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Analyze This: CompTIA’s New Data Analytics Certification

Association of Information Technology Professional

Next year, CompTIA will launch a new data analytics certification, CompTIA Data+. Learn about it and how data analytics skills can help advance your career.

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3 tips for mitigating cloud-related cybersecurity risks

Tech Republic Security

Find out why cloud computing is leading IT security pros to reevaluate their in-house cybersecurity practices as well as resources provided by managed service providers.

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ConfigMgr Renew One or more Azure AD App Secrets used by Cloud Services | SCCM

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post ConfigMgr Renew One or more Azure AD App Secrets used by Cloud Services | SCCM appeared first on HTMD Device Management by Anoop C Nair.

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Business email compromise scams proved costly to victims in 2020

Tech Republic Security

The FBI received more than 19,000 complaints of business email compromises last year, costing victims around $1.8 billion.

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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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Common AI Ethics Mistakes Companies Are Making

Information Week

More organizations are embracing the concept of responsible AI, but faulty assumptions can impede success.

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PS5 phishing scam baits gamers with promise of free console

Tech Republic Security

Scammers are taking advantage of a shortage of Sony PlayStation 5 consoles to try to hoodwink people eager to snag one, says Kaspersky.

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Intel’s version of a MacBook Pro looks even better than a real one

The Verge

Image: Intel. Intel launched a new ad campaign starring Justin Long, Apple’s “I’m a Mac” actor, but for this campaign, Long is singing the praises of PC laptops and comparing them to MacBooks. The thing is, for reasons that we can’t quite figure out, Intel actually made the MacBook Pros in its commercials look better than they do in real life, as spotted by tech YouTuber Rene Ritchie.

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Developer behind the FlickType Watch app sues Apple for anticompetitive behavior

TechSpot

Last month, Kosta Eleftheriou, the mobile app developer behind the popular Apple Watch keyboard app FlickType for the visually impaired wrote a scathing Twitter thread on the current state of the App Store. In it, Eleftheriou criticized Apple for not properly enforcing App Store rules, which has allowed several scam.

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Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger have recovered from a major outage

The Verge

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. Facebook has resolved a major outage affecting Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and other Facebook services on Friday, according to a statement shared with The Telegraph’s Margi Murphy. “Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have trouble accessing some Facebook services,” Facebook said.

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Seattle real estate startup Modus hit with cease-and-desist order by insurance commissioner

GeekWire

Modus CEO Alexander Day; co-founder Jai Sim; and Abbas Guvenilir. (Modus Photo). Seattle startup Modus is facing a cease-and-desist order from the Washington state insurance commissioner for allegedly violating real estate regulations. Modus digitizes and automates the title and escrow phase of closing on a home. The company was recently acquired by Compass, the New York-based real estate giant that filed for an IPO earlier this month.

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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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Inspired by Alabama Coworkers, Amazon Employees Nationwide Begin Union Talks: Report

Gizmodo

A slew of Amazon workers in Baltimore, New Orleans, Portland, Denver, and Southern California are looking into unionizing, emboldened by their Alabama coworkers’ high-profile union campaign , Bloomberg reported Friday. Read more.

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Why machine learning struggles with causality

Venture Beast

Humans intuitively understand causality; AI struggles. Researchers look at how to create AI systems that can learn causal representations. Read More.

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Physicists Discover the Elusive Odderon, First Predicted 50 Years Ago

Gizmodo

Scientists are celebrating the long-sought discovery of the odderon, a strange phenomenon that appears only rarely when protons collide at high energies, such as inside particle accelerators. Though the odderon was first predicted to exist in the early 1970s, it wasn’t until recently that physicists finally gathered… Read more.

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The uneasy intimacy of work in a pandemic year

Vox

Yeyei Gómez for Vox. How capitalism and the pandemic destroyed our work-life balance. As we confront the one-year anniversary of the US locking down in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, we are also confronting the one-year anniversary of America choosing work above all else. Many of us stopped seeing our families and friends, while accepting without question the idea that we would not stop working.

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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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Seattle stem cell startup Curi Bio raises $6M

GeekWire

Curi Bio Chief Business Officer Elliot Fisher and CEO Michael Cho. (Curi Bio Photos). New funding: Curi Bio raised $6 million to further develop its human stem cell-based platforms for drug discovery. Dynamk Capital led the Series A round. Company background: The Seattle startup, previously known as NanoSurface Biomedical, aims to provide drug developers with human-relevant cells, systems, and data to speed up the drug discovery process in the cardiac, skeletal muscle, and neuromuscular fields.

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Substack writers are mad at Substack. The problem is money and who’s making it.

Vox

Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images. The newsletter startup’s new controversy, explained. Jude Doyle has been publishing a Substack newsletter since 2018, not long after the startup launched. This week, the writer, described in their website bio as a “non-binary author, columnist, and all-around weirdo,” announced that they were leaving and setting up shop at Ghost, a nonprofit publishing platform.

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Bottomless raises $4.5M as Seattle startup grows team and business around smart coffee platform

GeekWire

(Bottomless Photo). New funding: Bottomless , the small Seattle startup with big e-commerce dreams, has raised $4.5 million in a new Series A funding round to help with the continued growth of its business, built around a smart scale and coffee subscription platform. How it works: Created by husband-and-wife team Michael Mayer and Liana Herrera four years ago, Bottomless combines its WiFi-enabled, rechargeable coffee scale and machine learning to make sure you never run out of fresh coffee beans

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Long-Dormant Volcano in Iceland Awakens in Fiery Eruption

Gizmodo

A long-dormant volcano erupted on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula on Friday, shooting a fountain of lava that lit the night sky roughly 19 miles (30 kilometers) southwest of the nation’s capital, the Icelandic Meteorological Office reported Friday. The eruption, estimated to be the peninsula’s first in almost 800 years,… 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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How adaptive computing solves AI productization challenges

Venture Beast

The software industry has been successful in deploying AI in production, but hardware is still in its infancy in terms of AI productization. Read More.

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Vergecast: The Snyder Cut, Samsung Unpacked 2021, and this week in EVs

The Verge

Zack Snyder’s Justice League on 12.9” iPad Pro | Dan Seifert. Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast The Vergecast , where we discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering our biggest stories. This week, co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn chat with Verge reporter Julia Alexander about the long-awaited release of the Zack Snyder version of Justice League on HBO Max.

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PaperCut Mobility Print: How to share a printer

Tech Republic Cloud

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of sharing a printer to the devices on your LAN with PaperCut Mobility Print.

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Google adds accessibility-focused 'Live Caption' feature to Chrome

TechSpot

That means podcasts, social media, video sites, "radio content," and most browser-based video or audio chat services and clients will be supported, even if they already have built-in captioning tech. Obviously, you shouldn't expect perfection here, but it seems to work well enough, and it's certainly a step forward for.

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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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Want to be an ethical hacker? Take these cybersecurity courses

Tech Republic Security

In these 18 online training courses on ethical hacking, cybersecurity pros will teach you about creating projects with Python, bug bounty hunting, Kali Linux hacker tools and much more.

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The DeanBeat: #StopAsianHate by making us more visible

Venture Beast

Game developers can help #StopAsianHate by making Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders more visible in video games. Read More.

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Facebook wants us to control its AR glasses with electrical impulses from our minds

TechSpot

Facebook has been seriously working on augmented reality technology since as at least 2019. Last year, it revealed it has a working AR "research platform" it calls "Project Aria." The latest fruit of that work is a conceptual wristband controller that reads users' nerve signals.

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Bills Gates returns to Reddit for meaty discussion on climate, COVID-19, conspiracies and burgers

GeekWire

Bill Gates on Friday during his Reddit AMA. (Gates Notes Photo). Bill Gates masked up for his ninth “Ask Me Anything” event on Reddit on Friday, taking questions related to climate change, vaccines, conspiracy theories, meatless burgers and more. The Microsoft co-founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been promoting his latest book, “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” and he said in his introduction to the AMA that “there’s been exciting

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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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Barnes & Noble's Nook Sidesteps the Grave Once Again With a New Lenovo-Built Tablet

Gizmodo

For years, news of Barnes & Noble’s Nook line of e-readers and Android tablet being discontinued have surfaced again and again, but somehow the little-brand-that-could defies its own death with new hardware that brings it back from the brink of extinction. Today that comes in the form of a new 10-inch Nook tablet … Read more.

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How to use semanage and avoid disabling SELinux

Tech Republic Security

Jack Wallen introduces you to three semanage commands that will help make dealing with SELinux considerably easier.

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How Star Wars' New Anthology Will Explore Holiday Cheer in the Galaxy Far, Far Away

Gizmodo

The United States may have just groggily awoken from a week of missed alarms after rolling the clocks forward for spring, but the galaxy far, far away is already looking to the festive times of winter. What better way to celebrate the holidays than with tales of folklore from across the stars? Read more.

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Gucci designed virtual sneakers for hypebeasts in Roblox and VRChat

The Verge

Gucci is diving into virtual luxury footwear with a new exclusively digital pair of sneakers called The Gucci Virtual 25 that can be “worn” in augmented reality (AR) or used in partnered apps like Roblox and VRChat. Surprisingly, the shoes are a lot less expensive than a typical Gucci piece: you can buy the Virtual 25s from Gucci’s app for $12.99, or $8.99 in the Wanna Kicks AR sneaker app.

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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.