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How to Tell When You're Working Your IT Team Too Hard

Information Week

Even the most dedicated IT team is vulnerable to burnout. Here's how CIOs and other leaders can reduce the risk without damaging productivity.

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How today’s enterprise architect juggles strategy, tech and innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

In todays rapidly evolving business landscape, the role of the enterprise architect has become more crucial than ever, beyond the usual bridge between business and IT. In a world where business, strategy and technology must be tightly interconnected, the enterprise architect must take on multiple personas to address a wide range of concerns. These include everything from technical design to ecosystem management and navigating emerging technology trends like AI.

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Forrester’s Top Threats For 2025

Forrester IT

2025 started with a bang! Technology and geopolitics are changing faster than many can keep track. Theres an announcement of a new, benchmark-shattering generative AI seemingly every week. Planned job cuts across US employers are at their highest levels since 2020.

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Developers Beware: Slopsquatting & Vibe Coding Can Increase Risk of AI-Powered Attacks

Tech Republic Security

Slopsquatting and vibe coding are fueling a new wave of AI-driven cyberattacks, exposing developers to hidden risks through fake, hallucinated packages.

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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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Leading Through Tech Workforce Changes

Forrester IT

Many organizations, especially federal agencies, are facing unprecedented upheaval as they implement large-scale workforce reductions. For technology leaders, many navigating this process for the first time, layoffs represent a particularly challenging leadership test that cannot be executed without significant trade-offs.

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AI: the ultimate check against organizational well-being

CIO Business Intelligence

Theres nothing like a technological paradigm shift to test your organizations health and ability to absorb change. Just like businesses had to embrace mobility and cloud computing or risk being left behind, theyre now having to find ways to use AI effectively. This time, though, the stakes are even higher. The initial rollout of OpenAIs gen AI chatbot ChatGPT in late 2022 was the starting gun for a technology race thats seen endless LLMs compete to gain attention of digital and business leaders.

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From Reactive to Proactive: IT Leaders Are Forging a New Path in 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders are stepping into a new era, shifting from reactive problem solving to proactively building the future. According to a report from Canon Europe, IT job roles in 2025 will focus more on strategic innovation, supported by robust partnerships with the different business areas they serve. While the road ahead is exciting, it is not without its challenges.

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Announcing Forrester’s Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award

Forrester IT

Forrester is delighted to announce the opening call for our annual Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award. This award recognizes organizations that have transformed their security, privacy, and risk management functions into capabilities that fuel the organizations reputation for trust and its long-term success. In this era of volatility, a reputation for trust is essential.

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GPU Hosting, LLMs, and the Unseen Backdoor

SecureWorld News

Big AI runs on big hardware. And right now, that hardware is GPUsrented, stacked, and spinning 24/7 across cloud infrastructure nobody double-checks until something breaks. Everyone's focused on what LLMs say and dobut not where they live or how they're trained. That backend? It's a mess. And it's wide open. This is the blind spot in modern cybersecurity, as not many of us are aware of how important GPUs are for AI.

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April 2025 TIOBE Index: Kotlin, Ruby & Swift Drop in Popularity

Tech Republic

The market is a bit defensive, TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen said, noting people cling to the familiar top 20 programming languages.

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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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TrueMedia is back: Deepfake detection tool revived, now managed by Georgetown University

GeekWire

(TrueMedia.org Image) TrueMedia.org , the nonprofit founded in Seattle that built AI tools to identify and combat deepfakes, is being revived. Researchers at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy will take over development of TrueMedia’s technology, according to an announcement Wednesday. TrueMedia shut down its service in January and open-sourced its technology.

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The real argument artists should be making against AI

Vox

Many artists are upset at companies like OpenAI and Meta for using their work to train AI systems. Every artist I know is furious. The illustrators, the novelists, the poets all furious. These are people who have painstakingly poured their deepest yearnings onto the page, only to see AI companies pirate their work without consent or compensation. The latest surge of anger is a response to OpenAI integrating new image-generation capabilities into ChatGPT and showing how they can be used to imita

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Data in 2025: Enough Talk—Here’s Why Strategy Matters Now

Forrester IT

Data in 2025: Enough TalkHeres Why Strategy Matters Now Data strategy is no longer a nice-to-have. In 2025, regulations like HIPAA, GDPR,and CCPA are tighter than ever, AI keeps making quantum leaps, and customers want hyper-personalization on demand.

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Former CTIO of US Space Force Talks DeepSeek Security

Information Week

Lisa Costa, the former chief technology and innovation officer for the U.S. Space Force and current advisor to Seekr, discusses building on big ideas with limited resources, and addressing security challenges emerging from AI. On DeepSeek, she cautions, 'Dont trust a black box from a gray zone.

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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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Developers Beware: Slopsquatting & Vibe Coding Can Increase Risk of AI-Powered Attacks

Tech Republic Security

Slopsquatting and vibe coding are fueling a new wave of AI-driven cyberattacks, exposing developers to hidden risks through fake, hallucinated packages.

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CCaaS Vendors Thrive In A Wild Market

Forrester IT

Forrester's Q2 2025 Contact-Center-As-A-Service Wave is out!

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3 Ways to Build a Culture of Experimentation to Fuel Innovation

Information Week

To develop breakthrough technologies, teams need the freedom to build and test solutions without fear of failure. Heres how leaders can set the foundation.

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Consumers Are More Concerned About GenAI Than You Think

Forrester IT

An update to ChatGPT made it easy to simulate Hayao Miyazakis style of animation, which has flooded social media with memes. Beyond the hype, this trend raises serious questions on copyright infringement. This article in the New York Times sums up some of the questions raised by the phenomenon.

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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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Portland startup Graze raises $1M to help people build Bluesky feeds

GeekWire

Graze co-founders Peat Bakke (left) and Devin Gaffney. (Graze Photo) Graze , a Portland startup looking to capitalize on the growth of Bluesky, raised $1 million in a pre-seed round led by Betaworks and Salesforce Ventures. Founded less than a year ago, Graze offers tools to help Bluesky users create custom feeds catered to their interests, rather than relying on algorithmic curation.

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Vibe Coding: Shaping the Future of Software

Hacker Earth

A New Era of Code Vibe coding is a new method of using natural language prompts and AI tools to generate code. I have seen firsthand that this change makes software more accessible to everyone. In the past, being able to produce functional code was a strong advantage for developers. Today, when code is produced quickly through AI, the true value lies in designing, refining, and optimizing systems.

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How to Enable or Disable Address Bar Trending Suggest Policy in MS Edge Browser using M365 Admin Center

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and LinkedIn page for latest updates [link] The post How to Enable or Disable Address Bar Trending Suggest Policy in MS Edge Browser using M365 Admin Center appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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Business communications company Aircall opens Seattle-area office

GeekWire

Aircall CEO Scott Chancellor. (Aircall Photo) Aircall has opened its newest office in Bellevue, Wash., marking the company’s ninth global location as it looks to boost its AI-related innovation. The enterprise communications company established the office in downtown Bellevue earlier this year and plans to have around 50 employees there by the end 2025.

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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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Allow or Block Language Features Uninstall Policy in Text Input using Intune

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and LinkedIn page for latest updates [link] The post Allow or Block Language Features Uninstall Policy in Text Input using Intune appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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Study finds CT scans could be responsible for 103,000 new cancer cases in the US each year

TechSpot

"CT can save lives, but its potential harms are often overlooked," said Dr. Rebecca Smith-Bindman, the study's lead author and a UCSF radiologist. Smith-Bindman, who also serves as a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics, said there is an urgent need to reconsider current practices. "Given the large volume of CT.

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Allow or Block Default Popups Window Setting Policy in Edge Browser using M365 Admin Center

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and LinkedIn page for latest updates [link] The post Allow or Block Default Popups Window Setting Policy in Edge Browser using M365 Admin Center appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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NVIDIA’s Vision For AI Factories – ‘Major Trend in the Data Center World’

Tech Republic Data Center

During a keynote at Data Center World 2025, a NVIDIA exec spoke about AI factories, purpose-built for gigawatt-scale data centers.

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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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How to Configure Friendly URL Format Policy in MS Edge Browser using M365 Admin Center

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and LinkedIn page for latest updates [link] The post How to Configure Friendly URL Format Policy in MS Edge Browser using M365AdminCenter appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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Android phones will auto-reboot after 3 days of inactivity

TechSpot

Apple introduced a similar feature dubbed inactivity reboot with iOS 18.1 near the end of 2024. After a few days of inactivity, an iPhone equipped with the feature will automatically reboot itself. Most consider this an added layer of security, as a rebooted device is more difficult to break into.

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Spotify is down worldwide: What we know so far

Dataconomy

If Spotify refuses to load this morning you are not alone. A sudden, widespread outage is preventing many users from logging in, playing tracks, or even opening the companys support pages. Thirdparty monitoring services and Spotifys own status board confirm the disruption, which began shortly after 08:00ET (12:00UTC) and quickly triggered a spike in problem reports.

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CVE Foundation pledges continuity after Mitre funding cut

ComputerWeekly

With news that Mitres contract to run the world-renowned CVE Programme is abruptly terminating, a breakaway group is setting up a non-profit foundation to try to ensure the projects continuity

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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.