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Exploring creative possibilities: A visual guide to Amazon Nova Canvas

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Compelling AI-generated images start with well-crafted prompts. In this follow-up to our Amazon Nova Canvas Prompt Engineering Guide , we showcase a curated gallery of visuals generated by Nova Canvascategorized by real-world use casesfrom marketing and product visualization to concept art and design exploration. Each image is paired with the prompt and parameters that generated it, providing a practical starting point for your own AI-driven creativity.

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A blueprint for effective cloud recovery

CIO

As businesses increasingly rely on multi-cloud environments, building cloud resilience becomes critical. In this article, we will explore the key components of cloud resilience and its importance in recovering from outages such as ransomware attacks. We will delve into essential elements of cloud resilience such as cloud infrastructure backup, dual-vault cloud time machine, and recovery-as-code.

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Bridging the Dev and SecOps Gap: How Intelligent Continuous Security Enables True End-to-End Security

DevOps.com

Intelligent Continuous Security (TM) (ICS) is the next evolution harnessing AI-driven automation, real-time threat detection and continuous compliance enforcement to eliminate these inefficiencies. ICS extends beyond DevSecOps to also close security gaps with SecOps, ensuring end-to-end continuous security across the entire software lifecycle.

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Why We Need To Create A Single, Vibrant Pan-European Stock Market

Crunchbase News

By Bo Ilsoe The future of European innovation depends on a single, unified Pan-European stock market. The current fragmented landscape of national exchanges stifles growth, limits liquidity and drives talent and capital away. The feedback loop of venture funding, entrepreneurial activity, company building, exits and capital return is broken, due to a lack of robust exit opportunities, particularly through initial public offerings, creating a critical bottleneck.

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Subscription Management in the SaaS World: Challenges and Solutions

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Why the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Is Necessary – But Also Insufficient

Ivanti

Measuring the risks posed by vulnerabilities to the greatest degree of accuracy is no simple task. Its common for organizations to use the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) by default, to come to terms with the size and scope of vulnerabilities. But while CVSS is a useful tool, its not immune from its own vulnerabilities. How does vulnerability scoring work?

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Global trade war escalates as US tariffs on steel, aluminum imports launch 

Ooda Loop

U.S. tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports took effect on Wednesday morning, levying a 25 percent duty with no exceptions or exemptions. U.S. trading partners quickly expressed their objections, with Europe announcing retaliatory measures. The European Commission responded with counter duties on 26 billion euros ($28 billion) worth of U.S. goods which will begin […] The post Global trade war escalates as US tariffs on steel, aluminum imports launch appeared first on OODAloop.

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MWC 2025: The Future of Mobile Devices Unfolds

IDC

The Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025 in Barcelona has once again served as a barometer for the future direction of the mobile industry. This years event, themed “Converge. Connect. Create.”, revealed some technological shifts that will define market dynamics in the coming years. Two dominant trends emerged in the devices space: rapid integration of AI [.

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Ukraine and U.S. Talks on War Begin as Gulfs Remain 

Ooda Loop

On Tuesday, Ukraine and U.S. officials met in Saudi Arabia to kick off talks between the two countries on ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict. This is the first high-level meeting between the two countries since the recent Oval Office shouting match. Currently, Russia, Ukraine, and the U.S. all have differing ideas as to what a ceasefire […] The post Ukraine and U.S.

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Disabling Cookies in Sitecore SDKs

Perficient

Intro In this post, we’ll take a look at a couple Sitecore SDKs commonly used to build XM Cloud head applications. Specifically, we’ll be looking at how to disable cookies used by these SDKs. This can be useful for data privacy and/or regulatory compliance reasons. These SDKs allow your application to integrate with other composable Sitecore services like analytics, personalization, and search.

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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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Ukraine ready to accept 30-day US-brokered ceasefire plan 

Ooda Loop

Following conversations between the U.S. and Ukraine in Saudi Arabia yesterday, the U.S. has agreed to resume military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine. Ukraine additionally expressed willingness to accept a 30-day ceasefire. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the ceasefire would be a complete pause, including the halt of missiles, drones, bombs, and the […] The post Ukraine ready to accept 30-day US-brokered ceasefire plan appeared first on OODAloop.

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AI Network Security for Enterprises

Firemon

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way enterprises approach network security. With cyber threats evolving at an unprecedented rate, businesses may consider implementing AI-driven security solutions to optimize resources and enhance their existing automated security processes. Network security that leverages this technology enables organizations to identify threats faster, improve incident response, and reduce the burden on IT teams.

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What Are AWS Resource Control Policies (RCPs)?

Tamnoon

What Are AWS Resource Control Policies (RCPs)? The Complete Guide Resource Control Policies (RCPs) are organization-wide guardrails designed to enforce security and governance across AWS resources. These deny-only policies establish permission boundaries for specific resource types within AWS organizations. Amazon introduced RCPs and an added layer of security to better protect AWS resources, especially those that contain sensitive information.

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Activate to SFTP from Salesforce Data Cloud

Perficient

SFTP? Isn’t that old? It is an oldie, but a goodie. With Data Cloud we can send data to a lot of external data sources like Marketing Cloud Engagement or Amazon S3 through Activation Targets. But there are times we are working with a destination system like Eloqua or Marketo that has solid support for SFTP. SFTP and Data Cloud work well together!

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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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Update your iPhone now: iOS 18.3.2 patches a serious web browser bug

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

This update also re-enables Apple Intelligence for those who previously had turned off this feature. Here's how to fix that, too.

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Navigating the AI-Powered Era: Why Modern Deployment Platforms Must Evolve Beyond Jenkins & ArgoCD

DevOps.com

To thrive in the AI era, development teams need more than just automation; they need intelligent, integrated deployment platforms that abstract unnecessary complexities from the underlying infrastructure while automating essential operations.

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I replaced my Windows PC with a Mac Studio - here are my takeaways after 24 hours

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The M4 Max Mac Studio is a compact powerhouse that seamlessly fits on my desk - and outperforms my PC tower in several ways.

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Alibaba Releases Emotional Intelligence Model To Rival ChatGPT

Ooda Loop

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has released a new artificial intelligence model that it says can read emotions, in an apparent bid to outpace OpenAIs latest model. In two demonstrations, Alibabas Tongyi Lab researchers showed their new open source R1-Omni inferring the emotional state of a person in a video while also offering descriptions of their […] The post Alibaba Releases Emotional Intelligence Model To Rival ChatGPT appeared first on OODAloop.

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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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Can AI supercharge creativity without stealing from artists?

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The relationship between generative AI and artists has been predatory so far. Can AI companies change to support creators and enrich the ecosystem?

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Cycode Adds SAST Tool to ASPM Platform

DevOps.com

Cycode has added a static application security testing tool to its application security posture management (ASPM) platform that promises to reduce the number of false positives generated by rival tools.

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I finally found Bluetooth trackers for Android users that function better than AirTags (and are cheaper, too)

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Chipolo's One and Card trackers are perfect for anyone who often misplaces their keys or wallet.

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Why European Businesses Are Choosing Self-Managed Identity Solutions

Symantec

Facing increasing regulations, VIP Authentication Hub offers EU security teams greater control and compliance

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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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That weird CAPTCHA could be a malware trap - here's how to protect yourself

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Follow the 'I'm not a robot' CAPTCHA, and you might just end up with malware on your PC.

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How To Delete a Topic in Apache Kafka®: A Step-By-Step Guide

Confluent

Learn how to delete topics in Apache Kafka safely and efficiently. Explore step-by-step instructions, best practices, and important considerations for managing Kafka topics.

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The Linux Foundation's latest partnership could shake up open-source ecosystems - here's why

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The two biggest corporate open-source foundations are merging.

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CodeSOD: Don't Date Me

The Daily WTF

I remember in some intro-level compsci class learning that credit card numbers were checksummed, and writing basic functions to validate those checksums as an exercize. I was young and was still using my "starter" credit card with a whopping limit of $500, so that was all news to me. Alex 's company had a problem processing credit cards: they rejected a lot of credit cards as being invalid.

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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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Google claims Gemma 3 reaches 98% of DeepSeek's accuracy - using only one GPU

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Google says it's found a sweet spot between power and efficiency by employing the 'distillation' of neural nets.

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Explore the Future of AI with Dell’s Chief AI Officer, John Roese

Dell EMC

Explore cutting-edge AI insights, from future trends to actionable strategies, designed to help you stay ahead in the world of AI innovation.

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Gemini might soon have access to your Google Search history - if you let it

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Is a more personalized AI experience worth Gemini seeing everything you've Googled?

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