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B2B Marketing Leaders Don’t Trust Their Measurement, And What They Measure Isn’t Helping

Forrester IT

Nearly two-thirds of marketing leaders say that they don’t believe their measurement and analytics are well aligned with organizational objectives. A continued focus on marketing sourcing is emblematic of the problem.

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World Password Day 2024: Tech Leaders Discuss Password Obsolescence and Alternatives

IT Toolbox

On the occasion of World Password Day 2024, tech experts from around the world discuss the growing redundancy and alternatives to conventional passwords. The post World Password Day 2024: Tech Leaders Discuss Password Obsolescence and Alternatives appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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My Prediction For The 2024 RSA Conference: Proactive Security Will Dominate Use Cases

Forrester IT

The RSA Conference is upon us again, and many are planning their travel to San Francisco next week and determining which talks to attend (including talks from our own Heidi Shey, Jinan Budge, Jeff Pollard, and Joseph Blankenship).

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Navigating Our Future: AI as a Partner, Not a Replacement

Eric D. Brown

💡 "Don't let inhumanity steal your humanity" - Marcus Aurelius (paraphrased) In its relentless efficiency, artificial intelligence promises to solve problems that have plagued humanity forever. From eradicating diseases to optimizing traffic, its potential seems endless. But as we delegate more of our tasks, decisions, and even emotional labor to algorithms, we risk diminishing our own capacity for compassion, empathy, and connection.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Announcing Forrester’s Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award

Forrester IT

Forrester announces the opening call for our annual Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award. This award recognizes organizations that have transformed the security, privacy, and risk management functions into capabilities that fuel the organization’s long-term success. Learn more about the award and how to apply here.

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Time to use Microsoft Graph Device Management PS Module Instead of MS Graph Intune Module

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 Time to use Microsoft Graph Device Management PS Module Instead of MS Graph Intune Module appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides by Vidya M A.

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How to Manage a Rapidly Growing IT Team

Information Week

Maintaining IT staff performance and efficiency during rapid growth requires careful planning and structure. Here's how to expand your team without missing a beat.

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The Critical Role Of Campaign Content Strategy

Forrester IT

We like to practice what we preach at Forrester — when you’ve got valuable content, share it in as many audience-centric ways as you can muster. In this case, the core content is our just-published report, The Forrester Campaign Content Strategy.

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Are VPNs Legal To Use?

Tech Republic Security

Are virtual private networks legal to use? Discover if VPNs are legal, restricted or banned in your geolocation and what activities are legal vs. illegal when using a VPN.

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Hannover Messe 2024: We’re All In This Together

Forrester IT

A Forrester analyst's impressions from Hannover Messe 2024, the smart manufacturing world's big annual trade show.

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7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders are presented with their fair share of challenges, with a host of tools and strategies to resolve them. That said, what’s the best path forward to leverage this year’s trends? In this recap of a recent GEP-WBR webinar, 7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024, GEP’s Pramod Sethumadhavan explores seven vital leadership trends that will help guide procurement and supply chain decision-makers.

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5 things CIOs must understand about AI infrastructure

CIO Business Intelligence

Generative AI has captured everyone’s attention — and for good reason. But getting from potential to profitability does not come without risks, such as assuming that your established processes for deploying mainstream enterprise IT infrastructure will work in the new era of complex AI superclusters. A solid technology infrastructure has always been essential.

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Prudential to shut down Assurance, the insurance tech startup it acquired for $2.35B in 2019

GeekWire

Inside Assurance HQ in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Taylor Soper) Insurance giant Prudential is shutting down Assurance IQ , five years after spending $2.35 billion to acquire the under-the-radar tech startup based in the Seattle region. “As we look to the future, we believe that directly investing in our core businesses and capabilities will help us become a higher growth, more capital efficient company,” Caroline Feeney, head of Prudential’s U.S. businesses, wrote in an em

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Tesla lays off entire Supercharger and new vehicles teams, weeks after previous cuts

TechSpot

Rebecca Tinucci, Tesla's senior director of EV charging, will be leaving the automaker. Being shown the door alongside Tinucci will be all 500 members of the team that reported to her, writes The Information.

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Hiring Hi-Tech Talent by Kickin’ It Old School

Information Week

Using elements of a traditional approach to recruiting IT professionals can attract and grow the modern workforce.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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Reading Tips for Windows Update Logs in Windows 11

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 Reading Tips for Windows Update Logs in Windows 11 appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides by Alok Kumar Mishra.

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How Today’s CIOs Drive Value

Information Week

Modern chief information officers need to drive value for their company and its customers, which means their employers can no longer afford to view IT as a cost center.

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Pricing Details of Microsoft Security Copilot

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 Pricing Details of Microsoft Security Copilot appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides by Gopika S Nair.

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The Role that Mentors Play in Closing the Gender Gap

Information Week

Mentoring staff members makes a difference. Here's how you can use it productively to develop in-house talent.

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Next-Gen Procurement: Transforming Processes with the Power of Generative AI

Generative AI goes beyond just automating tasks and providing real-time answers. Did you know that implementing generative AI reduces sourcing cycle times and allows for faster decision-making across procurement operations? In this whitepaper — Next-Gen Procurement: Transforming Processes With the Power of Generative AI — experts reveal how the strategic application of generative AI within procurement processes is paving the way for groundbreaking improvements.

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Microsoft Teams Phone Connects with Millions of PSTN Users

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 Microsoft Teams Phone Connects with Millions of PSTN Users appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides by Krishna R.

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Priest arrested for using $40,000 of parish funds on mobile games, including Candy Crush and Mario Kart

TechSpot

Reverend Lawrence Kozak, 51, was charged with theft and other related crimes for allegedly using a church credit card to spend $41,879.83 on mobile games between September 2019 and July 2022, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Kotaku).

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Adobe Adds Firefly and AI Watermarking to Bug Bounty Program

Tech Republic Security

Researchers can earn up to $10,000 for critical vulnerabilities in the generative AI products.

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Boston Dynamics bots could revolutionize the live entertainment industry

TechSpot

Boston Dynamics introduced its four-legged, canine-like robot in 2016. Over the years, we have seen Spot work alongside - and in place of - humans in several risky scenarios. In 2019, for example, the Massachusetts State Police leased a unit for a trial run in the bomb squad. The following.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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DoorDash reports record quarterly revenue of $2.5B, rips Seattle over minimum wage law

GeekWire

Photo by Marques Thomas on Unsplash. DoorDash dedicated two large paragraphs of its first quarter earnings report and spent several minutes on a call with analysts to voice opposition against controversial minimum wage laws for delivery drivers in Seattle and New York City. The company’s comments reflect an ongoing battle between tech giants and supporters of legislation aimed at boosting pay for drivers that are classified as independent contractors.

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Path tracing mods for Deus Ex, Dark Messiah, and Half-Life 2 show stunning progress

TechSpot

Modders working with Nvidia's RTX Remix toolset can now utilize DLSS 3.5 ray reconstruction when adding path tracing to older games. The company used the announcement to show its effects on some in-development projects.

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Former Microsoft engineers raise $3M for cybersecurity startup StepSecurity

GeekWire

Ashish Kurmi (left) and Varun Sharma, co-founders of StepSecurity. (StepSecurity Photo) StepSecurity , a Seattle-area startup aiming to help developers secure their projects, raised a $3 million seed round led by Runtime Ventures. Founded in 2022 by former Microsoft engineers and cybersecurity veterans Ashish Kurmi and Varun Sharma , StepSecurity focuses on CI/CD, an industry term known as continuous integration and continuous delivery that describes the process of automating the development and

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Ex-Google staff claim terminations over Israeli contract protest were illegal

TechSpot

Nine Google employees were arrested last month after occupying the company's offices in New York and California for an eight-hour sit-in. They were protesting against the $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli government for Google and Amazon's cloud services.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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Google spurs US to ease immigration rules for tech talent

CIO Business Intelligence

In a plea for hiring relief, Google has sent the US Department of Labor an urgent appeal to amend US immigration laws to ease the hiring of foreign IT workers. On May 1, the tech titan submitted a lengthy response to the department’s request for information on modernizing Schedule A, a little-known immigration rule that fast-tracks the hiring of foreign workers in occupations facing pre-certified shortages in the US.

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Devious "Brokewell" trojan masquerades as Chrome browser update to steal your banking data

TechSpot

As reported by fraud risk company ThreatFabric, the modus operandi of this malware is deceptively simple - it tricks unsuspecting users into downloading it by disguising itself as an update for Google Chrome. The fake update page looks pretty legit at first glance, using similar visuals and branding as the.

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Take-Two Interactive layoffs hit Seattle area; 70 workers affected

GeekWire

Take-Two Interactive, the gaming giant behind the Grand Theft Auto franchise, is laying off 70 employees in the Seattle region. A WARN notification with Washington’s Employment Security Department (ESD) revealed the layoffs in Seattle as part of a closure beginning June 28. Take-Two lists Seattle as an office location on its website. The company owns Seattle-based studio Intercept Games, which is developing Kerbal Space Program 2.

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iOS 18 could overhaul several built-in iPhone apps with AI features

TechSpot

According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the updated Notes app will feature enhanced support for displaying mathematical equations and recording voice memos directly within the app. Gurman also suggests that Apple will introduce a dedicated Calculator app for iPad.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.