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Container Adoption Is On The Rise: How Can Security Keep Up?

Forrester IT

Adopting containers has become increasingly popular — consider that, as of 2019, 33% of global developers indicated that their development organizations currently use containers, and another 25% said they want to do so over the next 12 months. These numbers are not surprising when we consider the value containers offer, such as scalability, agility, and […].

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Launch to the Future: Quantum Internet

CTOvision

Watch as the U.S. Department of Energy joins science leaders from University of Chicago to announce a new national initiative to accelerate research in quantum science and technology. From the […].

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IT Certifications + Persistence Lead to a Cybersecurity Career

Association of Information Technology Professional

Meet Damarn Carroll, an ambitious cybersecurity professional who has successfully made his own career path with hard work and IT certifications.

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SCCM CMPivot Query Devices with Greater than 15 GB Free Disk Space

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s find out SCCM CMPivot Query to find out the Devices with Greater than 15 GB Free Disk Space. The ConfigMgr CMPivot is based on fast channel notification architecture. Configuration Manager CMPivot query tool allows us to quickly assess the state of devices.

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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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ChannelCon Preview: Creating a Lifetime of Partner and Customer Value

Association of Information Technology Professional

AchieveUnite's Bob O’Malley and Jessica Baker discuss why partner experience in the channel is essential and how creating a lifetime of partner and customer value is key to success.

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Linux Foundation offering Kubernetes certifications courses and exams as demand spikes

Tech Republic Cloud

Since October 2015, the share of Kubernetes jobs per million grew by 2,141%, while the share of Kubernetes job searches increased 2,125%.

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Companies turning to isolation technology to protect against the internet's biggest threats

Tech Republic Security

Isolation technology allows companies to keep employee browsers siloed in the cloud.

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A Quantum Internet would eliminate security concerns by nature

TechSpot

The traditional Internet, as The Wall Street Journal points out, works by encoding data into photons of light and sending it over long distances along fiber-optic cables or wirelessly via satellites. The issue, as it relates to security, is that these communications can be intercepted along the way, resulting in.

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Social engineering: A cheat sheet for business professionals

Tech Republic Security

People, like computers, can be hacked using a process called social engineering, and there's a good chance a cybersecurity attack on your organization could start with this technique.

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NBA will use new Microsoft Teams ‘Together’ feature for virtual fan experience during games

GeekWire

More than 300 fans will be shown on 17-foot video screens during NBA games this season, interacting with each other via Microsoft Teams. (NBA Photos). The NBA is getting help from Microsoft to improve the fan experience as the league embarks on an unprecedented shortened season amid the pandemic. The two organizations, which announced a multiyear cloud partnership in April, will debut virtual viewing technology powered by Microsoft’s Teams collaboration software when the season begins July

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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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DevSecOps tutorial: What is it, and how can it improve application security?

Tech Republic Security

Dr. David Brumley, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and CEO of ForAllSecure, explains what DevSecOps is and how companies can use it to improve security.

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Bernie Sanders and Ilhan Omar Introduce Bill to Stop Giving Stimulus Money to Fossil Fuel Companies

Gizmodo

The coronavirus took over the world and cratered the economy, leaving governments to pick up the pieces. In the case of the U.S. government, it awarded billions of dollars to the fossil fuel industry, billions that could’ve instead gone to people in financial trouble across the country. Read more.

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The NBA is using Microsoft Teams to bring basketball fans courtside

The Verge

Microsoft Teams at NBA arenas. | Microsoft. The National Basketball Association (NBA) is using Microsoft Teams’ new Together Mode to place basketball fans courtside in a virtual experience during live games. Microsoft only just revealed Together Mode for Teams earlier this month , and it uses AI to segment your face and shoulders and place you together with other people in a virtual space.

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Startup founders at new 5G Open Innovation Lab explain how they’ve adjusted to the COVID-19 crisis

GeekWire

It’s certainly been a unique inaugural cohort for the 5G Open Innovation Lab (5G OI Lab) , a new startup program funded by T-Mobile, Intel, and NASA. But participating entrepreneurs are making the most of their time, particularly as the demand for some 5G-enabled technologies accelerates amid the COVID-19 crisis. The Bellevue, Wash.-based lab debuted in early May and will wrapped up its first program — held virtually due to the pandemic — this week.

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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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Ghost of Tsushima sells 2.4 million copies in first 3 days

Venture Beast

Ghost of Tsushima sold more than 2.4 million copies in its first three days of sales, making it the PlayStation 4's fastest-selling 1st-party original IP. Read More.

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Microsoft’s Surface Duo looks like it’s ready to launch

The Verge

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. Microsoft has spent the past few weeks teasing the Surface Duo on Twitter, and it now looks like the dual-screen device is ready to launch. Microsoft’s new Android-powered device first appeared at the FCC earlier this week , and today it has shown up on the Bluetooth SIG certification page. Devices typically appear in FCC and Bluetooth listings just a few weeks away from launch.

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AI Weekly: The promise and shortcomings of OpenAI’s GPT-3

Venture Beast

Even OpenAI says "The GPT-3 hype is way too much." A look at the promise and shortcomings of GPT-3, a language model that's attracting a lot of attention. Read More.

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Garmin hit by massive outage after possible ransomware attack

The Verge

Garmin Fenix smartwatch and Garmin Connect app. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. Garmin fitness devices have been left disconnected for nearly a day after the company suffered a major outage, possibly caused by a ransomware attack. The outage first reported by Garmin over 20 hours ago, as of this writing, affects Garmin wearables and apps, as well as Garmin call centers.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Space Force Unveils New Logo, Promises to Be "Always Above"

Gizmodo

Now that we’re all totally ready to slip the surly bonds of Earth and aliens are real , it’s time for the United States Space Force to have a really badass logo to go with its mission. Read more.

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Suikoden’s creators are crowdfunding a spiritual successor

The Verge

Some of the key creators behind the beloved Suikoden franchise are attempting to crowdfund a spiritual successor. Today, a new team called Rabbit & Bear Studios announced an upcoming Kickstarter campaign to fund Eiyuden Chronicle , a roleplaying game designed to evoke PlayStation-era nostalgia. The campaign will debut on July 27th, and the team is led by Yoshitaka Murayama, director and writer on the first two Suikoden titles.

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AMD's share price jumps above Intel's for first time since 2006

TechSpot

In its second-quarter earnings report yesterday, Intel revealed that revenue is up 20 percent, but Covid-19 complications mean 7nm-based CPU production is backed up and 12 months behind schedule, meaning a delay of at least six months.

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Samsung app confirms new earbuds will be called Galaxy Buds Live and feature noise cancellation

The Verge

Image: h0x0d (Twitter). We’ve seen plenty of pictures of Samsung’s new bean-shaped earbuds, but an early update to Samsung’s Galaxy Buds companion app has confirmed nearly all the details about the upcoming headphones, including the official Galaxy Buds Live name and support for active noise cancellation. The app also shows a brief guide on how to wear the uniquely shaped earbuds and shows that the earbuds will have touch controls (set to toggle active noise cancellation by default), which can a

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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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Researchers find evidence of bias in facial expression data sets

Venture Beast

In a preprint study, researchers find evidence of bias in data sets often used to train AI that classifies a person's facial expression. Read More.

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Boeing Just Gave Us a New Reason to Be Terrified of Flying

Gizmodo

Even if you weren’t afraid of stepping onto an airplane before, the global coronavirus pandemic has given us a slew of new reasons to be stressed out by air travel. Even if you’re not turned off by the idea of being cooped up in a germ-filled metal tube in the sky for hours on end, there’s the chance that you might be… Read more.

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ProBeat: Adobe’s universal camera app captures the Android-iOS duopoly

Venture Beast

Marc Levoy left Google to work on computational photography at Adobe this week. But building a "universal camera app" is not easy in an Android-iOS duopoly. Read More.

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Top Gun and A Quiet Place sequels delayed again

The Verge

Image: Paramount Pictures. A Quiet Place Part 2 and Top Gun: Maverick are both delayed once more, as Paramount attempts to preserve their cinematic releases despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Variety reports. Both films are now planned for release in 2021, with A Quiet Place Part 2 releasing on April 23 and Top Gun: Maverick on July 2. They had been due to release on September 6 and December 23 of this year, respectively, following previous coronavirus-related delays.

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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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Microsoft blames poor stream and early build for Halo Infinite complaints

TechSpot

The Halo Infinite demo certainly stirred feelings of nostalgia for those who remember the first game on the original Xbox. But rose-tinted glasses can't hide the fact that compared to some of the other next-gen titles we've seen, it didn't look that visually impressive.

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Beloved Nintendo president Satoru Iwata’s tribute book is finally coming out in English

The Verge

Photo by David McNew/Getty Images. A tribute book for Satoru Iwata, the beloved president and CEO of Nintendo who died in 2015 , is getting an English release this spring, publisher VIZ Media announced today. The book, Ask Iwata , is a translation of Iwata-San , which was first published in Japan last year. “In this motivational collection, Satoru Iwata addresses diverse subjects such as locating bottlenecks, how success breeds resistance to change, and why programmers should never say no,” acco

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StarCraft II is still going strong a decade on

TechSpot

Its predecessor, the original StarCraft from 1998, has been labeled as one of the greatest and most important video games ever. Understandably, fans and critics were skeptical when the sequel dropped on July 27, 2010, especially after its rocky start which prompted Blizzard to overhaul the project early on in its development.

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Apple’s Macs might get Face ID, as potentially revealed by code in macOS Big Sur

The Verge

Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge. Many iPhone and iPad models let you unlock your device with your face using Face ID, but on a Mac, you still need to type in your password, set up your Apple Watch to auto unlock your Mac, or, depending on what model of Mac you have, use your fingerprint with Touch ID. But code reportedly discovered in the latest beta of macOS Big Sur by 9to5Mac suggests that Face ID could be coming to Macs at some point in the future, too.

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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.