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Solving the tech debt problem while staying competitive and secure

CIO

Interestingly, despite the significance of technical debt as a cost concern and an inhibitor to improving security and implementing innovation (like AI), it ranks much lower on the list of immediate priorities for many organizations (20%). For CIOs, balancing technical debt with other strategic priorities is a constant challenge.

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Stuck with Windows 7? Here’s a security game plan

The Parallax

Last week, Microsoft’s Windows 7, once the go-to operating system of nearly 60 percent of all computers , reached the company’s designated end of the road for security patches. Microsoft said in a statement that after supporting the operating system for 10 years, the company is moving on. .

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10 top priorities for CIOs in 2024

CIO

Strike a balance between innovation and operational excellence In an era of creative disruption, Orla Daly, CIO at business and technical skills training firm Skillsoft, believes that IT leaders in 2024 should concentrate on achieving balance among their myriad initiatives, favoring innovation and “keep the lights on” work in turn.

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Microsoft joins SAP, Oracle in setting sunset date for legacy ERP support

CIO

“Unlike on premises PeopleSoft systems, there is no hardware to purchase or maintain,” the FAQ noted. Maintenance tasks, such as applying security and technical patches as well as maintaining the operating system and applying updates, are all performed by Oracle. She advised CIOs to do the math and weigh the trade-offs.

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pdflayer API Review – HTML to PDF Conversion API for Developers

The Crazy Programmer

pdflayer combines several powerful PDF engines based on browsers running stalwart operating systems. Before transferring URL to any API parameters, it is advised to URL encode URL. The API is highly convenient to use even for a non-technical person. Robust PDF Engine. Powerful CDN. Tracking Statistics.

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Critical Vulnerability Found, Exploited, Patched in Internet Explorer

CTOvision

In the advisory, Microsoft provides a technical description of the hole; “The vulnerability is a remote code execution vulnerability… An attacker could host a specially crafted website that is designed to exploit this vulnerability through Internet Explorer and then convince a user to view the website.” But patching systems requires actions.

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Don’t let collation versions corrupt your PostgreSQL indexes

The Citus Data

Outside special technical fields, it may be better known as an old fashioned and formal name for a cold meal (cf. The collation and other locale components can be set using defaults from the operating system environment, and then inherited by databases created later. colazione , Italian for breakfast). So what’s the catch?