Fri.Jan 12, 2018

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Computer science is fastest-growing subject for undergraduates

Computer Weekly

Computer science is the fastest-growing subject for undergraduate intake in UK universities, according to 2017 statistics

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Agile Marketing Based on Analytical Data Insights: Improving Scrum Tactics in Brand Outreach

Eric D. Brown

This post is written by Mathias Lanni (Executive VP, Marketing – Velocidi). Agile management and scrum-style techniques have long been accepted in fields of technology development, but have been increasingly adopted outside the tech industry over the years. Fundamentally, agile tactics are a way for organizations to more quickly adapt to quickly-changing markets and customer demands, without the slow-to-change hidebound nature of top-down hierarchical organizations impeding change.

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F-Secure highlights another critical Intel security issue

Computer Weekly

As Intel scrambles to issue security updates to address the Meltdown and Spectre exploits, researchers have highlighted another, unrelated, critical security issue that could affect millions of corporate laptops

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2018 state of resilience: The pressure is on

Network World

As we swerve onto the runway in 2018, IT leaders are finding themselves under increased pressure to ensure security, high availability and disaster recovery for the applications and systems under their care. The results of several surveys underscore the concerns of nearly 6,000 IT professionals around the globe. These surveys, conducted in 2017 by Vision Solutions, now part of Syncsort , collected responses from 5,632 professionals to determine their key business continuity concerns and their st

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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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Intel makes security-first pledge

Computer Weekly

As it scrambles to deal with the Meltdown and Spectre processor exploits, Intel has made a series of security commitments

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Wi-Fi Alliance announces WPA3 to secure modern networks

Network World

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is an odd place to announce an enterprise product, but the Wi-Fi Alliance used the massive trade show — which has more or less taken over where Comdex left off — to announce a major upgrade to Wi-Fi security. The alliance announced the Wi-Fi Protected Access 3 (WPA3) , a new standard of Wi-Fi security that greatly increases the security capabilities of the wireless standard.

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Windows 10 1709 Semi Annual CBB Ready for Broad Deployment

Anoop

Microsoft is all set to release Windows 10 1709 CBB (Semi-Annual) version to start broad deployment. This information was shared by Microsoft here. Can we start downloading Windows 10 1710 CBB (Semi-Annual) version now? No, Windows 10 1710 CBB (Semi-Annual) version won’t be available in MSDN or VLSC until 22nd Jan 2018. “Refreshed media will be […].

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Call for statutory regulation of police number plate cameras amid concerns over accuracy

Computer Weekly

The UK’s automatic number plate recognition database – one the largest non-military data-gathering systems – records up to 1.2 million false readings of number plates every day.

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Issue with VMware-Formatted Cumulus VX Vagrant Box

Scott Lowe

I recently had a need to revisit the use of Cumulus VX (the Cumulus Networks virtual appliance running Cumulus Linux) in a Vagrant environment, and I wanted to be sure to test what I was doing on multiple virtualization platforms. Via Vagrant Cloud , Cumulus distributes VirtualBox and Libvirt versions of Cumulus VX, and there is a slightly older version that also provides a VMware -formatted box.

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Alan Turing Institute to add universities of Birmingham and Exeter to data science network

Computer Weekly

The Alan Turing Institute has announced the latest two universities to join its data science research network

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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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INFOGRAPHIC: Will cybercrime make the internet safer?

Dataconomy

Many people look at the world as a zero sum game. When one person wins, it’s because someone else had to lose. The same principles are often applied to infosecurity. If you are winning at infosecurity, it is because someone else is losing. Cybercrime is so rampant – and both. The post INFOGRAPHIC: Will cybercrime make the internet safer? appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Check Point finds AdultSwine malware in Google Play apps

Computer Weekly

Security researchers have discovered new malware code hidden in game apps, mainly aimed at youngsters

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Adaptability is not just a soft Skill, but a hard Capability

Future of CIO

While turbulence is not new, and uncertainty is the new normal. Adaptability is to be understood as the ability of systems or people adapts themselves smoothly and fast to changed circumstances. Adaptation is an inherent characteristic of humans to survive. Self-adaptation is a phenomenon strictly linked to see learning and knowledge increases if shared and consumed.

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