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How Co-Leaders Succeed

Harvard Business Review

Co-leadership, where an executive, department, or team leadership role is shared, can result in more creative and strategic problem solving and wiser decision making. But it can also lead to unhealthy game playing in the pursuit of dominance and positioning for the next role, resulting in organizational misalignment, inertia, and confusion. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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Google integrates Gemini AI into enterprise tools

CIO

Tech major Google has announced that it is replacing Duet AI for Google Workspace with Gemini for Google Workspace as it attempts to offer an alternative to ChatGPT Enterprise. Duet AI for Workspace offered AI integration with Google’s popular applications like Docs and Gmail. The company also announced the launch of two plans, Gemini Business, and Gemini Enterprise, to help businesses of all sizes leverage AI for growth.

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IDC Ranks Tenable No. 1 in Worldwide Device Vulnerability Management Market Share for the Fifth Consecutive Year

Tenable

The research firm’s latest report also provides market insights that security professionals can use to improve their vulnerability management strategy. IDC recently published its “Worldwide Device Vulnerability Management Market Share, 2022: Exposures Present a Clear and Present Danger'' 1 report, which presents the worldwide device vulnerability management market shares for 2022.

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Ferrovial puts AI at the heart of its transformation

CIO

With the aim to accelerate innovation and transform its digital infrastructures and services, Ferrovial created its Digital Hub to serve as a meeting point where research and experimentation with digital strategies could, for example, provide new sources of income and improve company operations. Since its creation over five years ago, the Digital Hub has included a team of experts in innovation, technologies, and trends — such as IoT, big data, AI, drones, 3D printing, or advances in customer ex

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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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How a Well-Executed Social Initiative Strengthens Your Brand

Harvard Business Review

In the modern competitive business environment, innovative social initiatives offer a unique avenue for growth, customer loyalty, and employee engagement, often overlooked by organizations. Traditional social efforts like standard volunteering and environmental goals lack impact due to their inability to establish a unique and emotionally engaging identity.

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The EU’s AI Act and How Companies Can Achieve Compliance

Harvard Business Review

The EU’s forthcoming AI Act imposes requirements on companies designing and/or using AI in the European Union, and backs it up with stiff penalties. Companies need to analyze where they might fail to be compliant and then operationalize or implement the requisite steps to close the gaps in a way that reflects internal alignment. For most companies, that won’t be easy.

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Salesforce: A Growth Mindset for 2024 and Beyond

Perficient

We’re in Our #GrowthEra It’s a new year, and with that, there is always change. One of those changes is that I’m now leading Perficient’s Salesforce business unit as the Managing Director. I’ve had the opportunity to work in the Salesforce ecosystem for 8+ years with top-notch talent. Our team continues to do amazing work for our clients, maximizing the value they’ve invested in the Salesforce platform, bringing innovation to life, and driving business outcomes.

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How Do I Build Better Leadership Trust on my Team

Let's Grow Leaders

Insights on Leadership Trust from Stephen M.R. Covey Leadership trust begets trust. “It’s possible to have two trustworthy people working together, both trustworthy and yet, no trust between them.” – Stephen M.R. Covey. I was delighted to have this important conversation with Stephen M. R. Covey where we both keynoted the Northview Church LEADS Conference.

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The Network Effect: Why VCs Should Set Up An Entrepreneur Collective

Crunchbase News

By Eugene Malobrodsky Despite 2023 being labeled a “bloodbath” for venture capitalists, the industry remains optimistic with more than half of VCs reporting they plan to raise in the next 12 months. But to gain the confidence of LPs, VCs need to set themselves up for success beyond cash reserves. Although it takes a lot of time and energy, setting up an entrepreneur collective should be on a VC’s 2024 to-do list.

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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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GitHub Copilot makes insecure code even less secure, Snyk says

InfoWorld

GitHub’s AI-powered coding assistant, GitHub Copilot , may suggest insecure code when the user’s existing codebase contains security issues, according to developer security company Snyk. GitHub Copilot can replicate existing security issues in code, Snyk said in a blog post published February 22. “This means that existing security debt in a project can make insecure developers using Copilot even less secure,” the company said.

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Eye On AI: So Much For That Funding Slowdown

Crunchbase News

This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here. Before the year started, we pontificated there might be a slowdown in venture dollars and for the first few weeks it was looking like that prediction might be borne out. While the first half of January saw some nice-sized funding rounds for AI startups, extremely big rounds were nonexistent.

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Java virtual threads hit with pinning issue

InfoWorld

Java’s virtual threads , introduced in JDK 21 in September 2023 to make it easier to write and maintain concurrent applications, has suffered from a “pinning” issue that arises with synchronized methods or synchronized statements. Oracle detailed the virtual thread pinning issue this week on the Inside Java website. The two most common cases involve a virtual thread parking while in a synchronized method, and a virtual thread blocking when entering a synchronized method, because the object’s a

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Early-Stage Unicorn Numbers Tail Off In 2023

Crunchbase News

It’s getting harder and harder to be a young unicorn in the slowing venture market. With overall unicorn numbers way down — fewer than 100 joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in 2023 — the number of new early-stage unicorns has also dropped off significantly. Only 29 unicorns were minted last year after an early-stage funding round — defined as seed, Series A or Series B — an analysis of Crunchbase data shows.

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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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Cloud and AI apps take center stage in.NET 9

InfoWorld

Just three months into the tenure of.NET 8 , it’s already time for Microsoft and the.NET Foundation to start laying out their plans for the next release,NET 9 , which is due to arrive in November with.NET Conf. You can think of.NET’s annual release cadence as an agile development model writ large, each year ushering in a new sprint that builds on a select set of user stories.

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What Does Build Quality Look Like in Software Design?

DevOps.com

By leveraging modern build health tools, DevOps teams can more effectively monitor a project’s overall quality and performance.

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Azure IoT Central’s reported retirement plans remain mysterious

InfoWorld

News that Microsoft plans to retire its Azure IoT Central platform, used by many developers to create customized IoT ( internet of things ) frameworks for large-scale deployments, has been partially walked back by the tech giant, prompting confusion among IoT experts. A system message issued earlier this month stated that the service would be retired as of March 2027, and that new applications couldn’t be created as of April 1, 2024, according to reporting from The Register.

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Palo Alto Networks and Kyndryl: Unlocking Industry 4.0 with Private 5G

Palo Alto Networks

Consult-led Zero Trust, Private 5G deployments allow clients to implement secure OT networks and edge applications in manufacturing environments (under ISA-95 and Purdue Model). The use of private 5G networks is growing quickly as companies accelerate digital transformation to drive innovation and new technological capabilities. According to Analysys Mason , network spend on private networks will increase from $1 billion USD in 2022 to $9 billion USD in 2028.

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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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How to use value objects in C#

InfoWorld

In the C# programming language, an object can be either a value type or a reference type. While an object is an object is an object, the difference between value types and reference types comes down to the nature of their variables. A variable of a value type contains an object, or an instance of the type. A variable of a reference type contains a reference to an object, or a reference to an instance of the type.

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What’s the view in your company of people taking company time off to volunteer for non-profit causes?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: What’s the view in your company of people taking company time off to volunteer for non-profit causes? We encourage it strongly and have programs to support it 53.39% We encourage it but don’t have formal programs 17.80% We’re okay with it but it needs to be limited 14.84% We tolerate it but don’t really like to do it 4.23% We discourage it and only support it in extreme cases 1.69% We prohibit it.

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Astronauts celebrate success of 1st surgery robot on ISS: ‘It’s a real game-changer’

Ooda Loop

One slice through rubber bands may pave a new pathway for space surgeons. A robot on the International Space Station (ISS), remote-controlled by a big team on Earth, simulated surgical cuts on Feb. 10 in a historic first for space medicine.

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Dell PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance: Simplified Data Protection. Guaranteed.

Dell EMC

We're so confident in the Data Manager Appliances’ data reduction capabilities that we guarantee it.

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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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An online dump of Chinese hacking documents offers a rare window into pervasive state surveillance

Ooda Loop

An online dump of documents originating from a private security contractor is currently being investigated by the Chinese authorities as the dump details hacking activity, as well as domestic and foreign spying tools used by the Chinese government.

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How to Manage Non-Employees

Saviynt

Insights from the experts on the challenges of third party access, from day one to access termination. The post How to Manage Non-Employees appeared first on Intelligent Identity and Smarter Security - Saviynt.

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Microsoft and OpenAI Issue a Stark Report and a $10M Bounty from the State Department

Ooda Loop

Competing cyber capabilities (on a spectrum from nation-state to non-state actors alike) and cyber-based conflict will continue to restructure, reformulate, and transform the very essence of what power, prestige, international governance, and geopolitical strategy are in the 21st century - and large language models are the new force multiplier. Microsoft and OpenAI have quantified the breadth and scope of this new threat vector - including the major state sponsored actors.

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Announcing Dell NativeEdge 2.0: Reimagining Edge Operations

Dell EMC

Securely scale your edge operations to power any use case.

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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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Unlocking the Power of Generative AI: Integrating Large Language Models and Organizational Knowledge

Data Virtualization

Reading Time: 6 minutes The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI marks a significant leap in technology, promising to deliver transformational automation and innovation across diverse industries and use cases. Having said that, as everyone races to develop next generation AI. The post Unlocking the Power of Generative AI: Integrating Large Language Models and Organizational Knowledge appeared first on Data Management Blog - Data Integration and Modern Data Management Artic

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Tabnine Extends Generative AI Testing Platform by Embracing RAG

DevOps.com

Tabnine's generative AI platform for creating test code can make more accurate and personalized recommendations based on specific code and engineering patterns.

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Iran sends Russia hundreds of ballistic missiles

Ooda Loop

Iran has supplied Russia with an estimated 400 surface-to-surface short-range ballistic missiles with a striking capability range of between 300 and 700 km (186 to 435 miles).

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