Ooda Loop
JANUARY 12, 2024
While the release of ChatGPT and enterprise-level deployment of Large Language Models have been impactful, all organizations should also be digging deeper into recent AI and deep learning history and ask the question: "How is Deepmind's Alphafold representative of the future architectures, ecosystems, platforms and value creation opportunities in our industry sector and subsectors?
CIO
JANUARY 12, 2024
Overwhelming majorities of executives around the world are planning to spend money on generative AI this year, but very few are truly ready for the technology, according to a survey released today by the Boston Consulting Group. Fully 85% of the more than 1,400 executives surveyed for BCG’s AI Radar report said that they were planning to invest in generative AI, but the report found that the technology faces a wide array of stumbling blocks at most organizations.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 12, 2024
Strategy and foresight were once the same discipline. And they should be again. The immediacy of day-to-day operations can lead to a strategic process that is more about ticking boxes and filling templates, which often end up languishing, unopened, in an inbox. With modern updates and improvements to these combined disciplines, leaders can sharpen their vision for the future, empowering managers to make informed strategic choices and propelling teams towards superior performance.
CIO
JANUARY 12, 2024
CIO Middle East discuss with Muath AlHomoud, Director of Cybersecurity about how organisations should learn from the hacking activities performed on them so they can implement more effective cyber defences and plan against similar or more sophisticated attacks. Q. From a cybersecurity perspective, how has 2023 been? A. The year has been marked by a general increase in state-sponsored attacks due to geopolitical conflicts.
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Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 12, 2024
There are some areas where AI is surpassing human capabilities — but there are several it can’t replace. Based on their research into employees’ comfort with AI in management, as well as their decades of research on the qualities of effective leadership, the authors identify the promise (and perils) of AI-enabled management, as well as the three uniquely human capabilities leaders need to focus on honing, especially as AI begins to figure more in management: 1) awareness, 2) compassion, and 3) w
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The Hustle
JANUARY 12, 2024
Allison Severance cradled an apple in her hand. It looked like a deflated balloon — soft, brown and leaking. This can’t be what passes for groceries, she thought. Not on my watch. She was standing in a Dollar General store a few miles from Cascade, Maryland, where she and a dozen other residents are suing a developer to stop a Dollar General from going up.
The Crazy Programmer
JANUARY 12, 2024
Software development is central to the technological transformation experienced in every industry. It leads to the creation of problem-solving tools and systems that make businesses and individuals perform tasks better. As a software developer, be competitive and stay ahead of the pack. Keep sharpening your skills while keeping an eye on the emerging trends.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
JANUARY 12, 2024
Enterprises have access to massive amounts of data, much of which is difficult to discover because the data is unstructured. Conventional approaches to analyzing unstructured data use keyword or synonym matching. They don’t capture the full context of a document, making them less effective in dealing with unstructured data. In contrast, text embeddings use machine learning (ML) capabilities to capture the meaning of unstructured data.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 12, 2024
Given the many impacts of workplace aggression, organizations are exploring a number of prevention initiatives. One increasingly popular initiative, bystander intervention, involves training people who witness acts of aggression to intervene. Although bystanders can play a pivotal role in determining outcomes of workplace aggression, many individuals who speak out against perpetrators of aggression experience backlash.
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin
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.
Crunchbase News
JANUARY 12, 2024
Venture investment in 2023 into financial services and fintech, which just a few years ago was the top sector for startup funding globally , totaled $43 billion, its lowest level in six years, according to Crunchbase data. That’s down more than 50% year over year from the $89.5 billion invested in financial services in 2022, and even more dramatically from the $143 billion invested in the sector in the peak market of 2021.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 12, 2024
Many organizations are opting to run MongoDB in the AWS cloud to gain improved scalability and reliability for their MongoDB deployment.
Crunchbase News
JANUARY 12, 2024
Overall, startup investors put far less money to work in 2023 compared to the prior two years. They also did far fewer deals. However, some investors slowed down much less drastically than others. The result is that these firms, which include prominent cross-stage investors such as Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Lightspeed Venture Partners and Bpifrance , reigned as the most-active venture investors of 2023, per Crunchbase data.
Honeycomb
JANUARY 12, 2024
Picture this: It’s 2 p.m. and you’re sipping on coffee, happily chugging away at your daily routine work. The security team shoots you a message saying the latest pentest or security scan found an issue that needs quick remediation. On the surface, that’s not a problem and can be considered somewhat routine, given the pace of new CVEs coming out. But what if you look at your tooling and find it lacking when you start remediating the issue?
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Crunchbase News
JANUARY 12, 2024
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2024 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last year’s biggest funding rounds here. It usually takes a couple of weeks after New Year’s Day for the funding market to heat up, but this week already saw three raises hit nine figures.
Palo Alto Networks
JANUARY 12, 2024
With Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Recognized as a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP) In an era when cyberthreats are evolving faster than ever before, cyber defenders around the world are looking for solutions to give them the upper hand. Today, we are pleased to announce that Palo Alto Networks has been named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP).
InfoWorld
JANUARY 12, 2024
Cloud finops is the discipline of accounting for and optimizing cloud computing spending. It’s a reaction to years of undisciplined cloud spending or a way to bring order back to using cloud resources. Overall, it is a step in the right direction. However, it’s rarely discussed as a path to enhanced security. The links to cloud security Effective cloud finops requires a strong understanding of cloud usage patterns.
Tenable
JANUARY 12, 2024
Check out expert recommendations for deploying AI tools securely. Plus, the World Economic Forum ranks cyberattacks and AI misinformation among today’s top global risks. In addition, cyber insurance demand is forecast to grow robustly. And a warning about adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) attacks and how to mitigate them. And much more! Dive into six things that are top of mind for the week ending January 12. 1 - How to ensure AI helps, not hurts, cybersecurity How can organizations use artificial
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.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 12, 2024
As organizations embrace digital transformation, the need for robust, scalable and cost-effective observability solutions becomes paramount.
Ooda Loop
JANUARY 12, 2024
Apple has released firmware updates for its Magic Keyboard to address a vulnerability that could allow attackers to inject keystrokes over Bluetooth.
David Heinemeier Hansson
JANUARY 12, 2024
A quarter of a million tech workers were laid off last year from the likes of Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and thousands of other big and small companies in the industry. And it looks like this year is not going to bring any relief. Google just announced more layoffs , Twitch cut 35% of staff , Discord is axing 17% , and Unity is cutting a whopping 25%.
Dataiku
JANUARY 12, 2024
There was and is always a lot of concern of how AI might reshape and change our daily lives. Marc-Uwe Kling published his book “QualityLand” in 2017 — a satire that masterfully shows the overwhelm of the future of civilization by AI. The book is an exaggeration from what we are all already to some extent experiencing and can relate to. It raises an awareness of how important parts of our lives can be taken over by AI without a certain level of intervention and responsibility placed on a human.
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Confluent
JANUARY 12, 2024
In this comprehensive guide, learn how to configure Azure AD DS and OAuth for Confluent Cloud to enable authentication and authorization for apps.
Dzone - DevOps
JANUARY 12, 2024
We now manage and deploy computing resources in completely new ways thanks to virtualization. The ability to create and manage virtual machines (VMs) is essential for anyone interested in technology, whether they are programmers, system administrators, or just tech enthusiasts. A simple method for creating and managing virtual machines on your local machine is offered by Multipass, an open-source program created by Canonical.
Ooda Loop
JANUARY 12, 2024
An analysis of the latest Alphafold breakthrough - Enformer, a neural network architecture that accurately predicts gene expression from DNA sequences - and the What's Next? of the future of AI and Genomics.
Dzone - DevOps
JANUARY 12, 2024
In the early days of software development, the process was often sequential and compartmentalized. Developers wrote the code and then handed it off to Quality Assurance (QA) for testing. This model, sometimes referred to as the " waterfall " approach, often led to quality issues and delays as problems were discovered late in the cycle. Enter the concept of Shifting Left – the idea of applying processes and practices earlier in the life cycle.
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Ooda Loop
JANUARY 12, 2024
When Brad Lightcap joined OpenAI full-time in 2018, the company didn’t have a real product, let alone a business model. There were just 40 people on staff and OpenAI had yet to launch a for-profit arm.
TurnKey Labs
JANUARY 12, 2024
How can businesses navigate the complex and dynamic waters of offshore software development to ensure successful outcomes? In today’s globalized business environment, the appeal of offshore software development is undeniable. It offers access to a vast pool of talent, cost efficiency, and the ability to operate around the clock.
Ooda Loop
JANUARY 12, 2024
Google launched several new tools for retailers using generative artificial intelligence to improve online shopping experiences and other retail operations, its cloud business announced in a release Thursday. The suite of new products includes a generative AI-powered chatbot that retailers can use on websites and mobile apps.
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