Ooda Loop
AUGUST 8, 2024
In 2022, Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas left their jobs developing artificial intelligence at Google. They said the tech giant moved too slowly. So they created Character.AI, a chatbot start-up, and raised nearly $200 million. Last week, Mr. Shazeer and Mr. De Freitas announced that they were returning to Google.
CIO
AUGUST 8, 2024
If you watched DUNE or read the book, then you’ll get my drift: waste not, want not. This story is about three water utilities that worked together, like the fictional Fremen of the desert-planet Arakkis, to build a synergistic system to manage water usage across their entire water sector sustainably and much more efficiently. Farys is a water utility that provides cities and municipalities in Belgium with public domain services and infrastructure management—from the distribution and transport
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DevOps.com
AUGUST 8, 2024
In DevOps, the ability to release software fast, sometimes multiple times a day, is imperative. Developers must be ready to conduct and complete testing in minutes, sorting out whether software is ready to advance to the next phase or if teams should move on from the project.
CIO
AUGUST 8, 2024
For many stakeholders, there is plenty to love about open source software. Developers tend to enjoy the ability to speed application development by borrowing open source code. CFOs like the fact that open source is often free or low in cost. IT teams benefit from the sprawling, dynamic support communities that surround major open source projects. Yet, for CISOs, open source is more likely in many cases to inspire fear than love.
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As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.
DevOps.com
AUGUST 8, 2024
By harnessing the power of AI with the right ITOps solution, DevOps teams can achieve a more intelligent and automated approach to IT operations.
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DevOps.com
AUGUST 8, 2024
As we anticipate the advancement of AI over the next decade, we must recognize that we are not equipped to grant these tools complete control.
CIO
AUGUST 8, 2024
Mientras GPT-4 supera la prueba de Turing, Microsoft impulsa su asistente de inteligencia artificial (IA) Copilot en los productos empresariales y Google anuncia la disponibilidad de la aplicación Gemini en los teléfonos móviles en Italia, los CIO estudian la tecnología de IA generativa para mantenerse al día, pero sin dejarse distraer ni por el entusiasmo tecnológico ni por las propuestas comerciales.
Crunchbase News
AUGUST 8, 2024
For a long time, adtech startups regularly picked up billions of dollars in venture funding in a given year. Not anymore. So far this year, U.S. advertising-focused startups have raised only around $360 million, per Crunchbase data. That puts the industry on track for the slowest year in over a decade. For a sense of how far funding has fallen, we charted out annual adtech investment from 2015 till today.
CIO
AUGUST 8, 2024
Technical debt is a growing problem that businesses can’t ignore. Also known as code debt, it’s the accumulation of legacy systems and applications that are difficult to maintain and support, as well as poorly written or hastily implemented code that increases risk over time. These technical challenges can significantly impact the performance and stability of critical operations and must be addressed as a priority.
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Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda
Crunchbase News
AUGUST 8, 2024
This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here. As the generative AI race gets hotter and hotter, it seems like Big Tech is begging the government to get more involved. Just a couple weeks ago we discussed Microsoft ’s machinations to try to avoid more antitrust scrutiny, even as it announces deal after deal in the AI space.
CIO
AUGUST 8, 2024
El ascenso de Joy Brown a través de los escalones superiores de las funciones digitales y de TI modela lo que ahora es la preparación necesaria para el liderazgo tecnológico. Preparada por un programa de rotación que pasaba por diversas tareas para construir una base tecnológica y empresarial, Brown pudo desarrollar una sólida orientación a los procesos, además de habilidades en comunicación, gestión del cambio a gran escala e incluso una certificación Master Black Belt Six Sigma.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 8, 2024
Thank-you notes are a powerful professional tool for leaders. The author — a senior communications professional at Pfizer — shares her experiences learning about the power of thank-you notes from her high-powered mentor and seeing how it benefitted their business, professional relationships, and personal well-being. She also posits five principles of thank-you note-writing: Take time to reflect; thank those who are often forgotten; be specific; make it matter; and it’s never too late.
Dzone - DevOps
AUGUST 8, 2024
Running an AI workload on a GPU machine requires the installation of kernel drivers and user space libraries from GPU vendors such as AMD and NVIDIA. Once the driver and software are installed, to use AI frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow , one needs to use the proper framework built against the GPU target. Usually, the AI applications run on top of popular AI frameworks and as such hide the tedious installation steps.
Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.
Dell EMC
AUGUST 8, 2024
Dell's integrated solutions streamline IT, reduce risk and offer flexible consumption options to keep you competitive.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
AUGUST 8, 2024
The new version of the Mac Mini is said to be the smallest computer Apple's ever made, but one of the most powerful with the new M4 chip.
Confluent
AUGUST 8, 2024
The new Confluent Cloud Homepage UI adds many features including Clusters/Topics modals, health indicators, favorites, recently visited, recommended actions, & more.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
AUGUST 8, 2024
This weird little device blew up on TikTok, but there are quite a few impressive things you can do with it. Here are some of the most useful.
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There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 8, 2024
Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) has gone on a journey from being the least efficient user of technology in the Blue Cross system to the most efficient as measured on a technology cost per employee basis. Not only that but they have absorbed waves of new technology: cloud, new security protocols, extensive mobile support, more than 20 production AI applications and now generative AI (gen AI).
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
AUGUST 8, 2024
This Blackview Tab 18, with an octa-core processor, 12GB of RAM, and a huge battery, is just the thing for me.
Honeycomb
AUGUST 8, 2024
The previous post laid out the basic idea of instrumentation and how OpenTelemetry’s auto-instrumentation can get teams started. However, you can’t rely only on auto-instrumentation. This post will discuss the limitations in more detail and how a CoPE can help teams overcome them. Custom instrumentation Once your teams begin working with telemetry from auto-instrumentation, they’ll soon realize something: it’s reeeeally barebones.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
AUGUST 8, 2024
As many as 240 million Windows 10 PCs can't be upgraded to Windows 11. But instead of trashing your device when Windows 10 support runs out, here are five viable alternatives to save you money and trouble.
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IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.
Ooda Loop
AUGUST 8, 2024
For years, tech giants like Google and startups such as OpenAI have been racing to build ever bigger and costlier artificial intelligence models using a tremendous amount of online data.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
AUGUST 8, 2024
We've tested and researched the top USB-C chargers that can power up your smartphone or tablet, and sometimes even your laptop. Here are our favorites from Anker, Ugreen, and more.
Ooda Loop
AUGUST 8, 2024
Sports have long served as an important test for robots. The best-known example of the phenomenon may be the annual RoboCup soccer competition, which dates back to the mid-1990s. Table tennis has played a key role in benchmarking robot arms since a decade prior.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
AUGUST 8, 2024
If you're looking to try something new with Linux that is not only cool-looking but also has a lot to offer users of every type, Rhino Linux is sure to impress.
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With its unparalleled flexibility, rapid development and cost-saving capabilities, open source is proving time and again that it’s the leader in data management. But as the growth in open source adoption increases, so does the complexity of your data infrastructure. In this Analyst Brief developed with IDC, discover how and why the best solution to this complexity is a managed service, including: Streamlined compliance with some of the most complex regulatory guidelines Simplified operations, li
Ooda Loop
AUGUST 8, 2024
Late last month, Facebook parent Meta unveiled Llama 3.1, the world’s largest open-source model. With 405 billion parameters, it’s so big that even model libraries like Hugging Face need to scale up their systems to manage it and other models, as they continue to get bigger.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
AUGUST 8, 2024
Proton's new features aim to save you time, reduce errors, and enhance security. The biometric authentication for Windows and MacOS is only supported in some plans.
Ooda Loop
AUGUST 8, 2024
Ripple Labs has been ordered by a Manhattan court judge to pay the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission about $125 million in penalties over charges of improperly selling the cryptocurrency XRP, according to a court filing.
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