August, 2024

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Is the gen AI bubble due to burst? CIOs face rethink ahead

CIO

Generative AI has been hyped so much over the past two years that observers see an inevitable course correction ahead — one that should prompt CIOs to rethink their gen AI strategies. But while whispers of a gen AI bubble grow louder, a full burst may not be in the offing, as many AI experts see investment continuing even after some IT leaders, among others, push back on the technology’s hype.

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Beyond Magical Thinking: How to Ensure Your Team “Gets It”

Let's Grow Leaders

Don’t assume your team knows just because you told them Magical thinking means you assume your team knows what you know. For example, you might think that explaining a task once is enough and everyone will understand and execute it perfectly. Of course, your team might not get it. It’s your job to ensure expectations are clear. How Magical Thinking Leads to Workplace Conflict Think about any significant conflict you’ve been a part of.

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Rails 7.2 release candidate 1: Better production defaults, Dev containers, new guides design, and more!

Ruby on Rails

Rails 7.2 is approaching it final release. Today we are happy to announce the first release candidate of Rails 7.2.0. If no issues are reported, we will release 7.2.0 final, this next Friday, August 9, 2024. Please help us test all this new stuff, and let us know what you think , so we can ensure a solid final release of Rails 7.2. To recap, here are some of the new features and improvements in Rails 7.2: Better production defaults Rails 7.2 comes with better productions defaults to help you bui

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More Early-Stage Startups Are Getting Minted As Unicorns

Crunchbase News

Just as it looks like the pace of creating new unicorns is once again picking up , so is minting them in earlier stages of funding. Through July, 70 new unicorns — private companies valued at $1 billion or more — had been minted. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, 28 of those companies were granted their unicorn horn after an early-stage funding round — defined as seed, Series A or Series B — an analysis of Crunchbase data shows.

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What Is Entity Resolution? How It Works & Why It Matters

Entity Resolution Sometimes referred to as data matching or fuzzy matching, entity resolution, is critical for data quality, analytics, graph visualization and AI. Learn what entity resolution is, why it matters, how it works and its benefits. Advanced entity resolution using AI is crucial because it efficiently and easily solves many of today’s data quality and analytics problems.

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Executive’s Guide: Navigating the Impact of NIST’s Finalized Post-Quantum Encryption Standards

Ooda Loop

There are things business and government executives should know about these new algorithms and what they mean for our collective future. This post captures what you need to know.

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Changing the Face of Software Development Security: CodeOps

DevOps.com

CodeOps and GenAI are aligned: CodeOps treats code produced using GenAI as yet another source of code and focuses on solving the security and discoverability problems inherent in the reuse of existing assets.

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Making your own hot sauce

Successful Software

I like hot sauces. My favourite is Ring of fire , a hot sauce that I first encountered in the US. It is a mix of habanero and serrano chillis, tomatoes, vinegar and spices. It is very tasty and (despite the name) not super hot. However, it has become increasingly difficult and expensive to get ‘Ring of fire’ in the UK. And most of the hot sauces available in UK shops are lacking in either flavour or heat, or often both.

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The Case for College in the Era of Online Learning

Harvard Business Review

Does pursuing a college education still make sense in the age of online learning and AI — when we have access to information for free via the internet? The problem with this question is that it frames college as an information gatekeeper, misunderstanding much of its value. For many, higher education institutions offer more than that: a transformative journey where students can network and develop transferable soft skills that require teamwork and repetition.

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ArtiPACKED: Hacking Giants Through a Race Condition in Github Actions Artifacts

Prisma Clud

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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Solving Open Source Complexity with a Managed Data Infrastructure Platform

With its unparalleled flexibility, rapid development and cost-saving capabilities, open source is proving time and again that it’s the leader in data management. But as the growth in open source adoption increases, so does the complexity of your data infrastructure. In this Analyst Brief developed with IDC, discover how and why the best solution to this complexity is a managed service, including: Streamlined compliance with some of the most complex regulatory guidelines Simplified operations, li

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Delight your customers with great conversational experiences via QnABot, a generative AI chatbot

AWS Machine Learning - AI

QnABot on AWS (an AWS Solution) now provides access to Amazon Bedrock foundational models (FMs) and Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock , a fully managed end-to-end Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) workflow. You can now provide contextual information from your private data sources that can be used to create rich, contextual, conversational experiences.

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74% of IT pros see AI making their skills obsolete

CIO

AI’s long-term impact on the job market has sparked controversy and conversation — especially in tech. Whether AI is set to replace workers, augment jobs, or shift the necessary skillsets entirely , organizations — and IT pros alike — need to be prepared for an impending shift in how IT roles will be defined in the AI era and what skills will be needed going forward.

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Be a Better Coach: 5 Reasons Your Performance Coaching Is Being Ignored

Let's Grow Leaders

To be a better performance coach avoid these common mistakes. Have you ever had (what you thought was) a great performance coaching conversation—your employee commits to behavior change—but fifteen minutes later they’re back to their old habits? So you give them more performance coaching, this time “louder” literally or through progressive discipline.

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SSRFing the Web with the help of Copilot Studio

Tenable

Tenable Research discovered a critical information-disclosure vulnerability in Microsoft’s Copilot Studio via a server-side request forgery (SSRF), which allowed researchers access to potentially sensitive information regarding service internals with potential cross-tenant impact. Introduction In this blog, we take a look at a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Copilot Studio that leveraged Copilot’s ability to make external web requests.

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The AI Superhero Approach to Product Management

Speaker: Conrado Morlan

In this engaging and witty talk, industry expert Conrado Morlan will explore how artificial intelligence can transform the daily tasks of product managers into streamlined, efficient processes. Using the lens of a superhero narrative, he’ll uncover how AI can be the ultimate sidekick, aiding in data management and reporting, enhancing productivity, and boosting innovation.

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Rails 7.2: Better production defaults, Dev containers, new guides design, and more!

Ruby on Rails

We are happy to announce the release of Rails 7.2! There has been close to 2,500 commits made by over 400 contributors since Rails 7.1, so this release is packed with new features and improvements. Better production defaults Rails 7.2 comes with better productions defaults to help you build more efficient applications. Starting with YJIT. YJIT is Ruby’s JIT compiler that is available in CRuby since Ruby 3.1.

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Keep Strategy Simple

Harvard Business Review

Few companies have a clear idea of where strategy making ends and execution begins. As a result they develop strategic plans where they’re not required and fail to develop strategic plans where they are. To help prevent this happening to your Graham Kenny offers a few dos and don’ts: (1) Don’t develop strategic plans for functions; (2) Confine “strategy” to the business level; (3) Keep strategy and action separate; and (4) Be careful how you use the terms “strategy” and “strategic.

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7 Top Skills and Traits of Successful Chief AI Officers 

IDC

Artificial intelligence is consuming the attention of IT and business leaders. So much so that many organizations are racing to hire or promote individuals to the role of chief AI officer. Call it the rise of the CAIO. The rapid and widespread interest in this strategic job role has helped inspire the CAIO Summit, which [.

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The end of digital transformation and the rise of business model innovation

CIO

Digital transformation represented among the largest investments in technology to modernize businesses starting in the early 2000s. But the call for digital transformation really gained popularity after 2011 when Capgemini, in partnership with MIT, officially coined the term , defining it as “the use of technology to radically improve performance or the reach of businesses.

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Provide Real Value in Your Applications with Data and Analytics

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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Storytelling Mistakes: Do This, Not That for a More Memorable Story

Let's Grow Leaders

Do This, Not That, For Better Business Storytelling Done well, strategic storytelling will make you If you want to be a better storyteller, avoid these storytelling mistakes. Avoid These Strategic Storytelling Mistakes You want to be a better strategic storyteller, so how do you up your game? How do you tell a memorable story that has the impact you desire?

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DARPA Turns to AI to Help Turn C and C++ Code Into Rust

DevOps.com

DARPA will lean on emerging AI capabilities to deal with the costly and time-consuming challenge of rewriting C and C++ code to Rust in a move designed to meet the push for federal agencies and private organizations to adopt memory-safe programming languages.

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The Geopolitics of Cyber Espionage Goes Far Beyond Sensitive Information Theft

Ooda Loop

Beijing has been using its media to counter U.S. and foreign government accusations over its cyber spying for several years, typically issuing denials and pointing at the United States’ own alleged cyber malfeasance.

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Research: How to Build Consensus Around a New Idea

Harvard Business Review

Previous research has found that new ideas are seen as risky and are often rejected. New research suggests that this rejection can be due to people’s lack of shared criteria or reference points when evaluating a potential innovation’s value. In a new paper, the authors find that the more novel the idea, the more people differ on their perception of its value.

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Breaking New Ground: Managing Innovation Fatigue With Effective Automation

Speaker: Gary Dmitriev

Our upcoming webinar aims to demystify the process of selecting and implementing automation tools for financial institutes. This session will provide your roadmap for vetting potential solutions, focusing on due diligence, vendor assessments, and aligning technology with strategic goals. We’ll also address the critical issue of innovation fatigue, offering tips on maintaining enthusiasm and momentum for new initiatives.

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Time to Make the AI Pivot: Experimenting Forever Isn’t an Option

IDC

Accelerate business growth and competitive success with an AI-fueled business operating plan covering organization, culture, resources and operations.

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AI to go nuclear? Data center deals say it’s inevitable

CIO

AWS, Microsoft, and Google are going nuclear to build and operate mega data centers better equipped to meet the increasingly hefty demands of generative AI. Earlier this year, AWS paid $650 million to purchase Talen Energy’s Cumulus Data Assets, a 960-megawatt nuclear-powered data center on site at Talen’s Susquehanna, Penn., nuclear plant, with additional data centers planned — pending approval by the Nuclear Regulatory Agency.

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Your Exposure Ends Here: Introducing the New Tenable Brand

Tenable

At Tenable, our mission is to manage and reduce cyber risk, because cyber risk is business risk. Feedback from dozens of top CISOs is reflected in our latest brand evolution. Tenable is the exposure management company that helps customers know where their weaknesses lie, expose their risk and close the gaps. Welcome to Tenable. Your exposure ends here.

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The Rising Cost of Digital Incidents: Understanding and Mitigating Outage Impact 

DevOps.com

With a mean resolution time of 175 minutes, each customer-impacting digital incident costs both time and money. The industry needs to reset and revisit current processes so we can evolve and change the trajectory.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr

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Addressing the Threat of Political Violence in the 2024 Elections

Ooda Loop

Designed as "A Practical Guide for State and Local Governments," Addressing the Threat of Political Violence in the 2024 Elections is diagnostic, prescriptive, directive, and immediately actionable. The report is the result of a workshop convened in the spring of 2024 consisting of a group of senior law enforcement officials, national security analysts, attorneys, legal scholars, and others who initiated discussions.

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Why “Wisdom Work” Is the New “Knowledge Work”

Harvard Business Review

Today the workforce is getting older, and the number of younger workers in positions of senior management is growing. These two developments might appear to spell trouble, in that they seem to set the generations against one another, but the author of this article argues that in fact they represent an important opportunity: If companies can figure out how to enable the intergenerational transfer of the wisdom that comes with age and experience, they can strengthen themselves — and the workplace

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Cloud Cover: How Malicious Actors Are Leveraging Cloud Services

Symantec

In the past year, there has been a marked increase in the use of legitimate cloud services by attackers, including nation-state actors.

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