Fri.May 21, 2021

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Moneyball For B2B Sales: The Insights-Driven Sales System

Forrester IT

Just as using a scientific approach boosted the fortunes of major league baseball teams, so should sales teams use data and analytics to lift productivity and performance.

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5 IT Jobs You Could Get with CompTIA Server+

Association of Information Technology Professional

Learn how the skills covered in CompTIA Server+ translate to IT infrastructure job roles and how you can earn that promotion.

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Debunking Infosec Purity And Other Security Myths In The Wake Of Recent Attacks

Forrester IT

Earlier this week, an op-ed published on The Hill sent infosec Twitter into a tizzy by blaming cybersecurity industry best practices for recent high-profile security breaches. For us, the security team at Forrester, the op-ed furthered a number of security myths that we felt compelled to bust here. Myth #1: The Best Infosec Pros Have […].

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What’s New Group Policy Settings in Windows 10 21H1

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post What’s New Group Policy Settings in Windows 10 21H1 appeared first on HTMD Blog by Jitesh Kumar.

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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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RSAC 2021: No Silver Bullet To Fight Attrition Warfare, Just Resilience

Forrester IT

A question I am asked most every day now is, “Will [insert tool, process, or person here] stop the next SolarWinds?” We all know the answer to that question: It’s truly nothing new — that tool, or process, or headcount may help reduce risk, but you can never confidently say you are 100% protected from […].

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Making sense of standards for IT infrastructure and operations

Tech Republic Cloud

We can't live without standards but there are so many of them it's hard to keep up. Here are some expert tips from a new Forrester guide.

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Netflix's Animated Adaptation of the Filipino Hit Comic Trese Summons Its First Blood-Soaked Trailer

Gizmodo

It’s been quite a while since Netflix first announced it’d be making an anime-inspired adaptation of the action-horror comic Trese at its See What’s Next Asia event in 2018. Honestly, it’s weird that it took the series, created by writer Budjette Tan and artist Kajo Baldisimo, that long to make a development deal… Read more.

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AI, cyber terrain analytics improve hybrid multicloud security

Venture Beast

Getting hybrid cloud security right is hard, but machine learning and cyber terrain analytics are a good place to start. Third in a series. Read More.

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The PlayStation 5's compression tech can drastically reduce game file sizes

TechSpot

However, there are drawbacks to all this progress: most notably, the PS5's mediocre 825GB of available storage space. As game file sizes climb higher and higher (sometimes upwards of 150GB on consoles), having less than a terabyte of available storage space is far from ideal.

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Apple v. Epic trial wraps up as judge spars with Tim Cook

Venture Beast

Apple CEO Tim Cook testified as the final witness in the Apple v. Epic Games antitrust trial and he faced tough questions from the judge. Read More.

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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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Why space startups should be careful about (and sometimes avoid) foreign entanglements

GeekWire

RBC Signals makes use of satellite ground stations across the globe. (RBC Signals Graphic). Warnings about the potential perils of foreign alliances go back to George Washington’s Farewell Address — but in the Space Age, the issues surrounding international relations are much more nuanced. At least that’s the view from Christopher Richins, the founder and CEO of Redmond, Wash.

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Roomkey kicks off its mini metaverse with social entrepreneurship event

Venture Beast

Roomkey hopes to carve out its own slice of the metaverse with an avatar-driven online event world for groups smaller than 40 people. Read More.

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How a mailbox could get the Amazon union vote overturned

Vox

An RWDSU representative holds a sign outside the Amazon fulfillment warehouse that was at the center of a unionization drive in Bessemer, Alabama. | Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images. A failed union drive may get new life because of the company’s insistence on installing a mailbox. The future of what could be one of the most consequential union organizing efforts in recent memory may rest on a mailbox.

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Scale Venture Partners: Security software buying trends in 2021

Venture Beast

In a CSO survey, 63% said they increased IT budgets to defend against security threats after the events of 2020 (pandemic, SolarWinds hack). Read More.

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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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The first SUSE version of Rancher Kubernetes is on its way

Tech Republic Data Center

SUSE is letting the tech world know that it means to be taken seriously as a Kubernetes distro power with its Rancher 2.6 release.

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Under the AI hood: A view from RSA Conference

Venture Beast

Despite hype around AI and ML in security, the RSA Conference revealed promising developments, like an evaluation system for buyers. Read More.

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Tech Moves: Icertis hires new CMO; Expedia Group board member steps down; and more

GeekWire

Gretchen Eischen. (Icertis Photo). — Icertis hired longtime SAP executive Gretchen Eischen as its new chief marketing officer. She was most recently global vice president and head of marketing for SAP’s procurement solutions and is based in Pennsylvania. Seth Nesbitt , who has been CMO since 2016, has been appointed as the global head of purpose, values and culture.

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As employees return to the office, banks explore surveillance tech

Venture Beast

Banks may face resistance from employees as they roll out sensors, cameras, and tracking tech as workers return to work after the pandemic. Read More.

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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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Is this the first picture of AMD's RX 6600 XT graphics card?

TechSpot

The image comes from Twitter user Broly_X1 (via VideoCardz), who writes that the source has now been deleted. You’ll notice that the stickers do name the Radeon Navi23 XT GPU that will presumably be used in the RX 6600 XT model, but there’s no sign of the card name itself.

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Facebook Wav2vec-U learns to recognize speech from unlabeled data

Venture Beast

Facebook claims to have developed an AI model that learns to recognize speech without the need for annotations. Read More.

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Tim Cook faces harsh questions about the App Store from judge in Fortnite trial

The Verge

Tim Cook is seen through a window of the federal courthouse in San Francisco | Photo by Philip Pacheco/Getty Images. Apple called CEO Tim Cook to conclude three weeks of testimony in Epic v. Apple — and with the end of the trial approaching, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers engaged Cook in a surprisingly tense exchange over Apple’s business model. Rogers noted that most of Apple’s App Store revenue comes from games, and she asked Cook why developers can’t use other payment methods to sell in-app pur

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Formstack: 82% of people don’t know what ‘no-code’ means

Venture Beast

Despite massive growth in no-code tools, only 18% of people are familiar with the no-code concept, said Formstack. While using no-code tools. Read More.

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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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In Nod to Dystopian Fiction, Citizen Wants to Send Private Security Teams to Your Neighborhood

Gizmodo

In what truly seems like a dystopian nightmare come to life, the public safety alert app Citizen apparently has plans to hire teams of security contractors to respond to app users’ incident response requests—a sort of Blackwater-ification of local public safety that can surely only lead to good things. Read more.

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Universities Are Failing Software Developers

Information Week

Why new software development grads are struggling to land jobs, and how universities can modify their curriculum to set students up for success.

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Biomutant console comparison reveals no native 4K on PS5 due to technical reasons

TechSpot

Publisher THQ Nordic has been showing off footage of its open-world action RPG on PC and consoles recently. On the Xbox Series X, it runs at dynamic 4K and 60fps, while the less-powerful Xbox Series S outputs a still visually impressive dynamic 1440p@60fps. On the PS5, however, Biomutant runs at.

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This is Microsoft’s vision for the future of meetings

The Verge

Microsoft is outlining its vision for the future of meetings today. After a year that’s seen more people dialing into the office remotely, the company is once again banging the drum for hybrid work: a model that combines remote access with in-person work. While the company has been teasing new concepts for Microsoft Teams in recent months, it’s now starting to bring to life an updated interface for the communications software that will help blend remote colleagues into physical meeting rooms.

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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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Hello Games surprises No Man's Sky players with a Mass Effect crossover

TechSpot

In April, Hello Games introduced a new mode of gameplay to No Man's Sky called Expeditions. The first expedition, dubbed Pioneers, rewarded travelers with a golden starfighter to add to their livery and a new backpack design. Earlier this week, No Man's Sky travelers started their second expedition, called Beachhead.

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Mass Effect’s legendary Normandy starship is coming to No Man’s Sky, if you snag it soon

The Verge

The Normandy in No Man’s Sky. No Man’s Sky players who are fans of the beloved sci-fi series Mass Effect will soon be in for a treat: Mass Effect’s legendary SSV Normandy SR-1 starship will be appearing in No Man’s Sky. The Normandy’s arrival is the culmination of an alternate reality game that’s taken place inside No Man’s Sky over the past few days.

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Microsoft is adding dark mode to Office for Android

TechSpot

Dark mode everywhere has become the norm for many users, but there are still a few apps lacking it. In those cases where you have dark mode enabled on your phone and then open an app without it, the visual experience can be quite uncomfortable.

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FBI warns Conti ransomware gang struck health and emergency networks

Venture Beast

The ransomware group behind the attack on Irish health system infected 16 U.S. medical and emergency networks this past year, the FBI said. Read More.

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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.