Wed.Apr 24, 2024

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Microsoft and Cognizant team up to boost enterprise Copilot adoption

CIO

Microsoft is opening another route for extending the reach of its Copilot offerings in the enterprise through an expanded partnership with global professional services company Cognizant. As part of the deal, Cognizant has acquired 25,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot seats, and 500 each of Sales Copilot and Services Copilot, for use by its associates across the globe.

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Nagomi Security Emerges From Stealth With $30 Million in Funding

Ooda Loop

Nagomi Security has emerged from stealth mode, previously known as Vena Security, with a platform aimed at helping customers maximize the effectiveness of their existing cybersecurity tools.

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A comparative assessment of digital transformation in Italy

CIO

It’s universally accepted that to thrive, enterprises must embrace transformation through technology. CIOs are at the forefront of this as they help shepherd their organizations through digitalization. “Digital is a powerful business lever,” says Alessandra Luksch, director of the Digital Transformation Academy Observatory at Politecnico di Milano, which has been mapping trends in ICT spending by Italian organizations since 2016.

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As Americans Spend More Out Of Pocket On Healthcare, Startups See Opportunity

Crunchbase News

Americans are spending ever-rising sums of their own money on healthcare. So-called out-of-pocket expenses now top $470 billion annually, per the federal government’s latest accounting. Spending is expected to keep rising too, along with the spread of high-deductible health plans and care providers who don’t accept insurance. While consumers aren’t exactly thrilled about this trend, startup founders and their backers see some very scalable opportunities.

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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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A changing market landscape requires constant evolution: Our mission for VMware customers

CIO

Our goal since the Broadcom/VMware acquisition was completed last November has been to help our customers move fast in their digital transformation to position themselves for success. Even before the transaction was finalized, we had been listening to VMware’s customers. As we moved from transaction to integration, we began to translate customer thoughts into a comprehensive go-to-market strategy for VMware Cloud Foundation, or VCF.

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7 tendenze del 2024 per una valida strategia cloud aziendale

CIO

Ogni CIO sa bene che il mercato del cloud è sempre in movimento, nelle più disparate direzioni. Tuttavia, forse, non si rende conto che è possibile tenere il passo con i cambiamenti del mercato della “nuvola”, e persino avere la meglio sui vendor, modificando la strategia della propria impresa per trarre vantaggio da nuovi approcci e da nuove opportunità emergenti.

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How RAG completes the generative AI puzzle

InfoWorld

Generative AI entered the global consciousness with a bang at the close of 2022 (cue: ChatGPT ), but making it work in the enterprise has amounted to little more than a series of stumbles. Shadow AI use in the enterprise is sky high as employees are making day-to-day task companions out of AI chat tools. But for the knowledge-intensive workflows that are core to an organization’s mission, generative AI has yet to deliver on its lofty promise to transform the way we work.

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Top 4 focus areas for securing your software supply chain

CIO

The complexity of the software supply chain (SSC) has the potential to expose your organization to greater risk than ever before. In today’s fast-paced software development landscape, managing and securing the software supply chain is crucial for delivering reliable and trusted software releases. Thus, it’s important to assess whether your organization is set up to handle the continuous expansion of the open-source ecosystem and an ever-growing array of tools to incorporate into your supply chai

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Research: Why People Really Buy Upcycled Products

Harvard Business Review

Researchers who analyzed consumer feedback from Etsy discovered that what consumers value most about upcycled products is not their sustainability but their creativity. Their findings offer some guidelines for companies who hope to design and successfully market upcycled products: 1) Designers should consider using components from other industries to enhance the appeal of their products and encourage cross-industry collaboration; 2) Product designers and managers should identify new uses for pro

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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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Kenya: Floods cause widespread devastation in Nairobi

Ooda Loop

Heavy rain has caused widespread flooding in Nairobi, Kenya, turning roads into rivers and forcing residents to seek refuge on rooftops. Nairobi county official Edwin Sifuna described the situation as reaching extreme levels, with footage showing entire neighborhoods submerged.

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Leveraging Data Cloud for Medical Devices

Perficient

From patient records to medical device telemetry, the volume and diversity of data generated for medical device companies can be staggering. However, harnessing this data to its full potential remains a significant challenge for many. Healthcare organizations, including medical device companies, grapple with dispersed data across various departments and technologies.

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Biden signs TikTok ‘ban’ bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it

Ooda Loop

President Joe Biden signed a foreign aid package that includes a bill that would ban TikTok if China-based parent company ByteDance fails to divest the app within a year. The divest-or-ban bill is now law, starting the clock for ByteDance to make its move.

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From Spreadsheet Chaos to Data Strategy Triumph with Perficient

Perficient

Uncovering the Challenge: Relying on Spreadsheets for Portfolio Analysis A leading wealth and asset management firm recently sought our financial services expertise for a critical challenge. Relying on complex spreadsheets for portfolio analysis, the firm faced operational hurdles due to immense computing demands. The Perficient Approach: Transforming Operations through Strategic Consulting Our team embraced the challenge, conducting a meticulous two-week analysis to uncover the root issue: a cu

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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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OpenAI shrugs off Meta’s Llama 3 ascent with new enterprise AI features

Ooda Loop

Even as Meta’s new Llama 3 has quickly rocketed up the charts of most-used and most customized large language models (LLMs), the rival company that ushered in the generative AI era, OpenAI, is shrugging off the competition by introducing new enterprise-grade features for building and programming atop its GPT-4 Turbo […]

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Improve LLM performance with human and AI feedback on Amazon SageMaker for Amazon Engineering

AWS Machine Learning - AI

The Amazon EU Design and Construction (Amazon D&C) team is the engineering team designing and constructing Amazon warehouses. The team navigates a large volume of documents and locates the right information to make sure the warehouse design meets the highest standards. In the post A generative AI-powered solution on Amazon SageMaker to help Amazon EU Design and Construction , we presented a question answering bot solution using a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline with a fine-tune

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Tines Bags $50 Million Funding for Security Workflow Automation

Ooda Loop

Tines, an Irish security automation startup, has secured an additional $50 million in venture capital funding as part of its Series B round, raising its total funding to $146.2 million.

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OpenAI ramps up enterprise support with a focus on security, control, and cost

InfoWorld

OpenAI, known for its large language model ChatGPT, is making a strong push for the enterprise market. In what could intensify competition among enterprise AI players , the company announced a slew of new features designed to give businesses more control, enhance security, and offer cost-effective options when integrating OpenAI’s AI technologies in their operations.

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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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Google Patches Critical Chrome Vulnerability

Ooda Loop

Google has released Chrome 124, addressing four vulnerabilities, including a critical security flaw identified as CVE-2024-4058, involving a type confusion bug in the ANGLE graphics layer engine. This critical vulnerability could potentially allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or escape sandboxes with limited user interaction.

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Embrace Adds Support for OpenTelemetry to Instrument Mobile Applications

DevOps.com

Embrace revealed today it is adding support for open source OpenTelemetry agent software to its software development kits (SDKs) that enable observability of iOS and Android applications.

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Amplifier Security Emerges From Stealth With AI Copilot, Human-in-the-Loop Automation

Ooda Loop

Amplifier Security has emerged from stealth mode, unveiling a solution aimed at bridging the gap between the workforce and security teams using AI copilot and human-in-the-loop automation. The company has secured $3.

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Snowflake’s open-source Arctic LLM to take on Llama 3, Grok, Mistral, and DBRX

InfoWorld

Cloud-based data warehouse company Snowflake has developed an open-source large language model (LLM), Arctic, to take on the likes of Meta’s Llama 3 , Mistral’s family of models, xAI’s Grok-1 , and Databricks’ DBRX.

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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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Seven teens with alleged ‘extremist ideology’ arrested in Sydney raids

Ooda Loop

Australian police have arrested seven teenagers in Sydney following a series of counter-terrorism raids, suspecting their involvement in a potential attack. The youths, aged between 15 and 17, are believed to share a “religiously motivated violent extremist ideology.

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5 ways to use JavaScript promises

InfoWorld

Promises are a central mechanism for handling asynchronous code in JavaScript. You will find them in many JavaScript libraries and frameworks, where they're used to manage the results of an action. The fetch() API is one example of promises at work. As a developer, you might not be familiar with creating and using promises outside of an existing product, but it's surprisingly simple.

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Tesla could start selling Optimus robots by the end of next year, Musk says

Ooda Loop

Tesla’s, opens new tab humanoid robot is still in the lab, but it may be ready to sell as soon as the end of next year, chief executive Elon Musk said on Tuesday.

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Intro to Extism: A WebAssembly library for extendable apps and plugins

InfoWorld

WebAssembly was originally designed to give in-browser web applications a way to run portable, sandboxed, high-performance binaries. As WASM matures beyond the browser , new uses for the technology are emerging. Using WASM to build programmability and extensibility into applications is one use case that is gathering steam. The Extism software library lets you write programs that can interface with extensions written in WebAssembly.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

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.

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Russian deputy defence minister Timur Ivanov accused of taking bribes

Ooda Loop

Russian Deputy Defence Minister Timur Ivanov, accused of accepting large-scale bribes, has been remanded in custody by a Moscow court, denying the charges against him.

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Wasmer unveils Python to Wasm compiler

InfoWorld

WebAssembly runtime maker Wasmer has unveiled py2wasm, a Python -to-WebAssembly compiler that transforms Python programs to the WebAssembly (aka Wasm) binary instruction format. Using a fork of the Nuitka Python compiler , py2wasm converts Python programs to Wasm, allowing them to run without interpreter overhead. Introduced April 18, py2wasm addresses a situation in which the performance of Python programs in WebAssembly has been less than ideal, Wasmer founder and CEO Syrus Akbary wrote in a b

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Greece: Orange Sahara dust haze descends over Athens

Ooda Loop

Athens is enveloped in a dramatic orange haze as clouds of dust from the Sahara desert sweep over Greece, causing one of the worst episodes since 2018.

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