Ooda Loop
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
In a previous post in this series we raised a question: Is the US Government Over-Regulating AI? That post discussed the word “decontrol” as a concept whose time has come in discussion of AI use in the government.
CIO
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
When Matt Postulka left Arbella Insurance Group as deputy CIO at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, he didn’t intend to look back. Postulka aspired to become a CIO — and he achieved it, landing a job as CIO and senior vice president of technology and operations at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. It made sense to leave Arbella because “there was a great leader in place” and “I was feeling that CIO was several years away,” Postulka explains.
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Xebia
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Many people follow some kind of naming format for their branches. Be it because they’re using GitHub Flow or Git Flow or because they’ve created their own meaningful naming patterns. With the new Rulesets you can enforce branches with specific patterns. It was a bit confusing to me at first, because I had to think in inverse to make this rule work.
CIO
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Amid growing concerns about the adverse effects of AI, the British government has announced a $125 million (£100 million) investment to support regulators and advance research and innovation in AI. Close to $113 million (£90 million) is being allocated to establish nine new research hubs throughout the UK, alongside a collaboration with the US on responsible AI.
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
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
AI assistants are changing the way code gets made, and much of this is for the better. But what's the impact on code quality?
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Dell EMC
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Dell APEX PC-as-a-Service boosts productivity and reduces costs while supporting the circular economy.
CIO
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
We’re moving into an era of AI and advanced technologies. A better, more sustainable future is on the horizon. But there is a major roadblock preventing progress: the limitations of our communication networks and computing infrastructure. In fact, computing and networking have already reached a limit due to increasing power consumption, data bandwidth, and the need for faster response time due to new innovative services and the massive amount of data being transmitted.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Here are 10 key features to look for when choosing an AI coding assistant to help automate the tedious aspects of software development.
Crunchbase News
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Not all big funding rounds go to generative AI companies. NinjaOne , which provides endpoint management, security and monitoring, raised a $231.5 million Series C led by Iconiq Growth. The minority investment values the Austin, Texas-based firm at $1.9 billion. Monitoring and securing endpoints has been a main pillar of cybersecurity since the industry started.
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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.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
This post is co-written with Ilan Geller, Shuyu Yang and Richa Gupta from Accenture. Bringing innovative new pharmaceuticals drugs to market is a long and stringent process. Companies face complex regulations and extensive approval requirements from governing bodies like the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). A key part of the submission process is authoring regulatory documents like the Common Technical Document (CTD), a comprehensive standard formatted document for submitting applications,
Crunchbase News
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
The past few quarters have been a sluggish period for funding to scads of startup technology sectors. Spacetech, however, is not one of them. Last year, investors poured more than $4.6 billion globally into startups in the space travel and satellite categories, as well as space-related aerospace sectors, per Crunchbase data. Supersize rounds went to companies developing everything from satellite networks to space stations.
Ooda Loop
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
The year 2024 will require a reorientation to new realities, largely driven by the acceleration of disruptive technologies grinding against the inertia of stale institutions that would rather we snack on the comfort food of the past than the buffet of the future.
Confluent
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Confluent enables real-time, reliable, scalable, and secure communication between IoT devices, applications, and backend systems. Streamline data processing and unlock analytics to boost productivity and time to market while lowering infrastructure costs.
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.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Salesforce added the ability to customize API security policies to the Mulesoft Anypoint API management platform.
Ooda Loop
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
On Sunday, a report from the South China Morning Post revealed a significant financial loss suffered by a multinational company’s Hong Kong office, amounting to HK$200 million (US$25.6 million), due to a sophisticated scam involving deepfake technology.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
In 2021, the pharmaceutical industry generated $550 billion in US revenue. Pharmaceutical companies sell a variety of different, often novel, drugs on the market, where sometimes unintended but serious adverse events can occur. These events can be reported anywhere, from hospitals or at home, and must be responsibly and efficiently monitored. Traditional manual processing of adverse events is made challenging by the increasing amount of health data and costs.
InfoQ Culture Methods
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Companies are now looking to grow and more effectively manage DevOps with platform engineering and site reliability engineering roles. No one has these roles perfectly carved out right now — there’s just too much to do and not enough people to do it — but knowing where these three disciplines do and don’t overlap will help organizations evolve and take advantage when they are ready.
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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.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
2024 started with yet more AI: a small language model from Microsoft, a new (but unnamed) model from Meta that competes with GPT-4, and a text-to-video model from Google that claims to be more realistic than anything yet. Research into security issues has also progressed—unfortunately, discovering more problems than solutions. A common thread in several recent attacks has been to use embeddings: an attacker discovers innocuous text or images that happen to have an embedding similar to words desc
The Daily WTF
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Let's say you have a database table containing a list of countries. Given the primary key of a country in that table- an arbitrary ID field- you need to look up the name of that country. Curtis 's predecessor dropped this solution: function return_country ( $id ) { $sql = "SELECT * FROM countries" ; $qry = db_query ( $sql ); if ( mysql_num_rows ( $qry )> 0 ){ while ( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc ( $qry )){ $a [ $row [ 'id' ]] = $row [ 'name' ]; } } else { return ar
CEO Insider
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
In the evolving landscape we all work within, leadership has undergone a profound transformation. The world has changed and so have we. With so much going on, we need to be mindful of our energy and that of others and not just our physical energy but our energy across the five key facets that make […] The post The 5 Dimensions of Energy to Lead Effectively appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
MagmaLabs
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Reading Time: 5 minutes This article explores the nuanced effects of artificial intelligence's ascendancy, analyzing its implications on three key domains – customer service, tech communities, and eCommerce trends. By examining AI's role in revolutionizing customer experiences, fostering collaboration and innovation, and dictating novel eCommerce models, crucial insights emerge that illuminate its multifaceted influence.
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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.
Daffodil Software
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Not too long ago, healthcare was all about personal connections between doctors and patients, using handwritten notes and talking directly. But as healthcare grew and more information about patients came in, it became clear that we needed a better and more organized way of doing things. Hospitals and clinics had to change how they worked, aiming for smoother processes, quicker decision-making, and better communication among healthcare workers.
The Hustle
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Want to see a really big number? Here: Americans wagered $106B+ on sports between January and November 2023. That was made possible by a 2018 Supreme Court ruling that ended a federal ban on sports betting. Today, it’s legal in 38 states. In most of those states, the minimum age to bet is 21 ; in the rest, it’s 18. But now, more underage Americans are making wagers through unregulated apps.
Honeycomb
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
In today’s economic and regulatory environment, data sovereignty is increasingly top of mind for observability teams. The rules and regulations surrounding telemetry data can often be challenging to interpret, leaving many teams in the dark about what kind of data they can capture, how long it can be stored, and where it has to reside. In the past, addressing these issues at scale was a costly endeavor.
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
DevOps encompasses a set of practices and principles that blend development and operations to deliver high-quality software products efficiently and effectively by fostering a culture of open communication between software developers and IT professionals. Code reviews play a critical role in achieving success in a DevOps approach mainly because they enhance the quality of code, promote collaboration among team members, and encourage the sharing of knowledge within the team.
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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.
David Walsh
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Anyone is capable of having their caps lock key on at any given time without realizing so. Users can easily spot unwanted caps lock when typing in most inputs, but when using a password input , the problem isn’t so obvious. That leads to the user’s password being incorrect, which is an annoyance. Ideally developers could let the user know their caps lock key is activated.
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Platform engineering is the creation and management of foundational infrastructure and automated processes, incorporating principles like abstraction, automation, and self-service, to empower development teams, optimize resource utilization, ensure security, and foster collaboration for efficient and scalable software development. In today's fast-paced world of software development, the evolution of " platform engineering" stands as a transformative force, reshaping the landscape of software cre
InfoWorld
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Typically, the use of large language models (LLMs) in the enterprise falls into two broad categories. The first one is where the LLM automates a language-related task such as writing a blog post, drafting an email, or improving the grammar or tone of an email you have already drafted. Most of the time these sorts of tasks do not involve confidential company information.
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