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Colorado AI legislation further complicates compliance equation

CIO

The Colorado legislature passed this week AI regulations aimed at private companies, adding to the increasingly complex patchwork of AI statutes rising across the US and potentially giving the state’s Attorney General the authority to prosecute companies that use AI to discriminate against consumers. Colorado Governor Jared Polis has until June 7 to decide whether to sign Senate Bill 24-205 into law.

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Finding your community at Agile Alliance

Agile Alliance

Discover the power of community with Agile Alliance, where active engagement fosters professional growth and meaningful collaborations. The post Finding your community at Agile Alliance first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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10 IT skills where expertise pays the most

CIO

The list of highest-paying IT skills is always shifting as technology evolves, but some skills have consistently maintained earning power for IT pros over the years. And while several factors impact one’s salary, such as tenure, experience, and location, expert-level competency comes at a higher premium for some skills versus others. Data from the Dice 2024 Tech Salary Report shows that, for certain IT skills, organizations are willing to pay more to hire experts than IT pros with strong compe

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How to Implement AI — Responsibly

Harvard Business Review

Researchers engaged with organizations across a variety of industries, each at a different stage of implementing responsible AI. They determined that, although data engineers and data scientists typically take on most responsibility from conception to production of AI development lifecycles, non-technical leaders can play a key role in ensuring the integration of responsible AI.

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Cassandra

It’s no surprise that Apache Cassandra has emerged as a popular choice for organizations of all sizes seeking a powerful solution to manage their data at a scale—but with great power comes great responsibility. Due to the inherent complexity of distributed databases, this white paper will uncover the 10 rules you’ll want to know when managing Apache Cassandra.

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TIAA modernizes the customer journey with AI

CIO

Customer experience is a key pillar of TIAA’s mission to help employees of nonprofit institutions achieve their retirement goals. And just as retirement decisions can be complex, so too can be easing customer journeys, from contributions to investment decisions to beneficiary designations and more. Achieving end-to-end visibility — in real-time — into these journeys, some of which involve highly customized legacy contracts typical of a 100-year-old company, would enable TIAA to better serve its

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Habilidades y rasgos esenciales de los directores de IA

CIO

El rápido auge de la inteligencia artificial (IA) -especialmente la IA generativa- está impulsando a muchas organizaciones a contratar o ascender a un director de IA (CAIO, por sus siglas en inglés). Hasta la fecha, muchos de estos puestos se ocupan con proveedores de tecnología o en entidades gubernamentales a raíz de los recientes mandatos de IA. Pero se espera que las filas de los CAIO aumenten también en las organizaciones empresariales en los próximos años.

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You’re Back from Your Leadership Development Program. Now What?

Harvard Business Review

Executives who go through leadership development programs often come back with new energy and purpose, ready to transform their teams, themselves, and their organizations. But it can be challenge to gain traction, sustain momentum, and achieve durable post-program results. Success requires determined effort and patience. To better navigate this reentry phase, remember to acknowledge the contributions others made while you were away, anticipate reactions to your new ideas, embrace the opportunity

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‘From lab to market’, un nuevo programa de transferencia tecnológica con impacto real

CIO

La Universidad Politécnica de Cataluya (UPC) y Fractus, compañía especializada en tecnología de antenas, han puesto en marcha un nuevo programa de transferencia tecnológica a través de su deep tech hub. El programa From lab to market se centra en la identificación y la transferencia de tecnologías de vanguardia. Al actuar como puente entre la investigación universitaria y las necesidades del mercado , este espacio se posiciona como una apuesta estratégica para la UPC en el proceso de transferenc

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Breaking Free from Micromanagement Through Effective Communication

Let's Grow Leaders

Episode 256: Do you have a micromanager as a boss—what do you do to combat micromanagement? Tune in to this episode for some go-to phrases you can use to improve the relationship and keep the interactions at work positive. Host, David Dye, gives you a sneak peek at their new book, “ Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict. ” If your whole team needs a copy, there’s a great deal waiting for you.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr

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Una solución digital para facilitar el cumplimiento de derechos humanos y medioambientales

CIO

La tecnología vuelve a servir como facilitador a la hora de abordar desafíos sociales complejos. Lo constata la colaboración entre DXC Technology y Oxfam Intermón, una organización sin ánimo de lucro que opera en 86 países con el propósito de erradicar las desigualdades. Y es que en el marco de su compromiso con la innovación DXC Technology ha desarrollado una solución digital de derechos humanos.

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The Basics of Infrastructure as Code: A Primer for DevOps

DevOps.com

IaC changes the way IT operations and development teams collaborate to create, provision and manage infrastructure and applications. This short introduction explains its benefits.

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Boomi burnishes API management capabilities

CIO

Middleware vendor Boomi has bolstered its API management capabilities with new products and acquisitions. The Boomi AI Agent Framework allows the automation of repetitive application integration administration tasks. The launch version of the framework comes with four agents. Boomi Answers uses AI to offer prescriptive help in response to natural language prompts.

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Why Startups Should Embrace Measuring Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Crunchbase News

By Todd Klein Earlier this year, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved a climate-related disclosure rule for U.S. public companies. The rule, which is currently being challenged in a federal court, marks the first time that American companies would be required to disclose some form of greenhouse gas emissions. It does not, however, require reporting on indirect emissions that occur in the value chain of a reporting company.

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Kafka

Without proper guidance, it’s easy to miss out on Kafka’s full capabilities. While not the easiest technology to optimize, Kafka rewards those willing to explore its depths. Under the hood, it is an elegant system for stream processing, event sourcing, and data integration. Download this white paper to learn the 10 critical rules that will help you optimize your Kafka system and unlock its full potential.

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Robot dogs armed with AI-aimed rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation

Ooda Loop

The United States Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) is currently evaluating a new generation of robotic “dogs” developed by Ghost Robotics, with the potential to be equipped with gun systems from defense tech company Onyx Industries, reports The War Zone.

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These US Universities Graduate The Highest Number Of Funded Founders

Crunchbase News

There’s no degree required to be an entrepreneur. But when it comes to securing funding, having graduated from a prestigious university sure seems to help. In particular, founders with degrees from Stanford University , Harvard University and MIT perennially outperform in attracting capital for their startups, a review of Crunchbase data shows. The past 12 months were no exception, with those three universities once again claiming the first three slots in our ranking of top schools for funded fo

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Join us at the Iceberg Summit 2024

Cloudera

Apache Iceberg is vital to the work we do and the experience that the Cloudera platform delivers to our customers. Iceberg, a high-performance open-source format for huge analytic tables, delivers the reliability and simplicity of SQL tables to big data while allowing for multiple engines like Spark, Flink, Trino, Presto, Hive, and Impala to work with the same tables, all at the same time.

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Red Hat extends Lightspeed AI to Linux, OpenShift

InfoWorld

Red Hat is extending its Lightspeed generative AI technology to work with the company’s Red Hat OpenShift hybrid cloud application platform as well as with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Announced May 7 , Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Lightspeed will offer intelligent, natural language processing capabilities, intended to make OpenShift and RHEL easier for novices to use and more efficient for experienced professionals, Red Hat said.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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5 Reasons Why You Need to Attend Kaseya Connect Global 2025

Kaseya

If you weren’t at Kaseya’s flagship event, Kaseya Connect Global 2024 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada last week, you missed four action-packed days. We’re proud to have created an exciting atmosphere for IT professionals to connect, learn and grow. This year, we introduced game-changing innovations that included Kaseya 365 and the Partner First Pledge.

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The best new features and fixes in Python 3.13

InfoWorld

The first beta of Python 3.13 has just been released. This article presents a rundown of the most significant new features in Python 3.13 and what they mean for Python developers. Things may change between now and the first production release of 3.13, but the first beta means all the major feature additions and changes are now frozen. New features in the Python 3.13 first beta Here's a first look at these new features in the Python 3.13 beta release: The experimental JIT The no-GIL build of Pyth

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Article: How to Build and Foster High-performing Software Teams: Experiences from Engineering Managers

InfoQ Culture Methods

Engineering managers can enable software teams to learn and improve, and help them move problems and impediments out of the way. In this virtual panel, we'll discuss how engineering managers support teams, what skills they possess, and how they establish alignment and foster knowledge and experience sharing between teams.

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Cloud environments beyond the Big Three

InfoWorld

The Big Three cloud providers, AWS, Microsoft, and Google, are going like gangbusters. The most likely reason is two letters: AI. The first quarter of 2024 saw the strongest growth since the third quarter of 2022. Enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services topped $76 billion during Q1 2024, up by $13.5 billion (a 21% increase) compared with Q1 of 2023.

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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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Enterprise Migration | Part 2: Migrating Applications to Azure

QBurst

This blog series brings you the story of one of our client’s successful cloud migration journey. We laid the groundwork for the migration during Phase 1 of the project (covered in Part 1 of this series). An IaC framework was developed to speed up deployment and an Azure Landing Zone was deployed during this phase. […] The post Enterprise Migration | Part 2: Migrating Applications to Azure appeared first on QBurst Blog.

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Transforming DevOps With AI: Practical Strategies To Supercharge Your Workflows

DevOps.com

Despite the hype, AI can benefit actual DevOps workflows. These four machine-learning algorithms can make a real difference.

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DEI is done (minus the mop up)

David Heinemeier Hansson

In November of 2022, I wrote about the waning days of DEI's dominance , and enumerated four factors that I saw as primary drivers of this decline. Those waning days have now been brought to a close, and DEI, as an obsessive, ideological preoccupation of the corporate world, is done. Witness this tabulation of DEI (and ESG) mentions in earnings reports, reported by Business Insider : It's over.

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AI-Phone Home

Dell EMC

Go beyond the hype and share how CSPs can practically use AI as a disruptive tool to drive greater network operations efficiency.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

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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The Power of Mental Strength and Fortitude in Leadership

Let's Grow Leaders

Building Resilience: How Mental Strength Shapes Effective Leadership Are you looking for practical ways to implement mental strength, and stay calm under pressure? Don’t miss today’s interview with my friend Scott Mautz. “Hey Karin. I know that strong leaders stay calm under pressure. And I look at leaders who do this incredibly well.

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The Next Generation of Intelligent, Composable Applications

IDC

AI and cloud innovations are reshaping SaaS, boosting user experiences and driving revenue growth.

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Building Trust in AI Means Building Trust in Data

Confluent

Discover how to build trust in AI by strengthening data and people layers. Learn about risk frameworks, data streaming, and more for effective solutions.

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