Capgemini

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The operating model of the future – in the context of intelligent automation Maciej Sowa Oct 04, 2023 Facebook Twitter Linkedin The transition to a modernized, future-ready, automation-infused operating model can transform the organization into an ecosystem of interconnected components. that can act as a strategic driver for increased productivity, reduced costs, and enhanced customer satisfaction.

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CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2023

When you’re tasked with migrating 200,000 servers to a new operating system, a helping hand is very welcome indeed. That’s why SaaS giant Salesforce, in migrating its entire data center from CentOS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, has turned to generative AI — not only to help with the migration but to drive the real-time automation of this new infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2023

OpenAI, one of the best-funded AI startups in business, is exploring making its own AI chips. Discussions of AI chip strategies within the company have been ongoing since at least last year, according to Reuters, as the shortage of chips to train AI models worsens.

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CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2023

What is a business analyst? Business analysts (BAs) are responsible for bridging the gap between IT and the business using data analytics to assess processes, determine requirements, and deliver data-driven recommendations and reports to executives and stakeholders. BAs engage with business leaders and users to understand how data-driven changes to process, products, services, software, and hardware can improve efficiencies and add value.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2023

It looks like Spotify’s rumored “Superpremium” offering is gearing up for a launch. According to references discovered in the Spotify app’s code by Chris Messina, the Superpremium service now has a flashy logo and a longer list of features beyond the 24-bit lossless audio we’ve been anticipating.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2023

As creative industries grapple with AI’s explosion into every artistic medium at once, separate calls from artists warning the world to take action before it’s too late are starting to converge.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The future of work will not be determined by technology, but by creating the right mix of education, exposure, and experience needed to develop skills and put them to work, creating a vastly more productive workplace and economy. In this article, the authors recommend a “70/20/10” learning model, in which only 10% of learning comes from formal instruction (education), 20% from social learning or mentorship (exposure), and 70% from hands-on, experiential practice with feedback (experience).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Brave Software, the maker of Brave Browser and Search, confirmed that it has laid off 9% of its staff across departments. The company didn’t specify how many people were affected, but it corroborated the development and said the decision was driven by the tough economic climate.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Episode #232 – When issues or conversations come up in the workplace do you want to be responding not reacting? Despite having a desire to succeed, we are so accustomed to working hard to reach our goals and produce results in the workplace, that many of us sacrifice our deeper humanity. In this episode, Susan Freeman, Author of Inner Switch: 7 Timeless Principles to Transform Modern Leadership , lays out a transformational path for mainstream Western business leaders through ancient yogic

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The AI industry is progressing at a terrifying pace, but no amount of training will ever prepare an AI model to stop people from making it generate images of pregnant Sonic the Hedgehog. In the rush to launch the hottest AI tools, companies continue to forget that people will always use new tech for chaos.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Traditional job descriptions can’t keep up with the rate of change in real roles in today’s organizations. As new technologies disrupt processes and require new skills, and as companies are moving toward more and more project-based work, we are beginning to see the evolution of job descriptions away from static, holistic prescriptions that follow an employee for years to dynamic guidance that changes based on needs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Banking-as-a-service startup Synapse confirmed today that it has laid off 86 people, or about 40% of the company. The San Francisco-based company, which operates a platform enabling banks and fintech companies to easily develop financial services, has been open about past layoffs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Managers tend to think about liquidity as a finance issue, but in face the behaviors of the sales and operations team — and how they communicate and work together — can have a direct affect on a company’s cash position. To improve this working relationship, focus on aligning the teams, improving the quality of forecasts, map forecasts to the supply chain, and optimize for profitability rather than predictability.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2023

A person using generative AI — models that generate text, images, music and more given a prompt — could infringe on someone else’s copyright through no fault of their own. But who’s on the hook for the legal fees and damages if — or rather, when — that happens? It depends.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Will the DEI policy you’re about to implement actually hurt some of the people you’re trying to help? New research on this question shows that, yes, this can happen if you fail to take a systems-level view — but the good news is there are three key ways to avoid unintended consequences. First, consider subgroups. Think about variation within the group of people the policy is aimed at helping; for example, whether the experiences of most women employees might differ from women managers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Starting in January, the IRS will make the $7,500 federal EV tax credit available immediately via dealers. The Treasury Department announced the update on Friday, noting that dealers will have the option to “reduce the purchase price of the vehicle or provide cash to the buyer.

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Relational database systems such as MySQL have long been the go-to choice for handling large and complex data handling tasks. But, with the introduction of new technologies like NoSQL, many developers started to question whether traditional relational databases still have the upper hand.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle company Wisk Aero has started flight testing a version of its autonomous air taxi aircraft in Los Angeles, according to CEO Brian Yutko.

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CloudZero

OCTOBER 6, 2023

When it comes to September’s cloud cost news, cloud-based organizations will have to take a little bit of sour news along with the sweet:

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The promise of electric aviation has been weighed down by the limited range of batteries and the long certification process. Regent co-founder and CEO Billy Thalheimer, who previously worked at Aurora Flight Sciences, has looked to maritime — and more specifically, electric seagliders — for the answer to these two challenges.

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Dell EMC

OCTOBER 6, 2023

With Dell’s carrier grade support, unplanned downtime isn’t a concern for continuing business operations.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is investing $597 million in Reliance Retail, valuing the largest Indian retail chain at a whopping $100 billion. The investment follows KKR and Qatar Investment Authority together investing $1.7 billion in the Indian firm, which is part of Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries.

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Cloud-native application development in AWS often requires complex, layered architecture with synchronous and asynchronous interactions between multiple components, e.g., API Gateway, Microservices, Serverless Functions, and system of record integration. Performance engineering requires analysis of the performance and resiliency of each component level and the interactions between these.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2023

South Korea’s telecommunication regulator, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC), said Friday that it plans to levy fines on Google and Apple, which could total up to $50.5 million, for violating the country’s in-app payment law.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 6, 2023

A SANS Institute survey found that budgets for ICS/OT security have shrunk, and advises on how to do more with less. Plus, hiring managers boost starting salaries to recruit stellar cyber pros. In addition, CISA’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month campaign challenges tech vendors to build safer products. And much more! Dive into six things that are top of mind for the week ending October 6. 1 - SANS: How to cope with cuts in ICS/OT security budgets If your organization has cut its spending for secu

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“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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Last year’s techwide reckoning continues. In 2023, layoffs have yet again cost tens of thousands of tech workers their jobs; this time, the workforce reductions have been driven by the biggest names in tech like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, Meta and Zoom. Startups, too, have announced cuts across all sectors, from crypto to enterprise SaaS.

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Confluent

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Stream and process transactional, behavioral, and geo-location data with Confluent to deliver a personalized in-store shopping experience.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, is on trial for alleged fraud and conspiracy as he led the company’s swift rise and implosion.

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