Wed.Sep 06, 2023

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Your Data In AI

Perficient

What’s happening to your data in AI? I’ve had countless conversations with tech enthusiasts asking that question. It’s a valid concern, given the rapid expansion of AI technologies and their integration into our daily lives. So, I decided to shed some light on this topic by breaking down the different levels of data usage by AI companies.

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Price shock: IBM to increase cloud costs by up to 26% from 2024

CIO

IBM is all set to increase its cloud services costs by up to 26% from January 2024. The new price rise will affect infrastructure-as-a-service ( IaaS ) and platform-as-a-service ( PaaS ) offerings, the company said in a GitHub post. International customers will witness a steeper price hike compared to their US peers. IBM PaaS services — slated for a 3% price hike globally — include IBM’s Kubernetes Services, RedHat OpenShift, all security services, and all cloud database offerings including Mes

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Clubhouse is trying to make a comeback

TechCrunch

Remember Clubhouse? At the peak of pandemic lockdowns, the invite-only social audio app soared with 10x month to month growth, then faded from public discourse almost as quickly as a16z investors opened their wallets. Now, Clubhouse is throwing a hail mary to try to become relevant again.

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Lessons from the field: How Generative AI is shaping software development in 2023

CIO

Since ChatGPT’s release in November of 2022, there have been countless conversations on the impact of similar large language models. Generative AI has forced organizations to rethink how they work and what can and should be adjusted. Specifically, organizations are contemplating Generative AI’s impact on software development. While the potential of Generative AI in software development is exciting, there are still risks and guardrails that need to be considered.

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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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Anduril acquires Blue Force Technologies, the company behind the Fury unmanned fighter jet

TechCrunch

Venture-backed defense giant Anduril Industries is acquiring Blue Force Technologies, the advanced design and engineering firm behind the “Fury” unmanned fighter jet, as the company looks to build out its suite of autonomous systems for national security customers.

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The question of gig worker status in Massachusetts is back on

TechCrunch

A year ago, a Massachusetts court ruled to throw out a 2022 proposed ballot measure that sought to define gig workers as independent contractors rather than employees. Now it appears that proposal is getting a second wind.

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How to Negotiate Your Salary in the Age of Pay Transparency Laws

Harvard Business Review

Pay transparency empowers you with information about what’s possible. But how should you negotiate for yourself when a pay band is exceptionally large? In this article, the author shares insights from two experts on compensation and negotiation. They recommend not focusing on “fairness” when making your case, but rather focusing the conversation on yours and the employer’s mutual interests.

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5 neat AI startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2023 batch

TechCrunch

It’s that time of year again: the week when startups in Y Combinator’s latest batch present their products for media — and investor — scrutiny. Over the next two days, roughly 217 companies will present in total, a tad smaller than last winter’s 235-firm cohort as VC enthusiasm a slight slump.

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Despite Concerns, AI Increasingly Used to Build Software

DevOps.com

A GitLab survey found AI is increasingly used to build software despite concerns about introducing it into the SDLC.

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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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Our favorite startups from YC’s Summer 2023 Demo Day, Day 1

TechCrunch

This collection of startups featured lots of AI-powered startups, some interesting fintech offerings and one company that aims to be the Chipotle of Africa.

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We Were Built for This Moment

Dataiku

Today, Dataiku announced several milestones. One was about the scale of our business: passing $230 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR). Another was about the geographic balance of our business: passing $100 million in ARR in both our Americas and EMEA regions. And a third is about preparing for the coming decade: hiring Wall Street and software veteran Krish Venkataraman in the newly created role of President.

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OpenAI will host its first developer conference on November 6

TechCrunch

OpenAI will host a developer conference — its first ever — on November 6, the company announced today.

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IT Holds the Key to Creating Business Value Through Sustainability  

IDC

The importance of efficient and sustainable IT has further increased in light of economic challenges and the causal connection between energy/IT efficiency and carbon footprint.

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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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YouTube confirms it’s testing a games offering called ‘Playables’

TechCrunch

YouTube is letting a select number of users play online games as part of a new experiment. The games will live in a new “Playables” section on YouTube’s home feed, and can be accessed on both desktop and mobile.

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Enhance Your Grant Proposal-Writing Skills by Organizing Your Resources

TechSoup

This blog post is the second in a two-part series about how to enhance your grant writing skills. In part one of this series , we covered reading successful grant proposals.

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Ministerial statement on UK’s Online Safety Bill seen as steering out of encryption clash

TechCrunch

The U.K. government appears to have steered out of a direct collision with the tech industry over a controversial, encryption-risking provision in the Online Safety Bill.

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Behavioral Design: A Vehicle for Better Healthcare

Mentormate

In the ever-evolving nexus of technology and healthcare, a new protagonist is emerging — behavioral design. While cutting-edge technology and advanced therapeutics form the backbone of this intersection, the true power of health interventions is increasingly recognized in their capacity to ignite positive behavioral changes. Embracing this profound realization, we witness behavioral design’s rise, reshaping our healthcare approach.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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Here’s why some investors are sitting out of YC Demo Day

TechCrunch

The majority of the investors sitting out of YCombinator Demo Day for the first time said it was partially due to the high valuations.

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Sum an Array of Numbers with JavaScript

David Walsh

It’s rare that I’m disappointed by the JavaScript language not having a function that I need. One such case was summing an array of numbers — I was expecting Math.sum or a likewise, baked in API. Fear not — summing an array of numbers is easy using Array.prototype.reduce ! const numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4]; const sum = numbers.reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0); The 0 represents the starting value while with a and b , one represents the running total with the other representing the va

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Twitter alternative T2 gets its own For You feed, but won’t force it as the default

TechCrunch

The would-be Twitter rival T2 has already launched a number of features hoping to capture the attention of Twitter’s fleeing users, including built-in direct messages and a verification program that allowed Twitter users to import their legacy checkmark before it disappeared on the Elon Musk-owned app, which recently rebranded as X.

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Chronicle Services: Low Latency Java Microservices Without Pain

Dzone - DevOps

Low Latency? In computing, latency is defined as the length of time to perform some task. This could be the time it takes to respond to an interrupt from hardware or the time it takes for a message sent by one component to be available to its recipient. In many cases, latency is not seen as a primary non-functional concern when designing an application, even when considering performance.

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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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Google Cloud’s CEO will discuss AI and what’s next at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023

TechCrunch

If tech could claim just one theme this year, it would, hands down, be AI. It’s absolutely everywhere, especially, one could argue, in the cloud. And if you’re going to talk about AI in the cloud, it’s tough to imagine a better candidate for that discussion than Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud.

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Stop Leaking Secrets!

DevOps.com

All too often, software teams trip over complexities and inadvertently leave secrets exposed in private and public software repositories.

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Blockchain tech needs a ‘ChatGPT moment’ to scale enterprise adoption

TechCrunch

Big names like Starbucks and Nike were quick to adopt blockchain tech, but it will still be a while until we see the enterprise space embrace the tech.

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Adopting an Agile Multicloud Approach for Better Business Outcomes

Dell EMC

NS Solutions helps organizations make the most of their cloud strategy using a cost-predictable, quick-to-deploy multicloud solution.

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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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Voiijer’s new app offers a social community for nature-lovers and explorers

TechCrunch

Social media often disconnects people from the real world, keeping people inside scrolling feeds on their phones. New social app Voiijer wants to do the opposite by connecting nature enthusiasts to the world’s wonders, where they can create community, share their adventures, document their discoveries and collaborate with others on expeditions.

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Steady On. We Still Have a Job to Do

DevOps.com

AI-generated change is not significantly different than the last couple decades where change has become IT’s constant companion.

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Startup Battlefield 200: Health tech and sustainability

TechCrunch

You’re just a couple weeks away from meeting the Startup Battlefield 200 companies in person at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023! We’re incredibly proud of — and impressed by — this year’s hand-picked cohort. To avoid utter overwhelm, we’re announcing them in groups, broken out by industry tracks.