Tue.Aug 06, 2024

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7 signs business stakeholders will sink your IT project

CIO

IT projects fail at alarming rates — nearly 70% of them , according to project management tool provider TeamStage. Common factors of project failure are missed deadlines, blown budgets, or deliverables that fail to meet original objectives. CIOs and project managers understand these risks. They do everything they can on the IT side to address them. They pay keen attention to business requirements.

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Rails 7.2 release candidate 1: Better production defaults, Dev containers, new guides design, and more!

Ruby on Rails

Rails 7.2 is approaching it final release. Today we are happy to announce the first release candidate of Rails 7.2.0. If no issues are reported, we will release 7.2.0 final, this next Friday, August 9, 2024. Please help us test all this new stuff, and let us know what you think , so we can ensure a solid final release of Rails 7.2. To recap, here are some of the new features and improvements in Rails 7.2: Better production defaults Rails 7.2 comes with better productions defaults to help you bui

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Aware of what tech debt costs them, CIOs still can’t make it an IT priority

CIO

It’s among CIOs’ most persistent and underdiscussed challenges: embracing innovative technologies without losing sight of mounting — and potentially crippling — technical debt. Tech debt can take many forms — old applications, bloated code, and aging hardware among them — and while the issue often takes a back seat to innovation and new technology, it is on the minds of a lot of CIOs.

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Survey: Usage of AI Rapidly Expands Once DevOps Teams Adopt

DevOps.com

A survey of 504 DevOps professionals published today finds that 20% are now using artificial intelligence (AI) across all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

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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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More brain drain from OpenAI to Anthropic as the co-founder makes the move

CIO

OpenAI founder John Schulman has joined the list of departing OpenAI executives, making the move to Anthropic. But Schulman — and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — went out of their way to be cordial and pleasant about the move, at least publicly. “This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment, and to start a new chapter of my career where I can return to hands-on technical work,” Schulman said in a statement on X.

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How genAI is transforming financial services

CIO

By Michael Cullum, VP of Engineering at Bud Financial Generative AI (genAI) is a powerful tool that is transforming the financial industry and empowers financial services professionals. It makes banks more data-driven and insightful, enhancing decision-making; providing deeper insights; and achieving greater agility, personalized customer service, and automation.

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Build custom generative AI applications powered by Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

With last month’s blog, I started a series of posts that highlight the key factors that are driving customers to choose Amazon Bedrock. I explored how Bedrock enables customers to build a secure, compliant foundation for generative AI applications. Now I’d like to turn to a slightly more technical, but equally important differentiator for Bedrock—the multiple techniques that you can use to customize models and meet your specific business needs.

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La mitad de las vacantes de empleo en IA no encontró candidatos con las habilidades necesarias

CIO

A medida que las empresas comienzan a adoptar la inteligencia artificial (IA) en sus operaciones internas y externas, la demanda de perfiles especializados en esta tecnología y en datos se dispara. Así lo demuestra un informe elaborado por IndesIA en colaboración con Talent Hackers , que reveló que, de las cerca de 120.000 ofertas de empleo tecnológicas publicadas en 2023, un 24% (o 29.100 ofertas) estuvo relacionada con data e IA.

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Cybersecurity Startup Abnormal Security Locks Up $250M At $5.1B Valuation

Crunchbase News

Abnormal Security closed a $250 million Series D that now values the San Francisco-based cybersecurity startup at $5.1 billion. The new round was led by Wellington Management with participation from existing investors Greylock Partners , Menlo Ventures , Insight Partners and the Falcon Fund. The valuation is a more than 28% uptick from the $4 billion valuation Abnormal got when it raised a $210 million Series C led by Insight Partners back in May 2022.

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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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El Consejo Superior de Deportes destinará 2,8 millones a la creación de una plataforma de TI y un ‘data lake’

CIO

Con el objetivo de aprovechar todas las ventajas que ofrece la tecnología, el Consejo Superior de Deportes (CSD) ha anunciado la inversión de 2,84 millones de euros para crear una plataforma tecnológica que reúna en un mismo lugar todas las aplicaciones, soluciones y herramientas del organismo y para la puesta en marcha de un data lake , donde almacenar y compartir los datos del ecosistema deportivo.

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Radar Trends to Watch: August 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

July was a big month for model releases: There are new large models from Mistral and Meta, smaller multilingual models from Mistral and DeepL, another Mistral model that specializes in code generation, and a small version of GPT-4o. The security world saw another software supply chain disaster when CrowdStrike released a bad software update that disabled many Windows machines worldwide.

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Naturgy se actualiza con un nuevo sistema tecnológico de facturación y cobros

CIO

En un tiempo récord de sólo nueve meses, la compañía de comercialización de energía Naturgy ha desplegado un nuevo sistema de facturación y cobros basado en inteligencia artificial (IA), que permite automatizar los procesos de negocio y maximizar la experiencia digital de sus clientes. Con la tecnología SAP S/4HANA for Energy & Utilities y la asesoría de IBM Consulting , la implantación de esta solución tecnológica avanzada se ha realizado con un 80% menos de código que la media de iniciati

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Focus on Basics or Innovation? DevOps Success Requires Both

DevOps.com

DevOps teams are experiencing a chasm between traditionalists and innovators — a rift that grows as pressure mounts for teams to leverage the latest advancements. Traditionalists are fighting to preserve the basics, to carry an appreciation for the early days of DevOps, and to not cut corners (look no further than CrowdStrike).

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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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NxtGen: India’s cloud powerhouse

CIO

When asked what enabled NxtGen to become the largest cloud services and solutions provider in India, A S Rajgopal, CEO, founder, and managing director, points to the pillars that guide the company’s operations: speed, security, simplicity, support, scalability, and sovereignty. He stresses that all are directly applicable to enterprises NxtGen serves in India and in its rapidly growing operations throughout Asia and the Middle East.

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North Korean hackers attack South Korea’s construction, machinery sectors

Ooda Loop

North Korean hackers have launched attacks on South Korea’s construction and urban development industries. South Korea has identified two North Korean state backed groups as being responsible for a series of cyber attacks against South Korean industries.

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Protecting your business from unforeseen outages: Lessons from the recent CrowdStrike incident

CIO

The recent global outage at CrowdStrike, a leading cybersecurity firm, has sent shockwaves through the business community. As organizations increasingly rely on cloud-based services and cybersecurity solutions to protect their digital assets, the incident serves as a stark reminder of the vulnerabilities inherent in even the most robust systems. This article explores the lessons businesses can learn from the CrowdStrike outage and underscores the importance of proactive measures like performing

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Article: How Quality Champions Foster Sustainable Software Quality Improvement at Swiss Post

InfoQ Culture Methods

Even skilled and motivated agile teams sometimes fail to achieve their own software quality goals. In this article, we present a practice we use to assist agile teams in reaching their quality goals and share our experience. The practice is about paying constant attention to specific metrics. It means encouraging people to improve themselves in both qualitative and quantitative ways.

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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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Understanding Microservices Architecture: Benefits and Challenges Explained

Perficient

Understanding Microservices Architecture: Benefits and Challenges Explained Microservices architecture is a transformative approach in backend development that has gained immense popularity in recent years. To fully grasp the advantages of microservices, it is essential first to understand monolithic architecture, as microservices emerged primarily to address its limitations.

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What is torrenting? BitTorrent, legal issues, how it works, and more

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

If you've ever been curious about BitTorrent or torrenting, we have the explainer for you!

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Special Rails World session: Matz & DHH Fireside Chat

Ruby on Rails

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s 7.2 announcement , we have more good news: the Rails World agenda is live, and we added a last-minute session to the program that we think you are going to love: Ruby creator Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto will join us at Rails World in Toronto as a special guest of Shopify and the Rails Foundation. Matz & DHH, together on stage for the first time To close day one, Matz and DHH will share the stage for the very first time for a fireside chat about Ruby, Rails and a

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The AI scams infiltrating the knitting and crochet world - and how to spot them

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

AI can create unexpected problems for crafters. Here's what to watch out for, and why it matters even if you don't crochet.

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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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Why You Should Use Buildpacks Over Docker

Dzone - DevOps

Docker is the obvious choice for building containers, but there is a catch: writing optimized and secure Dockerfiles and managing a library of them at scale can be a real challenge. In this article, I will explain why you may want to use Cloud Native Buildpacks instead of Docker. Common Issue Using Docker When a company begins using Docker, it typically starts with a simple Dockerfile.

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This $20 USB-C cable I recommend comes with a useful digital display

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The ChargerLAB Power-Z AK001 USB-C cable includes a power meter that's super handy for seasoned technicians and hobbyists alike.

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Creating a Command Line Tool With JBang and PicoCLI To Generate Release Notes

Dzone - DevOps

Lately, I have been playing with JBang and PicoCLI, and I am pretty amazed at what we can do with these tools. I needed to create a script that would go to a specified repository on GitHub, check the commit range, and verify if any tickets were associated with them. Additionally, I wanted to check if the ticket was accepted and if the commit was approved or not.

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Google just unveiled 2 major smart home AI updates - and Nest users will be excited

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The new Gemini-powered updates will soon supercharge smart homes with generative AI and more options than ever.

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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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Do You Think You Have No AI Exposures? Think Again

Tenable

As AI usage becomes more prevalent in organizations globally, security teams must get full visibility into these applications. Building a comprehensive inventory of AI applications in your environment is a first step. Read on to learn what we found about AI application-usage in the real world when we analyzed anonymized telemetry data from scans using Tenable’s products.

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This EcoFlow portable battery powered my whole home during recent outages

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The EcoFlow Delta Pro Ultra is capable of powering an entire home, but it's especially outstanding with the EcoFlow Smart Home Panel 2.

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3 Ways Reading Boosts Your Business

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Many leaders dedicate little time to reading. But consistent and broad reading can truly help you differentiate your business. Going from “good” to “great” can be as simple as building a regular reading habit. Today’s post is by Dr. Liz Alexander. The statistics weren’t unexpected, just shocking. When Mike Figliuolo posed the question, “How much professional reading do you do each month?