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The Rise of Low-Code/No-Code in DevOps

DevOps.com

The rise of low-code/no-code platforms in DevOps is reshaping the way software is developed and deployed throughout the life cycle.

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Rocket Mortgage lays foundation for generative AI success

CIO

To succeed in the mortgage industry, efficiency and accuracy are paramount. So too is keeping your options open. That’s why Rocket Mortgage has been a vigorous implementor of machine learning and AI technologies — and why CIO Brian Woodring emphasizes a “human in the loop” AI strategy that will not be pinned down to any one generative AI model. The Detroit-headquartered retail mortgage lender has been deploying machine learning and AI for more than a decade and is among the few pioneers that hav

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Strategies to Lead Your Company Forward to the Future of Work

Let's Grow Leaders

Episode 250: In this episode, you’ll hear David catching up with Dan Michelson, the author of “Holy Shift: Moving Your Company Forward to the Future of Work.” They tackle how critical trust is among leaders and the pivotal mindset shift needed to adeptly maneuver through the evolving work environment. Dan highlights the key elements like fostering community, opening doors for growth, cementing solid connections, and enriching employee experiences.

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6 Strategic Concepts That Set High-Performing Companies Apart

Harvard Business Review

Strategic concepts come in and out of fashion as the needs and dynamics of the marketplace change. Research and analysis of today’s landscape identifies six key strategic concepts that set outperforming companies apart: Borrow someone’s road, partner with a third party, reveal your strategy, be good, let the competition go, and adopt small scale attacks.

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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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Frequently Asked Questions About CVE-2024-3094, A Backdoor in XZ Utils

Tenable

Frequently asked questions about CVE-2024-3094, a supply-chain attack responsible for a backdoor in XZ Utils, a widely used library found in multiple Linux distributions. Background The Tenable Security Response Team has put together this blog to answer Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) regarding CVE-2024-3094, a backdoor in XZ Utils, a widely used compression library found in multiple Linux distributions.

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Government Agencies are in the Fight Against Chinese Human Targeting and Cyber Espionage. Will it be Enough?

Ooda Loop

Every year, we make a point of returning to a few social psychology, organizational behavior, and human behavioral psychology factors, namely how your organization should integrate the threat of human targeting and social engineering into your overall company culture and cybersecurity strategy. This post is an update from the frontlines - with recent offensive and defensive tactics from the Justice Department, the Department of the Treasury, the State Department, and a CISA/FBI/NSA joint adviso

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Research: Leaders Undervalue Creative Work from AI-Managed Teams

Harvard Business Review

Because of AI’s ability to learn from vast amounts of data and maximize efficiency, companies have predicted that humans working with it will be able to free up their time and expand their creative efforts, thereby driving greater innovation. But, despite the enthusiasm of tech gurus and companies alike, is this really how adopting AI tools will play out?

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Taiwan’s Top Diplomat Says U.S. Aid to Ukraine Is Critical for Deterring China

Ooda Loop

Joseph Wu, the foreign minister of Taiwan, said on Thursday that a halt in U.S. arms shipments to Ukraine would embolden China in its aggressions against Taiwan and fuel propaganda from Beijing that the United States is an unreliable partner.

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Lessons Learned in Product Development from Paulo Neto’s eMLS Success

Perficient

Our colleagues in Atlanta had the wonderful opportunity to step into the world of competitive gaming as they met, and even got to play against multiple eMLS champion Paulo Neto! Paulo Neto represents Atlanta United and is a renowned eSports athlete Known for his prowess in FIFA. Paulo shared his insights into his journey as an esports athlete, shedding light on the skills and mindset required to succeed in the increasingly competitive world of eSports.

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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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CISA’s draft cyber rules are in: Here’s what caught our attention

Lacework

We’ve all seen the headlines. Cyberattacks are more complex, harder to detect, and now, attackers are targeting our critical infrastructure — the systems that keep our hospitals running, our lights on, goods moving, gas flowing, and our money secure. The US government just took a major leap forward in protecting its critical infrastructure with new proposed regulations from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which would require critical infrastructure companies to

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Celestial AI Tops List Of Large Raises

Crunchbase News

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2024 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here. This March certainly did not go out like a lamb, with seven rounds hitting $100 million or more in the final week.

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Survey Sees AI Playing Larger Role in Test Automation

DevOps.com

A Tricentis survey found organizations could see massive costs savings by fully automating mobile application testing.

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JDK 23: The new features in Java 23

InfoWorld

Java Development Kit (JDK) 23 , the next planned version of standard Java, is off and running, with two features now scheduled for the release. Due September 19, JDK 23 has just added a second preview of a class-file API , providing a standard API for parsing, generating, and transforming Java class files. This feature was previously previewed in JDK 22 , which was released on March 19.

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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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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed In March: Robot Recyclers, Better Pregnancy And AI For Teeth

Crunchbase News

This is a monthly column that runs down five interesting deals every month that may have flown under the radar. Check out our February entry here. Spring is finally here along with longer days. The changing weather may have caused you to miss some eye-catching rounds, so let’s run down a handful that you may have missed as our clocks sprung forward.

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Microsoft unveils safety and security tools for generative AI

InfoWorld

Microsoft is adding safety and security tools to Azure AI Studio , the company’s cloud-based toolkit for building generative AI applications. The new tools include protection against prompt injection attacks, detection of hallucinations in model output, system messages to steer models toward safe output, model safety evaluations, and risk and safety monitoring.

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Guidance for CVE-2024-3094: Finding and responding to the latest supply chain compromise with Lacework

Lacework

CVE-2024-3094 is a reported supply chain compromise of the xz libraries, with a resulting interference with sshd authentication, potentially enabling an attacker to gain unauthorized access to the system. xz is used for data compression/decompression across nearly all Linux distributions. This particular compromised version of xz is currently only known to be present in the following OS packages: OS Package name Package version(s) Fix package version Reference Fedora 40, Rawhide xz 5.6.0, 5.6.1

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The dawn of eco-friendly systems development

InfoWorld

In December 2023, delegates from almost 200 countries met in Dubai for the UN’s climate-change conference, COP28, to discuss the pressing need to reduce emissions, as reported by IEEE in this article. According to the website sustainability scoring tool Ecograder , and as the authors are quick to point out, the COP28 website produces 3.69 grams of CO2 per page load.

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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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Cybersecurity Snapshot: U.S. Gov’t Unpacks AI Threat to Banks, as NCSC Urges OT Teams to Protect Cloud SCADA Systems

Tenable

Check out new guidance for banks on combating AI-boosted fraud. Plus, how to cut cyber risk when migrating SCADA systems to the cloud. Meanwhile, why CISA is fed up with SQLi flaws. And best practices to prevent and respond to DDoS attacks. And much more! Dive into six things that are top of mind for the week ending March 29. 1 - U.S. gov’t: AI is empowering financial fraudsters Saying that artificial intelligence is supercharging financial fraud, the U.S.

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Deno boosts dependency management with JSR

InfoWorld

Deno 1.42, the latest release of the JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly runtime , introduces support for JSR, a new package registry for JavaScript and TypeScript. The release also improves Node and NPM compatibility and startup times. Deno 1.42 was announced March 28. Users can upgrade in their terminal by running the deno upgrade command. Deno 1.42 allows users to consume and publish modules to the JSR package registry directly from Deno, using the deno add and deno publish subcommands.

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Elon Musk Makes Grok AI Available to All Paying X Subscribers: What to Know

Ooda Loop

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI’s latest Grok-1.5 chatbot will be available on his social media platform X next week, the billionaire said in a post on X on Friday. “Grok 2 should exceed current AI on all metrics. In training now,” Musk added. Grok-1.

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Simplifying Address Management with Apex Triggers in Salesforce

Perficient

Hello Trailblazers! In Salesforce, managing addresses can sometimes be a tedious task, especially when dealing with duplicate data or ensuring consistency across different records. However, with the power of Apex triggers, we can automate address management processes to streamline operations and improve data accuracy. In this blog, we’ll explore how to use an Apex trigger to automatically synchronize shipping and billing addresses on the Account object based on a checkbox field.

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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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Robotic police dog shot multiple times, credited with avoiding potential bloodshed

Ooda Loop

A robotic dog is being thanked by state police in Massachusetts for helping avert a tragedy involving a person barricaded in a home.

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A Brief History of DevOps and the Link to Cloud Development Environments

DevOps.com

The history of DevOps is worth reading about, and “The Phoenix Project,” self-characterized as “a novel of IT and DevOps,” is often mentioned as a must-read.

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How We’ll Reach a 1 Trillion Transistor GPU

Ooda Loop

In 1997 the IBM Deep Blue supercomputer defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov. It was a groundbreaking demonstration of supercomputer technology and a first glimpse into how high-performance computing might one day overtake human-level intelligence.

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Important Update for Oracle EPM Cloud

Perficient

Oracle’s release notes for the March update includes a very important feature for Oracle EPM Cloud customers. The Daily Maintenance can now be configured to any minute within any hour (i.e. HH:MM format). Previously, the window could only be configured to start at the top of the hour. This allows customers to have more control over the maintenance processes.

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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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The Complexity and Need to Manage Mental Well-Being in the Security Team

Ooda Loop

The cybersecurity profession faces significant challenges to mental well-being due to chronic stress, with burnout being a prominent concern. The continuous, high-pressure nature of the work, coupled with the expectation to handle diverse tasks ranging from technical analysis to psychological understanding, contributes to this stress.

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Mobile Apps Accessibility Series: User Testing with Diverse Groups – 9

Perficient

Welcome to the last installment of our Mobile Apps Accessibility Series! In this segment, we’ll explore the importance of user testing with diverse groups and how it can significantly enhance the accessibility and inclusivity of your app. Let’s delve into why user testing with diverse groups matters and how you can ensure that your app meets the needs of all users.

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26 Security Issues Patched in TeamCity

Ooda Loop

JetBrains has released TeamCity 2024.03, addressing 26 security issues in its build management and continuous integration server, while also implementing measures to mitigate the risk of exploitation in malicious attacks.