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

CIO Business Intelligence

Many companies are still hiring developers, but not at the same rate as five years ago. In those years, many companies hired more programmers than they would need over the long term, says Sarah Doughty, vice president of talent operations at IT recruiting firm TalentLab.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

CIO Business Intelligence

It was an interesting case study of global cyber impact, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre. In a countersuit, CrowdStrike blamed Delta for the airlines problems, saying that other airlines were able to recover much faster, and that the contract between the two companies meant Delta wasnt allowed to sue for damages.

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Former Google VP raises $10M for new startup building AI agents for retail businesses

GeekWire

The Polana AI co-founders, from left: CEO Maria Zhang, Chief Scientist Steve Liu, and CTO Tim Howes. Polana Photos) A onetime Seattle startup founder who went on to lead engineering teams at Google, Meta, Yahoo, Tinder and LinkedIn, is heading up a new startup called Palona AI that builds customer-facing AI agents for retail businesses.

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Unmasking North Korea's Covert IT Army. Before You Hire Them

SecureWorld News

"Hundreds of companies around the world, including major American firms, have accidentally hired North Korean employees pretending to be something else. Grimes outlined KnowBe4's own recent experience , in which they identified and terminated an employee who was part of this covert operation. And it's a really big problem."

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What is an IT consultant? Roles, types, salaries, and how to become one

CIO Business Intelligence

IT consultants are often hired to provide companies guidance on what technologies they should use to achieve their aims, according to career website Indeed. These include strategy consultants, systems consultants, and security consultants, among others, says Paul Farnsworth, CTO attechnology careers site Dice.

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3 promises every CIO should keep in 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

If a model hallucinates just 5% of the time, thats enough for most users to consider it useless. They couldnt hire people from outside either, because they hadnt anticipated the need early enough to put it in their budgets. You dont want to let them get most of their information from Google searches and YouTube videos, he says.

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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

CIO Business Intelligence

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. I had been at Google for so long that I stopped counting,” she says. “It Trainline remains on an upward trajectory.

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