Wed.Oct 17, 2018

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Smart Devices and Services Are Driving Edge Computing. Is Your Organization Ready?

Dell EMC

The fourth wave of computing is being driven by a combination of forces – organizational demands to increase revenue, profitability, and serve customers better as well as robust use cases that can be solved by the latest technology advances. The first wave of computing started with centralized mainframes, the second wave swung to distributed use of client-server-PCs, and the third wave shifted back some to centralized cloud computing.

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Collusion: Nearby Device Networking with MultipeerConnectivity in iOS

Toptal

Traditionally, connecting devices for peer-to-peer communications has been a tedious task: An application needs to discover what’s around it, open connections on both sides, and then maintain them as network infrastructure, connections, distances, etc. Realizing the difficulties inherent in these activities, in iOS 7 and macOS 10.10 Apple introduced its MultipeerConnectivity framework.

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Spookstock: Less than a month remains before this secretive, virtuous battle of the bands

CTOvision

JJ Green at WTOP News produced a segment on a very virtuous yearly event called Spookstock which I would like to draw your attention to. JJ’s choice of words and sound in this report are impossible for me to do service to, it is very well done, so I would encourage you to spend 4 minutes […].

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Important Things You Need to Know to Create an Effective Landing Page

Women on Business

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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The CISOs Role in Risk Management

CTOvision

The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of a company is becoming more and more important as cybersecurity threats increase in both frequency and reach. Every business needs to ensure that their CISO is not only concerned with security, particularly when it comes to any IT systems, but will also be responsible for risk management throughout […].

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We love ideas like this: Open-source hardware could defend against the next generation of hacking

CTOvision

Read Prof. Joshua M. Pearce argue that open-source hardware could be the ultimate key against cyber attacks that companies are trying hard to find on The Conversation : You must have heard about open-source software helping in fighting cyber attacks but imagine open-source hardware doing the same job for you in much better way. Imagine you […].

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Saving Product X – A Design Thinking Case Study

Toptal

Have you ever wondered if you can apply Design Thinking principles with a limited time and budget? If so check this out, this is an in-depth Design Thinking Case Study which details how Design Thinking helped a company to save its product.

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Why It’s So Hard to Punish Companies for Data Breaches

CTOvision

Seems like it will be hard to get firms to improve till we all come to grips with this and sort out how to make firms responsible for their negligence, don’t you think? Read why Josephine Wolff says that it is very hard to punish companies, especially big companies for data breach on The New York […].

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Product Managers vs. Project Managers Part II: Situational Analysis

Toptal

In Part II of our Product Managers vs. Project Managers series, Johnny Chao explores situations in which companies should seek a Product Manager, Project Manager, or hybrid of both.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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Beware: Sneaky subscriptions are plaguing the App Store

CTOvision

Apple’ App store is plagued with some top utility apps on the App Store that are making millions of dollars by using dark patterns, tricking users into signing up for subscriptions. While subscriptions have been the mainstay for Apple and App developers, accounting for $10.6 billion in consumer spending on the App Store in 2017, and […].

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After.NET Developer Days 2018

Michal Komorowski

Another.NET Developer Days behind me. This time it was something new for me because I was a speaker. I gave my presentation "Will AI replace developers" on the second day of the conference at 15:00. On the one hand, it was quite late and I was a little bit afraid about number of listeners. On the another hand, it was a chance to be well remembered because in general we remember better what was at the beginning and at the end.

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The Facebook hack that exposed 30 million accounts shows we’re going to be dealing with the consequences of its ‘Move Fast’ motto for years to come

CTOvision

Read why Troy Wolverton says that the latest 50 million + data breach at Facebook is its own making on Business Insider : It’s been four years since Facebook ditched the latter part of its “Move Fast and Break Things” motto, but we’re still uncovering its consequences and experiencing its aftermath. The hacking attack Facebook discovered […].

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Dell EMC Strengthens Last Line of Data Protection Defense Against Cyber Attacks With New Cyber Recovery Software

Dell EMC

We have all seen the headlines with increasing frequency this past year and know them all too well. And because October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we’re reminded that ransomware and cyber attacks have cost business billions, affected government and public services, and provided IT headaches to organizations. These sophisticated attacks use malware and methods that can quickly bring global operations to a standstill while encrypting or destroying critical data.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Providing Education, Tools and Services to Protect Foster Youth

Symantec

Symantec highlights six months of progress in fostering a secure tomorrow

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How CIOs Can Find Compassion For The Difficult People In Their Lives

The Accidental Successful CIO

Even difficult people need compassion Image Credit: Steve Bridger. As the person with the CIO job, you are called upon to interact with a lot of different people. Some of those people will work for your company and some won’t. Some of those people will be easy to get along with and some will, how shall I say this, be difficult to get along with.

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How to Build a Face Recognition App in iOS Using CoreML and Turi Create Part 2

Gorilla Logic

Building the Back End. In this second post on how to build a face recognition app in iOS , we are going to focus on building the server and all the logic necessary to create the machine learning model and communicate with the app. . One of the most common problems in machine learning is face recognition. This is due in large part to the complexity of the task; if you think about it, face recognition is a combination of two problems: 1.

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Do You Treat Your Cloud Like a Pet or Like Cattle?

Symantec

How you answer that question will go a long way toward determining how to protect your data

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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4 stops on the road to PCI compliance for AWS

Netskope

Have you moved PCI cardholder data to Amazon Web Services (AWS)? AWS has been PCI DSS certified for many years but you still need to take steps to ensure the “security in the cloud.” Ultimately, the responsibility for PCI compliance rests on you, not AWS. . According to the 2018 Cloud Security Report from Cybersecurity Insiders, the top two security control challenges SOCs struggle with most are visibility into infrastructure security (43 percent) and compliance (38 percent).

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CodeSOD: A Load of ProductCodes

The Daily WTF

“Hey, Kim H , can you sit in on a tech-screen for a new hire?”. The Big Boss had a candidate they wanted hired, but before the hiring could actually happen, a token screening process needed to happen. Kim and a few other staffers were pulled in to screen the candidate, and the screen turned into a Blue Screen, because the candidate crashed hard. Everyone in the room gave them a thumbs down, and passed their report up the chain to the Big Boss.

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Isolation: It’s Not Always a Bad Thing

Symantec

For gov’t agencies under increasing attack, threat isolation strategies likely to loom large in battle against bad actors

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SCBCN 2018: My two cents – part 1

Apiumhub

During the last weekend of September 2018 it was held the VI edition of the Scbcn ( Software Crafters Barcelona ). Apiumhub was the platinum sponsor there and had an opportunity to open the conference with the motivation speech. Also, Albert Parron – Frontend Architect of Apiumhub gave a speech about MVP & FRP for a controlerless architecture. .

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Extending the Ambassador/Java Distributed Tracing with LightStep

Daniel Bryant

Last month I published a tutorial on how to implement Zipkin-based distributed tracing using the Kubernete-native Ambassador API gateway and the Java OpenTracing ‘Microdonuts’ application, and after a few requests I wanted to loop back around now and add LightStep support to this. Introducing LightStep [x]PM For those new to LightStep , it is a SaaS-based distributed tracing platform (and more) that is aiming to provide the next generation of Application Performance Monitoring (APM)?

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Restaurant Design – Why It’s About More Than Aesthetics

Strategy Driven

Whilst restaurant design is about aesthetics, there is far more to it than that! It is about the atmosphere, the comfort, and the functionality just as much as it is the aesthetics – with a restaurant, there are so many parts and processes that it is important to consider every possible angle when you are designing something. There are a lot of logistics involved, too.

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The Evolution of Russian Subversion in Cyber: A Conversation with former GCHQ Chief David Omand

The Cipher Brief

Twitter is releasing a trove of known accounts and posts that it says were used to meddle in U.S. elections dating back to 2016. According to the company, the data includes more than 4,600 accounts and more than 10 million tweets, photos, GIFs and broadcasts linked to Russia and Iran. Many of those tweets are associated with the Internet Research Agency, the Russian-linked organization that has been indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller in connection with election-related activities.

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Five Key Aspects You May Miss Out When Starting Your Business

Strategy Driven

Starting a new business can be simultaneously exciting and terrifying. You have this idea in your head, and now it’s time to make it into reality. But it can be easy to get caught up in the excitement of starting something new and wholly yours that you might neglect some parts of the process. And as the saying goes, “the journey is far more important than the destination.”.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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How to Improve the Customer Experience Throughout Their Journey

Strategy Driven

There’s no getting around it; the customer is king. Without them, your business will be going nowhere fast. They have the power to make or break your business, and your aim should be to do everything in your power to make their experience a good one. Once upon a time, it would have been the quality of your product or service that made you stand out from the competition.

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