Mon.Sep 30, 2024

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Supply Chains Belong at the Top of a CEO’s Agenda

Harvard Business Review

After the big Covid-19 whipsaw, the most obvious forms of supply chain distress started to fade away. But the relative peace and quiet that executives are perceiving is actually ominous. Under the surface, supply chain risk has become severe, systemic, and strategic. Addressing the risk cannot be left to procurement and operations teams alone, however smart and skillful they are.

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How AI is transforming business today

CIO

Hannah Calhoon, vice president of AI for Indeed, uses artificial intelligence “to make existing tasks faster, easier, higher quality and more effective.” She points to a recent initiative in which the job matching and hiring platform company started using large language models (LLMs) to add a highly customized sentence or two to the emails it sends to job seekers about open positions that match their qualifications.

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5 Ways to Ask Your Boss to Advocate for You

Harvard Business Review

Stop waiting for support to magically materialize.

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Making data matter at Mathematica

CIO

Mathematica’s Akira Bell is a CIO with a mission. One of three finalists for the prestigious 2024 MIT CIO Leadership Award, Bell led the development of a proprietary data and analytics platform on AWS that enables the company to serve critical data to Medicare and other state and federal agencies as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Formerly known as Mathematica Policy Research, the Princeton, N.J.

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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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The Case for More Company Insiders on Boards

Harvard Business Review

Until the 1970s, corporate boards were dominated by inside directors — people employed by or affiliated with the company in some way. As of 2023, Spencer Stuart research found that 85% of directors are independent. The switch came in response to a number of trends, including the distrust of American institutions after Watergate and Vietnam, and SEC rule changes that increased the importance of independent directors.

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Coming Soon: Season 8

Harvard Business Review

Listen to the new season of Coaching Real Leaders, where executive coach Muriel Wilkins tackles a whole new set of leadership challenges with real clients.

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¿Cómo se gobierna una cartera de API dispersa y en crecimiento?

CIO

Seguimos observando un aumento significativo del desarrollo de API año tras año. Un informe de 2022 realizado por 451 Research descubrió que la organización media tiene 15.564 API en uso, con una tasa de crecimiento del 201% en un solo año. Cloudflare ha informado que más del 50% del tráfico que procesa está basado en API. Diversas tendencias están impulsando un crecimiento explosivo del número de API que utilizan las empresas, aunque estos puntos de integración son a menudo muy variados y no es

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SoftBank To Invest $500M In OpenAI — Report

Crunchbase News

OpenAI ’s $6.5 billion round that reportedly will value the AI giant at $150 billion may have picked up another big-named investor. SoftBank ’s Vision Fund will invest $500 million in the round, The Information reported on Monday. The investment would be SoftBank’s first in OpenAI and comes more than a year after SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son told investors the fund would be switching back to “offense mode” and was looking to be a leader in the AI revolution after it had suffered massive losses

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Is your coworker a North Korean hacker? How AI impersonation is compromising the workforce

CIO

This isn’t just a few individual bad actors; it’s a sophisticated, industrial-scale, state-sponsored threat that’s been simmering for the last two years and has now reached full boil. And like a frog in a pot, organizations are waking up to the potentially catastrophic risks of inaction. A 2024 Securonix survey found that concern about “malicious insiders” rose from 60% in 2019 to 74% in 2024, and 90% of companies believe insider attacks are “equally or more challenging to detect than external a

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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 to Build High-Performing Teams: Help Your Team Thrive Under Pressure

Let's Grow Leaders

High-Performing Teams Turn Pressure into Progress, One Habit at a Time Your team’s under pressure to perform—fast. The stakes are high, the deadline looms, and emotions are running hotter by the minute. Just last week, your team was cruising along. They weren’t going to win any high-performing team awards, but things were working well enough. Sure, there were a few bumps in communication, and collaboration wasn’t always seamless, but nothing too disruptive.

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Life Long Ambitions

DevOps.com

Life Long Ambitions

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Post-Quantum Cryptography: A Strategic Imperative for Enterprise Resilience

Dell EMC

Enterprise leaders must prepare for quantum computing's impact on cryptography and plan for a quantum-secure future.

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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com

Are you considering a change? This week we highlight some great DevOps job opportunities including positions at CapitalOne and NVIDIA.

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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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CodeSOD: Feeling Free

The Daily WTF

Jason started work on a C++ application doing quantitative work. The nature of the program involves allocating all sorts of blocks of memory, doing loads of complicated math, and then freeing them. Which means, there's code which looks like this: for ( i = 0 ; i quant4_bias[i] ) free ( h->quant4_bias[i] ); } This isn't terribly unusual code.

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Cybersicurezza, come rispondere a un attacco informatico nell’era della GenAI

CIO

L’avvento dell’ intelligenza artificiale generativa ha introdotto l’ennesima variabile nel complesso e mutevole panorama delle minacce informatiche e la cybersicurezza resta un allarme costante per il CIO. Secondo il “Forecast: information security and risk management worldwide, 2021-2027” di Gartner [in inglese] , il mercato dell’information security e gestione del rischio crescerà da un giro d’affari di 185 miliardi di dollari nel 2023 a 287 miliardi nel 2027, pari a un tasso di crescita annua

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How Data Integration Can Help Transform Tech Operations?

The Crazy Programmer

In a data-driven world today, integrating data from various sources effectively has become crucial. Digital transformation has revolutionized the way businesses function, interact with their customers, and employ the right technology for growth. Data integration ensures that businesses use all the information to spur innovation. It also helps them make wise decisions and maintain their competitiveness.

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CIO Summit 2024: el CIO se corona como protagonista en la era de la IA

CIO

Si algo queda claro en la era predominantemente digital en la que vivimos es que el rol del CIO ha tomado una preponderancia que antes no tenía. Esto se debe a que la tecnología se ha transformado en un elemento propiciador del negocio: sin tecnología no hay negocio y sin negocio no hay tecnología. Los mejores CIO consideran que este binomio es la clave del éxito de cualquier proyecto tecnológico dentro de una organización, y liderar procesos de transformación digital siempre viene de la mano d

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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 a post-hurricane disaster sold me on a $2,000 pool-cleaning robot

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

After a lightning strike showered debris into my pool, the Beatbot Aquasense Pro pool cleaner tackled the mess with ease, proving its worth in extreme conditions.

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Using Spring AI With LLMs To Generate Java Tests

Dzone - DevOps

The AIDocumentLibraryChat project has been extended to generate test code (Java code has been tested). The project can generate test code for publicly available GitHub projects. The URL of the class to test can be provided then the class is loaded, the imports are analyzed and the dependent classes in the project are also loaded. That gives the LLM the opportunity to consider the imported source classes while generating mocks for tests.

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Want an entire tech repair shop of tools in a single messenger bag? iFixit can fix that

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The iFixit Repair Business Toolkit got a refresh in 2023. I've been using the kit for over a year. Here's what I have inside the bag now.

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Stream Processing in the Serverless World

Dzone - DevOps

It’s a very dynamic world today. Information moves fast. Businesses generate data constantly. Real-time analysis is now essential. Stream processing in the serverless cloud solves this. Gartner predicts that by 2025, over 75% of enterprise data will be processed outside traditional data centers. Confluent states that stream processing lets companies act on data as it's created.

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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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The Echo Pop smart speaker is just $18 with this October Prime Day deal

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

An Echo Pop is the perfect way to add a little pop of Alexa to your life this October Prime Day, pun intended.

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Using task-specific models from AI21 Labs on AWS

AWS Machine Learning - AI

In this blog post, we will show you how to leverage AI21 Labs’ Task-Specific Models (TSMs) on AWS to enhance your business operations. You will learn the steps to subscribe to AI21 Labs in the AWS Marketplace, set up a domain in Amazon SageMaker, and utilize AI21 TSMs via SageMaker JumpStart. AI21 Labs is a foundation model (FM) provider focusing on building state-of-the-art language models.

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Zorin OS 17.2 offers even more ways to customize your Linux distro

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

This extremely user-friendly distribution is available in free and Pro versions. Here's what makes the latest release so worth downloading.

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Whatever Your Workload, There’s a PowerEdge for That

Dell EMC

Servers built to transform your workloads with faster performance, better cooling and AI innovation.

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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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Import a question answering fine-tuned model into Amazon Bedrock as a custom model

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon through a single API, along with a broad set of capabilities to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI. Common generative AI use cases, including but not limited to chatbots, virtual assistants, conversational search, and agent assistants, use FMs to pr

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Survey Sees Positive DevOps Outlook Driving Investments

DevOps.com

A survey of over 500 DevOps practitioners finds that approximately 60% of respondents plan to boost investments in DevOps tools and platforms in the next two years, with 20% planning significant budget increases.

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I've weathered a lot of hurricanes - these 8 apps and websites are my must-have storm tools

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

As a South Florida resident and technology pro, I make it a point to stay 7 to 10 days ahead of severe storms, closely monitoring every model and update as a system develops and strengthens. Here are the tools I use.

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