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All Companies Who Interact With European Citizens Must Check Architecture For Compliance With New Data Rules

CTOvision

The European Union's (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the most important change in data privacy regulation in 20 years. This is not just important for firms that operate in Europe, but any firm that interacts with European citizens. Any company that holds data on EU citizens must comply. The new rules were approved […].

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2018 could be year of critical infrastructure attacks, says report

Computer Weekly

The coming year is likely to see an increase in the number of cyber attacks on critical national infrastructure (CNI), according to a report based on experts’ forecasts

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Call for entries: 2018 Building Team Awards

Eric D. Brown

Building Design+Construction's Building Team Awards recognize newly built (opened or occupied January 1, 2017 or later) projects that best exemplify the collaboration between owner, architect, engineer, and contractor to produce buildings that exhibit architectural and construction excellence. .

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Apple confirms all devices affected by Meltdown and Spectre

Computer Weekly

Apple has confirmed that all iPhones, iPads and Mac computers are affected by the recently discovered microprocessor exploits as the financial services industry assesses the risk

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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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Indigo: Recruiting Platform Adds Joy to Customer and Employee Experience

CTOvision

With 89 superstores and 124 smaller shops, Indigo is Canada’s largest book, gift and speciality retailer. With a business that big, it is clear recruitment has to be conducted via a decentralized hiring model. Indigo currently boasts a staff of 6,100 with the retailer taking on around 4,000 new hires every year. All together, this mighty team brought in almost a billion dollars in 2016.

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IT departments have no idea how much they spend on AWS and Azure

Computer Weekly

The complexity of procuring public cloud services means IaaS users often lack a sense of how much their cloud workloads actually cost

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Insurance broker Simply Business ditches legacy MPLS for SD-WAN

Computer Weekly

Insurance business finds networking a breeze after ditching its unresponsive managed services provider and implementing VeloCloud’s latest software-defined wide area network technology

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IT Transformation with Watson

Cloud Musings

Credit: Shutterstock by Kevin Jackson & Dez Blanchfield IBM recently launched an exciting new project in the form of a podcast series produced and hosted Dez Blanchfield , appropriately titled the “Pioneers Of Possible. This new podcast series sets out to connect listeners from around the world with innovators and thought leaders within IBM’s Global Technology Services (GTS) and Global Business Services (GBS) business units worldwide.

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Patch systems against Meltdown and Spectre, urges ICO

Computer Weekly

UK’s data protection watchdog is calling for organisations to apply security updates to mitigate against exploits of microprocessor flaws as soon as possible to safeguard personal data

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What CryptoKitties can teach us about the success of blockchain

Dataconomy

As someone who has been struggling with kitten addiction for many years, I was immediately attracted to the idea behind the CryptoKitties virtual feline collectibles game – the first game to utilize Ethereum blockchain. CryptoKitties and I are, it seems, an ideal match. I’ll admit I’m far from an expert. The post What CryptoKitties can teach us about the success of blockchain appeared first on Dataconomy.

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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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The Best Resources On “Differentiated Grading” For English Language Learners

Computer Weekly

Last year, I published a post headlined What Do You Know About “Differentiated Grading” For ELLs? Then, earlier this week, Diane Staehr Fenner sent this tweet and put the same question out on Facebook: We’re doing research on grading #ELLs. Please help! 1. What are challenges you or your colleagues have in grading ELs? 2. What are some strategies or tools that you find helpful in grading ELs?

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The New Year “Digital Master” Book Series Highlight Jan. 2018

Future of CIO

Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. Digital becomes the very fabric of high performing business, being outside-in and customer-centric is the new mantra for forward-looking and high mature digital organizations today. At the heart of digital, it is people and how to build a customer-centric organization.

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The Best Tools For Comparing Demographics Of Different Countries

Computer Weekly

The Best Online Tools For Comparing The Physical Sizes Of Different Countries is a previously-posted “Best” list. But what about tools that will let you do side-by-side comparisons of demographics and other data from different countries? Here are the ones I think are the best – let me know who I’m missing: The Gapminder’s Bubble Map.

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Three Root Causes of Digital Stagnation

Future of CIO

To overcome digital stagnation, empower your change agents who present game-changing mindsets and well-rounded changeability. Change becomes the new normal, and even the speed of change is accelerating. Either for individuals or businesses today, change is inevitable, some of us get it quicker than others. But too often changes are made as a reaction to outer impulses, crisis.

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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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2017 cemented cloud as the ‘new normal’ for enterprise IT, claims Synergy Research Group

Computer Weekly

According to Synergy Research Group, 2017 marked another important milestone in enterprise adoption and acceptance of cloud

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Capitalising on the Next-Generation Cloud

Nutanix

For success in the channel, flexibility and a willingness to evolve with technological advancements in critical. If we look back just over a year, savvy channel partners were exploiting new paths to revenue by building service practices above the hypervisor.

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University of Northampton launches app-based prospectus

Computer Weekly

University is using software to create an app-based prospectus and improve internal communications

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Hiring Success 2018: All The Confirmed Speakers Attending HR Tech’s Next Big Event

CTOvision

SmartRecruiters’ Hiring Success 2018 is already set to be the defining HR and recruitment conference of the year. Taking place in San Francisco from March 12th-14th, HS18 will consist of numerous workshops, firesides and presentations with some of the foremost speakers, thinkers and innovators in today’s HR space. Below is the current list of confirmed speakers, and we will keep things updated as more speakers and their session plans for HS18 becomes available.

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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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Mixed Links for Nonprofit Communicators

Computer Weekly

Everyone back to work yet? To celebrate the New Year, I have gathered the freshest links for you from around the world of marketing and communications. It’s time for Mixed Links…. Today is the last day to save $200 on our Annual All-Access Pass. With our Annual All-Access Pass, you get 365 days of access to training webinars, weekly time-savers, exclusive downloads, and support from other experts and peers.

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Starry Extends Wireless Internet To LA

Computer Weekly

Starry , a Boston-based Internet Services Provider which uses it own, proprietary millimeter-wave, 5G band service to provide in-building gigabit broadband to customers, has launched into Los Angeles, as part of an expansion by the company to LA and Washington, DC. Starry said the beta launch is its first beyond Boston. Starry's service revolves around the "Starry Station", a Wi-Fi hub which connects to rooftop, millimeter-wave fixed wireless relay points.

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Captivate v. Articulate

Computer Weekly

I’ve just begun using Captivate and Articulate. I am a Master’s Candidate in Instructional Technology and Design. Thus far, I am enjoying using Captivate more than Articulate. Perfect timing at work…two projects came up that needed an Instructional Designer. Perfect! Thus my first foray into integrating Captivate with Canvas. I’ll keep you posted on the comparison of products.

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Looking good is easy: Fun with logos

Computer Weekly

Logo made with DesignEvo. We’re seeing a bounty of cool design tools these days. In our correspondence, our promotional materials, our business cards, we can use these tools for our own purposes, to brand ourselves as professionals and to share our libraries in a more cohesive and polished way. These can also be used by our clubs, business and design students, parents, and teachers to brand their efforts and to promote school events.

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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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London attracted record tech investment in 2017

Computer Weekly

London-based tech firms received record levels of venture capital funding last year

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Oxford and Cambridge Club shelves ledgers for time and attendance

Computer Weekly

London club has modernised its time and attendance paper-based procedures to manage its staff, using Planday software

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DIR 12-15-2017

Computer Weekly

DIR 12-15-2017. Tweet.

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