Xebia

APRIL 9, 2025

UV: The Engineering Secrets Behind Pythons Speed King Python packaging has long been a bottleneck for developers. Slow installations, complex dependency resolution, and fragmented tools. UV, the new package manager from Astral (creators of Ruff ), changes this by completely rethinking Python packaging from the ground up. Understanding Traditional Python Package Managers Python package managers like pip perform three core functions: 1.

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Palo Alto Networks

APRIL 9, 2025

Generative AI (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs) are becoming ubiquitous in businesses across sectors, increasing productivity, driving competitiveness and positively impacting companies bottom lines. However, as LLMs and GenAI become deeply integrated into your critical operations and decision-making processes, adversaries can exploit subtle vulnerabilities to manipulate your model outputs to coerce unauthorized behaviors or compromise sensitive information.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 9, 2025

Organizations are increasingly using multiple large language models (LLMs) when building generative AI applications. Although an individual LLM can be highly capable, it might not optimally address a wide range of use cases or meet diverse performance requirements. The multi-LLM approach enables organizations to effectively choose the right model for each task, adapt to different domains, and optimize for specific cost, latency, or quality needs.

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CIO

APRIL 9, 2025

For those that attended VMware Explore in Las Vegas and Barcelona, there was a new self-paced hands-on lab released exclusively for the attendees to experience Google Cloud VMware Engine while at the events. I am happy to announce that this lab has now been made publicly available through the VMware Lab Platform website for anyone to enroll and try.

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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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Tenable

APRIL 9, 2025

Mismanaging configurations in your multi-cloud environment can put you at an elevated risk for cyber attacks. In the first installment of our Stronger Cloud Security in Five blog series, we outline five best practices for boosting your cloud configuration management. A misconfigured web application firewall. A publicly accessible and unprotected cloud database.

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Xebia

APRIL 9, 2025

This is my personal review of a talk given by Martin Odersky at Scalar Conf 2025. If you would like to watch Martin’s talk, here you have it. Evolving Scala by Martin Odersky 1. The Retrospective When Scala emerged as a new programming language, it offered two main components in its value proposition. On one hand, it provided a unified paradigm that harmoniously merged object-oriented and functional programming.

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CIO

APRIL 9, 2025

ChatGPT-written term papers? Thats so last semester. Since the AI chatbots 2022 debut, CIOs at the nearly 4,000 US institutions of higher education have had their hands full charting strategy and practices for the use of generative AI among students and professors, according to research by the National Center for Education Statistics. But now higher ed CIOs are beginning to turn their focus to using gen AI to improve operations.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 10, 2025

Training a frontier model is highly compute-intensive, requiring a distributed system of hundreds, or thousands, of accelerated instances running for several weeks or months to complete a single job. For example, pre-training the Llama 3 70B model with 15 trillion training tokens took 6.5 million H100 GPU hours. On 256 Amazon EC2 P5 instances (p5.48xlarge, each with 8 NVIDIA H100 GPUs), this would take approximately 132 days.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 9, 2025

For ten years Ive been asking audiences of leaders this question: In the last year, has it been easier or harder to control your level of mental chatter? In every year of the last ten, the answer has been harder. It would seem, then, that the leadership curve on mental chatter is up and to the right. For example, a group of sixty-five leaders I spoke to this past week on the connection between effective self-management and positive leadership outcomes posted these overall results in a self-asses

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Ooda Loop

APRIL 7, 2025

A south central Lower Sioux Indian Community was hit by a ransomware attack last week, impacting the communitys critical infrastructure. The attack disrupted a local healthcare facility, government center, hotel, and casino operations. The tribe quickly took some systems offline and is now working to investigate the incident. RansomHub has taken responsibility for the attack. […] The post Minnesota Tribe Struggles After Ransomware Attack appeared first on OODAloop.

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CIO

APRIL 9, 2025

Broadcom and Google Clouds continued commitment to solving our customers most pressing challenges stems from our joint goal to enable every organizations ability to digitally transform through data-powered innovation with the highly secure and cyber-resilient infrastructure, platform, industry solutions and expertise. With our longstanding technology and go-to-market partnership, we are yet again innovating to deliver value in the space of cyber and disaster recovery.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 10, 2025

As businesses and developers increasingly seek to optimize their language models for specific tasks, the decision between model customization and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) becomes critical. In this post, we seek to address this growing need by offering clear, actionable guidelines and best practices on when to use each approach, helping you make informed decisions that align with your unique requirements and objectives.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 9, 2025

Nuro , a developer of autonomous driving technology and software, raised $106 million in an ongoing Series E that values the company at $6 billion. The new deal would represent a cut from the reported $8.6 billion it was valued at in 2021 after raising a $600 million Series D led by Tiger Global Management. Since that round, the Mountain View, California-based company has faced major challenges including slashing its workforce and a change in business strategy, moving away from its delivery vehi

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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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Infinidat

APRIL 9, 2025

Individual Channel Partner Awards: Delivering Big on Enterprise Storage Solutions and Customer-Centric Excellence Adriana Andronescu Wed, 04/09/2025 - 08:03 The channel is important to Infinidat, and the partners who are out there every day working hard in the trenches to pursue new customer opportunities are the lifeblood of our channel business. It is our honor to announce the winners of this years Infinidat Channel Awards for individuals who have dramatically exceeded expectations to make a p

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CIO

APRIL 9, 2025

In an era when artificial intelligence (AI) and other resource-intensive technologies demand unprecedented computing power, data centers are starting to buckle, and CIOs are feeling the budget pressure. To address these issues, IT organizations are increasingly migrating workloads to the cloud to gain operational efficiency and agility. There are many challenges in managing a traditional data center, starting with the refresh cycle.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 9, 2025

Employee productivity is a critical factor in maintaining a competitive advantage. Amazon Q Business offers a unique opportunity to enhance workforce efficiency by providing AI-powered assistance that can significantly reduce the time spent searching for information, generating content, and completing routine tasks. Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, generative AI-powered assistant that lets you build interactive chat applications using your enterprise data, generating answers based on your d

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Kaseya

APRIL 10, 2025

From empowering remote work to streamlining workflows and eliminating the need for heavy infrastructure investments, SaaS applications such as Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace have become the digital backbone of modern businesses. Today, the average company deploys up to 112 SaaS apps , and that number climbs to about 142 in larger organizations. Unfortunately, more apps mean more risks.

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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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Ooda Loop

APRIL 9, 2025

Chinese scientists used a quantum computer to fine-tune a billion-parameter artificial intelligence (AI) model, marking what they claim is a global first and a step toward combining quantum computing with advanced AI tasks, the state-affiliated Global Times reported. The experiment was conducted on a superconducting quantum computer called Origin Wukong, which runs on a domestically […] The post Chinese Researchers Use Quantum Computer to Fine-Tune Billion-Parameter AI Model appeared first

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CIO

APRIL 10, 2025

IT environments are constantly growing more complex, with organizations rolling out AI agents and LLMs, operating in multiple clouds, and anticipating breakthroughs like quantum computing. At the same time, many CIOs seem to struggle to demonstrate the value of IT to the broader business because other departments often view their domain as a cost center.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 10, 2025

Today, we are excited to announce that Mistral AI s Pixtral Large foundation model (FM) is generally available in Amazon Bedrock. With this launch, you can now access Mistrals frontier-class multimodal model to build, experiment, and responsibly scale your generative AI ideas on AWS. AWS is the first major cloud provider to deliver Pixtral Large as a fully managed, serverless model.

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Tenable

APRIL 8, 2025

11 Critical 110 Important 0 Moderate 0 Low Microsoft addresses 121 CVEs including one zero-day which was exploited in the wild. Microsoft patched 121 CVEs in its April 2025 Patch Tuesday release, with 11 rated critical and 110 rated as important. This months update includes patches for: ASP.NET Core Active Directory Domain Services Azure Local Azure Local Cluster Azure Portal Windows Admin Center Dynamics Business Central Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Microsoft Edge

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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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Crunchbase News

APRIL 10, 2025

Europes venture funding plateaued at $12.6 billion in Q1 2025 flat quarter over quarter and year over year, Crunchbase data shows. Without the sort of outsized AI funding rounds seen in North America in the first quarter, the continents share of global funding also fell. Funding in the latest quarter was on the lower end of the spectrum in Europe. Since the venture funding downturn started in 2022, funding in the region has fluctuated by quarter.

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CIO

APRIL 9, 2025

CEOs and boards of directors are tasking their CIOs to enable artificial intelligence (AI) within the organization as rapidly as possible. As a result, many IT leaders face a choice: build new infrastructure to create and support AI-powered systems from scratch or find ways to deploy AI while leveraging their current infrastructure investments. For those enterprises with significant VMware deployments, migrating their virtual workloads to the cloud can provide a nondisruptive path that builds on

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Perficient

APRIL 9, 2025

Want to elevate your Optimizely PaaS CMS site’s search capabilities? Azure AI Search could be just the tool you need! In this blog, Ill discuss how to connect your CMS with Microsofts advanced AI-driven search platform to create fast, smart search experiences that surpass regular keyword searches. What is Azure AI Search? Azure AI Search is Microsoft’s cloud-based search service powered by AI.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 10, 2025

Were excited to share that Honeycomb has completed our first-ever acquisition: were joining forces with Grit , bringing on board not only a strong team, but also compelling technology that supercharges our ability to deliver on our mission: to bring observability to every software engineer. This is a strategic move that will help us deepen the value we deliver to customers and accelerate our vision for what modern observability can and should be.

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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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Crunchbase News

APRIL 9, 2025

By John Haddox Whether its the latest aircraft landing gears , hygienic air filters or smart-home devices , product designers are always on the hunt for new configurations that could become the next big thing. Yet it’s manufacturing companies that turn these dreams into a reality innovating production lines and processes to fulfill tasks in the most cost-effective way possible.

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CIO

APRIL 6, 2025

GISEC Global 2025, set to take place in Dubai, promises to be a pivotal event in the cybersecurity landscape, offering a platform for innovation, networking, and knowledge sharing. This year, the event will showcase cutting-edge technology and cybersecurity strategies and highlight the UAEs significant strides in empowering women in the tech sector, particularly through initiatives like the Women in Cyber Security Middle East.

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Tenable

APRIL 10, 2025

The emergence of Model Context Protocol for AI is gaining significant interest due to its standardization of connecting external data sources to large language models (LLMs). While these updates are good news for AI developers, they raise some security concerns. In this blog we address FAQs about MCP. Background Tenable Research has compiled this blog to answer Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) regarding Model Context Protocol (MCP).

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