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5 easy ways to run an LLM locally

InfoWorld

Chatbots like ChatGPT , Claude.ai , and phind can be quite helpful, but you might not always want your questions or sensitive data handled by an external application. That's especially true on platforms where your interactions may be reviewed by humans and otherwise used to help train future models. One solution is to download a large language model (LLM) and run it on your own machine.

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Henkel embraces gen AI as enabler and strategic disruptor

CIO

Four years ago, German multinational Henkel found itself at a crossroads. Like many incumbents in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, Henkel was slow to embrace digital technologies, resulting in a widening disconnect between the 147-year-old company and the changing needs of its customers. As Henkel CDIO Michael Nilles puts it, by 2019, Marc Andreessen’s pronouncement that “software is eating the world” had come true for the CPG sector, and Henkel was at risk of falling behind.

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Cellular Automata Using Rust: Part III

Xebia

In the second post of this three-part series, we explored entity-component-system (ECS) architecture and built a static user interface with Bevy. In this post, the finale of the three-part series, we implement the numerous systems that together drive the evolution of our elementary cellular automaton and support user interaction via the keyboard and mouse.

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4 ways to ensure CEO support for your digital strategy

CIO

In the age of digital transformation, the CIO’s role is increasingly central to business, focused on driving growth and establishing a new digital culture across the organization. But without the full support of the CEO, a CIO’s innovation and digital transformation agenda will only go so far. If the CEO doesn’t understand how the CIO role is evolving, or the CIO isn’t ready to make the leap to being a business leader in the C-suite, a company’s ability to innovate in a competitive and challengi

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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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The Social Cost of Algorithmic Management

Harvard Business Review

To achieve efficiencies and reduce costs, more and more companies are managing their employees by algorithm. In this article, the authors present some of the first research findings concerning the effects of algorithmic management on workplace dynamics. One important finding is that employees managed by algorithm are less likely than colleagues managed by algorithm to help others.

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Will Generative AI Succeed Where AIOps Failed?

DevOps.com

Generative AI can go so many places that AIOps could never, and provides a general-purpose approach that can be applied in many different ways.

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What Does Banning Short-Term Rentals Really Accomplish?

Harvard Business Review

Concerns that short-term rentals fueled by platforms like Airbnb have caused long-term rents to rise in major cities has caused some governments to place limits, including bans, on them. But research of New York City found that short-term rentals are not the biggest contributor to high rents, especially when it comes to the most vulnerable segments of a city’s residents.

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The Shift Beyond the Hype: Transitioning from Vanity Metrics to Authentic Business Objectives

Xebia

Introduction Among the sea of metrics, vanity numbers have often taken the spotlight, leaving many organizations lost in a world of misleading indicators and superficial gains. The catch is that many of these metrics (Website views, Leads in Sales Funnel, Marketing spent, Revenue without profit etc.) are more like flashy billboards on a highway, catching your eye but not necessarily leading you to the best destination.

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Dell AI-Ready Data Platform: Your AI Innovations Start Here

Dell EMC

Whatever your business, data is the key to competitive advantage.

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Revolutionize QA: GAPs AI-Driven Accelerators for Smarter, Faster Testing

GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.

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Introducing Our New Blog Series: Holistic Horizons – Redefining Software Success

Xebia

In the dynamic realm of software development, success isn’t solely about constructing impeccable code. It’s about grasping the process flow that wraps around the entire software-business domain – a domain that holds many more challenges than what traditional “developmental problems” confine. Why dive into Holistic Horizons ? Working in the software domain is no easy feat.

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7 Strategies to Get Your Employees On Board with GenAI

Harvard Business Review

As with any aspect of digital transformation, the effective deployment of generative AI will depend less on technological capability than on human adaptability. Indeed, the human factor — people and culture — will drive the adoption of AI, or lack thereof. Looking at scientific research and real-world case studies, there are seven generalizable lessons for improving your ability to adopt GenAI, and any novel technology, at an organizational level: innovation boosts your organization’s immunity,

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Deploy config rules across your organization

Xebia

In my previous blog I showed you how you can write your own config rules. But it will only bring you value if you deploy the rule in your AWS Accounts. In this blog we will dive into the distribution of these config rules. What are my options? There are many ways you can deploy these rules in your member accounts. In this blog I will only focus on the 2 real options: Deploy the rules using CloudFormation StackSets in each account.

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Startups Roll Out More Services For Growing Ranks Of Self-Employed And Gig Workers

Crunchbase News

Whether by choice or necessity, the share of workers who are self-employed or toiling in the gig economy continues to grow. And with it, tools to manage all the attendant accounting and job-finding burdens have been scaling up too. Startups are taking a leading role. Over the past few quarters, venture investors have poured hundreds of millions into companies with offerings aimed at freelance and gig workers.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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Can OpenAI create superintelligence before it runs out of cash?

Ooda Loop

On the morning of November 18, during a tech conference in Tokyo, Ting Cai received a news alert about OpenAI’s Sam Altman, who had been ousted in a boardroom coup. Cai, chief data officer of Japanese tech giant Rakuten, was caught off guard.

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Deep Tech Investments Down, But Maybe Not As Much As You Think

Crunchbase News

The venture market was down 38% last year as investors continued to reel back their funding with money becoming more expensive and liquidity options drying up. In such an environment, most would think the tech sector most greatly affected by the pullback would be deep tech — casually defined as cutting-edge scientific innovation that can create brand-new industries.

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Pilot or Telephone Operator? Forecasts of Software Developer Demise Are Absurd

DevOps.com

AI will profoundly change the software engineering profession, but those changes will mostly drive inventive and capable developers to greater innovation.

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AI Compute Startup Lambda Hits $1.5B Valuation After Massive $320M Raise

Crunchbase News

Nvidia ’s AI success is definitely having a trickle-down effect. Lambda hit unicorn status after a $320 million Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation. The company offers cloud computing services and hardware for training artificial intelligence software. The startup is a provider of Nvidia’s latest GPUs, which are highly sought after by AI developers.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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Repurposing wastewater could help stop the planet from circling the drain

The Hustle

Every day, millions of people in the US wash their hands, flush toilets, and take showers. All of that water — ~34B gallons worth — goes down the drain and through the pipes before being processed at a treatment facility and released into nature. But with water becoming an increasingly scarce resource , a company called Epic Cleantec is rethinking how wastewater gets recycled, per Wired.

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Achieve Business Resiliency at the Retail Edge

Dell EMC

Learn how Dell is integrating ISV software with NativeEdge to provide a ready solution for resiliency and customer satisfaction.

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Dialogflow Integration in Spring Boot : A Developer’s Guide

InnovationM

In the ever-evolving landscape of software development, Google’s Dialogflow is a powerful tool that enables developers to build conversational interfaces form applications, and integrating it with a Spring Boot backend can provide a seamless and efficient user experience. In this guide, we will explore the steps to integrate Dialogflow into a Spring Boot application, empowering developers to create intelligent and user-friendly conversational applications. 1.

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Embracing API-First Development: Building the Future of Software

Dzone - DevOps

In the fast-changing world of software development, a disruptive technique has acquired significant traction: API-First Development. This strategy substantially transforms the old application development paradigms, putting Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) at the center of the development lifecycle. Understanding API-First Development API-First Development is more than a development approach; it’s a concept that changes the way we think about, create, and implement software.

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How to Create Sales Email Sequences That Convert

Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Multiple touchpoints means more ways to get your pitch right — and, potentially, more ways to be wrong. The good news? Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails.

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Back to the Financial Regulatory Future

Cloudera

It’s hard to believe it’s been 15 years since the global financial crisis of 2007/2008. While this might be a blast from the past we’d rather leave in the proverbial rear-view mirror, in March of 2023 we were back to the future with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the largest US bank to fail since 2008. While there are clear reasons SVB collapsed, which can be reviewed here , my purpose in this post isn’t to rehash the past but to present some of the regulatory and compliance c

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Scaling Redis Without Clustering

Dzone - DevOps

Redis is a popular in-memory data store known for its speed and flexibility. It operates efficiently when a particular workload's memory and computational demands can be managed within a single node. However, scaling beyond a single node often leads to the consideration of the Redis Cluster. There's a common assumption that transitioning to the Redis Cluster is straightforward and existing applications will behave the same, but that's not the case in reality.

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ngrok Previews API Gateway Service to Streamline App Networking

DevOps.com

Under an early access program, ngrok announced it has made available an API gateway that can be consumed as a service.

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Automate JBoss Web Server 6 Deployment With the Red Hat Ansible Certified Content Collection for JWS

Dzone - DevOps

When it comes to Java web servers, Apache Tomcat remains a strong favorite. Some of these instances have been containerized over the years, but many still run in the traditional setup of a Linux -based virtual machine or even on bare metal. Red Hat JBoss Web Server (JWS) combines the servlet engine (Apache Tomcat) with the web server (Apache HTTPD), and modules for load balancing (mod_jk and mod_cluster).

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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When to use classes, structs, or records in C#

InfoWorld

Classes, structs, and records are fundamental concepts in C# programming. Each is a different kind of type, with different features, capabilities, and limitations. To make matters more confusing, they have features and characteristics in common. Classes are reference types that provide support for useful object-oriented concepts such as encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism.

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Cloud Migration: Azure Blob Storage Static Website

Dzone - DevOps

Problem Statement: Legacy Front-End Applications On-Premises Architecture Currently, a lot of front-end applications are built and deployed using on-prem Docker Kubernetes container images, which are hosted on web servers (Apache/NGINX/IIS, etc.) The problem with this approach is that the workload container cluster must run constantly, which increases the compute and replication cost, infrastructure maintenance, and lack of recovery.

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CableLabs Co-Chairs New M3AAWG AI Anti-Abuse Committee

CableLabs

The sudden rise of highly capable artificial intelligence (AI) has brought immense opportunities for beneficial innovation and advancement. However, alongside its benefits, AI also presents unique challenges concerning online abuse and threats to security and privacy. Recognizing the urgency of addressing these issues, the Messaging, Malware, and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M 3 AAWG) has taken a proactive stance by forming a dedicated AI Anti-Abuse Committee.