Thu.Mar 21, 2024

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US government enters the race for AI talent

CIO

US government agencies have ramped up their efforts to hire AI talent, filling newly created chief AI officer positions and aggressively seeking out AI-related skills. The Justice Department hired its first chief AI officer in February. That addition came on the heels of other recent CAIO appointments at the Education Department, the General Services Administration, and the Housing and Urban Development Department.

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The 8 Newest Features in monday.com

Xebia

As we all know, monday.com is constantly evolving and providing us with new features every month. We’ve highlighted a few new features below that can help you get the most out of monday.com. 1. Unified automations and integrations center Automations and integrations have been rolled into one unified location to make it even easier to power up your work.

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SAP user group: S/4HANA usage is growing, but still in the minority

CIO

The German-speaking user group for enterprise software giant SAP says that customers’ willingness to invest in the company’s S/4HANA cloud product is rising, but still lags behind flagship ERP products like ECC 6, and some customers see the need for more discussion on SAP’s prolonged move to the cloud. DSAG, a group representing SAP users in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, also released data from a survey of its members.

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Value Stream Mapping for earlier confidence

Xebia

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a useful tool to understand different activities in software delivery and identify bottlenecks. One of the best parts of this exercise is that everyone tends to understand this visualization, so that there’s a common understanding of the software delivery flow. Over the past years, I’ve used a variation on the value stream map.

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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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Driving 15 years of IT transformation in 5

CIO

In 2018, the day after his employer publicly announced it was being acquired, Lynn Lovelady, then VP of IT at Energen, received a pivotal phone call that would reshape his career. It was from Charlie Nowlin, then CFO at McWane, who for more than a year had been searching for the company’s first chief information officer. After a long courtship that included lunches with members of McWane’s C-suite to ensure a cultural fit, Lovelady signed on to helm IT as CIO at the global manufacturer of duc

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Pioneering 5G Acceleration, Indonesia Marks a Revolutionary Digital Era Through Its First 5G Warehouse

CIO

In a rapidly evolving global landscape, Indonesia acknowledges the crucial role of the digital economy in driving sustainable development and promoting inclusive growth. As such, Golden Indonesia Vision 2045 places a strong emphasis on leveraging digital technologies to enhance productivity, competitiveness, and resilience across all sectors of the economy.

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When You Know You Weren’t the First Choice for Your New Role

Harvard Business Review

It’s common to experience imposter feelings when taking on a new, more senior role. That negative self-talk can feel justified when you were originally rejected from the job. But you can use this second chance as an opportunity to become a better leader. The author presents four strategies to quiet the imposter syndrome voices in your head if you weren’t the first pick for the job.

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FlowFixation: AWS Apache Airflow Service Takeover Vulnerability and Why Neglecting Guardrails Puts Major CSPs at Risk

Tenable

Tenable Research discovered a one-click account takeover vulnerability in the AWS Managed Workflows Apache Airflow service that could have allowed full takeover of a victim’s web management panel of the Airflow instance. The discovery of this now-resolved vulnerability reveals a broader problem of misconfigured shared-parent domains that puts customers of major CSPs at risk.

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The Challenges of Becoming a Less Hierarchical Company

Harvard Business Review

More and more organizations are looking to create flatter, less hierarchical models to increase collaboration, agility, and employee empowerment. But recent research at a food processing company in Colombia outlines some stumbling blocks companies might face when trying to change their structure. Specifically, the researchers and company CEO highlight a series of structural and people dynamics leaders should look out for in their own efforts.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

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.

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DevSecOps: 5 Tips for Developing Better, Safer Apps

DevOps.com

DevSecOps requires teams to collaborate and enable the organization to deliver safer applications to customers without compromising security.

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4 Rules for Diversifying Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Although conventional wisdom suggests that companies should look for growth opportunities close to their core businesses and capabilities, the author points out that diversification can be an effective growth strategy, as long as you follow four rules: 1) focus on the business unit; 2) let the business units drive their own strategies; 3) appoint business units leaders who will act like a CEO and take initiative; and 4) foster a culture in which it is safe to take chances.

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Best Practices for Confluent Schema Registry

Confluent

Learn the best practices for using Confluent Schema Registry, including using schema IDs, understanding subjects and versions, using data contracts, pre-registering schemas, and more.

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Why Has the EV Market Stalled?

Harvard Business Review

Surprisingly, the EV market has stalled in recent years. Why? Because the market has reached a difficult point in the technology-adoption lifecycle. Specifically, automakers and policymakers alike can no longer make plans based on what early adopters of EVs want. Instead, if they want to boost sales and reach a much broader segment of the market, they’re going to have to cater to a different set of interests and concerns — which will probably mean offering consumers more hybrids and plug-ins as

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2024 Salary Guide

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

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We’re All Outraged! Turning Passion into Results.

Perficient

If you were to pop open any social media platform or news app right now and scroll through a couple dozen posts, you’ll easily get the feeling that everything is #%&$ falling apart. Everyone is mad at something. We now use the term “doomscrolling.” In the past we had Yellow Journalism and we are there once again. As humans we tend to get addicted to outrage and drama.

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Reddit Shares Shoot Higher In First-Day Trading

Crunchbase News

Shares of Reddit shot up 64% in early trading Thursday, a day after the company raised $519 million in an IPO that priced at the top of the projected range. The IPO is a long time coming for San Francisco-based Reddit. The company, known for its lively online communities and colorful discussion threads, was co-founded by CEO Steve Huffman and venture investor Alexis Ohanian more than 18 years ago.

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U.S. Sanctions Russians Behind ‘Doppelganger’ Cyber Influence Campaign

Ooda Loop

On Wednesday, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against two 46-year-old Russian nationals. Sanctions were also placed on the respective companies they own. These sanctions were enacted due to engaging in cyber influence operations.

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Have you ever considered launching your own entrepreneurial venture?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: Have you ever considered launching your own entrepreneurial venture? Yes, and I’m currently running it 18.70% Yes, but I’ve never taken steps to launch it 31.74% Yes, I did it but I returned to a big company eventually 15.65% No, I’m comfortable right where I am 33.91% What’s stopping you? Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

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.

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The Interim Report of the U.S. National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology

Ooda Loop

The U.S. National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology publicly released its first report in January of this year - with ideas and recommendations "they will be advancing throughout 2024.culminating in a comprehensive report to Congress in December 2024." Find a summary and analysis of the interim report here.

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A Decade of Trust — Meeting the Needs of the DoD

Palo Alto Networks

The Department of Defense (DoD) is on a relentless mission to fortify its networks with a comprehensive, no-fail Zero Trust architecture. This approach demands robust security solutions that simultaneously navigate the complexities of classified environments (meeting FedRAMP and IL5 requirements) while keeping pace with the ever-evolving threat landscape.

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Common Provisioning and Management of PON: A New Working Group Launches

CableLabs

Consistent with the strategy outlined in a recent blog , CableLabs has recently launched two new working groups related to fiber to the premises (FTTP). Information on one of the working groups — Optical Operations and Maintenance — can be found here. The subject is this blog is the provisioning and management of passive optical networking (PON) in cable access networks.

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Rails guides facelift, two new official gems and more!

Ruby on Rails

Hey everyone, Happy Weekend! Vipul here with the latest updates for This Week in Rails. Let’s dive in. Rails guides gets a facelift Rails guides has a received a big design update! Check out the Edge Guides to see these changes. If you find a bug or wish to submit a suggestion, you can open a discussion on GitHub. This also marks the beginning of trying out GitHub discussions, alongside the current Forum Two new official gems Solid Queue , a DB-based queuing backend for Active Job, has graduated

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

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

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Foundry Emerges From Stealth With $80M For Purpose-Built AI Cloud

Crunchbase News

Foundry came out of stealth with a fresh $80 million to help companies harness the power of AI. The round was co-led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners , with participation from Redpoint , Microsoft Ventures (M12) , Conviction , NEA and others. The round was at a reported $350 million valuation The Palo Alto, California-based startup is developing a public cloud purpose-built for ML workloads.

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Microsoft introduces AI-powered UI controls for.NET

InfoWorld

Microsoft has introduced.NET Smart Components, AI-powered UI controls intended to make it easier to add AI features to existing software. These components are currently experimental and not officially supported. Announced March 20 ,NET Smart Components can be added to.NET apps without developers having to redesign their UX or researching machine learning and prompt engineering , Microsoft said.

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Eye On AI: Startups Should Heed ‘AI-Washing’ Warnings

Crunchbase News

This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here. It’s become difficult to hear a CEO talk about their company or read a description of a business in a press release that doesn’t mention how it’s “AI-infused,” “AI-enhanced” or some other AI descriptor. While that verbiage may be shrugged off by most, it seems like some people who get paid to keep an eye on such claims are looking very closely at what companies tell folks — especially potential investors — a

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Building a smarter Azure Kubernetes for developers

InfoWorld

With KubeCon Europe taking place this week, Microsoft has delivered a flurry of Azure Kubernetes announcements. In addition to a new framework for running machine learning workloads, new workload scheduling capabilities, new deployment safeguards, and security and scalability improvements, Microsoft has placed a strong emphasis on developer productivity, working to improve the developer experience and helping reduce the risks of error.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

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.

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A 3-Step Approach to Successfully Implementing Generative AI in Business

CEO Insider

While the discussion around Generative AI (Gen AI) is widespread, many brands remain cautious about large-scale deployment due to concerns about control and parameters. Despite the buzz surrounding Gen AI, including notable launches like ChatGPT, brands hesitate due to a lack of control over model outputs. Customer service organizations, for example, can’t simply use a […] The post A 3-Step Approach to Successfully Implementing Generative AI in Business appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Rust adds support for C-string literals

InfoWorld

Rust 1.77, the latest version of the Mozilla Research-founded programming language focused on safety, speed, and concurrency, adds support for C-string literals. C-string literals in Rust expand to a null-byte terminated string in memory of type & ‘static CStr. This makes it easier to write code that will interoperate with foreign language interfaces that require null-terminated strings.

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TechSoup Admin Fees Are Increasing on Selected Discount and Donation Programs

TechSoup

Starting today, the TechSoup administrative (admin) fees on select discount and donation offers will be increasing. TechSoup periodically reviews and adjusts admin fees to reflect the current fair market value of products and to support our own costs in managing these programs.