Mon.May 19, 2025

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How Startups Can Trend-Jack The Timeline With Memes

Crunchbase News

By Jason Levin Heres a modern startup truth: For better or worse, if you want people to care about your startup, you have to be terminally online. Jason Levin of Memelord Technologies You cant rely on boring ChatGPT blog posts about the hottest trends in 2024 when its May 2025. Theres just too much competition out there for consumers attention its your ChatGPT-written blog or laughing at a funny TikTok.

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How to Foster Psychological Safety in Training (and Build a Courageous Learning Culture)

Let's Grow Leaders

Overcoming the Quiet Room: Why Your Training Needs Psychological Safety Imagine this: you kick off a training session with a question, and youre met with hesitant silence. Its not that your learners have nothing to say its that they dont feel safe saying it. As a human-centered L&D leader, your first job is to create psychological safety in every training room.

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The road to S/4HANA: How CIOs are managing SAP ECC’s end of support

CIO

With the deadline for SAP ECC end of support nearing, CIOs face major decisions, and likely headaches, as they consider whether and how to transform their core ERP systems for a new era. At issue is SAPs mandate for its customer CIOs: Transition to S/4HANA by 2027 or face extended maintenance fees to remain on ECC. However, the broad install base for SAPs flagship ECC ERP system has been slow on its S/4HANA uptake, with almost two-thirds yet to make the leap off ECC as of the end of 2024, accord

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GitLab Extends Scope and Reach of Core CI/CD Platform

DevOps.com

GitLab Inc. has updated its core continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to natively provide more artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, along with built-in software artifact management capabilities and more robust security tools.

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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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Beyond automation: Realizing the full potential of agentic AI in the enterprise

CIO

This article was co-authored by Shail Khiyara and Sandeep Mehta An agent, derived from the Latin word agere or agens, implies something capable of producing an effect when authorized by another. In software, agents commonly refer to programs acting on behalf of a user or another computer program. The concept derives from a model of concurrent computation in the 1970s.

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Carmen Prada (IBM): “La nube híbrida es esencial para potenciar la IA” 

CIO

Cmo pueden las organizaciones abordar con xito la complejidad y los desafos regulatorios al desplegar soluciones avanzadas de IA en entornos hbridos? De qu manera se puede garantizar la escalabilidad, seguridad y rendimiento en una arquitectura tecnolgica impulsada por la inteligencia artificial? Qu papel jugarn tecnologas revolucionarias como la computacin cuntica en la transformacin digital y cmo preparar a las organizaciones para estos nuevos paradigmas?

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Buy a Samsung Odyssey G9 gaming monitor on sale and get a second screen for free

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Looking to upgrade your gaming or work PC setup? Samsung is selling the 49-inch Odyssey G9 for just $800, including a 27-inch Odyssey G55C for free.

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The Hidden Cost Of The Cape: Why High-Performing Women Must Stop Ignoring The Signs Of Burnout

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Lynn Blades reveals why ambitious women must stop ignoring burnout, offering practical strategies to set boundaries, prioritize self-care, and lead sustainably without sacrificing health, success, or well-being. Today’s post is by Lynn Blades, author of THE QUIET BURN. I cant count the number of times a client has called in tears, overwhelmed from stress, or physically ill on the border of burnout.

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SAS enters new AI era with IPO on the horizon

CIO

SAS Institute cofounder and CEO Dr. Jim Goodnight has been steeping his company in artificial intelligence for decades long before it became cool. AI, which I consider to be neural networks, machine learning, that is really now being called classical AI, Dr. Goodnight told CIO.com during the companys recent SAS Innovate conference. Thats what weve been doing; weve been doing neural networks for over 20 years.

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Subscription Management in the SaaS World: Challenges and Solutions

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An Architecture of Participation for AI?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

About six weeks ago, I sent an email to Satya Nadella complaining about the monolithic winner-takes-all architecture that Silicon Valley seems to envision for AI, contrasting it with the architecture of participation that had driven previous technology revolutions, most notably the internet and open source software. I suspected that Satya might be sympathetic because of past conversations wed had when his book Hit Refresh was published in 2017.

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Streamlining CI/CD: Building Efficient Pipelines With GitHub Actions for Modern DevOps 

DevOps.com

How to use GitHub Actions to enhance your CI/CD pipelines, reduce operational overhead and create an automation and collaboration culture.

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Are wind power generators viable at home? My verdict after months of testing

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Solar panels and generators work well - until the clouds roll in. Shine Turbine's home wind power generators offer a reliable alternative, and they're currently on sale.

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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers.

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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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Microsoft goes all in on Anthropic's MCP standard for safer AI agent deployments

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Microsoft anounced support for the AI data connection standard across its platform at Build 2025.

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Where Funded Founders Went To School: 2025 Edition

Crunchbase News

Theres no degree requirement to be founder of a venture-backed startup. Nevertheless, attending a top-tier university definitely boosts the likelihood of success. Those were once again the findings of our annual look at which U.S. colleges and universities graduate the highest number of funded startup founders, based on Crunchbase data. As usual, four universities Stanford , Harvard , MIT and UC Berkeley hung on to the top four slots.

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7 clever iPhone USB-C port tricks every user should know

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Apple's shift from proprietary cables to USB-C is more cost-effective, better for the planet, and it gives iPhones a big upgrade in versatility. Here's how to make the most of it.

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Understanding and overcoming common CICS challenges

CIO

IT environments are increasingly complex to manage, and overburdened administrators are tasked with refining them, keeping them secure, and preventing downtime. Mainframes are critical to that infrastructure, as they process and store billions of transactions worth of sensitive data and confidential records daily. Any slowdown or disruption in mainframe performance can come with enormous financial and business continuity costs.

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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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These are my favorite Memorial Day phone deals so far: Save big on Apple, Samsung, and more

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The best phone deals strike a balance of value and performance, and these picks are sure to please any holiday week shopper.

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Come gestire (e ridurre) il debito tecnico per innovare nell’era dell’AI

CIO

Intelligenza artificiale e cybersicurezza sono le due massime priorit dei CIO per il 2025, come emerso dal Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 3, March 2024 [in inglese] , di IDC. E ridurre il debito tecnico? Attira solo il 20% delle risposte, nonostante la tecnologia legacy sottolineano gli analisti sia un chiaro ostacolo al successo.

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Why remote work is still the secret sauce behind small business success

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

According to a new survey of business leaders, a well-managed remote work program will increase the single best measure of employee productivity - results.

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Zencoder Previews AI Agents for DevOps Engineering Teams

DevOps.com

Zencoder today revealed it is providing early access to artificial intelligence (AI) agents designed specifically to automate tasks across DevOps workflows running on continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platforms based on open source instances of Jenkins or platforms from GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, CircleCI and others.

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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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Google's popular AI tool gets its own Android app - how to use NotebookLM on your phone

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The high-powered research assistant has been released as a standalone Android app, and an iOS version is on the way.

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Article: How to Scale Your Impact at the Staff-Plus Level

InfoQ Culture Methods

This article demystifies what "Staff-Plus" expectations actually look like, drawing on real promotion and performance reviews experiences. It maps out career ladders, digs into promotion patterns and the key behaviors that consistently help high-performing engineers to reinvent themselves, and introduces the concept of "staff projects" which top performers use to drive their careers forward.

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Microsoft makes building trustworthy AI agents easier and more secure

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Trusting AI agents to deal with your data is hard, and these features seek to make it easier.

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Moving Your Access Management Platform to the Cloud?

Symantec

Avoid pitfalls and unlock the full power of your cloud infrastructure

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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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A drug developer is buying 23andMe - what does that mean for your DNA data?

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The top bidder in the DNA testing firm's bankruptcy auction, Regeneron vows to prioritize the privacy, security, and ethical use of customer data.

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We’re Answering Your Exposure Management Questions

Tenable

Each Monday, the Tenable Exposure Management Academy provides the practical, real-world guidance you need to shift from vulnerability management to exposure management. In this Exposure Management Academy FAQ, we help CISOs understand exposure management, look at how advanced you might be and outline how to structure a program. You can read the entire Exposure Management Academy series here.

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Where the cloud goes from here: 8 trends to follow and what it could all cost

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Gartner describes a cloud ecosystem that's smarter, greener, and more integral to business success than ever before - despite widespread dissatisfaction.

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