Tue.Feb 02, 2021

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Stop Trying To Take Humans Out Of Security Operations

Forrester IT

Security tools cannot do what humans can do. Instead of replacing humans in the SOC, augment them so they can do what they are actually good at.

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New cybercrime tool can build phishing pages in real-time

CTOvision

A cybercrime group has developed a novel phishing toolkit that changes logos and text on a phishing page in real-time to adapt to targeted victims. Named LogoKit, this phishing tool is […].

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A Consumer “Tech-celeration” Is Advancing Behaviors But Straining Emotions

Forrester IT

The crises of 2020 turbocharged consumers’ technology adoption and usage. While the pace of change is impressive, consumers’ swift adaptation to life among screens is not entirely radical. Over 23 years of Forrester Analytics’ Consumer Technographics® data has proven that consumers have an insatiable capacity to adopt and use technologies that expand the four forces […].

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VMware Confirms Layoffs This Month

CTOvision

VMware has confirmed to CRN that it is conducting a limited number of layoffs this month as part of its “workforce rebalancing” strategy. “We can confirm that there have been a […].

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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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Insurtech Funding Roundup, Q4 2020: Insurtech Ends A Tumultuous Year Strongly

Forrester IT

Despite the tumult of 2020, the insurtech market ended the year alive and (relatively) well. While funding did decline 6% year over year, the fourth quarter was the second strongest for funding in 2020 and the sixth largest since tracking began in 2010. The full version of our quarterly insurtech funding roundup report is on […].

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Nutanix and VMware Started as Partners. They’re Now Bitter Rivals

CTOvision

Read take a look at how friends Nutanix and VMware turned foes on Data Center Knowledge: Rivalry between Nutanix and VMware had been heating up for a few years before […].

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Google spells out consequences of Apple’s privacy push and IDFA changes

CTOvision

Apple has prioritized user privacy over targeted advertising, and Google is spelling out today what that means for itself as well as game and app developers. Apple is advocating its App […].

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Arista embraces segmentation as part of its zero-trust security

Network World

Arista has expanded its security software to let customers control authorized network access and communication between groups from the data center to the cloud. The new software, Macro-Segmentation Service (MSS)-Group, expands the company’s MSS security-software family, which currently includes MSS Firewall for setting security policies across customer edge, data-center and campus networks.

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Palantir Reaches License Deal With Mining Giant Rio Tinto

CTOvision

Palantir Technologies on Thursday said it has signed a “significant” multiyear agreement to license its Foundry analytics platform to mining giant Rio Tinto. Palantir (ticker: PLTR) said Rio Tinto (RIO) will […].

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Exciting developments happening in 2021

Spearline Testing

We have a number of key developments happening in 2021 that we are excited to share with you: Community Effect. Spearline Certification. Audio Analysis. Layered Reports. Market Expansion. Please read below to find out more. Community Effect. Every day, we conduct thousands of in-country test calls in over 70 countries worldwide. This in turn gives us a powerful dataset to identify which carriers are performing well, and which may be experiencing issues in a particular region at any point in time

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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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Dun & Bradstreet buys Bisnode

CTOvision

Dun & Bradstreet completed the acquisition of Stockholm-headquartered Bisnode for an enterprise value of 7.2bn SEK. The deal closed with a combination of around £625m net cash and 6,237,089 newly […].

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Embracer Group acquires Borderlands maker Gearbox Entertainment for $1.3 billion

Venture Beast

Borderlands maker Gearbox Entertainment said it is being acquired by the Embracer Group for up to $1.3 billion. Frisco, Texas-based Gearbox will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Sweden-based company. The transaction gives Gearbox access to new capital to help it make more games and become a significant part of the Embracer Group, which is ba… Read More.

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Five Ways Cisco Systems is Enabling an Inclusive Future

CTOvision

Read Zeus Kerravala’s review of Cisco Systems and how it is working for an inclusive future on eWeek : Since it was founded in 1984, Cisco Systems’ mission has been […].

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Another SpaceX Starship nails clean test flight, but explodes on landing

The Verge

SpaceX’s latest Starship prototype launched on Tuesday, soaring miles above its South Texas facilities in a successful flight demonstration before exploding during the landing attempt. It’s the second failed landing in a row, after a previous prototype, SN8, launched and failed to stick the landing in December. This week’s launch demo — one of many in the books already — follows weeks of tension between SpaceX and the Federal Aviation Administration, which approves test launches like this one.

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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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Tech On The High Seas: Windward Taps AI To Mitigate Maritime Risks, Fuel Trade

CTOvision

Read Noah Sheidlower’s review of Windward Predictive Maritime Intelligence’s use of artificial intelligence to mitigate maritime risks on No Camels : In early July 2019, an oil tanker named Grace […].

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Amazon now employs nearly 1.3 million people worldwide after adding 500,000 workers in 2020

GeekWire

That’s a lot of interviews. Amazon brought on a whopping 500,000 workers in 2020 to help the tech giant meet increasing demand for its online shopping and cloud computing services, fueled by the pandemic. The Seattle company now employs nearly 1.3 million people, adding more than 170,000 workers in the holiday quarter alone. Its headcount is up 63% from the year-ago period.

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60 Oculus virtual reality titles have generated more than $1 million in revenue

Venture Beast

Facebook’s Oculus division has picked up momentum, and the company said more 60 virtual reality games and apps on the Oculus Quest VR headset platform have generated more than $1 million in revenue. In a blog post, Facebook Reality Labs’ Mike Verdu said that six titles have generated more than $10 million in revenue on the Quest platfor… Read More.

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to step down this year, replaced by AWS chief Andy Jassy in stunning turn for tech giant

GeekWire

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota). Jeff Bezos will step down as CEO of Amazon, becoming executive chairman of the company he conceived 27 years ago on a road trip to Seattle, and built into one of the world’s most valuable companies. Bezos will make the transition in the third quarter of this year, when he will be replaced as CEO by longtime lieutenant Andy Jassy, who made his mark as the leader of Amazon’s fast-growing cloud business, the company announced Tuesda

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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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Check your Zoom background to remove sensitive personal-identifying items (or go virtual)

Tech Republic Security

Opening up a window into your home workspace may be riskier than you think as hackers target employees to infiltrate corporate networks.

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Jeff Bezos’ role at Blue Origin hints at how his profile at Amazon is likely to change

GeekWire

Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, inspects Blue Origin’s launch facility in West Texas before the first test flight of the New Shepard suborbital spacecraft in April 2015. (Blue Origin Photo). What will Amazon without Jeff Bezos as CEO look like? It could look a lot like Bezos’ biggest personal passion project — Blue Origin , which is working to send people and payloads on space trips ranging from suborbital hops to the moon and beyond.

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We're Just Out Here 3D-Printing Meat Now, I Guess

Gizmodo

If you can 3D-print a gun. if you can 3D-print a home. then brother, you might as well pull up a chair and 3D-print yourself some meat while you’re at it, because these masses aren’t going to feed themselves. Read more.

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Amazon Web Services posts record $13.5B in *profits* for 2020 in Andy Jassy’s AWS swan song

GeekWire

Turns out Andy Jassy was basically running most of Amazon already. Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing giant led by the now-future Amazon CEO , closed out 2020 with more than $13.5 billion in annual operating profits, responsible for more than 63% of the entire company’s operating profits for the year, on annual AWS revenue of $45.3 billion, up nearly 30% year-over-year.

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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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The IT Leader's New Imperative: Constructing the Culture

Information Week

Here are five effective approaches for CIOs to expand their skillsets and build a resilient culture that can succeed in today's enterprise organizations.

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Tech workers sound off on Washington state’s proposed ‘billionaire tax’ at first public hearing

GeekWire

Bill Gates, left, and Jeff Bezos. (GeekWire, Economic Club Photos). Tech workers showed up to a virtual hearing Tuesday to voice their opinion on a proposed tax on Washington state’s wealthiest residents. Several startup CEOs and current and former Microsoft employees testified in support of the bill , which would levy a 1% tax on intangible financial assets that belong to billionaires living in the state. “I’m not fortunate enough to qualify for this wealth tax but I do occasi

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Sony sold 4.5 million PlayStation 5 consoles last year

The Verge

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. Sony shipped 4.5 million PlayStation 5 units worldwide in 2020, as revealed by information published alongside the company’s latest earnings report. The number highlights Sony’s current ability to mass-produce the console, which has been extremely difficult to buy since its launch in November. Demand for the PlayStation 4 dropped dramatically year-on-year, with 1.4 million units shipped in the October-December quarter — a 77 percent decrease from the previous y

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For Modernization, Be Nimble, Be Agile, and Go Fast

Information Week

SPONSORED: CEO Tom Barton discusses how containers have evolved to be the ideal technology to modernize IT infrastructure.

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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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No-meat news: Impossible drops retail prices and Rebellyous rolls out new plant-based products

GeekWire

Impossible Burgers in a grocery store. (Impossible Foods Photo). If you’re looking for the right time to introduce more meatless options into your diet, two food technology companies took different steps this week to make their products more appetizing. Impossible Foods , makers of the plant-based Impossible Burger patty, is cutting suggested retail prices by 20% for grocery stores throughout the U.S.

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This hypercar is China’s first Belt and Road electric vehicle project

The Verge

Image: Silk EV. A new engineering and design startup called Silk EV headquartered in Italy’s venerable Motor Valley is more than just another attempt at making an electric hypercar. It’s also the latest arrow in the quiver for China’s massive Belt and Road project, though the first that deals with electric cars. Silk EV announced on Tuesday that it will co-develop an “ultra-luxury hypercar” called the S9 in the home region of Lamborghini and Ferrari with First Automobile Works (FAW), China’s ori

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Apex Legends on Nintendo Switch launches March 9

Venture Beast

Apex Legends hits Nintendo Switch soon. Respawn and development partner Panic Button have overcome obstacles to ship the shooter. Read More.

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Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO this year

TechSpot

After 27 years of service, Bezos will hand over the company's reins to his friend and colleague, Andrew Jassy. Jassy is perhaps best known for founding Amazon's incredibly-popular Web Services (AWS) division.

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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.