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The State Of Generative AI For Marketing In Asia Pacific

Forrester IT

I’m pleased to announce the publication of the first of my two generative AI (genAI) Marketing in APAC reports, “The State Of Generative AI For Marketing In Asia Pacific.” The data overview report covers a wide range of topics on APAC marketers’ use of genAI, including adoption, investment, use cases, benefits, challenges, and concerns.

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The Cybersecurity Crucible: Unsung CISO Struggles Under Fire

Information Week

While cybercrime makes a CISO’s position daunting, board support can strengthen organizational resilience. There are five critical questions the board should ask their CISO to create this outcome.

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Why Digital Trailblazers Must Be Paranoid In These Four Important Areas

Social, Agile and Transformation

My friends and colleagues know I can be paranoid sometimes, but it’s part of my survival instincts. When you’re driving transformation and responsible for operations, as I was for most of my career, you develop anxieties over what can go wrong, how it will impact your objectives, and whether you’re missing opportunities to address a material risk.

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DNA is an Ancient Form of Data Storage. Is it Also a Radical New Alternative?

Information Week

Life on Earth emerged as early as 4 billion years ago. It is the product of the codes stored in DNA. Now, we are repurposing DNA to store other forms of information.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Hacking our way to better team meetings

All Things Distributed

My team and I set out to build a simple note taking aide, which transcribes and summarizes our meetings using Bedrock. Today, we’re making the proof of concept available to everyone.

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Can VPNs Be Tracked by the Police?

Tech Republic Security

VPNs are popular due to the fact they add security and privacy to what are otherwise daily open Wi-Fi and public internet channels. But can VPNs be tracked by the police?

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GeekWire Awards 2024 revealed: Winners bask in momentum of AI and potential of region

GeekWire

GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop, left, and John Cook open the 2024 GeekWire Awards at Showbox SoDo in Seattle on Thursday. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) After giving a nod to tech’s bygone era of gadgets and gimmicks, we celebrated the new entrepreneurs shaping the future of innovation in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest on Thursday night at the GeekWire Awards.

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10 IT skills where expertise pays the most

CIO Business Intelligence

The list of highest-paying IT skills is always shifting as technology evolves, but some skills have consistently maintained earning power for IT pros over the years. And while several factors impact one’s salary, such as tenure, experience, and location, expert-level competency comes at a higher premium for some skills versus others. Data from the Dice 2024 Tech Salary Report shows that, for certain IT skills, organizations are willing to pay more to hire experts than IT pros with strong compe

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Latest CO2 increase marks largest rise ever in world's atmosphere

TechSpot

The "Keeling Curve" was conceived by scientist Charles David Keeling as a graphical representation of the accumulation of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth's atmosphere. Data shown by the Keeling Curve is based on continuous measurements taken at the Mauna Loa Observatory on the island of Hawaii, from 1958 to.

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The Rise Of Application Generation Platforms

Forrester IT

AppGen platforms will integrate the steps of software analysis, development, security, testing, and delivery by providing TuringBots for both low-code and high-code development spanning every step — all while incorporating the principles of agile and DevOps along the way.

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7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders are presented with their fair share of challenges, with a host of tools and strategies to resolve them. That said, what’s the best path forward to leverage this year’s trends? In this recap of a recent GEP-WBR webinar, 7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024, GEP’s Pramod Sethumadhavan explores seven vital leadership trends that will help guide procurement and supply chain decision-makers.

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Manually Check and Install Optional Updates in Windows 11

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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 Manually Check and Install Optional Updates in Windows 11 appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides by Alok Kumar Mishra.

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Bruce Schneier: 5 Ways AI Could Shake Up Democracy

Information Week

The renowned technologist and author details the good, bad, and ugly possibilities of artificial intelligence and its impact on everything from politics to law.

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Essential skills and traits of chief AI officers

CIO Business Intelligence

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence — especially generative AI — is prompting many organizations to hire or promote a chief AI officer (CAIO). To date, many of these positions are with technology vendors or at government entities in the wake of recent AI mandates. But the ranks of the CAIO are expected to increase at enterprise organizations as well in the coming years.

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40,000 AI-narrated audiobooks flood Audible, dividing authors and listeners

TechSpot

Since announcing a beta tool last year allowing self-published authors to generate AI "virtual voice" narrations for their ebooks, over 40,000 AI-narrated titles have flooded onto Audible, Amazon's audiobook platform. The eye-popping stat, revealed in a recent Bloomberg report, has many authors celebrating but is also raising red flags for.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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More Alliance: MACH Comes of Age With Coaching Focus

Forrester IT

Now that The Forrester Wave™: Commerce Solutions for B2B, Q2 2024 is released, I can share an update of my perspective on The MACH Alliance.

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Gates Foundation’s toilet and sanitation exhibit in Seattle is flush with education and innovation 

GeekWire

Doulaye Kone, interim director of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene team at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, shows off a high-tech toilet featured in the “A Better Way to Go” exhibit. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) “Everyone poops,” declares the classic children’s book used by parents, including me, to help their kids understand what is a natural part of all animals’ lives. “Everyone poops — and half the world could use toilets and the other hal

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‘They’re Coming After Us’: RSA Panel Explores CISO Legal Pressure

Information Week

The panel pondered the future of the CISO role as prosecutors are increasingly taking aim at holding corporations -- and specifically security executives -- legally accountable for breaches and security responses.

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Innovating Services for a Digital, Intelligent Future

CIO Business Intelligence

Digital transformation remains top of mind worldwide. According to Foundry’s State of the CIO 2024 study, technology leaders will be focused on driving digital innovation, redesigning processes, and modernising infrastructure and apps in the next three years in order to stay ahead. At the same time, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming recognised as a keystone for future growth.

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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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Zero regrets: Firefox power user kept 7,500 tabs open for two years

TechSpot

Hazel, who prefers not to share her last name, is what you'd call a hardcore Firefox fan and self-proclaimed "tab hoarder." She recently posted a screenshot showing a mind-boggling 7,470 tabs open simultaneously in the Mozilla browser. Turns out, Firefox had some trouble restoring the gargantuan tab load initially, but.

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What’s Hot For Anti-Money Laundering In APAC In 2024?

Forrester IT

In 2022, I examined the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) landscape in Asia Pacific (APAC), highlighting the key trends and technologies. Since then, much has changed. New hotspots have emerged for money launderers, while innovative technology has also emerged to fight back against them. Notably, Generative AI has catapulted itself into the forefront of this fight.

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Google Steps Up The Battle Against Gmail Spam

Tech Republic Security

Additional enforcement means non-compliant email may be delivered to spam folders. Here’s what Google Workspace administrators and Gmail users need to know.

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10 Cyber Incident Response Tips From Those Who've Had a Breach and Lived to Tell About It

Information Week

RSA Conference 2024 -- Cybersecurity leaders from Equifax and others who've responded to data breaches and cyber incidents, gave their best advice on crisis communications, general counsel, and good community.

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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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Watch the first crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner space taxi to the space station

GeekWire

Boeing’s Starliner space taxi sits atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, ready for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. (ULA Photo) The countdown is on for the first crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner space taxi , which comes after years of setbacks and $1.5 billion in cost overruns. Liftoff is set for 10:34 p.m. ET (7:34 p.m.

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Negating all VPNs may have been possible since 2002

TechSpot

Researchers at the Leviathan Security Group have publicized an exploit that can force a VPN user to transmit unencrypted internet traffic outside of the VPN tunnel, exposing them to snooping and defeating the entire purpose of the technology. Currently, no method to fully address the problem exists on popular operating.

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Introducing the Forrester Reference IT Capability Map

Forrester IT

Today, I am happy to announce the publication of the Forrester Reference IT Capability Map. This is a comprehensive, mutually exclusive and comprehensive statement of the major capabilities used to define and deliver IT and digital systems, individually and at a portfolio level.

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6 cloud market forces impacting IT strategies today

CIO Business Intelligence

The cloud services landscape is in constant flux. With the cloud being an inevitable part of enterprise digital transformation journeys, IT leaders must keep on top of the latest developments in the cloud market to better predict downstream impacts on their roadmaps. Here is a closer look at recent and forecasted developments in the cloud market that CIOs should be aware of. 2023: Greater flexibility, challenging decisions In 2023, the cloud services space — including hosting and managed and mig

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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Cloud-Native Software: What it Is, How We Got Here, and Why it Matters

Information Week

To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.

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Docusign to acquire Lexion for $165M in exit for Seattle-based AI contract management company

GeekWire

Gaurav Oberoi, Lexion CEO, speaks during the 2023 GeekWire Summit in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Docusign announced an agreement to acquire Lexion for $165 million, signaling plans to integrate the Seattle-based company’s AI-powered contract management technology into its Intelligent Agreement Management Platform. The deal looks to be a successful exit for Lexion, which got its start in 2018 after co-founders Gaurav Oberoi (CEO), Emad Elwany (CTO), and James Baird (principal a

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EA wants to place ads in full-price games, again

TechSpot

Speaking during the company's latest earnings briefing, EA CEO Andrew Wilson said in-game advertising could become a "meaningful driver of growth" for the firm.

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Announcing Forrester’s 2024 Customer-Obsessed Enterprise Award Winner In APAC

Forrester IT

IHH Healthcare Singapore wins Forrester’s 2024 APAC Customer-Obsessed Enterprise Award, which recognizes organizations that are delivering outstanding customer experiences to accelerate business outcomes.

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Next-Gen Procurement: Transforming Processes with the Power of Generative AI

Generative AI goes beyond just automating tasks and providing real-time answers. Did you know that implementing generative AI reduces sourcing cycle times and allows for faster decision-making across procurement operations? In this whitepaper — Next-Gen Procurement: Transforming Processes With the Power of Generative AI — experts reveal how the strategic application of generative AI within procurement processes is paving the way for groundbreaking improvements.