CIO
APRIL 24, 2024
Microsoft is opening another route for extending the reach of its Copilot offerings in the enterprise through an expanded partnership with global professional services company Cognizant. As part of the deal, Cognizant has acquired 25,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot seats, and 500 each of Sales Copilot and Services Copilot, for use by its associates across the globe.
Ooda Loop
APRIL 24, 2024
Google has released Chrome 124, addressing four vulnerabilities, including a critical security flaw identified as CVE-2024-4058, involving a type confusion bug in the ANGLE graphics layer engine. This critical vulnerability could potentially allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or escape sandboxes with limited user interaction.
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CIO
APRIL 24, 2024
It’s universally accepted that to thrive, enterprises must embrace transformation through technology. CIOs are at the forefront of this as they help shepherd their organizations through digitalization. “Digital is a powerful business lever,” says Alessandra Luksch, director of the Digital Transformation Academy Observatory at Politecnico di Milano, which has been mapping trends in ICT spending by Italian organizations since 2016.
Ooda Loop
APRIL 24, 2024
Nagomi Security has emerged from stealth mode, previously known as Vena Security, with a platform aimed at helping customers maximize the effectiveness of their existing cybersecurity tools.
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
CIO
APRIL 24, 2024
Our goal since the Broadcom/VMware acquisition was completed last November has been to help our customers move fast in their digital transformation to position themselves for success. Even before the transaction was finalized, we had been listening to VMware’s customers. As we moved from transaction to integration, we began to translate customer thoughts into a comprehensive go-to-market strategy for VMware Cloud Foundation, or VCF.
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CIO
APRIL 24, 2024
The complexity of the software supply chain (SSC) has the potential to expose your organization to greater risk than ever before. In today’s fast-paced software development landscape, managing and securing the software supply chain is crucial for delivering reliable and trusted software releases. Thus, it’s important to assess whether your organization is set up to handle the continuous expansion of the open-source ecosystem and an ever-growing array of tools to incorporate into your supply chai
AWS Machine Learning - AI
APRIL 24, 2024
The Amazon EU Design and Construction (Amazon D&C) team is the engineering team designing and constructing Amazon warehouses. The team navigates a large volume of documents and locates the right information to make sure the warehouse design meets the highest standards. In the post A generative AI-powered solution on Amazon SageMaker to help Amazon EU Design and Construction , we presented a question answering bot solution using a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline with a fine-tune
CIO
APRIL 24, 2024
Ogni CIO sa bene che il mercato del cloud è sempre in movimento, nelle più disparate direzioni. Tuttavia, forse, non si rende conto che è possibile tenere il passo con i cambiamenti del mercato della “nuvola”, e persino avere la meglio sui vendor, modificando la strategia della propria impresa per trarre vantaggio da nuovi approcci e da nuove opportunità emergenti.
Crunchbase News
APRIL 24, 2024
Americans are spending ever-rising sums of their own money on healthcare. So-called out-of-pocket expenses now top $470 billion annually, per the federal government’s latest accounting. Spending is expected to keep rising too, along with the spread of high-deductible health plans and care providers who don’t accept insurance. While consumers aren’t exactly thrilled about this trend, startup founders and their backers see some very scalable opportunities.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
DevOps.com
APRIL 24, 2024
Everyone knew HashiCorp was attempting to find a buyer. Few suspected it would be IBM.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 24, 2024
Researchers who analyzed consumer feedback from Etsy discovered that what consumers value most about upcycled products is not their sustainability but their creativity. Their findings offer some guidelines for companies who hope to design and successfully market upcycled products: 1) Designers should consider using components from other industries to enhance the appeal of their products and encourage cross-industry collaboration; 2) Product designers and managers should identify new uses for pro
InfoWorld
APRIL 24, 2024
Promises are a central mechanism for handling asynchronous code in JavaScript. You will find them in many JavaScript libraries and frameworks, where they're used to manage the results of an action. The fetch() API is one example of promises at work. As a developer, you might not be familiar with creating and using promises outside of an existing product, but it's surprisingly simple.
Ooda Loop
APRIL 24, 2024
Heavy rain has caused widespread flooding in Nairobi, Kenya, turning roads into rivers and forcing residents to seek refuge on rooftops. Nairobi county official Edwin Sifuna described the situation as reaching extreme levels, with footage showing entire neighborhoods submerged.
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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.
InfoWorld
APRIL 24, 2024
Cloud-based data warehouse company Snowflake has developed an open-source large language model (LLM), Arctic, to take on the likes of Meta’s Llama 3 , Mistral’s family of models, xAI’s Grok-1 , and Databricks’ DBRX.
The Daily WTF
APRIL 24, 2024
Ulvhamne sends us some bad code that, well, I think at this point we should really coin a name for this particular anti-pattern. @Override public int getNumOfItemsInDataContainer ( int parDataId ) { int numberOfItems = 0 ; for (Integer x : myTransactionDataContainerMap.keySet()) { numberOfItems ++; } return numberOfItems; } This C# function wants to get the number of items contained in a dictionary.
InfoWorld
APRIL 24, 2024
Generative AI entered the global consciousness with a bang at the close of 2022 (cue: ChatGPT ), but making it work in the enterprise has amounted to little more than a series of stumbles. Shadow AI use in the enterprise is sky high as employees are making day-to-day task companions out of AI chat tools. But for the knowledge-intensive workflows that are core to an organization’s mission, generative AI has yet to deliver on its lofty promise to transform the way we work.
Perficient
APRIL 24, 2024
From patient records to medical device telemetry, the volume and diversity of data generated for medical device companies can be staggering. However, harnessing this data to its full potential remains a significant challenge for many. Healthcare organizations, including medical device companies, grapple with dispersed data across various departments and technologies.
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IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d
InfoWorld
APRIL 24, 2024
Node.js 22, the latest version of the popular JavaScript runtime, has arrived, featuring require() support for ECMAScript modules, an improved WebSocket client, and an updated version of the Google V8 JavaScript engine. Announced April 24 , version 22 of the event-driven, asynchronous runtime can be downloaded from Nodejs.org. The release adds require() support for synchronous ECMAScript module graphs under the flag: --experimental-require-module.
Ooda Loop
APRIL 24, 2024
President Joe Biden signed a foreign aid package that includes a bill that would ban TikTok if China-based parent company ByteDance fails to divest the app within a year. The divest-or-ban bill is now law, starting the clock for ByteDance to make its move.
InfoWorld
APRIL 24, 2024
OpenAI, known for its large language model ChatGPT, is making a strong push for the enterprise market. In what could intensify competition among enterprise AI players , the company announced a slew of new features designed to give businesses more control, enhance security, and offer cost-effective options when integrating OpenAI’s AI technologies in their operations.
Ooda Loop
APRIL 24, 2024
Even as Meta’s new Llama 3 has quickly rocketed up the charts of most-used and most customized large language models (LLMs), the rival company that ushered in the generative AI era, OpenAI, is shrugging off the competition by introducing new enterprise-grade features for building and programming atop its GPT-4 Turbo […]
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Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.
InfoWorld
APRIL 24, 2024
WebAssembly runtime maker Wasmer has unveiled py2wasm, a Python -to-WebAssembly compiler that transforms Python programs to the WebAssembly (aka Wasm) binary instruction format. Using a fork of the Nuitka Python compiler , py2wasm converts Python programs to Wasm, allowing them to run without interpreter overhead. Introduced April 18, py2wasm addresses a situation in which the performance of Python programs in WebAssembly has been less than ideal, Wasmer founder and CEO Syrus Akbary wrote in a b
Ooda Loop
APRIL 24, 2024
Nvidia has officially announced its intent to acquire AI infrastructure orchestration and management platform Run:ai. The value of the deal was not revealed, but is estimated at around $700 million. Calcalist first revealed the negotiations between the companies last month.
InfoWorld
APRIL 24, 2024
WebAssembly was originally designed to give in-browser web applications a way to run portable, sandboxed, high-performance binaries. As WASM matures beyond the browser , new uses for the technology are emerging. Using WASM to build programmability and extensibility into applications is one use case that is gathering steam. The Extism software library lets you write programs that can interface with extensions written in WebAssembly.
Ooda Loop
APRIL 24, 2024
Tines, an Irish security automation startup, has secured an additional $50 million in venture capital funding as part of its Series B round, raising its total funding to $146.2 million.
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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.
DevOps.com
APRIL 24, 2024
Embrace revealed today it is adding support for open source OpenTelemetry agent software to its software development kits (SDKs) that enable observability of iOS and Android applications.
Ooda Loop
APRIL 24, 2024
Amplifier Security has emerged from stealth mode, unveiling a solution aimed at bridging the gap between the workforce and security teams using AI copilot and human-in-the-loop automation. The company has secured $3.
Daffodil Software
APRIL 24, 2024
Mobile banking, investment apps, wealth management applications, wallets, and stock trading applications have reshaped the finance industry for the good. However, this has also introduced security challenges. Fintech applications have become increasingly more exposed to cyber threats, such as data breaches, phishing, identity theft and financial fraud.
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