InfoWorld

APRIL 23, 2024

Okay, so I’m just going to go ahead and say it: It is impossible to accurately estimate a software project of any significance. Now, a non-trivial number of you are going to read that sentence and think I’m nuts. And maybe I am. But someone has to just say what we all know to be true but don’t want to admit. Look, there have been countless books written, innumerable conferences held, untold consulting hours purchased, and endless blog posts written on how to be better at estimating software pro

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CIO

APRIL 23, 2024

As CIO, you’re in the risk business. Or rather, every part of your responsibilities entails risk, whether you’re paying attention to it or not. And in spite of the spate of books that extol risk-taking as the only smart path, it’s worth remembering that their authors don’t face what might be the biggest risk CIOs have to deal with every day: executive teams adept at preaching risk-taking without actually supporting it.

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Xebia

APRIL 23, 2024

Recently at Xebia, a new office location opened up in Amsterdam. At this location there is only a limited number of parking spots, and we want to avoid colleagues arriving at the office with their car without an available spot to park. That’s why I took on the task to build a Slack bot that could facilitate viewing, cancelling, and booking spots in the garage.

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CIO

APRIL 23, 2024

The global market for managed services will rise in 2024 due to organizations’ IT spending surge and larger investments in managed services deals involving AI and cloud computing, according to market intelligence firm IDC. “This trend will continue over the next few years as more organizations experiment or go live with AI-enabled services. Although a significant portion of the IT spending will be AI-centric, cloud technology will continue to drive the IT market,” IDC said in a statement.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 23, 2024

Startup investors kept a tight hold on their wallets in the first quarter of 2024, Crunchbase data shows. There were big exceptions — some AI, healthcare, energy and robotics startups, among others, received massive investments — but overall the tone was cautious as the year got started. To break it down further, let’s look at 11 charts based on recent Crunchbase data that show the state of the startup world in early 2024.

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CEO Insider

APRIL 23, 2024

Discipline. Sacrifice. Intelligence. Grit. Work ethic. Creativity. Luck. These are the attributes that most people associate with success. And they’re all important. But a person can display all these traits and still not reach the highest levels of achievement. That’s because this list omits the most important ingredient: a grand vision—an idea of a beautiful […] The post 4 Common Challenges to Having a Grand Vision and Simple Solutions to Success appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Ooda Loop

APRIL 23, 2024

In early April 2024, the United Nations’ (UN) Security Council held a meeting on the “Evolving Cyber Threat Landscape and Its Implications for the Maintenance of International Peace and Security.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 23, 2024

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? Why is it now subject to the same kind of antitrust complaints faced by Microsoft, once the “evil empire” of the previous generation of computing? Why is it that Amazon, which has positioned itself as “the most customer-centric company on the planet,” now lards its search results with advertisements

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2024

Designing software that’s resilient against the most common cyberattacks is possible — and significantly more cost effective than dealing with the fallout of a hack.

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Ooda Loop

APRIL 23, 2024

UnitedHealth Group, the parent company for Change Healthcare, confirmed that Personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) was stolen in a February ransomware attack.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2024

Slowly but steadily, while we’ve been preoccupied with trying to meet demands that outstrip our resources, grappling with unfair treatment, or watching our working hours encroach upon our downtime, burnout has become the new baseline in many work environments. From the 40% of Gen Z workers who believe burnout is an inevitable part of success, to executives who believe high-pressure, “trial-by-fire” assignments are a required rite of passage, to toxic hustle culture that pushes busyness as a badg

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Arista

APRIL 23, 2024

Enterprises are under pressure to meet and exceed the challenges of rapidly increasing bandwidth requirements, including AR/VR (augmented reality/virtual reality) applications, streaming multimedia, IoT proliferation, video applications and high density deployments.

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Ooda Loop

APRIL 23, 2024

We argue that the bioeconomy will lead all industry sectors into a fascinating (and anything but fear-inducing) future filled with abundance and promise - including DNA-based data storage capabilities. DNA Data Storage? Yes. Let's start there.

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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 23, 2024

The same day Perplexity AI announced a $62.7 million round, it was reported the AI startup is looking to raise another $250 million-plus at a valuation between $2.5 billion and $3 billion. The newly announced round was first reported last month and was led by Daniel Gross. It also included investors such as Nvidia , IVP , NEA , Jeff Bezos and Garry Tan among others.

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InfoWorld

APRIL 23, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is moving some features of its generative AI application-building service, Amazon Bedrock , to general availability, the company said on Tuesday. These features include guardrails for AI , a model evaluation tool, and new large language models (LLMs).

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Dell EMC

APRIL 23, 2024

Dell expands edge partner ecosystem with Hyundai AutoEver and Intel to help manufacturers derive more value from edge data with AI.

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InfoWorld

APRIL 23, 2024

Oracle has released JDK Mission Control (JMC) 9, an update to the tool kit for monitoring, managing, profiling, and troubleshooting Java applications that adds a dark theme and makes the frequency of JVM checks configurable. The most significant change is that JMC now must use JDK 17 or later to run. JMC 9 was unveiled on April 21. Binaries can be downloaded from oracle.com.

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Cloudera

APRIL 23, 2024

Back in October, we announced the first-ever Cloudera Climate and Sustainability Hackathon , powered by AMD. The Hackathon was intended to provide data science experts with access to Cloudera machine learning to develop their own Accelerated Machine Learning Project (AMP) focused on solving one of the many environmental challenges facing the world today.

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InfoWorld

APRIL 23, 2024

The exponential growth of data, and in particular unstructured data, is a problem enterprises have been wrestling with for decades. IT organizations are in a constant battle between ensuring that data is accessible to users, one the one hand, and that the data is globally protected and in compliance with data governance policies, on the other. Added to this is the need to ensure that files are stored in the most cost-effective manner possible, on whichever storage is best at that point in time.

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Ruby on Rails

APRIL 23, 2024

Hi all, Amanda here from the Rails Foundation. We have a quick update about Rails World 2024 tickets. Tickets will be available beginning Tuesday April 30 at 1pm EDT. General admission tickets are $559 USD. (This year we will not be issuing Early Bird tickets.) Good to know : To mitigate any potential rush for tickets, all speakers have been informed if they are invited to speak, and all sponsor and Rails Foundation member tickets have been set aside.

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InfoWorld

APRIL 23, 2024

As I’ve been saying for the past year or so, cloud conferences have become generative AI conferences , as have data center conferences, databases conferences, and you name it. It’s clearly more than just a trend—it’s a game-changing push. But we’ve seen this happen enough times in the past 30 years to know nothing is guaranteed to be a true trend. Remember “push technology?

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Dell EMC

APRIL 23, 2024

Pushing the boundaries of innovation in AI for the open-source community.

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InfoWorld

APRIL 23, 2024

The readability, maintainability, and usability of switch statements and expressions in Java would be improved by a proposal to allow exceptions to be handled in the switch block. The current OpenJDK proposal, “ Exception handling in switch (Preview) ,” would be part of the Standard Edition of Java, although no specific version Java SE has been designated yet as the recipient.

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Darktrace

APRIL 23, 2024

Part 2: This blog discusses the impact of AI on the cyber threat landscape based on data from Darktrace’s State of AI Cybersecurity Report. Get the latest insights into the evolving challenges faced by organizations, the growing demand for skilled professionals, and the need for integrated security solutions.

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InfoWorld

APRIL 23, 2024

Microsoft has introduced a new family of small language models (SLMs) as part of its plan to make lightweight yet high-performing generative artificial intelligence technology available across more platforms, including mobile devices. The company unveiled the Phi-3 platform in three models: the 3.8-billion-parameter Phi-3 Mini, the 7-billion-parameter Phi-3 Small, and the 14-billion-parameter Phi-3 Medium.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2024

A conversation Harvard Business School’s Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams on shifting your mindset and energy at work.

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Ooda Loop

APRIL 23, 2024

TikTok users could soon find that the popular social media service is either under new ownership or, although it wouldn’t happen immediately, outright banned in the U.S. On Saturday, the House passed legislation that would bar TikTok from operating in the U.S.

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InfoWorld

APRIL 23, 2024

Microsoft has introduced a new family of small language models (SLMs) as part of its plan to make lightweight yet high-performing generative artificial intelligence technology available across more platforms, including mobile devices. The company unveiled the Phi-3 platform in three models: the 3.8-billion-parameter Phi-3 Mini, the 7-billion-parameter Phi-3 Small, and the 14-billion-parameter Phi-3 Medium.

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