Fri.Apr 16, 2021

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How To Ensure Your Machine Learning Models Aren't Fooled

Information Week

Machine learning models are not infallible. In order to prevent attackers from exploiting a model, researchers have designed various techniques to make machine learning models more robust.

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Four Mistakes To Avoid In Customer Advocacy Content

Forrester IT

Customer advocacy content has high demand and impact, but B2B organizations need a more intentional, aligned approach to its planning, creation, and use.

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Talk Tech to Me: Automated Configuration Management with Ansible

Association of Information Technology Professional

With the advent of sophisticated data centers and cloud implementations, IT pros need to know how to automate tasks with tools like Ansible.

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Meet Your New Public Cloud, Container, And App Modernization Analyst

Forrester IT

As of March, I joined Forrester’s infrastructure and operations (I&O) team, covering cloud, containers, and modernization and the wider transition to cloud-native computing and practices. It’s a fascinating time to take on this assignment alongside Forrester analysts whom I’ve long admired. I’m eager to get started. By way of introduction, I’ll start with my current […].

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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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Best Guide to Enable ConfigMgr Enhanced HTTP Configuration | SCCM | eHttp

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post Best Guide to Enable ConfigMgr Enhanced HTTP Configuration | SCCM | eHttp appeared first on HTMD Blog by Anoop C Nair.

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Event-Driven Architecture: This Time It’s Not A Fad

Forrester IT

Clients sometimes ask me, “Why is there so much buzz about event-driven architecture (EDA)? This isn’t a new idea.” Indeed, it isn’t new. From complex event processing to the hardware interrupts of the UNIVAC, computers have been responding to events of some sort since the 1950s. But advances in technology and architecture have elevated the […].

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A Privacy Primer For Marketers

Forrester IT

Privacy is firmly in the limelight as businesses weigh in on whether privacy is a human right and legislatures around the world debate new regulations and protections for consumers. Marketers are on the front lines of customer engagement, championing the consumer within the enterprise and taking an active role in privacy discussions. But for marketers who aren’t already privacy […].

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Report: It's not all doom and gloom in cybersecurity with remote workers

Tech Republic Security

Endpoint protection for remote workers is still a huge concern, but one report finds that there may be light at the end of the tunnel as businesses signal they're spending more on user training.

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Positioning For Fast Thinking: Priming Your Buyer To Gain Market Advantage

Forrester IT

Why do so many new products fail? Our fast-thinking brains reject the novel in favor of the familiar. Good positioning capitalizes on fast thinking and making your offering feel familiar to buyers.

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The 10 hottest cloud computing jobs on Indeed

Tech Republic Cloud

If you're looking for job security and salaries averaging over $100,000, it's a good time to gain cloud skills.

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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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Brands: Gauge The Size Of Your Digital Commerce Prize

Forrester IT

All brands need to be selling to and engaging with consumers online. The experiences of the 2020 pandemic have only accelerated consumers’ shift to digital touchpoints. When it comes to brands’ digital commerce opportunity, it is not one size fits all. So, where should brands focus their digital direct-to-consumer (d2c) efforts, and what will each […].

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TCP/IP stack vulnerabilities threaten IoT devices

Network World

A set of vulnerabilities in TCP/IP stacks used by FreeBSD and three popular real-time operating systems designed for the IoT was revealed this week by security vendor Forescout and JSOF Research. The nine vulnerabilities could potentially affect 100 million devices in the wild. Nucleus NET, IPNet and NetX are the other operating systems affected by the vulnerabilities, which a joint report issued by Forescout and JSOF dubbed Name:Wreck.

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European Businesses Must Redouble Their Recovery Efforts For 2021

Forrester IT

European businesses must start preparing for a post-pandemic world. They need to target emerging business growth opportunities, devise a policy for hybrid remote and office working, and plan a way to return to business travel. Boosting employee experiences and employee engagement plays a central role for these endeavors.

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What to consider when shopping for cyber insurance

Tech Republic Security

Cyber insurance is gaining favor in the business world. An expert offers tips on how to get what's needed for the best price.

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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 CompTIA Membership Can Help Evolve Your Business with Emerging Tech and Solutions Selling

Association of Information Technology Professional

By leveraging emerging and innovative technologies, MSPs are making the switch to selling solutions. CompTIA’s communities, technology interest groups and advisory councils are where business leaders are sharing how they are successfully transitioning to offering strategic solutions to customers—and how you can too.

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Update to REvil ransomware changes Windows passwords to automate file encryption via Safe Mode

Tech Republic Security

The ransomware changes the device password to "DTrump4ever" and forces the device to log in automatically after being rebooted.

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Adorable 'Porg' Pterosaur Flapped Above Jurassic China

Gizmodo

As the sun sets over what will become northern China in 160 million years, something small dives between the trunks of tree ferns, intercepting a dragonfly mid-flight. It lands in the canopy to gulp down its squirming prize. The big-eyed, arrestingly cute critter is a newly described species of pterosaur named … Read more.

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Andrew Cuomo and Google’s former CEO push to cap Internet prices for poor New Yorkers

Vox

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is a longtime ally of Andrew Cuomo. | Photo by Alejandra Villa-Pool/Getty Images. The law caps broadband access at $15 a month for low-income New Yorkers. At the beginning of the pandemic, Governor Andrew Cuomo tapped former Google CEO Eric Schmidt to help him pivot New York to the digital age. A year later, Cuomo and Schmidt have unveiled the first major change to state policy: A new law signed Friday to expand internet access to low-income New Yorkers.

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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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New York State just passed a law requiring ISPs to offer $15 broadband

The Verge

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge. Internet should become a lot more affordable in New York after Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that requires all Internet Service Providers operating in New York state to offer a $15 a month broadband option for low-income consumers. According to NY Assembly member Amy Paulin ( via Bloomberg ), the average price of broadband in New York is currently $50.

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New Horizons Captures Goosebump-Inducing Image as It Approaches Milestone Distance From the Sun

Gizmodo

With Pluto firmly in its rearview mirror, New Horizons is now hours away from reaching a milestone distance, in which the probe will be 50 times farther from the Sun than Earth. To commemorate the achievement, the spacecraft performed a task that had never been attempted before at the edge of the solar system. Read more.

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Robinhood can’t handle the Dogecoin rally

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Yesterday and today, the enthusiasm for joke cryptocurrency Dogecoin overwhelmed Robinhood, leading to “sporadic crypto order failures and delayed notifications for some customers,” Robinhood wrote in a blog post. “These interruptions aren’t acceptable to us,” Robinhood wrote in its post. “We believe we’re the most intuitive crypto platform for Dogecoin traders and we’re proud to be a top choice for this community.”.

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Kaytlyn Gerbin is blazing trails in cell science and as an ultrarunner who has conquered Mount Rainier

GeekWire

Kaytlyn Gerbin, left, runs the Wonderland Trail around Mount Rainier. She completed the 93-mile loop in just under 19 hours. Her friend Tara Fraga helped with pacing between miles 30-55. (Ryan Thrower Photo). When Kaytlyn Gerbin moved to Seattle 10 years ago to attend graduate school at the University of Washington, a friend took her to Kerry Park in the Queen Anne neighborhood on her first visit.

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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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Nobody is flying to join Google’s FLoC

The Verge

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge. Google is going it alone with its proposed advertising technology to replace third-party cookies. Every major browser that uses the open source Chromium project has declined to use it, and it’s unclear what that will mean for the future of advertising on the web. A couple of weeks ago, Google announced it was beginning to test a new ad technology inside Google Chrome called the Federated Learning of Cohorts , or FLoC.

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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s continued sales dominance is bad news for Mario Kart 9 hopes

Venture Beast

As Nintendo fans begin to ponder what the company may be revealing during E3, I often see Mario Kart 9 brought up as a possibility. Read More.

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You ever think about how Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC”

The Verge

There’s an Apple event next week , and it’s looking fairly likely that we’ll see updated models of the iPad Pro and perhaps the iPad Mini. Which is great, because it made me think about the Eee PC, which was either one of the greatest short-lived success stories in tech history or a collective delusion shared by a handful of late 2000s tech bloggers that never actually happened.

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The voters will see you now: The finalists for Health Innovation of the Year at the GeekWire Awards

GeekWire

Robbie Cape, CEO of virtual primary care startup 98point6, accepts the award for Health Innovation of the Year in 2019. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota). The greater Seattle area is a hotbed for health technology and the past year has seen groundbreaking advancements in the sector. So it’s little wonder that there’s stiff competition for the 2021 GeekWire Health Innovation of the Year.

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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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Apple Music pays a penny per stream

The Verge

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge. Apple Music’s payment rate for artists and labels is fundamentally a penny per stream, according to a letter from the company posted on its artist dashboard and first reported by the Wall Street Journal. That payment rate is higher than Spotify, which has a confusing variable rate scheme that basically tops out at a half-penny per stream.

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Meet the latest Techstars Seattle cohort: 10 startups on how they’ve adapted to the pandemic

GeekWire

The latest Techstars Seattle cohort kicked off an entirely virtual 3-month startup accelerator journey in January. Unlike the 2020 class, which had to pivot to a remote format in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 participants and Techstars organizers are applying lessons learned from the past year of remote work. Techstars Seattle Managing Director Isaac Kato.

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Amazon adds blindingly obvious Kindle feature to make book covers your lockscreen

The Verge

How to enables the Display Cover feature. | Image: Amazon. Amazon Kindle owners can now set the lockscreen image to the cover of the book they’re reading. The long overdue Display Cover feature, first spotted by Engadget , was previously only available after jailbreaking your device (and a popular motivator to do so). Amazon says that it works with “most books, magazines, comics, and Manga.”.

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Leaked Data Reportedly Shows Cops Donated to Kyle Rittenhouse's Legal Defense Fund

Gizmodo

A new investigation from The Guardian shows police and other public officials have been financially contributing to the legal defense of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 18-year-old “Kenosha shooter” and rightwing icon currently on trial for the deaths of two people. 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.