Fri.Oct 22, 2021

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Oh, Snap: Data Deprecation Cuts Into Revenue

Forrester IT

Don’t say we didn’t warn you. While reporting Snapchat’s Q3 results yesterday, CEO Evan Spiegel conceded Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) framework “disrupted” Snap’s advertising business as it reported lower-than-expected earnings. The earnings miss drove sharp declines in Facebook and Twitter’s stocks as well. ATT, which rolled out with iOS 14, requires users to opt […].

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How I Transitioned into Cybersecurity from the Insurance Industry

Association of Information Technology Professional

Learn how one IT pro leveraged her security mindset and problem-solving skills to start a new career in cybersecurity.

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Gluttonous Persuasion: The Christmas Dinner Problem Of Retail

Forrester IT

Retailers: of course it’s ok to influence people to choose your products. What you should avoid is veering from persuasion into coercive and deceptive design (formerly referred to as dark patterns).

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Intune Logs Event IDs IME Logs Details for Windows Client Side Troubleshooting

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]. Read More. The post Intune Logs Event IDs IME Logs Details for Windows Client Side Troubleshooting appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Anoop C Nair.

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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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Forcepoint Acquires Bitglass

Forrester IT

In its quest to add to its Zero Trust edge (ZTE), also known as secure access service edge (SASE), portfolio, Forcepoint acquired cloud security gateway (CSG), also known as cloud access security broker (CASB), provider Bitglass for a Forrester-estimated $200-300 million last week. Beyond the usual criteria (ability to retain marketing and development talent of Bitglass), […].

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What to do if your small business is a victim of a cyberattack

Tech Republic Security

Immersed in the throes of a cyberattack is not the time to figure out how to respond. An expert offers suggestions on how to create a company-specific incident-response plan.

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Prevent Pin Unpin Apps from Taskbar Using Intune

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]. Read More. The post Prevent Pin Unpin Apps from Taskbar Using Intune appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Jitesh Kumar.

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Learn From Amazon’s Approach To Innovation

Forrester IT

Investigate the concepts that guide Amazon’s approach to innovation. There will be elements of great relevance for your organization. You can learn from and embrace these elements to fundamentally rethink your own approach to innovation.

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Halloween 2021 System Admin Horror Stories from the Field

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]. Read More. The post Halloween 2021 System Admin Horror Stories from the Field appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Admin.

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Train to qualify for elite positions in the high-demand field of cybersecurity

Tech Republic Security

You don't have to go back to school or blow your budget to train for a career in cybersecurity, which is in high demand right now.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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How to Get Your Cloud Spending Under Control

Information Week

Cloud spending is now a significant part of a company’s IT budget, yet nearly one-third of it goes to waste. Here are some strategies to help you optimize.

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Cardboard shortages put additional stress on the supply chain heading into the holidays

TechSpot

Don’t look now, but yet another staple of modern society is in short supply as we head into the holidays. NBC News reports that much like computer chips, packaging materials made out of paper, plastic and cardboard are in short supply, and prices have skyrocketed.

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Amazon, Microsoft, Sounders execs to promote Seattle’s bid to be 2026 World Cup soccer host city

GeekWire

The SEA 2026 logo for Seattle’s bid to be a host city for international soccer’s 2026 World Cup. (SEA 2026 Image). Seattle is among the contenders to be one of the host cities in the United States for an all-North American FIFA World Cup in 2026, and on Thursday a brand platform and executive committee to lead the effort was announced. SEA 2026 launched under the banner of “Soccer, Innovation, Everyone,” promoting the region’s passion for soccer, its ability to act

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Intel’s unreleased Core i9-12900K processor goes on sale early

The Verge

Intel’s Core i9-12900K hasn’t even been officially announced yet. | Image: Seby9123. Intel hasn’t even officially announced its new Core i9-12900K processor, but it’s already been sold by a retailer. The unreleased CPU is expected to be the flagship for Intel’s new line of Alder Lake processors, offering a chance to reclaim the performance crown from AMD.

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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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See worthy: First look at Jeff Bezos’ reported $500M superyacht at Netherlands shipyard

GeekWire

Jeff Bezos appears to be getting closer to setting sail in superyacht style. The Amazon founder and former CEO is reported to be the owner of a secret, super-sized vessel that has now been moved into daylight for all to see. The website autoevolution published a series of photos this week of Project Y721 as seen at a shipyard in the town of Zwijndrecht in the western Netherlands.

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Microsoft angers the.NET open source community with a controversial decision

The Verge

Microsoft has spent the past 10 years embracing open-source software and, at several points, even admitting it loves Linux and the open source community. The Linux Foundation even praised Microsoft for working with the open source community after the company joined the foundation nearly five years ago. All of this goodwill could be about to come crashing down, thanks to a storm that’s brewing in the.NET community — Microsoft’s flagship development toolkit and core software framework.

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Mockups of NASA’s newest Mars rover and helicopter will kick off a road trip in Seattle

GeekWire

Virginia student Alex Mather shows off a mockup of the Perseverance rover at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in July 2020, while Alabama high-school student Vaneeza Rupani points to an Ingenuity helicopter mockup. The students won trips to the Perseverance launch as a reward for naming the two spacecraft. (Photo by Ken Kremer / SpaceUpClose.com). Seattle’s Museum of Flight says it’ll serve as the first stop on a road trip for NASA’s full-scale replicas of the Perseverance rov

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As the dust settles with Windows 11, Microsoft is readying the rollout of Windows 10 21H2

TechSpot

Between the strict system requirements and all the bugs and performance problems, Windows 11 isn’t a typical Microsoft OS release. For one, many people can’t upgrade their machines to it unless they bypass Microsoft’s compatibility checks. Then you have all the visual and quality-of-life changes, some of which enhance the.

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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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PayPal CEO Discusses Responsible Innovation at DC Fintech

Information Week

Dan Schulman shared his perspectives on going beyond financial inclusivity and boosting financial health through technology.

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How IT pros can set boundaries and protocols

Tech Republic Security

From managing backups and Linux distributions to troubleshooting hard drive failure and protecting company data, it's easy to see why IT pros are overwhelmed and overworked.

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Inside Microsoft’s open source program office

Venture Beast

Stormy Peters, director of Microsoft's open source programs office, gives the lowdown on the evolution and role of Microsoft's OSPO. Read More.

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Internal memo: Ex-Athira CEO says ‘I should have known better’ after image manipulation investigation

GeekWire

Former Athira Pharma CEO Leen Kawas. (Athira Pharma Photo). The former CEO of Athira Pharma wrote a letter of contrition addressed to employees on Thursday, after resigning in the wake of a company investigation concluding she had altered images in scientific papers stemming from her graduate studies. Data in her studies assessed a compound that was central to the founding of the neurosciences company.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger predicts the chip shortage will last until 2023

TechSpot

Speaking ahead of Intel’s Q3 earnings, Gelsinger told CNBC: “We’re in the worst of it now , every quarter next year we’ll get incrementally better, but they’re not going to have supply-demand balance until 2023.

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How becoming a venture capitalist helped this Seattle startup vet turn his life around 

GeekWire

Kirby Winfield and his daughter, Kate. (Photo courtesy of Winfield). When it comes to startups, Kirby Winfield has seen the highs, and he’s seen the lows. The longtime Seattleite spent nearly 20 years in various leadership positions at four companies — two that went public (Go2Net, Marchex), and two that were acquired (AdXpose, Dwellable). The exits were worth celebrating.

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The DeanBeat: Among the believers of the NFT gaming revolution

Venture Beast

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next. I made it out to a party for the first time in a while in San Francisco. Friends of Gabby Dizon, founder of Yield Guild Games, gathered for a soiree at the Folsom Street Foundry, a place where the game and tech industries gathered oft… Read More.

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Hackers Have Been Using a Rootkit That Somehow Got Microsoft's Digital Seal of Approval

Gizmodo

A recent report by cybersecurity firm Bitdefender shows that e-criminals have been using a particular rootkit, dubbed “FiveSys,” that bafflingly received a digital signature from Microsoft. Read more.

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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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Mailchimp employs AI to boost email marketing campaigns

Venture Beast

Content Optimizer is not Mailchimp's first foray into using AI for content marketing, but it might be its most impactful effort in the field. Read More.

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Apple's M1 Max chipset shows its teeth in PugetBench for Premiere Pro

TechSpot

Back in June, Adobe said its Creative Cloud suite of applications run more than 80 percent faster on Macs equipped with an M1 chipset when compared to equivalent systems with an Intel CPU. To prove its point, the company even commissioned a study by Pfeiffer Consulting that looked at native.

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Microsoft acquires Clear Software to strengthen process automation offerings

Venture Beast

Microsoft has acquired Clear Software, a company developing products to help automate repetitive business processes, for an undisclosed sum. Read More.

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Bethesda drops trailer for Starfield that explains 'The Settled Systems'

TechSpot

On Friday, Bethesda uploaded a video to its YouTube channel called "Starfield—The Settled Systems." The trailer gives a brief overview of the Settled Systems and the factions players can expect to encounter there (above).

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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.