InfoWorld

MARCH 12, 2024

This Axios article states what we already know: The responses coming from many generative AI (genAI) systems are misleading, not what the users asked for, or just plain wrong. The public issue is that Microsoft software engineering lead Shane Jones sent letters to FTC chair Lina Khan and Microsoft’s board of directors on March 6 saying that Microsoft’s AI image generator created violent and sexual images and used copyrighted images when given specific prompts.

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CIO

MARCH 12, 2024

Generative AI is already having an impact on multiple areas of IT, most notably in software development. Early use cases include code generation and documentation, test case generation and test automation, as well as code optimization and refactoring, among others. Still, gen AI for software development is in the nascent stages, so technology leaders and software teams can expect to encounter bumps in the road.

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Martin Fowler

MARCH 12, 2024

Measuring developer productivity is a difficult challenge. Conventional metrics focused on development cycle time and throughput are limited, and there aren't obvious answers for where else to turn. Qualitative metrics offer a powerful way to measure and understand developer productivity using data derived from developers themselves. Abi Noda and Tim Cochran begin their discussion by explaining what a qualitative metric is and why we shouldn't reject them for being subjective or unreliable.

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CIO

MARCH 12, 2024

It’s common knowledge among CIOs that disaster recovery investments are always de-prioritized by company boards — until disaster strikes. But disaster recovery is just one example of projects that are of an important and preemptive nature that CIOs want to fund but find de-prioritized when it comes to budget approval. Others include preparation for zero-day attacks, almost anything having to do with data stewardship, as well as IT training and social engineering audits.

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Tenable

MARCH 12, 2024

2 Critical 57 Important 0 Moderate 0 Low Microsoft addresses 59 CVEs in its March 2024 Patch Tuesday release with no zero-day or publicly disclosed vulnerabilities. Microsoft patched 59 CVEs in its March 2024 Patch Tuesday release, with 2 rated critical and 57 rated as important. This month’s update includes patches for: NET Azure Data Studio Azure SDK Microsoft Authenticator Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service Microsoft Dynamics Microsoft Edge for Android Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft Grap

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The Daily WTF

MARCH 12, 2024

Branon 's boss, Steve, came storming into his cube. From the look of panic on his face, it was clear that this was a full hair-on-fire emergency. "Did we change anything this weekend?" "No," Branon said. "We never deploy on a weekend." "Well, something must have changed?!" After a few rounds of this, Steve's panic wore off and he explained a bit more clearly.

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CIO

MARCH 12, 2024

Workflow automation software provider Creatio has added a suite of generative AI capabilities to its customer relationship management (CRM) offerings. The new generative AI features include Copilot, the generative AI-based assistant, and Copilot Designer, a centralized workplace where enterprise users can tweak pre-built Copilot scenarios to suit their business requirements, akin to Salesforce’s Einstein 1 Studio.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2024

Working longer hours for a struggling company may make you feel like a hero, but one person’s efforts will not save an at-risk organization. In this article, the author outlines strategies for how to focus your energy so you can have the most significant impact while also considering what makes sense for you in the long run.

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CIO

MARCH 12, 2024

Oracle’s latest financial report boasts substantial increases in revenue, net income, and earnings per share, largely thanks to cloud sales, which the company was quick to credit to the rise of AI. The report for Q3 of fiscal 2024, released yesterday, said that Oracle had signed multiple large-scale cloud infrastructure contracts in the previous three months, with no end in sight, as CEO Safra Catz touted the company’s bright prospects in cloud.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2024

U.S. employers face enormous challenges in designing their employee health care benefits that effectively address the myriad problems confronting them, including rising health care costs, employee burnout and obesity. At the same time, health and wellness options abound. By applying a test-and-learn approach, Walmart has succeeded in finding those that are the most effective in achieving multiple goals.

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CEO Insider

MARCH 12, 2024

Let’s face it, the workplace landscape these days is nothing short of rocky. Organisations are wrestling with all sorts of employee pressures from every angle. How do you keep employees truly engaged and motivated? What’s the secret sauce for crafting an Employee Value Proposition that makes top talent sit up and take notice? And let’s […] The post Innovation: The Key to Solving Your Workplace Challenges appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2024

What role do business accelerators play in boosting the growth of early-stage companies? Accelerators provide a structured environment of mentorship, education, and resources in exchange for equity. And they work. Research involving numerous accelerator programs and interviews with various stakeholders reveals that startups in these programs typically achieve higher funding and survival rates.

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Perficient

MARCH 12, 2024

User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is the final stage before launching new functionality. What should be an exciting time can turn to frustration and exhaustion. Over the years, I have found tactics that can improve the UAT outcome. UAT involves key business stakeholders validating the system prior to go-live. My background is primarily around website and portal rebuilds and this focuses on these types of launches.

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Palo Alto Networks

MARCH 12, 2024

AI tends to be understood as one coherent field of study and application where similar solutions apply for all the use cases. The reality is that applying AI in real-world environments with high precision requires specialization in the specific field of study, and each use case has unique challenges. Applied AI in cybersecurity has many unique challenges, and we will take a look into a few of them that we are considering the most important.

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 12, 2024

Policy researchers from the Rand Corp. ponder the question: "How can the United States prevail in a limited war with the People's Republic of China (PRC) while avoiding catastrophic escalation?" Find their analysis and scenarios here.

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CEO Insider

MARCH 12, 2024

OpenAI has announced significant changes to its board of directors, marking a pivotal moment in the organization’s leadership landscape. Notably, former CEO Sam Altman will be rejoining the board after several months of absence alongside three distinguished new members: Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Nicole Seligman, and Fidji Simo. Desmond-Hellmann, renowned for her leadership at the Bill and […] The post OpenAI’s Board Reshuffle: Altman Returns Amidst New Appointments appeared first on CEOW

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 12, 2024

Deepgram has made a name for itself as one of the go-to startups for voice recognition. Today, the well-funded company announced the launch of Aura, its new real-time text-to-speech API. Aura combines highly realistic voice models with a low-latency API to allow developers to build real-time, conversational AI agents.

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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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Perficient

MARCH 12, 2024

One common way of implementing tags through Adobe Launch is using a data layer, which is a JSON object (key/value pair) that is loaded onto the page from which attributes are passed through as the user navigates through the website or completes certain objectives. This can be extended further into using an Event-Driven Data Layer (EDDL), which serves to load Custom Events within JavaScript that are passed to the data layer upon an action being completed on the website, and can be loaded on any e

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Ivanti

MARCH 12, 2024

Microsoft Resolves 60 New CVEs Microsoft has released its lineup of updates for March 12, 2024, including updates for the Windows OS, Exchange Server, SQL Server, Office 365, Sharepoint and Defender. The release resolves 60 new CVEs and includes revisions for two previously released CVEs. There is also an advisory announcing the deprecation of Oracle Outside In for Exchange Server.

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Perficient

MARCH 12, 2024

Perficient is excited to announce that we have earned the Government Specialization Distinction (Americas) in the new Pega Partners program. Specialized partners are thoroughly vetted by Pega to bring deep vertical knowledge or specialized expertise to clients. Pega Partners that achieve a Specialization have a demonstrated ability to help customers build more innovative businesses, and have a significant impact on their customers, stakeholders, and their partners.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 12, 2024

Ten new unicorns globally added more than $18 billion in value to The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in February, but in a sign that the long-term status of many companies on the board are in flux, one startup fell off completely after its valuation was slashed to less than a third of a unicorn valuation. Two companies from China joined the board after raising around a billion dollars in funding each: a year-old foundation model company and a 6-year-old satellite network company.

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Perficient

MARCH 12, 2024

The term “knowledge worker” was first coined by Peter Drucker in his book, The Landmarks of Tomorrow ( 1959). Drucker defined knowledge workers as high-level workers who analyze data and apply theoretical/analytical knowledge to develop insights, trends, products, and services. He noted that knowledge workers would be the most valuable assets of a 21 st -century organization because of their high level of productivity and creativity. “ Organizations that rely solely on the IT department or anal

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 12, 2024

It’s been a tough go for venture investors in the field of crypto in recent years. Funding took a tumble after highly-publicized events such as Sam Bankman-Fried ’s FTX debacle and the collapse of several other lenders. The overall general downturn in the venture market also did not help the still-maturing market. In fact, venture funding to crypto-related startups fell to only $3.6 billion in 821 deals last year — a 78% drop from the $16.2 billion in 1,544 deals realized in 2022 — per Crunchbas

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InfoWorld

MARCH 12, 2024

WinterJS 1.0, a JavaScript web server written in Rust , has arrived from WebAssembly runtime provider Wasmer. Unveiled March 11 , WinterJS 1.0 is described by Wasmer as “the fastest JavaScript web server” and now supports Cloudflare applications and React Server Components. The WinterCG-compatible JavaScript runtime uses the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine to execute JavaScript and Tokio to handle underlying HTTP requests and the JavaScript event loop.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 12, 2024

Autonomous vehicle software developer Applied Intuition locked up a $250 million Series E valuing the company at a $6 billion — a 67% uptick in value from its previous round. The deal comes even as venture funding for autonomous vehicle-related startups has been in decline in recent years. The new round was led by Lux Capital , Elad Gil and strategic investor Porsche Investments Management.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2024

What’s the difference between a good idea and a bad one? And what’s the best way to develop new ideas quickly?

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 12, 2024

By Tracy Young In go-to-market organizations, segmentation underpins strategic decision-making, influencing how markets are approached, internal organization, product development and resource allocation. Tracy Young, co-founder and CEO of TigerEye For leadership, crafting a robust segmentation model is crucial. Without a shared segmentation framework, teams may work in unaligned directions — marketing and sales targeting different segments, conflicting feedback to product and engineering, and fi

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InfoWorld

MARCH 12, 2024

Last week MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria likened present-day AI to the “dial-up phase of the internet era.” He’s not wrong. I recently suggested we’re in the “awkward toddler phase” of generative AI (genAI). It’s full of excitement (“her first step!”), but straightforward tasks are clumsy, like basic math. Yet in some areas, the future of generative AI is happening right now.

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