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AI brings complexity to cybersecurity and fraud

CIO

The 2024 Security Priorities study shows that for 72% of IT and security decision makers, their roles have expanded to accommodate new challenges, with Risk management, Securing AI-enabled technology and emerging technologies being added to their plate. Artificial Intelligence has sharpened both edges of the sword, as organizations are better equipped to defend against cybersecurity conundrums that are finessed to be deadly, wide-ranging and impacting operations and market reputation.

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Stealing Ghibli: How AI Has Crossed The Line Into Creative Theft

Crunchbase News

This, from her Instagram on Saturday, is Jaqueline Cristian, the top-ranked Romanian womens professional tennis player and the 61st ranked woman player in the world. This, a fan creation that Cristian uploaded to her Instagram , is also, evidently, Jaqueline Cristian, which is deeply problematic. Last week, the Studio Ghibli AI controversy entered our timelines, disgusting its founder and raising deep concerns about the state of intellectual property law and how it applies to the rapidly advanci

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Product Design vs Platform Design for Software Development

Dzone - DevOps

An enterprise architect must understand the business's need for building either a platform or a product. A product is software that has off-the-shelf, more generic features and functions. In contrast, a platform is a software or service that allows external parties to extend and develop complementary functions and services. Choosing the right fit for business needs is extremely important after careful consideration of factors for driving product/platform development.

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GitHub Copilot – Change the Narrative

Xebia

TL;DR: Chancing the narrative on GitHub Copilot from focus on engineers to focus on a sturdy (DevOps) foundation to be able to go faster. Next frontier: the rest of our organization Premise: current narrative is not helping In my opinion we need to shift the narrative on enabling engineers to use GitHub Copilot. Currently there is a lot of focus on the engineers that can produce code easier and faster using GitHub Copilot.

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Struggling to Scale Test Coverage Under Pressure?

When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.

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Fired or Not, Former Feds Need to Be Aware of Online Intelligence Approaches

Ooda Loop

Recent reporting has revealed that China appears interested in exploiting recent cuts made by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to the U.S. federal workforce by targeting individuals that have been let go with promises of employment in the hopes of obtaining classified information. According to a researcher from a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, Chinese intelligence has allegedly […] The post Fired or Not, Former Feds Need to Be Aware of Online Intelligence Approaches appea

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Copyright-Aware AI: Let’s Make It So

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

On April 22, 2022, I received an out-of-the-blue text from Sam Altman inquiring about the possibility of training GPT-4 on OReilly books. We had a call a few days later to discuss the possibility. As I recall our conversation, I told Sam I was intrigued, but with reservations. I explained to him that we could only license our data if they had some mechanism for tracking usage and compensating authors.

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How to improve your planning and forecasting using some math and AI – part 2

Xebia

Intro In the previous article , we analyzed how bad people are at their estimates and checked if probabilistic methods work for solving complex problems. Now, let’s try to use this knowledge with AI! Large Language models & Math LLMs are not designed to make complicated calculations; their role, in simple words, is to predict the most suitable, most probable order of words as their answer.

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Harness the power of MCP servers with Amazon Bedrock Agents

AWS Machine Learning - AI

AI agents extend large language models (LLMs) by interacting with external systems, executing complex workflows, and maintaining contextual awareness across operations. Amazon Bedrock Agents enables this functionality by orchestrating foundation models (FMs) with data sources, applications, and user inputs to complete goal-oriented tasks through API integration and knowledge base augmentation.

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Siemens and Accenture launch joint business group to transform manufacturing

CIO

At Hannover Messe 2025,Accenture and Siemens announced an extension of their strategic partnership in the form of the Accenture Siemens Business Group, an Accenture-based joint business unit that will employ 7,000 professionals with manufacturing and IT expertise worldwide. The group will develop software-defined products and factories, combining industrial technology with AI-supported engineering and manufacturing expertise.

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Subscription Management in the SaaS World: Challenges and Solutions

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The Impact of April 2 Tariffs on IT Spending

IDC

The wave of new tariffs introduced by the US administration will drive up technology prices, disrupt supply chains, and weaken global IT spending in 2025. Not only will these tariffs have a direct inflationary effect on technology prices in the US, but growing concerns about a broader economic slowdown will lead to weaker investment by [.

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Global Venture Funding In Q1 2025 Indicate Strongest Quarter For Investment Since Q2 2022 

Crunchbase News

Funding key findings Both the largest funding round for a venture-backed company and the largest acquisition of a venture-backed company ever occurred in Q1 2025, reflecting a warming startup environment and marking the strongest quarter for venture investment since Q2 2022. OpenAI raised the largest private round ever in Q1 2025, a $40 billion funding that values the company at an unprecedented $300 billion.

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Introducing AWS MCP Servers for code assistants (Part 1)

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Were excited to announce the open source release of AWS MCP Servers for code assistants a suite of specialized Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that bring Amazon Web Services (AWS) best practices directly to your development workflow. Our specialized AWS MCP servers combine deep AWS knowledge with agentic AI capabilities to accelerate development across key areas.

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What is S/4HANA? SAP’s latest ERP system explained

CIO

What is S/4HANA? S/4HANA is SAPs latest iteration of its flagship enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The successor to SAP ECC, S/4HANA is built on an in-memory database and is designed to enable real-time data processing and analysis for businesses. It is available both in a cloud-based SaaS and an on-premises version. The abbreviation S/4HANA sounds cryptic but fits seamlessly with its predecessors.

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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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My Team is the Underdog! How do I Motivate Them Now? #AskingforaFriend

Let's Grow Leaders

Asking for a Friend: How Do You Inspire Your Team When They’re the Underdog? You know that feeling. The buzzer just sounded. You and your scrappy band of underdogs are stepping onto the court, and its clear the other guys are taller, faster, and, lets be honest, a whole lot shinier. You’re the 16th seed. Theyre the number one. But this isn’t March Madnessthis is Tuesday morning.

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Founders, Here’s How Not To Be Thrown Overboard After A Big Fundraise

Crunchbase News

By Dan Lifshits Raising capital is an inevitable step for almost any startup founder unless youre building a business that is profitable from day one. However, a big raise comes with big responsibility not just for the capital itself, but also for maintaining solid investor relations. This involves clear, transparent communication, as otherwise, you risk being nothing more than a bystander, watching your idea come to life or fall apart without you.

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AWS App Studio introduces a prebuilt solutions catalog and cross-instance Import and Export

AWS Machine Learning - AI

AWS App Studio is a generative AI-powered service that uses natural language to build business applications, empowering a new set of builders to create applications in minutes. With App Studio, technical professionals such as IT project managers, data engineers, enterprise architects, and solution architects can quickly develop applications tailored to their organizations needswithout requiring deep software development skills.

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Remember when developers reigned supreme? The market for software coding goes soft

CIO

It seems like only yesterday when software developers were on top of the world, and anyone with basic coding experience could get multiple job offers. This yesterday, however, was five to six years ago, and developers are no longer the kings and queens of the IT employment hill. Job titles like data engineer, machine learning engineer, and AI product manager have supplanted traditional software developers near the top of the heap as companies rush to adopt AI and cybersecurity professionals rema

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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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US Marines launch first attack drone unit

Ooda Loop

The U.S. Marine Corps has officially established the Marine Corps Attack Drone Team (MCADT), a new unit tasked with integrating armed first-person view (FPV) drones into frontline operations. The move reflects a growing recognition of FPV drones as an increasingly vital component of small-unit warfare. According to the Marine Corps, MCADT was formed on January […] The post US Marines launch first attack drone unit appeared first on OODAloop.

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SoftBank And OpenAI Make History With Largest Startup Financing Ever

Crunchbase News

In the history of startup funding, SoftBank s announcement today that it is backing an investment of up to $40 billion in OpenAI is in a league of its own. No other financing even comes close. The next-closest was another OpenAI deal: Microsoft s $10 billion financing in 2023. That was not a traditional startup financing round, however, as the money in it is to be paid over an extended period and includes a strategic partnership.

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Radar Trends to Watch: April 2025

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

March has been the biggest month that Trends has ever had. In addition to almost daily announcements about AI, a lot has been going on in programming, in security, in operations (which usually doesnt merit its own topic), and even in quantum computing. Its been a long time since weve had much to say about social media, but with a reboot of Digg, a new attempt at Napster, and alternatives to Facebook and Instagram, were wondering: Has the world tired of the current platform?

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How the wow factor drives innovation at Northeast Grocery

CIO

The AI revolution is rewriting the CIO playbook across industries, creating unprecedented opportunities for technology leaders to elevate their strategic impact. At Northeast Grocery, this shift has enabled a fundamental redistribution of responsibility for future readiness across the organization. No longer solely accountable for anticipating tomorrows tech needs, CIOs like Scott Kessler are now equipping business partners with AI capabilities that make envisioning the future a shared effort.

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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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Cybersecurity Leaders Share Three Challenges Exposure Management Helps Them Solve

Tenable

Each Monday, the Tenable Exposure Management Academy provides the practical, real-world guidance you need to shift from vulnerability management to exposure management. In this blog, we share three challenges cybersecurity leaders say exposure management helps them solve. You can read the entire Exposure Management Academy series here. Traditional vulnerability management is undergoing a transformation.

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John Snow Labs Releases Generative AI Lab 7.0 to Help Domain Experts Evaluate and Improve LLM Applications and Conduct HCC Coding Reviews

John Snow Labs

John Snow Labs, the AI for healthcare company, today announced the release of Generative AI Lab 7.0. The update enables domain experts, such as doctors or lawyers, to evaluate and improve custom-built large language models (LLMs) with precision and transparency. New capabilities include no-code features to streamline the process of auditing and tuning AI models.

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As US Defense Tech Surges, Europe Lags

Crunchbase News

Last week, news broke that Anduril Industries perhaps the poster child for defense tech startups is considering plans to open a factory in the U.K. The startup, valued now at $14 billion, recently received a nearly $40 million contract from the U.K. government to supply drones to Ukraine as the Russia-Ukraine conflict continues into its third year, as does conflict in the Middle East region.

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Vecttor automatiza su flota con una solución de llave digital

CIO

Vecttor, filial del grupo Cabify, da un paso ms en su apuesta por la innovacin y digitalizacin junto aTelefnica Techy la empresa de soluciones de transporte conectado Geotab. La compaa de vehculos VTC implementar, de la mano de ambos partner tecnolgicos, la solucin Keyless para optimizar su eficiencia operativa y seguir avanzando hacia una movilidad ms sostenible y segura.

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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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ImageRunner: A Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Impacting GCP Cloud Run

Tenable

Tenable Research discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that is now fixed and which we dubbed ImageRunner. At issue are identities that lack registry permissions but that have edit permissions on Google Cloud Run revisions. The vulnerability could have allowed such an identity to abuse its Google Cloud Run revision edit permissions in order to pull private Google Artifact Registry and Google Container Registry images in the same account.

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Social Media Engagement in Early 2025

Martin Fowler

A few years ago, whenever I published a new article here, I would just announce it on Twitter, but since the Muskover its importance has declined, and now I post updates to several services. To compare engagement on these services, I've looked at reposts, likes, and replies to two dozen of my recent posts.

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Scrum for Cats: An Agile Framework that Fits the Feline Philosophy

Agile42

At agile42, we’ve always believed that Agile should adapt to its practitioners – not the other way around. After years of observing our feline colleagues (who, let’s be honest, already run our households with ruthless efficiency), we realized: cats are the ultimate Agilists. They iterate (paw at a toy, lose interest, repeat), self-organize (usually atop your keyboard), and deliver MVPs (Minimum Viable Playthings, like that weird moth they keep batting at on your television scre

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