Mon.Sep 16, 2024

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The Way We Interact With AI Chatbots Is Changing

Ooda Loop

When OpenAI launched its ChatGPT chatbot in 2022, it looked as if a new generation of artificial intelligence tools was about to transform every corner of the economy and people’s lives.

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4 steps to shift from outputs to outcomes

CIO

Many organizations mistake busyness for progress. Without clear metrics to track and communicate business impact, project teams often focus on completing tasks without fully understanding how their work contributes to broader business goals. A CIO of a global company — let’s call him David — faced this exact issue. He took over project management from a project office struggling with late and over budget performance.

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CloudImposer: Executing Code on Millions of Google Servers with a Single Malicious Package

Tenable

Tenable Research discovered a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that is now fixed and that we dubbed CloudImposer. The vulnerability could have allowed an attacker to hijack an internal software dependency that Google pre-installs on each Google Cloud Composer pipeline-orchestration tool. Tenable Research also found risky guidance in GCP documentation that customers should be aware of.

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Cantabria apuntala su Plan de Salud Digital sobre la innovación tecnológica

CIO

Cantabria presenta en sociedad su Plan de Salud Digital , una hoja de ruta que, apuntalada sobre tecnologías de vanguardia como la inteligencia artificial (IA) y el cloud , aspira a revolucionar la asistencia sanitaria en la región. Conscientes de que la salud digital ha emergido como una solución crucial para hacer frente a los desafíos actuales y futuros de la población, la Dirección General de Planificación, Ordenación, Gestión del Conocimiento y Salud Digital perteneciente a la Consejería de

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How to Start Virtual Care the Right Way: A Proven Roadmap for 2025 and Beyond

Speaker: Dr. Christine Gall, DrPH, MS, BSN, RN

The promise of virtual care is no longer theoretical and is now a critical solution to many of healthcare’s most urgent challenges. Yet many healthcare leaders remain unsure how to build a business case for investment and launching the right program at the right time can be the difference between value and failure. For organizations seeking a financially sound, clinically effective entry point, Virtual Patient Observation (VPO) offers a compelling case to lead with.

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Startup Buying Power — VC-Backed Companies Are Hunting For More Startups

Crunchbase News

It’s not exactly a shopping spree, but with overall M&A down, more startups are hunting for other VC-backed companies in the U.S. In fact, startups buying other startups is on pace to make up the largest slice of the M&A pie in years when it comes to overall VC-backed, U.S.-based startup dealmaking. This is a noteworthy development in the current environment where venture capitalists and their limited partners are thirsting for liquidity amid a frozen IPO pipeline and quiet M&A marke

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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com

A weekly summary of DevOps job opportunities, including a Cloud Services Engineer role at Intel and an engineer role at Parsons Corp.

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Talento joven y formación TI, la apuesta de Repsol para impulsar la digitalización

CIO

Las primeras semanas en una empresa son clave , como sabe cualquiera que haya tenido que empezar alguna vez en un trabajo. Las estadísticas refuerzan esta sensación: las organizaciones que se muestran más activas y efectivas en esta fase, con programas de bienvenida u onboarding a las nuevas contrataciones, crecen a un ritmo un 2,5 superior en sus ingresos que las que no los hacen así.

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Improve RAG performance using Cohere Rerank

AWS Machine Learning - AI

This post is co-written with Pradeep Prabhakaran from Cohere. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a powerful technique that can help enterprises develop generative artificial intelligence (AI) apps that integrate real-time data and enable rich, interactive conversations using proprietary data. RAG allows these AI applications to tap into external, reliable sources of domain-specific knowledge, enriching the context for the language model as it answers user queries.

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Piano Transizione 5.0: che cos’è e che cosa possono aspettarsi i CIO

CIO

Con l’avvio, nel mese di agosto , della Piattaforma Informatica per la “presentazione delle comunicazioni preventive dirette alla prenotazione del credito d’imposta Transizione 5.0”, si è aperta l’attuazione del Piano del Governo italiano che stanzia 6,3 miliardi di euro (dal programma RePower EU) alle imprese per progetti a sostegno delle transizioni “gemelle” “digitale” ed “ecologica”.

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Airflow Best Practices for ETL/ELT Pipelines

Speaker: Kenten Danas, Senior Manager, Developer Relations

ETL and ELT are some of the most common data engineering use cases, but can come with challenges like scaling, connectivity to other systems, and dynamically adapting to changing data sources. Airflow is specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL/ELT pipelines, and new features in Airflow 3.0 like assets, backfills, and event-driven scheduling make orchestrating ETL/ELT pipelines easier than ever!

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Copado Adds AI Agents to Automate DevOps Workflows for Salesforce Apps

DevOps.com

Copado today revealed it has developed a series of generative artificial intelligence (AI) agents capable of automating specific tasks that DevOps teams routinely encounter when building and deploying applications on top of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) application platform from Salesforce.

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Los lazos entre tecnología y finanzas se estrechan con la adopción de la IA generativa

CIO

La incipiente era de la inteligencia artificial (IA) generativa ha puesto de manifiesto la necesidad urgente de contar con un nuevo tipo de liderazgo tecnológico. Así se desprende de un nuevo estudio impulsado por el Institute for Business Value de IBM. Este, basado en una encuesta a 2.500 CIO, CTO y CDO (en adelante, CxOs tecnológicos), revela que el 72% de los directores generales afirman que la ventaja competitiva depende de quién tenga la IA generativa más avanzada.

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Survey Surfaces Incident Management Gap Between DevOps and ITSM

DevOps.com

A survey of 505 software developers, IT professionals and IT decision makers (ITDMs) in the U.S. finds that 70% of respondents work for organizations that hold developers responsible for deployments, with only 22% practicing conducting blameless post-mortems.

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How Dell, ModTechLabs and NVIDIA are Shaping Future Cinema

Dell EMC

A revolution is taking place in the film industry as an entirely new way of working evolves.

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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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Salesforce Ventures Doubles Down Again On AI

Crunchbase News

Once again, Salesforce Ventures 1 — Salesforce ’s venture arm — is doubling the size of its AI commitments, which now total $1 billion. The investment arm of the tech giant announced a new $500 million AI fund — which is in addition to its AI fund announced last year. In March 2023, Salesforce Ventures said it would launch a new $250 million generative AI fund that will look at promising generative AI startups.

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How Covid Changed Leadership Forever

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Leadership is entering a new phase. Covid changed everything. If there were divisions before, now they are wider than ever before. The resulting world is now in recovery. Today’s post is by Chris Lewis, author of The Silent Rebellion. Leadership is entering a new phase. Covid changed everything. If there were divisions before, now they are wider than ever before.

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How to Motivate Employees to Have More Urgency

Let's Grow Leaders

Motivate employees to move faster by eliminating roadblocks and managing risk. Do you ever mutter, “Will they ever get anything done if I don’t follow up? I’m sick of hovering and I’m sure it feels like I’m micromanaging.” Ironically, the higher your sense of urgency, the more you’ll encounter this problem. The solution? A few consistent communication tools will help you motivate employees to meet those deadlines—without constant oversight.

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Ransomware Group Leaks Data Allegedly Stolen From Kawasaki Motors 

Ooda Loop

The RansomHub ransomware group has leaked data which was allegedly stolen from Kawasaki Motors Europe (KME). KME is a motorcycle manufacturer, and RansomHub claims to have stolen 487 gigabytes of data from the company. The company disclosed the incident last week, but said that the cyberattack was not successful.

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Subscription Management in the SaaS World: Challenges and Solutions

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Amazon Alexa can now be controlled by thought alone - thanks to this brain implant

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

With this new accessibility innovation from Synchron, the entire Amazon smart home ecosystem can be controlled hands-free and voice-free.

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Introducing VEX Hub: Essential New Repository Unifying VEX Statements!

Aqua Security

VEX (Vulnerability eXploitability Exchange) is an emerging industry standard for communicating the relevance and impact of security vulnerabilities on software artifacts. This approach allows software maintainers to indicate when a specific vulnerability in a software dependency is irrelevant to their software due to the specific use case of that dependency.

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The best iOS 18 features that will make updating your iPhone worthwhile

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Here are the best new features coming with Apple's latest software version, available for the iPhone 16 and older models.

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Top Press Release Distribution Platforms to Consider

CEO Insider

Cutting through the noise to bring attention to your latest company announcement or news event isn’t easy in today’s crowded media landscape. Yet, making a big splash online and in publications can provide a huge visibility boost for your brand when done right. The key is finding the ideal press release distribution platform for sharing […] The post Top Press Release Distribution Platforms to Consider appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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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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Is your Windows license legal? Should you even care?

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Microsoft has made Windows licensing and activation ridiculously complex. Here's what you need to know.

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Is OpenTelemetry Open for Business? September 2024 Update

Honeycomb

One of the things about OpenTelemetry that’s easy to miss if you’re not spending the whole day in the ins and outs of the project is just how much stuff it can do—but that’s what I’m here for! Today, I want to go through the project and give you a guide to the various parts of OpenTelemetry, how mature they are, and what you can expect over the next six months or so.

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The 5 best Linux distributions for students - from middle school to college

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Linux distros are ideal operating systems for educational environments for multiple reasons. A big one is that they're 100% free to download.

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Unintended Consequences

DevOps.com

Danger lurks in the most unexpected of places.

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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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Apple Watch gets FDA approval for new sleep apnea detection

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

This new WatchOS 11 feature will detect if you have abnormal breathing patterns while you sleep. Here's why this metric matters and which models will have it.

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CodeSOD: String Du Jour

The Daily WTF

It's not brought up frequently, but a "CodeSOD" is a "Code Sample of the Day" Martin brings us this function, entitled StringOfToday. It's in VB.Net, which, as we all know, has date formatting functions built in. Public Function StringOfTo day () As String Dim d As New DateTime d = Now Dim DayString As String If d.Day < 10 Then DayString = "0" & d.Day.ToString Else DayString = d.Day.ToString End If Dim MonthString As String If d.Month < 10 Then MonthStri

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Linus Torvalds muses about maintainer gray hairs and the next 'King of Linux'

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Live from Vienna, it's the Linus Torvalds and Dirk Hohndel show! This time, they're talking RTLinux, Rust, maintainer burnout, and succession planning.

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