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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

Security researchers are warning of a significant global rise in Chinese cyber espionage activity against organizations in every industry. Over the course of 2024, researchers from security firm CrowdStrike observed a 150% average increase in intrusions by Chinese threat actors worldwide, with some sectors experiencing two- to three-fold surges. Researchers at the firm also identified seven new Chinese-origin cyber espionage groups in 2024, many of which exhibited specialized targeting and tools

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Cross-Stack RDS User Provisioning and Schema Migrations with AWS Lambda

Xebia

Have you ever been in a situation where you want to provision or configure things cross-stack? Splitting these into logical stacks is always good when dealing with more complex environments. I already shared this in one of my previous blogs. But this also introduces a different problem! Granting access to your database When you use DynamoDB, you have to use IAM to grant access.

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The 8 new rules of IT leadership — and what they replace

CIO

The CIO role continues to evolve, changing as dramatically as the technology it manages and maintains. Moreover, the pace of the chief IT positions transformation seems to be accelerating likewise mirroring the speed of change in the tech stack. As a result, tech executives must lead, manage, and work differently than they did in the past. Here, veteran CIOs, researchers, and advisers share the changes theyre seeing, offering a look at the new rules of IT leadership along with the old ones they

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How Agile fixed an 18-month bottleneck in just two weeks

Agile Alliance

By treating customer feedback as an active backlog and applying Agile discovery principles, a SaaS startup transformed an 18-month stalled request into a delivered solution in just two weeksboosting product velocity, customer retention, and internal collaboration. The post How Agile fixed an 18-month bottleneck in just two weeks first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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The Ultimate Contact Center Buyer's Guide: A Crucial Decision

Harness the True Power of your Contact Center In today’s fast-paced business environment, selecting the right contact center solution is critical for enhancing customer experience, improving operational efficiency, and optimizing costs. This comprehensive guide will walk you through the essential factors to consider when choosing a contact center software that aligns with your business needs.

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The Firefox I loved is gone - how to protect your privacy on it now

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

With Mozilla's recent data and privacy waffling, Firefox users need to be cautious with their data.

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Are you ready for MLOps? 🫵

Xebia

Introduction MLOps has survived the hype cycle and is gaining in maturity. But are we looking at MLOps for answers for the right things? No matter how valuable MLOps can be for you, without proper building blocks in place MLOps cannot live up to its full potential. What are the prerequisites for MLOps? What parts of MLOps should you focus on? When should you even start thinking about MLOps, or when is plain DevOps wiser to focus on first?

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Behind the scenes of building an Agile conference

Agile Alliance

Agile2025 Conference Chair Chris Murman shares how this years event is shaking up traditional formats to deliver fresh, relevant content and a more impactful experience. The post Behind the scenes of building an Agile conference first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Say goodbye to Skype: Microsoft reportedly shutting it down soon

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Guess you'll have to use Teams?

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How to Build Your Own AI Assistant

Harvard Business Review

If you can describe a project in plain language, you have what it takes to customize a valuable AI assistant.

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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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Deep tech disruption: How advanced technologies are transforming businesses

CIO

CEOs, CIOs and CFOs are finding that deep tech is actively driving business innovation and profitability. From AI models that boost sales to robots that slash production costs, advanced technologies are transforming both top-line growth and bottom-line efficiency. Business leaders dont need to be technology experts to grasp this shift; they need vision and urgency.

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Simplify your workflow deployment with Databricks Asset Bundles: Part II

Xebia

In the previous blog post , we introduced Databricks Asset Bundles as a unifying solution for managing and deploying data workflows on Databricks. We explained how bundles enable users to consolidate components such as notebooks, libraries, and configuration files into a single and simplified command-line interface to validate, deploy, and destroy resources seamlessly through the bundle lifecycle.

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Reimagining Agile: Passing the baton

Agile Alliance

Agile Alliance announces it has taken over the ongoing effort to reimagine Agile, building on the foundation laid by the Reimagining Agile Launch Group. The post Reimagining Agile: Passing the baton first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Goodbye Skype, hello Teams: How Microsoft is making the switch easy

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Microsoft confirms it's shutting down Skype, but it has a plan to ease your transition to Teams.

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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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More Good Programming Quotes, Part 6

Henrik Warne

Here are more good programming quotes I have found since my last post. Programming “Configuration is coding in a poorly designed programming language without tests, version control, or documentation.” Gregor Hohpe Its the developers misunderstanding, not the expert knowledge, that gets released in production @ziobrando “The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.” Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy “It is not usually until you’ve built and u

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

Security researchers are warning of a significant global rise in Chinese cyber espionage activity against organizations in every industry. Over the course of 2024, researchers from security firm CrowdStrike observed a 150% average increase in intrusions by Chinese threat actors worldwide, with some sectors experiencing two- to three-fold surges. Researchers at the firm also identified seven new Chinese-origin cyber espionage groups in 2024, many of which exhibited specialized targeting and tools

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Should Your Next Hire Be Fractional?

Crunchbase News

By Roei Samuel Layoffs at Meta and JP Morgan have been making headlines, continuing a trend of workforce reductions that have been a consistent feature of workplace news for some time. In the U.S. tech sector alone, nearly 300,000 people have been laid off since 2023, according to a Crunchbase News tally. An estimated 45% of companies anticipate layoffs in 2025 , with 11% saying workforce reductions are definite and 34% reporting they are likely.

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Pixtral-12B-2409 is now available on Amazon Bedrock Marketplace

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Today, we are excited to announce that Pixtral 12B (pixtral-12b-2409), a state-of-the-art 12 billion parameter vision language model (VLM) from Mistral AI that excels in both text-only and multimodal tasks, is available for customers through Amazon Bedrock Marketplace. Amazon Bedrock Marketplace is a new capability in Amazon Bedrock that enables developers to discover, test, and use over 100 popular, emerging, and specialized foundation models (FMs) alongside the current selection of industry-le

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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This 5-year tech industry forecast predicts some surprising winners - and losers

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Here's what will be hot or not in technology markets over the next five years, as projected by ABI Research. Do you agree?

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Medusa Ransomware Activity Continues to Increase

Symantec

Attacks using this ransomware have displayed consistent TTPs and grown steadily since 2023.

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IT leaders brace for the AI agent management challenge

CIO

With AI agents poised to take over significant portions of enterprise workflows, IT leaders will be faced with an increasingly complex challenge: managing them. There is a pending concern about how to manage AI agents in the cloud, says Dave McCarthy, research vice president at IDC, noting that the expanding availability of AI agents from startups and established vendors will give CIOs asset management, security, and versioning challenges.

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AI: Where in the Loop Should Humans Go?

Honeycomb

AI is everywhere, and its impressive claims are leading to rapid adoption. At this stage, Id qualify it as charismatic technology something that under-delivers on what it promises, but promises so much that the industry still leverages it because we believe it will eventually deliver on these claims. This is a known pattern. In this post, Ill use the example of automation deployments to go over known patterns and risks in order to provide you with a list of questions to ask about potential AI so

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Revolutionize QA: GAPs AI-Driven Accelerators for Smarter, Faster Testing

GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.

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Secure Your 5G Business Transformation

Palo Alto Networks

Its exciting to see the continued momentum of 5G in transforming industries. Do you remember when 3G and 4G first came into the picture? They unlocked opportunities for mobile broadband and video streaming. Now, 5G makes it possible for businesses like yours to connect more devices, enhance decision-making, improve operational efficiency and drive growth.

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Opera is now the first major web browser with AI-based agentic browsing

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

If you've been waiting for a better conjunction of web browser and AI, the wait is almost over, thanks to Opera.

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Law Enforcement Startup Peregrine Hits $2.5B Valuation Mark

Crunchbase News

Law enforcement startup Peregrine Technologies locked up a $190 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital , minting the San Francisco-based firm as a new unicorn at a $2.5 billion valuation. The 7-year-old startup develops data analytics software that allows state and local law enforcement agencies to put together unstructured and disconnected data in order to help understand it better and make decisions.

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How to avoid the hidden costs of onboarding

CIO

For employees, onboarding shapes their first impression of the company, helping them feel welcome and confident in their decision to join. For employers, onboarding involves numerous costs both monetary and less quantifiable that can make or break the bottom line. I truly believe that onboarding is an art. Each new employee brings with them a potential to achieve and succeed.

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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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AI’s Growing Waste Problem—and How to Solve It

Harvard Business Review

To deal with the mountains of hardware being used and discarded in the AI boom, companies need to embrace the circular economy.

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Customize DeepSeek-R1 distilled models using Amazon SageMaker HyperPod recipes – Part 1

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Increasingly, organizations across industries are turning to generative AI foundation models (FMs) to enhance their applications. To achieve optimal performance for specific use cases, customers are adopting and adapting these FMs to their unique domain requirements. This need for customization has become even more pronounced with the emergence of new models, such as those released by DeepSeek.

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Vishing attacks surged 442% last year - how to protect yourself

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Phishing isn't limited to your inbox anymore.

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