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Inside CIOs’ response to the CrowdStrike outage — and the lessons they learned

CIO

Mike Mainiero was awakened at around 2 a.m. on July 19 by someone on his incident response team. Catholic Health’s IT systems and those of its partners were crashing, with one of its radiology vendors being among the first to experience technical difficulties. With nearly 16,000 employees, the Long Island-based healthcare system supports six acute care hospitals, three nursing homes, a home health service, a hospice, and a network of physician practices.

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Beyond Magical Thinking: How to Ensure Your Team “Gets It”

Let's Grow Leaders

Don’t assume your team knows just because you told them Magical thinking means you assume your team knows what you know. For example, you might think that explaining a task once is enough and everyone will understand and execute it perfectly. Of course, your team might not get it. It’s your job to ensure expectations are clear. How Magical Thinking Leads to Workplace Conflict Think about any significant conflict you’ve been a part of.

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Highlights from Agile2024 & The European Experience

Agile Alliance

Managing Director Teresa Foster reflects on an amazing week for the Agile community, celebrating the successful completion of Agile2024 and the European Experience in Manchester. The post Highlights from Agile2024 & The European Experience first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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5 reasons women make top team-first collaborators in tech

CIO

1. Women drive equality in conversations One interesting study found that in working groups of two to five individuals, groups that had more women usually had more “equality in distribution of conversational turn-taking.” In other words, each member of the group was more likely to be given an opportunity to make a contribution if there were more women involved.

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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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Your Exposure Ends Here: Introducing the New Tenable Brand

Tenable

At Tenable, our mission is to manage and reduce cyber risk, because cyber risk is business risk. Feedback from dozens of top CISOs is reflected in our latest brand evolution. Tenable is the exposure management company that helps customers know where their weaknesses lie, expose their risk and close the gaps. Welcome to Tenable. Your exposure ends here.

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How to Improve Network Security?

The Crazy Programmer

Network security must be at the top priority due to the reports of devastating breaches that make headlines and make their way to boardroom conversations. Data manipulation and theft can be expensive and have negative ramifications on the business & its leadership. Thus, having network security protections becomes quite important to stave off these threats.

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How to build a safe path to AI in Healthcare

CIO

Healthcare adheres to an elevated standard. This is evident in the rigorous training required for providers, the stringent safety protocols for life sciences professionals, and the stringent data and privacy requirements for healthcare analytics software. The stakes in healthcare are higher, as errors can have life-or-death consequences. Therefore, every innovation must be approached with utmost caution.

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Supply Chain Slowdown — Venture Funding Plummets In Sector

Crunchbase News

Altana AI locked up a $200 million Series C last week to become one of the latest unicorns. A well-funded startup reaching a $1 billion valuation is nothing new in this day and age. However, what was notable was a supply chain management startup raising big money at such a valuation after the astonishing drop-off in venture funding the industry has seen since its salad days of 2021.

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7 razones por las que la analítica y el aprendizaje automático no cumplen los objetivos empresariales

CIO

El informe State of the CIO 2024 de Foundry señala que el 80% de los CIO se encargan de investigar y evaluar posibles adiciones de inteligencia artificial (IA) a su pila tecnológica, y el 74% trabaja más estrechamente con sus líderes empresariales en aplicaciones de IA. A pesar de enfrentarse a la demanda de aportar valor empresarial a partir de los datos, el aprendizaje automático (ML, por sus siglas en inglés) y las inversiones en IA, sólo el 54% de los CIO informan de aumentos en el presupues

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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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Build an end-to-end RAG solution using Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock and AWS CloudFormation

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a state-of-the-art approach to building question answering systems that combines the strengths of retrieval and foundation models (FMs). RAG models first retrieve relevant information from a large corpus of text and then use a FM to synthesize an answer based on the retrieved information. An end-to-end RAG solution involves several components, including a knowledge base, a retrieval system, and a generation system.

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Grupo Torrent digitaliza su operativa interna con vistas a encarar los desafíos de futuro

CIO

Hace un trienio que Miguel Llorca desembarcó en Grupo Torrent. Desde entonces, según reconoce en entrevista para CIO España , su rol como director de Tecnologías de la Información (CIO, por sus siglas en inglés) le ha llevado a liderar una transformación significativa en la firma especializada en brindar soluciones de cierres para los sectores del aceite de oliva, licores y vinos a nivel mundial.

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Microsoft GitHub Alignment Fuels Birth of the AI Developer

DevOps.com

Microsoft is partnering with GitHub to enable its 100 million+ developers to build AI applications directly on the GitHub platform.

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Cinco riesgos de TI que deberían tener paranoicos a los CIO

CIO

Como líder de transformación digital y exCIO, llevo una dosis saludable de paranoia. Llámelo instinto de supervivencia: los riesgos que pueden impedir que una organización se mantenga fiel a su misión y cumpla sus objetivos deben salir a la luz constantemente, evaluarse y mitigarse o gestionarse. ¿Se está transformando la organización con suficiente rapidez?

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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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Catalog, query, and search audio programs with Amazon Transcribe and Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Information retrieval systems have powered the information age through their ability to crawl and sift through massive amounts of data and quickly return accurate and relevant results. These systems, such as search engines and databases, typically work by indexing on keywords and fields contained in data files. However, much of our data in the digital age also comes in non-text format, such as audio and video files.

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Team up with HP to power your future of work

CIO

HP sees a future of work where IT plays a more strategic role in business growth. As we accelerate to October 14th, 2025, when Windows 10 support ends, the coming months mark a critical time for many IT Teams. The move to Windows 11 is an opportunity for IT to drive improved employee experiences and deliver more business impact. In the same way the expertise of an F1 pit crew is essential to success, at HP we have the enterprise know-how, expertise and global reach across hardware, software, and

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Social Trends

DevOps.com

Maybe Maslow was right.

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Cookie banners show everything that's wrong with the EU

David Heinemeier Hansson

Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no material improvement to their privacy, but this unsightly blight is still with us (and the rest of the internet!). All because the EU has no mechanism for self-correcting its legislative failures, even with years of evidence in the bag. The bureaucratic maze almost guarantees that all the noble intentions eventually find a dead end in which to get stuck.

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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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North Korea’s Kim Jong Un Oversees Transfer of Missile Launchers to Border

Ooda Loop

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has presided over a ceremony to mark the delivery of 250 new tactical ballistic missile launchers to military units at the border.

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Apple finally starts paying off qualifying MacBook owners as part of a class action settlement

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

If you bought a MacBook with a faulty butterfly keyboard between 2015 and 2019 and filed a claim, the check should be in the mail.

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Leader e people manager: come cambia il ruolo del CIO nel 2024

CIO

Il Chief Information Officer sta prendendo sempre più consapevolezza del suo ruolo in azienda. In piena trasformazione digitale, il CIO – anche in Italia – non si limita a “fare IT”, ma partecipa al business grazie alla sua conoscenza e supervisione dell’IT come base fondante dell’attività d’impresa. In una parola sola, il CIO è e deve agire da vero “leader”.

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Go Serverless: Unleash Next-Gen Computing

Dzone - DevOps

In the digital revolution, where bytes fly faster than thoughts, one concept is bringing a paradigm shift in the tech cosmos: serverless computing. The thought of dealing with servers often makes us freak out. Server maintenance, scalability issues, and huge infrastructure costs can all be part of our nightmares. This is where serverless computing can be a game-changer.

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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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#ClouderaLife Employee Spotlight: Stephanie Han

Cloudera

In this Employee Spotlight, we sat down with Stephanie Han to learn about her tenure at Cloudera, her journey from accounting to leading diversity, equality & inclusion (DEI) programs, and her impressive volunteer work. Meet Stephanie Han Stephanie is a Senior Program Manager in the HR team at Cloudera. She’s been with the company since 2019 and plays a key role in a variety of employee-centric initiatives including Cloudera’s employee volunteering program , talent management program, a

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The best fitness trackers you can buy: Expert tested and reviewed

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

We tested the best fitness trackers from Apple, Garmin, Fitbit, and others to help you track your health, sleep, and more.

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Seamless GitHub Integration with Azure Storage for Enhanced Cloud File Management

Perficient

In the modern digital landscape, efficient collaboration and streamlined workflows are proven elements of successful project management. Integrating GitHub repositories with Azure Storage proves to be a robust solution for the management of project files in the cloud. Whether you’re a developer, a project manager, or a technology enthusiast, understanding how to push files from a GitHub repository to an Azure Storage container can significantly enhance your productivity and simplify your d

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Schools will remove app from students' Chromebooks and iPads following security breach

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Device management app Mobile Guardian will be pulled from Chrome and iOS devices after 13,000 Singapore users had their data remotely wiped by a cyber attacker.

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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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Turning Data into Action: Intelligence-Driven Vulnerability Management

Tenable

Prioritizing vulnerabilities with context has always been a challenge for vulnerability management teams – and this task isn’t getting easier as published CVEs continue to grow. To remedy this, many enterprises are forced to invest in products and services to protect their environments with various intelligence data and tools. In this blog, we explain how Tenable Vulnerability Intelligence and Exposure Response help organizations to make data-driven decisions to better prioritize and operational

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The best VPN for Windows: Expert tested and reviewed

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

We tested the best VPNs for your Windows PC on everything from speed to server count to security. Here are some of the top VPNs for the Microsoft Windows operating system.

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CodeSOD: Required Requirements

The Daily WTF

Sean was supporting a web application which, as many do, had required form fields for the user to fill out. The team wanted to ensure that the required fields were marked by an "*", as you do. Now, there are a lot of ways to potentially accomplish the goal, especially given that the forms are static and the fields are known well ahead of time.