June, 2024

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Deepfakes: Coming soon to a company near you

CIO

AI-powered deepfake technology is rapidly advancing, and it’s only a matter of time before cybercriminals find a business model they can use, some security experts say.

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9 Best AI Tools for Programming Assistance in 2024

The Crazy Programmer

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing software development by enhancing productivity, improving code quality, and automating routine tasks. Developers now have access to various AI-powered tools that assist in coding, debugging, and documentation. This article provides a detailed overview of the best AI programming tools in 2024. 1. GitHub Copilot It is one of the most popular AI-powered coding assistant tools developed by GitHub and OpenAI.

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How to Fix ‘AI’s Original Sin’

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Last month, TheNew York Times claimed that tech giants OpenAI and Google have waded into a copyright gray area by transcribing the vast volume of YouTube videos and using that text as additional training data for their AI models despite terms of service that prohibit such efforts and copyright law that the Times argues places them in dispute. The Times also quoted Meta officials as saying that their models will not be able to keep up unless they follow OpenAI and Google’s lead.

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Cybersecurity Regulation Harmonization Need to Be Done Correctly, Not Quickly

Ooda Loop

There is no doubt that regulation harmonization is much needed especially given the amount of cyber regulation being developed or already on the books, and how it’s being enforced.

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Subscription Management in the SaaS World: Challenges and Solutions

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Metaverse And Augmented Reality Remain Unpopular With VCs

Crunchbase News

The metaverse is not getting funded. That was the unsurprising finding from our latest data dive regarding investment in startups innovating around the metaverse, virtual reality and augmented reality. The space, which was significantly buzzier a few years ago, has apparently lost its cachet with VCs. Dwindling investment comes on the heels of disappointing adoption for the gear and leading metaverse platforms.

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SRE in the Age of AI

DevOps.com

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is a concept introduced by Google in 2004 and since then it has been adopted by various leading software organizations. In its purest form SRE is what you get when you treat operations like it is a software problem.

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How to Discover, Analyze and Respond to Threats Faster with Generative AI

Tenable

Generative AI (GenAI) is being hailed as the most transformative innovation since the rise of the internet in the 1990s. For security, GenAI can revolutionize the field if applied correctly, especially when it comes to threat detection and response. It enhances efficiency and productivity by swiftly processing and delivering critical information when it matters most.

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Hero, Villain, or Victim? Stories that Sabotage

Perficient

In 1968, psychiatrist Stephen Karpman modeled what he called the Drama Triangle. With this, he illustrated dysfunctional mindsets that can derail social interactions. The three roles defined in this model are the rescuer (hero), persecutor (villain), and victim. This is another view of the lies we tell ourselves. Since the dawn of history, we’ve loved stories.

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RansomHub: New Ransomware has Origins in Older Knight

Symantec

Emergent operation has grown quickly to become one of the most prolific ransomware threats

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

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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Nurturing Agile organizational success through Caring Leadership

Agile Alliance

Caring Leadership® is the cornerstone of Agile organizational success, fostering a culture of empathy, collaboration, and innovation to inspire teams and drive sustainable growth and resilience. The post Nurturing Agile organizational success through Caring Leadership first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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European hospitals launch Microsoft-backed AI network to agree privacy guardrails

CIO

Artificial intelligence, it is widely assumed, will soon unleash the biggest transformation in health care provision since the medical sector started its journey to professionalization after the flu pandemic of 1918. The catch is that bringing this about will require new institutional channels for knowledge, engineering, and ethical collaboration that don’t yet exist.

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Testing server calls in generated HTML

Martin Fowler

Matteo Vaccari completes his article on testing template-generated HTML, by looking at how to use TDD with pages that make calls to the server.

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Bigger, Better Small Talk: Practical Ways to Connect with Your Coworkers

Let's Grow Leaders

Get Better at Small Talk By Asking the Next Best Question Do you dread small talk? Does the idea of asking (or being asked) “How was your weekend?” make you cringe? We get it. You don’t have a lot of extra time for long conversations. You’ve got work to do. But here’s the thing. People are more likely to help you when they feel seen by you—as a person—not just for what they can do for you.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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OpenID Connect: Mocking You

Xebia

OIDC (OpenID Connect) is a protocol that allows companies to streamline user experiences by centralizing accounts in one place. This allows better security and protection of privacy. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Auth0… provide OIDC Providers. It makes users’ lives easier by having only one username and password and those should be stored securely and thus are less susceptible to data leaks.

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Early AI Funding May Be Showing Some Cracks

Crunchbase News

While funding to AI-related startups remains strong, with nearly $30 billion raised so far this year alone, there are indicators that some of the earliest-stage investors are getting some AI fatigue. Deal-making volume seems to be slowing in the second quarter — with just a couple of weeks left — compared to other recent quarters, when investors’ appetite showed little to no limits for the all-encompassing technology.

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Effective one-on-one coaching with the Clover Model

Agile Alliance

The Clover Model guides Agile Coaches in bi-weekly one-on-one sessions with Scrum Masters, addressing structured agendas, personalized challenges, role fulfillment, team metrics, and continuous growth and training. The post Effective one-on-one coaching with the Clover Model first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Data center design in the age of AI: Integrating AI with legacy Infrastructure

CIO

In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), how can enterprises evaluate whether their existing data center design can fully employ the modern requirements needed to run AI? There are major considerations as IT leaders develop their AI strategies and evaluate the landscape of their infrastructure. This blog examines: What is considered legacy IT infrastructure?

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

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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Answers: Generative AI as Learning Tool

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

At O’Reilly, we’re not just building training materials about AI. We’re also using it to build new kinds of learning experiences. One of the ways we are putting AI to work is our update to Answers. Answers is a generative AI-powered feature that aims to answer questions in the flow of learning. It’s in every book, on-demand course, and video, and will eventually be available across our entire learning platform.

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Recurring Conflict Conversations: How to Unstick Stuck Situations

Let's Grow Leaders

To prevent recurring conflict conversations, focus on commitment Do you ever get frustrated by conflict conversations that just won’t end? You think you’ve reached an agreement, and a few weeks later you’re back to the same Groundhog Day discussion. Your conversation needs to produce action, or nothing changes. And if nothing changes, it’s worse than if you never had a conversation.

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Supercharging Airflow & dbt with Astronomer Cosmos on Azure Container Instances

Xebia

Over the past few years, dbt has become the standard for data transformations. A very typical workflow now is to have some basic data extraction and ingestion take place, after which transformations are done in one or more dbt projects (a typical ELT (Extract-Load-Transform) workflow). Essentially, dbt, as advertised, takes care of the T in ETL/ELT/EtLT.

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Microsoft, Nvidia Lead In Investing In AI Startups, But Others Close Behind

Crunchbase News

Just last week it was reported chip giant Nvidia , Salesforce Ventures 1 and Cisco all participated in a $450 million investment for Toronto-based AI startup Cohere. That same day, Cisco and its investment arm — Cisco Investments — made news when it launched a $1 billion AI investment fund. Those noteworthy machinations by some of the biggest names in tech are just the latest examples of these corporate giants’ desires to at best be leaders in the generative AI sector — and at worst not fall be

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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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RIP CentOS. Hello AlmaLinux Rocky Linux, CentOS Stream or RHEL

DevOps.com

CentOS 7's official end of life is June 30th. What should a DevOps team do? We help you consider your choices.

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Unauthorized AI is eating your company data, thanks to your employees

CIO

Legal documents, HR data, source code, and other sensitive corporate information is being fed into unlicensed, publicly available AIs at a swift rate, leaving IT leaders with a mounting shadow AI mess.

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The Rise of the Chief AI Officer: Keys to Success

Dell EMC

As organizations look to unlock the power of AI, designating a leader who “gets it right” is as imperative as the technology itself.

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Maximizing Efficiency: Tips for Choosing the Right Cross-Border AP Automation Solution 

Cherry Work

In today’s world of business, speed and precision are important. Organizations use accounts payable automation to manage their invoice processing. Given the vast number of solutions available in the market, it can be quite difficult to select the right APA solution. This blog elucidates the features to look for when selecting a cross border AP Automation solution.

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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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Parallel Collections and Actors in Scala

Xebia

A while ago, I wrote a small python program that accesses the api provided by my utility company. The program collects data about my power usage, which allows me to create a graph. This works, but then I thought I might use this problem (read data from an api, store it in a database and run queries) to practice some scala. I’ll be joining a team using scala as their main language for services, so after not having used scala in about a decade, I figured a refresher was in order.

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Robotics Startups On The Rise In 2024

Crunchbase News

So far, 2024 is shaping up as a not-so-shabby year for robotics startup funding. Developers of workplace robots, robotic surgery technologies, and even humanoid models have all raised large rounds in the past six months. The artificial intelligence funding boom has also helped boost the space, with investors backing big deals at the intersection of AI and robotics.

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ContextQA Turns to IBM for AI to Automate Testing

DevOps.com

News of the collaboration of a software testing solutions company with AI from IBM to help streamline the software testing process for developers.

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