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The 8 new rules of IT leadership — and what they replace

CIO

The CIO role continues to evolve, changing as dramatically as the technology it manages and maintains. Moreover, the pace of the chief IT positions transformation seems to be accelerating likewise mirroring the speed of change in the tech stack. As a result, tech executives must lead, manage, and work differently than they did in the past. Here, veteran CIOs, researchers, and advisers share the changes theyre seeing, offering a look at the new rules of IT leadership along with the old ones they

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What is vishing? Voice phishing is surging - expert tips on how to spot it and stop it

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

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Deep tech disruption: How advanced technologies are transforming businesses

CIO

CEOs, CIOs and CFOs are finding that deep tech is actively driving business innovation and profitability. From AI models that boost sales to robots that slash production costs, advanced technologies are transforming both top-line growth and bottom-line efficiency. Business leaders dont need to be technology experts to grasp this shift; they need vision and urgency.

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Medusa Ransomware Activity Continues to Increase

Symantec

Attacks using this ransomware have displayed consistent TTPs and grown steadily since 2023.

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Struggling to Scale Test Coverage Under Pressure?

When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.

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Cross-Stack RDS User Provisioning and Schema Migrations with AWS Lambda

Xebia

Have you ever been in a situation where you want to provision or configure things cross-stack? Splitting these into logical stacks is always good when dealing with more complex environments. I already shared this in one of my previous blogs. But this also introduces a different problem! Granting access to your database When you use DynamoDB, you have to use IAM to grant access.

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

Security researchers are warning of a significant global rise in Chinese cyber espionage activity against organizations in every industry. Over the course of 2024, researchers from security firm CrowdStrike observed a 150% average increase in intrusions by Chinese threat actors worldwide, with some sectors experiencing two- to three-fold surges. Researchers at the firm also identified seven new Chinese-origin cyber espionage groups in 2024, many of which exhibited specialized targeting and tools

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The 10 Biggest Rounds Of February: Saronic And NinjaOne Lead Big Month

Crunchbase News

This is a monthly feature that runs down the months top 10 funding rounds in the U.S. Check out Januarys biggest rounds here. February was another big month for big rounds. In fact, it took $200 million or more to make the list last month, as defense tech and cybersecurity led the way. In addition, AI and robotic startups also landed some huge cash. 1.

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Simplify your workflow deployment with Databricks Asset Bundles: Part II

Xebia

In the previous blog post , we introduced Databricks Asset Bundles as a unifying solution for managing and deploying data workflows on Databricks. We explained how bundles enable users to consolidate components such as notebooks, libraries, and configuration files into a single and simplified command-line interface to validate, deploy, and destroy resources seamlessly through the bundle lifecycle.

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Pixtral-12B-2409 is now available on Amazon Bedrock Marketplace

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Today, we are excited to announce that Pixtral 12B (pixtral-12b-2409), a state-of-the-art 12 billion parameter vision language model (VLM) from Mistral AI that excels in both text-only and multimodal tasks, is available for customers through Amazon Bedrock Marketplace. Amazon Bedrock Marketplace is a new capability in Amazon Bedrock that enables developers to discover, test, and use over 100 popular, emerging, and specialized foundation models (FMs) alongside the current selection of industry-le

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Subscription Management in the SaaS World: Challenges and Solutions

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IT leaders brace for the AI agent management challenge

CIO

With AI agents poised to take over significant portions of enterprise workflows, IT leaders will be faced with an increasingly complex challenge: managing them. There is a pending concern about how to manage AI agents in the cloud, says Dave McCarthy, research vice president at IDC, noting that the expanding availability of AI agents from startups and established vendors will give CIOs asset management, security, and versioning challenges.

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Secure Your 5G Business Transformation

Palo Alto Networks

Its exciting to see the continued momentum of 5G in transforming industries. Do you remember when 3G and 4G first came into the picture? They unlocked opportunities for mobile broadband and video streaming. Now, 5G makes it possible for businesses like yours to connect more devices, enhance decision-making, improve operational efficiency and drive growth.

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The Most-Active, Spendiest Startup Investors Are Lagging Greatly In Lucrative Exits

Crunchbase News

The most-active, highest-spending startup investors are leading a lot of large new rounds lately. When it comes to exits, however, things look much, much slower. To illustrate, we used Crunchbase data to examine IPO and M&A exits since 2023 for six firms that regularly top our active lead investor rankings. The sample set included: Andreessen Horowitz , Sequoia Capital , Accel , Lightspeed Venture Partners , Insight Partners and General Catalyst.

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More Good Programming Quotes, Part 6

Henrik Warne

Here are more good programming quotes I have found since my last post. Programming “Configuration is coding in a poorly designed programming language without tests, version control, or documentation.” Gregor Hohpe Its the developers misunderstanding, not the expert knowledge, that gets released in production @ziobrando “The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.” Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy “It is not usually until you’ve built and u

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

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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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

Security researchers are warning of a significant global rise in Chinese cyber espionage activity against organizations in every industry. Over the course of 2024, researchers from security firm CrowdStrike observed a 150% average increase in intrusions by Chinese threat actors worldwide, with some sectors experiencing two- to three-fold surges. Researchers at the firm also identified seven new Chinese-origin cyber espionage groups in 2024, many of which exhibited specialized targeting and tools

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CVE-2025-22224, CVE-2025-22225, CVE-2025-22226: Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi, Workstation and Fusion Exploited

Tenable

Broadcom published an advisory for three flaws in several VMware products that were exploited in the wild as zero-days. Organizations are advised to apply the available patches. Background On March 4, Broadcom published an advisory ( VMSA-2025-0004 ) for three zero-day vulnerabilities across multiple VMware products: CVE Description CVSSv3 CVE-2025-22224 VMware ESXi and Workstation Heap-Overflow Vulnerability 9.3 CVE-2025-22225 VMware ESXi Arbitrary Write Vulnerability 8.2 CVE-2025-22226 VMware

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Should Your Next Hire Be Fractional?

Crunchbase News

By Roei Samuel Layoffs at Meta and JP Morgan have been making headlines, continuing a trend of workforce reductions that have been a consistent feature of workplace news for some time. In the U.S. tech sector alone, nearly 300,000 people have been laid off since 2023, according to a Crunchbase News tally. An estimated 45% of companies anticipate layoffs in 2025 , with 11% saying workforce reductions are definite and 34% reporting they are likely.

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Customize DeepSeek-R1 distilled models using Amazon SageMaker HyperPod recipes – Part 1

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Increasingly, organizations across industries are turning to generative AI foundation models (FMs) to enhance their applications. To achieve optimal performance for specific use cases, customers are adopting and adapting these FMs to their unique domain requirements. This need for customization has become even more pronounced with the emergence of new models, such as those released by DeepSeek.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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How RTC and Black Wings support women in tech

CIO

The non-profit organization Rewriting the Code (RTC) was developed to help empower undergraduate and early-career women in tech, maintaining a focus on equity, community building, and fostering future leaders. Black Wings was later started as a subgroup of RTC to provide support to Black women in tech, helping them navigate the industry. Kristin Austin, VP of culture and community health at RTC, says its mission is to prepare women for the technical workforce, which includes everything from ment

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Apply to speak at Rails World 2025

Ruby on Rails

CFP is open until April 10th The Rails World 2025 Call for Papers is now open! This year we are looking for talks that highlight the power and competitive advantage of Rails through real-world case studies, deep technical dives, best practices, or problem-solving discussions, as well as stories of how Rails enables solo developers and small and mid-sized companies to build and scale (both apps and businesses) with ease.

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Law Enforcement Startup Peregrine Hits $2.5B Valuation Mark

Crunchbase News

Law enforcement startup Peregrine Technologies locked up a $190 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital , minting the San Francisco-based firm as a new unicorn at a $2.5 billion valuation. The 7-year-old startup develops data analytics software that allows state and local law enforcement agencies to put together unstructured and disconnected data in order to help understand it better and make decisions.

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Accelerating insurance policy reviews with generative AI: Verisk’s Mozart companion

AWS Machine Learning - AI

This post is co-authored with Sundeep Sardana, Malolan Raman, Joseph Lam, Maitri Shah and Vaibhav Singh from Verisk. Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) is a leading strategic data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry, empowering clients to strengthen operating efficiency, improve underwriting and claims outcomes, combat fraud, and make informed decisions about global risks.

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Revolutionize QA: GAPs AI-Driven Accelerators for Smarter, Faster Testing

GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.

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Empowering women in tech: Lessons from a DWP Digital leader

CIO

Im Head of User Support Services within DWP Digital. In simple terms, if your IT isnt working, my team is your first protocol to fix it. I have about 450 colleagues in my function, and we support over 90,000 colleagues. Im also Head of our IT service management profession. We have 1,200 colleagues within DWP Digital who have service management as their profession, Im responsible for helping build their capability and recruiting the right people, so we work effectively on better outcomes for cust

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International Women’s Day 2025

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Were at a crossroads in the US with diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Opponents have neutralized the concept by reducing it to a series of letters that can be easily vilified and rooted out by a new generation of government censors. But those who do that are missing the point. Diversity, equity, and inclusion isnt about having a DEI manager who ensures that target numbers are hit.

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TSMC expands investments in the U.S. to $165 billion with new fabs and R&D center

Ooda Loop

On Monday, TSMC announced plans to invest $100 billion to expand its manufacturing capacity in the United States. The funds will go toward three additional fabs, two advanced packaging plants, and a major R&D facility. Tom’s Hardware spoke with the company to learn more about its plans. The extra $100 billion investment adds to TSMCs […] The post TSMC expands investments in the U.S. to $165 billion with new fabs and R&D center appeared first on OODAloop.

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Reduce conversational AI response time through inference at the edge with AWS Local Zones

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Recent advances in generative AI have led to the proliferation of new generation of conversational AI assistants powered by foundation models (FMs). These latency-sensitive applications enable real-time text and voice interactions, responding naturally to human conversations. Their applications span a variety of sectors, including customer service, healthcare, education, personal and business productivity, and many others.

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Apache Airflow® Best Practices: DAG Writing

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!

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How CIOs can survive CEO tech envy

CIO

CEOs used to think, All IT has to do is just write a program. It was up to the CIO to explain why, in IT-land, the word just really ought to be banned. Then CEO tech literacy happened. It mostly happened, not because CIOs became better at explaining what IT is all about, but because Digital happened. Except that Digital didnt end up meaning what many commentators said it meant.

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An Analogy for Software Development

Code Simplicity

Sometimes, I have to explain software development to people who are not software developers. Over the years, I have come up with an analogy that explains what software development is like and its processes. I have successfully used it to explain software development to a 9-year-old kid, including advanced concepts like cybersecurity and so forth. I figure others might benefit from it, so here it is: Imagine that you live in a world without computers.

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Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale

Netflix Tech

Part 3: System Strategies and Architecture By: VarunKhaitan With special thanks to my stunning colleagues: Mallika Rao , Esmir Mesic , HugoMarques This blog post is a continuation of Part 2 , where we cleared the ambiguity around title launch observability at Netflix. In this installment, we will explore the strategies, tools, and methodologies that were employed to achieve comprehensive title observability atscale.