Fri.Sep 06, 2024

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Exploring the Intersection of Security, Governance, and Generative AI

Information Week

This session emphasizes the need for a balanced approach that embraces innovation while prioritizing ethical and secure AI practices.

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Tenable: 26,500 Cyber Vulnerabilities Risk SE Asia’s Banks

Tech Republic Security

Tenable's research reveals 26,500 cyber vulnerabilities in Southeast Asia's banking and insurance sectors, exposing critical security risks.

Banking 476
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How GenAI Impacts Augmented Analytics

Information Week

Augmented analytics got its name from the addition of AI -- augmenting human data analysis. Generative AI ushers in the era of conversational analytics.

Analysis 469
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5 tips for switching to skills-based hiring

CIO Business Intelligence

Hiring in the IT industry has traditionally relied on reviewing a candidate’s experience and education, with less focus on specific skillsets. But that approach is changing, with the emphasis on degrees and experience giving way to skills-first hiring strategies that put organizational skills needs first and foremost. This shifting mindset in hiring is quickly growing in popularity for technical roles, according to a report from Test Gorilla, with 88% of tech companies reporting they’re using sk

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Tariffs on the Table: How to Brief the Board and C‑Suite With Confidence

“What should we do about the tariffs?” There’s no straightforward answer — every leader has a different expectation. CFOs want numbers. COOs want action. CEOs want strategy. And supply chain and procurement leaders need to be ready with the right response — fast. That’s why GEP has created a simple three-part framework that will help CPOs and CSCOs brief the board and C-suite with clarity and confidence.

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Designing for the ‘Human in the Loop’

Information Week

AI’s rapid growth brings both promise and worry. Our research examines worker and organizational views, offering strategies for responsible AI adoption while addressing workforce concerns.

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Salesforce to acquire data protection specialist Own Company for $1.9 billion

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud-based CRM vendor Salesforce on Friday signed a definitive agreement to acquire data protection and data management solutions company Own Company for $1.9 billion in cash. Salesforce said the growing use of AI and generative AI has heightened customers’ awareness of their need to protect and manage data, and Own’s solutions will enhance availability, security, and compliance of customer data across Salesforce’s platform.

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At the vanguard of data democratization: How AI assistants are transforming IT

CIO Business Intelligence

As data continues to drive strategic decision-making for enterprises, IT professionals are tasked with managing and interpreting vast and complex datasets. The complexity of handling data—from writing intricate SQL queries to developing machine learning models—can be overwhelming and time-consuming. According to a recent Cloudera survey, these tasks are so vital and reoccurring in their everyday work, that it’s a cause for concern that 55% of IT leaders would prefer a root canal over navigating

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AI Agents: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

Forrester IT

As AI becomes more agentic, making decisions on behalf of businesses and eventually consumers, the risks will grow more complex. Learn more about the use cases and risks of AI agents in this preview of our upcoming Security & Risk Summit.

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ACV, una herramienta táctica para mejorar la sostenibilidad de los ‘data center’

CIO Business Intelligence

En la actualidad, se estima que los centros de datos podrían estar representando entre el 1% y el 2% del volumen total de emisiones de dióxido de carbono (CO 2 ). Una cifra con una perspectiva al alza como consecuencia del crecimiento exponencial del uso de la inteligencia artificial (IA) generativa , cuya demanda no hace sino incrementar a pasos agigantados.

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From Pixels To Perception: The Impact Of Foundation Models For Vision

Forrester IT

Large-scale AI models trained on extensive data sets are shifting computer vision toward more adaptable and scalable solutions.

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Turn Your Contact Center Into a Profit Machine with AI

Every year, $75 billion is lost to bad customer service — and your business could be bleeding loyalty without realizing it. AI is rewriting the rules. Imagine instant answers, 24/7 self-service, faster resolutions, and skyrocketing satisfaction scores. Companies like Amazon are already cashing in, and the technology is easier than you think — plug, play, and profit.

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Enterprises can gain an edge with Metadata Management

CIO Business Intelligence

As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) continue to reshape industries, robust data management has become essential for organizations of all sizes. Central to this is metadata management, a critical component for driving future success AI and ML need large amounts of accurate data for companies to get the most out of the technology.

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Introducing The CLM Landscape 2024: From Use Case-Driven Solutions To Enterprise Contract Management Platforms

Forrester IT

As global interconnectedness exponentially increases the number of commercial and business relationships between organizations, the speed of innovation is also reshaping how they operate.

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El Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza digitaliza sus servicios sociales

CIO Business Intelligence

El papel en los servicios sociales de Zaragoza tiene los días contados. El Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza iniciará la implantación de una nueva aplicación informática que va a permitir crear una ficha social única de cada ciudadano. Esta maniobra conllevará la digitalización no solo de los expedientes, sino de los diferentes servicios asistenciales del consistorio.

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The Four Agreements That Enterprise Business Applications Must Adopt

Forrester IT

Enterprise business applications run all phases of a company’s operations such as sales, customer service, accounting, finance, human resources, inventory, and manufacturing. They streamline and coordinate work across the enterprise, supporting corporate goals of revenue, profitability, and cost optimization. As a result, the market for these applications continues to aggressively grow.

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How Companies Are Navigating Tariff Chaos with GEP’s AI-Powered Procurement Platform

Tariffs are no longer just policy noise. They’re driving real, bottom-line impact. One policy shift and your sourcing strategy is upside down. This bulletin cuts straight to the point. How Market-Leading Companies Are Navigating Tariff Chaos with GEP’s AI-Powered Procurement Platform breaks down how procurement teams are staying ahead of the chaos with real-time insights, smarter sourcing moves and AI-powered agility.

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El tratado internacional sobre IA añade incertidumbre a los CIO

CIO Business Intelligence

Este jueves se dio a conocer la firma del primer tratado internacional jurídicamente vinculante sobre inteligencia artificial (IA) , negociado por representantes de 57 países, pero su lenguaje es tan general que no está claro si los CIO de las empresas tendrán que hacer algo diferente para cumplirlo. Esta iniciativa, mayoritariamente europea, se suma a la larga lista de iniciativas de cumplimiento de la normativa mundial sobre IA, además de los numerosos intentos legales de regular la IA en Esta

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OpenAI Hits 1M Paid Users; Verizon acquires Frontier; US Cracks Down on Election Interference

IT Toolbox

Today's tech news in AI, Big Tech, and Cybersecurity are included in our ABCs of Tech daily roundup. Here's what you need to know. The post OpenAI Hits 1M Paid Users; Verizon acquires Frontier; US Cracks Down on Election Interference appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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CSO Conference & Awards: A Golden Opportunity

CIO Business Intelligence

On the CSO event team, we had a rooting interest in the Para triathlon this past weekend in Paris. Competing among the 4,500 athletes in the 17 th Summer Paralympic Games was Melissa Stockwell, a three-time World Champion in the sport, and a keynote speaker at the upcoming CSO Conference & Awards. The event – in which athletes swim, cycle, and run – is taxing, and Stockwell was up to the challenge.

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Boeing’s Starliner space capsule makes its crewless journey home from space station

GeekWire

Boeing’s Starliner space capsule fires its thrusters as it leaves the International Space Station. (NASA via YouTube) The propulsion system that NASA worried about did its job today as Boeing’s Starliner space capsule backed away from the International Space Station to begin an uncrewed, autonomous descent back to Earth. “She’s on her way home,” NASA astronaut Sunita Williams said as the spacecraft, christened Calypso, cleared a 4-by-2-kilometer (2.5-by-1.2-mile) re

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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CIO100 Symposium & Awards : How CIOs in India are strategizing the Right Tech-Ready Infrastructure for any future

CIO Business Intelligence

In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, enterprise IT decision-makers are grappling with unprecedented complexity. In State of the CIO survey 2024 by Foundry, over half of the respondents predicted technology budgets would increase, as organizational security needs seek an upgrade, keeping pace with rising tech costs and investment in emerging technologies like AI.

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Blue Origin shifts its plans for New Glenn rocket after NASA postpones Mars mission

GeekWire

Elements of the New Glenn rocket’s first stage are mated at Blue Origin’s factory in Florida. (Blue Origin Photo) NASA is delaying the launch of its ESCAPADE probes to Mars, which means plans for the debut of Blue Origin’s heavy-lift New Glenn rocket will change as well. New Glenn was previously due to send the twin ESCAPADE spacecraft to Mars as early as next month , but after a review of launch preparations, NASA rescheduled the launch for next spring at the earliest.

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3 ways CIOs are leading the way to an AI-enabled enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs are ideally suited and well-positioned for the challenge because they understand the complex interplay of technologies involved. And they see the big picture across the enterprise and how AI fits into its overall modernization and transformation strategies. CIOs are: Preparing for disruption Spending on AI is expected to reach $26B in the next three years.

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Lenovo unveils new AI laptops with Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm chips inside

TechSpot

The net result of Lenovo's efforts is an impressive set of AI-capable notebook PCs that meet the Copilot+ standard that Microsoft laid out earlier this year. All the systems include not only the latest CPUs and GPUs from each of the major PC chip companies (several of which were just.

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Procurement Is Navigating a Tech Tsunami (and It’s Upending How You Work)

Procurement is in the middle of a tech tsunami. And if it feels like the old playbooks aren’t working anymore, that’s because they aren’t. Agentic AI. Autonomous procurement. Unified source-to-pay ecosystems. These innovations are converging and transforming how procurement teams operate. The GEP 2025 Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report breaks it all down.

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Microsoft PowerToys: Advanced Paste Tool Overview

Tech Republic

Explore the latest update in Microsoft PowerToys: the Advanced Paste tool. Discover how this new feature enhances productivity and streamlines workflows.

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Microsoft is still sharing some tips to boost Windows boot times

TechSpot

Microsoft has published a new support page outlining several methods you can use to hunt down and stop problematic startup applications from bogging down your Windows 11/10 system. The tips mainly focus on tracking down and disabling pesky programs.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft vet joins UiPath board; Trupanion names COO; and more

GeekWire

S. “Soma” Somasegar. (Madrona Photo) S. “Soma” Somasegar , a longtime former Microsoft leader, joined the board of directors at robotic process automation company UiPath. Somasegar, now a managing director at Seattle venture firm Madrona, said UiPath is “leading the way in using software robots and agents to unlock the next wave of business process transformation,” in a LinkedIn post.

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Intel claims Arc Xe2 Lunar Lake iGPU is faster than AMD Strix Point and Qualcomm X Elite

TechSpot

According to Intel, Xe2 will provide Lunar Lake Core Ultra 9 288V laptops with a 31 percent performance boost compared to the Core Ultra 7 155H Meteor Lake processor, and a 68 percent uplift over the Snapdragon X Elite X1E-84-100 SoC. Intel also claimed that the new graphics chip will.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Does Caller ID Mean Much in the Age of Spoofed Numbers?

Tech Republic

Learn how caller ID works, why people use it, how you can manage your own caller ID data, and how to protect yourself.

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Intel is out of stock of replacement Raptor Lake CPUs

TechSpot

Customers ordering replacement 13th and 14th-gen Intel CPUs have started receiving notices from the company that stock is no longer available. Affected users may be without a functioning Raptor Lake processor for at least a month.

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The Art of Soft Skills in Technical Sales

SecureWorld News

The inspiration for my book, Soft Skills in Technical Sales , came from observing changes in the roles of sales engineers and salespeople. Sales engineers are now doing more direct selling, while salespeople are handling more procurement tasks. I've been in the cybersecurity industry for a long time and remember when we only had a few products to sell.

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Verizon set to acquire Frontier in $20 billion deal that'll expand fiber footprint to 31 states

TechSpot

Frontier currently serves 2.2 million fiber Internet subscribers across 25 states. Once the deal is finalized, they will join Verizon's 7.4 million Fios subscribers in nine states and Washington, DC, giving the ISP a presence in 31 states that passes over 25 million premises.

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The AI Race Isn’t Just About Tech Superiority – Its the Supply Chain, Stupid!

The race to dominate AI is no longer about who has the smartest algorithms — it's about who can build and scale faster. Behind every AI breakthrough lies a battle for resources: data centers, compute hardware, power, and telecom infrastructure. And right now, even tech giants are hitting a wall. Our latest white paper reveals the six critical supply chain elements that are increasingly separating AI leaders from the rest.