Thu.Nov 23, 2017

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The impacts on storage and compliance from Blockchain, robots and IoT

Computer Weekly

Vigitrust's Mathieu Gorge reports from Web Summit 2017 on the impact on storage and compliance of biometric security, Blockchain, and robots in internet of things deployments

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How to Help Your Small IT Team Keep Up with Business Expansion

IT Toolbox

So what is the best approach to help your small IT team get accustomed to new developments?

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Geospatial Commission announced in Budget to open up OS data

Computer Weekly

Chancellor of the exchequer Philip Hammond announced in his November 2017 budget a £40m Geospatial Commission to open up Ordnance Survey data to stoke new business for small companies

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Buying into cryptocurrencies

IT Toolbox

What you get when you invest in a cryptocurrency depends on what the issuing company is offering

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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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Work needed to ensure positive tech revolutions, says researcher

Computer Weekly

The first technology revolution was brought about by all computers going online, but care must be taken that in the second and third tech revolutions, the good outweighs the bad, a cyber security researcher warns

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Happy Thanksgiving 2017

Scott Lowe

In the US, today (Thursday, November 23) is Thanksgiving. I’d like to take a moment to reflect on the meaning of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving means different things to different people: To folks outside the US, it often just a day with drastically reduced email volume and no interruptions from US-based coworkers. (Enjoy!). To folks in the US, it’s a holiday filled with food (turkey, anyone?).

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Happy Thanksgiving with “Positive Thinking”

Future of CIO

Share insight and be mindful to celebrate Thanksgiving. It’s another Thanksgiving Day approaching, it’s not just the time for shopping or relaxing, but also the time to recharging and doing some introspection. It is not just the time to gain a few pounds but also doing more PONDERING. In the other word, happy Thanksgiving with mindfulness. Although you can’t control every event of your life journey, through the power of digital mind-crafting, you can adapt to the change and cultivate the new set

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NHS data not fit for AI, Lords select committee told

Computer Weekly

House of Lords artificial intelligence committee hears evidence from experts about the challenges of sharing NHS patient data

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 11/23/2017

Future of CIO

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2 million page views with 4200+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom.

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Advertising Standards tightens rules around broadband speed claims

Computer Weekly

ISPs will have to abide by a tighter set of rules that restrict the claims they are allowed to make about their broadband service speeds from May 2018

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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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Remembering Banyan VINES-Part 1

IT Toolbox

Unlike IBM, Microsoft, and Novell, Banyan supported essentially a single version of VINES that ran on several different platforms acting as servers.

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DMCS opens local fibre broadband fund to applicants

Computer Weekly

Public sector bodies invited to apply for funding from £190m fund designed to stimulate local-level investment in FTTP broadband services