Information Week

JULY 28, 2021

Demand for cybersecurity professionals is skyrocketing. What should you do if you want to transition from another area within IT to a security career?

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Forrester IT

JULY 28, 2021

Banks don't need new core banking systems, they need new paradigms to deliver core banking capabilities - and they need them today or tomorrow.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JULY 28, 2021

Asking the correct questions is what you need to do get the right job Image Credit: Noelia. As CIOs we will eventually go looking for our next CIO job. When we do this, we need to be prepared to answer plenty of questions on various technology, business and personal topics. However, before any employment meeting ends, it’s always a good idea for you to toss a few probing questions back to the interviewer.

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Anoop

JULY 28, 2021

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]. Read More. The post SCCM Force Reboot after Patching Easiest Options ConfigMgr appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Anoop C Nair.

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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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Tech Republic Security

JULY 28, 2021

The average cost of a data breach among companies surveyed for IBM Security reached $4.24 million per incident, the highest in 17 years.

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TM Forum

JULY 28, 2021

Help shape the future vision of. 5G Enterprise Customer Experience. by. participating in our brief survey. that focuses on the importance of enterprise services and moving beyond traditional connectivity. The collective and anonymized survey results will feed into a brand new white paper that TM Forum is writing in collaboration with. Accenture. and.

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TM Forum

JULY 28, 2021

Ravi Shankar, Head of Product Management, OSS/BSS, STL, explains why TM Forum's Open APIs play a crucial role in creating a plug-and-play model for integration of digital OSS/BSS applications and in delivering a platform for collaboration. Tell us about yourself and your job. image. Ravi-shankar-1.jpg. alt_text. align. right. caption. Ravi Shankar, STL. external_url.

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Association of Information Technology Professional

JULY 28, 2021

Learn how to measure success, identify strengths and weaknesses and improve the efficacy of your help desk.

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TM Forum

JULY 28, 2021

The concept of a marketplace is not new to communications service providers (CSPs). Indeed, many Tier 1 operators offer capabilities they refer to as marketplaces, primarily to deliver IoT services. But when digging a bit deeper, it becomes clear that there is no common, industry-agreed definition of what a telecom marketplace is or what it should offer.

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GeekWire

JULY 28, 2021

Suplari co-founders Jeff Gerber, Brian White, and Nikesh Parekh. (Suplari Photo). Microsoft has acquired Suplari , a Seattle startup that uses artificial intelligence to help companies understand and get a handle on their spending. Founded in 2016, Suplari analyzes procurement and spending data flowing into various enterprise systems. It can provide recommendations for cost savings, risk exposure, and other efficiency gaps.

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JULY 28, 2021

image. amdocs-1-330x200.jpg. alt_text. align. left. caption. None. external_url. None. page. None. As communication service providers (CSPs) move to the cloud, Samit Banerjee, Division President, Amdocs Cloud & Hybrid Managed Services, discusses with TM Forum’s Chief Analyst, Mark Newman, how CSPs can maximize their IT business value, including how to make a large number of applications cloud ready, while controlling the cost of their cloud journey.

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GeekWire

JULY 28, 2021

The way they were: In this Microsoft photo from 2016, Jeff Weiner, left, then LinkedIn’s CEO, poses with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, now on the Microsoft board. Microsoft’s biggest acquisition just joined the ranks of its biggest businesses. Five years after Microsoft announced its intent to acquire LinkedIn for more than $26 billion , the business social network has surpassed $10 billion in annual revenue for the first time.

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Information Week

JULY 28, 2021

Even with the best intentions to transform, organizations that lack in-house cloud knowledge may struggle to compete.

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GeekWire

JULY 28, 2021

National telehealth provider Amwell said it will acquire Portland, Ore.-based healthtech startup Conversa and SilverCloud Health. Conversa , founded in 2014, sells platforms tailored to different medical conditions that allow medical teams to communicate with patients remotely. The company raised $8 million at the beginning of this year , after COVID-19 generated increased need for the service.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2021

Amazon’s Kindle e-readers with built-in 3G will begin to lose the ability to connect to the internet on their own in the US in December, according to an email sent to customers on Wednesday. The change is due to mobile carriers transitioning from older 2G and 3G networking technology to newer 4G and 5G networks. For older Kindles without Wi-Fi, this change could mean not connecting to the internet at all.

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GeekWire

JULY 28, 2021

Amazon’s recent email to customers declaring the end to binding arbitration. For a major corporate declaration, it was relatively brief. And as short as the email was, it can be distilled further into three simple words: So sue us. When Amazon recently declared that it was abandoning binding arbitration as a method of settling customer disputes — and in doing so, actually informing millions of people about an arbitration clause they didn’t know they’d agreed to in the fir

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Gizmodo

JULY 28, 2021

Shocking new video shows that though the record heat subsided in the Pacific Northwest earlier this month, the impacts are still rippling throughout ecosystems. Read more.

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GeekWire

JULY 28, 2021

Melissa Eamer, founder of Modern Age (Modern Age Photo). Helping people live longer and healthier is personal for Melissa Eamer. After her mother died at a relatively young age, the former chief operating officer of Glossier became curious about why some people age well and others decline quickly. She had a “lightbulb moment” after discovering the concept of subjective age.

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Gizmodo

JULY 28, 2021

DNA analysis confirms that an eel-like creature pulled from a Florida canal two years ago is a caecilian, otherwise known as the “ penis snake.” The same canal has since yielded several other specimens, leading to concerns that the non-native amphibian has taken root in the United States. Read more.

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Venture Beast

JULY 28, 2021

Successful voice identification offers a level of security that PIN codes and passwords can’t, and in fintech it's all about security. Read More.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2021

The first Halo Infinite multiplayer technical preview will start tomorrow, July 29th. The beta will run until Sunday August 1st, offering a short chance for those invited to test Halo Infinite ’s multiplayer aspects. It’s the first of many technical previews for Halo Infinite , as Microsoft prepares to launch the free multiplayer game mode later this year.

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Venture Beast

JULY 28, 2021

A pair of surveys from IBM and the ISSA show that the cybersecurity gap is growing while data breaches become more expensive. Read More.

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“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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TechSpot

JULY 28, 2021

Speaking during AMD’s Q2 2021 investors call, CEO Dr. Lisa Su said, “We remain on-track to launch next-generation products in 2022, including our Zen 4 processors built with industry-leading 5nm process technology and our RDNA 3 GPUs.

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Venture Beast

JULY 28, 2021

DeepMind designed a virtual environment called XLand to train systems to succeed at problems and games, even those they haven't encountered. Read More.

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Gizmodo

JULY 28, 2021

The West’s megadrought has produced no shortage of terrible stories. Drought conditions have enveloped 90% of the region, leading to record low water levels at Lake Mead and Lake Powell , the two largest reservoirs in the U.S., as well as countless other smaller water systems throughout the region. Read more.

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Venture Beast

JULY 28, 2021

CEOs receive 57 phishing emails a year, but other C-suites and non-executives like sales and IT employees are getting hit just as hard. Read More.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2021

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge. Great gifts for high schoolers and the college bound School is back in session — well, almost. After a turbulent year and a half, many high school and college campuses are looking to return to in-person classes in the fall as vaccination rates continue to climb and the US enters a new phase of the pandemic.

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Venture Beast

JULY 28, 2021

Atera, a remote monitoring and management platform for IT teams, has raised $77 million in a round of funding led by General Atlantic. Read More.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2021

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Facebook will require its US employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 when they return to the office, the company confirmed to The Verge on Wednesday. “As our offices reopen, we will be requiring anyone coming to work at any of our US campuses to be vaccinated,” Facebook’s vice president of people Lori Goler said in a statement.

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Venture Beast

JULY 28, 2021

OpenAI has released Triton, a 'Python-like' programming language to optimize workloads for multicore processors such as GPUs. Read More.

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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.