Tue.Jul 16, 2024

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Why and How to Go All-In on GitOps 

DevOps.com

When you can manage every cloud native deployment using a GitOps approach, as a consequence, declarative and automated processes become baked into your culture and transform your business.

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The CIO role today: Change agents need only apply

CIO

If you’re not yet an agent of change at your organization, your career as CIO may be at risk of falling behind. That’s because the majority of CIOs now see themselves as innovators and champions of change rather than technologists, according to a recent survey of people holding the job. While the drumbeat for CIOs to be strategic thinkers has been building for some time, the survey , conducted by Deloitte in February and released in June, marks a watershed moment of sorts: About 54% of CIOs now

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The Limits of GenAI Educators

Harvard Business Review

While generative AI tools have been heralded as the future of education, more than 40 years of academic research suggests that it could also harm learning in realms from online tutoring to employee training for three reasons. First, the best student-teacher relationships are empathetic ones but it is biologically impossible for humans and AI to develop mutual empathy.

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Microsoft Recall: Everything IT can get wrong about AI in a single feature

CIO

AI is the new “Digital.” That is, vendors are slapping the AI label on their wares regardless of whether their wares’ capabilities warrant it, aided and abetted by the complete and utter lack of a reliable definition of AI. It’s just as they did with “Digital” a few years back. But sometimes a product deserves the AI label. That makes its description accurate, which is quite a different matter from it being a good idea.

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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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7 Ways to Weave Mindfulness into Your Workday

Harvard Business Review

Many executives say they don’t have time for mindfulness practices, such as daily meditation. An alternative is micro-presence: weaving moments of mindfulness into the workday to heighten self-awareness, recalibrate, and reset. Use time-, transition-, or technology-based triggers to prompt behaviors like taking three deep breaths, pausing to express gratitude, doing a body scan, or eating more mindfully.

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Cloud Canaries Emerges to Provide Alternative to Observability Platforms

DevOps.com

Cloud Canaries emerged from stealth today to provide a set of lightweight agents that leverage a neural network to detect issues, monitor performance in real-time and identify how to resolve software engineering issues.

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Díaz Ayuso lanza la aplicación Cuenta Digital con más de 100 servicios y trámites públicos para los madrileños

CIO

Para dejar atrás, en lo posible, la presencialidad y la burocracia y llevar a la Administración pública al siguiente nivel en su transformación digital, la presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso , presentó este lunes la nueva aplicación móvil Cuenta Digital, una plataforma que reúne más de 100 servicios públicos y 60 trámites para que ciudadanos y empresas de la región.

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The Cyber Resilience Act: A New Era for Mobile App Developers

DevOps.com

The European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is a new law set to go into effect soon and serves as a framework designed to enhance the security of “products with digital elements.” It’s now clear the new law includes mobile apps.

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Is your data ready for AI?

CIO

By John Laffey, VP, Product Marketing, DataStax. It’s become clear that generative AI will play an important role in your organization. And you might know that getting accurate, relevant responses from generative AI (genAI) applications requires the use of your most important asset: your data. But how do you get your data AI-ready? You might think the first question to ask is “What data do I need?

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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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Latin American Startup Funding Rebounds After Deep Slide

Crunchbase News

Funding to Latin American startups rose in the second quarter, led by a resurgence in late-stage dealmaking. Altogether, companies in South and Central America raised $791 million in reported seed- through growth-stage financing in Q2 of 2024, per Crunchbase data. That’s a rise of 25% from the prior quarter and 17% from a year ago. Recent gains follow an unusually weak Q1, in which funding to the region hit a multi-year low.

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Kim Basile es nombrada nueva CIO de Kyndryl

CIO

La compañía de servicios de tecnologías de la información Kyndryl ha anunciado cambios en su equipo directivo tecnológico, que pasará a ser liderado por Kim Basile, antes vicepresidenta de Transformación y Estrategia IT de la compañía, como nueva CIO del grupo. Basile forma parte de Kyndryl desde mayo de 2022 y ha ocupado cargos de responsabilidad en empresas como Lockheed Martin, Leidos y Vanguard.

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Going for Gold — Cybersecurity Training for the Paris 2024 Olympics

Palo Alto Networks

As the Paris 2024 Olympics approach, the excitement is palpable. Athletes from around the globe are gearing up to compete for gold, and behind the scenes, cybersecurity teams are preparing for their own version of the games. Just like athletes, CISOs and their teams must train, strategize and stay sharp to ensure a safe and secure event. In 2022, the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy partnered with Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 to secure the football World Cup in Qatar.

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Atos locks in $1.8 billion to fund restructuring plan

CIO

French IT services company Atos has announced that a €1.675 billion (an estimated US$1.8 billion) financial restructuring plan could be in place soon, after it acquired funding to cover the initiative and reached a Lock-up Agreement with a group of banks and bondholders. In a release issued yesterday, Paul Saleh, Atos CEO, said the moves put “us a step closer to filing the plan with the Tribunal of commerce by the end of July as originally targeted.

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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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Report Surfaces Thousands of Potential Vulnerabilities in GitHub Workflows

DevOps.com

An analysis of 2.5 million GitHub Actions workflow files belonging to 553,000 organizations and personal users surfaces thousands of potential vulnerabilities.

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Detecting cancer faster with optical innovation

CIO

You never know when an opportunity to innovate might present itself and, if seized, how much of a difference you can make in people’s lives. Such an opportunity presented itself to us at Broadcom in the area of cancer detection. We have been innovating in optical technology for more than 50 years. Those innovations have largely focused on improving technologies like communications and sensors.

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This $239 laptop is a solid budget option for college students on Amazon Prime Day

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

If you're looking for a capable laptop for school but don't want to drop a ton of money, check out the Acer Aspire Go 15 (2023) for an unbeatable Prime Day price of $239.

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Patagonia lawsuit raises thorny GenAI data issues

CIO

A lawsuit against retailer Patagonia, which the plaintiffs hope to eventually get certified as a class action, is raising a variety of privacy and data leakage issues from the company’s use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its customer service organization. The problem is, CIOs are required to disclose all data being collected and how it is being used.

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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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This ultra-thin power bank I tested is a must-have travel gadget (and it gets a price cut for Amazon Prime Day)

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The Auskang 5,000mAh power bank is only about as thick as a few credit cards, but it has enough power to reliably charge your smartphone or other USB-C device. And Amazon Prime Day sees the price slashed.

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DreamBig Latest Chip Startup To Go Big — Raises $75M 

Crunchbase News

Semiconductors are on a pretty good run right now. San Jose, California-based DreamBig Semiconductor became the second chip startup this week to raise big — locking up a $75 million equity round co-led by the Samsung Catalyst Fund and Sehat Sutardja. On Monday, Santa Clara, California-based Halo Industries , a developer of a laser manufacturing technology platform for the semiconductor industry, raised an $80 million Series B led by U.S.

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The Samsung QLED TV most people should buy is $1,300 off for Prime Day

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The 2023 Neo QLED TV might not be Samsung's latest model, but it delivers excellent color-accurate pictures and fantastic sound right out of the box -- and it's on sale for nearly half off with this Prime Day deal.

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Announcing Durable Caching

Netlify

Netlify brings ISR to any framework by launching a new cache primitive that enables persisting a response in a global object store and serving this as a static response for any cache miss from Netlify edge CDN servers.

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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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The Roborock S8 Pro Ultra is $650 off, an all-time low price on Prime Day

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

If you've had your eye on the Roborock S8 Pro Ultra, now is the time to add it to your cart as it's currently $650 off (the lowest price we've seen) thanks to Prime Day.

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Beyond Imitation

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The first AI image generation model I got to play around with was Midjourney v2 in summer 2022. A month earlier, OpenAI had launched DALL-E 2 in beta, and the results looked unbelievably magical. You could generate images in any art style simply by prompting an AI with the name of an artist. I didn’t go to art school, and I didn’t really know that much about art, so one of the first prompts I tried was “Super Mario drinking a glass of beer.

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Dataiku Placed Highest for All 3 Use Cases in Gartner Critical Capabilities Report

Dataiku

Dataiku placed highest for all three Use Cases in the Gartner Critical Capabilities for Data Science and ML Platforms, Core Data Science report.

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Three reasons why gamers should be paying close attention to Apple

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The new Game Mode feature turns iPhones and iPads into veritable gaming handhelds, and many new titles look to be coming soon.

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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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Benefits and Best Practices for Infrastructure as Code 

DevOps.com

By adopting IaC best practices, such as version control and automated testing, organizations can significantly enhance their operational agility and responsiveness to changes.

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‘Pivotal’ quantum computing chip unveiled

Ooda Loop

A chip that experts have said could be “pivotal” to creating effective quantum computers has been unveiled. Oxford Ionics has said its chip can be mass-produced and means the world’s first useful quantum computer could be built in three years time.

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Get a smart cordless vacuum with dual batteries for 33% off on Prime Day

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The Tineco Pure One S15 Pet Ex, with a no-installation charging dock and dual battery setup, is $200 off during Prime Day.

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