Harvard Business Review
MARCH 28, 2024
In the current era of digital disruption, the pace of change has dramatically accelerated, leaving traditional risk management wisdom lacking. Across a variety of industries, technology-enabled disruptors have changed the rules. Many brands that moved cautiously have dramatically increased their risk of irrelevance or set themselves on a path to extinction.
CIO
MARCH 28, 2024
It seems every week I’m on the phone with a CIO or other technology executive who’s either contemplating, on the verge of, or has recently gone through the process of retiring. Most struggle with it. They’ve been so heads-down doing the work that they’ve failed to properly and intentionally prepare themselves for this next chapter. On a recent episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast , I sat down with two former technology executives who’ve transitioned to “Chapter 2” in their career journeys wit
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Xebia
MARCH 28, 2024
There has been an uptick in discussions surrounding the modern data stack, data mesh and self-service promising to solve many of your company’s data problems. However, in Xebia Data’s Analytics Engineering team’s day-to-day work for clients, we still see small and large companies struggling to address most of the core concepts. It’s great that data analytics is now more accessible than ever for anyone to get involved in due to all of these new tools, but this has a lot of
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 28, 2024
Employee disengagement is a persistent problem, and attempts to inject excitement often fall flat. However, gamification — using elements of games to motivate — has serious potential when thoughtfully executed. This article explores the psychology behind gamification, successful examples, and how to leverage probabilistic rewards (like lotteries tied to performance) to increase employee motivation.
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Ooda Loop
MARCH 28, 2024
In February, US Intelligence officials informed senators that the Chinese pharmaceutical firm WuXi AppTec had given China U.S. intellectual property without permission.
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Tandem
MARCH 28, 2024
Made in Tandem has been named a 2024 SIIA CODiE Award finalist in the Best Human Capital or Talent Management Solution category. Tandem’s nomination specifically recognizes the work done to modernize MIRS, the MEPCOM (Military Entrance Processing Command) Integrated Resource System, a software system used to track U.S. military applicants during their enlistment process.
InfoWorld
MARCH 28, 2024
NET 7 , a version Microsoft’s open-source, cross-platform application framework that was released in November 2022, will reach its end of support on May 14, 2024, Microsoft said on March 27. After May 14, Microsoft will no longer provide servicing updates including technical support or security fixes. Developers will need to update to.NET 8 , released in November 2023, to continue to receive support.NET 7 is a Standard Term Support release, which receives support for 18 months.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
MARCH 28, 2024
Large language models (LLMs) are generally trained on large publicly available datasets that are domain agnostic. For example, Meta’s Llama models are trained on datasets such as CommonCrawl , C4 , Wikipedia, and ArXiv. These datasets encompass a broad range of topics and domains. Although the resulting models yield amazingly good results for general tasks, such as text generation and entity recognition, there is evidence that models trained with domain-specific datasets can further improve LLM
InfoWorld
MARCH 28, 2024
Snowflake on Thursday said it was making its Data Clean Room application generally available for free in the Snowflake Marketplace. The application, which was built on Snowflake’s Native Application Framework, will allow customers to set up data clean rooms at no additional cost, the company said. Introduced in 2022, Snowflake’s Native Application Framework offers developers the ability to build and run applications inside the Snowflake Data Cloud platform, without the need to move data when bui
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DevOps.com
MARCH 28, 2024
Cognition Labs' Devin is creating a lot of buzz in the industry, but John Willis urges organizations to proceed with caution.
InfoWorld
MARCH 28, 2024
With atomic clock-like regularity, the latest version of Java, JDK 22 , was released last week. Although this is not a long-term support (LTS) release, there is nothing to stop you from using it in production, and it contains some interesting new features. Let’s dive in and see what this brings us. New features for the Java platform are defined through JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEPs), and JDK 22 contains 12 of these.
Ooda Loop
MARCH 28, 2024
This is a review of what I see of the technology in the Ethereum ecosystem and some of the use cases it addresses today.
InfoWorld
MARCH 28, 2024
Kubernetes plays an important role at Microsoft. The container management system is a foundational piece of the company’s many clouds, from Microsoft 365 and Xbox, to Azure, to partners like OpenAI that use Microsoft’s Kubernetes to host their own services. As a result, Microsoft has invented many of its own Kubernetes management tools. These include Kaito for deploying AI inferencing workloads and Fleet for large-scale management of Kubernetes clusters.
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Crunchbase News
MARCH 28, 2024
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday on seven criminal charges — two counts of fraud and five counts of conspiracy — related to the collapse of his crypto exchange and related hedge fund. The sentence was significantly less than the 110-year maximum he faced and the 40 to 50 years prosecutors were seeking. Nevertheless, it is substantially more than the handful of years Bankman-Fried’s attorneys were seeking.
InfoWorld
MARCH 28, 2024
JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA 2024.1, a release of the integrated development environment (IDE) due on April 4, will feature an optional K2 compiler mode, enabling developers to use K2 for faster and more robust Kotlin code analysis, the company said. With this planned release, the IDE for Kotlin and Java will have two modes. The class mode, enabled by default, will use the standard K1 Kotlin compiler to analyze Kotlin code.
Crunchbase News
MARCH 28, 2024
By Darya Sesitskaya Midjourney is a self-funded company with 11 full-time employees. Mailchimp started as a side project — originally meant to be a support tool for the web design services the founders were offering clients. Startups like these have inspired us, showing that it’s possible to start building revenue at an early stage. This eliminates the need to immediately jump into fundraising your pre-seed round, which by itself has become more challenging.
QBurst
MARCH 28, 2024
Migrating legacy infrastructure to the cloud is not an easy feat. However challenging the process, migration makes a lot of business sense, given the unmatched efficiency and scalability of the cloud. This is the cloud adoption success story of one of our clients. The journey is explained in three parts, starting with this post, where […] The post Enterprise Migration to Azure: Part 1 appeared first on QBurst Blog.
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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.
Ruby on Rails
MARCH 28, 2024
Greetings! I’m Emmanuel Hayford , here to bring you your weekly instalment of “This Week In Rails”. Let’s dive straight into it. Two new guides are now open for community review. If you are well versed in Action View, partials, and helpers, please review and submit your feedback here: Action View Overview PR Action View Helpers PR Add config.active_record.permanent_connection_checkout setting This setting determines the action taken when ActiveRecord::Base.connection is accessed: whether it ra
Infinidat
MARCH 28, 2024
It’s No Secret: Enterprises Reveal Customers’ Choice in the 2024 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Primary Storage Adriana Andronescu Thu, 03/28/2024 - 10:26 Take out the guesswork! You can find out right now why a slew of Global Fortune 500 enterprises deploy Infinidat enterprise storage solutions, including our award-winning InfiniBox™ SSA II all-flash system, InfiniBox® hybrid, and InfiniGuard®, supported by our unparalleled white glove service.
Data Virtualization
MARCH 28, 2024
Reading Time: 2 minutes The financial industry is in the midst of a profound digital transformation. Unfortunately, most financial organizations have some catching up to do in this regard. As noted in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Finance Data and Analytics Governance, 2023, “Through. The post My Understanding of the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Finance Data and Analytics Governance, 2023 appeared first on Data Management Blog - Data Integration and Modern Data Management Articles, Analysis and Informa
Ooda Loop
MARCH 28, 2024
A new report from the Africa Center for Strategic Studies found that "disinformation campaigns seeking to manipulate African information systems have surged nearly fourfold since 2022, triggering destabilizing and antidemocratic consequences." Find a summary and analysis of the report here.
Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase
Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs. Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy fo
Dataiku
MARCH 28, 2024
Did you know that only 7% of healthcare data — 3.5 petabytes — is used in the industry ? But, on the other side of the coin, as much as 36% of data being collected in 2025 will be health related? Pharmaceutical organizations, and the wider ecosystem of healthcare and life sciences industries at large, are at no loss for data. And still, many question if it’s yet enough data to truly characterize human biology and transform how we treat disease.
Ooda Loop
MARCH 28, 2024
On Thursday, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. announced the Philippines will implement countermeasures against China’s coastguard. More specifically, the President states that the Philippines will begin to implement countermeasures against “illegal, coercive, aggressive, and dangerous attacks” The Philippines has become “furious” over repeated acts of hostility.
The Daily WTF
MARCH 28, 2024
We've got some of the rarer classic Error'd types today: events from the dawn of time, weird definitions of space, and this absolutely astonishing choice of cancel/confirm button text. Perplexed Stewart found this and it's got me completely befuddled as well! "Puzzled over this classic type of Error'd for ages. I really have no clue whether I should press Yes or No." I have a feeling we've seen errors like this before, but it bears repeating.
Ooda Loop
MARCH 28, 2024
On Monday and Wednesday, a delegation of Russia’s External Intelligence Bureau visited Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. This visit was held with the intention of improving cooperation between the states against spying. According to state media KCNA, the director of the bureau Sergei E.
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thoughtLEADERS, LLC
MARCH 28, 2024
Our reader poll today asks: What’s the likelihood that you’re going to voluntarily leave your current company within the next 12 months? 100%: 17.22% 66-99%: 11.80% 33-65%: 11.79% 1-32%: 20.99% 0%: 38.20% Bye. 28% of respondents are headed out the door in the next 12 months. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.
Ooda Loop
MARCH 28, 2024
Robots made their stage debut the day after New Year’s 1921. More than half-a-century before the world caught its first glimpse of George Lucas’ droids, a small army of silvery humanoids took to the stages of the First Czechoslovak Republic.
Perficient
MARCH 28, 2024
Hello Trailblazers! In the realm of Salesforce development, Lightning Web Components (LWC) have emerged as a powerful tool for building dynamic and interactive user interfaces. At the heart of LWC lies its template rendering system, which governs how components display data and respond to user interactions. In this blog, we’ll learn about template rendering or conditional rendering in LWC and provide an example.
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