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Like Night And Day: Twitter’s And Apple’s Contrasting Moves On Accessibility This Week

Forrester IT

Apple and Twitter have both been in the news over the past week because of the actions they’ve taken — or not taken — on accessibility, and the differences between the two are a study in contrasts. Twitter rolled out audio tweets, a feature it claims will “add a more human touch to the way […].

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Digitization, Digitalization, and how both fit into AI Projects

CTOvision

Digitization focuses on the capturing and extraction of value from non-digital data by converting it to a usable digital state. Digitalization expands upon the idea of digitization by addressing human-bound processes and processes […].

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Forecasting In Uncertainty: Warning Signs Inside The SaaS Vendors’ Recent Earnings Reports

Forrester IT

How much will software spending fall during the pandemic recession? The answer to that question has major implications for the US and global tech markets. Software is the second-largest category in the tech market after telecom services and one that also directly feeds tech consulting and systems integration services revenue. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscriptions represent a […].

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SCCM 2002 Site Version Confusion HotFix KB4567007 Update | ConfigMgr

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. After PXE Boot Failures Task Sequence Delays hotfix KB4567007 installation, there are many queries about SCCM 2002 site version. Another confusion was about the status of the post-installation. Let’s understand where all we can check and confirm what is the exact site version numbers of Configuration Manager Current Branch.

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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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Announcing The First Forrester Wave™ Covering Adobe Implementation Services

Forrester IT

My colleague Ted Schadler and I are excited to announce that “The Forrester Wave™: Adobe Implementation Services, Q2 2020” is now live. Following up the previously published Now Tech report, it’s the first time Forrester has evaluated Adobe services providers’ capabilities globally. In our 24-criterion evaluation of Adobe implementation service providers, we identified the 12 most significant ones globally — Accenture, Adobe, Cognizant, Deloitte Digital, […].

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Add New Personal VMs to Existing Host Pool | WVD 2019 Release

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s quickly find out how to add new Personal VMs to Existing Host Pool using WVD 2019 Release. If you are looking for the same feature for WVD 2020 spring release (a.k.a WVD V2), then refer to the following post Add new Session Hosts to Existing Host Pool. The assumption here is all the other […].

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ConfigMgr Custom Report for Firefox Browser | SCCM | SQL Query

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s help to analyze the Mozilla Firefox browser installation using SCCM. ConfigMgr Custom Report for Firefox Browser. Also, try to find out the firefox browser installation using SCCM. Let’s try to create a custom report to find Mozilla Firefox versions installed on Windows 10 devices.

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What your personal identity and data are worth on the Dark Web

Tech Republic Security

Your credit card is worth around $33, your driver's license around $27, and your PayPal account around $42, according to Reviews.org.

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Amazon Honeycode aims to help you build apps without writing code

Tech Republic Cloud

Users can create data-driven mobile and web apps to handle event scheduling, customer relationships, surveys, to-do lists, and inventory tracking, among other tasks.

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Phishing attacks target workers returning to the office

Tech Republic Security

Emails with fake COVID-19 training materials are trying to trick employees into sharing their Microsoft credentials, says Check Point Research.

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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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Why a Master Data Strategy Is Key to Digital Transformation

Information Week

Find out why deploying an effective master data strategy across an enterprise is an important foundation to building a successful digital transformation journey.

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Why organizations should consider HTTPS inspection to find encrypted malware

Tech Republic Security

Some 67% of all malware seen in the first quarter was delivered via HTTPS, according to security firm WatchGuard Technologies.

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How to Select the Best Digital Publishing Platform

Kitaboo

Publishers are always faced with the dilemma of which digital publishing platform to select for their content. With so many digital publishing platforms available, publishers often find it difficult to choose one that best suits their requirements. The best digital publishing platform would be the one which ensures that you can create and publish the content easily, without any difficulty or assistance.

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Expiring security certificates may start shutting down IoT devices

Tech Republic Security

Updating CA root SSL certificates requires updating the firmware on streaming devices, smart devices, routers, cameras, and 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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Salesforce sees low-code as a key way to drive digital transformation in a new normal of remote work

Tech Republic Cloud

Ryan Ellis, SVP of Product Management for Platform at Salesforce, talks to Bill Detwiler about how the company is helping its customers accelerate their digital transformation efforts using a low-code philosophy.

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How to use NGINX as a reverse proxy

Tech Republic Security

A reverse proxy can do wonders for your network and its security. Learn how to configure NGINX to serve this very purpose.

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How to stop your glasses from fogging up when you wear a mask

The Verge

Photo by Gotham/Getty Images. Many people are faithfully wearing masks in order to prevent others from being infected with COVID-19. But while mask-wearing is important for public health, it’s also a big adjustment for a lot of Americans who are adapting to a new garment and sweaty faces. Those of us with glasses have to deal with another problem: fogged-up lenses.

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Three GOP Senators Introduce Bill Experts Say Would Basically Ban End-to-End Encryption

Gizmodo

A trio of Republican senators have introduced a bill that would force tech firms to engineer backdoors into their encryption techniques whenever a judge asks them to—essentially banning encryption that prevents hackers from stealing stored data and end-to-end encryption that prevents anyone but senders and recipients… 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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Russian space officials say Space Adventures has struck a deal to let a customer do a spacewalk

GeekWire

NASA astronaut Mike Fincke conducts a spacewalk in a Russian spacesuit during his stint on the International Space Station in 2004. (NASA Photo). Russian space officials say that they’ve signed off on a commercial deal with Virginia-based Space Adventures to fly two customers to the International Space Station in 2023 — and that one of the customers will get to do a spacewalk.

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DOJ's New WikiLeaks Indictment Has Significant, Convenient Plot Holes

Gizmodo

In its push to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from the U.K., the U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday published a superseding indictment aimed at broadening “the scope of the conspiracy surrounding alleged computer intrusions with which Assange was previously charged.” The names of certain organizations… Read more.

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FBI: Online crimes increasing in Florida, California, Texas, Ohio, and New York

Tech Republic Security

Analysis of FBI data found that nearly $2 billion was stolen from US victims in 2019 just from business email compromise.

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Goldman Sachs releases new font you’re not allowed to criticize Goldman Sachs with

The Verge

Yes, that’s Goldman Sans. And yes, that happened. | Image: The Verge. Investment bank Goldman Sachs has released its very own typeface: an inoffensive set of sans-serif fonts dubbed Goldman Sans. But in the spirit of bankers everywhere, these fonts come with a catch in the contract. As their license states , you’re free to use Goldman Sans for just about anything you like so long as you don’t use it to criticize Goldman Sachs.

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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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Two Washington state students among 100 winners of ‘Amazon Future Engineer’ $40,000 scholarships

GeekWire

Amazon Future Engineer college scholarship winners from Washignton state, Preston Rivas, left, and Zoe Lewis-Shunk. (Photos courtesy of Rivas and Lewis-Shunk). Two Washington state students are among 100 winners of Amazon Future Engineer college scholarships, the company announced this week. This is the second year that Amazon has selected high school students from across the U.S. to receive $40,000 to study computer science at the college of their choice.

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NASA names headquarters after Mary Jackson, the agency’s first Black female engineer

The Verge

Jackson’s career at NASA began at the then-segregated West Area Computing Unit. | Image: NASA. NASA has announced it will name its headquarters in Washington DC after the agency’s first Black female engineer, Mary Jackson. Jackson started work at NASA’s predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), in 1951 at the then-segregated West Area Computing Unit.

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Sexual abuse allegations rock the game industry again

Venture Beast

The game industry reached a new boiling point this week as scores of people in the game industry made allegations of sexual assault, rape, and harassment. Read More.

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Apparently It’s Sue Big Oil Week

Gizmodo

It’s lawsuit week for Big Oil. A day after Minnesota filed a groundbreaking suit , Washington, DC District Attorney General Karl Racine sued ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, and Shell, alleging that the companies “systematically and intentionally misled consumers. about the central role their products play in causing… 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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Apple’s AI plan: a thousand small conveniences

The Verge

Among the new AI features Apple announced at WWDC is hand washing detection for the Apple Watch. | Image: Apple. AI has become an integral part of every tech company’s pitch to consumers. Fail to hype up machine learning or neural networks when unveiling a new product, and you might as well be hawking hand-cranked calculators. This can lead to overpromising.

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Allen Institute will host $40.5M brain research center to map the effects of Alzheimer’s disease

GeekWire

This image shows a section of one hemisphere of a healthy brain from an older person at left,and a brain with advanced Alzheimer’s disease at right. (UW Medicine Photo). A $40.5 million collaborative research center headquartered at Seattle’s Allen Institute aims to create high-resolution maps of brains ravaged by Alzheimer’s disease, to trace new paths to early diagnosis and treatment.

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Netflix greenlights anime series based on Cyberpunk 2077

TechSpot

CD Projekt Red tossed fans a few bones today to make up for the delays of Cyberpunk 2077. During the Night City Wire stream, the devs had some updates on gameplay and a couple of new trailers to show off. But they weren't finished with the surprises when the show.

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Facebook releases AI development tool based on NetHack

Venture Beast

Facebook released the NetHack Learning Environment, a research tool based on the game NetHack that's designed to benchmark and train AI agents. 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.