Mon.Dec 28, 2020

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Vinay Sridhara, CTO of Balbix, on Invisible Battles and Hidden Figures

CTOvision

Read Vinay Sridhara, CTO of Balbix explain why it is important to keep track of cybersecurity trends and how Balbix is developing new-age cybersecurity tools on Security Boulevard: If you […].

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How to Launch ConfigMgr Reports | SCCM | Default Reports

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s check how to Launch ConfigMgr Reports. How many of you use these SCCM default reports related to Hardware or Asset Intelligence or Software Updates? Some of the out of box reports are not relevant in my perspective. ConfigMgr has many built-in reports covering many of the reporting and troubleshooting tasks that you might want […].

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AI Ethical Principles Offer Strength, Opportunity

CTOvision

“Artificial intelligence will be the future, and the department … must readily and effectively adopt its best practices if the [U.S.] wants to maintain its superpower status,” says Brian Schimpf, […].

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What Do We Do About Racist Machines?

Information Week

We will never rid ourselves of all our biases overnight. But we can pass on a legacy in AI that is sufficiently aware of the past to foster a more just and equitable society.

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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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Palantir Signs $31.5 Million Deal With the U.K.’s NHS

CTOvision

Palantir Technologies, the software security and analytics provider co-founded by well-known tech investor Peter Thiel, has signed a new two-year contract with the U.K. National Health Service worth an estimated […].

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How to deploy 802.1x for Wi-Fi using WPA3-Enterprise

Network World

Wi-Fi Protected Access 3 (WPA3) has brought significant security improvements to Wi-Fi networks, particularly WPA-3Enterprise, which includes tweaks to make authenticating to the network more secure. One of these is has to do with 802.1x authentication that is used to determine whether Wi-Fi clients will be granted access to the enterprise network. Wi-Fi resources.

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Top 5 ways to protect MFA codes

Tech Republic Security

Using SMS for multi-factor authentication is helpful, but not always secure or reliable. What if you lose your phone? Tom Merrittlists five additional ways to receive MFA codes, without SMS.

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Elevate Security Unveils New Research Shedding Light on Characteristics of Employees Most and Least Likely to Cause the Next Security Incident

CTOvision

Elevate Security, the first human risk management platform of its kind, released the “Global Employee Risk Insights Report.” This groundbreaking research is the industry’s first global research report on employee […].

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How hacked is hacked? Here’s a ‘hack scale’ to better understand the SolarWinds cyberattacks

GeekWire

(BigStock Photo). “Microsoft, FireEye, and the U.S. Treasury department have been hacked in the SolarWinds attacks.”. This statement is true but doesn’t tell the whole story accurately. It’s true because by most people’s understanding, these organizations have been hacked. But it doesn’t tell the whole story accurately because each of these organizations has had different impacts with different levels of severity from “the hack.” A good example of why this matters is how we talk abou

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Thousands of Birds Starved to Death This Fall in the U.S. South

Gizmodo

This past autumn, people all across the U.S. southwest were finding an astounding number of dead birds littered along roads, on golf courses, and in their own driveways. Some estimated that hundreds of thousands of the creatures perished. Months later, new findings are shedding a little more light on why the spooky… Read more.

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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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LinkedIn migration data shows that techies aren’t leaving Seattle despite ‘exodus’ in Silicon Valley

GeekWire

Amazon’s Spheres, with the Amazon Day 1 tower and Seattle’s iconic Space Needle in the background. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser). Techies are apparently leaving Silicon Valley. The pandemic has sparked what some describe as an “exodus” of tech companies, employees, and investors who are relocating to Austin, Miami, Reno, Madison, and other metros for a myriad of reasons.

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Yes, Super Gonorrhea Is Real and It's Gonna Get Worse

Gizmodo

Over the weekend, a particularly awful pair of words started trending on social media: super gonorrhea. That’s because the World Health Organization recently warned that the pandemic is helping fuel the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, including the bacteria that cause gonorrhea. Unfortunately, the situation is… Read more.

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FAA issues safety rules that could smooth the way for Amazon drone deliveries

GeekWire

Jeff Wilke, CEO of Amazon’s Worldwide Consumer Business, shows off the company’s delivery drone at an Amazon conference in Las Vegas in June 2019. (Amazon Photo / Jordan Stead). After months of feedback and fine-tuning, the Federal Aviation Administration today issued its final versions of safety rules for drones that fly over people and at night — including the drones that Amazon is developing to make package deliveries.

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How Can Publishers Benefit From eBooks

Kitaboo

As the eBook market share continues to increase worldwide, publishers are shifting to digital publishing to unlock eBook benefits. The increasing penetration of the Internet and the easy availability of smartphones have made it possible for people to access eBooks on their devices, be it for the pleasure of reading or looking up material for research.

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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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Cobra Kai Season 3 Is Focused, Emotional, and Nostalgic in the Best Way

Gizmodo

Season three of Cobra Kai is the show’s most confident, nostalgic, and entertaining season yet. The hit Netflix show based in the world o f The Karate Kid once again builds on the relationships and characters we know and love from the previous seasons, as well as the movies, but this year it’s much more focused ,… Read more.

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12 great apps for your new iPhone in 2020

The Verge

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. If you’re lucky enough to have unwrapped a new iPhone as a holiday gift this year, you’ll probably want to install some new apps on it. Fortunately, we’re here to help with some suggestions. We’ve included great apps that are just generally fun or useful to have on your phone, and apps that you should download to replace the default ones that Apple ships.

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AI jobs in 2021: here are some key trends

Venture Beast

SPONSORED JOBS: There’s no doubt about it – Artificial Intelligence has been a bit of a buzzword this year. Artificial intelligence has been established as the main driver of emerging technologies such as big data, robotics, and the IoT. So, what do the next 12 months look like for AI? As a result of the global pandemic, consumer trends have… Read More.

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LG’s new ‘QNED’ TVs will have up to nearly 30,000 tiny LEDs behind the screen

The Verge

Image: LG. LG might be the company that’s most synonymous with OLED TVs, but tonight it’s announcing what to expect from its LCD-based sets in 2021. Like other manufacturers including TCL have already done (and Samsung is expected to soon join in on ), LG is adopting Mini LED technology for its premium LCD 8K and 4K TVs coming next year. LG says Mini LED allows for “a giant leap forward in LCD TV picture quality.

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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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Amazon sold billions of products during holiday period; third-party sales up 50% globally

GeekWire

(Amazon Photo). Amazon said it delivered billions of products globally this holiday season as it wraps up what is expected to be a record fourth fiscal quarter amid the ongoing pandemic. In a new blog post , the Seattle tech giant said it had a “record-breaking holiday season” with the “biggest-ever customer savings, small business growth, and community giving.” It delivered more than 1.5 billion toys, home products, beauty and personal care products, and electronics.

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Google inexplicably takes away wide-angle astrophotography from Pixel phones

The Verge

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. Pixel 5 and 4a 5G users can no longer use their ultra-wide cameras to take pictures of the stars: Google apparently removed the lens’s astrophotography capabilities with the Google Camera 8.1 update. The feature was a selling point of the Pixel 4, and was available on the regular and telephoto cameras. When the 4a 5G and 5 were announced with new wide-angle lenses, the feature was added to those as well.

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Explainer: What are MMX, SSE, and AVX?

TechSpot

Computer technology is no strange to acronyms: CPU, RAM, SSD, to name but a few. Ever so often, new ones appear on the scene in the never-ending quest to improve the capabilities of our computing devices. Today we'll explain processor instruction set extensions MMX, SSE, and AVX.

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Detailed Samsung Galaxy S21 specs leak ahead of expected January 14th announcement

The Verge

The Samsung S21 and S21 Plus will likely make a formal debut in a few short weeks | Photo: WinFuture. We’ll likely see a formal Samsung Galaxy S21 announcement on January 14th , but thanks to a raft of detailed specs from WinFuture and an assortment of previous leaks, there won’t be much to speculate about until then. Heck, you can even go ahead and reserve a pre-order if you like what you see.

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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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2020 was the year of connected social games

Venture Beast

The gaming trend of the year is connected social games. Players relied on games to provide the crucial structure required for socialization. Read More.

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Volkswagen teases an electric car-charging robot with eyes

The Verge

Image: Volkswagen. Volkswagen says it’s made a prototype of the electric vehicle charging robot concept it first showed off in proof-of-concept form in late 2019 , and that it plans to keep developing the idea. The giant German automaker apparently liked the concept so much that the prototype charging robot looks almost identical to the concept version, complete with blinking digital eyes and R2-D2 noises.

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5 IPOs that show the importance of data in 2020

Venture Beast

This year saw a surge in data consumption that propelled 5 companies to big IPOs: Palantir, C3.ai, Snowflake, ZoomInfo, and Kingsoft Cloud. Read More.

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Xiaomi’s Mi 11 announced with Snapdragon 888 and 120Hz OLED display

The Verge

Image: Xaomi. Xiaomi has announced their new flagship for 2021: the Mi 11. The Chinese variant of the phone sports a modified design and upgraded specs that give a good look at the kind of high-end features top Android phones will ship with in the coming year, according to AnandTech. There’s bound to be some changes to the European and global versions of the Mi 11, but for now this is an early peek into what’s likely to be 2021’s first major Android flagship.

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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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Soul Feels Like Pixar's First Black Movie Made With White People in Mind

Gizmodo

In Pixar’s Soul , a music teacher with a burning passion for jazz suddenly dies. The event puts him on a path in the afterlife that makes him realize how he never lived with much passion during his time on Earth, and how hard he’s willing to fight for another chance. Read more.

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Blue-collar games were great in 2020 because they’re about perseverance

Venture Beast

Blue-collar games helped get me through 2020 by giving me a physics playground but also by teaching me about my relationship to failure. Read More.

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How to create a good privacy policy for your website: Tips from the Better Business Bureau

Tech Republic Security

The BBB provides recommendations on what to include in your business website's privacy policy.

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AI Weekly: The trends that shaped 2020

Venture Beast

From facial recognition false arrests to public offerings by companies like Palantir, some of the AI trends that defined 2020. Read More.

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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.