Wed.Mar 06, 2019

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8 ways to hire a developer [Actionable tips]

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Whether you are an employer or an employee, you need to think beyond résumés to stay ahead of the game. From hackathons to automated evaluation tools, semantic analysis to personality tests, social hiring to web scraping, recruiting is being reinvented and how. A “one-size-fits-all” strategy certainly doesn’t cut it. Résumés will take you only so far.

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Why privacy protection must start with application-layer encryption

TechBeacon

Thanks to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other regulations, it's tempting to encrypt every bit of personally identifiable information that exists in your environment. Encryption is certainly important, but a recent application security research report indicates that's not enough.

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CIOs Are Racing To Deal With The Next Big Security Threat

The Accidental Successful CIO

Quantum computing may allow unstoppable future attacks on corporate networks Image Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory. One of the most important jobs that the person with the CIO job has is to keep the company’s networks and data secure because of the importance of information technology. This means that they are responsible for implementing systems and procedures that will keep the bad guys out.

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Agile Q&A: What is a Self-Organizing, Cross-Functional Team?

Agile Alliance

Learn how project managers accustomed to a more traditional software development environment can adapt to a more Agile approach in this post from the Agile Alliance blog.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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Artificial Intelligence Regulation May Be Impossible

CTOvision

Read why Michael Spencer says that artificial intelligence regulation is nearly impossible on Forbes : Artificial intelligence is a tool humanity is wielding with increasing recklessness. We say it’s for our common good with machine learning hype equal to business profits. But what happens when we don’t have the code of ethics, laws, government accountability, corporate transparency […].

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The Value Of Ethics And Trust In Business. With Artificial Intelligence

CTOvision

Read why Stephen Ibaraki says that ethics and trust are very important issues while dealing with artificial intelligence on Forbes : The 128 most ethical companies for 2019 were announced this week from the Ethisphere Institute. The timing is fortuitous with the upcoming AI for Good, which I founded, global artificial intelligence dialogue including accountability, responsibility, […].

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Customer Journey Touchpoints for Product Managers

Toptal

Product management leaders will view every discussion, planning session, and milestone with the customer journey touchpoints in mind. A well aligned corporate culture, emphasizing the customer at every interaction, will drive customer loyalty.

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NSA Makes Reverse Engineering Tool Freely Available

CTOvision

The United States National Security Agency (NSA) this week released its in-house reverse engineering tool Ghidra to the public, for free. Initially announced in January, the release was accompanied by a demonstration of the tool at the RSA Conference 2019, which is taking place this week in San Francisco. Ghidra, the NSA explains, is a software reverse […].

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A Guide to Managing Foreign Exchange Risk

Toptal

This useful guide by Toptal Finance Expert Paul Ainsworth draws on 30+ years of experience as a CFO of large multinational companies to lay out the menu of options companies face in order to deal with foreign exchange exposure and manage risk effectively.

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Embrace AI: Make Your VoIP Service Stand Out

Dialogview is revolutionizing VoIP services with its AI-powered platform, which is now available for white labeling. Our solution autonomously resolves over 68% of customer queries in more than 40 languages, dramatically reducing your team’s workload. With advanced conversational AI, Dialogview understands customer sentiments and queries in real time, without any button presses needed by users.

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10 enterprise network mistakes that open the door to hackers

CTOvision

Taking certain common shortcuts when it comes to network and infrastructure security can leave your organization wide open to hackers, according to a Tuesday RSA 2019 session from Paula Januszkiewicz, CEO of CQURE. “Technology and security as we all know is not always about the techie stuff and solutions—it’s also about people,” Januszkiewicz said in the […].

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Getting the Most from a Diverse, Mixed-Age Team

Women on Business

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To protect us from the risks of advanced artificial intelligence, we need to act now

CTOvision

Read Paul Salmon, Peter Hancock and Tony Carden’s commentary on why we should worry about the risks of advanced artificial intelligence on GCN Blog : Artificial intelligence can play chess, drive a car and diagnose medical issues. Examples include Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo, Tesla’s self-driving vehicles, and IBM’s Watson. This type of artificial intelligence is referred to as […].

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32 application security stats that matter

TechBeacon

Application security is a moving target. Business requirements and the need for speed are pushing many development organizations to release software quickly, continuously, and at the expense of security. While a growing number of organizations have begun adopting automated testing and DevSecOps approaches to address some of these concerns, the state of application security still remains an area of major concern in most enterprises.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

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.

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AI vs. machine learning: What’s the difference?

CTOvision

Artificial intelligence and machine learning get lumped together so often these days that it’d be easy for people to mistake them as synonymous. That’s not quite accurate, though: They’re most certainly connected but not actually interchangeable. “Artificial intelligence and machine learning are closely related, so it’s no surprise that the terms are used loosely and interchangeably,” […].

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Whitefly: Espionage Group has Singapore in Its Sights

Symantec

Group behind the SingHealth breach is also responsible for a string of other attacks in the region.

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Should Companies Terminate Third Party Vendors That Cause a Data Breach?

CTOvision

Read why Joseph J. Lazzarotti says that third-party vendors pose a definitive data breach risk on Lexology : According to reports, bank customers in Australia (yes, data breach notification requirements exist down under) have been affected by “an industry-wide” data breach experienced by a third-party service provider to the banks – property valuation firm, LandMark […].

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Supporting the Tech Supply Through STEM Education

Toptal

As the demand for technology professionals consistently increases year over year, supply is struggling to keep up. Fostering interest in STEM education in children early on is essential in building a sustainable pipeline for years to come. Toptal is proud to award our Women’s Scholarship to two women who are helping to foster this interest among youth across Asia and Oceania.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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Forty percent of ‘AI startups’ in Europe don’t actually use AI, claims report

CTOvision

Artificial intelligence is one of the most misused terms in tech today, and a new study apparently confirms how hyped technology has become. According to the survey from London venture capital firm MMC, only 40 percent of European startups that are classified as AI companies actually use artificial intelligence in a way that is “material” to […].

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Seeker: Bringing security testing to QA

Synopsys

Security testing in QA was once difficult to achieve, but the advent of interactive application security testing makes it a reality for many organizations. What is IAST? IAST (interactive application security testing) is an agent-based software security solution for web-based applications. IAST tools examine an application’s behavior (analyzing memory, traffic, dataflow, control flow, etc.) during […].

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The Days After ServerlessDays ATX

Linux Academy

I recently spent the day at Serverless Days in Austin, Texas, and it was interesting for a lot of reasons. The first was that it was in a movie theater. There was no running around to different conference halls — it was just sit in your big, comfy theater chair and enjoy the show. It was nice. There was no FOMO on the other talks — everything was very simple and singularly focused.

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What Have You Learned from Your Worst Boss Ever?

Next Level Blog

My first job out of graduate school was as a first year associate in a Wall Street investment bank whose last of the 10 corporate values they printed in their annual report was, “Have fun!” Sadly, I did not. Decades later, it remains the worst place I ever worked or have seen other people working in in 20 years of leadership development work. I didn’t last long there and a year later was back in my home state of West Virginia leading a small team of researchers in the Governor’s economic develop

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Stopping Office 365 Account Takeover Attacks in Their Tracks

Symantec

Cloud applications like Office 365 raise the bar on productivity, but they also open the door to greater security risks.

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SauceCon Speaker Profile: Phil Wells

DevOps.com

This is the seventh in a series of articles highlighting speakers at SauceCon 2019. SauceCon brings together the global community of Sauce Labs users and continuous testing experts to learn from each other and level up their automated testing and continuous delivery skills. This year’s event will be held April 23-25 in Austin, Texas. Phil […].

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Paytm Integration in Swift

InnovationM

This blog is about how to integrate Paytm with the iOS App. Steps to integrate paytm via SDK 1. Import the library : A library can be imported by two process : a) Via pods Add pod ‘Paytm-Payments’ in the pod file. Run ‘pod install’ from terminal. Now open the xcworkspace Go to “Link Binary With Libraries” in the “Build Phases” in the project.

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FlexDeploy Loves E-Business Suite: Running!

Flexagon

In the final blog article in the FlexDeploy Loves E-Business Suite series I will incorporate Continuous Integration and Automated Testing, enabling DevOps at a powerful scale. Incorporating the key elements of DevOps enables rapid and high-quality software delivery to customers, placing more focus on IT’s greatest value – innovation! FlexDeploy Loves Oracle E-Business Suite: Series.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Passwordless Login Comes to Android with FIDO2 Certification

QBurst

On February 25, 2019, Google and FIDO Alliance announced at the World Mobile Congress that they have added support for FIDO2 standard for Android devices running Android Nougat and above. FIDO Alliance is an open industry consortium focused on developing authentication standards. FIDO has been working to change the traditional password and OTP-based authentication with […].

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Use-After-Free Vulnerability in Google Chrome Exploited In The Wild (CVE-2019-5786)

Tenable

Google Chrome 72.0.3626.121 was released to address CVE-2019-5786. The company’s Clement Lecigne reports the vulnerability was exploited in the wild together with a Microsoft Windows privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2019-0808). Background. On March 1, Google announced the availability of Google Chrome version 72.0.3626.121 for Windows, Mac and Linux.

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The Ironside and DataRobot Partnership Empowers More Non-Data Scientists

DataRobot

The DataRobot AI Partner Program is continuing to evolve and grow, so we’d like to highlight our partners at Ironside , a leading data and analytics consulting firm with two decades of applied experience.

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