Martin Fowler

JULY 30, 2024

The steady increase in deployment of AI tools has led a lot of people concerned about how software makes decisions that affect our lives. In one example, its about “algorithmic” feeds in social media that promote posts that drive engagement. A more serious impact can come from business decisions, such as how much premium to charge in car insurance. This can extend to affecting legal decisions, such as suggesting sentencing guidelines to judges.

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CIO

JULY 30, 2024

The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 set off a generative AI gold rush, with companies scrambling to adopt the technology and demonstrate innovation. Many of the AI use cases entrenched in business today use older, more established forms of AI, such as machine learning, or don’t take advantage of the “generative” capabilities of AI to generate text, pictures, and other data.

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Crunchbase News

JULY 30, 2024

London-based Flo Health , a provider of a popular women’s health app, announced Tuesday that it has raised more than $200 million in a Series C round backed by General Atlantic. The financing sets a valuation of over $1 billion for the company, making it, in Flo’s words, “the first purely digital consumer women’s health app to achieve unicorn status.

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CIO

JULY 30, 2024

Chief Marketing and Solutions Officer Julia White and Chief Revenue Officer Scott Russell will leave the SAP Executive Board on August 31, 2024. White’s and Russell’s contracts were not due to expire until 2027. SAP’s explanation for why it is restructuring its Executive Board remains vague. “Scott and Julia have contributed significantly to SAP’s successful business transition in the cloud and our leadership in Business AI,” CEO Christian Klein said in a statement, thanking both for their effor

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Confluent

JULY 30, 2024

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Tenable

JULY 30, 2024

Tenable sponsored research from Cyentia and FIRST, which finds that while vulnerability exploitation is highly variable, EPSS is getting stronger in its ability to predict exploitation. The number of CVEs published annually keeps growing, which means it is increasingly crucial to predict which ones require the attention of vulnerability management teams.

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CIO

JULY 30, 2024

La caída de sistemas global causada por un fallo en la actualización de contenido de la plataforma de seguridad de CrowdStrike y que afectó hace unos días a millones de dispositivos con sistema Windows de Microsoft puso a múltiples empresas, proveedores de servicios cloud y de infraestructuras críticas en una situación crítica y ha puesto el foco en lo dominante que se ha vuelto la cuota de mercado de la empresa de seguridad, que ostenta aproximadamente el 24% del mercado de detección y respuest

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Crunchbase News

JULY 30, 2024

This is a monthly column that runs down five interesting deals every month that may have flown under the radar. Check out last month’s entry here. July has come and (basically) gone, and along with it some pretty interesting rounds raised by startups. Think you may have missed some? Don’t worry, we have you covered as we recap some of the things that caught our eye through the last four weeks or so.

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CIO

JULY 30, 2024

Enough has been said about generative AI and its capabilities to support and transform business operations, from personalizing customer and employee service to predictive analytics. It’s no wonder more organizations today are implementing genAI across their technology stack given how businesses are always looking for ways to improve productivity and boost efficiency.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

JULY 30, 2024

In today’s digital landscape, the demand for audio and video content is skyrocketing. Organizations are increasingly using media to engage with their audiences in innovative ways. From product documentation in video format to podcasts replacing traditional blog posts, content creators are exploring diverse channels to reach a wider audience. The rise of virtual workplaces has also led to a surge in content captured through recorded meetings, calls, and voicemails.

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CIO

JULY 30, 2024

El Real Madrid no ha tardado en asociarse con el recientemente creado operador Masorange , la joint venture resultante de la fusión de Orange y MásMóvil: el club de fútbol madrileño ha firmado un acuerdo con la marca estrella de este nuevo operador, Orange, para que se transforme en su socio oficial de telecomunicaciones , sustituyendo a Telefónica en ese rol.

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Dell EMC

JULY 30, 2024

Discover how government agencies rely on IT solutions for mission-critical goals in the digital age.

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CIO

JULY 30, 2024

Organizations are under pressure to demonstrate commitment to an actionable sustainability strategy to meet regulatory obligations and to build positive market sentiment. CIOs and IT leaders are uniquely positioned to contribute based on their ability to extract vendor commitments, prioritize socially relevant improvements, and lead data strategy as it informs AI and automation investments.

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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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DevOps.com

JULY 30, 2024

Wealth is in the eye of the beholder Wealth is in the eye of the beholder.

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CIO

JULY 30, 2024

Today’s hyper-competitive business landscape demands businesses to do more with less. These expectations are compounded by the advent of generative AI alongside the growth of software-as-a-solution (SaaS) platforms. Armed with the promise to help organizations deliver new efficiency levels, SaaS platforms are often the preferred way for many businesses, and for good reason: there’s no need to reinvent the wheel especially when there are already so many great options to choose from.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JULY 30, 2024

With a bit of patience and experimentation, you can adjust your TV's basic settings for a better viewing experience.

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Perficient

JULY 30, 2024

While upgrading from CMS v11 to v12, we ran into an error that read “Lazy loaded property value is not supported by the current property instance” Unfortunately, the stack trace didn’t really say what the problem was. Here is that stack trace: System.InvalidOperationException: Lazy loaded property value is not supported by the current property instance at EPiServer.DataAccess.Internal.LazyPropertyValueLoader.SetValue(PropertyData property, PropertyDataRecord dataRecord, Func`3

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JULY 30, 2024

Packed with cutting-edge features, enhanced durability, and a sleek design, the Galaxy Watch Ultra sets a new standard for a Wear OS device.

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Dzone - DevOps

JULY 30, 2024

Tools like Ilum will go a long way in simplifying the process of installing Apache Spark on Kubernetes. This guide will take you step-by-step through how to run Spark well on your Kubernetes cluster. With Ilum, deploying, managing, and scaling Apache Spark clusters is easily and naturally done. Introduction Today, we will showcase how to get up and running with Apache Spark on K8s.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JULY 30, 2024

Is Apple's spatial computing headset worth the price? Can you try it before buying? ZDNET answers all your burning questions.

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Dzone - DevOps

JULY 30, 2024

Getting Started With GitOps Most organizations are always looking for ways to streamline their processes and improve efficiency by implementing automation. In recent years, software deployment has been done multiple times in a day rather than weeks or months. Organizations have moved from the waterfall models to hyper-agile methodologies and particularly due to the adoption of microservices architecture, teams are releasing their software much faster.

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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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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JULY 30, 2024

The Ecovacs Deebot X2 Omni is a jack-of-all-trades robot vacuum mop with a unique square form that sets it apart from the competition.

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Dzone - DevOps

JULY 30, 2024

Enterprise networking is a radically different discipline in today’s microservices, containers, and Kubernetes paradigm than what it used to be in the old three-tier architecture world. Containers broke traditional networking models, and in this networking rethink for the distributed computing era, a lot has happened in a very short period of time. In this exclusive interview, Nicolas Vibert — senior technical engineer at Isovalent — traces this evolution and explains how open-source projects li

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DevOps.com

JULY 30, 2024

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JULY 30, 2024

We found the best budget gaming laptops from Lenovo, MSI, and more (starting at just $550) to help you find the best fit for your wallet and your game library.

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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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The Daily WTF

JULY 30, 2024

Mike was doing work for a mobile services provider. He found this in their code: private static YesNoType toYesNo (String isYes) { if (isYes != null ) { if (isYes.equalsIgnoreCase( "Y" )) { return YesNoType.fromString( "Yes" ); } else { return YesNoType.fromString( "No" ); } } else { return YesNoType.fromString( "No" ); } } /** * @param isYes * @return */ private static YesNoType toYesNo ( boolean isYes) { if (isYes) { return YesNoType.fromString( "Yes" );

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JULY 30, 2024

We tested the best gaming PCs from Alienware, Lenovo, HP, and more to help you find the right one for your budget and library.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JULY 30, 2024

When you face a true crisis, how do you react? Do you stress out? Do you look for someone to blame? Perhaps instead you can approach the crisis like a Hollywood director. Today’s post is by Tom Reilly, author of The Hollywood MBA I have spent three decades running movie sets which has always required me to anticipate and stave off problems on a daily, if not hourly, and even minute-by-minute basis.

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