CIO
DECEMBER 26, 2023
IT provides the plumbing for just about every company in existence today. Most of the time, that plumbing works fine — but when something goes wrong, it can be more embarrassing (and more expensive) than the most extravagantly overflowing toilet. We’ve gathered eight instances of big tech failures that struck companies and other organizations in 2023.
DevOps.com
DECEMBER 26, 2023
Well, it has been quite the year in general and quite the year as it relates to DevOps. As I sit here on the cusp of the 10th year of publishing DevOps.com, I look back and recognize how much DevOps has grown, evolved, matured and shifted over time.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
N2Growth Blog
DECEMBER 26, 2023
The Role of Executive Search Firms in the Technology Industry Executive search firms play a vital role in the technology industry by helping organizations navigate the complex talent acquisition landscape. With the rapidly evolving nature of technology and the increasing demand for skilled professionals, these firms bring their expertise to identify and attract top-level executives with the necessary skills and experience to drive innovation and growth.
Ooda Loop
DECEMBER 28, 2023
The use of artificial intelligence by the general population in developed countries such as the US to a “significant” degree will start to take place in the next 18 to 24 months, according to Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates in his year-end letter released last week.
Advertisement
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.
The Hustle
DECEMBER 27, 2023
No doubt about it, the whole world had its eyes on artificial intelligence in 2023. The groundbreaking tech touched every industry, from agriculture and medicine to retail, food, and finance. We feared its impact on our livelihoods and revered its ability to generate images, text, sound, and data as well as — or better than — any human. Let’s take a look back through the key numbers: 1m+: The number of people who used ChatGPT within its first five days.
CTO Universe brings together the best content for CTOs from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
CIO
DECEMBER 26, 2023
In many communities, December is a month set aside for reflection. To wit, across nearly every discipline, one finds magnum opuses entitled “Lessons Learned” or “The Year in Review” as the year draws to a close. Such exercises are valuable but anachronistic. Perhaps in an age when our forebears huddled around campfires waiting for warmer weather annual reviews were the optimal way to accumulate knowledge and empower human agency.
Xebia
DECEMBER 25, 2023
As a consultant I am used to a certain level of quality that I need to deliver to our customers. For this reason I have built a landing zone for my own website, initiatives and experiments. By using the same structure that our customers have, I can test and build my ideas and apply them in customer environments if they are successful. At first it might feel like a massive overkill to set up a complete landing zone.
N2Growth Blog
DECEMBER 27, 2023
Embracing Friction or “Chafe” in Leadership for Organizational Glow “Without friction, there is no glow,” states Paul Huiskens , Senior Partner at N2Growth. This profound statement encapsulates the essence of dynamic leadership. Friction, often perceived negatively, is a catalyst for growth and innovation within teams. But it’s not just about the presence of friction – it’s about how it’s navigated, with mutual trust being the crucial element.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 27, 2023
The New York Times is suing OpenAI and its close collaborator (and investor), Microsoft, for allegedly violating copyright law by training generative AI models on Times’ content. In the lawsuit, filed in the Federal District Court in Manhattan, The Times contends that millions of its articles were used to train AI models, including those underpinning […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
Advertisement
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
CIO
DECEMBER 27, 2023
Highly regulated, customer-centric, and dependent on layers of human involvement and manual processes, financial services are ripe for automation through artificial intelligence (AI). Those same characteristics, however, reveal the risks AI pose to this sector. So business technology leaders in financial services are carefully navigating a path toward AI.
Xebia
DECEMBER 24, 2023
Most examples of access to Google Drive from Java using the Google Client SDKs, authenticate with the deprecated GoogleCredential class and a service account key file. We advise against the use of service account private key file as these files contain a private key in clear text with an expiration date set to January 1st, in the year 10000. Instead, use the shorted-lived credentials provided by the Google Cloud SDK, App Engine, Cloud Shell, Compute Engine, Cloud Run or GKE workload identity ins
N2Growth Blog
DECEMBER 26, 2023
The Quintessence of Leadership: Embracing Authenticity Jaco Erasmus, a distinguished Partner Executive Search and member of the Global Board at N2Growth , emphasizes authenticity’s pivotal role in leadership. “Authenticity is not just a virtue; it’s the bedrock of transformative leadership,” Jaco asserts. This principle is what distinguishes outstanding leaders from the rest.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 29, 2023
Skincare girlies, fear not — your moisturizer probably does not attract spiders. Sol de Janeiro’s Delícia Drench Body Butter, which launched earlier this month, is quickly becoming a holy grail product among skincare enthusiasts. In addition to hyaluronic acid, the lotion is packed with flashy ingredients like copaiba resin, passionflower seed oil and prebiotic hibiscus […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
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.
CIO
DECEMBER 29, 2023
With the merging of operational efficiency and embracing new technologies, today’s CIOs are under increasing pressure to do more with less and become both technologists and business leaders, says Sunny Azadeh, CIO at digital services company GlobalLogic. “In a world underpinned by change, it remains constant that digital transformation must be a core organizational competency,” she says.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 26, 2023
Our Management Tip of the Day newsletter continues to be one of HBR’s most popular newsletters. In this article, we list 10 of our favorites from 2023 — covering topics like how to get your mojo back if you’re feeling disengaged at work, questions to ask your boss in your next check-in, talking to your team about using AI, giving hard feedback, speaking with confidence when you’re put on the spot — and more.
Crunchbase News
DECEMBER 29, 2023
Between the rapid ascendance of AI and the often dramatic downfall of startups large and small, 2023 was an action-packed year for tech and venture. In many ways, we expect 2024 to be the year when things settle down a bit. The buzz around AI will likely wane, but so, hopefully, will layoffs. The IPO markets may make a tepid comeback and we expect that after nearly two years of falling funding, venture investment will level off.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 26, 2023
We’ve known about the Vision Pro for more than half-a-year now (not to mention the years of rumors), but Apple’s first “spatial computing” device is one of consumer electronics’ biggest question marks heading into the new year. The $3,499 headset was given an “early-2024” release time frame when it was unveiled at WWDC in June, […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
Advertisement
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.
CIO
DECEMBER 28, 2023
While 2023 brought on many changes to IT departments around the world, by far the biggest surprise was generative AI. Many technology leaders already worked with AI for over a decade for things like predictive maintenance and supply chain planning. Some even implemented their own virtual personal assistants (VPAs), which included at least natural language processing—and sometimes more intelligence than that.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 28, 2023
The year 2023 contained several important sustainability narratives and trends. The author outlines three key ones — the anti-ESG movement, China’s acceleration of a clean economy, and the rise of reporting regulations — and then suggests a series countervailing forces pushing against each. He also outlines several smaller stories that leaders need on their radar as well.
Crunchbase News
DECEMBER 28, 2023
This is a year-end wrap up of our weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last year’s here. You can track funding deals of $100 million or more to U.S. startups on the Crunchbase Megadeals Board. While funding continued to trend down in 2023 , big raises were there to be had. Fifteen startups in the U.S. — many of them AI startups — raised $500 million or more in funding rounds and some got a lot more than that.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 29, 2023
Earlier this year, GitHub rolled out Copilot Chat, a ChatGPT-like programming-centric chatbot for organizations subscribed to Copilot for Business. Copilot Chat more recently came to individual Copilot customers — those paying $10 per month — in beta. And now, GitHub’s launching Chat in general availability for all users. As of today, Copilot Chat is available in […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
Advertisement
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.
CIO
DECEMBER 28, 2023
The need to manage risk, adhere to regulations, and establish processes to govern those tasks has been part of running an organization as long as there have been businesses to run. But those tasks have become increasingly critical to organizational success in the modern era, as the number of laws, the complexity of doing business, the types of risks, and the use of technology have exploded in recent decades.
InfoQ Culture Methods
DECEMBER 29, 2023
Staff engineers can influence behaviors during and after incidents by modeling transparency and questioning assumptions to strengthen engineering culture. As incident commanders, they can coordinate workstreams, communicate with stakeholders, and prevent responder burnout. In retrospectives, staff engineers can improved model root cause analysis to improve underlying cultural issues.
Crunchbase News
DECEMBER 27, 2023
After a rough 2022 , many people in venture were hoping 2023 would offer a reprieve. While the year did see some steadying in the venture-backed startup world, it did not lack for big stories, big busts and big buzz. From crypto contagion to a banking crisis that rocked the industry, to a CEO’s firing saga that was like a never-ending soap opera storyline, 2023 saw a lot — so let’s take a look back as we go forward.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 26, 2023
For yet another year, hackers stole billions of dollars in crypto. But for the first time since 2020, the trend is downwards, according to crypto security firms. This year, hackers stole around $2 billion dollars in crypto across dozens of cyberattacks and thefts, according to De.FI, the web3 security firm that runs the REKT database. […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
Advertisement
Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 29, 2023
As we close out 2023, we asked our readers: Did an HBR article make a meaningful impact on the way you think, work, or lead this year? And how specifically did it change the way you operate? We heard from readers in a variety of different industries, writing in from various corners of the world. They called out articles ranging from a 2001 classic article about managing your energy as a worker to a recent magazine piece on storytelling for leaders.
CEO Insider
DECEMBER 26, 2023
A world beset with continued challenges. According to the International Monetary Fund, global recovery remains subdued, with growing regional divergences and little room for economic policy mishaps. The baseline forecast expects global growth to slow from 3.5 percent in 2022 to 3.0 percent in 2023 and 2.9 percent in 2024, well below the historical (2000–19) […] The post Racing to stay competitive in 2024: Business Resilience appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
N2Growth Blog
DECEMBER 26, 2023
Understanding the Evolving Role of Insurance Executives in Today’s Risk Landscape The role of insurance executives has significantly changed today’s risk landscape. Insurance executives face unique challenges and opportunities with emerging technologies, including AI, evolving regulatory environments, and global economic uncertainties. They are no longer responsible for managing risk but also for driving innovation, enhancing customer experiences, and achieving sustainable growth.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
344 
Let's personalize your content