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ChatGPT privacy tips: Two important ways to limit the data you share with OpenAI

Ooda Loop

How private are your conversations with ChatGPT? That’s a tricky question to answer. OpenAI says that no one can view your chats unless you specifically choose to share them.

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GenAI Marks a Shift to Intelligent Experience Orchestration

IDC

GenAI is revolutionizing enterprises with hyper-personalization, like predicting grocery orders and offering tailored promos, enhancing customer experiences and value.

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Recruitment Chatbot: A How-to Guide for Recruiters

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Recruiters constantly look for innovative ways and solutions to efficiently attract and engage top talent. One of the recruiter tools at their disposal is the recruitment chatbot. These digital assistants are revolutionizing how recruiters work. Are you looking to add a chatbot to your hiring process ? Our comprehensive guide will take you through the essentials of a recruitment chatbot—from its role and benefits to planning and building one and optimizing your own.

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AES enlists AI to boost its sustainable energy business

CIO

American utility and power company AES launched a renewable energy program in mid-2022 that is not only reducing its carbon footprint but adding wealth to its coffer. To achieve that, the Arlington, Va.-based company, which claims to be the top-ranked supplier of renewable energy sales to corporations, turned to machine learning to help forecast renewable asset output, while establishing an automation framework for streamlining the company’s operations in servicing the renewable energy market.

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Struggling to Scale Test Coverage Under Pressure?

When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.

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Most-Active US Investors In May: Andreessen Horowitz And General Catalyst Lead Month With A Lot Of Big Rounds

Crunchbase News

This is a monthly feature that runs down some of the most-active investors in U.S.-based companies, looks at some of their most interesting investments, and includes some odds and ends of who spent what. See April’s most-active startup investors here. Similar to April, big-named investors dominated investing in U.S.-based startups last month. Andreessen Horowitz , General Catalyst , Sequoia Capital , Khosla Ventures , Founders Fund and Alumni Ventures led the way in the number of deals, although

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: NIST Program Assesses How AI Systems Will Behave in the Real World, While FBI Has Troves of Decryption Keys for LockBit Victims

Tenable

Check out the new ARIA program from NIST, designed to evaluate if an AI system will be safe and fair once it’s launched. Plus, the FBI offers to help LockBit victims with thousands of decryption keys. In addition, Deloitte finds that boosting cybersecurity is key for generative AI deployment success. And why identity security is getting harder. And much more!

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El primer hospital impulsado completamente por IA, una realidad en China

CIO

Ciencia ficción. Eso es lo que podría parecer la noticia que anuncia el primer hospital impulsado completamente por inteligencia artificial (IA); sin embargo, ya es una realidad en China. El país asiático actúa como escaparate al presentar al mundo un escenario de tintes futuristas protagonizado por el uso de la tecnología con vocación social. Desde que la IA irrumpiera en escena, su avance y desarrollo irrefrenables han ido mostrando pinceladas del verdadero alcance de la tecnología.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Xcimer Energy Leads The Way As Big Rounds Dry Up

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. Another slow week for funding — the third straight after a significant pick-up in large rounds earlier this year.

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Tecnología geoespacial, un cambio en la gestión de emergencias en complejos industriales

CIO

El compromiso con la seguridad es uno de los principales desafíos de los complejos industriales. Responder a incidentes con una fuerza laboral dispersa que desarrolla su labor en zonas con una conectividad irregular, así como garantizar su seguridad y conexión permanentes o tener la capacidad de almacenar y documentar actividades en tiempo real, son algunos de los mayores retos a los que se enfrenta el sector.

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Subscription Management in the SaaS World: Challenges and Solutions

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CVE-2024-4577: Proof of Concept Available for PHP-CGI Argument Injection Vulnerability

Tenable

Researchers disclose a critical severity vulnerability affecting PHP installations and provide proof-of-concept exploit code, which could lead to remote code execution. Background On June 6, maintainers of PHP released updates to address a critical vulnerability affecting installations where PHP is used in CGI mode. As part of a coordinated release, researchers at DEVCORE published a blog post with their analysis of the vulnerability and its impact.

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Databricks Follows Cloudera by Adopting Iceberg, While Snowflake Mulls Open Source Approach

Cloudera

A constant flow of breaking news from the data lakehouse space is making notable tech headlines this week. On Tuesday, Databricks announced that it will acquire Tabular, a data management company founded by the creators of Apache Iceberg, Ryan Blue, Daniel Weeks, and Jason Reidfor. The deal was for an unconfirmed sum, but some reports suggest that amount to be between $1B and $2B (and allegedly outbidding Snowflake).

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Volunteering Is Back and Bigger than Ever

TechSoup

Contrary to what recent U.S. census data might have you believe, volunteering has made a remarkable recovery since the COVID-19 pandemic. Interest in volunteering and actual volunteer participation have not only rebounded to pre-pandemic levels but have exceeded them in many cases.

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DuckDuckGo offers “anonymous” access to AI chatbots through new service

Ooda Loop

On Thursday, DuckDuckGo unveiled a new “AI Chat” service that allows users to converse with four mid-range large language models (LLMs) from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Mistral in an interface similar to ChatGPT while attempting to preserve privacy and anonymity.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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How To Build a Simple GitHub Action To Deploy a Django Application to the Cloud

Dzone - DevOps

Continuous integration and continuous delivery ( CI/CD ) capabilities are basic expectations for modern development teams who want fast feedback on their changes and rapid deployment to the cloud. In recent years, we’ve seen the growing adoption of GitHub Actions , a feature-rich CI/CD system that dovetails nicely with cloud hosting platforms such as Heroku.

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Helpful Strategies for Dealing with a Passive Aggressive Coworker

Let's Grow Leaders

Episode 260: In this episode, you’ll discover effective ways to handle a passive aggressive coworker. Dealing with this type of conflict can be incredibly frustrating, but don’t worry—you’ve got some powerful phrases to use. Throughout the podcast, you’ll hear examples of passive aggressive behavior and learn phrases to address it effectively.

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Using AWS Data Lake and S3 With SQL Server: A Detailed Guide With Research Paper Dataset Example

Dzone - DevOps

The integration of AWS Data Lake and Amazon S3 with SQL Server provides the ability to store data at any scale and leverage advanced analytics capabilities. This comprehensive guide will walk you through the process of setting up this integration, using a research paper dataset as a practical example. What Is a Data Lake? A data lake serves as a centralized repository for storing both structured and unstructured data, regardless of its size.

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Basic Cyber Hygiene: New Definition and Best Practices for the Current World

Ivanti

With the latest changes in regulations and laws, and with cyberattacks becoming more sophisticated, costly and frequent, it’s unavoidable: You must rethink basic cyber hygiene for your organization. Today, effective cyber hygiene requires you to plan and carry out regular and consistent actions to not only meet current challenges but also to keep pace with a threat landscape that is always evolving.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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OpenAI unveils OpenAI library for.NET

InfoWorld

Microsoft is heralding the arrival of an official OpenAI library for.NET developers. The OpenAI library supports the complete OpenAI API and OpenAI’s latest flagship model, GPT-4o, which can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time. Announced June 6 and available now in a first beta, the OpenAI.NET API library is accessible from NuGet. Resulting from Microsoft’s collaboration with OpenAI, the OpenAI.NET API library provides sync and async access to the OpenAI REST API from.NET applicat

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Banks say growing reliance on Big Tech for AI carries new risks

Ooda Loop

The boom in artificial intelligence will increase banks’ dependence on big U.S. tech firms, creating new risks for the industry, European banking executives said.

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Generative AI agents will revolutionize AI architecture

InfoWorld

In the rapidly evolving field of cloud computing, the emergence of generative AI agents, or more colloquially, agentic AI, heralds a potential paradigm shift in how we do AI in the cloud—even before we fully capitalize on generative AI’s true potential. Just as cloud computing transformed the tech landscape, agentic AI has the potential to revolutionize our approach to generative AI architecture by introducing autonomy, intelligence, and efficiency.

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Confluent Champion Jennifer: Maximizing Customer Value Across Industries

Confluent

Our latest Confluent Champion post features Jennifer Calyton, director of customer success engineering, and highlights how she’s driving customer value.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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6 security best practices for ASP.NET Core

InfoWorld

Today’s web applications are vulnerable to a variety of security threats. Hence, you should have your strategies in place to safeguard your data and protect your application against attacks. Securing your application requires a proactive approach combined with implementation of the recommended best practices as discussed in this article. This article examines six strategies you can adopt to secure your web applications, taking advantage of protections available in ASP.NET Core.

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A Generational Shift: The Global Gaming Ecosystem as Attack Surface and Point of Entry

Ooda Loop

Discord's server-based community and communications were central to the 2023 Airman Jack Texeira case. Still, by all accounts, Discord-based comms usually run parallel to multi-player gaming activity amongst this age cohort. Fortnite, Minecraft, and Roblox? All are current building blocks of the future metaverse. The Global Gaming Ecosystem is all at once an attack surface and point of entry.

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Data Quality and Generative AI: Key Insights and Recommendations

Dataiku

Earlier this month, Kurt Muehmel was joined by guest speaker Michele Goetz from Forrester to discuss the topic of data quality in the age of Generative AI.

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Chinese Hackers Exploit Old ThinkPHP Vulnerabilities in New Attacks 

Ooda Loop

Akamai researchers are warning that Chinese attackers are using previously publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in ThinkPHP in new attacks. The bugs, CVE-2018-20062 and CVE-2019-9082, were patched over five years ago, but are now being exploited again in recent attacks.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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TypeScript adds support for ECMAScript’s Set methods

InfoWorld

TypeScript 5.5, the latest version of Microsoft’s strongly typed JavaScript variant , has graduated to a release candidate (RC) stage. The update, which brings improvements ranging from performance and size optimizations to regular expression checking, recently added support for ECMAScript’s new Set methods. The TypeScript 5.5 release candidate was introduced June 6 and can be accessed through Nuget or the following command: npm -D typescript@rc.

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SPECTR Malware Targets Ukraine Defense Forces in SickSync Campaign 

Ooda Loop

An espionage campaign named “SickSync” is using cyber attacks to target defense forces in Ukraine using a malware called SPECTR.

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AWS is investing heavily in building tools for LLMops

InfoWorld

Amazon Web Services (AWS) made it easy for enterprises to adopt a generic generative AI chatbot with the introducing of its “plug and play” Amazon Q assistant at its re:Invent 2023 conference. But for enterprises that want to build their own generative AI assistant with their own or someone else’s large language model (LLM) instead, things are more complicated.