Tue.Mar 16, 2021

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Get The Content You Need From Global Campaigns

Forrester IT

Building a global campaign content strategy that works across local markets is a challenge for most B2B marketing organisations. In her latest blog post and upcoming webinar, Lisa Gately outlines how regional marketers can drive the conversation in three areas to improve audience-centricity, decision-making, and content collaboration.

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ConfigMgr CMPivot Logs | Background Process Guide | SCCM

Anoop

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Vaccines bring hope but new challenges arise

Forrester IT

Two words describe the current situation as the world battles to eradicate the COVID-19 pandemic: hope and uncertainty. The good news is that there are now multiple vaccines paving the path to an eventual recovery of social and economic activity lost to the pandemic since 2020. However, it will not be an easy path due to tremendous challenges ranging from supply chain and distribution difficulties to ethical and policy-related concerns.

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Finding the Right Balance of On-Site and At-Home IT Workers

Information Week

Some IT staffers don't want to come back to the office, while others can't wait to return. Here's how IT leaders can plan for a split workforce in a post-pandemic workplace.

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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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Stay Vigilant Of The 2021 Threat Landscape And Help Your Org Prepare For “The Next Normal”

Forrester IT

Earlier this month, a US State Department spokeswoman announced that the US had identified three online publications that were attempting to discredit the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, all of which were directed by Russian intelligence. In Forrester’s annual report on top security threats, we explore the top security threats that security professionals must monitor, including […].

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AI One Year Later: How the Pandemic Impacted the Future of Technology

Information Week

With changing behaviors of consumers and the operational needs of companies, artificial intelligence has become a business enabler.

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Gartner: Top 10 data and analytics technology trends for 2021

Tech Republic Cloud

The pandemic forced D&A leaders to step up research and analysis to respond effectively to change and uncertainty, the firm says.

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The Collision of Precision And Persuasion: Rethink The Customer Lifecycle

Forrester IT

The separation of media and creative execution 40 years ago sent the advertising industry spiraling. Advertising’s perception has devolved from entertaining to annoying, investment to commodity, channels organized to communication everywhere, audiences obtainable to users elusive. Savvy marketers are actively seeking solutions to join the lower and upper funnel of marketing as a means to […].

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McAfee uncovers espionage campaign aimed at major telecommunication companies

Tech Republic Security

The security company said the attacks were attributed to RedDelta and Mustang Panda, both of which are allegedly based in China.

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Ransomware: How to make sure backups are ready for a real attack

Network World

The best way to avoid paying ransom to attackers who have infected your systems with ransomware is to have those systems adequately backed up so you can wipe them and restore them from safe backups. Here are several options for making sure those backups are up to the task. In this article, backup refers to any system that you're going to use to respond to a ransomware attack, including old-school backup systems, replication systems, and modern hybrid systems that support backup and disaster reco

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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 traditional malware detection can't stop the latest security threats

Tech Republic Security

Isolating your hardware and your applications is a more effective way to prevent malware from infecting your critical endpoints, says HP.

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SMBs Aren’t Prepared for a Cyber Event: Here's How to Fix That

Association of Information Technology Professional

Potential ramifications from the SolarWinds data breach are enough to keep leading cyber executives up at night—especially since many SMBs (and the MSPs serving them) aren't prepared to respond to a major event. Here's how to help.

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99.2% of US government Android users are running outdated OS versions

Tech Republic Security

Some versions of Android in use by government employees go all the way back to 2017's Android 8, and that's a huge cybersecurity problem.

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4 Pillars to Build Your Tech Business in 2021

Association of Information Technology Professional

Cybersecurity, emerging technology, solution selling, and workforce dynamics are the key trends tech firms should be embracing, according to Nancy Hammervik, executive vice president of industry relations at CompTIA, and CEO of the CompTIA Tech Career Academy, who kicked off the virtual 2021 CompTIA Communities and Councils Forum.

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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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How Salesforce is evolving Work.com into an employee relationship and IT service management tool

Tech Republic Cloud

TechRepublic's Bill Detwiler talks with Jodi Innerfield, Director of Product Marketing at Salesforce, about Work.com's transformation from a tool that helps businesses reopen safely during the COVID-19 pandemic to an employee relationship and IT service management platform.

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Bitwarden: How to enable biometric login

Tech Republic Security

If you'd rather not have to enter your password every time you open the Bitwarden password manager on your mobile device, Jack Wallen shows you how to enable biometric login.

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Simplifying the mystery: When to use docker, docker-compose, and Kubernetes

Tech Republic Data Center

Jack Wallen attempts to demystify the difference between three important container technologies with a nod to simplicity.

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Salesforce Work.com: General availability of employee relationship and IT service management updates push the product and company into new territory

Tech Republic Cloud

With Work.com Employee Workspace, Employee Concierge and IT Service Center, Salesforce wants to help companies build better employee relationships.

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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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Instagram will no longer let adults message teens who don’t follow them

The Verge

Adults are now unable to message teenage users that don’t follow them. | Image: Instagram. Instagram is introducing new policies limiting interactions between teenagers and adults to make its platform safer for young users. The app has banned adults from direct messaging teenagers who don’t follow them and is introducing “safety prompts” that will be shown to teens when they DM adults who have been “exhibiting potentially suspicious behavior.”.

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Microsoft acquires The Marsden Group, a rapid tech innovation and prototyping company

GeekWire

(Amy Sacka Photo via Microsoft). Microsoft is acquiring The Marsden Group , a leader in industrial technology innovation and rapid prototyping, the tech giant announced Tuesday. In industries such as manufacturing, automotive and logistics, Microsoft says the acquisition will help customers experiment and find solutions quickly through such services as its cloud, edge and artificial intelligence products.

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Security firm releases free Purple Knight tool to spot weaknesses in Active Directory

Tech Republic Security

The AD report card scores the security of Group Policies, Kerberos security and AD infrastructure.

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Cannabis retail tech startup Dutchie valued at $1.7B after raising $200M

GeekWire

Dutchie co-founders Ross Lipson, left, and his brother Zach Lipson. (Dutchie Photo). Dutchie , the Bend, Ore.-based creators of an e-commerce platform that helps cannabis dispensaries facilitate online orders, has raised $200 million in new funding at a $1.7 billion valuation. The fresh cash comes on the heels of a $35 million round raised in July, when the company was valued at $205 million, according to PitchBook.

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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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Microsoft will remove some Windows 10 bloatware from fresh installs in an upcoming update

TechSpot

This means that post-Sun Valley, any time you reinstall Windows 10 on your computer or install it for the first time on a different device, you'll no longer see 3D Viewer and Paint 3D in the list of pre-installed apps.

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Google will reduce Play Store cut to 15 percent for a developer’s first $1M in annual revenue

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Google is reducing its long-standing 30 percent cut, which it takes from each Play Store digital purchase for all Android developers around the world, on the first $1 million they make on the digital storefront each year, starting on July 1st. According to Google, that change means that 99 percent of Android developers that “that sell digital goods or services” will see a 50 percent reduction in fees.

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Benchmarks showcase impressive DDR5-4800 RAM performance

TechSpot

Earlier today, Intel announced its 11th-gen Rocket Lake CPUs, solid performers that will come at more affordable price points than AMD's Ryzen 5000 series CPUs. However, they are a dead end for LGA 1200 motherboards, which also means they don't support DDR5 memory, and are limited to the now mature DDR4 technology.

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Datagen emerges from stealth to create synthetic datasets for computer vision models

Venture Beast

Datagen, which taps AI to create synthetic training datasets for computer vision systems, emerged from stealth with $18.5 million in funding. Read More.

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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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Nvidia confirms it accidentally unlocked RTX 3060 Ethereum mining

The Verge

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge. Nvidia made a big deal about reducing the hash rate of Ethereum mining on its new RTX 3060 graphics card last month. A special system was supposed to make the RTX 3060 undesirable for cryptominers, but Nvidia has now confirmed that it has accidentally unlocked those restrictions with a new driver. “A developer driver inadvertently included code used for internal development which removes the hash rate limiter on RTX 3060 in some configurations,” says an Nvidia sp

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Parler's Horrible Reboot Is Courtesy of 'Big Checks' From GOP Mega-Donor Rebekah Mercer

Gizmodo

Parler, the right-wing social network that was hounded off the web after many of its users predictably used the site to organize and stream the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, is doubling down on being worse on the dime of its ultra-conservative board chairwoman Rebekah Mercer, according to a Tuesday report by Bloomberg. Read more.

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Google’s new Nest Hub tells you how well you slept last night

The Verge

Google’s new Nest Hub looks very similar to the prior model, but adds advanced sleep tracking features. | Photo: Google. Google has announced a new version of its Nest Hub smart display. The updated Nest Hub includes several enhancements over the model that debuted as the Home Hub in 2018 , including a refined design, faster processor, and louder speaker.

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AMD means business with latest Epyc and Ryzen Pro CPU launches

TechSpot

Rarely has this been more evident than with the back-to-back launches of its latest 3rd-gen Epyc server CPUs and its Ryzen Pro 5000 series mobile processors for enterprise notebooks.

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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.