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ERROR: type should be string, got "https://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2018/09/21/the-morning-download-ranks-of-women-in-tech-show-slight-growth/\nThe Morning Download: Ranks of Women in Tech Show Slight Growth\nSteve Rosenbush\nBiographySteve Rosenbush\n@Steve_Rosenbush\nciojournal\nsteven.rosenbush@wsj.com\nSep 21, 2018 8:47 am ET\nParticipants learn to build a game at DigiGirlz, a tech camp organized by Microsoft to encourage young women in STEAM careers in Reno, Nev., July 19, 2018. Photo: Sudhiti Naskar/Associated Press\nSign up here for The Morning Download, and get the most important news in business technology emailed to you each weekday morning.\nSubscribe to WSJ Pro Cybersecurity for in-depth coverage on cybersecurity trends, breaches and best practices.\nGood day, CIOs. Diversity is at the top of the corporate tech agenda, but scant progress is being made when it comes to expanding the ranks of women and minorities within the U.S. divisions of large companies, CIO Journal’s Sara Castellanos reports. Women were represented in 24% of technical roles this year, a slight gain over 2017, according to a survey of more than 628,000 technologists across 80 large companies. The study was conducted by AnitaB.org, a nonprofit organization aimed at increasing the representation of women technologists.\nA broader view of diversity. Black, Hispanic, Native American, Pacific Islander and multiracial women accounted for about 13% of the technical roles, according to the report, which did not measure racial diversity last year.\nThe business case. “Diversity in experience and diversity in thought is going to produce much better solutions for our customers,” said Mary Beth Westmoreland, chief technology officer at Blackbaud Inc., a cloud software company for nonprofit and philanthropic organizations. Blackbaud was among the 80 companies surveyed for the study, which included American Express Co., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and SAP SE.\nA lot of work to do. Of Blackbaud’s 3,400 employees, about half are women, Ms. Westmoreland said. However, about 25% of the engineering organization at the company is composed of women, and the company has low rates of diversity in ethnicity, according to Ms. Westmoreland. “To me, that still means we have a lot of work to do,” she said.\n“Our presidential directive effectively reversed those restraints, effectively enabling offensive cyber operations through the relevant departments,” Mr. Bolton, shown on Sept. 10 in Washington, said. Photo: ANDREW HARNIK/ASSOCIATED PRESS\nWhite House confirms it has relaxed rules on U.S. use of cyberweapons. The White House said Thursday it had rescinded a classified Obama-era memorandum dictating when the U.S. government can deploy cyber weaponry against its adversaries, empowering the Defense Department with more flexibility to launch offensive cyber strikes. The WSJ's Dustin Volz has more.\nOut with the old. The Obama policy required U.S. agencies to gain approval for offensive operations from an array of stakeholders across the federal government, an arrangement critics, including several Obama administration officials, found overly cumbersome.\nIn with the new? \"Multiple current U.S. officials outside the White House said the strategy was lacking on specifics and didn’t mark a significant departure from the Obama administration’s overall cybersecurity posture.\"\nSenators targeted in email hack schemes. Google tells CNN that a number of U.S. senators have been targeted by nation-state hackers.\nGoogle allows apps to scan data from Gmail accounts. Google in a recent letter to senators said it allows outside app developers to access Gmail information about what products people buy, where they travel and which friends and colleagues they interact with the most. The WSJ reports that the letter likely will provide fodder for what could be a contentious Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday on data privacy practices.\nDave Limp, senior vice president of Amazon Devices, introduced microwave that can be controlled by Alexa. Photo: STEPHEN BRASHEAR/GETTY IMAGES\nAmazon’s new microwave: ‘Alexa, please defrost my chicken’. In a bid to control the smart home of the future, Amazon.com Inc. is offering makers of electronics a small chip that would let people use their voice to command everything from microwaves and coffee machines to room fans and guitar amplifiers. The WSJ's Laura Stevens has more.\nFormer Google CEO sees internet bifurcation. Eric Schmidt believes that the internet is headed for a split between a U.S.-led one, and one led by China, CNBC reports. \"I think you're going to see fantastic leadership in products and services from China,\" he told a San Francisco audience on Wednesday. \"There's a real danger that along with those products and services comes a different leadership regime from government.\"\nGoogle workers discussed tweaking search to counter travel ban. Days after the Trump administration’s controversial travel ban in January 2017, Google employees discussed how they could tweak search-related functions to show users how to contribute to pro-immigration organizations and contact lawmakers and government agencies, The Journal's John D. McKinnon and Douglas MacMillan have more.\nAdobe buys marketing-automation firm Marketo for $4.75 billion. The Journal's Alexandra Bruell says its the company's largest acquisition ever and the latest sign of its ambition to become a one-stop-shop for marketers.\nAbandoned IT integration linked to bank failures. Danske Bank A/S this week said tech failures contributed to events that enabled a single branch, based in Tallinn, Estonia, to serve as a pipeline for carrying illicit funds from Russia and other ex-Soviet states. The WSJ's Samuel Rubenfeld reports that the Estonian branch had its own IT platform, and therefore wasn’t covered by the same customer, risk and transaction monitoring systems as other parts of the Danish bank. Lack of technological integration across banking units has been a priority in recent U.S. anti-money-laundering investigations, attorneys said.\nEU demands Facebook update ‘misleading’ fine print. Věra Jourová, the European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, on Thursday warned Facebook Inc. that if it doesn’t change its “misleading terms of service” by the end of the year, that she will call on consumer-protection authorities in EU countries to impose sanctions. A spokesman for Facebook tells the WSJ's Valentina Pop and Sam Schechner that the company has made changes to its terms based on regulators.\nWHAT YOUR CEO IS READING\nAI to the rescue. Here comes artificial intelligence, ready to upend both jobs and established attitudes on talking to inanimate kitchen objects. Time to panic, right? Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Google Inc.’s DeepMind, wants you to believe that the years ahead offer the best opportunity in generations to reduce human suffering. From identifying malignant melanomas to one day developing the molecules that lead to clean energy, \"AI’s potential uses are broad,” he writes in the Economist, But to guarantee that AI's aforementioned potential is directed at the good stuff, technologists, policymakers and regular folk need to come together and lay out ground rules that \"guarantee ethical outcomes.\"\nLet's hear it for the B's. The A players may get the attention, the big salaries and the more elaborate office birthdays, but every executive should know that it is the B players--the introverts, the remote workers, the people who go about their jobs without proper office supplies--who put the capital G in \"the Grind.\" Executives may need to work a little harder to connect with the B players, but it's worth it, Liz Kislik writes in Harvard Business Review. Lose them and who is going to do the actual work?\nCyberwar needs some rules. A key step in improving national cyber policy is defining what cyber event constitutes a globally recognized act of war, writes Foreign Policy’s Tarah Wheeler. Failure in the U.S. and elsewhere to draw the line, in policy, between \"nefarious economic or intelligence activities and true cyberattacks\" is a reflection of cyber immaturity, where governments often defer to consultants and contractors. Ms. Wheeler writes: \"Responding to major cyberattacks requires battalions of highly trained government analysts, not armies of accountants and attorneys.”\nAssembly required? The National Safety Council told the WSJ recently that it was concerned with the digitilization of car dashboards, saying it distracted from driving. But when the day comes that autonomous vehicles barrel down Interstate 5, IKEA is so there, MIT Technology Review reports. The Swedish retail giant’s “furniture living lab” is showing off new concepts for the driverless future. Behold Office on Wheels, a movable meeting space, where you and your team can spend the whole day zipping around town, hammering out benchmarks. How about a moveable feast, yes, with a café on wheels. Wheeee!\nEVERYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW\nGlobal stocks extended their gains, capping a week where investors looked past international trade tensions and bet that a strengthening U.S. economy could keep the rally intact. (WSJ)\nLawyers for Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, said she is prepared to testify if conditions are met. (WSJ)\nU.S. home sales stalled in August, highlighting a growing disconnect between the sluggish housing market and the strong economy that is powering stocks to new highs. (WSJ)\nWells Fargo plans to cut as many as 26,500 jobs over the next three years as it adjusts to changing consumer behavior and recovers from a series of scandals. (WSJ)\nThe Morning Download cues up the most important news in business technology every weekday morning.\nWOMEN IN IT\nPrevious Women Tech Hiring Sees Minuscule Growth, Short of Hopes Next The Lagging Impact of Technology Advances on Productivity Growth"