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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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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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 14, 2025

Computer use is a breakthrough capability from Anthropic that allows foundation models (FMs) to visually perceive and interpret digital interfaces. This capability enables Anthropics Claude models to identify whats on a screen, understand the context of UI elements, and recognize actions that should be performed such as clicking buttons, typing text, scrolling, and navigating between applications.

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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 14, 2025

The average person makes about 35,000 decisions every day. Those arent just simple choices. Its a chain of decisions that branches in different directions along the way. But circumstances always change, so a persons decision at a particular branch point might vary depending on any number of factors. You always walk to work, for instance, but a morning thunderstorm might change that routine.

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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 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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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 13, 2025

This post is cowritten with Harrison Hunter is the CTO and co-founder of MaestroQA. MaestroQA augments call center operations by empowering the quality assurance (QA) process and customer feedback analysis to increase customer satisfaction and drive operational efficiencies. They assist with operations such as QA reporting, coaching, workflow automations, and root cause analysis.

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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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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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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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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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Perficient

MARCH 10, 2025

Generative AI (GenAI) can transform product development, driving unprecedented efficiency, accuracy, and insight. As speed, team productivity, and delivering valuable tools become critical priorities, GenAI has become a necessity for organizations striving to stay ahead. Its essential for organizations to aspire to lead in innovation and keep up with competitors.

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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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Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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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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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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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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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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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 11, 2025

Optical interconnectivity startup Celestial AI raised a $250 million Series C1 round led by Fidelity Management & Research Co. at a reported $2.5 billion valuation. The fresh cash comes almost exactly a year after the company locked up a $175 million Series C led by Thomas Tull s US Innovative Technology Fund. The Santa Clara, California-based startups photonic fabric platform helps separate compute and memory, making processing extensive AI faster and providing more energy-efficient computi

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Palo Alto Networks

MARCH 11, 2025

Organizations today face an unprecedented challenge managing complex security operations against increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats. While internal teams work tirelessly, the sheer scale and complexity of modern threats often exceed their capacity. Advanced security tools are crucial, but they're only part of the solution. What organizations need is a strategic partner, an expert guide to help navigate the intricacies of security operations, identify emerging risks and drive continuous imp

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CIO

MARCH 14, 2025

In 2016, Andrew Ng, one of the best-known researchers in the field of AI,wroteabout the benefits of establishing a chief AI officer role in companies, as well as the characteristics and responsibilities such a role should have. At the time, the idea seemed somewhat far-fetched, that enterprises outside a few niche industries would require a CAIO. But the increase in use of intelligent tools in recent years since the arrival of generative AI has begun to cement the CAIO role as a key tech executi

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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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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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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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