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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Subscription Management in the SaaS World: Challenges and Solutions

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Land O’Lakes rewrites the rules of product-based data alignment

CIO

The benefits of a product operating model are now well established. Organizations that shift from project- to product-based IT achieve tighter collaboration between business and technology, orienting autonomous, empowered teams around business capabilities to deliver direct business impact. In pursuit of those outcomes, many organizations embed a business lead within each product team, someone responsible for shaping roadmaps, evaluating throughput, and dialing up resources when supply fails to

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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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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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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 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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Beyond the lakehouse: Architecting the open, interoperable data cloud for AI

CIO

AI in the enterprise has become a strategic imperative for every organization, but for it to be truly effective, CIOs need to manage the data layer in a way that can support the evolutionary breakthroughs in large language models and frameworks. They need to move beyond traditional data architecture that is often rigid and siloed, which creates direct impediments to AI innovation and competitive agility.

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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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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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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.

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Finally, Bluetooth trackers for Android users that function better than AirTags (and are cheaper)

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Chipolo's One and Card Point trackers are perfect for anyone who often loses their keys or wallet - and right now, they're on sale.

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AI regulation in the US is heating up, but keeping up will become harder

CIO

Responsible AI is getting a lot of buzz. With policy conversations around the deregulation of AI, weve been led to believe that ethical practices are falling on enterprises, as they largely have since the inception of the technology. This, however, is wrong. The days of AI washing are coming to an end. And while we may see lags in federal oversight, thats not the case for state and local governments.

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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 Startup Aspirin: SAFEs Ease Fundraising Pain, But Read The Fine Print First

Crunchbase News

By Ling Kong In the ever-evolving world of startup finance, one instrument continues to dominate: the Simple Agreement for Future Equity, or SAFE. Born in 2013 as a Y Combinator innovation, the SAFE has become the go-to tool for pre-seed fundraising. According to Carta s State of Startups 2024 report , nearly 90% of pre-priced rounds in Q3 2024 were raised using SAFEs.

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Turkey’s Erdogan appoints legal team to draft new constitution, sparking fears of extended rule

Ooda Loop

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday he has appointed a team of legal experts to start working on a new constitution which critics say could allow him to remain in power beyond 2028, when his current term ends. Erdogan, who has led Turkey as president since 2014 and was prime minister for more […] The post Turkeys Erdogan appoints legal team to draft new constitution, sparking fears of extended rule appeared first on OODAloop.

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The Urgent Call for Responsible AI: Why We Can’t Afford to Wait – Part 1

Perficient

The digital tide of Generative AI is sweeping across the globe, reshaping industries, revolutionizing creativity, and promising a future brimming with unimaginable possibilities. From crafting compelling prose to composing intricate melodies, from designing breathtaking visuals to simulating complex realities, Generative AI has moved from the realm of science fiction into our everyday lives with astonishing speed.