Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

MARCH 11, 2025

Not today, Microsoft. Here's how to turn off the ads, upsells, and cross-sells and take back control of your Windows 11 experience.

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 11, 2025

Over 560,000 people were impacted by four data breaches to healthcare organizations disclosed last week. The impacted organizations were Hillcrest Convalescent Center, Gastroenterology Associates of Central Florida, Community Care Alliance, and Sunflower Medical Group. The largest attack was conducted upon Sunflower by the Rhysida ransomware group. Attackers obtained Social Security and health insurance information.

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Xebia

MARCH 13, 2025

As a consultant you get to deal with a wide variety of tooling and implementations, not all done right. Once, I spent 6 months refactoring a feature store implementation. This was necessary because both the design choice and implementation were wrong. The implementation was a over-engineered custom Feast implementation using unsupported backend data stores.

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Confluent

MARCH 10, 2025

Unlock the power of data accessibility to drive your business strategy. Learn how to break down data silos, empower teams with actionable insights, and ensure secure, governed access to data for success.

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Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 13, 2025

Before Jensen Huang co-founded Nvidia , he was a dishwasher at Denny’s, but most unicorn founders get their start in far more predictable places. The Stanford GSB Venture Capital Initiative team and I analyzed 2,791 founders behind 1,110 U.S.-based VC-backed unicorns to understand their professional backgrounds. The data shows that they developed their skills at tech giants, elite universities and even military organizations.

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Agile Alliance

MARCH 14, 2025

Our conference program team met on-site recently in Denver to put together the agenda for Agile2025. The team worked to ensure the selected sessions for each of our conference tracks flowed together to create an incredible three-day learning event. We asked the team to share one thing about the event that they are most excited about. The post Meet the People Behind the Agile2025 Conference Program first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 13, 2025

The Eclipse Foundation today made available an alpha release of an instance of its open source Theia integrated development environment (IDE), that provides access to artificial intelligence (AI) agents that will automate a wide range of coding tasks on behalf of application developers.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 11, 2025

The number of new unicorn companies ticked up in 2024, driven largely by U.S.-based AI companies, an analysis of Crunchbase data shows. The Crunchbase Unicorn Board added 110 companies globally last year, up from 100 in 2023, with the U.S. seeing a jump from 42 to 65 new unicorns. This increase is attributed to U.S. leadership in AI, with notable companies including xAI , Infinite Reality and Perplexity joining the unicorn ranks.

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CIO

MARCH 13, 2025

To thrive in todays business environment, companies must align their technological and cultural foundations with their ultimate goals. This requires reflecting on the fundamental question: Why does your business exist? The answer informs how you integrate innovation into your operations and balance competing priorities to drive long-term success. At Brown & Brown, we constantly focus on articulating the value of technology in terms of business outcomes.

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The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 13, 2025

This post was co-written with Vishal Singh, Data Engineering Leader at Data & Analytics team of GoDaddy Generative AI solutions have the potential to transform businesses by boosting productivity and improving customer experiences, and using large language models (LLMs) in these solutions has become increasingly popular. However, inference of LLMs as single model invocations or API calls doesnt scale well with many applications in production.

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 13, 2025

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s (ODNI) 2024 Annual Threat Assessment identifies the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as a significant competitor in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI).The assessment underscores China’s strategic intent to leverage AI advancements to bolster its military capabilities, enhance economic competitiveness, and expand its global influence.

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Tenable

MARCH 11, 2025

6 Critical 50 Important 0 Moderate 0 Low Microsoft addresses 56 CVEs, including seven zero-day flaws, with six of those being exploited in the wild. Microsoft patched 56 CVEs in its March 2025 Patch Tuesday release, with six rated critical, and 50 rated as important. This months update includes patches for: NET ASP.NET Core & Visual Studio Azure Agent Installer Azure Arc Azure CLI Azure PromptFlow Kernel Streaming WOW Thunk Service Driver Microsoft Local Security Authority Server (lsasrv) Mi

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CIO

MARCH 11, 2025

Today, there is hardly any way around AI. But how do companies decide which large language model (LLM) is right for them? The choice is currently wider than ever, the possibilities seemingly endless. But beneath the glossy surface of advertising promises lurks the crucial question: Which of these technologies really delivers what it promises and which ones are more likely to cause AI projects to falter?

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Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 13, 2025

The integration of generative AI agents into business processes is poised to accelerate as organizations recognize the untapped potential of these technologies. Advancements in multimodal artificial intelligence (AI), where agents can understand and generate not just text but also images, audio, and video, will further broaden their applications. This post will discuss agentic AI driven architecture and ways of implementing.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 13, 2025

By Liza Vilnits Layoffs and business closures have become so common in the past few years that reporters have created newsletters and columns solely focused on the updates. The sentiments I hear from founders across sectors (and VCs, actually) are the same: its still tough out there right now. The latest data shows that 2025 will likely be another year of failed startups.

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Palo Alto Networks

MARCH 14, 2025

Financial Institutions Are Facing Growing Security Challenges Financial organisations face unprecedented cybersecurity challenges that threaten their operations, reputation and customer trust. Together, Palo Alto Networks and IBMs experts share their top cybersecurity considerations in a new, compelling vodcast series. Consideration 1: Navigating the Fiscal Implications of Cyberthreats and Operational Complexity Our first episode explores the most pressing threats to UK financial institutions, i

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CIO

MARCH 11, 2025

This could be the year agentic AI hits the big time, with many enterprises looking to find value-added use cases. A key question: Which business processes are actually suitable for agentic AI? Business consulting firm Deloitte predicts that in 2025, 25% of companies that use generative AI will launch agentic AI pilots or proofs of concept, growing to 50% in 2027.The firm says some agentic AI applications, in some industries and for some use cases, could see actual adoption into existing workflow

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 11, 2025

Based on original post by Dr. Hemant Joshi, CTO, FloTorch.ai A recent evaluation conducted by FloTorch compared the performance of Amazon Nova models with OpenAIs GPT-4o. Amazon Nova is a new generation of state-of-the-art foundation models (FMs) that deliver frontier intelligence and industry-leading price-performance. The Amazon Nova family of models includes Amazon Nova Micro, Amazon Nova Lite, and Amazon Nova Pro, which support text, image, and video inputs while generating text-based output

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DevOps.com

MARCH 12, 2025

Intelligent Continuous Security (TM) (ICS) is the next evolution harnessing AI-driven automation, real-time threat detection and continuous compliance enforcement to eliminate these inefficiencies. ICS extends beyond DevSecOps to also close security gaps with SecOps, ensuring end-to-end continuous security across the entire software lifecycle.

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David Heinemeier Hansson

MARCH 12, 2025

Denmark is technically and officially still a Christian nation. Lutheranism is written into the constitution. The government has a ministry for the church. Most Danes pay 1% of their earnings directly to fund the State religion. But God is as dead here as anywhere in the Western world. Less than 2% attend church service on a weekly basis. So one way to fill the void is through climate panic and piety.

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CIO

MARCH 13, 2025

CIOs and other digital leaders play a critical role in shaping the future of their organizations. Now more than ever, future-proofing the business requires developing a robust pipeline of IT leaders prepared to step up as the next generation of strategic partners and innovation anticipators. A number of nonprofits are working to help prepare these emerging leaders for the next phases in their career journeys, providing the connections, education, mentorship, and professional support they need to

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 12, 2025

Compelling AI-generated images start with well-crafted prompts. In this follow-up to our Amazon Nova Canvas Prompt Engineering Guide , we showcase a curated gallery of visuals generated by Nova Canvascategorized by real-world use casesfrom marketing and product visualization to concept art and design exploration. Each image is paired with the prompt and parameters that generated it, providing a practical starting point for your own AI-driven creativity.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 14, 2025

The Open Infrastructure Foundation (OpenInfra), which oversees the development of the open source OpenStack cloud computing framework, this week agreed to become an arm of The Linux Foundation as part of an effort to foster more collaboration with maintainers of projects such as Kubernetes and the Linux operating system.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 11, 2025

Consider this dilemma: Venture capital is the pursuit of outliers, and yet startups mostly get market-based prices using comparable companies. This contradiction creates problems on both sides of the table. Founders are sucked into cherry-picking market data to justify the terms they want to get, while investors manipulate comparables to suit the price they want to pay.

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CIO

MARCH 11, 2025

ServiceNow has announced plans to acquire AI firm Moveworks in a $2.85 billion deal, highlighting the growing enterprise shift toward AI-driven automation to enhance IT operations and service management efficiency. The acquisition will combine ServiceNows agentic AI and automation strengths with Moveworks frontend AI assistant and enterprise search technology to unlock new experiences for every employee for every corner of the business, ServiceNow said in a statement.

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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?

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 13, 2025

DeepSeek-R1 , developed by AI startup DeepSeek AI , is an advanced large language model (LLM) distinguished by its innovative, multi-stage training process. Instead of relying solely on traditional pre-training and fine-tuning, DeepSeek-R1 integrates reinforcement learning to achieve more refined outputs. The model employs a chain-of-thought (CoT) approach that systematically breaks down complex queries into clear, logical steps.

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 14, 2025

Quantum computing is on the verge of revolutionizing industries by solving problems that were previously thought to be beyond the reach of traditional computing. Meanwhile, Generative AI is rapidly reshaping how businesses automate processes, generate insights, and drive innovation. The intersection of these two groundbreaking technologies holds enormous potential, offering organizations a way to supercharge […] The post The Synergy Between Quantum Computing And Generative AI appeared firs

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 14, 2025

By Karsten Vagner Startup leadership teams navigating our unpredictable economic landscape are more than feeling the pressure. Beyond guiding their companys strategy and direction, they must also manage employee morale and confidence. This can feel like an overwhelming burden, especially when resources are stretched thin. Even though the markets seem to be turning a corner, the traditional playbooks for growth and scale are outdated.

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