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Hornetsecurity SysAdmin Day Gifts

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Confirmed: July 2021 was the hottest month ever recorded in 142 years

TechSpot

July is typically the hottest month each year, but this past July clocked in as the hottest July on record with a combined land and surface temperature of 1.67 degrees fahrenheit (0.93 degrees Celsius) above the 20th century average.

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Q&A with Amazon Alexa chief Rohit Prasad on the future of ambient computing

GeekWire

Rohit Prasad, vice president and head scientist for the Amazon Alexa team. When Amazon’s first Alexa-enabled smart speaker debuted in 2014, it was something of a novelty: A voice-activated natural language processing interface that could perform a number of simple tasks. Fast forward to today, and the internet-connected platform has rapidly expanded and become its own electronic ecosystem.

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The metaverse will not look the way Facebook imagines it

Venture Beast

The metaverse won’t exist in a closed-garden VR space. It will emerge in various business models, content types, and classes of experiences. Read More.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Hacker Claims to Have Data on More Than 100 Million T-Mobile Customers, Asks for $277,000

Gizmodo

A hacker is claiming to have data related to more than 100 million T-Mobile customers in the U.S. and is selling access to part of the information for roughly $277,000. Read more.

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How to improve COVID-19 supply chain cybersecurity

Venture Beast

Headlines warn about attempts to exploit gaps in key pharma supply chain cybersecurity. Here's how CISOs can respond. Read More.

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Pepperdata CEO says AI ambitions outpace data management reality

Venture Beast

Pepperdata CEO Ash Munshi says lack of appreciation for data management will lead to disappointing results for enterprise AI. Read More.

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Samsung's vice chairman walks out of jail and returns to his office

TechSpot

"We are well aware that there are supporting and opposing views on Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee’s parole," Moon’s office said in a statement. "The views of the people who are opposed are also right.

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Jury decides Apple should pay $300 million in patent dispute

The Verge

Apple ordered to pay $300 million in a patent dispute | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Apple must pay $300 million in royalties following a retrial in a patent dispute, a Texas jury determined Friday. As reported by Reuters , the jury found that Apple should pay patent company Optis Wireless Technology and its related companies because the technology Apple used in its iPhones, iPads, and Watches allegedly infringed Optis’ patents.

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RomUniverse owner previously fined $2.1M, now ordered to destroy pirated Nintendo content

TechSpot

Matthew Storman, the owner and former operator of RomUniverse, was sued by Nintendo of America in 2019 for more than $150,000 per copyright infringement and $2 million per trademark infringement. In May 2021, a judge ruled in Nintendo’s favor, awarding the company $2.1 million based on filed trademark infringement claims.

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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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First Asian giant hornet (aka murder hornet) sighting of 2021 confirmed in Washington state

The Verge

An Asian giant hornet attacking a paper wasps’ nest is all kinds of nope. | Washington State Dept. of Agriculture. The Washington State Department of Agriculture has confirmed the first sighting of a live Asian giant hornet (nickname: murder hornet) in the state this year, the agency said in a news release. Yes I am back on my murder hornet BS. And coincidentally, I am writing this about an hour after a regular-sized (enormous) wasp was prowling around in my kitchen and I had to shoo it outside

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What We Do In The Shadows Teases Van Helsing Could Be Latino

Gizmodo

Over the first and second seasons of FX’s vampire comedy What We Do in the Shadows , fans have learned more and more about vampire enthusiasts and familiar Guillermo de la Cruz. Read more.

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T-Mobile investigating report of customer data breach that reportedly involves 100 million people

The Verge

T Mobile may have suffered a customer data breach | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. T-Mobile confirmed Sunday that it’s looking into an online forum post that claims to be selling a large trove of its customers’ sensitive data. Motherboard reported that it was in contact with the seller of the data, who said they had taken data from T-Mobile’s servers that included Social Security numbers, names, addresses, and driver license information related to more than 100 million people.

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Intrusion: 52% of IT decision-makers report experiencing a data breach in the past

Venture Beast

The report concluded that while respondents have confidence in their plans, teams, and products, they still regularly suffer data breaches. Read More.

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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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Voice and Video Calls Can Now Be End-to-End Encrypted on Facebook Messenger

Gizmodo

Facebook wants you to know that Messenger is getting a little more secure and private (or as private as anything built by the company can be considered). In a nutshell, users now have the option to make voice and video calls end-to-end encrypted on Messenger. Read more.

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Why citizen development is the wrong model for many enterprises

Venture Beast

The unfortunate reality is that businesses rarely find citizen development to be the right model for their organizations. Read More.

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James Gunn Explains Why Amanda Waller Wanted Rick Flagg Gone

Gizmodo

James Gunn is revealing his innermost secrets involving his new film The Suicide Squad. On the Script Apart podcast, Gunn talks about why Rick Flagg (Joel Kinneman) is on Team one and the deleted scene that helps us understand why he’s even on this mission. Read more.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 8, 2021

GeekWire

Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 8, 2021. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on GeekWire. First ‘murder hornet’ of 2021 spotted in Washington state, 2 miles from where old nest was eradicated.

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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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Twitter unblocks Indian politicians’ accounts after suspending them for violating disclosure law

The Verge

Twitter has reinstated several Indian politicians’ accounts, after suspending them for a tweet about a child murder. | Illustration by Alex Castro. Twitter has reinstated the accounts of several politicians in India’s opposition party, which were suspended after party leader Rahul Gandhi tweeted a photo of himself with the parents of a girl who was allegedly raped and murdered in New Delhi, Reuters reported.

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Unity supports Lual Mayen’s tech center for refugees in Uganda

Venture Beast

Unity Technologies is supporting the Lual Mayen Foundation's tech center to teach skills to refugees in Uganda. Read More.

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ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 6 review: flexible flagship

The Verge

An improved ThinkPad X1 Yoga with an updated screen Once upon a time, the Thinkpad X1 Yoga was Lenovo’s flagship business convertible, joining the clamshell X1 Carbon at the top of the company’s business hierarchy. These days, it has more company. We now have the paper-thin, titanium-coated X1 Titanium Yoga , the featherweight X1 Nano , and the powerhouse X1 Extreme kicking around, all of which are excellent, pricey, and could reasonably be considered flagships in their own right.

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Green Lantern Director Martin Campbell Is Full of Regret Over This Film

Gizmodo

Director Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, Mask of Zorro) regrets directing the superhero movie Green Lantern. 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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Are we just ants in a death spiral? Researchers call for scientific studies of social media networks

GeekWire

Researchers at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public are studying the science behind social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and others. (Jeremy Zero Photo via Unsplash). As misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines is spiking , the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP) is gearing up its efforts to document, understand and combat the rampant spread of unfounded claims across social media platforms.

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War for Wakanda DLC Pack Explained by Marvel's Avengers Game Developers

Gizmodo

Marvel’s Avengers DLC pack will feature War for Wakanda , where gamers can fight as T’Challa, aka Black Panther. Read more.