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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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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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The Collaboration Checklist for Leaders: Five Questions to Guide Better Decisions

Let's Grow Leaders

This Quick Gut Check That Can Save Your Team Hours of Rework You move fast. Decisions pile up. Calendars fill. But in the rush to deliver, its easy to overlook the moments that make or break real collaborationthe ones where people feel included, respected, and clear on whats happening and why. This simple collaboration checklist for leaders gives you a pause-and-reset moment before the next big move.

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These 11 Charts Show The State Of Startup Investing At The Beginning Of 2025

Crunchbase News

In Q1 2025, we again saw investment in late-stage startups surge, while venture capitalists spent less money on seed- and early-stage startups globally. That continues a clear trend that has emerged from the Crunchbase dataset in recent quarters: Large, established startups are landing outsized deals and more money, while the youngest companies struggle with fewer investment dollars.

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Subscription Management in the SaaS World: Challenges and Solutions

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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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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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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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TSMC Warns of Limits of Ability to Keep Its AI Chips From China

Ooda Loop

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. listed the challenges of ensuring export control compliance by its customers, months after the companys artificial intelligence silicon was found to have flowed to US-sanctioned Huawei Technologies Co. via intermediaries. TSMCs role in the semiconductor supply chain inherently limits its visibility and information available to it regarding the downstream use or […] The post TSMC Warns of Limits of Ability to Keep Its AI Chips From China appeared first

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Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Apache Airflow® Best Practices: DAG Writing

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!

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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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The Open Cloud Era: The Quiet Tech Revolution Coming To The Enterprise

Crunchbase News

By Gleb Budman A quiet revolution is on the horizon for the tech industry, but its future impact will be loud. Businesses have been trapped for too long within the walled gardens of traditional cloud providers, where high egress fees, limited options and unaffordable pricing are holding back their potential. They are seeking an open cloud: The freedom to choose storage from one provider, compute from another and specialized AI services from a third, all working together seamlessly without puniti

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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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Turn to Exposure Management to Prioritize Risks Based on Business Impact

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 post, Tenable CSO Robert Huber shares practical advice on using an exposure management program to focus on risks that have business impact. You can read the entire Exposure Management Academy series here.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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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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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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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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How to plan for a new business technology operating model

CIO

You dont need an LLM to tell you what the biggest change to IT departments is this year. The evidence is everywhere. Take for example our latest Pulse C-suite survey , published in January where 86% of surveyed executives plan to up their investment in generative AI in 2025, and 60% expecting their gen AI solutions to be scaled across the business a major jump from 36% in 2024.

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The Tumultuous IT Landscape Is Making Hiring More Difficult

After a year of sporadic hiring and uncertain investment areas, tech leaders are scrambling to figure out what’s next. This whitepaper reveals how tech leaders are hiring and investing for the future. Download today to learn more!

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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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Amazon Bedrock Prompt Optimization Drives LLM Applications Innovation for Yuewen Group

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Yuewen Group is a global leader in online literature and IP operations. Through its overseas platform WebNovel , it has attracted about 260 million users in over 200 countries and regions, promoting Chinese web literature globally. The company also adapts quality web novels into films, animations for international markets, expanding the global influence of Chinese culture.

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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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