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Vulnerability Management for DevOps Teams: A Practical Guide

DevOps.com

The goal of vulnerability management is to close the gap between discovery and resolution, thereby minimizing the window of opportunity for potential cyberattacks.

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Google’s best Gemini demo was faked

TechCrunch

Google’s new Gemini AI model is getting a mixed reception after its big debut yesterday, but users may have less confidence in the company’s tech or integrity after finding out that the most impressive demo of Gemini was pretty much faked. A video called “Hands-on with Gemini: Interacting with multimodal AI” hit a million views […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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How to create an effective business continuity plan

CIO

The tumultuous events of the past several years have impacted practically every business. And with the number of extreme weather events, cyberattacks, and geopolitical conflicts continuing to rise, business leaders are bracing for the possibility of increasingly more frequent impactful incidents their organizations will need to respond to. According to PwC’s 2023 Global Crisis and Resilience Survey , 96% of 1,812 business leaders said their organizations had experienced disruption in the past tw

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Is the Texas boom town of Austin losing its luster?

TechCrunch

Texas has been historically known for its oil booms. Today the state is perhaps better known as a magnet for tech companies and tech talent, especially in its capital city of Austin. But with some startups pulling up stakes, and critical industry participants curtailing their activity in Austin, the Texas dream of taking on tech’s […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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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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WestRock CIDO Amir Kazmi on building resiliency

CIO

Amir Kazmi is a savvy business leader whose leadership playbook has been shaped by the fact that he’s spent one third of his career in P&L roles. In his current role as chief information and digital officer at WestRock, he’s responsible for developing and executing global information systems, technology, and cybersecurity strategy in addition to leading the company’s digital transformation.

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BMC on BMC: How the company enables IT observability with BMC Helix and AIOps

CIO

As a global company with more than 6,000 employees, BMC faces many of the same data challenges that other large enterprises face. The organization has 500 applications for business services, 80,000 VMs, 3,000 hosts, and more than 100,000 containers. BMC needed a solution to transform this large volume of data and enable observability to understand thousands of events as a single scenario.

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X begins rolling out Grok, its ‘rebellious’ chatbot, to subscribers

TechCrunch

Grok, a ChatGPT competitor developed by xAI, Elon Musk’s AI startup, has officially launched on X, the site formerly known as Twitter. Grok began rolling out late this afternoon to X Premium Plus subscribers in the U.S., “Premium Plus” being X’s plan that costs $16 per month for ad-free access to the social network. Longtime […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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When natural disasters strike Japan, ?ita University’s EDiSON is ready to act

CIO

Over the centuries, Japan has endured more than its fair share of natural disasters – such as the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923 that resulted in close to 40,000 lives lost in downtown Tokyo alone and, more recently, the 2011 Tohoku quake and tsunami that devastated the northeast coast of Japan, killing 18,000 residents with approximately 20,000 more still uncounted for to this day.

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Zelda Ventures’ new pre-seed fund backs serial entrepreneurs

TechCrunch

Suzanne Fletcher invested in 10 companies from the new fund, so far, and plans to invest in 40 companies in total. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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The data deluge: The need for IT Operations observability and strategies for achieving it

CIO

To understand service health, IT needs to examine availability, security, performance, and log data from all layers of the ecosystem. Accomplishing this task requires observability driven by artificial intelligence (AI). Simply put, observability is the ability to look at data from all of an organization’s tools to understand the state of an application or service.

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Amazon will no longer accept Venmo as a payment option starting next month

TechCrunch

Amazon is dropping Venmo as a payment option next month, the PayPal owned mobile payment service announced on its website. The official announcement comes as Amazon notified users last night via email that Venmo will no longer be accepted on Amazon.com starting January 10, 2024. Amazon will still, however, accept Venmo debit and credit cards. […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Unlocking generative AI’s greatest growth opportunities

CIO

Over the last year, generative AI—a form of artificial intelligence that can compose original text, images, computer code, and other content—has gone from experimental curiosity to a tech revolution that could be one of the biggest business disruptors of our generation. Along the way, business leaders in every industry have been scrambling to develop their generative AI strategies, address potential risks, and figure out the best next action while trying to stay one step ahead of the competition

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WhatsApp adds support for disappearing voice messages

TechCrunch

While today’s bigger news from the world of Meta’s messaging apps was the rollout of end-to-end encryption in Messenger, the company is also bringing another useful feature to its WhatsApp users: disappearing voice messages. The new feature will allow users to send a voice message that can only be listened to once before it disappears, […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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What It Really Takes to Become an Executive Coach

Harvard Business Review

Being an executive coach can be rewarding. But, many people misunderstand what coaching actually is, underestimate the process to become a credentialed coach, and don’t anticipate the ongoing effort required to generate and develop business to make a living doing this work. How many clients should you have? What other income streams should you consider?

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Anthropic’s latest tactic to stop racist AI: Asking it ‘really really really really’ nicely

TechCrunch

The problem of alignment is an important one when you’re setting AI models up to make decisions in matters of finance and health. But how can you reduce biases if they’re baked into a model from biases in its training data? Anthropic suggests asking it nicely to please, please not discriminate or someone will sue […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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What Salespeople Get Wrong About Using GenAI

Harvard Business Review

Discussion of generative AI has maintained a fever pitch since OpenAI released ChatGPT-3.5 in late 2022. Many leaders’ instinct is to provide direction and codification when trying to drive adoption of new tools. This is particularly true in sales, a function rooted in processes, playbooks, scripts, and templates. However, driving adoption of generative AI as a new way of working — leading sellers toward creative use of generative AI, and helping them to use it as a coaching and learning aid — r

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Amazon is piloting a new $9.99 monthly grocery subscription for Prime members in three cities

TechCrunch

Amazon is piloting a new grocery subscription offering for Prime members in three cities, the company revealed on Thursday. The new $9.99 per month subscription gives Prime members access to unlimited free grocery delivery on orders over $35 from Whole Foods Market and Amazon Fresh. The subscription also offers unlimited 30 minute pickup on orders […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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How to Challenge Your Organization’s Status Quo — Productively

Harvard Business Review

Challenging the status quo is the mechanism that leads to innovation and improvement. But doing so can feel risky, leading you to self-censor and shy away from speaking up. Challenging the status quo calls into play context, personalities, and self-interest, and could bruise egos, reveal poor performance, redistribute power, or upend hierarchy. So how should you go about sharing an idea or feedback that goes against the status quo?

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YC-backed fintech Bujeti raises $2M for its corporate cards and spend management platform

TechCrunch

African corporate cards and spend management platform Bujeti has raised $2 million in seed funding. The startup, involved with how African businesses, including SMBs, startups and enterprises, manage and handle finances, received this capital from lead investor Y Combinator and other backers, including Entrée Capital, Voltron Capital, Unpopular VC, Kima Ventures, Dropbox co-founder Arash Ferdowsi, […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Key Cost Optimization Strategies for Multi-Cloud Environments

DevOps.com

By utilizing tools, implementing processes and continuously monitoring costs, you can save money while still reaping the benefits offered by different cloud providers.

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As a new AI-driven coding assistant is launched, the battle for AI-mindshare moves to developers

TechCrunch

With the news that Microsoft’s Copilot is getting OpenAI’s latest models and a new code interpreter, it’s clear the battle over the future of AI is increasingly being fought at the developer and engineering level. If you can get developers hooked on “your” AI Copilot, then you will be able to better sell into that […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Master Cloud Computing Risks with a Proactive, End-to-End Approach

Prisma Clud

Fast, frictionless, proactive and cost-competitive. These guiding principles have provided a foundation for Accenture’s public cloud security offerings since they were introduced in 2018. It’s long been mission-critical for both Accenture Security and Palo Alto Networks to empower security teams to deliver value to organizations by helping clear roadblocks and accelerate progress.

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Ex-Google, Coursera employees start Lutra AI to make AI workflows easier to build

TechCrunch

The young startup, started in April, creates AI workflows from natural language so no technical experience is needed. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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PagerDuty Previews Generative AI Copilot for ITSM

DevOps.com

Under an early access program, PagerDuty, Inc. is making available a tool that brings generative AI capabilities to its ITSM platform.

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EU ‘final’ talks to fix AI rules to run into second day — but deal on foundational models is on the table

TechCrunch

As European Union lawmakers clock up 20+ hours of negotiating time in a marathon attempt to reach agreement on how to regulate artificial intelligence a preliminary accord on how to handle one sticky element — rules for foundational models/general purpose AIs (GPAIs) — has been agreed, according to a leaked proposal TechCrunch has reviewed.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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What is the biggest challenge you have when managing a high performer?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: What is the biggest challenge you have when managing a high performer? Resisting the urge to manage them too closely 6.74% Giving them challenging assignments 14.75% Setting realistic expectations for their advancement 33.01% Taking on more challenging work myself so they have room to grow 3.20% Preventing them from taking on too much work 25.96% Managing the rest of the team to keep them motivated 16.34% Balancing Challenge and Aggressiveness.

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Following UK expansion, Robinhood brings crypto trading to EU

TechCrunch

Robinhood’s long-awaited international expansion is at full throttle. The consumer trading and investment app tailored to the younger generations is launching its crypto app to all eligible users in the European Union, the company said Thursday. The announcement comes on the heels of its foray into the U.K. just a week ago. While it’s taking […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Google's Gemini AI Revealed: All You Need to Know

Daffodil Software

Google has officially introduced Gemini, its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model equipped with capabilities in text, code, audio, image, and video. The entity claims that Gemini AI significantly outperforms Microsoft-backed OpenAI's GPT-4, potentially enhancing Google's standing in the AI competition.