CIO
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Despite mixed early returns , the outcome appears evident: Generative AI coding assistants will remake how software development teams are assembled, with QA and junior developer jobs at risk. As AI assistants become better at writing code, CIOs and dev leaders will reshape their teams, focusing on AI specialists and senior developers to oversee AI-generated code, some IT leaders say.
Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
Episode 271: Have you ever wondered what sets the best leaders apart from the rest? How do they remain calm under pressure while still achieving extraordinary results? What if the key to success lies in strengthening your mental toughness? Whether managing a team or striving to become a more resilient leader, mental strength is the cornerstone of your leadership journey.
Confluent
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Confluent has acquired WarpStream, an innovative Kafka-compatible streaming solution. Read the full statement by Jay Kreps, co-founder and CEO of Confluent.
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
A survey of 555 software executives published this week finds that 75% have seen up to a 50% reduction in development time by implementing various artificial intelligence (AI) and automation technologies.
Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Using the end of the summer to reset your approach to development can create new energy for your career. Instead of feeling like another thing to fit in, it can be a new source of motivation that supports everything else you’re trying to do. The idea is to identify actions that will kick-start your learning in a way that’s easy to add into your day.
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Crunchbase News
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Eight companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in August, with six based in the U.S., and two hailing from China and India, respectively. Among them was Huawei Technologies’ smart car subsidiary Yinwang Smart Technology , valued at $16 billion. That dollar amount represents the second-largest value for a newly minted unicorn this year — trailing only xAI , which was valued at $24 billion in May when it joined the board.
Ooda Loop
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
In defiance of sanctions, North Korea is continuing to supply advanced short-range ballistic missiles to Russia. These sanctions were imposed to prevent North Korea from creating these weapons and to stop Russia from importing them. However, the two countries continue to defy the restrictions.
Tenable
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
7 Critical 71 Important 1 Moderate 0 Low Microsoft addresses 79 CVEs with seven critical vulnerabilities and four zero-day vulnerabilities, including three that were exploited in the wild. Microsoft patched 79 CVEs in its September 2024 Patch Tuesday release, with seven rated critical, 71 rated as important, and one rated as moderate. This month’s update includes patches for: Azure CycleCloud Azure Network Watcher Azure Stack Azure Web Apps Dynamics Business Central Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) Mi
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
Recently, some organizations have begun to recognize the downside of C-level proliferation and decided to consolidate senior technology and data roles. These individuals — referred to as “SuperTech” leaders — are most likely to be known as chief information officers, but they also have broad responsibility for data and technology functions, and many also have operational responsibilities within the business.
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CIO
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
At Quantum World Congress on Tuesday, Microsoft announced that it and partner Quantinuum had broken a record in the creation of logical qubits. In addition, Microsoft also announced that it is working with partner Atom Computing to build what it described as the world’s most powerful quantum machine. “Through this collaboration, we’re bringing a new generation of reliable quantum hardware to customers by integrating and advancing Atom Computing’s neutral atom hardware into our Azure Quantum comp
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
Cribl this week added support for multiple additional platforms to its cloud service for collecting and routing telemetry data collected from multiple DevOps tools and platforms.
Crunchbase News
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
It is widely known that getting the right investors at the right time can be vital to a startup’s success. This truth is always top of mind for founders who are raising venture capital. While it’s somewhat standard practice to get an idea off the ground with friends and family, then angel investors, things get more complex as startups approach their early stages and begin raising successive rounds.
Tenable
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
With patches out for three years, attackers have set their sights on a pair of vulnerabilities affecting DrayTek VigorConnect. Background In November 2021, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) launched its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, an effort to focus on vulnerabilities known to have been exploited and provide defenders with an actionable list of vulnerabilities to prioritize their remediation efforts.
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Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
When it comes to job searches, everybody knows how important networking is. But a surprising number of people fail to follow up with the people they’ve met with and sought advice from. That’s a problem, because it can alienate mentors and hold job seekers back. The authors discuss the main reasons for this lack of follow-up and then recommend a simple three-part plan for following up effectively.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Salesforce today released Agentforce, a new suite of low-code tools aimed at helping enterprises build autonomous AI agents for sales, service, marketing, and commerce use cases. Agentforce, which has been in pilot phase for the past six months, combines three major Salesforce tools — Agent Builder, Model Builder, and Prompt Builder — to provide the necessary software development infrastructure to create these autonomous agents, according to the company.
Ooda Loop
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Recently, the United States, South Korea, and Japan convened its third trilateral dialogue focused on countering the cyber threat posed by North Korea (DPRK).
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
NordVPN and Proton VPN are two of the most popular VPN services available with strong protection features. Here are the key reasons you might pick one over the other.
Speaker: Conrado Morlan
In this engaging and witty talk, industry expert Conrado Morlan will explore how artificial intelligence can transform the daily tasks of product managers into streamlined, efficient processes. Using the lens of a superhero narrative, he’ll uncover how AI can be the ultimate sidekick, aiding in data management and reporting, enhancing productivity, and boosting innovation.
Perficient
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Sitecore Content Hub is a world-class platform for centralizing and managing content across various channels. It helps businesses organize and streamline often chaotic, messy content operations. It does this by providing an architecture or schema for content and its interconnections. A schema defines how different types of assets are structured, organized, related to each other.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
Delegating work can help free up managers’ time and energy while empowering their employees to take on meaningful tasks. Yet, previous research has shown that delegating decision-making can cause employees to feel overly burdened. In a new paper, researchers examine the negative impact that handing over choice responsibility can have on delegator-delegate relationships.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
La masificación de la inteligencia artificial (IA) ha puesto de manifiesto que la automatización, junto con una capa de inteligencia , puede acelerar y optimizar de manera exponencial los procesos operativos de las organizaciones. Pero este viaje de transformación digital en el que la mayor parte de las empresas están embarcadas no está exento de desafíos.
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Several techniques blend accounting principles with engineering practices to make cloud cost optimization practical and effective.
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Aqua Security
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Aqua Nautilus researchers identified a new Linux malware targeting Weblogic servers. he main payload calls itself Hadooken which we think is referring to the attack “surge fist” in the Street Fighter series. When Hadooken is executed, it drops a Tsunami malware and deploys a cryptominer.
Daffodil Software
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
The user experience (UX) plays a key role in determining the success of a digital product and can either elevate it or lead to its downfall. A substantial aspect of UX design revolves around the interaction between users and interfaces; however, there exists a hidden layer that is equally impactful - the subconscious layer.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
Recent Supreme Court decisions on regulatory powers will have a major impact on business investment — but not in the way most people think.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
Managing cybersecurity and other technology risks will be top of mind for CIOs in 2025 across Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), with 82% of 109 respondents saying it is a key priority for next year, according to Gartner. Increased executive and board scrutiny on technology investments due to economic uncertainties is playing a role in IT leaders’ growing emphasis on risk management.
Speaker: Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms
Join us for an exclusive webinar hosted by Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms, where he’ll explore the significant impact of embedded finance on the software industry! This session is designed to provide you with the strategic insights needed to navigate the future of SaaS successfully, all while gaining a deeper understanding of how these trends can enhance your competitive edge, boost revenue, and deepen customer loyalty.
Crunchbase News
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
Spatial intelligence AI startup World Labs launched Friday with more than $230 million in total funding. The funding was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz , NEA and Radical Ventures. Other investors include Marc Benioff , Ashton Kutcher , Adobe Ventures , AMD Ventures , Databricks Ventures and NVentures , the venture capital arm of Nvidia. It was reported just last month that the Stanford, California-based company had raised a pair of financing rounds two months apart, and that the latest valued the
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2024
Apple just announced its iPhone 16 series, and there are some pretty big updates for both software and hardware. Here are the features that pro users will care about.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Organizations generate vast amounts of data that is proprietary to them, and it’s critical to get insights out of the data for better business outcomes. Generative AI and foundation models (FMs) play an important role in creating applications using an organization’s data that improve customer experiences and employee productivity. The FMs are typically pretrained on a large corpus of data that’s openly available on the internet.
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