no” but offer no analysis. Download the 361st Episode (mp3)  You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@steptoe.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of their institutions, clients, friends, families, or pets.

Pediatric oncologists are used to dealing with emotional, heart-wrenching situations, but oncology took on a new dimension for Michael Weiner, MD, when both he and his daughter were diagnosed with cancer. Dr. Weiner, a pediatric oncologist at Columbia University, New York, describes his roles as oncologist, patient, and caregiver to host David H. Henry, MD, in this episode.  Oncologist as patient: Lessons learned Dr. Weiner’s journey as a cancer patient began when he felt a lymph node on his neck that he knew wasn’t “normal.” A colleague examined Dr. Weiner and suggested the “watch-and-wait” approach, but Dr. Weiner insisted on immediate biopsy. The diagnosis was follicular lymphoma, and Dr. Weiner had a hard time accepting that his malignancy was treatable but not curable. One of the things Dr. Weiner learned as a cancer patient is that “you really need to connect with your doctor,” so he chose a doctor who felt like a good fit for him. Another lesson Dr. Weiner learned was that cancer can be very isolating. Though friends and family can offer help and support, “you take this journey alone,” he said. Dr. Weiner was treated with rituximab and radiation, which proved successful. It’s been 3 years since he completed his treatment. Dr. Weiner had been reluctant to undergo radiation because of the risk of thyroid cancer, and, unfortunately, he now has a small thyroid nodule that’s under observation. Update: After this episode was recorded, Dr. Weiner was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer. He is set to undergo a total thyroidectomy. Oncologist as caregiver: Taking a backseat Dr. Weiner’s daughter was diagnosed with papillary thyroid carcinoma after a nodule was found on a routine exam. Dr. Weiner and his daughter decided to educate themselves about her malignancy and opted for an aggressive course of treatment. “I tried very, very hard to be a parent and not a physician,” Dr. Weiner said. He decided to put his faith in her care team. “I in no way participated in the final decision-making,” he said. His daughter ultimately had a total thyroidectomy and high-dose radioactive iodine. The process, like his own cancer journey, was difficult. Dr. Weiner recounts these experiences in his book “Living Cancer: Stories from an Oncologist, Father, and Survivor,” which can be found here: https://bit.ly/3n7TB5Z. Show notes written by M. Alexander Otto, a reporter for MDedge and Medscape. Disclosures Dr. Weiner and Dr. Henry have no relevant disclosures. These show notes were updated on 4/22. *  *  * For more MDedge Podcasts, go to mdedge.com/podcasts Email the show: podcasts@mdedge.com Interact with us on Twitter: @MDedgehemonc David Henry on Twitter: @davidhenrymd

Long days, important decisions, difficult conversations. A doctor's work is never truly done. After working as a pediatric oncologist for 40 years, Dr. Michael Weiner has collected a multitude of stories. From the best case scenarios to the worst, Dr. Weiner has chosen to share some of the most memorable and heartbreaking moments of his career. Always in close contact with pain and heartbreak, his accounts express his willingness to help patients and their families through great times of need. His observations about cancer are further informed when his daughter was diagnosed with cancer as well as his own personal cancer journey.

Episode 343 of the Cyberlaw Podcast is a long meditation on the ways in which technology is encouraging other nations to exercise soft power inside the United States. I interview Nina Jankowicz, author of How to Lose the Information War on how Russian disinformation has affected Poland, Ukraine and the rest of Eastern Europe—and the lessons, if any, those countries can offer a divided United States.  In the news, Bruce Schneier and I dig for more lessons in the rubble left behind by the SolarWinds hack. Nobody comes out looking good. Persistent engagement and defending forward only works if you're actually, you know, engaged and defending, and Russia's cyberspies managed (not surprisingly) to have hidden their achievement from the National Security Agency (NSA) and Cyber Command. More and better defense is another answer (not that it's worked for the last 40 years it's been tried). But whatever solution we pursue, Bruce makes clear, it's going to be expensive.  Taking a quick break from geopolitics, Michael Weiner gives us a rundown on the new charges and details (mostly redacted) in the Texas case against Google for monopolization and conspiring with competitor Facebook. The scariest thing about the case from Google's point of view, though, may be where it's been filed. Not Washington but Beaumont, Texas, the most notoriously pro-plaintiff, anti-corporate jurisdiction in the country. Returning to ways in which foreign governments are using our technology against us, David Kris tells the story of the Zoom executive who used pretextual violations of terms of service to take down speech the Chinese government didn't like, censoring American efforts to hold a Tiananmen memorial. The good news: He was indicted by the Justice Department. The bad news: I can't help suspecting that China learned this trick from lefty ideologues in Silicon Valley.  Aaand, right on cue, it turns out that China's been accused of using its 50-cent army to file complaints of racism and video game violence to get YouTube to demonetize Americans using the platform to criticize China's government.  Then Bruce points us toward a deep and troubling series of Zach Dorfman articles about how effectively China is using technology to vault over US intelligence agencies in the global spying competition.  And in quick succession, David Kris explains what's new and what's not in Israel's view of international law and cyberconflict.  I note that President Trump's NDAA veto has been overridden, making the cyberczar and DHS's CISA the biggest winners in the cyber policy arena. Bruce and I give a lick and a promise to the FinCen proposed rule regulating cryptocurrency. We're both inclined to think more reregulation is worth pursuing, but we agree it's too late for this administration to get anything on the books. David Kris notes that Twitter has been fined around $550,000 over a data breach filing that was a few days late – by the Irish data protection office, in a GDPR ruling that is a few years late.  Apple has lost its bullying copyright battle against security start-up Corellium but the real risk to Corellium may be in the as-yet unresolved claim for violation of the DMCA. And Trump's DHS is leaving office with new warnings about the cyber risks of Chinese technology, this time touching on backdoors in TCL smart TVs and spillage from Chinese data services.  And more. Download Episode 343 (mp3) You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@steptoe.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of their institutions, clients, friends, families, or pets.

KINKY BOOTS, FROZEN, THE BOOK OF MORMON.. Ever heard of it?!?! If it weren't for Brian Usifer, Elder Price, Elsa, and Charlie Price wouldn't know how to sing. Music director, pianist, orchestrator, arranger, producer and composer Brian Usifer was the man behind the batton for Joe in FROZEN and Dan in KINKY BOOTS. This man has had such a huge impact on both of our careers and we are thrilled that he took the time to chat with us. We talk about how your "fight or flight instinct" doesn't go hand in hand with auditioning, and the respect that Brian has for singers in auditions. From his collaborative piano background to wanting to be a pop star, Brian has done IT ALL. His new band alongside Bway heartthrob Colin Donnell, The Nineteen Twenty just released their debut EP "Chaos and Cocktails" available on all the streaming platforms. Brian loves wine and food as much as he loves music, so obviously we all got along. Look out for new musicals based on the music of Huey Lewis and The Avett Brothers with Brian leading the music team. Brian's credits include: Music Director of Disney's Frozen on Broadway. Prior to that he was the Music Director of Kinky Boots on Broadway, which won 6 Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Score. The cast recording won the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album. He is also the Associate Music Supervisor of The Book of Mormon on Broadway and on tour as well as Kinky Boots on Tour, London and in Toronto. Brian has played in the Broadway and off-Broadway orchestras of Spelling Bee, Avenue Q, Altar Boyz and The Book of Mormon. Credits also include more than 5 years of regional theatre including Follies (Barrington Stage Co.) Concerts include Clay Aiken “Tried and True DVD,” for PBS. As an arranger/orchestrator, Brian's projects have included Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money with music by Motown legend Lamont Dozier, NBC's The Wiz Live, A View From The River by Will Van Dyke and Jeff Talbott, Fantasy Football: the Musical?, by David Ingber, Pool Boy by Niko Tsakalakos and Janet Allard, The UnCivil War by Rick Kunzi, Barnstormer by Douglas Cohen and The First Snow by Niko Tsakalakos. Brian also provided additional arrangements for Kinky Boots and Frozen. Shows in development include Heart of Rock and Roll with music from the Huey Lewis catalog, Into The Wild with music and lyrics by Niko Tsakalakos and Janet Allard, Swept Away with music by the Avett Brothers, Galileo with music and lyrics by Zoe Sarnak and Michael Weiner with a book by Danny Strong. As a composer, Brian’s latest project is a songwriting collaboration with Colin Donnell called The Nineteen Twenty. Their first EP, Chaos + Cocktails, is available for sale on iTunes and everywhere music streams. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from SUNY Fredonia and a Masters degree in Collaborative Piano from NYU.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our interview is with Alex Stamos, who lays out a complex debate over child sexual abuse that's now roiling Brussels. The application of European privacy standards and artificial intelligence (AI) hostility to internet communications providers has called into question the one tool that has reduced online child sex predation. Scanning for sex abuse images works well, and even scanning for signs of “grooming” is surprisingly effective. But they depend on automated monitoring of communications content, something that has come as a surprise to European lawmakers hoping to impose more regulation on American tech platforms. Left unchanged, the new European rules could make it easier to abuse children.  Alex explains the rushed effort to head off that disaster—and tells us what Ashton Kutcher has to do with it (a lot, it turns out). Meanwhile, in the news roundup, Michael Weiner breaks down the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) (and the states') long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against Facebook. Maybe the government will come up with something as the case moves forward, but its monopolization claims don't strike me as overwhelming.  And, Mark MacCarthy points out, the likelihood that the lawsuit will do something good on the privacy front is vanishingly small.  Russia's SVR, heir of the KGB, is making headlines with a remarkably sophisticated and well-hidden cyberespionage attack on a lot of institutions that we hoped were better at defense than they turned out to be. Nick Weaver lays out the depressing story, and Alex offers a former CISO's perspective, arguing for a federal breach notification law that goes well beyond personal data and includes disciplined after-action reports that aren't locked up in post-litigation gag orders. Jamil Jaffer tells us that won't happen in Congress any time soon. Jamil also comments on the prospects for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), chock full of cyber provisions and struggling forward under a veto threat. If you're not watching the European Parliament tie itself in knots trying to avoid helping child predators, tune in to watch American legislators tie themselves into knots trying to pass an important defense bill without drawing the ire of the President. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in an Ajit Pai farewell, has been hammering Chinese telecoms companies. In one week, Jamil reports, the FCC launched proceedings to kick China Telecom out of the U.S. infrastructure, reaffirmed its exclusion of Huawei from the same infrastructure and adopted a “rip and replace” mandate for U.S. providers who still have Chinese gear in their networks. Nick and I clash over the latest move by Apple and Google to show their contempt for US counterterrorism efforts—the banning of a location data company whose real crime was selling the data to (gasp!) the Pentagon. Mark explains the proposals for elaborate new regulation of digital intermediaries now working their way through—where else? Brussels. I offer some cautious interest in regulation of “gatekeeper” platforms, if only to prevent Brussels and the gatekeepers from combining to slam the Overton window on conservatives' fingers.  Mark also reports on the Trump administration's principles for U.S. government use of AI, squelching as premature my celebration at the absence of “fairness” and “bias” can't. Those who listen to the roundup for the porn news won't be disappointed, as Mark and I dig into the details of Pornhub's brush with cancellation at the hands of Visa and Mastercard—and how the site might overcome the attack. In short hits, Nick and I disagree about Timnit Gebru, the “ethicist” who was let go at Google after threatening to quit. I report on the enactment of a modest but useful internet-of-things cybersecurity law and on the doxxing of the Chinese Communist Party membership rolls as well as the adoption of the most law-enforcement-hostile technology yet to come out of Big Tech—Amazon's Sidewalk.  And More! You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@steptoe.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of their institutions, clients, friends, families, or pets.

Did you ever wonder where all that tech money came from all of a sudden? Turns out, a lot of it comes from online programmatic ads, an industry that gets little attention even from the companies, such as Google, that it made wealthy. That lack of attention is pretty ironic, because lack of attention is what's going to kill the industry, according to Tim Hwang, former Google policy maven and current research fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). In our interview, Tim Hwang explains the remarkably complex industry and the dynamics that are gradually leaching the value out of its value proposition. Tim thinks we're in an attention bubble, and the popping will be messy.  I'm persuaded the bubble is here but not that its end will be disastrous outside of Silicon Valley. Sultan Meghji and I celebrate what seems like excellent news about a practical artificial intelligence (AI) achievement in predicting protein folding. It's a big deal, and an ideal problem for AI, with one exception.  The parts of the problem that AI hasn't solved would be a lot easier for humans to work on if AI could tell us how it solved the parts it did figure out.  Explainability, it turns out, is the key to collaborative AI-human work. We welcome first time participant and long-time listener Jordan Schneider to the panel. Jordan is the host of the unmissable ChinaTalk podcast. Given his expertise, we naturally ask him about … Australia.  Actually, it's natural, because Australia is now the testing ground for many of China's efforts to exercise power over independent countries using cyber power along with trade. Among the highlights: Chinese tweets highlighting a report about Australian war crimes followed by a ham-handed tweet-boosting bot campaigns. And in a move that ought to be featured in future justifications of the Trump administration's ban on WeChat, the platform refused to carry the Australian prime minister's criticism of the war-crimes tweet.  Ted Cruz, call your office! And this will have to be Sen. Cruz's fight, because it looks more and more as though the Trump administration has thrown in the towel. Its claim that it is negotiating a TikTok sale after ordering divestment is getting thinner; now the divestment deadline has completely disappeared, as the government simply says that negotiations continue. Nick Weaver is on track to win his bet with me that CFIUS won't make good on its order before the mess is shoveled onto Joe Biden's plate. Whoever was in charge of beating up WeChat and TikTok may have left the government early, but the team that's sticking pins in other Chinese companies is still hard at work. Jordan and Brian Egan talk about the addition of SMIC to the amorphous defense blacklist. And Congress has passed a law (awaiting the president's signature) that will make life hard for Chinese firms listed on U.S. exchanges.  China, meanwhile, isn't taking this lying down, Jordan reports. It is mirror-imaging all the Western laws that it sees as targeting China, including bans on exports of Chinese products and technology. It is racing (on what Jordan thinks is a twenty-year pace) to create its own chip design capabilities. And with some success. Sultan takes some of the hype out of China's claims to quantum supremacy.  Though even dehyped, China's achievement should be making those who rely on RSA-style crypto just a bit nervous (that's all of us, by the way). Michael Weiner previews the still veiled state antitrust lawsuit against Facebook and promises to come back with details as soon as it's filed.  In quick hits, I explain why we haven't covered the Iranian claim that their scientist was rubbed out by an Israeli killer robot machine gun: I don't actually believe them. Brian explains that another law aimed at China and its use of Xinjian forced labor is attracting lobbyists but likely to pass. Apple, Nike, and Coca-Cola have all taken hits for lobbying on the bill; none of them say they oppose the bill, but it turns out there's a reason for that. Lobbyists have largely picked the bones clean. President Trump is leaving office in typical fashion—gesturing in the right direction but uninteresting in actually getting there. In a “Too Much Too Late” negotiating move, the President has threatened to veto the defense authorization act if it doesn't include a repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. If he's yearning to wield the veto, the Democrats and GOP alike seem willing to give him the chance.  They may even override, or wait until January 20 to pass it again.  Finally, I commend to interested listeners the oral argument in the Supreme Court's Van Buren case, about the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The solicitor general's footwork in making up quasi textual limitations on the more sweeping readings of the act is admirable, and it may well be enough to keep van Buren in jail, where he probably belongs for some crime, if not this one.  And more. Download the 341st Episode (mp3) You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@steptoe.com. 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This episode's interview with Dr. Peter Pry of the EMP Commission raises an awkward question: Is it possible that North Korea has already developed nuclear weapons that could cause the deaths of hundreds of millions of Americans by permanently frying the entire electrical infrastructure with a single high-altitude blast?  And if he doesn't, could the sun accomplish pretty much the same thing?  The common factor in both scenarios is EMP—electro-magnetic pulse. And we explore the problem in detail, from the capabilities of adversaries to the controversy that has pitted Dr. Pry and the EMP Commission against the power industry and the Energy Department, which are decidedly more confident that the U.S. would withstand a major EMP event. And, for those disinclined to trust those sources, Dr. Pry offers a few tips on how to make it more likely that your systems will survive an EMP. In the news, that the election turned out not to be hacked and not to be violence-plagued and not to be the subject of serious disinformation. That didn't stop Twitter and YouTube from limiting Steve Bannon's access to the platform when he used hyperbole (“heads on pikes”) to express his unhappiness with Dr. Fauci. In legal tech news, Michael Weiner explains what's at stake in the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit challenging Visa's $5.3 billion acquisition of Plaid. I wonder if that means the department is out of antitrust-litigating ammo.  And it might, except you can buy a lot of ammo with $1 billion worth of Silk Road bitcoins, now being claimed by the U.S. Sultan Meghji says the real question is why it took the U.S. so long to lay claim to the coins. Just when private companies have come up with plans to comply with California's privacy law, the voters change everything. Well, maybe not everything. It looks, Dan Podair suggests, as though compliance with the new CPRA will mostly involve complying with the old CCPA plus a whole bunch more. I'm fascinated by the idea that the initiatives say, “Oh, and by the way, this law can't be amended except to make it more privacy friendly.” We bring Michael back to the conversation to brief us on the FTC's plan to bring an antitrust case against Facebook using internal hearing procedure. Michael admits that some might call that a kangaroo court hearing; I suggest that LabMD's Mike Dougherty be called as an expert witness. Sultan and I note the ongoing failure of media and rights groups to toxify facial recognition; now it's being used on “mostly peaceful” protestors. And it's hard to argue with using face recognition when it confirms a picture ID left behind in Lafayette Square. Next, Sultan and I take on Toxification II, the argument to make people believe that racist—as opposed to poorly trained—artificial intelligence is a thing. Charles Helleputte analyzes the latest rumor that the EU is planning to prohibit end-to-end crypto. He notes that the EU is also pursuing more infrastructure security and wonders whether the two initiatives can be sustained together. It turns out that other people on Zoom can, in theory and under the right conditions, guess what you're typing.  It's one more reason to be careful about webcams and security. I make the sort of cheap joke you've come to expect from me. And more. Download the 337th Episode (mp3) You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@steptoe.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of their institutions, clients, friends, families, or pets.

In this episode, I interview Rob Knake, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, about his recent report, “Weaponizing Digital Trade -- Creating a Digital Trade Zone to Promote Online Freedom and Cybersecurity.” The theme of the report is what the U.S. can salvage from the wreckage of the 1990s Magaziner Consensus about the democratizing and beneficent influence of Silicon Valley. I suggest that it really ought to be called “Digital Dunkirk,” rather than invoking a swaggering “weaponization” theme.  Rob and I disagree about the details but not the broad outlines of his proposal.  In the news roundup, we finally have a Google antitrust complaint to pore over, and I bring Steptoe's Michael Weiner on to explain what the complaint means. Bottom line: it's a minimalist stub of a case, unlikely to frighten Google or produce structural changes in the market. Unless a new administration (or a newly incentivized Trump Justice Department) keeps adding charge after charge as the investigation goes on. Speaking of Justice Department filings that may serve up less than meets the eye, DOJ has indicted GRU hackers for practically every bad thing that has happened on the internet in the last five years, other than the DNC hack. (In fact, I lost an unsaved Word document in 2017 that I'm hoping will be added to the charges soon.) The problem, of course, is that filing the charges is the easy part; bringing these state hackers to justice is unlikely in the extreme.  If so, one wonders whether a policy that requires an indictment for all the cyberattacks on the US and its allies is a wise use of resources. Maury Shenk thinks it might be, at least in demonstrating US attribution capabilities, which are indeed impressive. While we are covering questionably effective U.S. retaliation for cyberattacks, Maury also notes that the Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on TsNIIKhM, a Russian institute that seems to have developed industrial control malware that caused massive outages in Saudi Arabia and may have been planted in U.S. energy systems as well. Again, no one doubts that heavy penalties should be imposed; the doubt is about whether these penalties will actually reach TsNIIKhM. Nick Weaver celebrates the German government's dawn raid on spyware exporter, FinFisher. Maury expresses modest hope for Facebook's Oversight Board now that it has started reviewing content moderation cases. Color me skeptical. Now that we've seen the actual complaint, Nick has his doubts about the Microsoft attack on Trickbot. It may be working, he says, but why is Microsoft doing something that the FBI could have done? I pile on, raising questions about the most recent legal theory Microsoft has rolled out in support of its proposed remedies. Finally, in quick hits:  I hum a few bars from “John Henry” in response to a Bloomberg story suggesting that CEOs are successfully beating the AI engines parsing their analyst calls and trading on the results. Maury debunks the parts of the story that made it fun, but not before I've asked whether Spinal Tap was decades ahead of its time in repackaging failure. Maury also notes the ho-hum upcoming Judiciary Committee testimony of Twitter and Facebook CEOs about their suppression of the New York Post “laptop from hell” Hunter Biden story.  I'm much more interested in the Commerce Committee's subpoenaing of contacts between the campaigns and those companies.  Because you just know the campaigns have a whole strategy for working the speech refs, and it would be an education to see how they do it.  Nick and I congratulate Edward Snowden on the confirmation that he'll be in Russia forever.  And more! Download the 335th Episode (mp3) You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@steptoe.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of their institutions, clients, friends, families, or pets.

In the first segment, Dr. Jeff Burns speaks with Dr. Michael Weiner about his New York Times article on blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease. Read the NYT article here: https://nyti.ms/3cKheMW. Next, Dr. David Lapides talks with Dr. Martin Monti about his Neurology Journal paper on subcortical involvement in traumatic brain injury.  Disclosures can be found at Neurology.org. CME Opportunity: Listen to this week’s Neurology Podcast and earn 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CME Credits™ by completing the online Podcast quiz.

Dr. Michael Weiner discusses the challenges in patient recruiting in clinical trials for Alzheimer's Disease, and more. Michael Weiner, MD, is a Professor in Residence in Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Medicine, Psychiatry, and Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. Below are some clinical trials Dr. Weiner is currently working on- source UCSF Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative 3 (ADNI3) Protocol Start Date: Oct 2016 Estimated Completion Date: Oct 2021 Recruitment Status: Recruiting Condition(s): Mild Cognitive Impairment,Alzheimer's Disease     Online Neuropsychological Test Validation Project With Imaging Pilot Start Date: Jan 2015 Estimated Completion Date: Dec 2020 Recruitment Status: Active, not recruiting Condition(s): Validation of Online Cognitive Testing     Brain Health Registry Start Date: Sep 2013 Estimated Completion Date: Sep 2028 Recruitment Status: Recruiting Condition(s): Neurodegenerative Disease  

Lifespan Recovery: Episode 30 of The Path to Authenticity is the second of two featuring Michael Weiner, Ph.D. Dr. Weiner has been teaching about and treating addiction for decades. In this conversation with host, Tom Gentry, he talks about the need for us to reframe our thinking as it relates to addiction treatment and recovery. […]

In episode 314 of the Get Published Podcast, Host and 14-Time Bestselling Author Paul G. Brodie interviews Michael Weiner about his author journey and how to get your book reviewed by quality people. Find out more about our Publishing Services at www.GetPublishedPodcast.com

This week Dan and Alex are joined by Brian McCourt, the CEO of The Able Network, discussing what The Able Network does and caregiving.  Dr. Michael Weiner of The Brain Health Registry also joins the show.

Your host, Peter Hunt, welcomes Michael Weiner to the show.Michael is President and CEO of the United Way of Buffalo and Erie County.Together, Peter leads the discussion on the upcoming “Thrive Buffalo Initiative”.To find out more, listen to this week's show. 

Edna Benitez, Michael Weiner, and Jonathan Soto, with Christina Fleming

Today's interview on Redefining Medicine features Michael Weiner, DO, MSM, MSIST: Chief Medical Information Officer at IBM Healthcare. With a research focus on key issues in today’s evolving healthcare ecosystem, including an aging population, increased technology and data, and new models of care, Dr. Weiner has a demonstrated history of helping to transform healthcare organizations. With extensive experience and skills in team-building and organizational leadership, Dr. Weiner continuously supports the development of innovative healthcare products and services--while addressing critical challenges in the landscape of medicine.

Patrick Dickinson, co-founder and Managing Partner of Ninth Street Capital Partners, discusses his early exposure to ETA through working with a merchant banking group specializing in acquiring and operating companies, and his eventual decision to pursue an MBA and round-off his business skills. He went on to found Ninth Street Capital Partners with Michael Weiner, which now has a diverse investment portfolio and successfully exited Castronics in 2012. Patrick reveals the secret behind his firm’s investment strategy as well as their individual takes on different roles in order to play to their own strengths.

Composers Michael Weiner and Alan Zachary joins Deadline's Hollywood's Anthony D'Alessandro for a discussion about his career and work on ABC's Once Upon a Time. Produced by David Janove

To celebrate #FathersDay, I want to share a special #TTJPodcast conversation featuring my dad Michael Weiner.

Michael Weiner, President & CEO of the United Way of Buffalo and Erie County, talks with Matt about the role of the United Way as both a world-wide network as well as a leader within local communities; his view of the working poor and racial inequity as systemic problems faced across the country; driving data by zip code; and why his organization has found success in digital fundraising.

Nach einer viel zu langen Pause melden wir uns mit einer regelrechten Mammutfolge zurück. Wir lassen den Endspurt der Saison Paroli laufen (das heißt, die Bundesliga-Spieltage 25 bis 34, das DFB-Pokal-Halbfinale und die Champions League ab dem Viertelfinale), ziehen ein Fazit dieser Spielzeit, verabschieden Knut Kircher, Florian Meyer und Michael Weiner, beantworten eure Fragen und erklären auch, warum Güllegeruch manchen Schiedsrichter von der Arbeit abhält und weshalb es für manchen eine Beleidigung ist, mit Justin Bieber verglichen zu werden.

Nach einer viel zu langen Pause melden wir uns mit einer regelrechten Mammutfolge zurück. Wir lassen den Endspurt der Saison Paroli laufen (das heißt, die Bundesliga-Spieltage 25 bis 34, das DFB-Pokal-Halbfinale und die Champions League ab dem Viertelfinale), ziehen ein Fazit dieser Spielzeit, verabschieden Knut Kircher, Florian Meyer und Michael Weiner, beantworten eure Fragen und erklären auch, warum Güllegeruch manchen Schiedsrichter von der Arbeit abhält und weshalb es für manchen eine Beleidigung ist, mit Justin Bieber verglichen zu werden.

Kenny rages against Twitter! Jonathan Hoenig: The Daffy Duck of Fox News! Elizabeth Warren & Rear Admiral Anne Schuchat of the CDC bust out some science! Messaging Matters & the problems facing John E. "Jeb" Bush! MEDIA BUZZSAW! Howard Kurtz tries to be cool. News Ninja Action! Name Calling! Diseaseney Land! (Thanks Francie!) TURD NUGGET and the Saul Alinsky Army of Punks usher in Kenny's "dislocated shoulder!" What exactly did Clint Eastwood say? FUCKABEE. Just Fuckabee. Macarone shares his thoughts on vaccines & autism. More SCIENCE about vaccines! More DISINFORMATION about vaccines (and autism thanks to Michael Weiner!) Alabama & Marriage Equality! The Redneck Report on Alabama & Marriage Equality! And MUCH. MUCH more!!! Also laffs. A bunch.

With the recently launched Brain Health Registry, Dr. Weiner and his team have built a tool to help speed up the search for a cure. They invite participants to take online cognitive assessments – very much like brain games – to gauge brain health, show how brains change over time, and help identify the best subjects for upcoming clinical trials. Support the show (https://www.usagainstalzheimers.org/ways-donate)

eCareDiary's caregiving expert, Margery Pabst will speak to Dr. Michael Weiner, Founder of the Brain Health Registry about the right sources for information on brain research useful and relevant to caregivers, families and patients.

Inside this edition of "Without a Curse," Alex speaks with Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports. Alex and Jeff talk about the changing salary structure in baseball, and how it's impossible to compare contracts that have been signed this offseason to deals that were signed even a couple of years ago. Arguably the biggest reasons for this influx of revenue are the new national television contracts and mega-local TV deals. Jeff, however, believes the TV bubble may soon burst for MLB. Alex and Jeff also discuss whether the Red Sox are the most enviable franchise in MLB, and how general manager Ben Cherington will use all of the organizational and financial flexibility he has at his disposal. The Clayton Kershaw seven-year, $215 million extension could have a significant affect on Jon Lester's market value, as Alex projects what Lester's asking price for an extension may be. In the "Around the League" segment, Alex analyzes the Kershaw extension from the Dodgers perspective, and says it's a win-win for both the team and player. Alex Rodriguez sued MLB and the MLBPA last week. Just when it appears as if A-Rod may be sympathetic, given the underhanded ways MLB accumulated evidence against him, he turns around and lambasts the character of the late MLBPA head Michael Weiner in his lawsuit. Rodriguez is the most delusional egomaniac in professional sports. Email Alex at areimer@bu.edu, and follow him on Twitter @AlexReimer1.

Inside this edition of "Without a Curse," Alex speaks with Tim Daloisio of Fire Brand AL. Alex and Tim talk about which of the four free agents2013Jacoby Ellsbury, Mike Napoli, Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Stephen Drew2013are most important for the Red Sox to resign. Though the market for Ellsbury has been developing slowly, Alex and Tim both feel he'll eventually receive a big payday. There is more money around the game than ever before, and not a lot of premium talent on the free agent market. Ellsbury will get a substantial deal, even if it takes a little longer than expected. The likelihood of Saltalamacchia and Drew leaving now that the catcher and shortstop markets have been set, as well as the possibility of the Red Sox dealing one of their starting pitchers is discussed as well. Prior to the interview with Tim, Alex says the Matt Kemp trade rumors are foolish, and resigns himself to the fact that Drew is likely a goner. In the "Around the League" segment, Alex gives his take on Alex Rodriguez's most recent antics. Though A-Rod storming out of his arbitration hearing and then crying on the radio to WFAN's Mike Francesa shows he is a petulant, egotistical, maniacal, self-absorbed, delusional, hypocrite, he kind of has a point. MLB's evidence against him may be copious, and he may have little chance to avoid the 211-game suspension. But the evidence was gathered in a dirty, criminal manner. Bud Selig went on a witch hunt to sink A-Rod, and now A-Rod wants to sink MLB along with him. There was a lot of hot stove action last week, as the Yankees signed Brian McCann, the Cardinals inked Jhonny Peralta, and the Tigers and Rangers pulled off a blockbuster trade involving Prince Fielder and Ian Kinsler. The McCann contract may look bad at the end, but the terms were to be expected. The most troubling thing for Yankees fans should be that the signing indicates the Yankees aren't changing their approach. They forfeited a first-round pick when they signed McCann, which means that they still don't value building organizational depth. They appear destined to continue to cycle through overpaid free agents in their 30s. The Fielder and Kinsler swap could work for both teams, as the Tigers cleared $76 million and the Rangers potentially acquired one of the elite power hitters in the game. The Rangers took on more risk, however, especially if Fielder's 2013 is an indication of a slow, painful decline. Alex concludes the show by paying respects to former MLBPA head Michael Weiner, who passed away at 51 after a 15-month battle with brain cancer last week. Email Alex at areimer@bu.edu, and follow him on Twitter @AlexReimer1. Happy Thanksgiving!

Who doesn't remember the awkwardness of a first date? First Date, the first new Broadway musical of the season playing at the Longacre Theatre, is a romantic comedy about a young couple meeting for the first time on a blind date. The book is by Austin Winsberg and the score is by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner. Zachary Levi from the television series "Chuck" stars alongside Krysta Rodriguez, who appeared in the backstage-on-Broadway series "Smash." New York Times theater critic Charles Isherwood tells us if the two leading characters, Aaron, a nice Jewish guy who’s a banker, and Casey, “who falls for bad boys,” will survive this first date while pointing out some of the highlights in what is otherwise a familiar story.

The Red Sox have lost 6 straight games to the Rays and Yankees. It's getting ugly, and the games are becoming more and more crucial. Alex discusses why the Red Sox are struggling so mightily, and points out that JD Drew, Jason Bay, and other offensive players need to step-up. Alex also states that the time has come for Terry Francona to "turn the switch on," and manage like it's October. Which means, sitting the ineffective Jason Varitek and David Ortiz. Because playing them everyday would not properly utilize the depth with Victor Martinez and Casey Kotchman now on the team. Alex also talks about the starting rotation, and the fact that though Josh Beckett and Jon Lester are pitching very well at the top, that Clay Buchholz is still the key. Alex also places some blame on Daisuke Matsuzaka, as because of his ineffectiveness and injuries, the Red Sox had to shuffle their rotation to proportions that they weren't planning on. Alex also believes that the Red Sox made the right moving in DFA'ing John Smoltz. Smoltz just wasn't giving the Red Sox a chance to win the games in which he started. Alex goes "Around the League," and goes over not only the AL East standings, but the AL Wild Card standings as well (which the Red Sox are still on top of). Plus, Alex mentions the David Ortiz Press Conference, and that Michael Weiner did a tremendous job in continuing to make the situation as confusing as possible. The "post of the day" is handed out, and a call is played too!