InfoWorld

MARCH 12, 2024

This Axios article states what we already know: The responses coming from many generative AI (genAI) systems are misleading, not what the users asked for, or just plain wrong. The public issue is that Microsoft software engineering lead Shane Jones sent letters to FTC chair Lina Khan and Microsoft’s board of directors on March 6 saying that Microsoft’s AI image generator created violent and sexual images and used copyrighted images when given specific prompts.

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CIO

MARCH 12, 2024

Generative AI is already having an impact on multiple areas of IT, most notably in software development. Early use cases include code generation and documentation, test case generation and test automation, as well as code optimization and refactoring, among others. Still, gen AI for software development is in the nascent stages, so technology leaders and software teams can expect to encounter bumps in the road.

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Martin Fowler

MARCH 12, 2024

Measuring developer productivity is a difficult challenge. Conventional metrics focused on development cycle time and throughput are limited, and there aren't obvious answers for where else to turn. Qualitative metrics offer a powerful way to measure and understand developer productivity using data derived from developers themselves. Abi Noda and Tim Cochran begin their discussion by explaining what a qualitative metric is and why we shouldn't reject them for being subjective or unreliable.

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CIO

MARCH 12, 2024

It’s common knowledge among CIOs that disaster recovery investments are always de-prioritized by company boards — until disaster strikes. But disaster recovery is just one example of projects that are of an important and preemptive nature that CIOs want to fund but find de-prioritized when it comes to budget approval. Others include preparation for zero-day attacks, almost anything having to do with data stewardship, as well as IT training and social engineering audits.

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Tenable

MARCH 12, 2024

2 Critical 57 Important 0 Moderate 0 Low Microsoft addresses 59 CVEs in its March 2024 Patch Tuesday release with no zero-day or publicly disclosed vulnerabilities. Microsoft patched 59 CVEs in its March 2024 Patch Tuesday release, with 2 rated critical and 57 rated as important. This month’s update includes patches for: NET Azure Data Studio Azure SDK Microsoft Authenticator Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service Microsoft Dynamics Microsoft Edge for Android Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft Grap

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CEO Insider

MARCH 12, 2024

Let’s face it, the workplace landscape these days is nothing short of rocky. Organisations are wrestling with all sorts of employee pressures from every angle. How do you keep employees truly engaged and motivated? What’s the secret sauce for crafting an Employee Value Proposition that makes top talent sit up and take notice? And let’s […] The post Innovation: The Key to Solving Your Workplace Challenges appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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CIO

MARCH 12, 2024

Workflow automation software provider Creatio has added a suite of generative AI capabilities to its customer relationship management (CRM) offerings. The new generative AI features include Copilot, the generative AI-based assistant, and Copilot Designer, a centralized workplace where enterprise users can tweak pre-built Copilot scenarios to suit their business requirements, akin to Salesforce’s Einstein 1 Studio.

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The Daily WTF

MARCH 12, 2024

Branon 's boss, Steve, came storming into his cube. From the look of panic on his face, it was clear that this was a full hair-on-fire emergency. "Did we change anything this weekend?" "No," Branon said. "We never deploy on a weekend." "Well, something must have changed?!" After a few rounds of this, Steve's panic wore off and he explained a bit more clearly.

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CIO

MARCH 12, 2024

Oracle’s latest financial report boasts substantial increases in revenue, net income, and earnings per share, largely thanks to cloud sales, which the company was quick to credit to the rise of AI. The report for Q3 of fiscal 2024, released yesterday, said that Oracle had signed multiple large-scale cloud infrastructure contracts in the previous three months, with no end in sight, as CEO Safra Catz touted the company’s bright prospects in cloud.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2024

What role do business accelerators play in boosting the growth of early-stage companies? Accelerators provide a structured environment of mentorship, education, and resources in exchange for equity. And they work. Research involving numerous accelerator programs and interviews with various stakeholders reveals that startups in these programs typically achieve higher funding and survival rates.

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 12, 2024

Policy researchers from the Rand Corp. ponder the question: "How can the United States prevail in a limited war with the People's Republic of China (PRC) while avoiding catastrophic escalation?" Find their analysis and scenarios here.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2024

U.S. employers face enormous challenges in designing their employee health care benefits that effectively address the myriad problems confronting them, including rising health care costs, employee burnout and obesity. At the same time, health and wellness options abound. By applying a test-and-learn approach, Walmart has succeeded in finding those that are the most effective in achieving multiple goals.

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 12, 2024

Deepgram has made a name for itself as one of the go-to startups for voice recognition. Today, the well-funded company announced the launch of Aura, its new real-time text-to-speech API. Aura combines highly realistic voice models with a low-latency API to allow developers to build real-time, conversational AI agents.

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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

MARCH 12, 2024

Working longer hours for a struggling company may make you feel like a hero, but one person’s efforts will not save an at-risk organization. In this article, the author outlines strategies for how to focus your energy so you can have the most significant impact while also considering what makes sense for you in the long run.

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Perficient

MARCH 12, 2024

One common way of implementing tags through Adobe Launch is using a data layer, which is a JSON object (key/value pair) that is loaded onto the page from which attributes are passed through as the user navigates through the website or completes certain objectives. This can be extended further into using an Event-Driven Data Layer (EDDL), which serves to load Custom Events within JavaScript that are passed to the data layer upon an action being completed on the website, and can be loaded on any e

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CEO Insider

MARCH 12, 2024

OpenAI has announced significant changes to its board of directors, marking a pivotal moment in the organization’s leadership landscape. Notably, former CEO Sam Altman will be rejoining the board after several months of absence alongside three distinguished new members: Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Nicole Seligman, and Fidji Simo. Desmond-Hellmann, renowned for her leadership at the Bill and […] The post OpenAI’s Board Reshuffle: Altman Returns Amidst New Appointments appeared first on CEOW

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Perficient

MARCH 12, 2024

Perficient is excited to announce that we have earned the Government Specialization Distinction (Americas) in the new Pega Partners program. Specialized partners are thoroughly vetted by Pega to bring deep vertical knowledge or specialized expertise to clients. Pega Partners that achieve a Specialization have a demonstrated ability to help customers build more innovative businesses, and have a significant impact on their customers, stakeholders, and their partners.

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Palo Alto Networks

MARCH 12, 2024

AI tends to be understood as one coherent field of study and application where similar solutions apply for all the use cases. The reality is that applying AI in real-world environments with high precision requires specialization in the specific field of study, and each use case has unique challenges. Applied AI in cybersecurity has many unique challenges, and we will take a look into a few of them that we are considering the most important.

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InfoWorld

MARCH 12, 2024

WinterJS 1.0, a JavaScript web server written in Rust , has arrived from WebAssembly runtime provider Wasmer. Unveiled March 11 , WinterJS 1.0 is described by Wasmer as “the fastest JavaScript web server” and now supports Cloudflare applications and React Server Components. The WinterCG-compatible JavaScript runtime uses the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine to execute JavaScript and Tokio to handle underlying HTTP requests and the JavaScript event loop.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 12, 2024

It’s been a tough go for venture investors in the field of crypto in recent years. Funding took a tumble after highly-publicized events such as Sam Bankman-Fried ’s FTX debacle and the collapse of several other lenders. The overall general downturn in the venture market also did not help the still-maturing market. In fact, venture funding to crypto-related startups fell to only $3.6 billion in 821 deals last year — a 78% drop from the $16.2 billion in 1,544 deals realized in 2022 — per Crunchbas

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InfoWorld

MARCH 12, 2024

Last week MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria likened present-day AI to the “dial-up phase of the internet era.” He’s not wrong. I recently suggested we’re in the “awkward toddler phase” of generative AI (genAI). It’s full of excitement (“her first step!”), but straightforward tasks are clumsy, like basic math. Yet in some areas, the future of generative AI is happening right now.

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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.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 12, 2024

Ten new unicorns globally added more than $18 billion in value to The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in February, but in a sign that the long-term status of many companies on the board are in flux, one startup fell off completely after its valuation was slashed to less than a third of a unicorn valuation. Two companies from China joined the board after raising around a billion dollars in funding each: a year-old foundation model company and a 6-year-old satellite network company.

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InfoWorld

MARCH 12, 2024

PostgreSQL pioneer Mike Stonebraker and Spark creator Matei Zaharia, along with other computer scientists at MIT and Stanford have come up with a new database-oriented operating system (DBOS) to help development of greenfield web applications. They have set up a company, DBOS Inc., to make the OS available to developers. Its first product, DBOS Cloud, launched Tuesday, is a transactional serverless application platform, also sometimes defined as functions-as-a-service (FaaS).

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 12, 2024

Autonomous vehicle software developer Applied Intuition locked up a $250 million Series E valuing the company at a $6 billion — a 67% uptick in value from its previous round. The deal comes even as venture funding for autonomous vehicle-related startups has been in decline in recent years. The new round was led by Lux Capital , Elad Gil and strategic investor Porsche Investments Management.

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InfoWorld

MARCH 12, 2024

JetBrains has unveiled a development roadmap for Ktor, the company’s Kotlin -based framework for building asynchronous client and server applications. Topping the list are OpenTelemetry plugins, gRPC support, simplified dependency injection, and support for managed transactions. JetBrains published the 2024 roadmap for Ktor on March 12. The company said its ongoing plans and goals remain consistent with previous years, and it will strive to keep the framework lightweight, flexible, and transpare

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Ivanti

MARCH 12, 2024

Microsoft Resolves 60 New CVEs Microsoft has released its lineup of updates for March 12, 2024, including updates for the Windows OS, Exchange Server, SQL Server, Office 365, Sharepoint and Defender. The release resolves 60 new CVEs and includes revisions for two previously released CVEs. There is also an advisory announcing the deprecation of Oracle Outside In for Exchange Server.

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InfoWorld

MARCH 12, 2024

JetBrains has released fixes for two critical security vulnerabilities in its TeamCity On-Premises CI/CD system discovered by cybersecurity company Rapid7. The two vulnerabilities reported in late-February by Rapid7 would enable an authenticated attacker with HTTP(S) access to a TeamCity On-Premises server to bypass authentication checks and gain administrative control.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 12, 2024

By Tracy Young In go-to-market organizations, segmentation underpins strategic decision-making, influencing how markets are approached, internal organization, product development and resource allocation. Tracy Young, co-founder and CEO of TigerEye For leadership, crafting a robust segmentation model is crucial. Without a shared segmentation framework, teams may work in unaligned directions — marketing and sales targeting different segments, conflicting feedback to product and engineering, and fi

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