Thu.Aug 20, 2020

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Marketplaces Make Their Mark In The Channel

Forrester IT

Online marketplaces have been around in one form or another for decades. Accelerating the trend is a myriad of factors including changing buying behaviors and demographics, companies shifting to subscription and consumption models, and the rising importance of ecosystems. Put simply, the future business buyer will look more and more like a consumer.

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Combating Insider Threats Posed by Remote Workers in the Time of COVID-19

CTOvision

Read Jeffrey N. Rosenthal and David J. Oberly’s article about how companies can combat insider threat through remote workers on Law: Insider threats—i.e., security risks originating from within an organization—have […].

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Pandemic-Era CDOs Represent The Whole Team: Not “Offense” Or “Defense”

Forrester IT

If one more industry pundit tells me that the chief data officer (CDO) role has shifted from defensive to offensive positioning, I just might scream — or get pretty offensive myself. It’s not about offense and defense. One team is not running off the field as the other runs on (as I envision the metaphor). […].

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How to Stay Secure on GitHub

CTOvision

Read Curtis Franklin Jr. explain how you can stay secure on GitHub on Dark Reading : Open source software is a fact of life for enterprise software developers, and GitHub […].

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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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Data Insights Bear Fruit For The Food Industry

Forrester IT

The pandemic has impacted individual companies and industries very differently. Restaurants have been closed, while grocery stores have been overwhelmed with demand. Those who have capitalized on the opportunity by expanding their e-commerce have shifted into high gear, with revenue growth to match. To discuss some of the opportunities and challenges facing the grocery industry, […].

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Stress, Age Play Role in Cyber Mistakes

CTOvision

Read Sue Poremba explain how stress and age can play a huge role in cybersecurity human errors on Security Boulevard : Human error is known to play a major role […].

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What is the cost of a data breach?

CTOvision

The average cost of a data breach has declined by 1.5% year-over-year, costing companies US$3.86 million per incident, according to IBM’s 2020 Cost of a Data Breach Report. The annual […].

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SCCM Secondary Site Maintenance Tasks | List | ConfigMgr | SQL Query

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Well, SCCM secondary site maintenance tasks are not discussed much. I thought of covering a very high-level view of predefined maintenance tasks for a Configuration Manager secondary site server. The predefined maintenance tasks are the clean-up tasks that help ConfigMgr DB to remove unwanted or obsolete data from the SQL Database.

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Large Orgs Plagued with Bugs, Face Giant Patch Backlogs

CTOvision

Large companies find an average of 779,935 individual security bugs when running routine vulnerability scans; and over the course of six months, an average of 28 percent of those vulnerabilities […].

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How the shift to remote working has impacted cybersecurity

Tech Republic Security

Cybercriminals have adapted by exploiting improperly secured VPNs, cloud-based services, and business email, says Malwarebytes.

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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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Health Passports Fast Track Past the Hype

Information Week

With the COVID-19 pandemic triggering innovation, some emerging technologies are being implemented now, even as most emerging tech takes 5 to 10 years before hitting that plateau of productivity.

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CISOs should put ad fraud security on their radars

Tech Republic Security

Digital advertising has vulnerabilities, and this type of cybercrime will cost businesses $100 million a day by 2023, but goes almost completely unnoticed, according to adtech company TrafficGuard.

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The importance of customer feedback when designing a product.

Spearline Testing

The role of the Product Manager is a vital one in the product pipeline. The Product Manager is responsible for guiding the success of a product and influencing the teams responsible for building or improving it. The role itself can be a complicated one as the manager must ensure that the products they are designing not only fall in line with the business requirements and goals but also meet the user needs versus reacting to the user wants. “Ultimately we're designing these products for

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University CISOs say zero trust is the best defense against the existential threat of phishing

Tech Republic Security

Stanford has replaced logins and passwords with a digital key to improve endpoint security.

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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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Incredible Fossil Shows a Sea Monster in the Belly of an Even Bigger Sea Monster

Gizmodo

As the Jedi master Qui-Gon Jinn once said, “There’s always a bigger fish.” Or in the case of the Triassic Period, there’s always a bigger aquatic reptile, as this incredible fossil demonstrates. Read more.

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How coronavirus-related telework is changing the enterprise, and how to respond

Tech Republic Security

Security vendor Fortinet found several important similarities between how enterprises responded, and how they plan to adapt, to a future of remote work.

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Epic to host a #FreeFortnite tournament with anti-Apple prizes

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Fortnite -maker Epic Games and Apple are currently embroiled in a public battle over Apple’s App Store policies, and in the latest move in the dispute, Epic has announced a Fortnite tournament taking place August 23rd where players can compete to win anti-Apple prizes. Last week, Epic added a new direct payment system to Fortnite in violation of Apple’s policies.

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Bank of America, Daimler, and Apple partnering with IBM for confidential computing services

Tech Republic Security

A push to provide public cloud services with production-ready confidential computing capabilities able to protect data, applications, and processes.

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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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Amazon envisions aerial drones pulling skiers and surfers across water, new patent filing reveals

GeekWire

(U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Image). Amazon isn’t just thinking about delivery with its drones. The new patent made public this week reveals an idea for a drone-powered towing system designed for skiers, surfers, skaters, and more. “While there are various known uses for unmanned aerial vehicles, certain techniques for controlling the unmanned aerial vehicles are relatively limiting with respect to other uses,” according to the patent filing , originally filed in June 2016

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Tesla is working on a sensor that can detect a child left behind in a hot car

The Verge

Photo credit should read WANG ZHAO/AFP via Getty Images. Tesla is working on a new motion-detection sensor that could detect a child left behind in a hot car. According to Reuters , the company is seeking approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to market the technology, which would use unlicensed millimeter-wave radar sensors designed to operate at higher power levels than allowed under existing rules.

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Florida Plans to Fix Its Mosquito Problem With 750 Million More Mosquitoes

Gizmodo

Hundreds of millions of mosquitos will soon be released in Florida. On purpose. The mosquitoes are being released as a form of pest control, but they could wreak havoc on local ecosystems. And honestly, just the thought of it makes my ankles itch. Read more.

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Blue Origin and its partners deliver a lunar lander mock-up for NASA to try out

GeekWire

An engineering mock-up of the crew lander vehicle designed by Blue Origin and its partners stands tall inside Building 9 at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas. (Blue Origin Photo). An all-star space industry team led by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has assembled a mock-up of its proposed lunar lander right where it’ll do the most good, in a training area at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas.

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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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How to install the Proxmox Virtual Environment virtualization management solution

Tech Republic Data Center

Looking for a powerful, web-based virtual machine management platform? Jack Wallen walks you through the process of installing the Proxmox Virtual Environment.

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Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence’s new fund makes first investment, backing Panda AI

GeekWire

Aaron Goldfeder and Yue Ning, co-founders of Panda AI. (Panda AI Photos). Panda AI announced an investment from the new fund out of Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2). GeekWire first reported about the stealthy Seattle startup back in June. The company spun out of AI2 and is the first to land cash from the organization’s pre-seed fund.

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Gmail, Docs, Drive, and more Google services hit by widespread disruption

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. A number of Google services including Gmail, Drive, Docs, Meet, Groups, Chat, Keep and Voice are experiencing service disruptions, the company is reporting on its G Suite Status Dashboard. We’ve verified that file uploads are failing across Google’s services, including uploading attachments in Gmail to both personal and G Suite gmail accounts.

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IBM uses AI to evaluate risk of developing genetic diseases

Venture Beast

In a Nature Communications study, researchers at IBM, the Broad Institute, and Color find genetic mutations aren't always useful predictors of disease. 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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Led by former Convoy exec, new Seattle recruiting startup Candidate lands $1M to rethink referrals

GeekWire

Candidate employees, clockwise from top left: Chris Kohout, Ryan Agresta, Abby Woodard, Stephanie Bai, Matt Rubright, and Emma Turin. A new Seattle startup is gaining traction and investor attention for its business idea that rethinks the job candidate referral process. Candidate CEO Ryan Agresta. (Candidate Photo). Candidate is helping early-stage startups across the country fill positions with a unique model that extends employee referrals beyond a company’s internal network.

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iFarm Raises $4 million to automate urban farming with AI and drones

Venture Beast

iFarm has raised $4 million to expand its automated system that uses AI and drones to help farmers grow fruits and vegetables in enclosed spaces. Read More.

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California’s Prison Covid-19 Outbreak Isn’t Behind Its Firefighter Shortage

Gizmodo

Wildfires are raging across California , but the state lacks critical firefighting resources to adequately address the severity of the crisis. In light of the coronavirus pandemic and a worse-than-usual wildfire season, wildland fighting agencies across the U.S. knew they’d be in for a challenging summer. However,… Read more.

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Microsoft Flight Simulator could push PC-hardware spending to $2.6 billion

Venture Beast

Microsoft Flight Simulator could encourage a huge increase in spending on PC due to its appeal to affluent gamers who love to buy next hardware. 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.