Ooda Loop
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
In a previous post in this series we raised a question: Is the US Government Over-Regulating AI? That post discussed the word “decontrol” as a concept whose time has come in discussion of AI use in the government.
CIO
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
When Matt Postulka left Arbella Insurance Group as deputy CIO at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, he didn’t intend to look back. Postulka aspired to become a CIO — and he achieved it, landing a job as CIO and senior vice president of technology and operations at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. It made sense to leave Arbella because “there was a great leader in place” and “I was feeling that CIO was several years away,” Postulka explains.
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Xebia
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Many people follow some kind of naming format for their branches. Be it because they’re using GitHub Flow or Git Flow or because they’ve created their own meaningful naming patterns. With the new Rulesets you can enforce branches with specific patterns. It was a bit confusing to me at first, because I had to think in inverse to make this rule work.
CIO
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Amid growing concerns about the adverse effects of AI, the British government has announced a $125 million (£100 million) investment to support regulators and advance research and innovation in AI. Close to $113 million (£90 million) is being allocated to establish nine new research hubs throughout the UK, alongside a collaboration with the US on responsible AI.
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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.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
AI moves quickly, but organizations change much more slowly. What works in a lab may be wrong for your company right now. If you know the right questions to ask, you can make better decisions, regardless of how fast technology changes. You can work with your technical experts to use the right tool for the right job. Then each solution today becomes a foundation to build further innovations tomorrow.
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InfoQ Culture Methods
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Companies are now looking to grow and more effectively manage DevOps with platform engineering and site reliability engineering roles. No one has these roles perfectly carved out right now — there’s just too much to do and not enough people to do it — but knowing where these three disciplines do and don’t overlap will help organizations evolve and take advantage when they are ready.
CIO
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
We’re moving into an era of AI and advanced technologies. A better, more sustainable future is on the horizon. But there is a major roadblock preventing progress: the limitations of our communication networks and computing infrastructure. In fact, computing and networking have already reached a limit due to increasing power consumption, data bandwidth, and the need for faster response time due to new innovative services and the massive amount of data being transmitted.
Ooda Loop
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
The year 2024 will require a reorientation to new realities, largely driven by the acceleration of disruptive technologies grinding against the inertia of stale institutions that would rather we snack on the comfort food of the past than the buffet of the future.
CIO
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
CIO’s Executive Roundtables offer CIOs and other senior IT professionals a chance to get together and discuss important issues of the day, such as how to optimize the value of new digital solutions. I’ve been leading these roundtables for nearly two decades, and it is clear that the present state is very different from the past. The current state is highly dynamic and exciting, but the rate of change has the potential to overwhelm IT leadership, who need to consider adopting numerous new busines
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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
Confluent
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Confluent enables real-time, reliable, scalable, and secure communication between IoT devices, applications, and backend systems. Streamline data processing and unlock analytics to boost productivity and time to market while lowering infrastructure costs.
Ooda Loop
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
On Sunday, a report from the South China Morning Post revealed a significant financial loss suffered by a multinational company’s Hong Kong office, amounting to HK$200 million (US$25.6 million), due to a sophisticated scam involving deepfake technology.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Early user programs are critical to the success of products. But B2B companies often are disappointed with their results. The problem is the way they are designed and implemented. This article provides a process that can make a big difference in helping companies do a better job of choosing early users and harvesting valuable information. They can have a significant impact on the success of a new product launch.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
AI assistants are changing the way code gets made, and much of this is for the better. But what's the impact on code quality?
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.
CEO Insider
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
In the evolving landscape we all work within, leadership has undergone a profound transformation. The world has changed and so have we. With so much going on, we need to be mindful of our energy and that of others and not just our physical energy but our energy across the five key facets that make […] The post The 5 Dimensions of Energy to Lead Effectively appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Changes at work can stir up anxiety, anger, and frustration. Being affected by these dynamics isn’t a sign of weakness. It’s normal not to feel normal for a while. In this article, the author outlines six strategies to try to help yourself stay grounded amidst uncertainty.
The Daily WTF
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Let's say you have a database table containing a list of countries. Given the primary key of a country in that table- an arbitrary ID field- you need to look up the name of that country. Curtis 's predecessor dropped this solution: function return_country ( $id ) { $sql = "SELECT * FROM countries" ; $qry = db_query ( $sql ); if ( mysql_num_rows ( $qry )> 0 ){ while ( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc ( $qry )){ $a [ $row [ 'id' ]] = $row [ 'name' ]; } } else { return ar
Daffodil Software
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Not too long ago, healthcare was all about personal connections between doctors and patients, using handwritten notes and talking directly. But as healthcare grew and more information about patients came in, it became clear that we needed a better and more organized way of doing things. Hospitals and clinics had to change how they worked, aiming for smoother processes, quicker decision-making, and better communication among healthcare workers.
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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.
The Hustle
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Want to see a really big number? Here: Americans wagered $106B+ on sports between January and November 2023. That was made possible by a 2018 Supreme Court ruling that ended a federal ban on sports betting. Today, it’s legal in 38 states. In most of those states, the minimum age to bet is 21 ; in the rest, it’s 18. But now, more underage Americans are making wagers through unregulated apps.
Crunchbase News
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Not all big funding rounds go to generative AI companies. NinjaOne , which provides endpoint management, security and monitoring, raised a $231.5 million Series C led by Iconiq Growth. The minority investment values the Austin, Texas-based firm at $1.9 billion. Monitoring and securing endpoints has been a main pillar of cybersecurity since the industry started.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Here are 10 key features to look for when choosing an AI coding assistant to help automate the tedious aspects of software development.
Crunchbase News
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
The past few quarters have been a sluggish period for funding to scads of startup technology sectors. Spacetech, however, is not one of them. Last year, investors poured more than $4.6 billion globally into startups in the space travel and satellite categories, as well as space-related aerospace sectors, per Crunchbase data. Supersize rounds went to companies developing everything from satellite networks to space stations.
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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.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
This post is co-written with Ilan Geller, Shuyu Yang and Richa Gupta from Accenture. Bringing innovative new pharmaceuticals drugs to market is a long and stringent process. Companies face complex regulations and extensive approval requirements from governing bodies like the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). A key part of the submission process is authoring regulatory documents like the Common Technical Document (CTD), a comprehensive standard formatted document for submitting applications,
Honeycomb
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
In today’s economic and regulatory environment, data sovereignty is increasingly top of mind for observability teams. The rules and regulations surrounding telemetry data can often be challenging to interpret, leaving many teams in the dark about what kind of data they can capture, how long it can be stored, and where it has to reside. In the past, addressing these issues at scale was a costly endeavor.
InfoWorld
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Typically, the use of large language models (LLMs) in the enterprise falls into two broad categories. The first one is where the LLM automates a language-related task such as writing a blog post, drafting an email, or improving the grammar or tone of an email you have already drafted. Most of the time these sorts of tasks do not involve confidential company information.
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
DevOps encompasses a set of practices and principles that blend development and operations to deliver high-quality software products efficiently and effectively by fostering a culture of open communication between software developers and IT professionals. Code reviews play a critical role in achieving success in a DevOps approach mainly because they enhance the quality of code, promote collaboration among team members, and encourage the sharing of knowledge within the team.
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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.
InfoWorld
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
The question of the day is no longer “What’s the best cloud?” It’s now “How do we build a team of people to build a net-new generative AI system?” Budgets have dropped. The board of directors wants one of these nifty generative AI systems that everyone is talking about to fundamentally change how the business functions. The expectation, fueled by many business articles, is that this new system will redefine the business.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
In 2021, the pharmaceutical industry generated $550 billion in US revenue. Pharmaceutical companies sell a variety of different, often novel, drugs on the market, where sometimes unintended but serious adverse events can occur. These events can be reported anywhere, from hospitals or at home, and must be responsibly and efficiently monitored. Traditional manual processing of adverse events is made challenging by the increasing amount of health data and costs.
InfoWorld
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Kubernetes and edge computing are poised to power the new generation of applications, both together and separately. The enterprise market for edge computing is expected to grow four to five times faster than spending on networking equipment and overall enterprise IT. At the same time, Kubernetes is the default choice for overseeing the management of containerized applications in typical IT environments.
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