Forrester IT
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Sales methodology is a topic that evokes a wide range of comprehension among sales professionals, largely depending on their personal history with the methodologies their previous employers used.
Association of Information Technology Professional
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Learn how cybersecurity has evolved into three distinct divisions: infrastructure, operations and management.
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Forrester IT
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
This post outlines three key ways product leaders can use customer input and feedback to drive growth in the coming year.
Information Week
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Navigating safely through these stormy waters will ensure greater confidence in and resilience of the whole system. Here are a few pointers.
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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.
Tech Republic Cloud
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Commentary: For those who look at the success of SaaS services as portending bad things for open source, the opposite may be true.
Tech Republic Security
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
A cybersecurity company providing services to one in five election jurisdictions across the United States has teamed up with another company to beef up digital protections.
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Mick's IT Blog
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
One of my recent projects is to convert our remaining legacy systems from BIOS to UEFI. While setting up the task sequence, I needed to be able to test the system to make sure it was not already UEFI so the task sequence would end if it was. The PowerShell script reads the setupact.log file and extracts if it is configured as BIOS or UEFI. I have included an unknown message in the event the log file does not exist or is inaccessible, which is what I encountered on one machine.
Gizmodo
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
For this November’s presidential election, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins plans to cast her ballot from the International Space Station, 200 miles above Earth, effectively obliterating every excuse in the book for why us earthbound voters can’t make it out to the polls. Read more.
Venture Beast
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
After putting Alexa everywhere it could, Amazon is focusing its efforts on going deep, with new Alexa capabilities, a new edge chip, and surveillance gear. Read More.
Tech Republic Security
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
These campaigns used tailored messages to target audiences around the globe. As part of the announcement, Facebook also details account followers and advertising spending pertaining to these efforts.
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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.
Information Week
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
COVID-19 shoved enterprises into the cloud. While remote work is sustainable, emergency cloud strategies are not.
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge. Last week, Amazon informed customers who had pre-ordered the PS5 that they might not actually get their consoles on launch day, and now, Amazon has started to tell people that pre-ordered the Xbox Series X that they might not get that console right when it’s out, either, according to reports shared on Twitter Friday evening.
Tech Republic Cloud
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Microsoft used its annual conference for developers and IT pros to showcase a heap of new additions to Microsoft Teams.
Network World
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
The federal government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a rare emergency directive to federal government agencies to roll out a Windows Server patch within days, an indication of the severity of the exploit. The directive was issued on September 18, and agencies were given four days to apply the security update. It demands that executive agencies take "immediate and emergency action" to patch CVE-2020-1472 , issued August 11.
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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.
Anoop
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
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Tech Republic Data Center
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Clean drinking water is a scarce commodity around the globe. This week, Microsoft laid out its plan to help address water scarcity worldwide.
Venture Beast
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
The Mass Effect remasters are moving from October to early 2021, and the GamesBeat Decides crew talks about that and more on this episode. Read More.
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Image: Amazon. Amazon announced so many gadgets at one event we had to move our Vergecast recording from Thursday to Friday. That’s what the bulk of this week’s show is about. Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Dan Seifert discuss all the important announcements from Amazon’s fall hardware event this week — a security drone for your home, a spherical Echo , a cloud gaming service , a location-tracking mesh network , new Eero routers , and a whole lot more.
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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.
Gizmodo
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Huawei’s research and development lab in the city of Dongguan, China is on fire, with large clouds of gray smoke billowing from the building, according to multiple videos posted to social media and the state news outlet Global Times. It’s not clear what caused the blaze, but firefighters are on the scene, according to… Read more.
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge. Microsoft is about to release a big Xbox app update for iOS that includes the ability to stream Xbox One games to an iPhone. A new Xbox app will arrive in the App Store soon that includes a remote play feature, which lets Xbox One console owners stream their games to an iPhone. Remote play is different to Microsoft’s xCloud service, which streams games directly from servers instead of your own Xbox One console.
TechSpot
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Amidst reports suggesting that the source code for Windows XP has leaked, Microsoft has yet to confirm or deny the leak. However, security researchers already seem convinced it's legitimate.
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. With iOS 14 and iPadOS 14, Apple finally acquiesced to a longtime request from customers: the company introduced an option to change your default apps for browsing the web and handling email. But many other categories of apps — messages, music, calendar, etc. — remain stuck on Apple’s built-in software. Facebook isn’t too pleased about that.
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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.
Gizmodo
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
There is seemingly no end to the ways that tech companies—and there are many of them—will yell at Apple these days. Some of the ire comes from small developers who are rightfully frustrated that they have to fork over a big percentage of their revenue to Apple, the gatekeeper of the iOS App Store. But what’s still… Read more.
Network World
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
If you are a security admin with lots of systems running Cisco IOS and IOS XE software today is decidedly not your day. Cisco this week posted 25 “High” rated security advisories that stem from 34 vulnerabilities the company suggests should be fixed as soon as possible. The vulnerabilities impact a wide-range of Cisco gear as IOS and IOS XE are the company’s most widely used operating systems.
Venture Beast
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Mass Effect: Legendary Edition is still in the works at Electronic Arts, but publisher Electronic Arts is pushing the reveal and release into early 2021. Read More.
Gizmodo
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
With a handful of successfully funded projects under its belt, including a towering X-Men Sentinel robot , Hasbro’s HasLab crowdfunding platform is returning to its Star Wars roots with another Vintage Collection spaceship: an incredibly detailed, 30-inch long replica of the Razor Crest from The Mandalorian. Now this … Read more.
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“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.
Venture Beast
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Escape rooms have taken a big hit during the pandemic. But they've moved online into Zoom calls, and that may save us all while we're locked in isolation. Read More.
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
The prompt tells users that retweeting without reading isn’t a great idea. | Image: Twitter. Twitter says it’s working on bringing its “read the article before you retweet it” prompt to all users “soon.” The company began testing the prompt in June , which shows up when people go to retweet a story they haven’t clicked through to actually read. Twitter says its motivation is to “help promote informed discussion.
Venture Beast
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Epic Games has bought SuperAwesome, a pioneer in the "kidtech" market that provides kids with safe digital experiences and age-appropriate advertising. Read More.
Gizmodo
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
We might not be able to travel to the Miyazaki Museum in Tokyo, Japan, or to see the upcoming exhibit in Los Angeles—but that’s OK, because Studio Ghibli is bringing the Hayao Miyazaki to us. Read more.
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