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Mitigating Risk in a World of AI-Generated Code

DevOps.com

Tools and processes to stress test the code and reduce risk with software deployments are critical for achieving success in AI coding.

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AI makes edge computing more relevant to CIOs

CIO

Analysts predict the incoming phase of enterprise AI will herald agentic systems that require minimal human intervention, with 75% of CIOs increasing their AI budgets during this year alone, according to a recent report from Gartner. As gen AI becomes embedded into more devices, endowing it with autonomous decision-making will depend on real-time data and avoiding excessive cloud costs.

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Adapting in the wild: Agile’s unexpected impact on conservation

Agile Alliance

Discover how Agile principles transformed wildlife conservation efforts in the Maasai Mara to protect both ecosystems and communities. The post Adapting in the wild: Agile’s unexpected impact on conservation first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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AT&T and VMware near settlement in support services dispute

CIO

AT&T and VMware are close to resolving their legal dispute over support services, according to a joint letter filed in the New York Supreme Court on October 11. The letter requests a postponement of the upcoming hearing, as both sides make progress toward a settlement. The dispute, which revolves around the extension of support services following Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, has drawn attention due to its potential impact on broader enterprise IT support contracts.

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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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Three Months To $5B, And More Unicorn News

Crunchbase News

Nine companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in September, including one that took just three months since its founding to reach a $5 billion valuation. All told, the Unicorn Board now includes just shy of 1,550 companies and $5.2 trillion in value. Four of the new unicorns are U.S. based, two are from India, and there is one each from Japan, Germany and Chile.

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Physicians Can Help Cut Costs. They Just Need the Right Incentives.

Harvard Business Review

Five principles for helping bend the cost curve without compromising on the quality of care.

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Making technology a company capability at Foot Locker

CIO

Retail is dynamic, ever-changing, and generates a lot of data, and through merchandising, in-store transactions, supply chain, digital, and pricing, the opportunities to leverage data are endless. Omni-channel retailing puts even greater importance on the ability to manage and integrate data effectively across the enterprise. For Adrian Butler, who has been CTO of the $8 billion global business for about two years, the key is to focus on the data that matters most, and to help the entire busines

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How DPG Media uses Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Transcribe to enhance video metadata with AI-powered pipelines

AWS Machine Learning - AI

This post was co-written with Lucas Desard, Tom Lauwers, and Sam Landuydt from DPG Media. DPG Media is a leading media company in Benelux operating multiple online platforms and TV channels. DPG Media’s VTM GO platform alone offers over 500 days of non-stop content. With a growing library of long-form video content, DPG Media recognizes the importance of efficiently managing and enhancing video metadata such as actor information, genre, summary of episodes, the mood of the video, and more.

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Salesforce’s Financial Services Cloud targets ops automation for insurance firms

CIO

>To help insurance brokerages tie in disparate systems to manage their operations and increase employee productivity, CRM software provider Salesforce has introduced a new offering in preview, the Financial Services Cloud. Insurance firms, carriers, and brokerages use three or more systems to service clients, according to a study conducted by Arizent Research on behalf of Salesforce that surveyed 105 insurance firms, carriers, or brokerages.

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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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Video Quick Take: Intercom’s Brian Donahue on How AI Agents Can Be Your First Tier of Customer Service Support - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM INTERCOM

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor content from Intercom.

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Cómo gestionar los programas de IA generativa: gobernanza, educación, regulación

CIO

La inteligencia artificial (IA) generativa ha crecido con gran rapidez, atrayendo inversiones y despertando el interés y la creatividad de los desarrolladores. Las empresas ven en la IA generativa una vía para crear servicios innovadores y revolucionar sus sectores. Sin embargo, aunque los desarrolladores están deseosos de construir con IA generativa, el reto es cómo ir más allá de las pruebas iniciales para funcionar a escala.

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Don’t Just Create Value. Capture It.

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with IMD professor Stefan Michel on how companies can realize the maximum benefit from their innovations.

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Anthropic updates its risk governance framework

CIO

The launch this week by Anthropic of an update to its Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP), the risk governance framework it says it uses to “mitigate potential catastrophic risks from frontier AI systems,” is part of the company’s push to be perceived as an AI safety first provider compared to its competitors such as OpenAI, an industry analyst said Wednesday.

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

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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BMC Adds AI Assistant to Help Modernize Mainframe Applications

DevOps.com

BMC Software this week at its Connect 2024 conference unveiled a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that makes it simpler to invoke a range of AI capabilities in mainframe environments.

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Los datos y la seguridad frenan la implantación de la IA en las empresas

CIO

El 84% de los directores de Sistemas de la Información (CIO, por sus siglas en inglés) considera que la inteligencia artificial (IA) será tan relevante para sus negocios como lo fue en su día el auge de Internet. No obstante, sólo el 11% afirma haber implementado completamente esta tecnología. Como obstáculos a superar, citan una serie de retos técnicos y organizativos, encabezados por la seguridad y la infraestructura de datos.

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Elevating Employee Experience (EX) in the Age of AI

Perficient

Addressing the Talent Shortage While fears of AI-driven job displacement dominate headlines, the real crisis looming is a $8.5 trillion talent shortage projected by 2030. Much like the famous ‘invisible gorilla’ experiment, where viewers focused on counting basketball passes miss a costumed figure walking through the scene, businesses risk overlooking a crucial element: the Employee Experience (EX).

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Damac Group expands into Spain with 400 million euros data center investment in Madrid

CIO

The data center market in Spain continues to heat up with the latest major development from Dubai-based Damac Group. The company has announced its entry into the Spanish market with the acquisition of land in Madrid, where it plans to build a state-of-the-art data center. This ambitious project represents a significant investment of 400 million euros, underscoring the growing demand for digital infrastructure in Spain and Europe.

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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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How to Make Better Hiring and Firing Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Advice from a former executive on how to bring on new talent—as well as when and how to let people go.

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Neural Processing Units (NPUs): The dawn of AI PCs

CIO

In May, Microsoft unveiled a new category of PCs: Copilot+ PCs, the first of a new generation of AI laptops, desktops, and tablets that enable AI processing to happen at the edge. These devices are able to process such intensive workloads thanks to the presence of neural processing units (NPUs) on a SoC (system on a chip). NPUs are a new addition to the usual lineup of central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs), and they open up enormous possibilities for powerful new A

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GenAI in Cybersecurity — Threats and Defenses

Palo Alto Networks

In the Unit 42 Threat Frontier: Prepare for Emerging AI Risks report, we aim to strengthen your grasp of how generative AI (GenAI) is reshaping the cybersecurity landscape. We explore how attackers are leveraging GenAI to support their efforts, and how you can formulate appropriate guardrails and protections for your organization. With this knowledge, you'll be better equipped to fully leverage this powerful technology without creating unnecessary risk.

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Cómo abordar la deuda técnica antes de que cause estragos al negocio

CIO

En un escenario corporativo en el que la tecnología ha pasado a ostentar un papel protagonista al situarse cada vez más cerca del negocio, gestionar la deuda técnica derivada de la inversión en TI puede suponer un verdadero quebradero de cabeza para los directores de Sistemas de la Información (CIO, por sus siglas en inglés). Si desde hace años esta cuestión era uno de los grandes retos a abordar por aquellos que asumían el rol, en un contexto en el que el panorama tecnológico empresarial es cad

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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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China Uses “Alleged” Leaked Intel Docs to Flip Narrative of VOLT TYPHOON

Ooda Loop

No longer content with relying on its denials to combat the accusations, Beijing has leveraged its extensive media apparatus to take its case to the international audience to combat the negative press.

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Alcuni punti-chiave del regolamento europeo sull’intelligenza artificiale

CIO

La regolamentazione digitale europea è entrata in una nuova fase con la recente adozione del Regolamento (UE) 2024/1689 del Parlamento europeo e del Consiglio, del 13 giugno 2024, che stabilisce norme armonizzate sull’intelligenza artificiale (RIA o AI Act in breve). Questa legislazione, in prima linea nei dibattiti globali sulla regolamentazione dell’AI, si trova all’intersezione tra la protezione dei cittadini e lo sviluppo dell’innovazione tecnologica.

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Avoid the Windows 11 2024 update for now - here are 7 reasons why

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Microsoft's official 24H2 update for Windows 11 is saddled with a bunch of annoying and disruptive bugs. Here are the issues you may encounter if you jump to the new version.

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CIO Summit España 2024: El nuevo CIO, un directivo transformado y transformador

CIO

La inteligencia artificial (IA) ha monopolizado el interés de la industria tecnológica en el último par de años. Y con razón. Las posibilidades son incontables y los beneficios han quedado patentes con los primeros casos de uso empresarial. Sin embargo, es hora de pasar a la siguiente fase y pensar en propuestas que permitan a las organizaciones aportar un valor diferencial y que, a su vez, les otorguen un retorno de la inversión que compense el enorme trabajo que la implantación de la IA requie

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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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Skip the iPad: This tablet is redefining what a kids tablet can do

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The Fire HD 10 Kids Pro was a pleasant surprise. Its smooth performance for the price is even more remarkable.

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Del sector público al privado: cómo adaptar un currículum ejecutivo

CIO

Para los directivos de TI que trabajan en el sector público, adaptar su currículum a las oportunidades del sector privado puede ser todo un reto. Ese fue el problema con el que se encontró Christina Sewell, CIO de una agencia gubernamental, al considerar los próximos pasos de su carrera. Con más de dos décadas en puestos tecnológicos y de liderazgo, Sewell, cuya identidad se ha mantenido en el anonimato para este artículo, confiaba en que sus habilidades y experiencias se trasladarían, pero pens

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How I optimized the cheapest 98-inch TV available to look and sound incredible

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Some fine-tuning and adjustments turned the TCL S55 into a monster home entertainment set -- and currently it's $1,000 off.

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