Wed.Jan 08, 2025

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Why Retailers Are Turning to Third-Party Marketplaces

Harvard Business Review

Some traditional retailers including Walmart, Target, and Best Buy are adopting third-party marketplaces, which connect customers with external sellers and thereby offer customers a much broader selection. Many other traditional retailers are considering whether to follow suit. Making the choice isnt clear-cut. It involves weighing a host of benefits and challenges.

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CIOs are rethinking how they use public cloud services. Here’s why.

CIO

Over the past few years, enterprises have strived to move as much as possible as quickly as possible to the public cloud to minimize CapEx and save money. Increasingly, however, CIOs are reviewing and rationalizing those investments. Are they truly enhancing productivity and reducing costs? In the rush to the public cloud, a lot of people didnt think about pricing, says Tracy Woo, principal analyst at Forrester.

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How to install Python packages from an internal package registry with uv

Xebia

If you’ve published a Python package to a private index, you want your users to be able to install it. But this requires some setup. In this blogpost, we’ll show how to set up an internal package dependency with uv. For our index, we’ll be using Gitlab’s package registry. But many of these steps will also apply when you are using another index.

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Transformación digital en 2025: qué está de moda y qué no

CIO

Algunos sostienen que la aparicin de la inteligencia artificial (IA) generativa ha hecho que la transformacin digital sea cosa del pasado.Transformacin de IAes el trmino que se utiliza para describirla. Otros sugieren que todo debera llamarse transformacin empresarial o, simplemente, transformacin. Qu terminologa debera utilizar? La que genere el mayor llamado a la accin por parte de su junta directiva, ejecutivos y empleados, porque mantener el statu quo es un camino seguro hacia la disrupcin.

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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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Autonomous businesses will be powered by AI agents

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The Accenture Technology Vision 2025 report explores how AI-powered autonomy is shaping technology development, customer experience, the physical world, and the future workforce, where people and AI agents work together to drive customer success.

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A more complex codemod

Martin Fowler

Juntao Qiu moves onto a more complex example of a codemod , one that extracts a tooltip responsibility from a JSX component. This illustrates how to manipulate the AST in several steps.

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En marcha un test de estrés en español para medir los sesgos de la IA generativa

CIO

Las aplicaciones basadas en grandes modelos de lenguajecomo GPT -el modelo detrs de ChatGPT-, Gemini o Llamahan hecho posible que cualquier usuario converse directamente con la inteligencia artificial (IA).Sus posibilidades para empresas y particulares son inmensas, pero su potencial tiene un doble filo: segn los datos con los que hayan sido entrenados y el tipo de entrenamiento, las respuestas de estos modelos de IA pueden contener mensajes sesgados por razn de sexo, raza, orientacin sexual, di

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Update Chrome and Firefox now to patch these critical security flaws

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The latest updates for both browsers squash several high-severity security bugs. Here's how to grab them.

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The challenge of managing enterprise storage in a hybrid world

CIO

As enterprises and IT departments are being asked to do more with less, many are casting a critical eye over their storage costs. That dovetails with the recent growing debate about repatriating workloads to on-premises infrastructure driven by cloud spending exceeding original estimates. However, in reality only 8%-9% of organisations are planning full workload repatriation from the cloud to on-premises infrastructure, according to IDCs Server and Storage Workloads Survey.

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Revolutionize QA: GAP's 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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The best AI tech of CES 2025: Neural wristbands, smart mirrors and more

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

AI was featured in nearly every consumer tech category at CES. Here's what stood out.

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El laberinto de la nube: un enfoque de cinco fases para optimizar la estrategia

CIO

En el acelerado panorama digital actual, la nube se ha convertido en una piedra angular de la infraestructura empresarial moderna, ofreciendo una escalabilidad, agilidad y rentabilidad incomparables. Sin embargo, a medida que las organizaciones migran cada vez ms a la nube, los CIO se enfrentan al enorme desafo de navegar por un ecosistema de nube complejo y en rpida evolucin.

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Security Update: Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure and Neurons for ZTA Gateways

Ivanti

At Ivanti, our mission is to empower customers to defend their environments in an evolving and increasingly sophisticated threat landscape. This includes providing industry-leading products, transparent communication, and sophisticated tools to help to protect and fortify networks. Central to this mission is a culture of transparency and responsiveness, especially when facing a security issue.

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Nvidia Project Digits: A Linux-powered desktop for AI developers

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The most powerful desktop of all time will be arriving soon - and it will be running Linux.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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Audio-Technica is turning the tables with new earbuds offering 65 hours of playback

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The audio brand Audio-Technica announced the new ATH-CKS50TW2 earbuds at CES 2025.

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Leading the digital charge: Inspiring innovation and fostering a culture of excellence

CIO

Organizations look at digital transformation as an opportunity to radically improve operations and increase the value of a product or service to the customer by embedding technology into the decision-making fabric and building automation into its functions. This involves the integration of digital technologies into its planning and operations like adopting cloud computing to sustain and scale infrastructure seamlessly, using AI to improve user experience through natural language communication, e

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How to install an LLM on MacOS (and why you should)

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

If you like the idea of AI but don't want to share your content or information with a third party, you can always install an LLM on your Apple desktop or laptop. You'll be surprised at how easy it is.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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Best laptops of CES 2025: These 5 Windows PCs left the biggest mark on the show floor

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Our quest to go hands-on with every new laptop announced at CES has led us to these five picks, which stood out thanks to features, design, and value.

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AWS Cloud Security: Key Components, Common Vulnerabilities, and Best Practices

Dzone - DevOps

With organizations shifting at a rapid pace to the cloud, securing the infrastructure is of paramount importance in their list of priorities. Even though AWS provides a varied set of tools and services related to security and compliance. There are various other factors beyond security. Security is not just about tools but about strategy, vigilance, continuous improvement, and conformity to the industry compliance standards for secure environments , including GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS.

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The best smart home tech of CES 2025

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Smart home tech is one of the main events at CES and we've gathered the best you can find at the showcase.

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How to Create Sales Email Sequences That Convert

Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Multiple touchpoints means more ways to get your pitch right — and, potentially, more ways to be wrong. The good news? Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails.

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TikTok Shop Rival Whatnot Bags $265M At $5B Valuation For Live Shopping Platform

Crunchbase News

Livestream shopping platform Whatnot raised $265 million at a nearly $5 billion valuation in a round led by Greycroft , DST Global and Avra. Whatnot, a competitor to TikTok Shop, is an online marketplace where people can buy and sell collectibles like trading cards and toys through live video auctions. Its new funding comes as a ban or forced divestment of ByteDance -owned TikTok looms in the U.S.

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Halliday just unveiled the AI glasses that Meta, Google and Apple have been trying to build

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

I tried Halliday's AI smart glasses at CES 2025. With a display that's built into the frame - not the lens - they beat my Ray-Ban Metas in key ways.

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New year, new commitment to digital innovation at Heineken

CIO

A true transformation journey for Heineken started in 2019, when Ralph Ostertag, director of digital and technology for Asia Pacific , joined after coming from Mercedes Benz, and years before that in other industries. Originally from Germany, Ostertag spent most of his career outside his home country in a mix of international roles covering a range of business, digital, and technology leadership roles.

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CES 2025: The 7 most advanced smart glasses we tried on - and loved

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

If these smart glasses are any indication of what we're in for in 2025, it's going to be a wild ride.

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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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Automating AWS Infrastructure Testing With Terratest

Dzone - DevOps

Organizations adopting Infrastructure as Code (IaC) on AWS often struggle with ensuring that their infrastructure is not only correctly provisioned but also functioning as intended once deployed. Even minor misconfigurations can lead to costly downtime, security vulnerabilities, or performance issues. Traditional testing methods such as manually inspecting resources or relying solely on static code analysis do not provide sufficient confidence for production environments.

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How to protect yourself from phishing attacks in Chrome and Firefox

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Phishing is a form of social engineering where attackers try to get you to reveal your sensitive information through malicious links, SMS, QR codes, and more. Here's how to protect yourself in Chrome and Firefox.

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Innovators Wanted: 3 Pet Care Areas Primed For Disruption

Crunchbase News

By Rachel Sheppard As we enter 2025, startups and investors alike are taking stock: What lessons were learned in 2024? Where did we get it right? Where is there opportunity for growth? And more importantly, what are our goals for the year ahead? Like many industries, venture investment in pet care fell in 2024 , yet the overall industry saw no signs of losing steam.