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In a slow year for enterprise tech M&A, there were few standout deals

TechCrunch

It was a slow year in enterprise technology M&A, and the total was the second lowest since we started compiling the data in 2018. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Setting up my own landing zone on AWS

Xebia

As a consultant I am used to a certain level of quality that I need to deliver to our customers. For this reason I have built a landing zone for my own website, initiatives and experiments. By using the same structure that our customers have, I can test and build my ideas and apply them in customer environments if they are successful. At first it might feel like a massive overkill to set up a complete landing zone.

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Contact Center Feature Flags Using AWS Appconfig

Dzone - DevOps

This article explains the utilization of AWS AppConfig for managing Amazon Connect cloud contact center IVR experiences/features, consideration, benefits & technical implementation. This technical article intends to provide a solution recommendation to release a new contact center feature in production safely in a controlled manner. Releasing New Feature To release a new IVR feature in production, the feature management solution must support the following requirements.

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Model quantization and the dawn of edge AI

InfoWorld

The convergence of artificial intelligence and edge computing promises to be transformative for many industries. Here the rapid pace of innovation in model quantization, a technique that results in faster computation by improving portability and reducing model size, is playing a pivotal role. Model quantization bridges the gap between the computational limitations of edge devices and the demands of deploying highly accurate models for faster, more efficient, and more cost-effective edge AI solut

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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 to let go of 30,000 employees due to new AI innovation? Here’s what report suggests

Ooda Loop

Search giant Google is planning to reorganise a large part of its 30,000-strong ad sales unit as a result of the company’s recent advances in artificial intelligence, according to a report by The Information.

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Apple quietly released an open source multimodal LLM in October

Ooda Loop

With little fanfare, researchers from Apple and Columbia University released an open source multimodal LLM, called Ferret, in October 2023. At the time, the release — which included the code and weights, but for research use only, not a commercial license — did not receive much attention.

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Cyber Watch: Cloud Security Tops CISO Worries, Securing Your Cloud Apps and Data, and more

Tenable

This week's edition of Tenable Cyber Watch unpacks the top cybersecurity concerns for CISOs and shares tips on how you can better secure your cloud apps and data. Also covered: Cloud adoption by financial institutions spiked in 2023. Wondering what’s keeping CISOs up at night? Interested in learning how you can protect cloud apps and data via secure configurations?

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The strange, marvelous year of generative AI

InfoWorld

Has it only been a year? Just one year since ChatGPT smacked us with all of the slings and arrows of outrageous, Terminator-grade, singularity-trumpeting, sci-fi fortune? Just one year since we started believing that artificial intelligence really might free us from toil, and deliver us to a life of lounging like George and Jane Jetson ? Just one year since we started worrying about the AIs coming for our jobs , the jobs of our spouses, the jobs of our children, and the jobs of everyone except t

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The next generation of Tesla’s humanoid robot makes its debut

Ooda Loop

Tesla, the company known for its electric cars, solar panels and batteries, has also been working hard on developing humanoid robots that can perform various tasks and interact with humans.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Importance of Prompt Engineering in LLM Application Development

Sunflower Lab

What is Prompt Engineering & Why is it Important for LLM? The world has changed so much technology wise that for many tasks, we hardly interact with humans for which we used to heavily rely on earlier. Chatbots are intuitive, smart and easy to access as they are prompt based and have all their answers ready to serve, most companies have adopted the chatbot model for their customer service which directly affected the load over human workforce.

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#748 Invasion of the Tesla Bots: A Special Episode of the Joel Beasley Show

Modern CTO

Today, we’re bringing you a special episode of the podcast! Joel recently created a new YouTube channel where he discusses big ideas in tech, dissects them from a societal perspective, and generally delves into anything he’s curious about. This episode is a version of his content specifically edited to be a podcast. Joel and Isaac dive into Tesla’s new bipedal robot, and Joel gives his thoughts on the societal impacts that these robots may have.

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Enhancing Test Reporting using ExtentReports in Selenium

Perficient

Selenium, a widely-used automation testing framework, can be augmented with powerful reporting tools to provide detailed insights into test execution. One such tool is ExtentReports, a versatile reporting library that seamlessly integrates with Selenium to enhance the visibility and comprehensibility of test results. Understanding ExtentReports ExtentReports is an open-source reporting library for Java and.NET that facilitates the creation of interactive and detailed reports for test automation.

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These are the top 10 most popular AI tools of 2023

Ooda Loop

Many have dubbed 2023 the year of AI, as the pace of artificial intelligence breakthroughs this year has been fast — and for some, concerning. However, fear didn’t stop people from jumping on the AI bandwagon, a new study confirms.

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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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Learn More about Microsoft Viva Engage

Perficient

Viva Connection is nowadays everywhere or we can say every organization is using it. Viva Connections is an organization’s personalized gateway, providing employees with a centralized hub to access company news, policies, and resources. This feature transforms Microsoft Teams into an engaging and dynamic intranet-like experience, where employees can stay informed and connected.

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The 5 biggest DeFi hacks of 2023

Ooda Loop

Ledger was recently exploited for an estimated $610,000 — a reminder that security and privacy remain important priorities for the crypto ecosystem. According to DeFiLlama, hackers have cost crypto startups and projects more than $1.3 billion in losses this year.

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Best of…: Best of 2023: The Microservice Migration

The Daily WTF

It's the last week of the year, and as per tradition, we look back at some of the best stories of the year. We start with this charmer , from February, a… little slice of brillant architecture. -- Remy "Why aren't we using microservices?" It was an odd way to start a meeting, but it got Mr. TA 's attention. TA was contracting with a client, and sitting in a meeting with their senior architects.