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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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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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MCP, ACP, and Agent2Agent set standards for scalable AI results

CIO

Open protocols aimed at standardizing how AI systems connect, communicate, and absorb context are providing much needed maturity to an AI market that sees IT leaders anxious to pivot from experimentation to practical solutions. Three protocols in particular Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent Communication Protocol (ACP), and Agent2Agent show promise for helping IT leaders put two-plus years of failed proof-of-concept projects behind them, opening a new era of measurable AI progress , experts

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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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Struggling to Scale Test Coverage Under Pressure?

When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.

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I changed 8 settings on my Pixel phone to instantly improve the battery life

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

With the right battery settings, your Pixel can last longer than ever, during the day and across years of regular use.

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The Great Compute Buildout: How AI Drives a $7 Trillion Infrastructure Boom

Ooda Loop

The global AI boom has triggered an unprecedented investment wavenearly $7 trillion by 2030to scale data centers that fuel artificial intelligence, sparking intense competition, uncertainty, and strategic risk across industries. An April 2025 report from McKinsey quantifies the monumental stakes and capital requirements to meet surging AI compute demands.

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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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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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5 Skills Kids (and Adults) Need in an AI World

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Last week, I found myself hunched over my laptop at 10 p.m. (hey, that’s late for me!), wrestling with a coding problem. After hours of frustration, I stepped away and made a cup of tea. When I returned, I did what any self-respecting technologist in 2025 would do: I backtracked, reformulated my question, and asked ChatGPT for help. Im constantly asked questions like “Should my kids learn to code?

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Subscription Management in the SaaS World: Challenges and Solutions

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Digital twins at scale: Building the AI architecture that will reshape enterprise operations

CIO

Digital twins, a sophisticated concept within the realm of artificial intelligence (AI), simulate real-world entities within a digital framework. This digital representation allows for real-time monitoring, analysis and optimization of systems. Developing a robust technical architecture for digital twins necessitates a comprehensive understanding of several foundational components and integration of advanced technologies.

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Datadog Expands Scope of Observability Ambitions

DevOps.com

Datadog is expanding the scope of its DevOps portfolio following a pair of acquisitions that add feature flagging and data observability capabilities to its portfolio of services.

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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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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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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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Sri Lanka’s neutrality strained as India-Pakistan tensions rise after Kashmir attacks

Ooda Loop

Sri Lankas long-standing policy of non-alignment is facing renewed scrutiny, as deepening ties with India strain its neutrality amid rising tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad. Analysts say Colombos recent tilt towards India in the security realm most notably through a formal defence pact risks unsettling its delicate balancing act, particularly as it […] The post Sri Lankas neutrality strained as India-Pakistan tensions rise after Kashmir attacks appeared first on OODAloop.

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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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Continuous Compliance for Cloud-Native CI/CD Pipelines

DevOps.com

In the world of regulated industries, continuous compliance is the missing bridge between DevOps speed and audit-grade accountability.

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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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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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Sony will give you a free 55-inch 4K TV right now, and there are many ways to qualify

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

BOGO deals for TVs are rare, which makes this Memorial Day deal from Sony even better: If you buy the latest flagship panel, you'll get an X77L 4K Google TV totally free.

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Strava Valuation Powers Up To $2.2B As Fitness Startup Funding Falters

Crunchbase News

Fitness app Strava reached a $2.2 billion valuation after raising an undisclosed amount of new funding including debt, The Wall Street Journal reported. The new deal represents a nice boost for the company, which last raised funding in 2020 at a $1.5 billion valuation. Sequoia Capital led the round and was joined by existing investors including TCV , Jackson Square Ventures and Go4it Capital.

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Data analytics and AI on and off the court in Orlando

CIO

Even though they bowed out of this season in the first round of the playoffs, the Orlando Magic has reached the NBA Finals twice since the team was founded in 1989. Despite hoisting the Larry OBrien Championship Trophy eluding the team so far, however, the franchise is at the forefront of digital innovation to revolutionize the fan experience. Sellout games have historically served as motivation for the team to exceed expectations for home crowds.

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AI First Puts Humans First

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

While I prefer AI native to describe the product development approach centered on AI that were trying to encourage at OReilly, Ive sometimes used the term AI first in my communications with OReilly staff. And so I was alarmed and dismayed to learn that in the press, that term has now come to mean using AI to replace people. Many Silicon Valley investors and entrepreneurs even seem to view putting people out of work as a massive opportunity.

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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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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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Why I recommend this Nikon camera to most beginner photographers - especially at this price

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Your smartphone camera is very capable, but the Nikon Z50 II makes spending more for a true imaging sensor worth it.

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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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AI security analytics: Turning your data into defenses

CIO

Artificial intelligence (AI) is helping security teams modernize how they detect, investigate, and respond to threats not by replacing analysts or reinventing cybersecurity, but by making existing workflows faster, smarter, and more efficient. For enterprises with rich internal data and well-established security practices, AI is a natural next step.

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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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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.

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How Microservices Guardrails Help Teams Move Faster 

DevOps.com

Although a microservices architecture offers agility and scalability, it often introduces new complexity that can become overwhelming if left unchecked.

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First $1B business with one human employee will happen in 2026, says Anthropic CEO

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Thinking of launching a startup? AI could be your staff.

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