Wed.Sep 20, 2023

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“The Blob” Is Poisoning The Security Industry

Forrester IT

In a 2016 New York Times Magazine profile of Ben Rhodes, President Obama’s then deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, Ben was quoted as calling the American foreign-policy establishment “the Blob.

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Chinese Hackers Outnumber U.S. Security Pros by 50 to 1: FBI Director at mWISE

IT Toolbox

FBI director Christopher Wray revealed that China has the biggest hacking program in the world. The post Chinese Hackers Outnumber U.S. Security Pros by 50 to 1: FBI Director at mWISE appeared first on Spiceworks.

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Navigate The Seas Of Developer Experience

Forrester IT

In these stormy days, savvy business captains want to make sure all their employees are happy and productive. They also realize that good software is indispensable if you want to differentiate your business from the competition – and if you want exceptional software, you need a high-caliber crew to build it.

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Wi-Fi 6E: Driving Enterprise Connectivity Forward

IT Toolbox

Maureen Gallagher, vice president of marketing at Wi-Fi Alliance®, shares how Wi-Fi 6E is the future of enterprise connectivity and will enable business success.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly: The Role Of Trust In Insurance Fraud

Forrester IT

Insurance fraud is a big—really big—business in the US. In 2022, insurance fraud across all insurance lines amounted to nearly $309 billion. That’s not too far behind tech giant Apple’s $394.3 billion in total sales in 2022. It says something when US insurance fraud costs rival the global sales of world’s most valuable company.

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How Generative AI is Redefining Customer Engagement in Retail

IT Toolbox

Revolutionize your shopping experience with Generative AI, delivering personalized recommendations for every customer. The post How Generative AI is Redefining Customer Engagement in Retail appeared first on Spiceworks.

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Enable Disable Memory Compression on Windows 11

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and Facebook Page to get the latest updates [link] The post Enable Disable Memory Compression on Windows 11 appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides by Alok Kumar Mishra.

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Forrester’s 2023 Enterprise Architecture Awards Winner And Finalists For APAC

Forrester IT

Our APAC Enterprise Architecture Award winner and finalists show how great EA organizations drive internal and external value. Learn more.

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What Is Cloud ERP? Definition, Working, and Benefits

IT Toolbox

Cloud ERP is a type of ERP system hosted and delivered through the cloud instead of being installed and maintained on-premise. The post What Is Cloud ERP? Definition, Working, and Benefits appeared first on Spiceworks.

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Forrester’s 2023 Technology Strategy Impact Awards Winner And Finalists For APAC

Forrester IT

Congratulations to the winner and three finalists for Forrester’s Technology Strategy Impact Awards for the APAC region.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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What Should A CIO Do After You’ve Been Hacked?

The Accidental Successful CIO

What you don’t do may be the most important thing Image Credit: Cigac Semiárido CIOs send a great deal of our time trying to secure the company’s networks. We invest in firewalls, two-factor authentication systems, and lots and lots of training for everyone in the company. However, nothing is ever perfect and despite our best efforts, there is still the possibility that hackers are going to be able to successfully gain unauthorized access to our networks.

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New Research: Will AI Kill The Low-Code Market? 

Forrester IT

The short answer: no. Our bet: AI will quickly evolve the low-code toolset and make the market grow faster.

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Could the DOJ’s Antitrust Trial vs Google Drive More Innovation?

Information Week

Google’s ad tech will also face antitrust claims in court -- will this signal limits on big tech that allow for more competition?

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‘Haywire’ Australian IT Skills Market Prompts Logicalis to Add Talent as a Service

Tech Republic Security

IT solutions and managed services provider Logicalis is planning to help skills-deprived Australian CIOs and IT managers get projects done with a new plug-and-play Talent Services offering.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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New macOS Antivirus Policies using Intune release 2308 or later

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and Facebook Page to get the latest updates [link] The post New macOS Antivirus Policies using Intune release 2308 or later appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides by Snehasis Pani.

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Weighing the AI Threat By Incident Reports

Information Week

Yes, artificial intelligence can be a threat. But probably not in the way you most expected.

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Windows 11 Security Feature Blocking NTLM over SMB for Advanced Threat Protection

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and Facebook Page to get the latest updates [link] The post Windows 11 Security Feature Blocking NTLM over SMB for Advanced Threat Protection appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides by Vidya M A.

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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs are under increasing pressure to deliver more digital innovations faster and more efficiently. Business leaders expect IT to develop new products, improve customer experiences, automate workflows, and deliver new artificial intelligence capabilities. To do so, CIOs must continuously improve their product management, program management, and delivery capabilities to wow customers and deliver competitive advantages, all while steering clear of surefire DX mistakes such as prioritizing too many

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Create Windows 11 23H2 Entra ID Device Group | Azure AD

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and Facebook Page to get the latest updates [link] The post Create Windows 11 23H2 Entra ID Device Group | Azure AD appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides by Jitesh Kumar.

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Analyzing the business-case approach Perdue Farms takes to derive value from data

CIO Business Intelligence

Martha Heller: What is the transformation currently underway at Perdue Farms? Mark Booth: We have a growth strategy to improve our business, and to support that, we’re driving a transformation in technology and business processes. We’ve been replacing our old systems, some of which are more than 20 years old, and this has been going very well. But the more challenging work is in making our processes as efficient as possible so we capture the right data in our desire to become a more data-driven

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On the record: New vinyl Hi-Fi lounge in Seattle skips the algorithm and gets back to music basics

GeekWire

Key players behind Shibuya Hi-Fi, a new cocktail bar and audio experience in Seattle, from left: managing partners Brian Rauschenbach and Quentin Ertel, and music director Supreme La Rock. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) The term “Seattle sound” often refers to the heyday of grunge music in the city. But the people behind a new cocktail lounge think Seattle has never sounded better thanks to the high-fidelity listening experience they have created.

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Infamous Russian hacker mocks the FBI by selling t-shirts featuring his most wanted poster

TechSpot

Matveev, who is also known as "Wazawaka" and "Boriselcin," has been classified by the FBI as one of the most wanted hackers. In addition to his attacks in the US and elsewhere, he is accused of being a "central figure" in the creation and deployment of ransomware variants such as.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Seattle startup MotherDuck raises $52.5M at a $400M valuation to fuel DuckDB analytics platform

GeekWire

MotherDuck CEO and co-founder Jordan Tigani. (LinkedIn Photo) MotherDuck is fueling up to flap its wings a little harder. The analytics company on Wednesday announced a $52.5 million round, bringing total funding to date to $100 million. The Series B round pushes its post-money valuation to $400 million. The fresh cash follows a $35 million Series A round led by Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz and a $12 million seed round led by Redpoint Ventures that MotherDuck revealed last yea

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Nvidia says resolution upscaling is the future in recent DLSS discussion

TechSpot

In a lengthy discussion over DLSS and ray tracing technology, Nvidia predicted that the industry will eventually move beyond running games at native resolution. The company sees resolution upscaling as a way of working smarter rather than harder.

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Puget Sound Venture Club, Seattle’s oldest angel group, merges with Alliance of Angels

GeekWire

Gary Ritner founded Puget Sound Venture Group in 1985. (Photo courtesy of Ritner) Gary Ritner was investing in startups before many of today’s entrepreneurs were even born. Back in 1985, Ritner launched Seattle’s first venture group, Puget Sound Venture Club. Its members were early investors in fledging upstarts such as Amazon, DocuSign, Costco, Starbucks, and more than 1,300 other companies. “When we started, I don’t think there was a venture capital firm in Seattle,R

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Intel confirms it will use AMD-style 3D-stacked cache technology in its future CPUs

TechSpot

During a Q&A session at Innovation 2023, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger was asked if the company would imitate AMD and use a chip-stacking approach that has proved very popular in its 3D V-Cache processors like the Ryzen 7 7800X3D.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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AI Gets Real at the GeekWire Summit: Speakers revealed for Oct. 19 at former Cinerama theater

GeekWire

Clockwise from upper left: Sci-fi author Ted Chiang, Redfin CTO Bridget Frey, Screenwriter Eric Heisserer, GitHub CPO Inbal Shani, Read AI CEO David Shim, Factory managing partner Diego Oppenheimer, Pollen Systems CEO Keith McCall, author and entrepreneur Juliette Powell, Overland AI CEO Byron Boots, and Microsoft President Charlotte Yarkoni. We’re less than one month away from the 2023 GeekWire Summit , our signature business and technology conference, and we’d like to invite you to join us Oct

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The AI desktop PC isn't coming anytime soon, AMD says

TechSpot

AI-based computer chips aren't a thing just yet, and they will not invade the market for quite some time. Justin Galton, worldwide Business Development director at AMD, said that the company isn't seeing a widespread need for AI-dedicated x86 chips except for "the top of the stack.

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What is a Database Administrator and What Do They Do All Day?

Tech Republic Big Data

A DBA is a technician skilled in SQL and very large databases who is responsible for managing database software, backup and recovery processes, data security, and storage and capacity planning.

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Assassin's Creed Mirage PC specs and storage requirements are pretty forgiving

TechSpot

Ahead of its October 5 launch date, Ubisoft has revealed the PC requirements for Assassin's Creed Mirage. Unlike many other recent major releases, you're unlikely to be rushing out and upgrading your graphics card or buying a new SSD for this one.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.