Mon.Nov 27, 2017

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My brother Lauri Love should have the right to a trial in the UK

Computer Weekly

Lauri Love should face trial over hacking allegations in a British Court, rather than be extradited to the US, where his extraordinary skills will be lost to society, says his younger sister

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What to Know About ERP Security

IT Toolbox

Security for your ERP system starts with the system itself and needs to extend down through the operating system to the bare iron. While, it’s not top-of-mind, security is critical – as a couple of cases making the evening news demonstrate. Security is a job, but it doesn’t have to be a major time sink.

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Deployment complexity stops enterprises making most of multi-cloud, says 451 Research

Computer Weekly

Data from 451 Research suggests the growing range and complexity of service providers’ product portfolios could make it harder for enterprises to reap multi-cloud rewards

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Remembering Banyan VINES-Part 4

IT Toolbox

The routing option enabled VINES servers to route IP traffic via 802.3 (Ethernet) and 802.5 (Token Ring). For incoming TCP/IP packets destined for an address on the VINES network, the routing option encapsulated the TCP/IP packet in a VINES packet.

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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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UK sale of surveillance equipment to Macedonia raises questions over export licence policy

Computer Weekly

The UK, with the involvement of a senior government minister, approved an export licence for the sale of sophisticated surveillance equipment from a UK-based company to the Republic of Macedonia – while the country was engaged in an illegal surveillance programme against its citizens

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Is the love of science dying?

IT Toolbox

It seems that the death knell has been slowly tolling for science and the volume of this knell is ever so slowly but surely increasing. I am seeing more and more stories, reports and even first-hand experiences of people outright rejecting science simply because they just can't grasp the concepts of it.

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6 River Systems Achieves Seamless Communication with Manufacturing Partner for Development of Next Generation Warehouse Robotic Platform

IT Toolbox

6 River Systems Achieves Seamless Communication with Manufacturing Partner for Development of Next Generation Warehouse Robotic Platform. Company. 6 River Systems is a warehouse robotics startup disrupting a one hundred-billion-dollar industry with a new approach to warehouse automation.

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Norway’s print media responds to digital threats

Computer Weekly

Subscription-based models are among the tactics being deployed by Norway’s print media organisations as they react to the digital threat to their traditional income streams

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Scrum Transition Journal: Grooming Woes Part 1

IT Toolbox

I've been writing about the process of shifting from a "semi'-agile" development model into a more formal scrum process. I'm a product manager/product owner. So for most people who deal with scrum based methodologies, I think my perspective is a little bit unique. I attend the daily stand up just like everyone else.

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NHS trust gets Commvault to cut backup times and get set for GDPR

Computer Weekly

North Derbyshire hospital trust cuts 70 physical servers to 11 Nutanix hyper-converged nodes, with Commvault replacing multiple backup software products in three-year project

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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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How the Digital World Could Transform Healthcare

IT Toolbox

The world is witnessing a digital revolution that is bringing enormous amounts of change, at a rapid rate far beyond anything ever seen before. With so many rapid forms of technology arising across so many different industries, the changes are felt in every aspect of society and are drastically transforming the way that we live.

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UK IT professionals could lose out in a free trade deal between UK and India

Computer Weekly

There could be an increase in Indian IT professionals coming to work in the UK post-Brexit if a new trade deal is signed with India

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Avoiding the Automation Takeover of Your Job

IT Toolbox

Decades ago, many factories, like car manufacturers, started installing robots on the production line. This was a cause of concern for many factory workers as they feared this trend would lead to them losing their jobs. In some cases, those fears were justified.

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UKISUG 2017: only 2% of British and Irish SAP users plan to use Leonardo

Computer Weekly

Connect, the SAP UK and Ireland User Group conference, hears that just 2% of customers intend to use the supplier’s Leonardo AI toolbox, and 49% are unaware of new licensing policy

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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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The internet makes me money

IT Toolbox

I love the internet. I literally couldn't live without it. At least not in the way I am accustomed to living. This is because, for me, the internet is much more than cute cat videos. Although, cute cat videos are fun to watch every now and then. There is much, much more to the internet than Facebook, WhatsApp and SnapChat.

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Moscow to build on its smart city credentials

Computer Weekly

Moscow ranks in the world’s top 10 smart cities, but is keen to develop more technologies to boost its growing status

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The Endpoint Imperative: The Perimeter is Dead; Long Live the Perimeter!

Cloud Musings

Cloud, mobility and the Internet of Things have obliterated the traditional perimeter that protected organizations. The result: Higher productivity, but bigger challenges for security, data protection, and mobile device management. This episode of the “The Endpoint Imperative” podcast series from Intel, Kevin L. Jackson and Intel’s Yasser Rasheed explore the new normal for security, with a focus on the end users.

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FIX CBB Ring Devices are Getting CB Updates Intune Windows 10 Update Rings

Anoop

Are you an early adaptor of Intune? Intune custom policies configured using CSPs are very helpful in most of the scenarios. But, you can get into trouble with some of the custom CSPs if you don’t update it promptly. In this post, we will see “FIX CBB Ring Devices are Getting CB Updates Intune Windows […]. The post FIX CBB Ring Devices are Getting CB Updates Intune Windows 10 Update Rings appeared first on Anoops.

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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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What keeps IT administrators up at night? Ransomware, for one | Salted Hash Ep 8

Network World

A solid backup policy and frequent awareness training can reduce the risk of ransomware, but unintentional breaches by insiders are still a worry for administrators. Watch as Steve Ragan and Michael Nadeau talk security strategy.

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A Sample Makefile for Creating Blog Articles

Scott Lowe

In October of this year, I published a blog post talking about a sample Makefile for publishing blog articles. That post focused on the use of make and a Makefile for automating the process of a publishing a blog post. This post is a companion to that post, and focuses on the use of a Makefile for automating the creation of blog posts. Since early 2015, this site has been running as a static site with the content created using Markdown.

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Explain Plan for Oracle LiveSQL

IT Toolbox

Nice improvement.

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Automation and Effective Attack Frameworks: The Lifeblood of Today’s Red and Blue Teams

Dataconomy

With the constant threat of cyber attacks looming, the old adage “It’s not a matter of if you’re going to be breached, it’s a matter of when” still rings true. It’s no secret that the number of cyber attacks have sharply increased against organizations, each of them more destructive than. The post Automation and Effective Attack Frameworks: The Lifeblood of Today’s Red and Blue Teams appeared first on Dataconomy.

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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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CIOs as “Digital Master”: Setting Stages to Keep Digital Flow

Future of CIO

Digital means change, choice, fluidity, speed, and innovation. In a dynamic digital workplace, the organizational structure should be solid enough to keep people or things in order; but fluid enough to keep information and idea flow. Organizations, like individuals, need to be in flow to operate smoothly and adapt to change with less friction. An organization can approach such a flow zone when people are ready for moving to a fluid structure, and digital leaders are eager to set stages and drive

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Tailor Solutions to the Real Problem

Future of CIO

Either running a successful business or living a progressive life is a problem-solving continuum. People have to deal with large or small problems on the daily basis. Especially at today’s “VUCA” digital dynamic, problems have become over-complex and interdependent. Can you diagnose the real problem? Does every problem have solutions? What is the best way to handle a problem?

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The Monthly CIO Debates Collection: Five “WHYs” for Leading Digital Transformation

Future of CIO

Debating is not for stimulating conflicts, but for brainstorming better ways to do things. Due to the changing nature of technology, IT leadership role also continues to involve & shift the focus, to move up the maturity level. More and more CIOs are requested to take more responsibility and many CIOs present the breadth of leadership competency.