Tue.Sep 19, 2023

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What Do Tadpoles And VoC Programs Have In Common?

Forrester IT

I spend my days talking to clients about how to collect and use customer feedback to improve CX and drive business results. At night, I’m working toward my informal PhD in biology — courtesy of my two young sons who love to share their encyclopedic knowledge about bugs, insects, snakes, and all things creepy crawly.

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Intune Minimum Supported iOS iPadOS version changes

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and Facebook Page to get the latest updates [link] The post Intune Minimum Supported iOS iPadOS version changes appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides by Sumitha P.

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Payment Processing Is Not Commoditized: Optimization Tactics

Forrester IT

Forrester’s data shows that, in 2023, more than one in 10 US online adults encountered a technical failure at the point of checkout. And about the same number said their online payments were rejected because their card on file had expired. Despite (many!) other priorities, smooth checkout should top your to-do list.

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How to Trigger SCCM Client Agent Actions Using PowerShell Script

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and Facebook Page to get the latest updates [link] The post How to Trigger SCCM Client Agent Actions Using PowerShell Script appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides by Sujin Nelladath.

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LLMs in Production: Tooling, Process, and Team Structure

Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk

Technology professionals developing generative AI applications are finding that there are big leaps from POCs and MVPs to production-ready applications. They're often developing using prompting, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and fine-tuning (up to and including Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)), typically in that order. However, during development – and even more so once deployed to production – best practices for operating and improving generative AI applications are le

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High Levels Of Trust Elude US Financial Services Firms Again

Forrester IT

US financial services brands are struggling to earn high levels of customer trust. Forrester’s Financial Services Customer Trust Index (FS Trust Index) revealed that customer trust in US financial services firms in 2023 was relatively weak and largely unchanged from 2022.

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Prevent Codec Download Policy using Intune

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and Facebook Page to get the latest updates [link] The post Prevent Codec Download Policy using Intune appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides by Abhinav Rana.

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Revisions on September 2023 CVEs 59 flaws announced and 2 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and Facebook Page to get the latest updates [link] The post Revisions on September 2023 CVEs 59 flaws announced and 2 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides by Sumitha P.

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The Consumer Does Not Need To Be Part Of Every Business Decision

Forrester IT

As Forrester’s consumer behavior analyst, I’m going to say something controversial: the consumer does not need to be a part of every business decision. There’s no shortage of supply or demand for consumer insights.

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Intune Feature Support Approved Elevation for EPM Endpoint Privilege Management

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and Facebook Page to get the latest updates [link] The post Intune Feature Support Approved Elevation for EPM Endpoint Privilege Management appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides by Vidya M A.

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Navigating The Waters Of Enterprise Software? Keep An Eye On The Agile Vendors

Forrester IT

Singer and pianist Little Richard once said: “It’s not the size of the ship; it’s the size of the Waves”. In the waters of enterprise software, ships like IBM, Microsoft, and SAP are well-known names. Their size, breadth of coverage, brand recognition, and market influence reflect their success. As does their revenue.

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Your Expert Guide to CX Orchestration & Enhancing Customer Journeys

Speaker: Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor at Medallia

Join Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor, in this new webinar that will focus on: Understanding CX Orchestration Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of what CX orchestration is, its significance in the customer experience landscape, and how it plays a crucial role in shaping customer journeys. This includes the key concepts, strategies, and best practices involved in CX orchestration. 🔑 Connection to Customer Journey Maps: How to effectively integrate customer journey mapping into the

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Project Gutenberg releases 5,000 free audiobooks using neural text-to-speech technology

TechSpot

Readers can now listen to thousands of free classic literature audiobooks and other public-domain material through Project Gutenberg. Microsoft and MIT researchers created the collection by scanning the books with text-to-speech software that sounds natural and can adequately parse formatting.

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What We Learned From Our Interviews On Clinician Workforce Technologies

Forrester IT

I am excited to announce new research on Clinical Workforce Technologies. Our interviews with health systems revealed early on the need for a report that highlights the top tech categories, and one that looks at tech implementation and clinician adoption. The interviews were so fruitful that we also developed a Clinician Workforce Implementation Checklist.

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AI that’s smarter than humans? Americans say a firm “no thank you.”

Vox

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company that made ChatGPT. For Altman, the chatbot is just a stepping stone on the way to artificial general intelligence. | SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images Exclusive: 63 percent of Americans want regulation to actively prevent superintelligent AI, a new poll reveals. Major AI companies are racing to build superintelligent AI — for the benefit of you and me, they say.

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Navigating The Waters Of Enterprise Software? Keep An Eye On The Agile Vendors

Forrester IT

Singer and pianist Little Richard once said: “It’s not the size of the ship; it’s the size of the Waves”. In the waters of enterprise software, ships like IBM, Microsoft, and SAP are well-known names. Their size, breadth of coverage, brand recognition, and market influence reflect their success. As does their revenue.

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Why and How to Earn Your PMP® Credential

Gaining your Project Management Professional (PMP) certification can be very beneficial for any project manager. Most successful PMP candidates treat preparing for the PMP exam as a personal project. As such, it requires careful planning and a structured approach. Eligibility criteria must be met, and the exam is known for its difficulty, sometimes requiring multiple attempts.

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Intel hopes to reinvent the PC with Core Ultra SoC

TechSpot

First, the newest offering from Intel – code-named Meteor Lake and officially called Core Ultra – offers what the company is calling its largest generational and architectural changes in 40 years.

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Amazon vets raise cash for Griptape, a Seattle startup that helps companies build AI apps

GeekWire

Seattle AI startup Griptape is led by Kyle Roche, left, and Vasily Vasinov. (LinkedIn Photos) A pair of Amazon alum is raising cash for a new startup that helps enterprises build and deploy secure artificial intelligence applications, preventing company data from slipping through the cracks. Founded earlier this year, Griptape is developing an open-source Python framework and cloud platform.

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NASA releases photo of a baby star that will grow up to be like our Sun

TechSpot

Launched in 2021 and operating since July 2022, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has already taken countless amazing photos and discovered incredible information. From new detailed looks at nearby planets like Jupiter, to viewing an asteroid redirection test and even taking a selfie. The vast amount of technology included.

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Amazon to hire 250k U.S. holiday workers, up 100k from last year, projecting strong shopping season

GeekWire

Amazon says it will seek to hire 250,000 people for the holiday season, a significant increase from past years, citing projections for a strong holiday shopping season. As part of the announcement Tuesday morning, the company also said it’s putting $1.3 billion into pay increases for fulfillment and transportation employees, boosting the average pay for those positions to more than $20.50 per hour, representing an increase of more than 50% over the past five years.

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Use Cases for Apache Cassandra®

There’s a good reason why Apache Cassandra® is quickly becoming the NoSQL database of choice for organizations of all stripes. In this white paper, discover the key use cases that make Cassandra® such a compelling open source software – and learn the important pitfalls to avoid. From understanding its distributed architecture to unlocking its incredible power for industries like healthcare, finance, retail and more, experience how Cassandra® can transform your entire data operations.

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Elon Musk wants to charge all users of X, formerly Twitter, a monthly fee

TechSpot

Musk revealed his plans for X yesterday during a livestreamed conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. " moving to a small monthly payment for use of the X system," Musk said, adding that such a controversial move was the only way to address the bots.

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Seattle biotech startup Deverra Therapeutics raising cash to develop cellular immunotherapies

GeekWire

Colleen Delaney, the founder, chief scientific officer, and executive vice president of research and development at Deverra Therapeutics. (Fred Hutch Photo) Seattle biotech company Deverra Therapeutics is raising cash for its cellular immunotherapies platform that helps doctors treat patients with cancer and other infectious diseases. A new SEC filing reveals that the startup raised about $2.4 million through a mix of debt and warrants.

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Large Hadron Collider needed a new database system to sustain its petabyte-hungry experiments

TechSpot

CERN recently had to upgrade its backend IT systems in preparation for the new experimental phase of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC Run 3). This phase is expected to generate 1 petabyte of data daily until the end of 2025. The previous database systems were no longer sufficient to handle.

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Google’s Bard isn’t just for search anymore

Vox

Google’s new Bard extensions might get more eyes on its generative AI offerings. | Leon Neal/Getty Images Microsoft was first to AI search, but Google can now pull stuff in from Gmail, Docs, Maps, and more — for free. The buzz around consumer generative AI has died down since its early 2023 peak, but Google and Microsoft ’s battle for AI supremacy may be heating up again.

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The Truth About Customer Journey Mapping

Speaker: Dave Seaton, CEO of Seaton CX

Is Customer Journey Mapping a tired fad from 2013? Or a critical tool for sparking customer-centric change? 💥 The answer lies not in the map itself, but in the mapping process. When crafted with precision and insight, journey maps emerge as powerful catalysts, transforming customer experiences and steering businesses towards profitable growth.

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Microsoft discussed buying Nintendo, WB, and Valve, leaked document reveals

TechSpot

The enormous trove of court documents leaked amid Microsoft's legal battle with the FTC has disclosed yet more information about the company's internal workings. An email from Xbox head Phil Spencer reveals that Microsoft nearly purchased Warner Bros. Interactive around the same time it bought Bethesda parent company ZeniMax while.

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How to Create and Use a Docker Secret From a File

Tech Republic Security

Learn how to create and use a Docker secret from a file for secure storage of sensitive data with this step-by-step tutorial.

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Federal judge orders injunction against California's online child safety law

TechSpot

A federal judge has put the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (CAADCA) on hold while legal proceedings determine whether the law violated the First Amendment. The California legislature passed AB-2273 on August 30, and Governor Gavin Newsom signed it into law just days ago on September 15. The law intends.

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How to Create and Use a Docker Secret From a File (+Video)

Tech Republic Security

Learn how to create and use a Docker secret from a file for secure storage of sensitive data with this step-by-step tutorial.

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Lessons Learned in PostgreSQL®

In today's digital landscape, the threat of ransomware demands proactive defense. This paper, inspired by a real PostgreSQL® database incident, offers vital strategies for effective mitigation. Instaclustr expert Perry Clark outlines immediate actions to minimize risks, ensuring a swift response to ransomware threats and protecting critical data assets.

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Massive leak reveals next-gen Xbox could be a cloud-hybrid console, Series X|S refresh coming in 2024

TechSpot

Curiously, Microsoft is considering moving away from AMD (Zen 6) and looking at Arm for the CPU of its next-gen game console. Depending on the company's decision, the GPU will either be co-designed with AMD (Navi 5) or license AMD IP (Navi 5). Some of the features of the new.

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Should Amazon be ‘pumped’ to land Panos Panay? A closer look at longtime Microsoft devices leader

GeekWire

Panos Panay introduces the Microsoft Surface tablet at a launch event in 2012. (File Photo) Microsoft developed its first Surface tablet more than a decade ago under strict secrecy to give then-CEO Steve Ballmer the option to pull the plug shortly before it launched if the company’s PC partners objected. Yet the company needed top hardware engineers to devote themselves to the project.

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Leaked Bethesda roadmap reveals new Doom game, Dishonored 3, Fallout 3 remaster, and more

TechSpot

The roadmap, which uses a ZeniMax presentation as its source, is part of an internal Microsoft document from July 2020 summing up its proposal to acquire ZeniMax Media. It covers the 2020 to 2024 financial years, listing Bethesda games for console, PC, and mobile.

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WTIA reveals 33 startups in 10th cohort for founder program

GeekWire

All 33 startups in WTIA’s 10th Founder Cohort Program are based in the state of Washington. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) revealed the 33 startups based in Washington state participating in its 10th Founder Cohort Program. The six-month program is virtual and free for seed-stage startups.

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Strategic Cost Management Approaches to Unlock Growth and Increase Profitability

How can businesses gain a competitive edge in an era marked by relentless competition and economic fluctuations? The secret is mastering strategic cost management strategies. This GEP bulletin, "Strategic Cost Management Approaches to Unlock Growth and Increase Profitability," breaks this down into clear, actionable steps. Discover how these strategies can boost your enterprise's financial health, helping not only to keep up but to excel in today's market.