July, 2024

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Generative AI Marketing Use Cases In APAC

Forrester IT

I’m pleased to announce the publication of the second of my two APAC generative AI (genAI) B2C marketing reports, Generative AI Marketing Use Cases In APAC (client-only access).

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Out with the Old: German Navy Phases Out Floppy Disks in F123 Frigates

IT Toolbox

Explore how the German Navy's upgrade from 8-inch floppy disks in F123 frigates reveals a tech transformation. The post Out with the Old: German Navy Phases Out Floppy Disks in F123 Frigates appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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What’s Real About AI in Cybersecurity?

Information Week

Business leaders must separate facts from fiction to understand how cybercriminals realistically use AI and what legitimate AI-powered defenses can protect against these threats.

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CrowdStrike Outage Disrupts Microsoft Systems Worldwide

Tech Republic Security

Airports and law enforcement agencies were among the organizations hit by the Blue Screen of Death. CrowdStrike said the error has been fixed.Airports and law enforcement agencies were among the organizations hit by the Blue Screen of Death.

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Solving Open Source Complexity with a Managed Data Infrastructure Platform

With its unparalleled flexibility, rapid development and cost-saving capabilities, open source is proving time and again that it’s the leader in data management. But as the growth in open source adoption increases, so does the complexity of your data infrastructure. In this Analyst Brief developed with IDC, discover how and why the best solution to this complexity is a managed service, including: Streamlined compliance with some of the most complex regulatory guidelines Simplified operations, li

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MS Intune Stop Supporting User Enrollment with Company Portal for iOS iPadOS

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and Facebook Page to get the latest updates [link] The post MS Intune Stop Supporting User Enrollment with Company Portal for iOS iPadOS appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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Google’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Increased by 48% Since 2019, Thanks to AI Pursuits

Tech Republic Data Center

Google’s environmental report reveals that the expansion of its data centres to support AI contributed to the company producing 14.3 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents in 2023.

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Amazon Prime Day 2024 Is Here: Cybercriminals Are Ready, Are You?

IT Toolbox

The Amazon Prime Day shopping festival is about to begin. This is when cybercriminals are highly active and can easily steal your personal details and money. Check out some scams to be aware of during the shopping festival and how to protect yourself. The post Amazon Prime Day 2024 Is Here: Cybercriminals Are Ready, Are You? appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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9 Ways CISOs Can Stay Ahead of Bad Actors

Information Week

Security leaders are expected to defend their organizations against existing and emerging threats. Here are some tactics they can use to crack down on the enemy.

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Cisco Talos: Top Ransomware TTPs Exposed

Tech Republic Security

Read about the new Cisco Talos report on the top ransomware groups’ techniques and learn how to mitigate this cybersecurity risk. Cisco Talos observed the TTPs used by 14 of the most prevalent ransomware groups based on their volume of attack, impact to customers and atypical behavior.

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Stalkerware company Spytech compromised, data reveals thousands of remotely controlled devices

TechSpot

Spytech Software, a Minnesota-based company that produces SpyAgent and similar programs, has been breached. TechCrunch was able to access a cache of files taken from Spytech's servers by unknown hackers, and has exposed the company's activities and the devices targeted by its stalkerware products.

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Provide Real Value in Your Applications with Data and Analytics

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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A new unicorn in Seattle: Cybersecurity startup Chainguard raises $140M at $1.1B valuation

GeekWire

Chainguard CEO Dan Lorenc. (LinkedIn Photo) Kirkland, Wash.-based cybersecurity startup Chainguard announced a $140 million Series C investment, bumping its valuation to $1.12 billion and minting the Seattle region’s newest unicorn. The funding comes less than a year after Chainguard raised a $61 million Series B round. The company’s customer base has quintupled year-over-year and annual recurring revenue is up 175%.

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Google Finally Scraps Its Cookie Deprecation Plans

Forrester IT

Google announced today it’s finally doing what everyone suspected and reversing its decision to deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome. After repeated delays in a four-year-long saga, marketers and advertisers grew increasingly skeptical. In Forrester’s Marketing Survey 2024, 61% of B2C marketers said they do not believe that Google will deprecate the third-party cookie.

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5 IT risks CIOs should be paranoid about

CIO Business Intelligence

As a digital transformation leader and former CIO, I carry a healthy dose of paranoia. Call it survival instincts: Risks that can disrupt an organization from staying true to its mission and accomplishing its goals must constantly be surfaced, assessed, and either mitigated or managed. Is the organization transforming fast enough? Are stakeholders struggling or unhappy?

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How to Find a Qualified IT Intern Among Candidates

Information Week

IT organizations offering intern programs often find themselves swamped with applicants. Here's how to find the most knowledgeable and prepared candidates.

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Entity Resolution: Your Guide to Deciding Whether to Build It or Buy It

Adding high-quality entity resolution capabilities to enterprise applications, services, data fabrics or data pipelines can be daunting and expensive. Organizations often invest millions of dollars and years of effort to achieve subpar results. This guide will walk you through the requirements and challenges of implementing entity resolution. By the end, you'll understand what to look for, the most common mistakes and pitfalls to avoid, and your options.

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Summer Olympics: What IT Teams Need to Do Before & During the Event for Their Businesses

Tech Republic Security

Remind employees to be wary of fake apps and too-good-to-be-true streaming options on the eve of the Games.

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China is on track to meet 2030 renewable energy target six years ahead of schedule

TechSpot

According to a report from the Sydney-based Climate Energy Finance (CEF) think tank, China will meet its aggressive 1,200 gigawatt renewable target for 2030 by the end of this month – a staggering 6.5 years ahead of schedule.

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Environmental groups target Amazon’s climate efforts with Prime Day protest at Seattle HQ

GeekWire

Environmental protesters stencil a message to Amazon on 6th Avenue in Seattle on Tuesday. (Stand.earth Photo) Environmental protesters in Seattle seized on Amazon’s annual Prime Day sales event on Tuesday to once again call out the tech giant’s efforts around sustainability. Groups including Stand.earth and Pacific Environment said in a news release that a protest outside Amazon’s headquarters towers in the Denny Regrade area would include a street “mural” and a 1,2

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ServiceNow And Atlassian: The Rise Of IT Management Platforms

Forrester IT

As one of the Forrester analysts in attendance this spring at the ServiceNow Knowledge 2024 and Atlassian Team 24 conferences, I noticed a palpable change.

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The Impact of AI on the Modern Recruitment Landscape

From streamlining the job search process to efficiently navigating the influx of applications, AI-powered tools can revolutionize your recruitment efforts. By combining the efficiency of AI with the expertise of experienced recruiters, you can identify the ideal candidates who not only possess the necessary skills but also align with your company culture.

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CrowdStrike CEO apologizes for crashing IT systems around the world, details fix

CIO Business Intelligence

CrowdStrike CEO has apologized to the company’s customers and partners for crashing their Windows systems, and the company has described the error that caused the disaster. “I want to sincerely apologize directly to all of you for today’s outage. All of CrowdStrike understands the gravity and impact of the situation,” CrowdStrike founder and CEO George Kurtz wrote in a blog post on the company’s website titled “Our Statement on Today’s Outage.

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Electronic Health Record Errors Are a Serious Problem

Information Week

One of the original goals for electronic health records was to reduce medical errors. Here’s a look at how this developing technology has threatened patient safety -- along with insights from a scary situation my own family recently experienced.

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Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face.

Vox

Passengers enter the departure hall through face recognition at Xiaoshan International Airport in China in 2022. Here’s something I’m embarrassed to admit: Even though I’ve been reporting on the problems with facial recognition for half a dozen years , I have allowed my face to be scanned at airports. Not once. Not twice. Many times. There are lots of reasons for that.

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OpenAI's massive operating costs could push it close to bankruptcy within 12 months

TechSpot

ChatGPT reached 100 million users in February 2023, just a few months after its official launch in November. That made it the fastest growing app of all time until Threads arrived. The chatbot's proliferation into popular culture – as illustrated by the South Park episode – not to mention Microsoft's.

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Don’t Get Left Behind: Leveraging Modern Product Management Across the Organization

Speaker: Kat Conner

The challenge of delivering the right product at the right time while aligning with strategic objectives is more pressing than ever. Product management is evolving and gaining greater recognition as the means to creating this connection. Join our upcoming webinar and learn how to streamline your product development processes, infuse product thinking across the organization, and bridge the gap between vision and delivery.

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Microsoft lays off employees in new round of cuts

GeekWire

The Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft conducted another round of layoffs this week in the latest workforce reduction implemented by the Redmond tech giant this year. The cuts impacted multiple teams and geographies. Microsoft declined to provide details about the number of employees laid off. Posts on LinkedIn from impacted employees show the cuts affecting employees in product and program management roles. “ Organizational and workforce adjus

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RAG Is All The Rage — Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Demystified

Forrester IT

Enterprises experimenting with generative AI (genAI) are prioritizing use cases that enable internal and external users to better retrieve information they need, be it data, how-to pages, corporate policies, or return policies. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is now the most common underlying approach for building this type of large language model (LLM)-based enterprise knowledge-retrieval application.

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OpenAI touts new approach to AI safety after troubling executive transfer

CIO Business Intelligence

OpenAI announced on Wednesday a new approach to AI development, one that it said “aligns models to behave safely without extensive human data collection,” although some have raised concerns about AI interacting with AI. The move coincided with an announcement to address questions about safety priorities, following the reassignment of a key safety executive.

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Making the Transition to Artificial Intelligence

Information Week

AI will challenge IT infrastructure, governance, security, and IT. As companies transition to AI, what should CIOs be doing to prepare their organizations?

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr

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Warren Buffett’s breakup with the Gates Foundation will hurt the world

Vox

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett speak at an event organized by Columbia Business School on January 27, 2017, in New York City. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images It’s been an eventful couple of weeks, so much so that what I think will ultimately prove one of 2024’s most important revelations largely flew under the radar. That is the revelation that 93-year-old Warren Buffett, whose estimated fortune of $137 billion makes him the fifth-richest person in the US, will no longer give away his fortune on his

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Cheap vs. Premium DDR5: Stock vs. EXPO/XMP Memory

TechSpot

When building a new PC, should you play it safe with official memory specs, or aim for maximum performance with XMP and EXPO DDR5 kits? Let's find out the answer with a few gaming benchmarks.

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Jeff Bezos keeps selling Amazon stock after announcing his move out of Washington state

GeekWire

Jeff Bezos spoke in New York City on Sept. 20, 2021 to announce $1 billion in grants from the Bezos Earth Fund. (Bezos Earth Fund Photo) The news this week that Jeff Bezos plans to sell more Amazon stock is another reminder of the tech mogul’s move away from Washington state — and the debate over its capital gains tax. A new regulatory filing shows that the Amazon founder plans to sell 25 million Amazon shares worth about $5 billion.

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Threading The Needle On Gen AI And Developer Experience

Forrester IT

Let’s face it: A lot of what developers do is routine. I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard a developer declare, “Hooray, I get to set up a SQL database!” (Well… maybe I’ve heard that once or twice — I know a lot of developers who are connoisseurs of sarcasm).

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Cassandra

It’s no surprise that Apache Cassandra has emerged as a popular choice for organizations of all sizes seeking a powerful solution to manage their data at a scale—but with great power comes great responsibility. Due to the inherent complexity of distributed databases, this white paper will uncover the 10 rules you’ll want to know when managing Apache Cassandra.