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Short, Mid and Long-Term Impacts of AI in Cybersecurity

Palo Alto Networks

{{interview_audio_title}} 00:00 00:00 Volume Slider 10s 10s 10s 10s Seek Slider “AI’s Impact in Cybersecurity” is a blog series based on interviews with a variety of experts at Palo Alto Networks and Unit 42, with roles in AI research, product management, consulting, engineering and more. Our objective is to present different viewpoints and predictions on how artificial intelligence is impacting the current threat landscape, how Palo Alto Networks protects itself and its customers, as well as im

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How to calculate TCO for enterprise software

CIO

When organizations buy a shiny new piece of software, attention is typically focused on the benefits: streamlined business processes, improved productivity, automation, better security, faster time-to-market, digital transformation. The other side of the cost/benefit equation — what the software will cost the organization, and not just sticker price — may not be as captivating when it comes to achieving approval for a software purchase, but it’s just as vital in determining the expected return o

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Streamlining Project Management: Insights from our Round Table Event

Xebia

We recently hosted a dynamic round table event focused on streamlining processes for enhanced project efficiency, in Pulitzer Amsterdam. We enjoyed great food at a beautiful location, with some amazing people. This gathering brought together representatives from various leading companies such as Nike, Philips and Heineken. All participating companies share a common goal: to tackle the complexities of project management in today’s fast-paced business environment.

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Embracing Generative AI in health: focus on adoption, execution, outcomes and the human side

CIO

Healthcare systems around the world are under extreme pressure as a result of staffing shortages, low retention rates and clinician burnout. In the U.S., due to higher turnover rate of nurses, hospitals have employed traveling nurses. On average, hospitals would save $3,084,000 per year by eliminating the need for traveling nurses, according to NSI.

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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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LLM Fine-tuning Challenge at NeurIPS

Xebia

LLM Fine-tuning NeurIPS 2023 featured a challenge to efficiently fine-tune open-source LLM models on public datasets. We participated in this challenge. If you are considering fine-tuning LLMs, there are some things to consider: Infra, Data, Base Model, Training, Inference and Evaluation. In this blog post, we share some practical considerations. The challenge The goal of the challenge is to find out what works and doesn’t work when fine-tuning LLM models.

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A Strategic Approach to Sustainability with Xebia’s GreenOps

Xebia

In today’s dynamic business landscape, integrating sustainability into AWS environments is an ethical choice and a strategic imperative. With evolving legislation around carbon footprint reporting impacting organizations globally, companies must align with these regulations proactively. This article explores the significance of sustainability in the legal landscape and introduces Xebia’s GreenOps service as a comprehensive solution to these challenges.

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Landing Your First CIO Role? Learn how Next CIO Winners Gathered to Support Their C-suite Tech Leadership Journey.

CIO

The Next CIO cohort sat with Natalie Whittlesey and James Lawson from InX to discuss how to transition into a first time C-suite role. Next CIO workshops are designed to support the Next CIO cohort into their first CIO role. These are held throughout the year as part of the initiative. From determining career paths, applying for the role, and understanding trends in AI, the Next CIO cohort have gained a clearer understanding of what c-suite technology leadership entails and identifying which ski

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Biotechnology in Warfare and Battle – and the Human Body as a Warfighting Domain

Ooda Loop

RAND researchers in a recently released report explore biology as the platform on which future wars will be fought. Plagues, Cyborgs, and Supersoldiers: The Human Domain of War "examines a future in which biotechnology is used by both state and nonstate actors.future actors may use pathogens, brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), genomic enhancements, and wearable technology to supplement and strengthen warfighters.

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Why Calling Your Workers Heroes Can Backfire

Harvard Business Review

At the height of pandemic-era lockdowns, the term “hero” was used to describe full-time workers including frontline health workers, bus drivers, supermarket cashiers, and other workers who had to appear at work in-person. In 2020, Instacart launched a “Household Heroes” campaign to recruit 300,000 workers to the platform. While moralizing work like this might seem to have benefits for workers and the company, interviews with Instacart workers shed light on the mixed feelings many workers held ab

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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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Designing generative AI workloads for resilience

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Resilience plays a pivotal role in the development of any workload, and generative AI workloads are no different. There are unique considerations when engineering generative AI workloads through a resilience lens. Understanding and prioritizing resilience is crucial for generative AI workloads to meet organizational availability and business continuity requirements.

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GenAI Can Help Small Companies Level the Playing Field

Harvard Business Review

Generative AI has the potential to close content, insight, and technology gaps that large corporations typically have over their smaller counterparts. This shift presents a unique opportunity for SMEs, whose inherent agility gives them an edge in adopting and innovating with AI. This article shares some early examples of how new approaches to text and image generation, AI-generated video, customer insights, and more can help boost the competitiveness of SMEs willing to invest in generative AI to

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Avoid Stubbing Your Toe on Telemetry Changes

Honeycomb

When you have questions about your software, telemetry data is there for you. Over time, you make friends with your data, learning what queries take you right to the error you want to see, and what graphs reassure you that your software is serving users well. You build up alerts based on those errors. You set business goals as SLOs around those graphs.

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Campfire is now for sale

David Heinemeier Hansson

After a couple of weeks of final Patek-level polishing with early-access customers, Campfire is finally for sale for all ! This is The Moment of Truth where we get to see whether all that excitement turns into credit card swipes. That release rush. I love it. And I especially love this release, because we’re trying to validate an entirely new-old way of selling software.

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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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7 Reasons Dataiku Is the Trusted Source for Modern Analytics

Dataiku

In my prior post , I shared the seven reasons analytics and IT leaders should upgrade to a modern, cloud-native analytics platform. In short, the world has changed, and teams must collaborate and take advantage of the latest cloud and AI technology in a safe and governed environment to create production projects that will generate value for their business.

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The Pinnacle of Performance: Fine-Tuning Leadership with Executive Coachee Programs

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Role of Executive Coachee Programs in Enhancing Leadership Performance Executive coachee programs are crucial in enhancing leadership performance among top executives in today’s competitive corporate landscape. These programs provide a unique opportunity for executives to receive personalized guidance and support in their professional development journey.

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Things To Know About Planning for a Web Application in 2024

Invid Group

Things You Need To Know About Planning for a Web Application in 2024 BY: INVID Within the ever-evolving realm of technology, web applications are essential in molding our digital experiences. The web development industry is seeing constant change as we begin 2024, bringing with it both new opportunities and challenges. It’s important to keep up with the most recent trends and best practices for web application planning, whether you’re a seasoned developer or a business owner making

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The 2024 Leadership Forecast: Embracing AI Driven Decision Making

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Role of Embracing AI in Future Leadership Strategies As the transition towards a digital economy accelerates, Artificial Intelligence (AI) emerges as an influential element in shaping leadership strategies. AI facilitates the collection and analysis of data, enabling an evidence-based approach to decision-making. Integrating innovative technology into leadership is not merely about automation or efficiency; it capacitates strategic alignment with market dynamics, competitor act

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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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Analyze security findings faster with no-code data preparation using generative AI and Amazon SageMaker Canvas

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Data is the foundation to capturing the maximum value from AI technology and solving business problems quickly. To unlock the potential of generative AI technologies, however, there’s a key prerequisite: your data needs to be appropriately prepared. In this post, we describe how use generative AI to update and scale your data pipeline using Amazon SageMaker Canvas for data prep.

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The N2Growth Difference: Coaching or Consulting to Meet Your Needs

N2Growth Blog

The Power of Tailored Solutions for Professional Growth – Coaching or Consulting Tailored leadership solutions are the bedrock of professional growth. In today’s competitive landscape, one size no longer fits all. Perhaps more than anyone, executives understand the importance of customized approaches that address their unique needs and challenges.

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WordPress-powered Angular: JWT Authentication Using GraphQL

Toptal

Setting up authentication in an app with a disparate front end and back end is tricky. This tutorial proposes an innovative solution using JWT and GraphQL.

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Mastering GitHub Copilot: Top 25 Metrics Redefining Developer Productivity

Dzone - DevOps

In the ever-evolving landscape of software development, GitHub Copilot stands as a beacon of innovation, revolutionizing the coding experience. As developers navigate this AI-powered coding assistant, a comprehensive set of metrics has emerged to gauge productivity and efficiency. Let's delve into the top 25 key metrics, uncovering their rationale, formulas, and real-time applications. 1.

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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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Deprecation, bugfixes and more!

Ruby on Rails

Hi, it’s Greg. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Deprecate passing nil as model argument Passing model: nil as an argument to the form_with method will be deprecated in the next release of Rails. Skip CSS when creating APIs This pull request makes the Rails generator skip the CSS part if the --api flag is set, because CSS is unnecessary for API only apps.

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Transforming Web Development and Cloud Computing With WebAssembly

Dzone - DevOps

WebAssembly (Wasm) has reshaped how I view web development and serverless computing. This blog shares my experience with Wasm, focusing on two key tools, Spin — a platform for hosting static websites with Wasm — and Fermyon Cloud, a Wasm-powered serverless environment, and discusses their impact on enterprise applications and Kubernetes ( K8s ) environments.

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Mastering Day 2 Operations with Cloudera

Cloudera

Delivering transformational innovation and accurate business decisions requires harnessing the full potential of your organization’s entire data ecosystem. Ultimately, this boils down to how reliable and trustworthy the underlying data that feeds your insights and applications is. This applies to modern generative AI solutions that are particularly reliant on trusted, accurate, and context-specific data.

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Keeping fannies happy will keep fans happy

The Hustle

The world’s 10th -richest man poured a chunk of his $80.7B fortune into a historical punching bag of an NBA franchise, upped its value by $2.65B , and is now building the most expensive arena known to man: a $2B+ palace designed to look like a giant basketball net.It’s one hell of a business story — but the most intriguing part of it all? The toilets.

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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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AI Will Be Doing More Accounting If Startup Investors Have Their Way

Crunchbase News

Accounting and auditing is a perpetual growth market. Yet at the same time, businesses and households seem to find there are never enough resources to keep up with the demands of modern-day recordkeeping. Startups have been pitching tools to help for a long time. Tax prep software pioneer Intuit turned 40 last year. Over intervening decades, investors have pumped billions into startups developing software to automate bookkeeping, auditing, compliance and tax filing.

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Create an exception handler in ASP.NET Core 8

InfoWorld

Microsoft’s November release of.NET 8 brought all kinds of great new features. One of the nice improvements introduced in ASP.NET Core 8 is IExceptionHandler, an interface that makes it easier to handle exceptions gracefully in ASP.NET Core web applications. Error handling has a long history in programming languages and frameworks. IExceptionHandler simplifies error handling by providing a callback and a central location for handling known exceptions.

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Understanding the Risks of Long-Lived Kubernetes Service Account Tokens

Dzone - DevOps

The popularity of Kubernetes (K8s) as the defacto orchestration platform for the cloud is not showing any sign of pause. This graph, taken from the 2023 Kubernetes Security Report by the security company Wiz, clearly illustrates the trend: As adoption continues to soar, so do the security risks and, most importantly, the attacks threatening K8s clusters.

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