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Cyberattacks against schools are on the rise

Tech Republic Security

With the back-to-school season, schools and academic organizations are seeing an increase in cyberattacks, says Check Point Research.

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COVID-19 Stokes The Chatbot Hype In Financial Services

Forrester IT

COVID-19 and the associated containment measures are accelerating digital transformation and automation in financial services. Customer service in particular has been under enormous pressure and financial services firms such as Nationwide Building Society in the UK and the Royal Bank of Canada have launched chatbots to deal with the unusually high volume of requests.

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4 Shifts Taking Place in the IT Framework

Association of Information Technology Professional

Over the past 18 months, digital transformation efforts have started to introduce new qualities to each of the four pillars of IT, including infrastructure, development, security and data. Here's a look at the shifts that are taking place now.

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Analyze SCCM Client Logs Using CMPivot | ConfigMgr

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s learn how to analyze SCCM client logs using CMPivot. ConfigMgr Twitter community is doing a great work share many CMPivot queries. Learn more about CMPivot architecture and communication details as well. 👉SCCM CMPivot Architecture Fast Channel Making | ConfigMgr.

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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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Reinventing virtualization with the AWS Nitro System

All Things Distributed

Running a business at the scale of Amazon, we often have to solve problems that no other company has faced before. The disadvantage of this is that there is no “how to” guide for us—a lot is unknown. However, the advantage is that when we solve a new problem, it’s an opportunity to reinvent our services and create new benefits for our customers. Indeed, we have created some of our most innovative and successful ideas when we have entered unchartered territory.

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NVIDIA Arms Itself To Terminate Intel’s Processor Dominance

Forrester IT

NVIDIA just announced it plans to acquire Arm Limited from SoftBank Group for $40B. The combination aims to conquer the enormous compute market that has long been dominated by the x86 architecture (and thus, Intel and AMD). The x86 platform remains the leader in PCs and data centers, but the future growth prospects lie in […].

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ConfigMgr Dell Updates Catalog V3 for SCCM | Third Party Updates

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s understand Dell Updates Catalog V3 for SCCM. Learn more about the details of third-party updates feature in your ConfigMgr environment. SCCM 1806 or later version has the option to enable third-party updates (without SCUP integration). [Related Posts – 1️⃣ SCCM Third-Party Software Updates Setup Step by Step Guide Post 1 2️⃣List of Free SCCM Catalogs for Third-Party […

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How to protect your organization against brute-force attacks

Tech Republic Security

Cybersecurity is critical. With the shift toward remote work, brute-force attacks are increasingly targeting accounts that use Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol, says NordVPN Teams.

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Attend Forrester’s Upcoming Event For Brand Manufacturers On September 29–30

Forrester IT

One of the biggest transformations in retail that Forrester highlighted in its recent B2C buying research stream is the growth of brand manufacturers in commerce and the corresponding tension with marketplaces like Alibaba, Amazon, and others around the world. (“Brand manufacturers” are traditionally wholesale companies that distribute through intermediaries.

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What You Need to Know About Cloud-Native Fintech

Information Week

Interop will provide IT professionals with a glimpse into how cloud, AI and other tech concepts are reshaping financial technology.

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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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SCCM Report Office 365 Client Upgrade Readiness Dashboard | Part 3

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s build an SCCM Report Office 365 Client Upgrade Readiness Dashboard. This post is a continuation of Part1 and Part2, in my previous posts we imported two raw data reports that gave us information about different Microsoft Office versions. We also understood a few more details got added after enabling the ‘Office365 ProPlusConfigurations‘ information on Office 365 Inventory.

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How ransomware operators are joining forces to carry out attacks

Tech Republic Security

Attackers buy stolen data from other criminals, while the Maze group publishes data captured by other gangs, says Positive Technologies.

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Is It 2021 Yet? Five Things B2B CMOs Must Do to Prepare for the Year Ahead

Forrester IT

In this environment, successful B2B CMOs must be agents of change within marketing and across the revenue engine by introducing well-established proven best-practice processes that can be adjusted quickly to create alignment between functions and meet the changing needs of the business. Join Jennifer Ross and Adele Sweetwood on October 15 for the Forrester SiriusDecisions webcast “Is It 2021 Yet?

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Data centers: Why disaster recovery preparation is even more important during a pandemic

Tech Republic Data Center

A successful disaster recovery strategy is never easy, and a pandemic adds challenges. Read some advice from industry experts on how to protect your organization from all disasters.

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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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ConfigMgr Enable Upload Endpoint Analytics Data | SCCM

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. In this post let’s see ConfigMgr How to Enable Upload Endpoint Analytics Data. There are two parts to this process of enabling the upload. Let’s see more details about this in the following sections. Microsoft recently released ConfigMgr 2006 Production into the slow ring and this version Generally Available | SCCM [link] First, you need […].

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3 Hurdles to Overcome for AI and Machine Learning

Information Week

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have distinct limitations. Businesses looking to implement AI need to understand where these boundaries are drawn.

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Three Consumer Changes Will Define The Future Of How We Buy

Forrester IT

By April of this year, an astounding 62% of US online adults had performed some kind of online transaction for the first time as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic — many began ordering products online for delivery, others experimented with digital payments or started banking online, and some opted to receive medical advice […].

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5 Ways Cloud Apps Help Smart SMBs Focus on Their Business, Not the Technology to Run Their Business

Information Technology Zone Submitted Articles

The cloud is everywhere, and has been for over two decades, yet many small businesses continue to run their businesses with in-house software. This is often time-consuming, expensive, and tedious to manage.

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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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Office 365 Email Backup Solution | Do’s & Don’ts of Exchange Online

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s learn the internals of office 365 email backup. Well, it’s not the only office 365 mailbox but many more services like OneDrive, etc. I have experienced an office 365 mailbox outage recently because someone accidentally deleted the cloud identity. Of course, it was a great (not) experience!

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IBM and Cambridge Quantum Computing announce random number generator service

Tech Republic Cloud

This cloud-based quantum computing service includes verification and is now available to members of the IBM Q Network.

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Is Your Sales Organization Ready to Become a “Hunk” and Emerge Its Fittest Self?

Forrester IT

Looking ahead to 2021, sales leaders mush shift from adapting to the “new normal” to proactively planning for the recovery and their “next normal.”.

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Woman dies during a ransomware attack on a German hospital

The Verge

A woman in Germany died during a ransomware attack on the Duesseldorf University Hospital, in what may be the first death directly linked to a cyberattack on a hospital. The hospital couldn’t accept emergency patients because of the attack, and the woman was sent to a health care facility around 20 miles away, the Associated Press reported. The cyberattack was not intended for the hospital, according to a report from the German news outlet RTL.

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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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Free Speech Champion Mark Zuckerberg Announces Plan to Censor His Employees

Gizmodo

Facebook employees have recently been wondering if perhaps Facebook—which lets politicians lie in ads , festers with extremist movements like QAnon , and by design amplifies authoritarian propaganda, misinformation, and hate speech—is actually the bad guy. Read more.

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Bill Gates Sr., 1925-2020: Microsoft co-founder’s father made his own mark on Seattle and the world

GeekWire

Bill Gates Sr. in 2010. Photo via The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill Gates Sr., a respected lawyer, devoted civic leader, trusted mentor, and influential philanthropist who helped to shape Seattle’s tech industry even before his son co-founded Microsoft, died Monday of Alzheimer’s disease. He was 94. “My father’s death is a tremendous loss for our family and the many people whose lives he touched.

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Can You Build a Gaming PC for $500?

TechSpot

In a world where a decent graphics card can cost the same as a new cutting-edge console, you'd be forgiven for thinking that $500 just isn't enough money to buy a PC and play games on it. So, can it be done?

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Nintendo has discontinued the 3DS

The Verge

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge. Nintendo has discontinued every model of the 3DS, according to its Japanese website. The page listings for the New 3DS LL, New 2DS LL, and 2DS are still live, but each product lists “out of production” under its name, and a message on the main page says that the entire series has ended production. It’s not clear when the change was made; several Japanese Twitter users noticed it this afternoon.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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U.S. Concentration Camp Sent Undocumented Women to Be Sterilized According to Whistleblower

Gizmodo

Why are the terms “Nazi Germany” and “Mengele” become trending topics on Twitter? The words dominated the social media platform on Monday after it was revealed that a whistleblower has alleged “ high numbers ” of immigrant women at a U.S. concentration camp in Georgia were sent to be given unnecessary hysterectomies.… Read more.

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Facebook buys REI’s new HQ for $367M, expanding Seattle-area footprint beyond 3M square feet

GeekWire

A rendering of what was supposed to be REI’s new headquarters complex in Bellevue, Wash. Facebook is now purchasing the property from REI, which decided to sell amid the shift to remote work caused by the pandemic. (Image via Wright Runstad & Company / Spring District). Facebook is yet again expanding in the Seattle region, its largest engineering hub outside of Silicon Valley.

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SoftBank reportedly closing a $40 billion sale of ARM to Nvidia, announcement imminent

TechSpot

According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, SoftBank and Nvidia are nearing a deal for the graphics giant to acquire ARM for $40 billion in a cash and stock transaction. SoftBank acquired Arm for around $31 billion in 2016, and in recent months has been looking to offload.

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Microsoft’s underwater server experiment resurfaces after two years

The Verge

Photo: Microsoft. Back in 2018, Microsoft sunk an entire data center to the bottom of the Scottish sea, plunging 864 servers and 27.6 petabytes of storage 117 feet deep in the ocean. Today, the company has reported that its latest experiment was a success, revealing findings that show that the idea of an underwater data center is actually a pretty good one.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.