CIO

AUGUST 13, 2024

I’ve changed my mind about artificial intelligence. It used to worry me. Now I can’t get enough of it soon enough. Why the change? Once upon a time, CRM was more than a software category. It was a philosophy of doing business, exemplified by the late, great grocer Sid Applebaum, who reportedly explained (I paraphrase), “Every time I watch a shopper leave one of my stores, I see them carrying $50,000 worth of groceries.

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Xebia

AUGUST 13, 2024

Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are amazing. But most big companies will always run their LLMs on the cloud. And the cloud is simply someone else’s computer! What if you want to run your own LLMs, on your own computer? You can! Let’s get started. What is Ollama? Ollama is a tool that allows you to run Large Language Models locally.

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CIO

AUGUST 13, 2024

Like most modern CIOs, Sathish Muthukrishnan has seen the list of responsibilities for the top IT position expand; his title — chief information, data, and digital officer — reflects that expansion. As the IT chief at Ally Financial, and one of this year’s 10 CIO Hall of Fame inductees , Muthukrishnan says the position has evolved into one that is now “a strategic partner for the enterprise.

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Tenable

AUGUST 13, 2024

Tenable Research discovered multiple privilege-escalation issues in the Azure Health Bot Service via a server-side request forgery (SSRF), which allowed researchers access to cross-tenant resources. Key takeaways The Azure Health Bot Service is a cloud platform that allows healthcare professionals to deploy AI-powered virtual health assistants. Tenable Research discovered critical vulnerabilities that allowed access to cross-tenant resources within this service.

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce

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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CIO

AUGUST 13, 2024

Sustainability is on the rise as a CIO imperative, with most CIOs now central to their organization’s increasing focus on sustainability planning — a trend that’s shaking up what technologies IT leaders are investing in and the vendors and partners they are signing deals with. More than nine in 10 CIOs are ramping up sustainability investments, according to the Logicalis Global CIO Report for 2024.

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CIO

AUGUST 13, 2024

The IDC CIO Sentiment Survey has consistently shown automation climbing the priority list since 2020. Indeed, according to the 2023 survey (September 2023), 71.1% of respondents said they were accelerating or continuing to invest in automation to replace part of the workforce, and 73.7% said it was to improve processes in the context of difficult economic conditions.

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Tenable

AUGUST 13, 2024

7 Critical 80 Important 1 Moderate 0 Low Microsoft addresses 88 CVEs with seven critical vulnerabilities and 10 zero-day vulnerabilities, six of which were exploited in the wild. Microsoft patched 88 CVEs in its August 2024 Patch Tuesday release, with seven rated critical, 80 rated as important, and one rated as moderate. This month’s update includes patches for: NET and Visual Studio Azure Connected Machine Agent Azure CycleCloud Azure Health Bot Azure IoT SDK Azure Stack Line Printer Daemon Se

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CIO

AUGUST 13, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has upped the ante across all tech arenas, including one of the most traditional ones: data centers. Modern data centers are running hotter than ever – not just to manage ever-increasing processing demands, but also rising temperatures as the result of AI workloads, which sees no end in sight. Two out of three IT leaders expect AI spending to increase this year, making it a necessity to find new ways to cool data centers. [1] Liquid cooling is rapidly gaining tractio

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Ooda Loop

AUGUST 13, 2024

research reveals that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT cannot learn independently or acquire new skills without explicit instructions, making them predictable and controllable. The study dispels fears of these models developing complex reasoning abilities, emphasizing that while LLMs can generate sophisticated language, they are unlikely to pose existential threats.

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Advertiser: Procom Services

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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CIO

AUGUST 13, 2024

According to EY , 96% of enterprises are planning to use AI in the next 12 months, compared to 43% today. Integrating AI and large language models (LLMs) into business operations unlocks new possibilities for innovation and efficiency, offering the opportunity to grow your top line revenue, and improve bottom line profitability. As with any new technology, however, security must be designed into the adoption of AI in order to minimize potential risks.

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Prisma Clud

AUGUST 13, 2024

Executive Summary This research examines an attack vector allowing the compromise of GitHub repositories, leading to severe consequences and potential high-level access to cloud environments. The vulnerability arises from the abuse of GitHub Actions artifacts in CI/CD workflows. Misconfigurations and security flaws can cause these artifacts to leak tokens from third-party cloud services and GitHub, making them accessible to anyone with repository read access.

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Ooda Loop

AUGUST 13, 2024

The Federal Ruling against Google is the tipping point many have been waiting for in a much-needed wave of judicial and legislative activity to begin strengthening the U.S. cognitive infrastructure and cleaning up the information ecosystem. Details of the ruling can be found in this post.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2024

In the last few years, large companies like Wayfair, Amazon, Yelp, DoorDash, and Instacart have launched initiatives to try to address racial inequality in their business models. In a new study, researchers examined some of these strategies, including Yelp and Wayfair’s labels which identify minority-owned businesses. The authors offer insight into how supporting companies owned by underrepresented groups can benefit sponsor businesses while promoting the growth of minority entrepreneurship.

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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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Ooda Loop

AUGUST 13, 2024

According to the latest Canalys data, 8.8 million AI-capable PCs were shipped in Q2 2024. These devices are defined as desktops and notebooks that include a chipset or block for dedicated AI workloads, such as an NPU. Shipments of AI-capable PCs represented 14% of all PCs shipped in the quarter.

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Crunchbase News

AUGUST 13, 2024

Earlier this week, Peter Walker of Carta shared data on the use of different mechanisms in SAFEs issued for U.S. startups in 2024: 61% used a cap, 30% used a cap and a discount, 8% used only a discount, and 1% used neither. In response to the number of uncapped SAFEs, or a Simple Agreement for Future Equity, one investor replied, “That tells me at least 1/12 VC funds has no idea what it’s doing.

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Dzone - DevOps

AUGUST 13, 2024

The economic volatility in the tech industry has most enterprises looking at their cloud bills and searching for deterministic ways to drive down costs. One of the interesting layers of that consideration is the cloud architecture itself. The following is an interview with Loft Labs CEO Lukas Gentele - the creator of the vCluster open-source project - to learn more about how virtualizing clusters is giving developers and platform teams productive new ways to right-size cloud resource utilization

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Crunchbase News

AUGUST 13, 2024

Less than two years after raising an $80 million Series D, automated debt manager Tally has shut down after not being able to raise more money in a tough environment for fintech startups. Founder and CEO Jason Brown said in a LinkedIn post , “we have made the difficult and sad decision to shut down Tally. This was not the outcome we had hoped for, but after exploring all options, we were unable to secure the necessary funding to continue our operations.

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Daffodil Software

AUGUST 13, 2024

With smart manufacturing & Industry 4.0 reinventing the landscape, the need for advanced and interconnected manufacturing systems is now even more essential than ever. At the centre of this evolution lies Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), weaving emerging technologies such as Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), artificial intelligence and cloud computing, into the intricate process of manufacturing.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

AUGUST 13, 2024

Over the years, many of us have become accustomed to letting computers do our thinking for us. “That’s what the computer says” is a refrain in many bad customer service interactions. “That’s what the data says” is a variation—“the data” doesn’t say much if you don’t know how it was collected and how the data analysis was performed. “That’s what GPS says”—well, GPS is usually right, but I have seen GPS systems tell me to go the wrong way down a one-way street.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

AUGUST 13, 2024

AI chatbots are more popular than ever, but with new updates coming out every few months, how do you determine which one is the best?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2024

Six strategies to separate critiques aimed to tear you down from guidance meant to build you up.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

AUGUST 13, 2024

Google's new flagship foldable, the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, just dropped, and it's packed with new features. But how does it compare to Samsung's Z Fold 6? Let's break down the major differences.

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QBurst

AUGUST 13, 2024

Are you tired of spending countless hours reviewing insurance policies before renewals? Logging into carrier websites, extracting data manually, and updating your CRM can be overwhelming, especially with hundreds of renewals to manage. What if you could cut that time in half? Introducing our generative AI web agent, designed to take the tedious tasks off […] The post Automating Manual Web Processes in Insurance with Generative AI appeared first on QBurst Blog.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

AUGUST 13, 2024

On Tuesday at the Made by Google event, Google unveiled the new Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 earbuds, along with new Pixel phones and watches. We've found the best places to preorder the latest earbuds.

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Confluent

AUGUST 13, 2024

Current 2024 brings 100+ sessions, keynotes, lightning talks, and more from industry leaders. Check out the agenda, highlights, networking events, and more event info.

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Symantec

AUGUST 13, 2024

New Catalyst partner initiative arms select global partners with the latest innovative technologies, threat intelligence and in-region support to help customers successfully reduce their risk and improve their security posture

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

AUGUST 13, 2024

I've been subjecting AI chatbots to a set of real-world programming tests. Which chatbots handled the challenge and which crawled home in shame? Read on.

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Dell EMC

AUGUST 13, 2024

Gain simplicity and flexibility through Dell and Nutanix collaboration.

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