Tue.May 28, 2024

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Navigating the Cybersecurity Threat Landscape in the UAE: Strategies for CISOs

CIO

Today’s organizations face challenges from multiple directions, including threats to the business from state-sponsored cyberattacks, geopolitical turmoil, inflation, and a shortage of security skills. For CISOs to succeed in this unprecedented security landscape, they must balance these threats with new approaches by performing continuous risk assessments, protecting digital assets, and managing the rapid pace of innovation in security technologies.

Strategy 328
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5 Myths Expats Believe About Local Employees

Harvard Business Review

Corporate employees undertaking expatriate assignments rely on support from local employees. This dynamic is underappreciated and understudied. Both individuals and their employers will benefit if people understand and correct the mythology that’s grown up around the vital role local employees play.

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OpenAI sets up new safety body in wake of staff departures

CIO

OpenAI is setting up a new governance body to oversee the safety and security of its AI models, as it embarks on the development of a successor to GPT-4. The first task for the OpenAI Board’s new Safety and Security Committee will be to evaluate the processes and safeguards around how the company develops future models. As an aside, the company said in the blog post announcing the committee’s creation that it “has recently begun training its next frontier model” and that it anticipates that the

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Fusion Funding Has Fizzled

Crunchbase News

Funding to startups focused on fusion energy has declined sharply in recent quarters after hitting a high two-and-a-half years ago. So far this year, just $58 million has gone to companies innovating around the future of fusion as a potential power source, per Crunchbase data. By contrast, more than $2.4 billion went to the space in the fourth quarter of 2021, the peak period for funding.

Energy 108
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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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El Gobierno de Aragón digitaliza la gestión de expedientes de contratación pública

CIO

La Dirección General de Contratación, Patrimonio y Organización del Gobierno de Aragón, dependiente del Departamento de Hacienda y Administración Pública, da un paso adelante en su estrategia de transformación digital. De la mano de DCX Technology, el Ejecutivo regional ha optado por desarrollar e implementar una herramienta digital destinada a agilizar y mejorar la tramitación y la gestión de los expedientes de contratación pública, simplificando los procedimientos y dotándolos de mayor agilida

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Big data, IA y automatización de procesos para retornar talento catalán expatriado

CIO

La atracción y retención de talento es uno de los desafíos transversales a cualquier sector de actividad acuciado por la globalización y las nuevas formas de trabajo. Según datos del Instituto de Estadística Catalán correspondientes al 1 de enero de 2024, hay 386.486 catalanes residiendo fuera del país. De ellos, y contabilizando aquellos que se encuentran en edad laboral (entre 25 a 60 años), 93.075 son hombres y 88.375 mujeres.

Big Data 264
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Business Transformation through AI-driven Design Thinking

MagmaLabs

Reading Time: 2 minutes In today's world, AI- driven digital transformation, is revolutionizing business and they must find innovative strategies to stay ahead of the competition. One such strategy is design thinking—a human-centric approach to innovation that has become increasingly popular among forward-thinking companies. However, as we move deeper into the digital transformation age, even the most established methodologies need an upgrade.

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Impulsar la aceptación: cómo consiguen los CIO que los trabajadores indecisos adopten la IA

CIO

Las tecnologías de inteligencia artificial (IA) han avanzado a un ritmo vertiginoso en los últimos dos años, pero los trabajadores de muchas empresas siguen dudando en adoptarlas. Una suposición común es que los empleados son reacios a utilizar herramientas basadas en IA por miedo a que estas soluciones superen su propio trabajo y, con el tiempo, les conviertan en reemplazables.

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The decline of the user interface

InfoWorld

When we first got the personal computer, we didn’t worry much about how things worked. We were, frankly, stunned that we even had such a thing. You had to learn some arcane lingo to type into a DOS prompt. That the computer might be difficult or awkward to use didn’t occur to us. But things gradually got more sophisticated, and when the original Macintosh came out with its powerful graphical user interface, we started realizing that the process of interacting with a computer could matter to us.

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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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Sun Country enhances customer experience with IT

CIO

To take its digital transformation to new heights, Sun Country Airlines didn’t just take a tip from the big carriers. It hired away one of their seasoned digital tech execs to be its CIO. Sun Country Airlines has elevated its customer service since hiring an experienced CIO from United Airlines in early 2023. Shortly after being named CIO of the low-cost, Minnesota-based airliner last year, Jim Stathopoulos immediately set about implementing automated self-service systems in the form of e-vouch

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AI Powers Sabre's Enhanced Threat Detection & Response

Palo Alto Networks

Precision AI™ by Palo Alto Networks Elevates Security Posture As the cyberthreat landscape continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, security teams are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to bolster their defense capabilities. According to research from Deloitte , the market for AI-powered cybersecurity solutions is projected to reach a staggering $102.78 billion by the year 2032, underscoring the widespread embrace and integration of AI technologies across the cybersecurity landscape.

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Laying the Foundation for Modern Data Architecture

Cloudera

Behind every business decision, there’s underlying data that informs business leaders’ actions. As the market landscape across verticals from financial services to healthcare and manufacturing grows increasingly competitive, those decisions need to happen ever faster and to make them, businesses need to rely on data to reveal insights quickly, as near-real-time as possible.

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How One Chinese EV Company Made Battery Swapping Work

Harvard Business Review

Find new ideas and classic advice on strategy, innovation and leadership, for global leaders from the world's best business and management experts.

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How Top Tech CFOs Solve Annual Planning’s Biggest Challenges

Gearing up for 2025 annual planning? Our latest eBook from the Operators Guild is your ultimate guide. Discover real-world solutions and best practices shared by top CFOs, drawn directly from discussions within OG’s vibrant online community. Learn from senior executives at high-growth tech startups as they outline financial planning strategies, align CEO and board goals, and coordinate budgets across departments.

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Partitioning an LLM between cloud and edge

InfoWorld

Historically, large language models (LLMs) have required substantial computational resources. This means development and deployment are confined mainly to powerful centralized systems, such as public cloud providers. However, although many people believe that we need massive amounts of GPUs bound to vast amounts of storage to run generative AI, in truth, there are methods to use a tier or partitioned architecture to drive value for specific business use cases.

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xAI Makes It Official — Raises $6B At $24B Valuation

Crunchbase News

Elon Musk ’s generative AI startup, xAI , officially announced its long-awaited fundraise — making it the second-most-valuable generative AI company in the world behind only competitor OpenAI. The $6 billion round included investment from Valor Equity Partners , Vy Capital , Andreessen Horowitz , Sequoia Capital , Fidelity Management & Research Co., Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and Kingdom Holding Co. , among others.

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Tenable Delivers Innovative Enhancements to the Assure MSSP Program and MSSP Portal, Demonstrating Our Commitment to a Partner-Focused Go-To-Market Strategy

Tenable

The enhancements include a new self-provisioning capability in the MSSP Portal that’ll drastically shorten customer onboarding and a quarterly billing option for MSSP Program partners. Tenable’s partner ecosystem has long been a key pillar of our go-to-market strategy and customer success. Our incredible partner ecosystem provides significant value to our customers on a daily basis.

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What Venture Capitalists Can Teach Companies About Decision-Making

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with Stanford GSB professor Ilya Strebulaev on embracing disagreement.

Company 109
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How To Speak The Language Of Financial Success In Product Management

Speaker: Jamie Bernard

Success in product management goes beyond delivering great features - it’s about achieving measurable financial outcomes that resonate across the organization. By connecting your product’s journey with the company’s financial success, you’ll ensure that every feature, release, and innovation contributes to the bottom line, driving both customer satisfaction and business growth.

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CodeSOD: A Serial Offender

The Daily WTF

Michael has a confession. Once upon a time, a very long time ago, he needed to write some JavaScript to serialize data and send it as part of a request. The challenge for Michael is that he didn't actually know JavaScript or what its built in functions could do and the task was already past the deadline by the time it got assigned to him. function objectPrepareSave ( ) { for ( var _a = 0 ; _a = ' ; _out += escape ( escape (_o)); } _index++; } _out += '"}' ; aEditfields = new

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Best Practices for Confluent Terraform Provider

Confluent

You can improve CC Terraform by employing best practices for organization (e.g., split state files), coding (consistent naming), security (enforced configs) & more.

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Capacity Providers: The Secret Sauce for Scaling ECS Clusters

QBurst

When we think container orchestration, we mostly think of Kubernetes. AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) is just as great an alternative, especially when you want to keep costs low and don’t care for the extra bells and whistles that come with Kubernetes. ECS’ managed service approach is a big help as it takes care of […] The post Capacity Providers: The Secret Sauce for Scaling ECS Clusters appeared first on QBurst Blog.

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The AI revolution is coming to robots: how will it change them?

Ooda Loop

For a generation of scientists raised watching Star Wars, there’s a disappointing lack of C-3PO-like droids wandering around our cities and homes. Where are the humanoid robots fuelled with common sense that can help around the house and workplace?

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What Is Entity Resolution? How It Works & Why It Matters

Entity Resolution Sometimes referred to as data matching or fuzzy matching, entity resolution, is critical for data quality, analytics, graph visualization and AI. Learn what entity resolution is, why it matters, how it works and its benefits. Advanced entity resolution using AI is crucial because it efficiently and easily solves many of today’s data quality and analytics problems.

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INE Security Enables CISOs to Secure Board Support for Cybersecurity Training

DevOps.com

Cary, United States, 28th May 2024, CyberNewsWire

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Big Tech’s Budding AI Monopoly

Ooda Loop

Microsoft, Google and Amazon are remarkably successful companies, and their ability to suppress competition in their primary and adjacent markets is unparalleled. These tech giants are now attempting to control artificial-intelligence technology. If allowed to dominate AI, they could reinforce and extend their supremacy over more of the economy.

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Maximize Results With Code: Tips From a Data Engineer

Dataiku

Guests to the Toronto session of the 2023 Dataiku Everyday AI Conferences heard from solutions engineer Kateryna Savchyn of Dataiku , as she spoke in depth about specialized coding options available to augment existing Dataiku products and solutions.

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OpenAI begins training next AI model as it battles safety concerns

Ooda Loop

OpenAI said it had begun training its next-generation artificial intelligence software, even as the start-up backtracked on earlier claims that it wanted to build “superintelligent” systems that were smarter than humans.

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5 Key Reasons for Your Business to Embrace Nearshore Staff Augmentation

Nearshore staff augmentation allows businesses to access skilled talent quickly, improve efficiency, and reduce costs. It provides a wider pool of talent in similar time zones, facilitating seamless communication. This approach often leads to cost savings compared to local or distant offshore hires and promotes easy integration with existing teams, fostering cooperation and knowledge sharing.

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Data Streaming Awards 2024: Nominations Are Now Open

Confluent

The Data Streaming Awards Recognizes achievements with Data Streaming Technology. Submit your team’s amazing data streaming use case for a chance to win!

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Google adds AI-powered features to Chromebook

Ooda Loop

Google announced new AI-powered features today for its Chromebook Plus line of devices, such as a writing assistant, a wallpaper creator and an easy access to Google’s Gemini chatbot. As a reminder, Chromebook Plus laptops are productivity-focused devices with minimum spec requirements.

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Microservices: Consistent State Propagation With Debezium Engine

Dzone - DevOps

This article outlines the main challenges of state propagation across different (micro)services together with architectural patterns for facing those challenges, providing an actual implementation using the Debezium Engine. But first of all, let's define some of the basic concepts that will be used during the article.