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Bliki: Say Your Writing

Martin Fowler

Here's one of the best tips I know for writers, which was told to me by Bruce Eckel. One you've got a reasonable draft, read it out loud. By doing this you'll find bits that don't sound right, and need to fix. Interestingly, you don't actually have to vocalize (thus making a noise) but your lips have to move. 1 This advice is for those who, like me, strive to get a conversational tone to their writings.

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Are CIOs buckling under the weight of expectation to deliver business value?

CIO

Modern CIOs are expected to contribute to areas that stretch far beyond the confines of the traditional IT organization. The board might have previously looked to other executives for the lead on strategy, value, and commercial growth, but modern CIOs must step up and take responsibility for areas once assumed by other business leaders. In fact, Gartners 2024 CIO Agenda survey highlights how 80% of CIOs have expanded their role , with 18% leading non-IT functions.

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Fixing oversized artifacts AWS CDK Pipelines

Xebia

I built a workload using AWS CDK, and the CodePipeline stopped working at the worst moment. It was right at the end of the sprint; we had done multiple deployments before. But at this moment, the moment you might recognize. When this last PR is released, we will have met our deadline! Kaboom, the pipeline stops working, and the reason for the failure is not related to the changes you made.

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How To Build A Capital-Efficient Startup For Long-Term Value

Crunchbase News

By Aashish Mehta In todays startup landscape, raising venture capital is often treated as a milestone proof that a company is gaining traction. But after building and exiting multiple ventures, Ive come to see things differently. While, depending on the industry, VC funding can unlock important resources and mentorship, its not the only path to success, and often not the most sustainable one.

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Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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I changed 7 Samsung phone settings to give it an instant battery boost

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Even if your Samsung phone offers battery life that's just good enough, adjusting these settings will take things up a notch.

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SAP teams up with Alibaba to host Cloud ERP workloads in China

CIO

SAP has a big new customer in China that, it hopes, will also help it do business there. Alibaba Group, the Chinese e-commerce giant and cloud computing infrastructure provider, is adopting SAPs Cloud ERP Private for its own enterprise infrastructure, and the companies plan to jointly sell their services. Together, SAP and Alibaba will help enterprises implement SAP Integrated Business Planning and deploy SAP Cloud ERP and SAP Cloud ERP Private suites on Alibabas cloud infrastructure, according

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Text-to-image basics with Amazon Nova Canvas

AWS Machine Learning - AI

AI image generation has emerged as one of the most transformative technologies in recent years, revolutionizing how you create and interact with visual content. Amazon Nova Canvas is a generative model in the suite of Amazon Nova creative models that enables you to generate realistic and creative images from plain text descriptions. This post serves as a beginners guide to using Amazon Nova Canvas.

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Japan Adopts Active Cyber Defense Further Normalizing Weaponized Cyberspace

Ooda Loop

apan has been a frequent target of both cybercriminals as well as nation state actors that have targeted its critical infrastructure as well as private sector with a variety of attacks that have ranged from DDoS attacks, data breaches, and state-led cyber espionage campaigns. The post Japan Adopts Active Cyber Defense Further Normalizing Weaponized Cyberspace appeared first on OODAloop.

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AI developers should be philosophers as much as technologists

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

MIT research finds that philosophy is what truly determines AI success.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed In May: AI Shoplifting Prevention, Smart Irrigation And Helping Startups Shut Down

Crunchbase News

This is a monthly column that runs down five interesting startup funding deals every month that may have flown under the radar. Check out our April entry here. We thought we might be able to write this column and include some startups not related to AI, but that turned out to be too difficult. Every under-the-radar funded company that caught our eye in May relied heavily on artificial intelligence, whether that was to help farms reduce water usage, trucking companies deploy fleets more efficient

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How writing makes you a stronger leader

CIO

The underrated edge of high performers: Writing as a discipline Ive been fortunate to work alongside some of the most capable thinkers, analysts and operators from astrophysics and academia to intelligence teams in national security and product teams in cybersecurity startups. Across these worlds, one lesson has stood out again and again. Its not always the most charismatic or technically brilliant people who succeed.

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Gemma 3 27B model now available on Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

AWS Machine Learning - AI

We are excited to announce the availability of Gemma 3 27B Instruct models through Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. With this launch, developers and data scientists can now deploy Gemma 3, a 27-billion-parameter language model, along with its specialized instruction-following versions, to help accelerate building, experimentation, and scalable deployment of generative AI solutions on AWS.

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Pump Up the Praise: Fun Employee Appreciation on a Budget

Let's Grow Leaders

Employee Appreciation on a Budget? Bring the Balloons So you’re bringing your team together and want to include a bit of employee appreciation. Maybe its been a while. You want to start stronggood energy, some connection, perhaps even a little fun. And you definitely want to recognize the great stuff your team has been doing. But your budget? Its the kind of budget that says, What if we just clap enthusiastically?

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Subscription Management in the SaaS World: Challenges and Solutions

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The Linux 6.15 kernel arrives - and it's big a victory for Rust fans

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Linux 6.15 kernel comes with new Rust-cased drivers, performance gains, and more.

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Where Capability Meets Opportunity: Introducing the Tenable Research Special Operations Team

Tenable

Meet the elite squad thats hunting the next major cyberattack. With more than 150 years of combined research experience and expert analysis, the Tenable Research Special Operations team arms organizations with the critical and actionable intelligence necessary to proactively defend the modern attack surface. The digital battlefield is constantly shifting.

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What ROI? AI misfires spur CEOs to rethink adoption

CIO

Nearly three years after the release of ChatGPT kicked off a new revolution, consistent AI ROI remains elusive. Just 25% of AI initiatives in recent years have lived up to ROI expectations, according to CEOs surveyed by the IBM Institute for Business Value. Meanwhile, organizations have achieved enterprise-wide rollouts with only 16% of AI projects.

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New Amazon Bedrock Data Automation capabilities streamline video and audio analysis

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Organizations across a wide range of industries are struggling to process massive amounts of unstructured video and audio content to support their core business applications and organizational priorities. Amazon Bedrock Data Automation helps them meet this challenge by streamlining application development and automating workflows that use content from documents, images, audio, and video.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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AI Share Of Startup Funding Fluctuates Sharply By Stage

Crunchbase News

U.S. artificial intelligence startups are gobbling up a large share of funding at all stages. However, the biggest slice of investment is coming at late stage. That was the broad finding from a Crunchbase analysis of funding by stage to companies in AI-related industry categories. Over the past year, nearly half of venture funding went to AI-related enterprises, data indicates.

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I put Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and unlocked a new way of computing

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The Piccolo N150 is a tiny eight-inch laptop with more power than it suggests and a nice display. But it also has a few surprises.

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Harness Adds MCP Server to Expose Data to Third-Party AI Tools

DevOps.com

Harness today revealed it has developed a model context protocol (MCP) server through which it will be able to provide more context to artificial intelligence (AI) tools, agents and platforms that are being used to build software.

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Avery Dennison takes culture-first approach to AI transformation

CIO

Avery Dennisons culture-first approach to AI adoption has paid off considerably in productivity and financial gains for the global labeling and RFID solutions manufacturer. The companys program to drive AI use throughout the enterprise, emphasizing humans in the loop, engaged more than 250 company executives and 1,000 employees in over 20 AI pilot projects in 2024.

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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 Rufus doubled their inference speed and handled Prime Day traffic with AWS AI chips and parallel decoding

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the way we interact with technology, but their widespread adoption has been blocked by high inference latency, limited throughput, and high costs associated with text generation. These inefficiencies are particularly pronounced during high-demand events like Amazon Prime Day, where systems like Rufusthe Amazon AI-powered shopping assistantmust handle massive scale while adhering to strict latency and throughput requirements.

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Improving National Security Through Secure AI

Palo Alto Networks

When I began my career as a Special Agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, I witnessed firsthand how policymakers initially approached national security issues related to cyberattacks. They often took an 'as needed' approach to incidents, like ransomware attacks, disrupted public infrastructure, or theft of intellectual property.

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I wore smart glasses with built-in hearing aids for a week, and they're a promising alternative

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The Nuance Audio hearing glasses offer a fresh take on over-the-counter hearing aids, offering a stylish and discreet option to assist with your hearing and vision.

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INE Security and RedTeam Hacker Academy Announce Partnership to Advance Cybersecurity Skills in the Middle East

DevOps.com

Cary, North Carolina, 28th May 2025, CyberNewsWire

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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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The agentic AI assist Stanford University cancer care staff needed

CIO

Every day, thousands of people are diagnosed with cancer around the world. Each case is unique, with hundreds of distinct tumor subtypes that require treatment protocols involving new drugs, clinical trials, and device-based therapies.Leading cancer centers, therefore, rely heavily on multidisciplinary tumor boards, or specialized sessions where radiologists, pathologists, surgeons, oncologists, genetic counselors, and other specialists perform sophisticated analyses of vast amounts of patient d

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Building a multimodal RAG based application using Amazon Bedrock Data Automation and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Organizations today deal with vast amounts of unstructured data in various formats including documents, images, audio files, and video files. Often these documents are quite large, creating significant challenges such as slower processing times and increased storage costs. Extracting meaningful insights from these diverse formats in the past required complex processing pipelines and significant development effort.

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Cortex XDR Named 2025 Gartner Customers’ Choice for Endpoint Security

Palo Alto Networks

Highest Willingness to Recommend Score of All Gartner Customers Choice Vendors For cybersecurity professionals evaluating new technologies, there's nothing more illuminating than the real-world experiences of peers who defend against threats every single day. The 2025 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of Customer Report captures this practical reality with insight spanning hundreds of companies worldwide.