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6 Mistakes Leaders Make When Announcing Layoffs

Harvard Business Review

Layoffs are trauma-inducing for an organization and its employees. When handled badly, some people (and organizations) never fully recover. Leaders make six common mistakes when communicating layoffs: 1) They’re not transparent about the state of the business; 2) They’re not clear on the path forward; 3) They don’t get the tone right; 4) They don’t offer remaining employees the opportunity to ask questions; 5) They don’t bring middle management on board; and 6) They don’t show appreciation to de

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Dairyland powers up for a generative AI edge

CIO

A Midwestern utility cooperative might not be the first place you’d look for leading-edge implementations of emerging technologies, but thanks to the leadership of CIO Nate Melby, Dairyland Power Cooperative has become an unlikely pioneer in generative AI, churning out large language models (LLMs) that not only automate document summarization but also help manage power grids during storms.

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6 Common Leadership Styles — and How to Decide Which to Use When

Harvard Business Review

Research suggests that the most effective leaders adapt their style to different circumstances — be it a change in setting, a shift in organizational dynamics, or a turn in the business cycle. But what if you feel like you’re not equipped to take on a new and different leadership style — let alone more than one? In this article, the author outlines the six leadership styles Daniel Goleman first introduced in his 2000 HBR article, “Leadership That Gets Results,” and explains when to use each one.

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Hashicorp Versus OpenTofu Gets Ugly

DevOps.com

Hashicorp is accusing the open source OpenTofu Project of swiping some of its BSL-licensed Terraform code. Enter the lawyers.

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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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Google Docs | Placeholder (Smart) Chips

Xebia

Most users of Google Docs are already familiar with the smart chip functionality where it is possible to use the @-sign to edit function fields such as: add date, people, files, places, polls, etc. These fields then immediately contain concrete data, like the date, the name of a person or the link to a file. With Google’s new addition, it becomes possible to add a replaceable chip in a document.

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Grafana Labs Makes Observability More Accessible

DevOps.com

The updates promise to make it easier to invoke the capabilities of a Grafana Cloud platform based on open source software.

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Sustaining a Legacy of Giving in Turkey

Harvard Business Review

How Özyeğin Social Investments has created a model for making a significant impact across Turkish society through giving.

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Microsoft’s April 2024 Patch Tuesday Addresses 147 CVEs (CVE-2024-29988)

Tenable

3 Critical 142 Important 2 Moderate 0 Low Microsoft addresses 147 CVEs in its April 2024 Patch Tuesday release with three critical vulnerabilities and no zero-day or publicly disclosed vulnerabilities. Microsoft patched 147 CVEs in its April 2024 Patch Tuesday release, with three rated critical, 142 rated as important, and two rated as moderate. This month’s update includes patches for: NET and Visual Studio Azure Azure AI Search Azure Arc Azure Compute Gallery Azure Migrate Azure Monitor Azure

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A Roadmap for Today’s Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with MIT Sloan’s Bill Aulet on how to navigate a fast-changing landscape.

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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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Data Security Startup Cyera Locks Up $300M At $1.4B Valuation

Crunchbase News

While it is true cybersecurity funding has significantly slowed , it certainly has not dried up. Data security startup Cyera raised a $300 million Series C led by Coatue at a $1.4 billion valuation. New investors Spark Capital , Georgian and AT&T Ventures , alongside existing investors Sequoia Capital , Accel , Redpoint Ventures , and Cyberstarts also participated in the round.

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How to stay motivated through challenging times

CEO Insider

The term VUCA was first used in 1987 at the US Army War College in 1987 to describe the context of strategic military leadership as being Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous. Whilst it may have originated to describe leading in military contexts, it’s here, there and everywhere now as the contexts we live and lead […] The post How to stay motivated through challenging times appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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AI Anywhere with APEX File Storage for Microsoft Azure

Dell EMC

Introducing Dell APEX File Storage for Microsoft Azure: high-performance, multicloud storage purpose-built for AI.

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Asia Venture Funding Continues to Struggle, Hits Lowest Level Since 2016

Crunchbase News

Although the global venture market saw a small uptick in the first quarter from the previous one, the Asia region continued to see declines in startup funding as late-stage and growth rounds tanked. Total venture funding in the region fell to $17.3 billion in Q1, a drop of 4% from Q4 2023 and an 8% decline year to year, Crunchbase data shows. The total represents the lowest amount of funding in the Asia region in a single quarter since Q4 2016.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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Experience Choice in AI with Dell PowerEdge and Intel Gaudi3

Dell EMC

Learn how Dell PowerEdge XE9680 is expanding its capability with Intel’s Gaudi3 acceleration.

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Building Modern Enterprise Architecture: How To Turn An Elephant Into A Streak Of Cheetahs

Crunchbase News

By Neelesh Vaikhary You have an amazing idea for a company. Now it’s time to build the platform. Will you take a monolithic approach to building, like most enterprise-focused companies adopt? Or will you embrace change? Lightbulb moment Most enterprise applications are built like elephants: Giant databases, high CPU machines, an inside data center, blocking architecture, heavy contracts and more.

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Intel details Guadi 3 AI Chips at Vision 202

Ooda Loop

Intel made a slew of announcements during its Vision 2024 event today, including deep-dive details of its new Gaudi 3 AI processors, which it claims offer up to 1.7X the training performance, 50% better inference, and 40% better efficiency than Nvidia’s market-leading H100 processors, but for significantly less money.

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Slash Costs with Dell Multicloud Data Protection Solutions

Dell EMC

Discover how to dramatically cut your data protection expenses with Dell.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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Change Healthcare Targeted in Second Ransomware Attack

Ooda Loop

Change Healthcare has reported that it is facing another attack, this time from ransomware gang RansomHub, only weeks after it was a victim in an ALPHV/BlackCat cyberattack. RansomHub is demanding an extortion payment for an alleged 4TB of data that was stolen from the company.

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Article: InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends Report - April 2024

InfoQ Culture Methods

The Culture and Methods trends report discusses evolving roles within teams, the way the staff plus roles are able to add value, the use and misuse of DevEx metrics, how remote work continues to evolve, a lack of diversity is still a challenge, and the need to move from climate change awareness to climate conscious software engineering By Shane Hastie, Jutta Eckstein, Ben Linders, Susan McIntosh, Rafiq Gemmail, Craig Smith

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Quality Assurance, Errors, and AI

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

A recent article in Fast Company makes the claim “ Thanks to AI, the Coder is no longer King. All Hail the QA Engineer.” It’s worth reading, and its argument is probably correct. Generative AI will be used to create more and more software; AI makes mistakes and it’s difficult to foresee a future in which it doesn’t; therefore, if we want software that works, Quality Assurance teams will rise in importance.

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Entering the Next Chapter of SASE at InterSECt 2024

Palo Alto Networks

Change is a fact of life and digital transformation. It comes with how workers access business apps, how organizations operate hybrid workforces, and even how adversarial attack methods shift and adapt. This can be seen most clearly in the increasing proliferation of personal devices for work, the use of GenAI tools for both productivity and weaponization, as well as an ever-increasing reliance on browsers and interconnected SaaS apps for everyday work.

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How to Create Sales Email Sequences That Convert

Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Multiple touchpoints means more ways to get your pitch right — and, potentially, more ways to be wrong. The good news? Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails.

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April 2024 Patch Tuesday

Ivanti

It is April already! For the fourth Patch Tuesday of 2024 there is more to consider than just what is being released on Patch Tuesday. There are a number of vendors who have released security updates leading up to Patch Tuesday, and more to come in the following weeks. Recent Security Updates Ivanti released security updates for Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure on April 4.

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HTMX vs React: Choosing the Right Frontend Approach for Your Project

Apiumhub

Introduction In the evolving landscape of frontend development, technologies like HTMX are redefining the way developers approach building modern web applications. HTMX, ranked second in the prestigious 2023 JavaScript Rising Stars “Front-end Frameworks” category, just behind the ubiquitous React, and earning a spot in the GitHub Accelerator program.

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SEO Optimized

DevOps.com

Perhaps the desire for SEO-optimized everything has gone too far.

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Google’s Gemini Cloud Assist helps manage cloud apps

InfoWorld

Google’s cloud computing division, Google Cloud, at its annual Google Cloud Next conference has introduced Gemini Cloud Assist, an AI-powered assistant designed to help enterprise teams manage applications and networks in Google Cloud. Gemini Cloud Assist, now available in private preview, can be accessed through a chat interface in the Google Cloud console.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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CodeSOD: Terminated By Nulls

The Daily WTF

Strings in C are a unique collection of mistakes. The biggest one is the idea of null termination. Null termination is not without its advantages: because you're using a single byte to mark the end of the string, you can have strings of arbitrary length. No need to track the size and worry if your size variable is big enough to hold the end of the string.

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Google unveils open source projects for generative AI

InfoWorld

Google at Google Cloud Next 24 unveiled three open source projects for building and running generative AI models. The company also introduced new large language models to its MaxText project of JAX-built LLMs. The new LLM models in MaxText include Gemma, GPT-3, Llama 2, and Mistral, which are supported across both Google Cloud TPUs and Nvidia GPUs, the company said.

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Moving Beyond XDR to Achieve True Cyber Resilience with Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform

Darktrace

Announcing the new Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform designed to transform security operations. This approach gives security teams unprecedented visibility across any area where Darktrace is deployed, including cloud, email, network, endpoints, and operational technology (OT).

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