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MAY 1, 2024

When Brightspeed launched in 2022, the fiber broadband internet service had ambitious goals, acquiring a service territory encompassing more than 6.5 million locations in mainly rural and suburban communities in 20 U.S. states. As the Charlotte, North Carolina-based company planned its fiber build plan across its footprint, the company’s IT specialists realized that, with artificial intelligence (AI) emerging as the consummate transformative technology, Brightspeed needed to embrace adoption o

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Ooda Loop

MAY 1, 2024

UnitedHealth Group revealed that the Alphv/BlackCat hackers infiltrated Change Healthcare’s systems for nine days before unleashing file-encrypting ransomware, accessed through leaked credentials for a vulnerable Citrix portal lacking multi-factor authentication.

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CIO

MAY 1, 2024

Generative AI has captured everyone’s attention — and for good reason. But getting from potential to profitability does not come without risks, such as assuming that your established processes for deploying mainstream enterprise IT infrastructure will work in the new era of complex AI superclusters. A solid technology infrastructure has always been essential.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2024

The cyberattack on Change Healthcare that devastated the U.S. health care sector made painfully clear that much more needs to be done to address vulnerabilities that exist throughout the ecosystem. This article offers five actions that can go a long way to improving cybersecurity throughout the sector and make it much more resilient.

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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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MAY 1, 2024

When Brightspeed launched in 2022, the fiber broadband internet service had ambitious goals, acquiring a service territory encompassing more than 6.5 million locations in mainly rural and suburban communities in 20 U.S. states. As the Charlotte, North Carolina-based company planned its fiber build plan across its footprint, the company’s IT specialists realized that, with artificial intelligence (AI) emerging as the consummate transformative technology, Brightspeed needed to embrace adoption o

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CIO

MAY 1, 2024

Ingesan, a subsidiary of the OHLA Infrastructure Group, the Madrid-based construction and concession management multinational, has launched the Empath-IA project, a joint initiative between HR management and the digital transformation division that aims to address the increasingly competitive demands and complexities in HRM. And at its center is Nuria Fuentes, Ingesan’s CIO and leader of systems and digital transformation.

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The CTO Advisor

MAY 1, 2024

It’s time for an update on the hybrid cloud terminology and landscape. With the recent developments around the European Digital Operation al Resilience Act (DORA) and increased interest in sovereign cloud , the market has begun to reposition solutions marketed … The post Exploring Sovereign Cloud Options: A Introduction for IT Infrastructure Decision-Makers appeared first on The CTO Advisor.

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Ooda Loop

MAY 1, 2024

In a major April 2024 restructuring of its armed forces, China dissolved its Strategic Support Force (SSF), first created in 2015 and that served as the military’s centralized hub for all cyber operations, as well as other capabilities such as psychological warfare and information-enabled activities.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 1, 2024

In recent weeks, chocolate lovers have witnessed the resurgence of two of the most chilling words in the history of commodity market headlines: cocoa shortage. Over the past year, cocoa prices have roughly quadrupled , following poor harvests in Ivory Coast and Ghana, the two countries that produce most of the world’s supply. Processors have scaled back or shuttered, leaving chocolate-makers without the usual reserves of cocoa butter and liquor to produce confections.

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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.

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Ooda Loop

MAY 1, 2024

Chinese cybersecurity firm QAX XLab has uncovered a new Android trojan named Wpeeper, notable for hiding its true command-and-control (C&C) server behind compromised WordPress sites, utilizing a multi-level C&C infrastructure.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MAY 1, 2024

Large language models (LLMs) are making a significant impact in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI). Their impressive generative abilities have led to widespread adoption across various sectors and use cases, including content generation, sentiment analysis, chatbot development, and virtual assistant technology. Llama2 by Meta is an example of an LLM offered by AWS.

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Ooda Loop

MAY 1, 2024

Security researchers at JFrog have discovered three large-scale campaigns targeting Docker Hub with repositories devoid of container images, instead containing malicious metadata. Docker Hub, a platform for Docker image development, hosts over 15 million repositories and is popular among developers globally. Approximately 3.

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DevOps.com

MAY 1, 2024

GitHub this week made available a formal technical preview of an approach to building software that uses generative artificial intelligence (AI) to complete tasks on behalf of a software engineering team.

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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.

Ooda Loop

MAY 1, 2024

Victory Park in Moscow, known for commemorating the Soviet Union’s victory in World War Two, now hosts an open-air exhibition showcasing Western military hardware captured by the Russian army in Ukraine. The display includes British, American, and German tanks, among others.

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DevOps.com

MAY 1, 2024

Postman today generally made available a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool for its platform for building and managing application programming interfaces (APIs) that automatically creates tests and documentation.

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Ooda Loop

MAY 1, 2024

Riot police in Georgia clashed with pro-EU protesters outside parliament as they fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse crowds opposing a bill perceived by the opposition as a threat to media freedoms and inspired by Russian authoritarian legislation.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MAY 1, 2024

To build and foster a high performing team, sometimes you have to step back and let your people do their thing. For you to get the most out of the members of your high performing team, you need to empower them. Remember, on a high performing team, those team members are typically very self-motivated, and they like being self-directed. You need to understand how letting go of your agenda, creating space for them to flourish, and then accepting that there are different ways of doing things is goi

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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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Ooda Loop

MAY 1, 2024

Severe storms in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, have led to flooding, resulting in at least six deaths and over a dozen missing persons. Helicopters are conducting rescue operations, but some areas are inaccessible, forcing crews to airlift stranded residents.

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InfoWorld

MAY 1, 2024

JavaScript statements control the overall flow of JavaScript programs. Statements are used to declare variables and manage iterative processes, and they can also be used to declare classes and functions. Unlike properties, methods, and events, which are inseparable from the object that owns them, statements work independently. That means you can use a statement in any context, whether you're programming a client-side or server-side application.

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Ooda Loop

MAY 1, 2024

Flooding has forced the evacuation of tourists and staff from Kenya’s Maasai Mara game reserve, with over 10 lodges and camps submerged after the Talek River overflowed on Tuesday. Concerns arise over the safety of animals swept away by the floods.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 1, 2024

By Jo Ann Corkran and Loretta McCarthy Twenty years ago, the landscape of angel investing bore scant traces of female presence, with women representing a mere 5% of all angel investors and 3% of funded companies. Fast-forward to 2022, and the scenario has transformed dramatically, with women now accounting for 40% of angel investors and 31% of angel-funded companies.

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Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.

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Ooda Loop

MAY 1, 2024

Binance’s billionaire founder Changpeng Zhao was sentenced to four months in prison on Tuesday, after pleading guilty to charges of enabling money laundering at his crypto exchange.

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InfoWorld

MAY 1, 2024

Java 17 , a Long Term Support (LTS) version of the Java language released in September 2021, has become the most-used Java LTS version, according to New Relic’s 2024 State of the Java Ecosystem report , published April 30. Java 21 , an LTS version released in 2023, also is seeing higher adoption. More than 35% of applications are using Java 17 in production this year, compared to 9.1% in 2023, observability provider New Relic reported.

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Ooda Loop

MAY 1, 2024

In April 2024, IBM announced plans to acquire Hashicorp, a vendor whose Terraform platform the company says can help IBM clients automate cloud deployments. HashiCorp’s catalog includes infrastructure lifecycle management and security lifecycle management, solutions that enterprises can use to automate hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

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InfoWorld

MAY 1, 2024

Along with releasing Python specialists , Google also has laid off Flutter and Dart teams according to various reports. Google did not respond this morning to InfoWorld's inquiry about Flutter and Dart layoffs. But comments were circulating online about staff reductions at Google. Flutter is an open source framework for building multi-platform applications from a single codebase.

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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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Ooda Loop

MAY 1, 2024

Microsoft Corp.’s motivation for investing heavily and partnering with OpenAI came from a sense of falling badly behind Google, according to an internal email released Tuesday as part of the Justice Department’s antitrust case against the search giant.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 1, 2024

AI cloud infrastructure startup CoreWeave said Wednesday that it has raised a whopping $1.1 billion in fresh funding in a round led by Coatue. The deal values the company at $19 billion, per The Wall Street Journal. That represents an almost threefold increase from the company’s valuation just five months ago, when it was valued at $7 billion following a secondary sale , and a huge jump from its $2 billion valuation in a Series B extension last May.

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Ooda Loop

MAY 1, 2024

Anthropic on Wednesday announced its first-ever enterprise offering and a free iPhone app. The generative artificial intelligence startup is the company behind Claude, one of the chatbots that, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, has exploded in popularity in the past year.

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