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9 IT skills where expertise pays the most

CIO

Tech companies still hold a competitive edge when it comes to salaries, despite mass layoffs across the industry in recent years. Despite reductions in staff, there are tech skills that continue to demand a premium salary, driving industry competition to hire talent with the right skills. The average annual salary for tech professionals inside the tech industry is $114,861, while those outside it earn about $108,674, according to the Dice 2025 Tech Salary Report.

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Don't make Google sell Chrome

David Heinemeier Hansson

The web will be far worse off if Google is forced to sell Chrome , even if it's to atone for legitimate ad-market monopoly abuses. Which mean we'll all be worse off as the web would lose ground to actual monopoly platforms, like the iOS App Store and Google's own Play Store. First, Chrome won the browser war fair and square by building a better surfboard for the internet.

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Vibe Coding, Vibe Checking, and Vibe Blogging

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

For the past decade and a half, I’ve been exploring the intersection of technology, education, and design as a professor of cognitive science and design at UC San Diego. Some of you might have read my recent piece for O’Reilly Radar where I detailed my journey adding AI chat capabilities to Python Tutor , the free visualization tool that’s helped millions of programming students understand how code executes.

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How Much Should I Be Spending On Observability?

Honeycomb

Part 2: Observability cost drivers and levers of control I recently wrote an update to my old piece on the cost of observability , on how much you should spend on observability tooling. The answer, of course, is its complicated. Really, really complicated. Some observability platforms are approaching AWS levels of pricing complexity these days. In last weeks piece, we talked about some of the factors that are driving costs up , both good and bad, and about whether your observability bill is (or

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Subscription Management in the SaaS World: Challenges and Solutions

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3 Overlooked Communication Skills to Be a Leader People Want to Follow

Let's Grow Leaders

Episode 300: What separates a leader people want to follow from one they just tolerateand could it be as simple as how you say, “Great job”? If you’re like most leaders, you’re juggling tasks, solving problems, and keeping your team afloatbut somewhere in the chaos, encouragement gets overlooked. And yet, your team is craving it.

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From Playing Not to Lose to Playing to Win: A Game Plan for Senior Leaders

Next Level Blog

A few weeks ago, I had breakfast with a friend who spent twenty years as a senior engineer at Intel. Ten years ago, Apple lured him away to build a new engineering team. Knowing Intel has lost roughly 67 % of its market cap in the last five yearswhile NVIDIA has sprinted aheadI asked him, What happened? He didnt hesitate. They wouldnt risk killing the x86 cash cow, so the world passed them by.

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Endor Labs Adds AI Agents to Automate Application Security Reviews

DevOps.com

Endor Labs today added a set of artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its platform, specifically trained to identify security defects in applications and suggest remediations.

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How the 2026 Medicare Advantage Rate Announcement Creates New Opportunities for Health Tech Innovation

John Snow Labs

Enhancing Risk Adjustment Accuracy and Revenue Integrity with AI-Powered HCC Coding In April, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its 2026 Medicare Advantage (MA) Rate Announcement, projecting a 5.06% average increase in payments to MA plans. Thats a notable jump from the 3.70% increase we saw in 2025. More than just a financial adjustment, this signals growing confidence in the Medicare Advantage modeland with it, growing expectations.

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Help! Workplace Distractions Stole My Zen (and Left a Trail of Bananas)

Let's Grow Leaders

You Scheduled Time to Focus: Workplace Distractions Laughed and Brought Snacks You cared out the time, turned off your notifications to remove workplace distractions. Maybe you’ve even gathered your team around a campfire (or at least a flip chart), and focused on what matters most. Strategy. Innovation. That MIT (Most Important Thing) youve been meaning to tackle.

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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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Thanks to AI, the data reckoning has arrived

CIO

In the race to build the smartest LLM, the rallying cry has been more data! That same mantra has made its way to company boardrooms, too. As businesses hurry to harness AI to gain a competitive edge, finding and using as much company data as possible may feel like the most reasonable approach. After all, if more data leads to better LLMs , shouldnt the same be true for AI business solutions?

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Few Bright Spots In Asia’s Slowing Venture Market

Crunchbase News

Asias venture market continues to decline at an alarming rate , and its not just China weighing it down. Four of the top six venture markets in the region saw declines. Along with China, India, Singapore and Japan all sank lower. Only Israel and Japan saw upticks as the region continues to battle economic fluctuations, conflicts, geopolitical tensions and a possible trade war.

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From Code to Impact: The New Role of Engineers in an AI-Driven World

DevOps.com

Its no longer a question of if AI will change engineers roles it already has. The real question is, how can engineers amplify their impact in this new reality?Exploring what's next for engineers.

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Use Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing for cost and latency benefits

AWS Machine Learning - AI

In December, we announced the preview availability for Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing , which provides a single serverless endpoint to efficiently route requests between different foundation models within the same model family. To do this, Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing dynamically predicts the response quality of each model for a request and routes the request to the model it determines is most appropriate based on cost and response quality, as shown in the following figur

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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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Embracing the Future of Work with Innovations in Prisma SASE

Palo Alto Networks

We are witnessing a seismic shift in the way we work. The browser has evolved from a simple utility to the central workspace of modern organizations, where employees connect, collaborate and create. From using GenAI tools to accessing business-critical apps, the majority of work now happens in the browser. In fact, employees spend over 85% of their time working in the browser.

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Has Oracle knocked SAP off the ERP throne?

CIO

According to calculations by analysts from Apps Run The World (ARTW), SAP lost its market leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) to rival Oracle last year. As the market researchers explain , Oracle owes its new top position to the fast-growing Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP products for accounting, order management and other business-critical processes.

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Chainguard Secures $356M Series D At $3.5B

Crunchbase News

Software supply chain security startup Chainguard raised a massive $356 million Series D at a valuation of $3.5 billion as companies look for ways to secure software development. The new funding was co-led by new investor Kleiner Perkins and existing investor IVP. New investors Salesforce Ventures 1 and Datadog Ventures, plus all other existing investors also participated in the round, the company says.

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Instant Updates with Flutter Hot Code Push Using Shorebird

InnovationM

How I Fell in Love with Shorebirds Flutter Code Push? A few weeks ago, I was tearing my hair out over a tiny bug in my Flutter appa misaligned button that was driving users nuts. Fixing it was easy, but the thought of waiting days for App Store approval? Pure torture. Then I stumbled across Shorebird , a tool that lets you beam Dart code updates straight to your app, no store hassle required.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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ConfusedComposer: A Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Impacting GCP Composer

Tenable

Tenable Research discovered a privilege-escalation vulnerability in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that is now fixed and which we dubbed ConfusedComposer. The vulnerability could have allowed an identity with permission (composer.environments.update) to edit a Cloud Composer environment to escalate privileges to the default Cloud Build service account.

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Cycode Adds AI Agent Teammates to Secure Software Supply Chains

DevOps.com

Cycode, this week, added multiple artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its application security posture management (ASPM) capable of monitoring code and offering remediation suggestions. In addition, the company is adding an ability to, in real-time, monitor continuous integration processes running in memory.

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From legacy to lakehouse: Centralizing insurance data with Delta Lake

CIO

In 2025, insurers face a data deluge driven by expanding third-party integrations and partnerships. Many still rely on legacy platforms , such as on-premises warehouses or siloed data systems. These environments often consist of multiple disconnected systems, each managing distinct functions policy administration, claims processing, billing and customer relationship management all generating exponentially growing data as businesses scale.

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From Stranded to Supported: Helping My Customers Land Safely with FireMon

Firemon

When Skybox Security shut down, it raised real concerns for me, not just about employment, but about how the situation could affect the professional credibility Ive built over nearly 25 years in this industry. I had sold Skybox into some of the most security-conscious organizations in Italy, from public sector agencies to enterprise networks, often competing head-to-head with Tufin and AlgoSec.

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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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The Next Electric Unicorns: How the Electron Economy Turns Dumb Power Into Smart Platforms

Crunchbase News

By Evan Caron While Silicon Valley obsesses over the latest AI hallucinations, the real revolution is powering the computer you’re reading this on. Its the electron economy where electricity becomes as programmable as software. The $21 trillion gold rush Twenty-one trillion dollars. That’s how much will be invested in the energy transition, according to BloombergNEF.

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How Infosys improved accessibility for Event Knowledge using Amazon Nova Pro, Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Elemental Media Services

AWS Machine Learning - AI

This post is co-written with Saibal Samaddar, Tanushree Halder, and Lokesh Joshi from Infosys Consulting. Critical insights and expertise are concentrated among thought leaders and experts across the globe. Language barriers often hinder the distribution and comprehension of this knowledge during crucial encounters. Workshops, conferences, and training sessions serve as platforms for collaboration and knowledge sharing, where the attendees can understand the information being conveyed in real-ti

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Veracode Extends Scope and Reach of DevSecOps Portfolio

DevOps.com

Veracode today updated its risk management tool to provide integration with Kubernetes runtime environments, increased integration with code repositories to make it simpler to identify the origin of vulnerabilities and, available shortly, an ability to add tags and classifications to help streamline remediation efforts.

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Broadcom wins Google Cloud Partner of the Year award for fifth year

CIO

Broadcom has once again been recognized with a prestigious 2025 Google Cloud Infrastructure Modernization Partner of the Year for virtualization. This marks our fifth consecutive time being recognized with the honor, a testament to our unwavering commitment to collaborating with Google Cloud to deliver exceptional hybrid cloud solutions. Together, weve built our partnership with customer choice as a top priority, offering flexibility in deployment and unique license portability between on-prem a

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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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Keio University explores utility-scale quantum reservoir computing with Mitsubishi Chemical

Ooda Loop

In 2017, Keio University became one of the worlds first IBM Quantum Hubs, now known Quantum Innovation Centers (QICs). Today, there are over 40 QICs around the globe. QICs use IBM Quantum capabilities and expertise to drive advancements in quantum computing. These international hubs lead novel quantum research, build quantum learning communities, and facilitate the […] The post Keio University explores utility-scale quantum reservoir computing with Mitsubishi Chemical appeared first on OOD

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How Your Startup Can Take Advantage Of The R&D Tax Credit

Crunchbase News

By Sam Leon For founders, innovation is a necessity, but the financial burden of R&D activities can feel prohibitive when determining where to allocate funds. The R&D tax credit is a valuable tool designed to alleviate some of these costs. Introduced in 1981, it was made permanent in 2015 under the PATH Act, and it’s essential for many startups to fully understand how to leverage it.

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Build an AI-powered document processing platform with open source NER model and LLM on Amazon SageMaker

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Archival data in research institutions and national laboratories represents a vast repository of historical knowledge, yet much of it remains inaccessible due to factors like limited metadata and inconsistent labeling. Traditional keyword-based search mechanisms are often insufficient for locating relevant documents efficiently, requiring extensive manual review to extract meaningful insights.