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AI brings complexity to cybersecurity and fraud

CIO

The 2024 Security Priorities study shows that for 72% of IT and security decision makers, their roles have expanded to accommodate new challenges, with Risk management, Securing AI-enabled technology and emerging technologies being added to their plate. Artificial Intelligence has sharpened both edges of the sword, as organizations are better equipped to defend against cybersecurity conundrums that are finessed to be deadly, wide-ranging and impacting operations and market reputation.

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How to improve your planning and forecasting using some math and AI – part 2

Xebia

Intro In the previous article , we analyzed how bad people are at their estimates and checked if probabilistic methods work for solving complex problems. Now, let’s try to use this knowledge with AI! Large Language models & Math LLMs are not designed to make complicated calculations; their role, in simple words, is to predict the most suitable, most probable order of words as their answer.

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3 steps to get your data AI ready

CIO

While many organizations have already run a small number of successful proofs of concept to demonstrate the value of gen AI , scaling up those PoCs and applying the new technology to other parts of the business will never work until producing AI-ready data becomes standard practice. Gartners recent prediction that 60% of AI projects that run without AI-ready data will be abandoned by next year sheds light on the time bomb IT leaders need to immediately diffuse.

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My Team is the Underdog! How do I Motivate Them Now? #AskingforaFriend

Let's Grow Leaders

Asking for a Friend: How Do You Inspire Your Team When They’re the Underdog? You know that feeling. The buzzer just sounded. You and your scrappy band of underdogs are stepping onto the court, and its clear the other guys are taller, faster, and, lets be honest, a whole lot shinier. You’re the 16th seed. Theyre the number one. But this isn’t March Madnessthis is Tuesday morning.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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How to Integrate Event-Driven Ansible With Kafka

Dzone - DevOps

Integrating event-driven Ansible with Kafka enables seamless real-time automation by continuously monitoring Kafka topics and triggering Ansible playbooks based on specific events. This integration is particularly beneficial in IT operations, where it streamlines automated incident response, reducing reliance on manual intervention. Leveraging Kafkas distributed architecture ensures high scalability, rapid event processing, and improved system resilience.

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A strategic approach to legacy platform modernization: Minimizing risk while maximizing value

CIO

Legacy platforms meaning IT applications and platforms that businesses implemented decades ago, and which still power production workloads are what you might call the third rail of IT estates. IT leaders often worry that if they touch legacy systems, they could break them in ways that lead to catastrophic problems just as touching the high-voltage third rail on a subway line could kill you.

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GitHub Copilot – Change the Narrative

Xebia

TL;DR: Chancing the narrative on GitHub Copilot from focus on engineers to focus on a sturdy (DevOps) foundation to be able to go faster. Next frontier: the rest of our organization Premise: current narrative is not helping In my opinion we need to shift the narrative on enabling engineers to use GitHub Copilot. Currently there is a lot of focus on the engineers that can produce code easier and faster using GitHub Copilot.

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Harness the power of MCP servers with Amazon Bedrock Agents

AWS Machine Learning - AI

AI agents extend large language models (LLMs) by interacting with external systems, executing complex workflows, and maintaining contextual awareness across operations. Amazon Bedrock Agents enables this functionality by orchestrating foundation models (FMs) with data sources, applications, and user inputs to complete goal-oriented tasks through API integration and knowledge base augmentation.

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The Week’s Biggest Funding Rounds: Fleetio And Mercury Nab Massive Rounds

Crunchbase News

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2025 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the weeks top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out the biggest funding rounds of last week here. A big week for big-money rounds.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Building a Scalable ML Pipeline and API in AWS

Dzone - DevOps

With rapid progress in the fields of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), it is important to deploy the AI/ML model efficiently in production environments. This blog post discusses an end-to-end ML pipeline on AWS SageMaker that leverages serverless computing, event-trigger-based data processing, and external API integrations. The architecture downstream ensures scalability, cost efficiency, and real-time access to applications.

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Binning MapType, Keeping Yield. How Variant Delivered 10x Speed for Semiconductor Test Logs in Databricks

Xebia

“The fine art of data engineering lies in maintaining the balance between data availability and system performance.” Ted Malaska At Melexis, a global leader in advanced semiconductor solutions, the fusion of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is driving a manufacturing revolution. By deploying predictive analytics and intelligent automation, the company optimizes production yields, preempts equipment failures, and ensures the precision demanded by automotive and i

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Radar Trends to Watch: April 2025

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

March has been the biggest month that Trends has ever had. In addition to almost daily announcements about AI, a lot has been going on in programming, in security, in operations (which usually doesnt merit its own topic), and even in quantum computing. Its been a long time since weve had much to say about social media, but with a reboot of Digg, a new attempt at Napster, and alternatives to Facebook and Instagram, were wondering: Has the world tired of the current platform?

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New York Startup Funding Off To A Slow Start In 2025

Crunchbase News

For New York metro-area startups, its starting out as a big year for exits. This month, Google announced plans to acquire New York-based cybersecurity provider Wiz for $32 billion in what could rank as the largest startup acquisition of all time. Meanwhile, another metro-area company Livingston, New Jersey-based CoreWeave is on track to go public at a reported target valuation around $32 billion.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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The Most Overlooked Part of Difficult Conversations? Location, Location, Location.

Let's Grow Leaders

Difficult Conversations: It’s not just WHAT you say, BUT WHERE you say it If youve ever been blindsided by feedback via Slack, had your stomach drop at a cryptic text from your boss, oryes, it happensbeen let go over Zoom, youre not alone. One of the most common complaints I hear about difficult conversations is where they are held. We talk a lot about what to say in a difficult conversation, and how to say itbut we dont talk enough about where that conversation should happen.

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How CIOs are stepping up as business strategists

CIO

Once a strictly tech role managing an organizations internal needs, the CIO role has seen a massive tectonic shift. With technology rapidly shaping business outcomes, and the tech infrastructure supporting every aspect of business, CIOs much deservedly now occupy a seat at the table. We speak to CIOs about their multifaceted role, and how theyve embraced the change in their scope.

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Enable Amazon Bedrock cross-Region inference in multi-account environments

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Amazon Bedrock cross-Region inference capability that provides organizations with flexibility to access foundation models (FMs) across AWS Regions while maintaining optimal performance and availability. However, some enterprises implement strict Regional access controls through service control policies (SCPs) or AWS Control Tower to adhere to compliance requirements, inadvertently blocking cross-Region inference functionality in Amazon Bedrock.

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Product Design vs Platform Design for Software Development

Dzone - DevOps

An enterprise architect must understand the business's need for building either a platform or a product. A product is software that has off-the-shelf, more generic features and functions. In contrast, a platform is a software or service that allows external parties to extend and develop complementary functions and services. Choosing the right fit for business needs is extremely important after careful consideration of factors for driving product/platform development.

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The 2025 Recruitment Playbook

The 2025 Recruitment Playbook by Procom is a strategic guide tailored for hiring managers to navigate the evolving talent landscape. Highlighting innovations like AI-driven tools and data analytics, the playbook empowers leaders to streamline processes, enhance candidate experiences , and foster diversity and inclusion. It provides actionable insights for every recruitment stage—from sourcing and screening to onboarding and retention.

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Cybersecurity Firm Island Raises $250M, Jumps Valuation To $4.8B

Crunchbase News

Dallas-based enterprise browser developer Island raised a $250 million Series E at a $4.8 billion valuation. The new round was led by Coatue Management , with several existing investors participating in the round, per the company. The new valuation represents a 60% jump from last April when Island raised a $175 million Series D at a $3 billion valuation, also led by Coatue.

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How to Hire an iPhone App Developers in 2025

Xicom

Your endless search for, how to hire an iOS app developer ends here with this blog. From parameters to the cost to hire, this guide for hiring an iOS app developer encompasses all the necessary details that you would require to find an iOS app developer to build your iOS app. <p>The post How to Hire an iPhone App Developers in 2025 first appeared on Xicom Blog | Software, Mobile App Development.

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Siemens and Accenture launch joint business group to transform manufacturing

CIO

At Hannover Messe 2025,Accenture and Siemens announced an extension of their strategic partnership in the form of the Accenture Siemens Business Group, an Accenture-based joint business unit that will employ 7,000 professionals with manufacturing and IT expertise worldwide. The group will develop software-defined products and factories, combining industrial technology with AI-supported engineering and manufacturing expertise.

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AWS App Studio introduces a prebuilt solutions catalog and cross-instance Import and Export

AWS Machine Learning - AI

AWS App Studio is a generative AI-powered service that uses natural language to build business applications, empowering a new set of builders to create applications in minutes. With App Studio, technical professionals such as IT project managers, data engineers, enterprise architects, and solution architects can quickly develop applications tailored to their organizations needswithout requiring deep software development skills.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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Cybersecurity Leaders Share Three Challenges Exposure Management Helps Them Solve

Tenable

Each Monday, the Tenable Exposure Management Academy provides the practical, real-world guidance you need to shift from vulnerability management to exposure management. In this blog, we share three challenges cybersecurity leaders say exposure management helps them solve. You can read the entire Exposure Management Academy series here. Traditional vulnerability management is undergoing a transformation.

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SoftBank And OpenAI Make History With Largest Startup Financing Ever

Crunchbase News

In the history of startup funding, SoftBank s announcement today that it is backing an investment of up to $40 billion in OpenAI is in a league of its own. No other financing even comes close. The next-closest was another OpenAI deal: Microsoft s $10 billion financing in 2023. That was not a traditional startup financing round, however, as the money in it is to be paid over an extended period and includes a strategic partnership.

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I've been kidnapped by Robert Caro

Martin Fowler

I've always enjoyed reading, and for most of my life I've particularly enjoyed reading history. I've head many great things about Robert Caro's books, but was deterred by their size. Finally, with his first book newly available as an ebook, I decided to dip my toes in. The books are too good for me to escape.

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SAP adoption surges in Europe as enterprises embrace cloud

CIO

Enterprises in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland are accelerating their transition to cloud-based ERP solutions, with SAP playing a key role in their digital transformation strategies. Besides, there has been a significant rise in SAP S/4HANA and cloud adoption, reflecting a broader shift toward scalable and efficient IT infrastructure, according to a report by Germanys largest SAP user group, DSAG.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Introducing AWS MCP Servers for code assistants (Part 1)

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Were excited to announce the open source release of AWS MCP Servers for code assistants a suite of specialized Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that bring Amazon Web Services (AWS) best practices directly to your development workflow. Our specialized AWS MCP servers combine deep AWS knowledge with agentic AI capabilities to accelerate development across key areas.

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Foundation Model for Personalized Recommendation

Netflix Tech

By Ko-Jen Hsiao , Yesu Feng and Sudarshan Lamkhede Motivation Netflixs personalized recommender system is a complex system, boasting a variety of specialized machine learned models each catering to distinct needs including Continue Watching and Todays Top Picks for You. (Refer to our recent overview for more details). However, as we expanded our set of personalization algorithms to meet increasing business needs, maintenance of the recommender system became quite costly.

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The 3 Golden M&A Rules Founders And CEOs Should Follow

Crunchbase News

By Anas Nader With signs indicating that 2025 will finally bring the upswing in M&A the market has long been predicting, many management teams (and their investors) will be looking to pursue a buy and build strategy this year. For founders who are used to being in sales mode, the pivot to being a buyer can be a tricky gear change. Last year, I helmed my scale-up through its first acquisition , bringing a fellow healthtech company into our business.