Fri.Mar 03, 2023

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AI value begins with managing the C-suite conversation

CIO

Every futurist and forecaster I have talked to is convinced the transformative technology of the next seven years is artificial intelligence. Everyone seems to be talking about AI. Unfortunately, most of these conversations do not lead to value creation or greater understanding. And, as an IT leader, you can bet these same conversations are reverberating throughout your organization — in particular, in the C-suite.

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Startup PR professionals should be jumping on the AI bandwagon

TechCrunch

Camilla Tenn Contributor Share on Twitter Camilla Tenn is senior public relations strategist at cross-border communications agency Eleven International. It’s only been a couple of months since OpenAI’s ChatGPT exploded into the public consciousness, and it already feels like our news feeds will never be the same again. Whether it’s headlines about AI startups securing massive funding rounds or Twitter threads about how you should be using ChatGPT, the AI news cycle is well and truly here.

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Sports venues advance goals, enhance fan experience with data analytics

CIO

Sports fans today have more ways than ever to watch their favorite teams beyond the traditional, live stadium experience, including television, streaming services, even highlights on social media. For years, fans have been less inclined to choose the live stadium experience, with game attendance across major North American professional sports in decline.

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Japan’s Geniee acquires AdPushup-operator Zelto for $70 million

TechCrunch

Japanese marketing tech firm Geniee, part of the SoftBank Group, has paid about $70 million in cash to acquire the revenue optimization platform Zelto (formerly known as AdPushup), a person familiar with the matter said, delivering 40 times return to a number of angel investors in the startup that began its journey in India. The acquisition is a remarkable turnaround for Zelto , the 10-year-old firm that provides content creators and web publishers with tools to generate more revenue by tapping

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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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How to Increase Trust in Your Remote Team (with video)

Let's Grow Leaders

How to Increase Trust in Your Remote Team When You’re Rarely in the Same Room “Hey Karin, I have a great team, but they’re spread out ALL OVER THE WORLD. I wouldn’t say we have a trust issue, but I would like to find some additional ways to INCREASE TRUST. What do you suggest? Today on #askingforafriend I’m taking you on a road trip to Virginia, on my way to give a keynote and talk about how to increase trust in a highly dispersed remote or hybrid team along the way

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Choosing the Right IT Staffing Model for Your Business A Comprehensive Guide

OTS Solutions

There are different staffing models and IT staffing services available throughout the world. If you are also looking for staffing services, then this blog is for you. By the end of this blog, you will understand the crucial points you must remember while hiring a Staffing agency for your business. In this blog, we also discuss different staffing models based on your requirements.

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Daily Crunch: Japanese marketing tech firm Geniee acquires Zelto for $70M

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello, you crunchy Crunchers! If you’ve been slacking and not bought yourself a Disrupt ticket yet, that’s cool, we still love you. But here’s a hot tip: This is your last chance for super-early-bird tickets , so maybe get on that sooner rather than later!

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Leading from Gratitude with Dan Ram

Let's Grow Leaders

Leading with gratitude and mastering connection have been keys to driving the success of event MC & Speaker, Dan Ram. Dan has hosted changemakers like President Barack Obama, billionaire founders Sir Richard Branson and Reid Hoffman, Grammy-winning artists, and celebrities. In this episode, you get practical ways to posture your mentality for gratitude, create connections, and find ways to invest in others to help build a future we all want to live in.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Ocean tech investor survey, AI and PR, L-1 visa options

TechCrunch

Last week, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which protects consumers from deceptive business practices, issued an advisory titled “Keep your AI claims in check.” When it comes to marketing, “false or unsubstantiated claims about a product’s efficacy are our bread and butter,” wrote Michael Atleson, an attorney with the FTC’s Division of Advertising Practices.

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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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Checkly Adds Monitoring-as-Code to Testing Platform

DevOps.com

Checkly this week added a monitoring-as-code (MaC) workflow capability to its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that is used to create synthetic tests for applications. The Checkly platform spins up browsers to test and can now monitor how applications are performing at both the user interface and application programming interface (API) level. That capability, currently available in […] The post Checkly Adds Monitoring-as-Code to Testing Platform appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Super early-bird savings to TC Disrupt ending soon

TechCrunch

Time is running out for you to score the biggest savings on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 — the original and always-evolving conference dedicated to early-stage startups. Beat the March 10 deadline, and you’ll save up to $1,000 on General Admission, Founder, and Investor passes. Students and nonprofits — grab a deeply discounted pass for just $95!

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Creating a More Innovative and Inclusive World

scruminc

Creating a More Innovative and Inclusive World by the Scrum Inc. Team | March 3, 2023 | Blog Those with the mindset and vision for transformational change deserve to be supported. When empowered, these brilliant minds and innovative thinkers become an asset not just to their communities – but to us all. This is why Scrum Inc. is proudly teaming up with the U.S.

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You can’t beat student pricing for TC Early Stage

TechCrunch

The Northeast, and New England in particular, is known for its plethora of top colleges and universities. These hallowed halls contain multitudes of future entrepreneurs and, if you’re one of them, you can’t afford to rest on your laurels. Get yourself to TechCrunch Early Stage , a summit for early and aspiring founders taking place in Boston on April 20, and accelerate your startup trajectory.

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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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New ESG survey reveals key CSPM and CIEM trends

Lacework

As more organizations embrace digital transformation strategies and shift to cloud-native solutions, they enjoy benefits ranging from productivity gains to financial savings. However, the fast-paced, ever-changing nature of the cloud brings a variety of new challenges for security teams.

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Vigilante hackers fix Black Ops III, and other TC news

TechCrunch

Welcome back to the TechCrunch Podcast, where I’m standing in for Darrell while he’s honeymooning with his lady love. This week, I sat down with Amanda Silberling and Mary Ann Azevedo to talk through some of their interesting stories. You can listen below or subscribe in iTunes or Spotify to get new episodes delivered weekly on Fridays! News articles from the episode: Hack the planet : Lorenzo writes a great story about how gamers are fixing a video game “taken over” by

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White House Shifts Cybersecurity Strategy to Drive Resilience

Aqua Security

This week, the White House released its updated National Cybersecurity Strategy detailing the comprehensive approach the U.S. Government’s Administration is taking to cybersecurity.

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Perhaps Substack can grow just fine without venture dollars

TechCrunch

Substack, a publishing platform known for its newsletter service, announced this week that it had crossed the 2 million paid subscription mark. Given the wealth of historical data we have concerning the growth of paid subscribers at Substack, the number got our attention. Substack’s simple business model also makes it possible to generate a few gross transaction volume and revenue guesses for the company, which we’ll explore.

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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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FBI and CISA Release Cybersecurity Advisory on Royal Ransomware Group

Tenable

FBI and CISA Release Cybersecurity Advisory on Royal Ransomware Group The FBI and CISA have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory discussing the Royal ransomware group. Background As part of their #StopRansomware campaign, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have released a cybersecurity advisory (CSA) discussing the Royal ransomware group.

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For female VCs, bias is a branding issue

TechCrunch

Leslie Feinzaig, a venture capitalist, likes that her venture firm, Graham & Walker , sounds like an old, stodgy law firm. But apart from the name, there’s nothing really stodgy about it: Her fund exclusively invests in female- and nonbinary-founded startups. It’s a relatively new name for her firm, which was originally called Female Founders Alliance.

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Microservices 101: Transactional Outbox and Inbox

Dzone - DevOps

One of the fundamental aspects of microservice architecture is data ownership. Encapsulation of the data and logic prevents the tight coupling of services. Since they only expose information via public interfaces (like stable REST API) and hide inner implementation details of data storage, they can evolve their schema independently of one another. A microservice should be an autonomous unit that can fulfill most of its assignments with its own data.

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Why hasn’t generative AI come up with something easier to say than ‘generative AI’?

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week Mary Ann Azevedo , Becca Szkutak and Alex Wilhelm gathered to riff through the week’s biggest startup and venture news. A big thank you to Becca for stepping in while Alex was on leave, and a note before we dive into topics that Natasha will be back on the podcast next week!

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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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6 Best Habits That Would Make You a Good Developer

Dzone - DevOps

Becoming a good developer requires more than just technical skills. While proficiency in programming languages and frameworks is essential, some habits and practices can help you stand out as a skilled and effective developer. Here are six habits that can make you a good developer: 1. Practice Continuously Technology is constantly evolving, and as a developer, it's crucial to keep up with the latest trends and tools.

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Why I Prefer Cloudera CDP

Cloudera

“Cloudera CDO Prefers CDP!” What a shocker! Would I earn an ounce of credibility if you knew that I was previously a Cloudera customer before I became a Clouderan? When I joined L.A.-based nVizhen, a data consulting firm, I became a Cloudera partner. We implemented CDP (Cloudera Data Platform) for innovative G2k organizations so they could tackle transformational use cases and exact real-time insights.

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OWASP Top 10: Injection

Synopsys

Listed as #3 on the OWASP Top 10 list, injection occurs when an attacker sends malicious data to an app to make it do something it’s not supposed to do.

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4 Reasons Why You Should Work For Certain Hours

CEO Insider

Achieving more than what you expected in the first place is a blessing. However, while working hard is the key to success and quick promotion, some people tend to overdo it. Achieving better results from time to time is positive, but doing this daily will not prove beneficial in the long run. If you believe […] The post 4 Reasons Why You Should Work For Certain Hours appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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How to Become More Adaptable in Challenging Situations

Harvard Business Review

We often fall back on old habits when facing tough problems. But that’s when we need new approaches the most.

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Workshops, Seminars, and Campuses – The 3 Basic Principles of Training

CEO Insider

More and more people are often turning to campuses to gain basic skills of what they want to learn in quick and broad training. Training is being held for everyone from small kids to grown adults, and each time there are some basic principles it has to obey. Organizing the activities will not be successful […] The post Workshops, Seminars, and Campuses – The 3 Basic Principles of Training appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Revenue Generation for Nonprofits: Part Two

TechSoup

In this two-part series, I've been expanding on some of the methods nonprofits can use to fund their work. Here, continue learning about the various ways your nonprofit can raise funds, in particular by building relationships with businesses, foundations, and government organizations.