Deepfakes: Coming soon to a company near you
CIO
JUNE 14, 2024
AI-powered deepfake technology is rapidly advancing, and it’s only a matter of time before cybercriminals find a business model they can use, some security experts say.
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How to Fix ‘AI’s Original Sin’
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
JUNE 18, 2024
Last month, TheNew York Times claimed that tech giants OpenAI and Google have waded into a copyright gray area by transcribing the vast volume of YouTube videos and using that text as additional training data for their AI models despite terms of service that prohibit such efforts and copyright law that the Times argues places them in dispute. The Times also quoted Meta officials as saying that their models will not be able to keep up unless they follow OpenAI and Google’s lead.
The Most Strategic Leaders Excel in 4 Disciplines
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 18, 2024
Strategic fitness is a leader’s ability to learn from and adapt to their environment to set direction and create a competitive advantage. A study of 77 C-suite executives over four years found that strategically fit leaders excel in four disciplines : 1) Strategic fitness, or setting clear direction and calibrating when necessary; 2) Leadership fitness, or refining their style to meet the moment; 3) Organizational fitness, or investing in thinking about the future state of the business; and 4) C
Cybersecurity Regulation Harmonization Need to Be Done Correctly, Not Quickly
Ooda Loop
JUNE 12, 2024
There is no doubt that regulation harmonization is much needed especially given the amount of cyber regulation being developed or already on the books, and how it’s being enforced.
15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence
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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?
Metaverse And Augmented Reality Remain Unpopular With VCs
Crunchbase News
JUNE 21, 2024
The metaverse is not getting funded. That was the unsurprising finding from our latest data dive regarding investment in startups innovating around the metaverse, virtual reality and augmented reality. The space, which was significantly buzzier a few years ago, has apparently lost its cachet with VCs. Dwindling investment comes on the heels of disappointing adoption for the gear and leading metaverse platforms.
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SRE in the Age of AI
DevOps.com
JUNE 28, 2024
Site reliability engineering (SRE) is a concept introduced by Google in 2004 and since then it has been adopted by various leading software organizations. In its purest form SRE is what you get when you treat operations like it is a software problem.
How to Discover, Analyze and Respond to Threats Faster with Generative AI
Tenable
JUNE 17, 2024
Generative AI (GenAI) is being hailed as the most transformative innovation since the rise of the internet in the 1990s. For security, GenAI can revolutionize the field if applied correctly, especially when it comes to threat detection and response. It enhances efficiency and productivity by swiftly processing and delivering critical information when it matters most.
European hospitals launch Microsoft-backed AI network to agree privacy guardrails
CIO
JUNE 19, 2024
Artificial intelligence, it is widely assumed, will soon unleash the biggest transformation in health care provision since the medical sector started its journey to professionalization after the flu pandemic of 1918. The catch is that bringing this about will require new institutional channels for knowledge, engineering, and ethical collaboration that don’t yet exist.
Bigger, Better Small Talk: Practical Ways to Connect with Your Coworkers
Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 10, 2024
Get Better at Small Talk By Asking the Next Best Question Do you dread small talk? Does the idea of asking (or being asked) “How was your weekend?” make you cringe? We get it. You don’t have a lot of extra time for long conversations. You’ve got work to do. But here’s the thing. People are more likely to help you when they feel seen by you—as a person—not just for what they can do for you.
2024 Salary Guide
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
How Starbucks Devalued Its Own Brand
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 26, 2024
Starbucks is struggling. It has strayed from its successful strategy of offering customers exceptional experiences and, in the process, has commoditized itself. This article analyzes where it went wrong and offers ideas for how the company can turn itself around. It holds lessons for other companies that compete by providing customers distinctive experiences.
Early AI Funding May Be Showing Some Cracks
Crunchbase News
JUNE 14, 2024
While funding to AI-related startups remains strong, with nearly $30 billion raised so far this year alone, there are indicators that some of the earliest-stage investors are getting some AI fatigue. Deal-making volume seems to be slowing in the second quarter — with just a couple of weeks left — compared to other recent quarters, when investors’ appetite showed little to no limits for the all-encompassing technology.
The Rise of Coding Assistants: Supercharging Developer Productivity
DevOps.com
JUNE 19, 2024
The rapid advancements in large language model (LLM) coding assistants have sparked debates about the future of coding, with some even predicting doomsday for coders.
Decision-Making and Deep Tech with Laura Thomas: Insights from a Former CIA Officer
Ooda Loop
JUNE 4, 2024
In this episode of OODAcast, Bob Gourley interviews Laura Thomas, a deep tech consultant and former CIA officer. Laura discusses her journey from a small town in North Carolina to a career in the CIA, where she served as a case officer. She emphasizes the importance of critical thinking and decision-making under uncertainty, and how these skills have translated to her work in deep tech.
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.
Data center design in the age of AI: Integrating AI with legacy Infrastructure
CIO
JUNE 24, 2024
In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), how can enterprises evaluate whether their existing data center design can fully employ the modern requirements needed to run AI? There are major considerations as IT leaders develop their AI strategies and evaluate the landscape of their infrastructure. This blog examines: What is considered legacy IT infrastructure?
June 2024 Patch Tuesday
Ivanti
JUNE 11, 2024
This month is a much milder Patch Tuesday compared to the zero-day lineup from last month. Looking at CISA’s KEV Catalog from the end of May up to Patch Tuesday, there was another Chrome zero-day ( CVE-2024-5274 ) on May 28; Justice AV Solutions ( CVE-2024-4978 ) on May 29; a Linux Kernel Use-After-Free vulnerability ( CVE-2024-1086 ) on May 30; an Information Disclosure vulnerability in Check Point Quantum Security Gateways ( CVE-2024-24919 ) on May 30; and most recent, but also an interesting
How to Get Your Team to Actually Speak Up
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 10, 2024
There is a common leadership misconception that merely encouraging team members to voice their opinions will foster an environment of openness. But people won’t speak up unless they feel safe doing so. As a leader, this means you have to address the underlying reasons for employee reticence, including the individual and systemic barriers to speaking up.
Microsoft, Nvidia Lead In Investing In AI Startups, But Others Close Behind
Crunchbase News
JUNE 12, 2024
Just last week it was reported chip giant Nvidia , Salesforce Ventures 1 and Cisco all participated in a $450 million investment for Toronto-based AI startup Cohere. That same day, Cisco and its investment arm — Cisco Investments — made news when it launched a $1 billion AI investment fund. Those noteworthy machinations by some of the biggest names in tech are just the latest examples of these corporate giants’ desires to at best be leaders in the generative AI sector — and at worst not fall be
How Top Tech CFOs Solve Annual Planning’s Biggest Challenges
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Splunk Adds Data Management and AI Tools to Observability Portfolio
DevOps.com
JUNE 12, 2024
Recent adoption shows that AI tools enable more applications at scale. However, the application environment is going to be that much more complex as the number of dependencies between applications and services increases.
Cybersecurity Snapshot: NIST Program Assesses How AI Systems Will Behave in the Real World, While FBI Has Troves of Decryption Keys for LockBit Victims
Tenable
JUNE 7, 2024
Check out the new ARIA program from NIST, designed to evaluate if an AI system will be safe and fair once it’s launched. Plus, the FBI offers to help LockBit victims with thousands of decryption keys. In addition, Deloitte finds that boosting cybersecurity is key for generative AI deployment success. And why identity security is getting harder. And much more!
Unauthorized AI is eating your company data, thanks to your employees
CIO
JUNE 6, 2024
Legal documents, HR data, source code, and other sensitive corporate information is being fed into unlicensed, publicly available AIs at a swift rate, leaving IT leaders with a mounting shadow AI mess.
Healing Bots Take Charge of Solving IT Problems to Enhance Employee Satisfaction
Ivanti
JUNE 17, 2024
Imagine an Everywhere Work environment in which IT problems seem to magically resolve themselves before end users even realize there were issues. Printers miraculously start working again. Login issues vanish. Access to critical applications is seamless. Before anyone starts believing in digital fairy godmothers, let’s give credit where it’s due: To the rise of healing bots : intelligent hyperautomation tools that proactively identify and address employee IT woes to improve employee experience.
An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies
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How AI Can Make Make Us Better Leaders
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 6, 2024
Humans are good at inventing tools, but not as good at adapting to the change these tools can cause. While there has been much focus on the technical impacts and potential dark side of AI, the authors’ research has shown that AI can enhance and empower leadership, actually helping make leaders more human. To do this, we need to invest just as much in the development of our human potential as we do in harnessing the power of AI.
Robotics Startups On The Rise In 2024
Crunchbase News
JUNE 27, 2024
So far, 2024 is shaping up as a not-so-shabby year for robotics startup funding. Developers of workplace robots, robotic surgery technologies, and even humanoid models have all raised large rounds in the past six months. The artificial intelligence funding boom has also helped boost the space, with investors backing big deals at the intersection of AI and robotics.
AI Training
DevOps.com
JUNE 10, 2024
There will come a time when how AI works will be a an unknowable mystery that can be explained only by a belief in the existence of magic. There will come a time when how AI works will be a an unknowable mystery that can be explained only by a belief in the existence of magic.
CVE-2024-4577: Proof of Concept Available for PHP-CGI Argument Injection Vulnerability
Tenable
JUNE 7, 2024
Researchers disclose a critical severity vulnerability affecting PHP installations and provide proof-of-concept exploit code, which could lead to remote code execution. Background On June 6, maintainers of PHP released updates to address a critical vulnerability affecting installations where PHP is used in CGI mode. As part of a coordinated release, researchers at DEVCORE published a blog post with their analysis of the vulnerability and its impact.
IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?
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AI success depends on a culture of innovation
CIO
JUNE 24, 2024
In 2001, Steve Jobs called it as big a deal as the PC and venture capitalist John Doerr said it might be bigger than the internet. What revolutionary technology were they referring to? The Segway. You know, the personal transport device that flopped in the marketplace and became synonymous with mall security guards. The fanfare around artificial intelligence (AI) today is even bigger than the lofty talk about the Segway over twenty years ago.
Should We Really Be Worried Over Influence Campaigns?
Ooda Loop
JUNE 19, 2024
In the runup to the 2024 U.S. presidential election, much attention has been placed on rampant influence campaigns emerging from U.S. adversaries like China, Iran, and Russia.
Learning to Delegate as a First-Time Manager
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 14, 2024
Learning how to delegate well is a skill every first-time manager needs to learn from the very start. Many people are promoted into management for doing their previous job well. But once you’re promoted into a leadership role, you must accept that you can’t do everything on your own — nor should you. Though it may seem counterintuitive, the more senior you become in an organization, the less you’ll be involved in doing the day-to-day work.
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