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6 best practices to develop a corporate use policy for generative AI

CIO

While there’s an open letter calling for all AI labs to immediately pause training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 for six months, the reality is the genie is already out of the bottle. Here are ways to get a better grasp of what these systems are capable of, and utilize them to construct an effective corporate use policy for your organization.

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500 Global spreads its wings across the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, via Tbilisi

TechCrunch

European accelerators are going through an interesting time right now. For instance, TechStars Stockholm was all set to launch and then abruptly shut down. And I think it’s now commonly accepted that most accelerators outside of YCombinator can too be often ‘less than adequate’, to put it diplomatically. Perhaps an exception to this oft-repeated phrase, in my experience, is Entrepreneur First out of London/Europe (but now also in Asia), and even then that entity is slightly closer to

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Buying advice for CIOs as low-code/no-code spending rises

CIO

Faced with a long-running shortage of experienced professional developers, enterprise IT leaders have been exploring fresh ways of unlocking software development talent by training up non-IT staff and deploying tools that enable even business users to build or customize applications to suit their needs. A broad spectrum of tools has arisen to facilitate software development in the enterprise, from no-code platforms like Bubble and low-code drag-and-drop tools , both stand-alone and integrated in

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Yeah, the data is bad, but I’m still optimistic about emerging managers

TechCrunch

Emerging managers have been on the same rollercoaster as startups for the last few years. Funding to these young firms swelled in 2021 as venture was hot overall, but in line with the broader market, fundraising has slowed to a trickle since the beginning of 2022. The trend continued into 2023. New data from PitchBook shows that U.S.-based emerging managers raised a collective $1.62 billion in Q1.

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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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IT Leadership – and Networking – Take Center Stage at FutureIT Event Series

CIO

The room was abuzz. People were standing, talking intensely, mingling, and meeting new people. This was our first in-person conference in 2023, and it was going exactly as planned: Participants were engaged and networking. In all of our surveys, networking is always one of the top two reasons attendees come to our events (the other is the content), but often we don’t see them doing it.

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The Engagement You’ll Find at Our Virtual Events

CIO

A record number of participants turned out for a discussion group with one of our speakers, Tom Kouloupolous , futurist and chairman and founder of Delphi Group, during our April virtual summit, CIO’s Future of Cloud and Data. Nearly all of the almost 300 viewers of his virtual session on “Living in the Cloud” jumped onto the Zoom call where they could ask questions.

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Creative platform EVEN raises $2.2M seed round to help artists sell directly to fans

TechCrunch

Creative platform EVEN , which allows artists to sell music directly to fans, said it has closed a $2.2 million seed round led by CSA Partners. The platform positions itself as the first stop before artists release music on streaming platforms. Fans, in return, receive access to exclusive content and experiences. The company’s CEO and founder, Mag Rodriguez, says he started building the platform last February as a way to help Black and brown artists retain equity in their creative work.

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Google Sheets Introduces Improved Filters

Xebia

If you’re regularly using Google Sheets, you are definitely making use of filters and/or filter views. It is the most used feature in Google Sheets, that help you analyze your data and make it more insightful. And now, there’s more! Google Workspace recently upgraded the filter feature, and again makes users’ lives a lot easier. The first improvement is that you get a summary of the number of rows left after applying a filter.

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4 SaaS engagement metrics that attract investors

TechCrunch

Oleksandr Yaroshenko Contributor Oleksandr Yaroshenko is head of investor relations at Headway , an edtech startup with operations in Ukraine, the UK, Poland, and Cyprus. More posts by this contributor 6 reasons to invest in startups from Ukraine Investors wish they could forecast the future and decrease the uncertainty regarding how a business will grow.

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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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Getting Started With Cloud Sustainability

Xebia

Cloud Sustainability is an important topic. This is not without a reason, since sustainability is key in preserving our planet. The combined world of sustainability and cloud is getting more and more traction. The investments pay off: we get more capabilities to work with and now it’s time to start harvesting. The urgency is also there. ICT, including cloud, is responsible for 3% of the global greenhouse gasses emissions.

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Creative platform EVEN raises $2.2M seed round to help artists sell directly to fans

TechCrunch

Creative platform EVEN , which allows artists to sell music directly to fans, said it has closed a $2.2 million seed round led by CSA Partners. The platform positions itself as the first stop before artists release music on streaming platforms. Fans, in return, receive access to exclusive content and experiences. The company’s CEO and founder, Mag Rodriguez, says he started building the platform last February as a way to help Black and brown artists retain equity in their creative work.

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Leadership Visibility: How to Ensure Your Team Gets the Attention They Deserve

Let's Grow Leaders

Your Work is Valuable – Let’s Make Sure You Get Leadership Visibility Let’s talk about getting more leadership better visibility and recognition for YOU – and YOUR TEAM’s – work. Today’s #AskingForaFriend came in from our Micro-Learning Lab. “I’ve always had trouble “selling” my (or our) job to higher management.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: VC robotics survey, Visa Bulletin update, SaaS engagement metrics

TechCrunch

A robotic taxi drove me home a few nights ago, and it was just fine. As it carried me through Golden Gate Park at a steady 23 miles per hour (slowing down to 6 mph for every speed bump), I felt like a packet of information being delivered across a network. Since our last robotics investor survey in February 2020, Figure emerged from stealth with its bipedal humanoid robot, and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas became a parkour expert.

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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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Anytime Coaching for Leaders with Wendy Swire

Let's Grow Leaders

Leaders know how valuable coaching conversations can be but it’s not always easy to find the time. In this episode, Wendy Swire, author of Anytime Coaching: Unleashing Employee Performance, gives us effective and impactful coaching skills to use at any time. The Anytime Coaching model equips managers (from first-time supervisors to senior executives) with tools they can use immediately to transform the way they work with employees and colleagues unleashing their best thinking and developin

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Unicorns are rare, but what about real?

TechCrunch

 Hello, and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week Mary Ann , Natasha and Alex enjoyed the warming climate and the fact that there are some positive vibes in the venture market as well. Hell, we even had a nine-figure round to chew on! Here’s the show rundown: Alex wanted to discuss the latest FTX docs and the recent X.com (formally known as Twitter) news.

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Turning Software Testers Into 10xers

DevOps.com

How do you make technical processes faster and more scalable? If your answer is simply to automate them, you’re stuck in the 2010s. Today, automation is widespread, and automating processes in a basic sense is no longer enough on its own to maximize efficiency and velocity. Instead, teams who want to excel–who want to become […] The post Turning Software Testers Into 10xers appeared first on DevOps.com.

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OpenTelemetry Roundup for Kubecon EU

Honeycomb

Well howdy there partner, Phillip here with a rootin’ tootin’ OTel update for ya, right on time for Kubecon EU! OpenTelemetry SDK distribution for Python We’ve released an SDK distribution for Python. As with our other distributions, it’s focused on several things: Making it as easy as possible to send data directly to Honeycomb with minimal configuration, but the right configuration knobs you can dial later to fit your needs Multi-span attributes via a Baggage Span Processor Local trace visuali

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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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How Application Developer Turnover is Shaping Security

DevOps.com

Observing the developer job market for the past two years reveals a surprising truth that has a profound impact on technology organizations. In the “new normal” of hybrid work, life moves fast and there’s no sign of slowing down. Since 2021, we’ve witnessed all-time record demand for software engineering developers. The emergence of privately held […] The post How Application Developer Turnover is Shaping Security appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Understanding Desired Outcomes: How We Selected the Cloud Defense Free Feature Set

Firemon

When we decided to launch a free version of FireMon Cloud Defense we knew we would have to balance two key challenges: We already knew our platform could scale, but could we adapt it to economically scale to support large enterprises for the long term? Needless to say we couldn’t simply release it and hope our AWS bills didn’t force us into receivership.

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Endor Labs Taps ChatGPT to Identify Secure Open Source Software

DevOps.com

Endor Labs has launched DroidGPT, an extension of its software for assessing risks in open source code. DroidGPT integrates the ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform to make it simpler to discover the most secure version of an open source package. That capability makes it possible for developers to launch a natural language query from […] The post Endor Labs Taps ChatGPT to Identify Secure Open Source Software appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Transform Your E-Commerce Business with GPT-Powered Chatbots

QBurst

In this blog post, we will explore the growing significance of chatbots for e-commerce, their limitations, and how GPT-3 can enhance their capabilities. We’ll discuss how GPT-3 can improve intent detection, entity extraction, and conversational flow building, and thus make chatbots more robust and efficient. So, what makes chatbots a business imperative?

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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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Sustainability is now an integral part of business in Asia Pacific. Are you maximizing the opportunities it offers?

IDC

Have you ever wondered why sustainability has become such a buzzword lately? From our conversations within the Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) industry, IDC discovered that this is one part due to pressures from stakeholders (e.g. investors, regulators, end-user, eco system partners and clients) and the other due to the opportunities sustainability initiatives can offer. [.

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Research: Being Funny Can Pay Off More for Women Than Men

Harvard Business Review

An analysis of TED talks and startup pitches suggests humor can help women break free from the warmth–competence double bind.

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Nullables Livestream #17: Game On

James Shore

In this weekly livestream series, I pair up with Ted M. Young, aka jitterted , to look at Nullables and A-Frame Architecture as an alternative to Mocks, Spies, and Hexagonal Architecture. Each episode combines a healthy dose of architecture and design discussion with hands-on coding. Watch us live every Monday! For details, see the event page. For more episode recordings, see the episode archive.

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What Business Needs to Know About the New U.S. Cybersecurity Strategy

Harvard Business Review

It promises to shift liability onto private firms and create incentives to defend against critical vulnerabilities.

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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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Partner with Dell for Optimized, Simple and Open Solutions

Dell EMC

Always-on expectations drive much of what Cloud Service Providers do. Dell’s new PowerEdge servers can help you deliver.

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The Ripple Effect of a Bad Boss on Dual-Career Parents

Harvard Business Review

Five steps you can take to manage a boss that’s making both of your lives harder.

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Sitecore, ltcs2022, Docker, VMs and Windows 11

Perficient

Sitecore recently updated their docker images to use ltsc2022. Martin Miles showed us what that means for developers and how to update your container environment to run Sitecore in process isolation mode. In short, process isolation is again a viable option to improve performance of running containers locally. I was hopeful the ltsc2022 images were tied to the update version 22H2 meaning they would work on Windows 10 22H2.

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