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10 Strategies for Managers to Prevent Employee Burnout

IT Toolbox

Work-life balance and open communication are important, particularly as we celebrate World Mental Health Day on October 10. Discover effective strategies for preventing employee burnout and fostering a positive work environment. The post 10 Strategies for Managers to Prevent Employee Burnout appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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What Hybrid Quantum-Classic Computing Looks Like

Information Week

Quantum computers can’t do everything. Neither can classical computers. However, combined, they can unleash new capabilities.

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Of S-Curves, AI And Adaptive IT Capabilities

Forrester IT

This year feels different. Global geopolitical, economic, and technological shifts are compelling businesses in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region to adapt like never before. In our June forecast, we captured how tech spending in APAC is transforming in response to this evolving landscape.

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Microsoft Intune Enhances PKCS Certificate Issuance with SID Support

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 Microsoft Intune Enhances PKCS Certificate Issuance with SID Support appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook For Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Document-heavy workflows slow down productivity, bury institutional knowledge, and drain resources. But with the right AI implementation, these inefficiencies become opportunities for transformation. So how do you identify where to start and how to succeed? Learn how to develop a clear, practical roadmap for leveraging AI to streamline processes, automate knowledge work, and unlock real operational gains.

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20% of Generative AI ‘Jailbreak’ Attacks Succeed, With 90% Exposing Sensitive Data

Tech Republic Security

On average, it takes adversaries just 42 seconds and five interactions to execute a GenAI jailbreak, according to Pillar Security.

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Astera Labs debuts Scorpio fabric switch to accelerate PCIe for AI, cloud

Network World

There’s a new type of switch that could soon be showing up in AI-optimized data centers, a PCIe 6 fabric switch. Astera Labs this week unveiled its new Scorpio fabric switch, which it says is the industry’s first PCIe 6 switch. These switches are specifically designed for AI workloads in accelerated computing platforms deployed at cloud scale. The Scorpio switches aim to deliver maximum system utilization and uptime for scale-out PCIe 6 connectivity and scale-up GPU clustering in AI servers.

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Experiment shows AI can perform a CEO's job better than humans, but it struggles in a crisis

TechSpot

An experiment carried out this year by University of Cambridge researchers included college students, senior executives at a South Asian bank, and GPT-4o, OpenAI's advanced LLM.

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Many C-suite execs have lost confidence in IT, including CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

Some bad news for CIOs: Many C-suite leaders, including IT leaders themselves, have less confidence in your department’s ability to get the job done than they did a decade ago. Less than half of C-level executives believe their IT organizations are effectively delivering basic services, compared to about two-thirds with confidence in 2013, according to a survey recently released by the IBM Institute for Business Value.

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Siteimprove Acquires MarketMuse To Bridge Content, SEO, And Accessibility

Forrester IT

Marketers constantly ask how AI will shape content strategy and creation and improve business impact. Today’s announcement that Siteimprove is acquiring MarketMuse provides one potential answer, pointing to a new era with an AI-driven approach to the content lifecycle.

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More than one-third of cloud environments are critically exposed, says Tenable

Network World

In the first half of this year, 38% of organizations had at least one cloud workload that was critically vulnerable, highly privileged, and publicly exposed, according to a study of telemetry from customers of cloud security vendor Tenable released this week. “This ‘toxic cloud triad’ creates a high-risk attack path that makes these workloads prime targets for bad actors,” the study said.

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How AI Is Revolutionizing Contact Centers: 2025 Strategy + ROI Playbook

In 2025, contact centers aren’t just changing—they’re being rebuilt by AI. This no-fluff, executive-ready guide shows you how to capitalize on the transformation. Inside: proven ROI calculators, workforce optimization tactics, deflection strategies, and a 90-day AI deployment plan. Built for CIOs, COOs, CX leaders, and contact center strategists, it goes beyond buzzwords into play-by-play implementation.

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Deloitte: Why Only a Quarter of Cybersecurity Professionals are Women

Tech Republic Security

Despite a huge talent shortage in the cybersecurity industry, women still feel discouraged from joining it due to concerns over their knowledge, its inclusivity, and the pay.

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AI as a catalyst for ESG: Empowering CIOs to drive sustainable innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

In today’s fast-evolving business landscape, environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria have become fundamental to corporate responsibility and long-term success. Stakeholders—investors, regulators and consumers — now expect businesses to move beyond profitability and actively demonstrate ethical governance, social responsibility and environmental stewardship.

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AI Is Creating New Forms of Liability. How Can It Be Managed?

Information Week

Everyone is on the artificial intelligence train. But that means that they may be culpable for AI’s mistakes.

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IBM: 78% of mainframe shops are piloting, operating AI apps

Network World

AI is reinvigorating the mainframe and causing enterprises to rethink their plans for mainframe modernization. New research from IBM finds that enterprises are further along in deploying AI applications on the big iron than might be expected: 78% of IT executives surveyed said their organizations are either piloting projects or operationalizing initiatives that incorporate AI technology.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Cybersecurity Awareness Lags as Global Workforce Engages in Risky AI Practices

Tech Republic Security

A recent report has revealed errant cybersecurity behaviours in Australia, including employees sharing company data with AI tools.

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How NTT DATA CIO Barry Shurkey takes a people-first approach to IT success

CIO Business Intelligence

As CIO at NTT DATA North America, Barry Shurkey is responsible for digital transformation and optimizing the IT roadmap to support the company and its clients. The award-winning tech exec also led the acquisition of Dell Services into NTT DATA, worked in Australia on the largest outsourcing deal of its time, and has held leadership roles with EDS, Travelport, and HP.

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Is This the End of Mass Production in Everything From Education To Manufacturing?

Information Week

We’re in an age when artificial intelligence and other technologies make it easy to personalize everything and every experience. Few realize how much this will change how we produce and consume anything and everything.

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Admins warned to update Palo Alto Networks Expedition tool immediately

Network World

Palo Alto Networks is warning administrators of six critical vulnerabilities in its Expedition configuration migration tool that have to be patched immediately. Multiple vulnerabilities allow an attacker to read Expedition database contents and arbitrary files, as well as write arbitrary files to temporary storage locations on the Expedition system, the company said in a security advisory this week.

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The Ultimate Contact Center Buyers Guide: A Crucial Decision

Harness the True Power of your Contact Center In today’s fast-paced business environment, selecting the right contact center solution is critical for enhancing customer experience, improving operational efficiency, and optimizing costs. This comprehensive guide will walk you through the essential factors to consider when choosing a contact center software that aligns with your business needs.

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The Internet Archive Breach: Over 31 Million User Accounts Exposed

Tech Republic Security

The Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library best known for its Wayback Machine, has disclosed a major data breach affecting over 31 million users.

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Getting the timing right at Setterwalls to invest in AI support

CIO Business Intelligence

In recent years, there’ve been a number of smaller AI products geared toward the legal profession, but it wasn’t until gen AI caught on that Swedish law firm Setterwalls really saw the benefit. “We saw that there was potential to benefit on a broad front,” says CIO Daniel Sandberg. With backing from management and great interest outside the organization, the agency, started a pilot project where three AI tools specially designed for lawyers were tested, compared, and evaluated.

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China Penetrated US Telecom Providers to Snoop on Wiretapping Systems

Information Week

Hacking group Salt Typhoon breached Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies, potentially compromising US wiretap systems.

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Red Sea cable cuts disrupted up to 70% of traffic, says RETN

Network World

Independent global network services provider RETN says its network diagnostics show that the February 2024 cable cuts in the Red Sea, initially reported to have affected 25% of data traffic between Europe and Asia, caused far more disruption than originally estimated. The company’s own network diagnostics, combined with customer feedback from major ISPs in Southeast Asia, reveal the level of disruption was closer to 70%, it said in a newly released report, “ Building the Networks of Tomorrow: En

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Learn Cybersecurity Essentials for Just $40 from Home

Tech Republic Security

Gain a comprehensive understanding of cybersecurity with this 12-hour, 5-course bundle that covers everything from foundational concepts to advanced strategies.

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FinOps SaaS: The missing piece of the puzzle

CIO Business Intelligence

With more and more businesses moving to the Cloud, FinOps is becoming a vital framework for efficiently controlling Cloud expenses. FinOps, which was first created to maximise the use of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) models, is currently broadening its scope to include Software as a Service (SaaS). Given that SaaS accounts for a sizable amount of Cloud expenses for businesses of all kinds, including small and medium-sized firms, this addition is essential.

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Everyone Has a Service Recovery Plan Until They Don’t

Information Week

Perhaps the devastation of Hurricane Helene will get enterprises thinking about non-terrestrial service alternatives to enhance their network resiliency and reduce the impact of future disasters.

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Cloudera jockeys for AI platform prominence

Network World

While the big hyperscalers are fighting it out for dominance in the AI space, many enterprises are looking for alternatives. More than half (60%) of large companies have pulled some AI workloads from public clouds, according to a survey released this summer by Flexential. Companies cited sustainability goals , cybersecurity and data privacy, control, better performance, and cost efficiencies as their top reasons for doing so.

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Future-Proof IT: Cost-Saving Strategies Every IT Leader Needs in 2025

With IT budgets projected to grow 9.8% in 2025, leaders must invest wisely—not just cut blindly. This whitepaper introduces The Future-Proof IT Cost Optimization Model, a framework to reduce costs while maintaining service quality. Learn how Cloud Efficiency, AI-Powered Workforce Automation, Vendor Optimization, Cybersecurity Resilience, and Unified Communications can drive savings and improve efficiency.

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Firefox Update Patches Exploited Vulnerability

Tech Republic Security

Investigation of the use-after-free flaw is ongoing, but organizations and individual users can update Firefox now for a fix.

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Decentralized Digital Identity (DDID): Global Acceptance Network (GAN) Gains Momentum

Forrester IT

Bhutan is the first country to join GAN. GAN, in turn, is a foundation that aims to operate a nonprofit decentralized digital identity (DDID) network. GAN was founded, among others, by Accenture, cheqd, Inetrac, NTT Digital, Pearson, and other organizations. GAN will not develop technology standards on their own.

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Understanding the EU AI Act’s Impact and Ripple Effects in the US

Information Week

The EU AI Act is not just a regional development, it’s a global wake-up call to take action on AI and implement responsible practices across companies and governments.

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Juniper extends security platform to streamline threat detection, incident response

Network World

Juniper Networks is working to integrate more of its security services under one AI-centric roof. The vendor’s new Secure AI-Native Edge offering and cloud-based Security Assurance service are designed to deliver a cohesive view of network health, performance, and security metrics with a goal of resolving problems quickly and centrally enforcing enterprise security policies.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!