Wed.Jun 09, 2021

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How Are CIOs Failing Their Business Users?

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs are forgetting about their employee experience. Image Credit: Sjoerd Wijn. Right now every CIO seems to be talking about the customer experience (CX). What CIOs have been told is that if you don’t get customer experience right, you may leave yourself vulnerable to competitors who do. However, CIOs who focus only or mostly on customers are forgetting something just as important: the employee experience (EX).

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The NEW CompTIA Cloud+: Your Questions Answered

Association of Information Technology Professional

The new version of CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) covers the skills needed to operate in the cloud, validating that candidates have the technical experience needed to deploy, secure and automate environments.

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Supercharging Application Delivery

All Things Distributed

The goal of AWS Proton is simple: customers should be able to adopt, customize and evolve best practices and technologies for delivering their modern applications to the cloud, and not worry about how they roll this out – potentially to thousands of developers – across their organization.

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SCCM Persist Content in the Client Cache Option | ConfigMgr

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]. Read More. The post SCCM Persist Content in the Client Cache Option | ConfigMgr 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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Billions of passwords leaked online from past data breaches

Tech Republic Security

Dubbed RockYou2021, the list as revealed on a hacker forum contains 8.4 billion password entries, says CyberNews.

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SCCM Patching Issue with Windows 10 KB5003637 June CU | Cumulative Update Confusion | ConfigMgr | WSUS

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]. Read More. The post SCCM Patching Issue with Windows 10 KB5003637 June CU | Cumulative Update Confusion | ConfigMgr | WSUS appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Anoop C Nair.

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5G and edge computing will help define the winners in the digital economy

Tech Republic Cloud

Enterprise technology providers must help telcos embrace cloud platforms, a new IBM study suggests.

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Expert: Freelancers could set your company up for cybersecurity breach

Tech Republic Security

If you're hiring gig workers, take precautions to protect your company from intentional or accidental data breach.

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The Rise of the Ecosystem Mindset: 4 Approaches to be Successful

Association of Information Technology Professional

Ecosystems are increasing and restructuring, resulting in the development of a new ‘ecosystem mindset’. This important route to market needs a shift from a technology push to a strategic dialogue, sharing information, and building joint value propositions that bring both organizations’ strengths to the end customer—regardless of partner size.

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Harness the power of follow-up alerts and follow-up tests

Spearline Testing

Never miss an issue with your numbers. Our customers frequently tell us that one of the main reasons they work with Spearline is because of the realtime alerts we provide should an issue ever arise with any of their numbers, before they become customer-impacting, regardless of where in the world the issue takes place. Realtime alerts are a means to be notified of issues such as specific call failures or audio quality dropping below a custom threshold as soon as they arise.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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SpaceX’s Starlink is in talks with ‘several’ airlines for in-flight Wi-Fi

The Verge

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. The team behind SpaceX’s growing satellite internet network Starlink is in talks with “several” airlines to beam internet to their airplanes, the project’s vice president said during a conference panel on Wednesday. Expanding Starlink from rural homes and onto airlines is an expected move for Elon Musk’s space company as it races to open the broadband network commercially later this year.

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Here’s why Amazon relaxed its marijuana standards, according to industry experts and lawyers

GeekWire

(GeekWire Illustration). When Leafly and Headset co-founder Cy Scott heard the news about Amazon relaxing its marijuana testing standards for job applicants while backing federal legalization efforts, two thoughts immediately came to mind: Amazon needs people. Amazon wants market share. “I think fundamentally it’s about hiring,” said the founder of two cannabis-centric companies. “It’s really hard for them to hire given that a majority of Americans live in markets w

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Becoming a Self-Taught Cybersecurity Pro

Information Week

Cybersecurity pros are in high demand. Here's how one system administrator developed his own personal online night school curriculum to gain the expertise for a successful security career.

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E-commerce boom lifts another startup as Shipium lands $8M to help retailers keep up with Amazon

GeekWire

The Shipium team. (Shipium Photo). Online shopping has surged amid the pandemic, forcing e-commerce companies to ramp up their fulfillment capacity. That’s good news for startups building e-commerce software such as Shipium. . The Seattle startup just raised $8 million to help online retailers with technology that improves operations inside their fulfillment centers.

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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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DeepMind says reinforcement learning is ‘enough’ to reach general AI

Venture Beast

Scientists at U.K.-based AI lab DeepMind argue true artificial intelligence will emerge from sticking to the principle of reward maximization. Read More.

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Ex-Microsoft leaders land $5.1M from GitHub co-founder, ex-Snowflake CEO for new startup Aserto

GeekWire

Aserto co-founders Gert Drapers (left) and Omri Gazitt. (Aserto Photo). Gert Drapers and Omri Gazitt have more than six decades of experience working in engineering and product leadership roles at companies including Microsoft, HP Cloud, Puppet, and Hulu. Now they’re teaming up on a new startup building authorization-as-a-service software. Aserto announced a $5.1 million seed round from investors including former Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia and GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner.

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EleutherAI claims new NLP model approaches GPT-3-level performance

Venture Beast

EleutherAI, a group of data scientists working to open-source AI research, released a language model they claim achieves leading performance. Read More.

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How to enable Nearby Share on your Chromebook

Tech Republic Cloud

Chrome OS now enjoys the Nearby Share feature found in Android. Jack Wallen shows you how to enable it for your Chromebook.

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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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Facebook proposes NetHack as a grand challenge in AI research

Venture Beast

Facebook is proposing the '80s game NetHack as a grand challenge in AI and machine learning research, launching a competition at NeurIPS 2021. Read More.

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Facebook plans first smartwatch for next summer with two cameras, heart rate monitor

The Verge

Facebook is working on its first smartwatch (note: this is not a mockup). | Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge. Facebook is taking a novel approach to its first smartwatch, which the company hasn’t confirmed publicly but currently plans to debut next summer. The device will feature a display with two cameras that can be detached from the wrist for taking pictures and videos that can be shared across Facebook’s suite of apps, including Instagram, The Verge has learned.

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Google used reinforcement learning to design next-gen AI accelerator chips

Venture Beast

In a paper published in the journal Nature, Google detailed its method for creating an AI system capable of designing computer chips. Read More.

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Google Cloud: COVID-19 accelerates AI use by manufacturers

Tech Republic Cloud

76% of executives say they have embraced "digital enablers" like artificial intelligence, data analytics and cloud.

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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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Why it's time to figure out how to keep personal information private, yet useful

Tech Republic Security

One expert suggests ways to reach a happy medium between those who give up sensitive personal information and the organizations that use it.

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Apple may have accidentally confirmed the existence of an M1X MacBook Pro

The Verge

Not the new MacBook Pro, but it does have ports that are tipped to return! Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote came and went this year without a new MacBook Pro — but it looks like that wasn’t the original intent! Intriguingly, Apple quietly included the phrases “M1X MacBook Pro” and “M1X” as tags on its YouTube video of the live keynote, as spotted by Max Balzer (via 9to5Mac ).

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How edge AI can make enterprises more agile

Venture Beast

Edge AI, or AI implemented locally, on edge hardware, can bring about enormous benefits for organizations in key industries. Read More.

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Report shows how billionaires including Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little to no taxes

TechSpot

Using Internal Revenue Service data on the tax returns of some of America’s wealthiest citizens, ProPublica found that the 25 richest people in the US were worth $1.1 trillion as of 2018 and had a combined personal tax bill of $1.9 billion. It would have taken 14.3 million ordinary American.

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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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Mythical Games raises $75M for Blankos Block Party game and playable NFTs

Venture Beast

Mythical Games has raised $75 million to launch its Blankos Block Party open-world multiplayer game and a platform to create games with NFTs. Read More.

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I Would Rather Die Than Let Facebook Monitor My Heart Rate

Gizmodo

Facebook is reportedly developing a smartwatch to take on Apple, and while those of us who have been paying attention to Facebook’s shenanigans for several years now are cringing, clearly there’s a market for Facebook hardware—look at the success of its smart display, Portal. Read more.

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People analytics startup ChartHop raises $35M

Venture Beast

ChartHop, a "people analytics" startup for powering HR operations, has raised $35 million in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Read More.

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Some of macOS Monterey's best features won't work with Intel-based Macs

TechSpot

Apple is great at hyping its latest hardware and software. Craig Federighi showed off this skill leading Apple's opening keynote address for WWDC 2021. Live Text, Universal Control, and detailed 3D maps were played up as must-haves in macOS Monterey. However, there is a catch.

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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.