November, 2023

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The C-Suiteā€™s Guide to Breaking AI Barriers

CEO Insider

Artificial intelligence has dominated industry spotlights for over a year now, introducing both hype and skepticism to organizations of all varieties. Amidst the many promises of value, cautionary tales of hallucination, and exaggerated anxieties of an AI takeover, decision makers may have a difficult time cutting through the cacophony and forming an accurately informed perspective […] The post The C-Suite’s Guide to Breaking AI Barriers appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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50 Shades of Vulnerabilities: Uncovering Flaws in Open-Source Vulnerability Disclosures

Aqua Security

Aqua Nautilus researchers evaluated the vulnerability disclosure process for tens of thousands of open-source projects and found flaws in the process. These flaws allowed harvesting the vulnerabilities before they were patched and announced. This could enable attackers to exploit security holes before the project's users are alerted.

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Neurodiversity and invisible disabilities in Agile

Agile Alliance

Shedding light on the significance of accommodating neurodiversity and providing practical tips for creating an inclusive and effective Agile team. The post Neurodiversity and invisible disabilities in Agile first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Elon Musk says X will show headlines on the platform again

TechCrunch

Elon Musk said that X, formerly Twitter, will start showing headlines in preview cards with URLs on the platform again after removing titles last month. In a post on X, Musk said in an upcoming update, the company will overlay the title in the upper portion of the image of a URL Card. He didn’t […] Ā© 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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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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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

Itā€™s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well itā€™s going. Cloud isnā€™t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility. Itā€™s come down to earth ā€” sometimes with an unexpected thud onto the wrong side of a companyā€™s balance sheet. ā€œThere are so many people who bought into cloud without thinking through the real reasons why they were doing this and what they wanted to accomplish,ā€ says David Mitchell Smith, distinguished vice president and

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Introducing Netlify Blobs Beta

Netlify

At Netlify, weā€™re committed to building strong platform primitives that empower developers to do their best work and achieve more with less. Weā€™re excited to announce Netlify Blobs, a general purpose data store built natively into the Netlify Composable Web Platform (CWP).

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All the Small Things: Azure CLI Leakage and Problematic Usage Patterns

Prisma Clud

At the beginning of July 2023, I took a stroll around the azure/login GitHub Action repository. Looked through the repositoryā€™s issues section, I immediately noticed issue number 315. The issue was titled ā€œ SECURITY: Azure/login in some cases leaks Azure Application Variables to the GitHub build log ā€. And donā€™t you just love when things leak stuff?

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The Rise of the Meta City

Harvard Business Review

New York and Miami, Dubai and Cairo, the Bay Area and Austin. Pandemic-era migrations have created strong new connections between cities — and companies need to update their location strategy to keep up.

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Sam Altman ousted as OpenAIā€™s CEO

TechCrunch

Sam Altman has been fired from OpenAI, Inc., the 501(c)(3) nonprofit that acts as the governing body for OpenAI, the AI startup behind ChatGPT, DALL-E 3, GPT-4 and other highly capable generative AI systems. Heā€™ll both leave the companyā€™s board of directors and step down as CEO.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

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

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10 digital transformation roadblocks ā€” and 5 tips for overcoming them

CIO

In todayā€™s fast-paced business world, companies are striving to harness the power of digital technologies to reinvent their operations, enhance customer experiences, drive innovation, and thereby create value for stakeholders. But the hard truth is that many digital initiatives fail to deliver results. Transformation efforts can be derailed for any number of reasons, but there are several common themes as to why digital initiatives fall short ā€” and most revolve around leadership.

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The Ticking Supply Chain Attack Bomb of Exposed Kubernetes Secrets

Aqua Security

Exposed Kubernetes secrets pose a critical threat of supply chain attack. Aqua Nautilus researchers found that the exposed Kubernetes secrets of hundreds of organizations and open-source projects allow access to sensitive environments in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and open a severe supply chain attack threat. Among the companies were SAPā€™s Artifacts management system with over 95 million, two top blockchain companies, and various other fortune-500 companies.

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A Deep Dive Into Sending With librdkafka

Confluent

Learn how to write code that produces messages via librdkafka, how it will behave during error situations, and how your application should detect and respond to them.

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XSIAM 2.0: Continuing to Drive SOC Transformation

Palo Alto Networks

The Challenges of Todayā€™s SOC Security teams have an important and difficult job ā€“ protecting their organizations from a threat landscape that is constantly changing. Based on investigations conducted by our Unit 42 team, we know that threat actors are carrying out end-to-end attacks faster, from initial compromise, all the way to data exfiltration in just a matter of hours.

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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. Itā€™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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How Leaders Can Create a Purpose-Driven Culture

Harvard Business Review

Companies are increasingly emphasizing a corporate purpose beyond mere profitability. The success of this integration largely hinges on organizational culture. Leaders, spanning all tiers, need to genuinely exemplify and articulate the companyā€™s values, as demonstrated by companies like Netflix and LUSH. Itā€™s vital for employees to perceive their daily roles as contributing to this larger purpose, with firms like Atlassian and Cisco offering noteworthy models.

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Ransomware ā€˜catastropheā€™ at Fidelity National Financial causes panic with homeowners and buyers

TechCrunch

Last Tuesday, Fidelity National Financial, or FNF, a real estate services company that bills itself as the ā€œleading provider of title insurance and escrow services, and North America’s largest title insurance company,ā€ announced that it had experienced a cyberattack. Since then, homeowners who have mortgages and prospective buyers who are purchasing properties with FNF or […] Ā© 2023 TechCrunch.

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Low-code: An Accelerator for Digital Transformation

CIO

Digital transformation is expected to be the top strategic priority for businesses of all sizes and industries, yet organisations find the transformation journey challenging due to digital skill gap, tight budget, or technology resource shortages. Amidst these challenges, organisations turn to low-code to remain competitive and agile. Taking the programmer out of software development, low-code provides tools that enable people with minimal training and coding skills to create and adapt applicati

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Looney Tunables Vulnerability Exploited by Kinsing

Aqua Security

Researchers from Aqua Nautilus have successfully intercepted Kinsing's experimental incursions into cloud environments. Utilizing a rudimentary yet typical PHPUnit vulnerability exploit attack, a component of Kinsing's ongoing campaign, we have uncovered the threat actor's manual efforts to manipulate the Looney Tunables vulnerability ( CVE-2023-4911 ).

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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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Hook into Netlify build events with Private Integrations

Netlify

Simplify and enhance team builds with Netlify Build Event Handlers. Detect broken links pre-deployment, create private integrations, and enable them effortlessly.

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ApatchMe - Authenticated Stored XSS Vulnerability in AWS and GCP Apache Airflow Services

Tenable

Unpatched Apache Airflow instances used in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) allow an exploitable stored XSS through the task instance details page. Managed services for Apache Airflow in AWS (Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow) and GCP (Google Cloud Composer) provide scalable and secure orchestration of data workflows using Apache Airflow ā€” an open-source platform to programmatically author, schedule and monitor workflows.

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How to Self-Promote ā€” Without Sounding Self-Centered

Harvard Business Review

Promoting your own accomplishments can feel uncomfortable, and poses a dilemma: It can make you appear more confident and capable, but can also make you seem less warm, less friendly, and more selfish. On the other hand, self-deprecation or deflecting credit, may make you seem approachable but it diminishes your competency. New research, based on a series of 11 studies, suggests that dual promotion ā€” in which you compliment a colleague or peer while talking about your own accomplishments ā€” can b

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Sam Altman to return as OpenAI CEO

TechCrunch

Sam Altman is returning to OpenAI as its chief executive, the high-profile AI startup said Wednesday, capping an intense five days of discussions, debates and convincing following the sudden dismissal of Altman last week from the startup he co-founded. OpenAI, which is the most valuable U.S. startup, said it has reached an “agreement in principle” […] Ā© 2023 TechCrunch.

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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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Your biggest barriers to digital transformation arenā€™t technicalā€¦theyā€™re cultural

CIO

As an infrastructure and security practitioner with nearly 30 years of experience, Iā€™ve witnessed periods of rapid change in the technology landscape. However, I have seen a lot of things stay practically the same. Historically, our jobs as infrastructure and security professionals have involved installing the ā€œplumbingā€ that ensures organizations remain connected through traditional networking and security practices.

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Trust Begins with You

CEO Insider

When you think about trusting others, do you wait to see if you can trust them, or do you trust first? As part of our research, teaching, and consulting on trustworthy leadership over thirty years, weā€™ve worked closely with Ted Castle, co-founder of Rhino Foods (provider of cookie dough to Unileverā€™s Ben & Jerryā€™s) ever […] The post Trust Begins with You appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Scanning KBOM for Vulnerabilities with Trivy

Aqua Security

Early this summer we announced the release of Kubernetes Bills of Material (KBOM) as part of Trivy, our all in one, popular open source security scanner. In the blog we discussed how KBOM is the manifest of all the important components that make up your Kubernetes cluster: Control plane components, Node Components, and Addons, including their versions and images.

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Dialpad Turns to Confluent and StarTree for Real-Time Customer Intelligence

Confluent

Learn how AI-powered customer intelligence platform Dialpad modernized its data infrastructure and improved customer satisfaction rates with Confluent and Startree.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics wonā€™t cut it in todayā€™s data-driven applications ā€“ not for your end users, your development team, or your business. Thatā€™s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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How Generative AI Will Transform Knowledge Work

Harvard Business Review

Generative AI can be a boon for knowledge work, but only if you use it in the right way. New generative AI-enabled tools are rapidly emerging to assist and transform knowledge work in industries ranging from education and finance to law and medicine. Companies are starting to introduce generative AI-powered innovations into their processes, and to promulgate policies on how to use the tools safely.

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Neuralink, Elon Muskā€™s brain implant startup, quietly raises an additional $43M

TechCrunch

Neuralink, the Elon Musk-founded company developing implantable chips that can read brain waves, has raised an additional $43 million in venture capital, according to a filing with the SEC. The filing published this week shows the company increased its previous tranche, led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, from $280 million to $323 million in early […] Ā© 2023 TechCrunch.

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5 ways to deploy your own large language model

CIO

Itā€™s the fastest-moving new technology in history. Generative AI is transforming the world, changing the way we create images and videos, audio, text, and code. According to a September survey of IT decision makers by Dell, 76% say gen AI will have a ā€œsignificant if not transformativeā€ impact on their organizations, and most expect to see meaningful results within the next 12 months.