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Dan Gwak of Point72 Ventures on why defense tech is becoming the next big thing for investors

TechCrunch

and became an associate at The Carlyle Group. So-called slaughterbots are autonomous drones that are programmed to kill people without any human intervention. To my mind, it’s all about system design. There is a core group of half a dozen or so that have been focused on defense tech for for a while.

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The road to Software 2.0

O'Reilly Media - Data

Up until now, we’ve built systems by carefully and painstakingly telling systems exactly what to do, instruction by instruction. The process is slow, tedious, and error-prone; most of us have spent days staring at a program that should work, but doesn’t. Instead, we can program by example.

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Microsoft’s July 2023 Patch Tuesday Addresses 130 CVEs (CVE-2023-36884)

Tenable

According to researchers at Microsoft, exploitation of CVE-2023-36884 has been attributed to a threat actor known as Storm-0978, also known as DEV-0978 and RomCom, a reference to the backdoor used by the group as part of its attacks. Additionally, the group also conducts intelligence gathering operations that rely on credential theft.

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Join Architects, Planners, Program Managers, Data Scientists at 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum in DC 25 Feb

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Track sessions will focus on: Enabling Business Results with Big Data — How to enable agency programs that will yield enormous value through big data to deliver actionable information and measureable results. Government is ever more reliant on data to deliver on mission and programs. www.intel.com. Premier Sponsor. Produced by.

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Apiumhub among top IT industry leaders in Code Europe event

Apiumhub

The largest programming conference in Poland: September 21, 2021 | Ergo Arena 3cITy September 23, 2021 | PGE Narodowy Warsaw. He has spoken at many conferences, user groups, etc., about Mutation Testing, ACRUMEN (his new definition of software quality), some differences between Functional and Object Oriented programming,etc.

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Ethics Sheet for AI-assisted Comic Book Art Generation

Cloudera

My hope is that this document spurs a conversation among a diverse group, and that the results of that conversation may be incorporated into a document yet to be authored. A conscientious AI system designer should pay special attention to how they collect their data. So what should a conscientious system designer take from this?

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A CTO’s Guide To The Top Federal Technology Topics of 2013

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We all tracked topics like the Shutdown and its impact on IT, HealthCare.gov, NSA programs, Data Center consolidation efforts. The place for enterprises to store all data with enterprise grade data management and protection, with access by any system (from legacy to modern, from proprietary to open source). Business Intelligence 2.0: