Fri.Feb 14, 2025

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Palo Alto Networks firewall bug being exploited by threat actors: Report

Network World

Admins with firewalls from Palo Alto Networks should make sure the devices are fully patched and the management interface blocked from open internet access after the discovery this week of a zero-day login authentication bypass in the PAN-OS operating system. The discovery of the vulnerability (CVE-2025-0108) was made by researchers at Assetnote and, according to researchers at Greynoise, is already being exploited.

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8 tips for being a more decisive leader

CIO Business Intelligence

When you lead a team, your people will turn to you to make the final call on a huge number of decisions. People admire a leader who is decisive. But decisiveness is challenging to master. You have to live with the decisions you make. And history is rich with tales of hubristic leaders who were willing to make tough decisions boldly ignoring naysayers and ultimately leading their crew into crushing disasters.

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Arm secures Meta as first customer in chip push, challenging industry giants

Network World

In a landmark shift, Arm has secured Meta as the first major customer for its internally designed server CPUs, a move that signals its entry into direct chip sales and places it in direct competition with its biggest customers, including Qualcomm and Nvidia. The company, known for licensing its chip designs to industry heavyweights like Apple, Nvidia, and Qualcomm, is now stepping directly into the silicon market, a move that could put it in direct competition with the very customers it once ser

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How Advanced Analytics Can Transform Your CX Practice

Forrester IT

Advanced Analytics: The Future Of CX Despite the recent challenges in overall experience quality seen in Forrester’s Customer Experience Index (CX Index) benchmarks, customer experience (CX) remains a priority for many organizations. Unfortunately, these organizations have struggled to realize tangible benefits from their CX programs.

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The Ultimate Contact Center Buyer's Guide: A Crucial Decision

Harness the True Power of your Contact Center In today’s fast-paced business environment, selecting the right contact center solution is critical for enhancing customer experience, improving operational efficiency, and optimizing costs. This comprehensive guide will walk you through the essential factors to consider when choosing a contact center software that aligns with your business needs.

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Juniper CEO: ‘I am disappointed and somewhat puzzled’ by DOJ merger rejection

Network World

Few would have predicted the U.S. Department of Justice would move to block HPEs proposed acquisition of Juniper Networks. When it happened late last month, the two vendors and many industry watchers were caught off guard. In the thirteen months since HPE announced its proposed acquisition of Juniper, the European Commission, UK Competition and Markets Authority, and eleven other antitrust authorities around the world cleared this transaction without as much as a second look, HPE and Juniper wro

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AI Product Managers: The Role Of The Future Or Another Tool In Your toolkit?

Forrester IT

In the early days of the Internet, job opportunities for Internet Product Managers began to appear as companies recognized their need for this new technology. As the Internet evolved, other roles such as “Web Product Manager” or “Digital Product Manager” became common.

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Nvidia forges healthcare partnerships to advance AI-driven genomics, drug discovery and more

Network World

Healthcare has the most significant upside, particularly in patient care, among all the industries applicable to AI. The healthcare industry creates massive amounts of data, but much of it lives in silos. Also, because of the specialization of healthcare services, connecting the dots between the data points is nearly impossible. I recently talked with a doctor at Stanford Healthcare about this, and he believes AI will play a significant role in diagnosing uncommon issues.

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How AI is empowering tech leaders — and transforming procurement

CIO Business Intelligence

When it comes to IT procurement, time is money is an understatement. For many organizations, the procurement process eats up six to nine months an expensive exercise in a time of digital transformation, when both tech agility and organizational leadership define business success. Thats why the CIO of today is no longer solely a manager of technology theyre also strategic business leaders balancing the fine line between long-term strategy and immediate implementation.

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Should Your Organization Adopt An Internal Product Team Approach?

Forrester IT

Pet adoption is often a high point for many people when creating memories. Do you remember the excitement of bringing home your first pet? The joy of a new furry family member, however, comes with responsibility and preparation. You likely spent hours researching breeds, finding veterinarians, debating names, and preparing your home.

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Unlocking AI’s full potential in procurement with smarter data management

CIO Business Intelligence

Supply chain operations are often stymied by inefficiencies that result in higher costs, longer lead times, and dissatisfied customers. These inefficiencies stem from manual processes that slow operations down, data silos that worsen decision making and a lack of visibility into supply chain activities, including procurement. By implementing cutting-edge AI solutions into supply chain operations, procurement teams can overcome these challenges.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Balanced Benefits Give Loyalty Programs A Competitive Advantage

Forrester IT

Maximize loyalty program effectiveness with a balanced mix of transactional benefits that offer monetary value, and non-transactional benefits that spark more emotional connections.

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Easy way to Install Garden Gnome Package Viewer App using Intune Enterprise App Catalog App

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and LinkedIn page for latest updates [link] The post Easy way to Install Garden Gnome Package Viewer App using Intune Enterprise App Catalog App appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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Romantic Lawsuit for Two? Don't Let Cybercriminals Scam You this Valentine's Day

SecureWorld News

Last year saw a 110% rise in cybercrime in the lead up to Valentine's Day. And 2025 will be no different, as increasingly sophisticated online hackers seek to take advantage of Valentine's themed email traffic, social media advertisements, or marketing campaigns, and exploit heightened emotions and a desire to connect. Just as Christmas makes us a bit more likely to click on a dodgy parcel delivery text, Valentine's Day means we are more likely to click on something romance related.

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AI now handles molecular simulations: Thanks to MDCrow

Dataconomy

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are a cornerstone of modern chemistry and biology, but automating them has remained a challengeuntil now. Researchers from the University of Rochester and FutureHouse Inc., including Quintina Campbell, Sam Cox, Jorge Medina, Brittany Watterson, and Andrew D. White, have introduced MDCrow: Automating Molecular Dynamics Workflows with Large Language Modelsan AI-powered agent designed to streamline complex MD tasks using large language models (LLMs).

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Future-Proof IT: Cost-Saving Strategies Every IT Leader Needs in 2025

With IT budgets projected to grow 9.8% in 2025, leaders must invest wisely—not just cut blindly. This whitepaper introduces The Future-Proof IT Cost Optimization Model, a framework to reduce costs while maintaining service quality. Learn how Cloud Efficiency, AI-Powered Workforce Automation, Vendor Optimization, Cybersecurity Resilience, and Unified Communications can drive savings and improve efficiency.

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SanDisk's new HBF memory combines 3D NAND capacity with HBM-like bandwidth

TechSpot

This hybrid creation stacks up a whopping 16 layers of SanDisk's latest 3D NAND dies using tiny data pipelines called through-silicon vias. There's also a special logic layer that can zip data in and out of the individual NAND sub-arrays in parallel. This results in HBF packing 8 to 16.

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This Steam game is full of malware: Did you download it?

Dataconomy

On February 6, hackers managed to upload a pirate-themed survival game called PirateFi onto Steam under the developer name Seaworth Interactive. The game was designed to contain malware that could steal users’ browser cookies and was available for at least a week before Valve removed it from its storefront and alerted users about potential risks to their PCs.

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As Trump spars with Canada, Seattle-area startup embraces talent and customers across the border

GeekWire

A Docugami in-person meet up in June 2023. Co-founder and CEO Jean Paoli is in the second row in pink. (Docugami Photo) As President Trump wields tariffs and strains relations with Canada, Seattle area’s Docugami is strengthening its cross-border ties. The document management startup is eager to reach a bigger pool of talent and new customers with the recent opening of a new subsidiary in Vancouver, B.C.

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Enhance macOS App Deployment with Intune Pre and Post Install Scripts

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and LinkedIn page for latest updates [link] The post Enhance macOS App Deployment with Intune Pre and Post InstallScripts appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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AMD to unveil RX 9000 series February 28, leaked specs and prices emerge

TechSpot

David McAfee, the vice president and general manager of AMD's graphics division, has confirmed that the company will stream a full unveiling of its upcoming Radeon RX 9000 series graphics cards on February 28 at 8 AM Eastern. Recent leaks indicate that the 9070 XT likely utilizes the full Navi.

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Deploy Cloudflare WARP using Intune Enterprise App Catalog App

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and LinkedIn page for latest updates [link] The post Deploy Cloudflare WARP using Intune Enterprise App Catalog App appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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Nvidia confirms GeForce RTX 5070 Ti for February 20, beats 4080 Super in OpenCL benchmark

TechSpot

Nvidia has confirmed that the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti will launch on February 20, followed by the RTX 5070 on March 5. Although the specs for both GPUs seem underwhelming, a recent Geekbench leak suggests the 5070 Ti may perform better than expected.

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Enrollment of Android Corporate Devices using Staging Method Intune

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and LinkedIn page for latest updates [link] The post Enrollment of Android Corporate Devices using Staging Method Intune appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Malepati Naren.

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The 2025 Annual ProcureCon CPO Report

Procurement leaders are at a pivotal moment. With CPOs playing an increasingly strategic role, it’s time to leverage innovation and technology to drive resilience and efficiency. Download The 2025 Annual ProcureCon CPO Report to uncover key insights to thrive in a dynamic procurement landscape. What’s Inside: How CPOs are driving strategic decision-making and technology adoption The top priorities and challenges for procurement in 2025 Why AI, sustainability, and data analytics are essential for

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AMD debunks claims of 32GB Radeon RX 9070 XT variant

TechSpot

There was excitement following rumors this week claiming AMD would be launching a high-end RDNA 4 GPU sometime in the first half of 2025. The amount of VRAM it will feature was supposedly undecided, but the leaker said it could be as much as 32GB.

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In step with what officials want to see, Amazon helped Seattle worker foot traffic jump in January

GeekWire

People pass by one of Amazon’s HQ towers in Seattle in January. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Amazon’s return to office five days per week has had an immediate impact on worker foot traffic in downtown Seattle according to the latest data from the Downtown Seattle Association. According to the organization’s Downtown Revitalization Dashboard , released Friday, the downtown core averaged nearly 95,000 daily workers in January the second-highest daily average since March 202

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Samsung set to unveil tri-fold phone that transforms into 10-inch tablet

TechSpot

Unfold the phone, and the inner screen stretches out to a whopping 9.96 inches, according to an Android Headlines report that cited insider Ross Young. That's bigger than many tablets.

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Why Elon Musk offered to buy the OpenAI nonprofit

Vox

Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House on February 11, 2025. | Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images Its been a busy week for Elon Musk. He says hes saving taxpayers billions of dollars (though outlays from the Treasury Department are public and make it pretty clear he hasnt ); he bragged that he fed USAID into the woodchipper, an aide on his Department of Government Efficiency was revealed to have said this summer to normalize Indian hate , resigned, and was then rehired.

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The 2025 Recruitment Playbook

The 2025 Recruitment Playbook by Procom is a strategic guide tailored for hiring managers to navigate the evolving talent landscape. Highlighting innovations like AI-driven tools and data analytics, the playbook empowers leaders to streamline processes, enhance candidate experiences , and foster diversity and inclusion. It provides actionable insights for every recruitment stage—from sourcing and screening to onboarding and retention.

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DARPA begins testing phase for in-orbit space construction

TechSpot

DARPA has announced a major shift in the final phase of its NOM4D program, transitioning from laboratory testing to small-scale orbital demonstrations. This move aims to evaluate novel materials and assembly techniques in space, marking a critical step toward the development of large-scale orbital structures.

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Seattle global health nonprofit PATH cutting workforce after federal funding freeze

GeekWire

PATH’s headquarters in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. (PATH Photo) Seattle-based global health nonprofit PATH announced this week that it is reducing its workforce in response to Trump administration efforts to slash federal funding to research institutions. The number of employees affected and how many are in Seattle was not shared by PATH.

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Arm said to be poaching executives from clients to build its own chips

TechSpot

Arm Holdings is currently on a recruiting spree, with the ultimate goal of entering the chip production industry independently. Reuters has quoted several sources familiar with the matter, all of whom confirm Arm's "sudden" interest in the manufacturing side of the microchip industry.

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Tech Moves: Smartsheet names CTO; Outreach appoints CFO; Concord’s new CEO; and other hires

GeekWire

Cynthia Tee, CTO for Smartsheet. (Smartsheet Photo) Cynthia Tee is now chief technology officer for Smartsheet. Tee was previously senior vice president of engineering at the Bellevue, Wash., company for nearly three years. Tee worked at Microsoft for nearly 20 years, leaving as a partner group program manager with Windows in 2014. Her other roles include leadership positions at Nordstrom and Ada Developers Academy.

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Brace for Impact. Unpredictable Tariff Disruptions Are Here - Your Playbook

Tariffs will have a major impact on your supply chain, margins, and operations. Drawing on our work with global companies across manufacturing, automotive, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, software, technology, financial services, and a range of service industries, we outline the key strategic and tactical actions companies are taking to navigate this period of heightened uncertainty.