Wed.Oct 04, 2023

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The Importance of Celebrating Success

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Success and failure are part of running a team day to day. You need to recognize and promote wins, because it’s going to build momentum for the team and make them feel like they’re accomplishing great things. There are a lot of great ways to acknowledge success. You can give people bonuses, provide them visibility opportunities, maybe do some public recognition, give people increased responsibilities, and even promotions.

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Skilled IT pay defined by volatility, security, and AI

CIO

Last quarter was one of the most volatile for cash pay premiums for IT skills and certifications in the last three years, according to Foote Partners. Almost one-third of the 682 non-certified IT skills and 614 IT certifications they track changed in value — and for certifications, those changes, more often than not, were downward. This volatility can make it hard for IT workers to decide where to focus their career development efforts, but there are at least some areas of stability in the marke

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Actually, X sees 500M posts per day — not 100M-200M as Musk recently said

TechCrunch

In September, Elon Musk said X users were generating a lot of content — creating 100 to 200 million posts every day, excluding retweets — or reposts as they’re now known on X. But speaking at an event this morning, X CEO Linda Yaccarino offered a contradictory figure.

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What a quarter century of digital transformation at PayPal looks like

CIO

If there’s a company that can boast being 100% digital native, it’s PayPal, the platform that allows companies and consumers to send and receive digital payments in a secure, comfortable and profitable way. Since 1998, the brand has evolved and grown in step with technology, and today, the size of its network and consumer use has made it a household name in digital payment systems.

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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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Microsoft won’t say if its products were exploited by spyware zero-days

TechCrunch

Microsoft has released patches to fix zero-day vulnerabilities in two popular open source libraries that affect several Microsoft products, including Skype, Teams and its Edge browser. But Microsoft won’t say if those zero-days were exploited to target its products, or if the company knows either way.

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Kestra is an open-source data orchestration platform for complex workflows

TechCrunch

Meet Kestra, a startup that has been working on an open-source project focused on data orchestration across several services, databases, files, repositories and warehouses. The open source project has attracted thousands of stars on GitHub, proving that there’s some interest and potential behind a new data orchestration platform.

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What’s Fueling Burnout in Your Organization?

Harvard Business Review

Many people believe burnout is driven by excessive work demands. In fact, it’s driven by a specific type of demand–work that requires too much collaboration between individuals or teams of employees. To reduce this collaboration overload, ask these four questions: Can we reduce structural complexity? Does our workflow make sense? Hasthe profusion of teams spiked employees’ microstress?

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News app turned X competitor Artifact now lets users generate AI images for their posts

TechCrunch

Artifact, the news aggregator recently turned X competitor, is adding a new generative AI feature. The app, built by Instagram’s co-founders, announced last week it would allow users to post their own updates, which didn’t have to include a link.

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Do You Understand Why You Catastrophize?

Harvard Business Review

Leaders who create doomsday scenarios out of everyday setbacks — what behavioral scientists call “catastrophizing” — risk spreading their anxiety to their teams. In this article, the author digs in to the psychological and physiological reasons behind this tendency to draw disastrous conclusions and presents several ways to address it: 1) Reflect on how you learned to expect the worst; 2) Create ways to interrogate faulty data; 3) Learn to regulate amid your catastrophizing; 4) Separate fears ro

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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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Apple Watch’s new double tap gesture is now live in the watchOS 10.1 public beta

TechCrunch

In September, Apple introduced the Apple Watch Series 9 at its annual event, which included a new gesture: the double tap. The gesture, which gives users a new way to interact with their watch, has not yet been publicly available to test, as it isn’t expected to ship to the wider userbase until watchOS 10.

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A Tool to Help Boards Measure Cyber Resilience

Harvard Business Review

During our research, we asked cybersecurity leaders, board directors and other subject matter experts about board cybersecurity discussions and the reporting given to boards in preparation for these discussions. All respondents had strong opinions about cybersecurity boardroom discussions. Generally, participants agreed that boards had a difficult time discussing cybersecurity at a meaningful level, the board needed different information, and a new approach was necessary.

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Keep Labs’ smart storage redefines medication management

TechCrunch

Keep Labs built a lockable storage container for medicine, and it doesn’t matter if the meds come in bottles, boxes or dime bags. The Keep is designed to hold them safely and track their use.

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How Fintech Is Making Smaller Suppliers More Resilient

Harvard Business Review

Historically, smaller, lower-tier suppliers have had trouble obtaining financing. New fintech platforms are changing that. They are making it easier for them to use assets such as approved invoices, inventories, and purchase orders to access financing from outside investors or focal companies.

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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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Patreon launches new features, a redesigned app and a new look

TechCrunch

Patreon is launching new features, a redesigned app and a new brand identity, the company announced on Wednesday. In a blog post, the company explained that the changes are about “giving creators even more,” noting that Patreon is “no longer just a paid membership company.

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CVE-2023-38545, CVE-2023-38546: Frequently Asked Questions for New Vulnerabilities in curl

Tenable

CVE-2023-38545, CVE-2023-38546: Frequently Asked Questions for New Vulnerabilities in curl Frequently asked questions relating to two vulnerabilities patched in curl version 8.4.0 Background On October 3, Daniel Stenberg, an open-source developer and maintainer of curl, took to X (formerly Twitter) to announce that a new high severity CVE would be fixed in curl 8.4.0.

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Defense startup Mach Industries closes $79M Series A at $335M valuation

TechCrunch

Defense tech darling Mach Industries has closed a $79 million Series A led by Bedrock Capital in a deal that catapulted their post-money valuation to $335 million, multiple sources tell TechCrunch.

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AI Anywhere on Data Everywhere

Dell EMC

Dell Technologies and Starburst announce a modern data lakehouse solution, unlocking data management from edge to core to multicloud.

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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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Walmart experiments with generative AI tools that can help you plan a party or decorate

TechCrunch

After launching a generative AI tool for corporate employees in August, Walmart is bringing the technology to its customers.

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ForAllSecure Streamlines Application Security Testing

DevOps.com

ForAllSecure provided early access to dynamic SBOM generation and SCA validation capabilities within its Mayhem Security automated code and API testing tool.

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Was FTX an empire ‘built on lies’ or a startup that ‘grew too quickly’?

TechCrunch

The criminal trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, former FTX and Alameda founder, completed its second day, including opening statements and witnesses.

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AI and ML: The Keys to Better Security Outcomes

Palo Alto Networks

“Cybersecurity is the only industry with active adversaries. Those adversaries are using the power of AI and ML, and attacks are getting more and more sophisticated.” – Anand Oswal, SVP and GM of Network Security, Palo Alto Networks. From reducing complexity in the architecture to supercharging risk posture, building cyber resilience is top-of-mind for every organization.

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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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Bird lays off staff after Spin acquisition to reduce redundancies

TechCrunch

Bird, the shared micromobility company that was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange last week, is issuing another round of layoffs, according to an email interim CEO Michael Washinushi sent to the company. TechCrunch has viewed the email. TechCrunch has been unable to confirm the number of people affected by the layoffs.

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Increasing Your Data Value with Dell Generative AI Solutions

Dell EMC

Easily bring AI to your data with an architecture blueprint and professional services—helping you at every stage of your journey.

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Meet the 12 jurors on Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial

TechCrunch

The second day for Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial was filled with jury selection, opening statements and testimonies from the first two witnesses, with a peek into what may be in store. His lawyers arrived to the courtroom around 9:20 a.m., 10 minutes before clock-in time. Bankman-Fried followed shortly after.

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Tricentis Launches Mobile Application Testing Grid

DevOps.com

Tricentis added a Virtual Mobile Grid service to its portfolio to make it simpler to test mobile applications at scale.

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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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Tiny EV maker ElectraMeccanica pulls the plug on its exit plan

TechCrunch

ElectraMeccanica, former maker of three-wheeled electric vehicles, said on Wednesday that it has “terminated” its plan to merge with Tevva, which makes hydrogen-electric trucks (not sandals). ElectraMeccanica said its board decided unanimously to bin the deal over “multiple incurable breaches of the agreement by Tevva.

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Uncovering the Untold Benefits of OTT App Development

Xicom

Over-the­-top (OTT) apps have become a dominant force­ on the internet, appe­aring on various devices such as TVs, laptops, mobile phone­s, and gaming consoles. But what exactly do these­ apps offer? And how can they bene­fit businesses? In this blog post, we will uncove­r the often overlooke­d advantages of investing in OTT app deve­lopment.

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Docker launches remote container builds, new debugging tools and more

TechCrunch

Docker today announced a slew of new products at DockerCon, the company’s user conference which has returned as an in-person event. These include a new remote build service, new debugging tools and the general availability of Docker Scout, the company’s software supply chain security service. The event comes at an interesting point in Docker’s history.

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