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Content Hub: Data Model Simplified

Perficient

Sitecore Content Hub is a world-class platform for centralizing and managing content across various channels. It helps businesses organize and streamline often chaotic, messy content operations. It does this by providing an architecture or schema for content and its interconnections. A schema defines how different types of assets are structured, organized, related to each other.

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Ransomware: Attacks Once More Nearing Peak Levels

Symantec

Attacks surge again in second quarter of 2024 as attackers bounce back from disruption.

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How Apple just changed hearing aids forever - and the lives of those who need them

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Millions of people with hearing loss go without assistive devices for various reasons. However, many of those millions likely now possess AirPods Pro 2 earbuds that can soon function as clinical-grade hearing aids.

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A Lasting Strategy for Global Impact

TechSoup

TechSoup's mission is to build a dynamic bridge that leverages technology to enable connections and innovative solutions for a more equitable planet. We're dedicated to delivering on this promise because we believe that building the digital capacity of civil society organizations (CSOs) at scale can produce tremendously positive outcomes in the name of safeguarding democracy, preserving our planet, and serving the millions of people that rely on services provided by our sector each day.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

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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Cloud Cost Optimization: Accounting Principles Meet Engineering Efficiency

DevOps.com

Several techniques blend accounting principles with engineering practices to make cloud cost optimization practical and effective.

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Confluent + WarpStream = Large-Scale Streaming in your Cloud

Confluent

Confluent has acquired WarpStream, an innovative Kafka-compatible streaming solution. Read the full statement by Jay Kreps, co-founder and CEO of Confluent.

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How to Kickstart Your Post-Summer Career Development

Harvard Business Review

Using the end of the summer to reset your approach to development can create new energy for your career. Instead of feeling like another thing to fit in, it can be a new source of motivation that supports everything else you’re trying to do. The idea is to identify actions that will kick-start your learning in a way that’s easy to add into your day.

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Cribl Extends Reach of Platform for Routing DevOps Telemetry Data

DevOps.com

Cribl this week added support for multiple additional platforms to its cloud service for collecting and routing telemetry data collected from multiple DevOps tools and platforms.

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Oracle updates Fusion Cloud SCM with AI-based features

CIO

Oracle is adding new user experience (UX) enhancements to its Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) offering, the company announced at the CloudWorld 2024 conference. These enhancements, according to Natalia Rachelson, group vice president of Fusion Cloud Application, would help customers leverage AI to increase workforce productivity, expand visibility, accelerate processes, and prioritize the next best action to drive results.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

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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Security by Default: The Crucial Complement to Secure by Design

Ivanti

Legacy cybersecurity systems – many designed over a decade ago – fail to account for the new breed of attacker capabilities and vulnerabilities – nor for the reliance on human configuration that is the Achilles heel of so much software. This new reality is being answered with the software development concept called security by default, a necessary complement to the principles of Secure by Design set forth by the U.S.

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Microsoft’s September 2024 Patch Tuesday Addresses 79 CVEs (CVE-2024-43491)

Tenable

7 Critical 71 Important 1 Moderate 0 Low Microsoft addresses 79 CVEs with seven critical vulnerabilities and four zero-day vulnerabilities, including three that were exploited in the wild. Microsoft patched 79 CVEs in its September 2024 Patch Tuesday release, with seven rated critical, 71 rated as important, and one rated as moderate. This month’s update includes patches for: Azure CycleCloud Azure Network Watcher Azure Stack Azure Web Apps Dynamics Business Central Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) Mi

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Survey Sees AI and Automation Accelerating Pace of Software Development

DevOps.com

A survey of 555 software executives published this week finds that 75% have seen up to a 50% reduction in development time by implementing various artificial intelligence (AI) and automation technologies.

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Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM gets AI-powered Dynamic Skills feature

CIO

Oracle has updated its Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management ( HCM ) suite with a new AI-powered feature, dubbed Oracle Dynamic Skills. The Dynamics Skills feature within Fusion Cloud HCM is expected to help enterprises keep tabs on their current and future requirement of skills, said Natalia Rachelson, Oracle’s group vice president of Fusion Cloud Applications.

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2024 Salary Guide

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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Don’t Make This Common Networking Mistake

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to job searches, everybody knows how important networking is. But a surprising number of people fail to follow up with the people they’ve met with and sought advice from. That’s a problem, because it can alienate mentors and hold job seekers back. The authors discuss the main reasons for this lack of follow-up and then recommend a simple three-part plan for following up effectively.

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These Female Founders And CEOs Raised The Biggest Rounds In 2024

Crunchbase News

When measuring funding to startups with female founders and CEOs, the perennial takeaway is that women remain underrepresented. Last year, for instance, just 3% of U.S. funding went to startups with solely female founders. Women-led companies appeared similarly underrepresented in the funding tallies, capturing less than 5% of investment, per preliminary Crunchbase tallies.

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CVE-2021-20123, CVE-2021-20124: DrayTek Vulnerabilities Discovered by Tenable Research Added to CISA KEV

Tenable

With patches out for three years, attackers have set their sights on a pair of vulnerabilities affecting DrayTek VigorConnect. Background In November 2021, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) launched its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, an effort to focus on vulnerabilities known to have been exploited and provide defenders with an actionable list of vulnerabilities to prioritize their remediation efforts.

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Salesforce unveils Agentforce to help create autonomous AI bots

CIO

Salesforce today released Agentforce, a new suite of low-code tools aimed at helping enterprises build autonomous AI agents for sales, service, marketing, and commerce use cases. Agentforce, which has been in pilot phase for the past six months, combines three major Salesforce tools — Agent Builder, Model Builder, and Prompt Builder — to provide the necessary software development infrastructure to create these autonomous agents, according to the company.

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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.

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Research: How to Delegate Decision-Making Strategically

Harvard Business Review

Delegating work can help free up managers’ time and energy while empowering their employees to take on meaningful tasks. Yet, previous research has shown that delegating decision-making can cause employees to feel overly burdened. In a new paper, researchers examine the negative impact that handing over choice responsibility can have on delegator-delegate relationships.

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How healthcare payers and plans can empower members with generative AI

AWS Machine Learning - AI

In this post, we discuss how generative artificial intelligence (AI) can help health insurance plan members get the information they need. Many health insurance plan beneficiaries find it challenging to navigate through the complex member portals provided by their insurance plans. These portals often require multiple clicks, filters, and searches to find specific information about their benefits, deductibles, claim history, and other important details.

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The Unicorn Board Adds 8 New Companies, With One Newly Minted Entry Valued At $16B 

Crunchbase News

Eight companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in August, with six based in the U.S., and two hailing from China and India, respectively. Among them was Huawei Technologies’ smart car subsidiary Yinwang Smart Technology , valued at $16 billion. That dollar amount represents the second-largest value for a newly minted unicorn this year — trailing only xAI , which was valued at $24 billion in May when it joined the board.

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AI coding assistants wave goodbye to junior developers

CIO

Despite mixed early returns , the outcome appears evident: Generative AI coding assistants will remake how software development teams are assembled, with QA and junior developer jobs at risk. As AI assistants become better at writing code, CIOs and dev leaders will reshape their teams, focusing on AI specialists and senior developers to oversee AI-generated code, some IT leaders say.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Why Companies Should Consolidate Tech Roles in the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

Recently, some organizations have begun to recognize the downside of C-level proliferation and decided to consolidate senior technology and data roles. These individuals — referred to as “SuperTech” leaders — are most likely to be known as chief information officers, but they also have broad responsibility for data and technology functions, and many also have operational responsibilities within the business.

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Build a RAG-based QnA application using Llama3 models from SageMaker JumpStart

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Organizations generate vast amounts of data that is proprietary to them, and it’s critical to get insights out of the data for better business outcomes. Generative AI and foundation models (FMs) play an important role in creating applications using an organization’s data that improve customer experiences and employee productivity. The FMs are typically pretrained on a large corpus of data that’s openly available on the internet.

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North Korean Missiles Rain Down on Ukraine Despite Sanctions 

Ooda Loop

In defiance of sanctions, North Korea is continuing to supply advanced short-range ballistic missiles to Russia. These sanctions were imposed to prevent North Korea from creating these weapons and to stop Russia from importing them. However, the two countries continue to defy the restrictions.

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Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence gets Gen AI-powered developer assistant

CIO

Oracle will be adding a new generative AI- powered developer assistant to its Fusion Data Intelligence service, which is part of the company’s Fusion Cloud Applications Suite, the company said at its CloudWorld 2024 event. Fusion Data Intelligence, which is an updated avatar of Fusion Analytics Warehouse, combines enterprise data, and ready-to-use analytics along with prebuilt AI and machine learning models to deliver business intelligence.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.

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Why VCs Should Use Net Promoter Scores with Founders

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurs are uniquely positioned to provide innovative solutions to urgent challenges that require concentrated, collaborative effort. But to scale these solutions, founders need more than just capital — they need strong, effective support from their investors. As a result, in recent years, it’s become increasingly common for VCs to claim that they view startup founders as their customers.

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Best prompting practices for using Meta Llama 3 with Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Llama 3, Meta’s latest large language model (LLM), has taken the artificial intelligence (AI) world by storm with its impressive capabilities. As developers and businesses explore the potential of this powerful model, crafting effective prompts is key to unlocking its full potential. In this post, we dive into the best practices and techniques for prompting Meta Llama 3 using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to generate high-quality, relevant outputs.

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Designing for the Subconscious: How UX Elements Shape User Perceptions?

Daffodil Software

The user experience (UX) plays a key role in determining the success of a digital product and can either elevate it or lead to its downfall. A substantial aspect of UX design revolves around the interaction between users and interfaces; however, there exists a hidden layer that is equally impactful - the subconscious layer.

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