Mon.Sep 30, 2024

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Supply Chains Belong at the Top of a CEO’s Agenda

Harvard Business Review

After the big Covid-19 whipsaw, the most obvious forms of supply chain distress started to fade away. But the relative peace and quiet that executives are perceiving is actually ominous. Under the surface, supply chain risk has become severe, systemic, and strategic. Addressing the risk cannot be left to procurement and operations teams alone, however smart and skillful they are.

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How AI is transforming business today

CIO

Hannah Calhoon, vice president of AI for Indeed, uses artificial intelligence “to make existing tasks faster, easier, higher quality and more effective.” She points to a recent initiative in which the job matching and hiring platform company started using large language models (LLMs) to add a highly customized sentence or two to the emails it sends to job seekers about open positions that match their qualifications.

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How to Build High-Performing Teams: Help Your Team Thrive Under Pressure

Let's Grow Leaders

High-Performing Teams Turn Pressure into Progress, One Habit at a Time Your team’s under pressure to perform—fast. The stakes are high, the deadline looms, and emotions are running hotter by the minute. Just last week, your team was cruising along. They weren’t going to win any high-performing team awards, but things were working well enough. Sure, there were a few bumps in communication, and collaboration wasn’t always seamless, but nothing too disruptive.

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Making data matter at Mathematica

CIO

Mathematica’s Akira Bell is a CIO with a mission. One of three finalists for the prestigious 2024 MIT CIO Leadership Award, Bell led the development of a proprietary data and analytics platform on AWS that enables the company to serve critical data to Medicare and other state and federal agencies as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Formerly known as Mathematica Policy Research, the Princeton, N.J.

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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 Data Integration Can Help Transform Tech Operations?

The Crazy Programmer

In a data-driven world today, integrating data from various sources effectively has become crucial. Digital transformation has revolutionized the way businesses function, interact with their customers, and employ the right technology for growth. Data integration ensures that businesses use all the information to spur innovation. It also helps them make wise decisions and maintain their competitiveness.

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Carbon Capture, Storage And Transformation Is Still A Popular Funding Theme

Crunchbase News

If humanity is to prevent more of the inhabited parts of our planet from turning into unlivable hellscapes, we’ll need to stop spewing greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Switching to more eco-friendly energy sources will help, of course. But to slow or stop some of the most dire consequences, the growing consensus is that we’ll also need to massively scale carbon capture and storage.

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¿Cómo se gobierna una cartera de API dispersa y en crecimiento?

CIO

Seguimos observando un aumento significativo del desarrollo de API año tras año. Un informe de 2022 realizado por 451 Research descubrió que la organización media tiene 15.564 API en uso, con una tasa de crecimiento del 201% en un solo año. Cloudflare ha informado que más del 50% del tráfico que procesa está basado en API. Diversas tendencias están impulsando un crecimiento explosivo del número de API que utilizan las empresas, aunque estos puntos de integración son a menudo muy variados y no es

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CodeSOD: Feeling Free

The Daily WTF

Jason started work on a C++ application doing quantitative work. The nature of the program involves allocating all sorts of blocks of memory, doing loads of complicated math, and then freeing them. Which means, there's code which looks like this: for ( i = 0 ; i quant4_bias[i] ) free ( h->quant4_bias[i] ); } This isn't terribly unusual code.

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Is your coworker a North Korean hacker? How AI impersonation is compromising the workforce

CIO

This isn’t just a few individual bad actors; it’s a sophisticated, industrial-scale, state-sponsored threat that’s been simmering for the last two years and has now reached full boil. And like a frog in a pot, organizations are waking up to the potentially catastrophic risks of inaction. A 2024 Securonix survey found that concern about “malicious insiders” rose from 60% in 2019 to 74% in 2024, and 90% of companies believe insider attacks are “equally or more challenging to detect than external a

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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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The Case for More Company Insiders on Boards

Harvard Business Review

Until the 1970s, corporate boards were dominated by inside directors — people employed by or affiliated with the company in some way. As of 2023, Spencer Stuart research found that 85% of directors are independent. The switch came in response to a number of trends, including the distrust of American institutions after Watergate and Vietnam, and SEC rule changes that increased the importance of independent directors.

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Cybersicurezza, come rispondere a un attacco informatico nell’era della GenAI

CIO

L’avvento dell’ intelligenza artificiale generativa ha introdotto l’ennesima variabile nel complesso e mutevole panorama delle minacce informatiche e la cybersicurezza resta un allarme costante per il CIO. Secondo il “Forecast: information security and risk management worldwide, 2021-2027” di Gartner [in inglese] , il mercato dell’information security e gestione del rischio crescerà da un giro d’affari di 185 miliardi di dollari nel 2023 a 287 miliardi nel 2027, pari a un tasso di crescita annua

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SoftBank To Invest $500M In OpenAI — Report

Crunchbase News

OpenAI ’s $6.5 billion round that reportedly will value the AI giant at $150 billion may have picked up another big-named investor. SoftBank ’s Vision Fund will invest $500 million in the round, The Information reported on Monday. The investment would be SoftBank’s first in OpenAI and comes more than a year after SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son told investors the fund would be switching back to “offense mode” and was looking to be a leader in the AI revolution after it had suffered massive losses

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CIO Summit 2024: el CIO se corona como protagonista en la era de la IA

CIO

Si algo queda claro en la era predominantemente digital en la que vivimos es que el rol del CIO ha tomado una preponderancia que antes no tenía. Esto se debe a que la tecnología se ha transformado en un elemento propiciador del negocio: sin tecnología no hay negocio y sin negocio no hay tecnología. Los mejores CIO consideran que este binomio es la clave del éxito de cualquier proyecto tecnológico dentro de una organización, y liderar procesos de transformación digital siempre viene de la mano d

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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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How a post-hurricane disaster sold me on a $2,000 pool-cleaning robot

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

After a lightning strike showered debris into my pool, the Beatbot Aquasense Pro pool cleaner tackled the mess with ease, proving its worth in extreme conditions.

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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com

Are you considering a change? This week we highlight some great DevOps job opportunities including positions at CapitalOne and NVIDIA.

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Post-Quantum Cryptography: A Strategic Imperative for Enterprise Resilience

Dell EMC

Enterprise leaders must prepare for quantum computing's impact on cryptography and plan for a quantum-secure future.

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Using Spring AI With LLMs To Generate Java Tests

Dzone - DevOps

The AIDocumentLibraryChat project has been extended to generate test code (Java code has been tested). The project can generate test code for publicly available GitHub projects. The URL of the class to test can be provided then the class is loaded, the imports are analyzed and the dependent classes in the project are also loaded. That gives the LLM the opportunity to consider the imported source classes while generating mocks for tests.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.

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Zorin OS 17.2 offers even more ways to customize your Linux distro

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

This extremely user-friendly distribution is available in free and Pro versions. Here's what makes the latest release so worth downloading.

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Stream Processing in the Serverless World

Dzone - DevOps

It’s a very dynamic world today. Information moves fast. Businesses generate data constantly. Real-time analysis is now essential. Stream processing in the serverless cloud solves this. Gartner predicts that by 2025, over 75% of enterprise data will be processed outside traditional data centers. Confluent states that stream processing lets companies act on data as it's created.

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Coming Soon: Season 8

Harvard Business Review

Listen to the new season of Coaching Real Leaders, where executive coach Muriel Wilkins tackles a whole new set of leadership challenges with real clients.

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Survey Sees Positive DevOps Outlook Driving Investments

DevOps.com

A survey of over 500 DevOps practitioners finds that approximately 60% of respondents plan to boost investments in DevOps tools and platforms in the next two years, with 20% planning significant budget increases.

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Solving Open Source Complexity with a Managed Data Infrastructure Platform

With its unparalleled flexibility, rapid development and cost-saving capabilities, open source is proving time and again that it’s the leader in data management. But as the growth in open source adoption increases, so does the complexity of your data infrastructure. In this Analyst Brief developed with IDC, discover how and why the best solution to this complexity is a managed service, including: Streamlined compliance with some of the most complex regulatory guidelines Simplified operations, li

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The Echo Pop smart speaker is just $18 with this October Prime Day deal

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

An Echo Pop is the perfect way to add a little pop of Alexa to your life this October Prime Day, pun intended.

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Using task-specific models from AI21 Labs on AWS

AWS Machine Learning - AI

In this blog post, we will show you how to leverage AI21 Labs’ Task-Specific Models (TSMs) on AWS to enhance your business operations. You will learn the steps to subscribe to AI21 Labs in the AWS Marketplace, set up a domain in Amazon SageMaker, and utilize AI21 TSMs via SageMaker JumpStart. AI21 Labs is a foundation model (FM) provider focusing on building state-of-the-art language models.

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I've weathered a lot of hurricanes - these 8 apps and websites are my must-have storm tools

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

As a South Florida resident and technology pro, I make it a point to stay 7 to 10 days ahead of severe storms, closely monitoring every model and update as a system develops and strengthens. Here are the tools I use.

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#810 Rendering the Future of the Cloud with Anurag Goel, Founder and CEO at Render

Modern CTO

Today, we’re talking to Anurag Goel, Founder and CEO at Render. We discuss the lessons learned as employee #8 at Stripe, how Render is revolutionizing cloud infrastructure, and why you don’t always need the latest and greatest tool. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! To learn more about Render, check out their website here: [link] Produced by ProSeries Media: [link] For booking inquiries, email booking@proseriesmedia.com About Anurag Goel Anurag Goel is the founder and

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The AI Superhero Approach to Product Management

Speaker: Conrado Morlan

In this engaging and witty talk, industry expert Conrado Morlan will explore how artificial intelligence can transform the daily tasks of product managers into streamlined, efficient processes. Using the lens of a superhero narrative, he’ll uncover how AI can be the ultimate sidekick, aiding in data management and reporting, enhancing productivity, and boosting innovation.

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Wake up gently with this sunrise alarm clock that's $30 off ahead of October Prime Day

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The Hatch Restore 2 builds on the success of the original sunrise alarm clock with improved speakers, audio tracks, and 'Morning Moments.' Plus, it's 15% off as an early October Prime Day deal.

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Perspective, Pounce, Propel: How to Adjust to Life’s Curve Balls

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

We all face adversity in our lives. The difference is in how you approach it. If you’re willing to look past the challenge and have the determination to overcome it, you can achieve more than you ever dreamed was possible. Today’s post is by Patricia Walsh, author of BLIND AMBITION: How To Envision Your Limitless Potential And Achieve The Success You Want.

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This lightweight laptop has one of the best displays I've seen, and it's on sale now

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

On top of a stunning screen, the LG Gram Pro 16 2-in-1 boasts solid hardware and an ultra-thin body that makes it highly portable. Amazon has slashed its price tag by $260 ahead of October Prime Day.