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The State Of Consumer Usage Of Generative AI, 2024

Forrester IT

As is often the case with poorly understood tech that promises to change the world, consumers worry about its ethics and human impact. Yet a vast majority of these skeptics will use (and love) genAI during 2024, whether they know it or not.

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How AI Partnerships Can Empower Traditional Banks?

IT Toolbox

Find out why partnerships are the best way for traditional banks to harness AI if they don’t want to lose customers. The post How AI Partnerships Can Empower Traditional Banks? appeared first on Spiceworks.

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Should product managers and innovative agile teams measure business value?

Social, Agile and Transformation

How to measure business value is a question many agile teams ask me, given how much rigor I ask them to put into estimating and capturing story points.

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NIST Cybersecurity Framework: A Cheat Sheet for Professionals

Tech Republic Security

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology's framework defines federal policy, but it can be used by private enterprises, too. Here's what you need to know.

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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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Generative AI, the Digital Divide, and the Tremendous Opportunity

Information Week

GenAI’s rapid advancement certainly has its drawbacks, but there is an opportunity for telecommunications companies to help mitigate the impacts while also driving financial value and building social capital.

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Microsoft Introduces Single Microsoft Teams Desktop App for Personal and Work

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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 Microsoft Introduces Single Microsoft Teams Desktop App for Personal and Work appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides by Gopika S Nair.

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The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse

Vox

Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after being struck by a cargo ship on March 26. | Scott Olson/Getty Images Twitter, now X, was once a useful site for breaking news. The Baltimore bridge collapse shows those days are long gone. Line up a few years’ worth of tragedies and disasters, and the online conversations about them will reveal their patterns.

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AI poised to replace entry-level positions at large financial institutions

CIO Business Intelligence

Global banks and investment firms are currently mulling plans to replace entry-level financial analyst positions with artificial intelligence (AI), with as many as two-thirds of these positions potentially on the chopping block. This anticipated move could completely transform how these companies hire new employees and how they manage and deliver the technology employees use.

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‘Just watch us’: Gates-backed TerraPower is bullish on being the first next-gen nuclear plant in U.S.

GeekWire

TerraPower signage. (TerraPower Photo) Inside TerraPower’s cavernous 65,000 square-foot laboratory north of Seattle, there’s a suite of stations for experimenting with new materials and cutting-edge methods for generating nuclear power. One area is dominated by a two-story, silver tower where engineers test the flow of liquid over mock reactor fuel rods.

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The 10 Best AI Courses in 2024

Tech Republic Big Data

Today’s options for best AI courses offer a wide variety of hands-on experience with generative AI, machine learning and AI algorithms.

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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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Digital Sovereignty Is Changing The Cloud Market

Forrester IT

In 2023 global cloud vendors all came up with their own digital sovereignty solution to address rising concerns from their customers. However, when I ask customers and vendors to define what digital sovereignty means for them, silence is the most common response.

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Ready or Not, the Shift Is Here: Trends Driving ERP Decision-making

IT Toolbox

Embracing the shift in ERP change management to offer businesses a broader range of innovative tech and efficiency in the digital era. The post Ready or Not, the Shift Is Here: Trends Driving ERP Decision-making appeared first on Spiceworks.

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OpenAI’s Sora Generates Photorealistic Videos

Tech Republic

Sora is in red teamers' and selected artists' hands for now, as OpenAI tries to prevent AI video from being used for misinformation or offensive content.

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Spear Phishing vs Phishing: What Are The Main Differences?

Tech Republic Security

There are a few differences between spear phishing and phishing that can help you identify and protect your organization from threats. Learn about these differences.

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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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‘Who You Gonna Call?’ OSS Security Stakeholders Urged to ‘Cross Streams’

Information Week

Presenters from GitHub and Intel tell VulnCon conference audience that users and developers must work in tandem to address vulnerabilities in increasingly popular open source software.

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Why are billionaires building doomsday bunkers?

Dataconomy

Have you heard about “Billionaires building doomsday bunkers”? It’s making people wonder if something big is coming. There’s a lot happening worldwide, but the question remains: Is doomsday really on the horizon? Big tech guys seem to think so, spending a ton on swanky hideouts. Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook genius, is leading the charge, reportedly building a whopping $270 million underground fortress on Hawaii’s Kauai island.

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Linux could have been brought down by backdoor found in widely used utility

TechSpot

Andres Freund, a PostgreSQL developer at Microsoft, was doing some routine micro-benchmarking when we noticed a small 600ms delay with ssh processes, noticing that these were using a surprising amount of CPU even though they should be failing immediately, according to his post on Mastodon.

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AI already uses as much energy as a small country. It’s only the beginning.

Vox

Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images The energy needed to support data storage is expected to double by 2026. You can do something to stop it. In January, the International Energy Agency (IEA) issued its forecast for global energy use over the next two years. Included for the first time were projections for electricity consumption associated with data centers, cryptocurrency , and artificial intelligence.

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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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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

New tech moves from bleeding edge to mainstream at an ever-increasing pace. Consider how fast generative AI went from avant-garde to ubiquity: At under two years, it may be a record. Feats like that have ramped up pressure on CIOs to not just modernize, but modernize faster so they’re ready to seize new opportunities as they arise by having infrastructure that can support emerging technologies and a team that isn’t mired in maintenance mode.

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Blue Origin targets 2025 for cargo lander’s inaugural moon trip, with humans to follow

GeekWire

An artist’s conception shows Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 1 lander on the moon. (Blue Origin Illustration) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is aiming to send an uncrewed lander to the surface of the moon in the next 12 to 16 months, according to the executive in charge of the development program. John Couluris, senior vice president for lunar permanence at Blue Origin, provided an update on the company’s moon lander program on CBS’ “60 Minutes” news

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Top 5 AI Trends to Watch in 2024

Tech Republic Big Data

Generative AI is finding its niches within business in 2024, with multimodal models providing new capabilities. At the same time, artists glaze their work against AI scraping.

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An Actual Complete List Of SOC Metrics (And Your Path To DIY) 

Forrester IT

I take a lot of inquiry questions from Forrester’s security and risk clients about security operations (SecOps). A common question I get is, “What core metrics does SecOps need to track?

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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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On-premise to 5G-powered SD-WAN: Adaptability for a Future-Proof Network

IT Toolbox

Why organizations should prioritize long-term vision over short-term gains to realize SD-WAN benefits. The post On-premise to 5G-powered SD-WAN: Adaptability for a Future-Proof Network appeared first on Spiceworks.

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Microsoft Teams Will Be Sold Separately From Office Globally Due to EU Probe

Tech Republic

The change brings international Microsoft Teams into line with the European Economic Area and Switzerland and adds a standalone Teams product for enterprise.

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XZ Utils Supply Chain Attack: A Threat Actor Spent Two Years to Implement a Linux Backdoor

Tech Republic Security

Read about a supply chain attack that involves XZ Utils, a data compressor widely used in Linux systems, and learn how to protect from this threat.

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Rubrik CIO on GenAI’s Looming Technical Debt

Information Week

With all the excitement about the generative artificial intelligence boom, companies may be forgetting that a bill will be due in the years to come: Technical debt is already piling up.

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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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Change Healthcare becomes new victim of 2024 cyber attacks

Dataconomy

The healthcare technology sector has been rocked by a significant disruption: The Change Healthcare cyber attack 2024 has knocked critical systems offline. Change Healthcare, a major healthcare IT provider, confirmed the attack, citing a “cyber security issue.” Services have been severely impacted as the company disconnected systems to contain the threat.

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Vladimir Putin orders creation of Russian game consoles, cloud delivery system, and OS

TechSpot

Putin made the order following a meeting on the socio-economic development of Kaliningrad. The deadline for the government to come up with the plans is June 15, 2024. Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has been appointed responsible for overseeing the task.

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Did smartphones “destroy” a generation? The debate, explained.

Vox

The Zoomer tween in their natural habitat. | Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images What the evidence about social media and teens’ mental health really says. The kids are not all right — and the device you are probably reading this on is to blame. So argues the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. In his new book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness , Haidt insists that smartphones and social media are fueling a “surge of suffering” that’

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French regulator fines Google $271M over generative AI copyright issue

CIO Business Intelligence

France’s competition authority fined Google, its parent company Alphabet, and two subsidiaries a total of €250 million ($271 million) for breaching a previous agreement on using copyrighted content for training its Bard AI service, now known as Gemini. The Autorité de la concurrence said Wednesday that the search giant failed to comply with a June 2022 settlement over the use of news stories in its search results, News and Discover pages.

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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.