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8 Best Practices for Writing Clean and Maintainable Code

The Crazy Programmer

In the fast-paced world of software development, writing clean and maintainable code is not just a good practice; it’s a crucial factor in determining the success of a project. In this article, we’ll delve into the best practices that can elevate your coding skills, streamline collaboration, and ultimately lead to more efficient development processes. 1.

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Law firm that handles data breaches was hit by data breach

TechCrunch

An international law firm that works with companies affected by security incidents has experienced its own cyberattack that exposed the sensitive health information of hundreds of thousands of data breach victims. San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe said last week that hackers stole the personal information and sensitive health data of more than 637,000 data […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Intel spins off enterprise AI company Articul8 with outside funding

CIO

Intel has set up a new company, Articul8 AI, to sell enterprise generative AI software it developed. Articul8 AI will be led by Arun Subramaniyan, formerly vice president and general manager in Intel’s Data Center and AI Group. The new company’s investors include global investment firm DigitalBridge Ventures. “With its deep AI and HPC [High Performance Computing] domain knowledge and enterprise-grade GenAI deployments, Articul8 is well positioned to deliver tangible business outcomes for Intel

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OpenAI’s app store for GPTs will launch next week

TechCrunch

OpenAI plans to launch a store for GPTs, custom apps based on its text-generating AI models (e.g. GPT-4), sometime in the coming week. In an email viewed by TechCrunch, OpenAI said that developers building GPTs will have to review the company’s updated usage policies and GPT brand guidelines to ensure that their GPTs are compliant […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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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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How Starlink transformed tech operations for Journey Beyond

CIO

The launch of satellite internet provider Starlink has been operationally transformative for Journey Beyond, one of Australia’s premier destination tourism companies, and it’s driving a new era of progress and innovation. “When Starlink came, the game changed,” explains Madhumita Mazumdar, GM of ICT at Journey Beyond. “We went from accessing 1mbps to 250mbps in some locations.

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Bliki: Legacy Seam

Martin Fowler

When working with a legacy system it is valuable to identify and create seams: places where we can alter the behavior of the system without editing source code. Once we've found a seam, we can use it to break dependencies to simplify testing, insert probes to gain observability, and redirect program flow to new modules as part of legacy displacement.

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Microsoft wants to add a Copilot key to your PC keyboard

TechCrunch

Microsoft would like 2024 to be the “year of the AI PC” and to put a point on that, the company today announced a new key for Copilot — that is, a physical key that will soon make its way to your keyboard and join the Windows key, together with its friends the Control key, […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Digital Transformation Innovation with the Power of Event Storming

Xebia

Embracing Innovation in an Organization’s Digital Transformation Journey: The Power of Event Storming and Big Picture Event Storming Introduction So, you’re working in a department within the organization overseeing teams and striving to ensure product delivery while also capturing the market’s attention with services to attract customers.

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For just $139, this startup turns your iPhone into a BlackBerry-era relic

TechCrunch

Clicks Technology is today unveiling the Clicks creator keyboard for the iPhone. It’s less “the future” than an unpleasant glance back to a world we thought we had left behind, in a nostalgia-tinged flashback to the days of BlackBerry and Nokia, where pressing physical buttons was the pinnacle of mobile communication. “We use keyboards on […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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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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A Simple Hack to Help You Communicate More Effectively

Harvard Business Review

Using a structured approach when communicating can help you prioritize what you need to convey. In this article, the author introduces his “What, So What, Now What” framework. Much like the Swiss Army knife, known for its versatility and reliability, this structure is flexible and can be used in many different communication situations. The structure is comprised of three simple questions: 1) What: Describe and define the facts, situation, product, position, etc. 2) So What: Discuss the implicati

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CES 2024: How to watch as Nvidia, Samsung and more reveal hardware, AI updates

TechCrunch

CES 2024 will be here before we know it, taking over Las Vegas with throngs of crowds, booths full of products and a lot of companies making claims about how AI is improving their offerings. As noted in our CES preview, though the conference has had its ups and downs of late, it’s increasingly become […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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Global Startup Funding In 2023 Clocks In At Lowest Level In 5 Years

Crunchbase News

A slower final quarter ended a lackluster year for global startup funding as venture capital investors continued to hold back in 2023, Crunchbase data shows. In all, 2023 is on pace to be the lowest for venture funding since 2018. Global startup investment in 2023 reached $285 billion — marking a 38% decline year over year, down from the $462 billion invested in 2022.

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Crypto optimism in the age of the doomer

TechCrunch

In the wake of centralized “crypto-in-name-only” financial collapses, 2023 bore out a recommitment to advancing sustainable decentralized networks. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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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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A Guide for Getting Stakeholder Buy-In for Your Agenda

Harvard Business Review

You may be an expert at running your business unit or leading your team. But do you know how to advance your agenda across an organization, particularly if you have an idea that will impact its strategic direction? This article offers four key domains you can focus on to ensure you’ve prepared an agenda-setting mission: adopting an enterprise perspective, leveraging your strategic mindset, cultivating stakeholder awareness, and considering your personal motives and risks.

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This startup is bringing a ‘voice frequency absorber’ to CES 2024

TechCrunch

CES has always been the place for weird, out-there gadgets to make their debuts, and this year’s show is no exception. Skyted, a Toulouse, France-based startup founded by former Airbus VP Stéphane Hersen and acoustical engineer Frank Simon, is bringing what look like a pair of human muzzles to CES 2024. Called the “Mobility Privacy […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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How to Red Team a Gen AI Model

Harvard Business Review

Red teaming, a structured testing effort to find flaws and vulnerabilities in an AI system, is an important means of discovering and managing the risks posed by generative AI. The core concept is trusted actors simulate how adversaries would attack any given system. The term was popularized during the Cold War when the U.S. Defense Department tasked “red teams” with acting as the Soviet adversary, while blue teams were tasked with acting as the United States or its allies.

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EV startup Fisker struggling to meet internal sales goals, documents show

TechCrunch

Fisker remains far from meeting CEO and founder Henrik Fisker’s publicly stated goal of delivering 300 electric SUVs per day globally, according to internal documents viewed by TechCrunch. The EV startup spent much of December aiming to meet an internal sales goal of between 100 and 200 vehicles a day in North America, where the […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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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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Generating value from enterprise data: Best practices for Text2SQL and generative AI

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Generative AI has opened up a lot of potential in the field of AI. We are seeing numerous uses, including text generation, code generation, summarization, translation, chatbots, and more. One such area that is evolving is using natural language processing (NLP) to unlock new opportunities for accessing data through intuitive SQL queries. Instead of dealing with complex technical code, business users and data analysts can ask questions related to data and insights in plain language.

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Lawsuit against Snap over fentanyl deaths can proceed, judge rules

TechCrunch

A lawsuit blaming Snapchat for a series of drug overdoses among young people can proceed, a Los Angeles judge ruled this week. A group of family members related to children and teens who overdosed on fentanyl sued Snapchat maker Snap last year, accusing the social media company of facilitating illicit drug deals involving fentanyl, a […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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How are intellectual property and trademark rights viewed in your organization?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How are intellectual property and trademark rights viewed in your organization? They’re sacred and should never be violated 70.74% One should be careful not to violate them but … sometimes it happens 22.57% It’s not a big deal if you’re not overly obvious about violating them 4.87% Who cares? Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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Peak XV-backed MobiKwik seeks to raise $84 million in India IPO

TechCrunch

Indian financial services startup MobiKwik seeks to raise about $84.2 million through issue of new shares in an initial public offering in the home market, it said in a draft prospectus filed with the local markets regulator Friday. This is the second time MobiKwik has filed the paperwork for an IPO. The startup, backed by […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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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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Defining the Context of Your Negotiation

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Understanding the strategic environment of a negotiation will help you achieve your desired outcome. The first step in any negotiating process is defining and understanding the context you’re operating in. You have to understand the strategic environment of the negotiation in order to be successful. There are several elements to defining this context.

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Qualcomm next-gen XR chip promises up to 4.3k resolution per eye

TechCrunch

Just ahead of CES, Qualcomm today announced the next generation of its Snapdragon XR platform, the aptly named XR2+ Gen 2. The new system-on-a-chip promises up to a 4.3k resolution per eye at 90 frames per second (and a slightly reduced resolution at 120 fps), as well as a 2.5x GPU performance increase and 8x […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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Dell’s New XPS Lineup: Futuristic Design, with Built-in AI

Dell EMC

Introducing new XPS laptops – new sizes, robust performance and powered by Intel Core Ultra processors.

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Apple Fitness+ introduces sound meditation, a workout program for golfers and more

TechCrunch

Apple is kicking off 2024 with new content for its workout service Fitness+, including a new meditation theme, a yoga program for golfers, artist spotlights with Super Bowl Halftime Show performers and new celebrity guests for its audio walking experience “Time to Walk.” Starting January 8, Apple Fitness+ is adding a new meditation theme called […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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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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Introduction to Kubernetes Gateway API

Dzone - DevOps

Kubernetes Ingress has been around for a while. It helps to expose services in the cluster to the external world and provides basic traffic routing functionalities. But for advanced networking features, DevOps and architects have to rely on vendors and their CRDs and custom annotations. If you have ever written custom annotations on NGINX Ingress, you know how tedious the process is.

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Exponent Founders Capital, led by Plaid and Robinhood alums, raises $75M to invest in early-stage startups

TechCrunch

Exponent Founders Capital, an early-stage venture firm founded by alumni of startups such as Plaid, Robinhood and Ramp, has closed on $75 million in capital commitments, TechCrunch is the first to report. The firm, which is emerging from stealth today, raised $50 million for its first fund in November of 2021. Managing Partners Charley Ma […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Cloudy with a chance of downfalls: The year ahead for startups

The Hustle

To say it’s been a rough year for tech startups would be an understatement. WeWork, once worth $47B , filed for bankruptcy. Convoy, the Bezos-backed trucking company valued at $3.8B , shut down. Health startup Olive AI shuttered after peaking at a $4B valuation. And many other startups followed suit by selling for a fraction of their valuations or closing up shop: Hopin , the virtual-events startup once valued at $7.8B , sold its core business for $50m.

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