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3 data security disciplines to drive AI innovation

CIO

AI hype and adoption are seemingly at an all-time high with nearly 70% of respondents to a recent S&P report on Global AI Trends saying they have at least one AI project in production. While the promise of AI can fundamentally reshape business operations, it has also created new risk vectors and opened the doors to nefarious individuals that most enterprises are not currently equipped to mitigate.

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How to Actually Execute Change at a Company

Harvard Business Review

The author analyze project teams across 257 firms to identify why only 60% of planned value is typically realized in change initiatives, focusing on four key factors: effective initial communication (“ACE the Memo”), ensuring resource accessibility and autonomy (“Master the Means”), employing mechanisms to align actions with goals (“Amplify with Mechanisms”), and strategic measurement to influence future outcomes (“Measure to Account”).

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15 worthwhile conferences for women in tech

CIO

Diversity is a hot topic in the tech industry — and because it’s discussed frequently, it might be easy to feel like things have already changed. But according to data from a survey from Women Tech Network , women earn around $15,000 less per year than their male counterparts, with an average annual salary of $60,828 for women compared to $85,000 for men.

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What Successful Purpose Statements Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

Sadly, purpose statements at all too many organizations are just empty words. The companies that issue them don’t live up to their lofty promises. But research by Bain & Company identified some companies that are the exceptions. They employ four methods to turn their statements into reality.

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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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The startup CIO’s guide to formalizing IT for liquidity events

CIO

Suppose you lead IT at a VC-backed startup. It just crossed $100M in revenue and is approaching a major liquidity event, such as an IPO. It’s exciting stuff. But as you speak with an expanding cadre of lawyers, accountants, and bankers, you start to appreciate what such an event means for your department. You start to see the cracks in its foundation.

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Adapt Your Strategy to Higher Interest Rates

Harvard Business Review

While many executives and investors were thrown by last year’s interest rate increases, the cost of capital needn’t be a threat. Companies that integrate the cost of capital into their strategy and planning reap real benefits. When something is cheap, people waste it. With the cost of capital back to normal levels, it’s simply irresponsible not to make it a management discipline that changes the way you do business.

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i-SOON Data Leak Is Interesting but Mostly Unsurprising

Ooda Loop

The i-SOON leak tells us nothing new perhaps as much as solidify points that have long been suspected and acknowledged of Chinese cyber operations. Beijing tasks out orders on areas of interest to a variety of collection means, much like any other government. In this case, one company has been identified, and there are likely other companies doing similar work, as well.

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Perficient Included in Forrester’s The Adobe Services Landscape

Perficient

In a dynamic digital landscape, choosing the right provider among the Adobe services landscape is paramount for businesses seeking to maximize their Adobe investments. The selection process can be daunting with a diverse set of providers that vary by size, type of offering, geography, and business scenario differentiation. So where do marketing leaders start?

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Putting People First: The Promise of Human Centered Capitalism

Let's Grow Leaders

Episode 246: Megan Gluth-Bohan, CEO & Owner of TRInternational, Inc. and owner of ChemBlend of America, discusses human centered capital, and the importance of compassion, empathy, and resilience in leadership. She emphasizes the need for leaders to be authentic and honest about their own experiences and to create a culture that values and supports the growth of individuals.

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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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Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports hybrid search

AWS Machine Learning - AI

At AWS re:Invent 2023, we announced the general availability of Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock. With a knowledge base, you can securely connect foundation models (FMs) in Amazon Bedrock to your company data for fully managed Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). In a previous post , we described how Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock manages the end-to-end RAG workflow for you and shared details about some of the recent feature launches.

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JetBrains Compose Multiplatform debuts UI testing API

InfoWorld

JetBrains has released Compose Multiplatform 1.6.0, an upgrade to the company’s declarative UI framework that introduces a UI testing API and improves the common resources API. Compose Multiplatform allows developers to build UIs for Android, iOS, desktop, and web from a shared code base. Compose Multiplatform 1.6.0 was unveiled on February 28. Instructions for getting started with Compose Multiplatform can be found at jetbrains.com.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Fervo Energy And Glean Lead The Way In Another Strong Week

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. After two crazy weeks where we saw 18 raises of $100 million or more, this week saw a slight slowdown but was still relatively strong when it came to big-dollar deals

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Questioning cloud’s environmental impact

InfoWorld

I recently participated in a documentary called “Clouded II: Does Cloud Cost the Earth?” Please watch it. It looks at the issues surrounding cloud computing, its consumption of power, and thus its potential impact on the planet. The documentary did an excellent job of balancing perspectives. I don’t think anyone is arguing that data centers should not exist, but those data centers should be efficient and minimize power consumption.

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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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Musk Sues Altman, OpenAI For Breach Of Founding Agreement

Crunchbase News

Two of the biggest names in tech right now may be bound to face off in court. Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its executives — including co-founder and CEO Sam Altman — for allegedly breaching the founding agreement of the company to develop artificial general intelligence for the benefit of humanity. The suit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court on Thursday, claims the company and its leaders have set that agreement “aflame” by letting the company be “transformed into a clos

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GitHub rolls out push protection on public repos

InfoWorld

GitHub has begun rolling out push protection for all of its users, a secrets scanning feature that gives users the option to remove secrets from commits or bypass a block. The policy, announced February 29 , affects supported secrets. It might take one to two weeks for this change to apply to an account; developers can verify status and opt in early in code security and analysis settings.

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Software Engineering Trends in the Industry

Dzone - DevOps

This article identifies some basic trends in the software industry. Specifically, we will explore how some well-known organizations implement and benefit from early and continuous testing , faster software delivery, reduced costs, and increased collaboration. While it is clear that activities like breaking down silos, shift-left testing, automation , and continuous delivery are interrelated, it is beneficial to take a look at how companies strive to achieve such goals in practice.

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Biden executive order protects personal data

InfoWorld

President Joseph Biden has issued an executive order intended to protect Americans’ sensitive personal data from exploitation from countries of concern including China, Russa, Iran, and North Korea. Issued February 28 , the order authorizes the attorney general to prevent the large-scale transfer of Americans’ personal data to countries of concern and offers safeguards around other activities that can give these countries access to this sensitive data.

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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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In A Latin American VC Winter, 6 Reasons For Optimism

Crunchbase News

By Gina Gotthilf and Tomas Roggio “Podrán cortar todas las flores, pero no podrán detener la primavera.” — Pablo Neruda Latin America was the fastest-growing venture capital market in the boom of 2021 , dispelling historical neglect by investors. Leading up to it, the past decade showed record highs in startup creation, funding and growth. Gina Gotthilf That boom gave way to a bust , a characteristic cycle in developing economies: we’ve been facing a startup winter for two years.

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New Relic Streamlines Observability Data Management

DevOps.com

New Relic is moving to make it simple to analyze and store telemetry data regardless of when it was collected.

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What’s in a name? Hello POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024

The Citus Data

When I think about naming something—like a feature or product or even an event—this quote always comes to mind. What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; –William Shakespeare What’s in a name, after all? I’m no expert on Romeo and Juliet, but friends tell me Shakespeare’s point was that names don’t matter.

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Elon Musk sues OpenAI alleging breach of founding agreement

InfoWorld

The lawsuit could hold far reaching implications for Microsoft’s use of GPT-4 and other upcoming models in its products.

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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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Maximizing Feedback for Developers With Continuous Testing

Dzone - DevOps

Developers need feedback on their work so that they know whether their code is helping the business. They should have “multiple feedback loops to ensure that high-quality software gets delivered to users”[1]. Development teams also need to review their feedback loops so that they can maximize useful feedback. Testing provides feedback and should be continuous so that it provides quick and continuous feedback to the developers.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework Gets Major Update, as Advisories on APT29 and ALPHV Blackcat Get Rolled Out

Tenable

Check out what’s new in NIST’s makeover of its Cybersecurity Framework. Plus, the latest guidance on cyberattack groups APT29 and ALPHV Blackcat. Also, how to assess the cybersecurity capabilities of a generative AI LLM. And the most prevalent malware in Q4. And much more! Dive into six things that are top of mind for the week ending March 1. 1 - NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 places stronger emphasis on governance, features broader scope The much awaited revamping of the National Institute

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Data or Content? Which One Is the New King?

IDC

Many B2B marketers are wondering if they can focus on both customers and data at the same time. Can you be customer-focused and data-focused at once? The quest to resonate with customers with B2B marketing content, while leveraging data-driven insights has become paramount. Content marketing services now prioritize building relationships with the audience and providing [.

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Logz.io Leverages AI to Identify Anomalies in Real-Time

DevOps.com

Logz.io added a real-time anomaly detection capability to its observability platform that simplifies correlation of the impact IT events have on business 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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20 Ways SMBs Can Leverage AI To Elevate Their CX

Ooda Loop

These days, almost all companies are exploring how artificial intelligence can impact and improve their processes. For smaller companies aiming to stand out, leveraging AI offers unique opportunities to simplify and enhance customer interactions, share compelling messaging, drive personalization, and more, all combining to deliver a better customer experience.

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Observe Inc. Adds Tool for Exploring Distributed Traces

DevOps.com

Observe Inc. added a Trace Explorer tool to its observability platform that simplifies search, analysis and visualization of billions of traces.

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Elon Musk sues OpenAI for abandoning its mission to benefit humanity

Ooda Loop

Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, over claims that the pursuit of profit has led the company to abandon its founding mission to develop artificial intelligence technology that will benefit humanity.