In most people’s understanding, trading is a game of judgment and experience. But in Daniel Whitmore’s view— trading is redefined as a cognitive engineering discipline that can be trained and replicated. He grew up in a family background shaped by economics and psychology. From cognitive psychology at UC Berkeley to a PhD in behavioral finance at the University of Chicago, he later joined Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as a strategy consultant, focusing for many years on one central question: how people make decisions under uncertainty. During the 2008 financial crisis, he applied behavioral models to risk control and recovery...

IT departments often find themselves at the heart of frustration in modern workplaces. From system crashes to slow helpdesk responses, it’s all too common for employees to dread making that dreaded IT call. But what if IT wasn’t the department you had to deal with, but the one you wanted to engage with? What if IT could be a dynamic, value-adding team—one that was a true partner rather than a barrier? In his latest book, Transforming IT from Cost Center to Trusted Partner, Rob Beachy offers a game-changing guide for IT leaders to rewrite the story of their departments. With...

SAN FRANCISCO — A vulnerability-hunting artificial intelligence system built by 360, a leading Chinese cybersecurity company, has drawn international attention after a series of disclosures, placing the team among a small group of efforts staking out one of the most closely watched frontiers in cybersecurity: getting AI to find software flaws on its own. By 360’s account, its system has cumulatively found close to 1,000 vulnerabilities across Microsoft Windows, Office, OpenClaw, Android and other domains — including a Windows kernel privilege-escalation flaw the company says lay dormant for nearly five years, and a critical-rated Office remote-code-execution flaw dormant for eight...