Wed.May 22, 2024

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Gen AI Just Got a Little Less Opaque

Forrester IT

Yesterday the AI startup Anthropic published a paper detailing the successful interpretation of the inner workings of a large language model (LLM). LLMs are notoriously opaque – their size, complexity, and numeric representation of human language have hitherto defied explanation – so it’s impossible to understand why inputs lead to outputs.

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Can Your Developers Benefit from Platform Engineering?

Information Week

Will designing tools and workflows to bring self-service to software development help developers work more efficiently? A growing number of adopters think so.

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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Cybersecurity Risk Ratings Platforms, Q2 2024

Forrester IT

Ask a room full of CISOs about cyber risk ratings (CRR) platforms and you’ll find no shortage of opinion — hot or cold, but never indifferent. Like a judges panel in a Top Chef culinary competition, customers critique missing or poorly planned components of the “dish.

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Cisco research highlights network complexity, security challenges

Network World

Today’s enterprises need more help managing and securing their distributed networking environments than they ever have, Cisco concludes in its Global Networking Trends Report. The research, released this week, analyzes the networking challenges, IT and business priorities, architectural maturity, and investment strategies of 2,052 IT professionals across 10 global industries.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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VivaTech & The New French Tech Next 40/120: When AI Meets GreenTech

Forrester IT

Paris will be the center of innovation and technology this week. The 2024 edition of VivaTech in Paris is set to be a great success with more than 150,000 in-person visitors. It has become the largest technology and innovation event in Europe with CEOs, C-leaders, VCs, and startups attending from all over the world.

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5 New Windows Apps and Drivers Security Enhancements from Phishing and Malware

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and Facebook Page to get the latest updates [link] The post 5 New Windows Apps and Drivers Security Enhancements from Phishing and Malware appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides by Krishna R.

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AWS clarifies Nvidia chip order: Upgrade, not halt

Network World

In a reversal of earlier reports, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has clarified that it has not halted orders for Nvidia’s most advanced chip. Instead, AWS and Nvidia are collaborating on a project-specific upgrade, a Financial Times report said. The Financial Times initially reported that AWS has “halted” its orders for Nvidia’s Grace Hopper chip. But now the report said that AWS has now “fully transitioned” it to the newest Blackwell GPUs, announced in March.

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How to Change Your VPN Location (A Step-by-Step Guide)

Tech Republic Security

This guide explains how you can change the location of your virtual private network for privacy, security or geolocation issues.

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Scarlett Johansson, OpenAI, and Silencing ‘Sky’

Information Week

A dispute about the alleged unauthorized mimicry of a star’s voice puts concerns about GenAI in the spotlight again.

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AMD holds steady against Intel in Q1

Network World

Intel managed to slow the momentum of AMD’s ascent for the first quarter of 2024. But year-over-year, AMD is still growing. The first quarter is traditionally a slow one for chip sales, coming off the holiday rush. That applies both to clients and servers, but for different reasons. Client CPU sales come from holiday giving, while server CPU sales in the fourth quarter tend to be end-of-the-year spending.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees

Vox

Has Sam Altman told the truth about OpenAI’s NDA scandal?

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Making a case for case statements on Linux

Network World

If you’ve never used bash case statements, you might be very surprised by how easily they allow you to simplify the logic of your scripts. Instead of composing a long group of code lines that would allow you to test a variable against a number of potential values, you could write a terse and delightfully readable chunk of code that’s easy to put together.

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Where’s the ROI for AI? CIOs struggle to find it

CIO Business Intelligence

Finding the return on investment for AI remains elusive for many organizations, even as they rush to adopt the technology. Difficulties estimating or demonstrating the value of AI technologies to the business have been or will be a top barrier to their implementation, according to a recent Gartner survey of more than 700 IT leaders at organizations that have adopted or plan to adopt AI.

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Delaying AI’s Rollout in the U.K. by Five Years Could Cost the Economy £150+ Billion, Microsoft Report Finds

Tech Republic Data Center

The report also notes reasons why the U.K. is not taking full advantage of AI, as well as how artificial intelligence could impact businesses and jobs.

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Guide to Centralizing IT Operations: How to Link Tasks and Tools with an Automation Platform

For many IT admins, business as usual is a juggling act. Job schedulers and scripts run on autopilot, applications and operating systems can’t speak the same language, and other tools—like RPA or MFT solutions—operate in isolation. On a good day, everything runs smoothly. But good days are rare; more often than not, something goes wrong and you’re stuck putting out fires.

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The double sexism of ChatGPT’s flirty “Her” voice

Vox

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 28: Scarlett Johansson attends the Clooney Foundation for Justice's 2023 Albie Awards at New York Public Library on September 28, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/WireImage) If a guy told you his favorite sci-fi movie is Her , then released an AI chatbot with a voice that sounds uncannily like the voice from Her , then tweeted the single word “her” moments after the release… what would you conclude?

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“Íbamos a hacer una transformación TI, pero nos dimos cuenta de que requeríamos una del organigrama de la compañía”

CIO Business Intelligence

El camino hacia la nube no es uno fácil, está lleno de obstáculos y llegar a buen puerto requiere de una estrategia a largo plazo bien pensada. Ese fue el foco de las conversaciones que tuvieron lugar en el Cloud & Infrastructure Forum 2024 , organizado por IDC y Foundry con el patrocinio de DE-CIX, que se llevó a cabo el pasado 21 de mayo en Madrid.

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Microsoft Build 2024: Copilot AI Will Gain ‘Personal Assistant’ and Custom Agent Capabilities

Tech Republic

Other announcements included a Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows, GitHub Copilot Extensions and the general availability of Azure AI Studio.

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Mozilla is adding vertical tabs, profile management, and local AI to Firefox

TechSpot

Over the next year, Mozilla promises to finally listen to user feedback and add the most requested features to its Firefox browser. According to a recent post by a Mozilla community manager on the Mozilla Connect platform, the for-profit corporation (part of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation) will significantly improve the.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Microsoft, Providence and UW make use of generative AI for digital cancer diagnosis

GeekWire

Prov-GigaPath harnesses AI for digital pathology. (Ella Maru Studio via Providence / Microsoft) Researchers at Microsoft, Providence Health System and the University of Washington say they’ve developed a new generative-AI model for diagnosing cancer, based on an analysis of more than a billion images of tissue samples from more than 30,000 patients.

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DDR6 RAM could double the data rate of the fastest DDR5 modules

TechSpot

DDR6 RAM modules will feature significant internal changes, enabling unprecedented speed rates. According to a recently leaked presentation by RAM controller manufacturer Synopsys, DDR6 is set to debut with 8.8 Gbps modules and could eventually reach 17,600 MT/s, potentially extending to a theoretical limit of 21,000 MT/s.

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Big tech companies commit to new safety practices for AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Sixteen big users and creators of artificial intelligence (AI) technology — including heavy hitters such as Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Meta, and OpenAI — have signed up to the Frontier AI Safety Commitments, a new set of safety guidelines and development outcomes for the technology. They revealed the commitments on Tuesday, as two days of talks on AI were set to begin at the AI Seoul Summit in Korea.

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Snapdragon X Elite-powered Microsoft Surface laptop tests show impressive results, with a caveat

TechSpot

Signal 65's Ryan Shrout put the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite SoC through a series of tests and benchmarks to see if it lives up to the promises Microsoft made during its recent event introducing the Copilot+ PCs, including the latest Surface line.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Cómo reducir la tensión entre el CIO y el CISO

CIO Business Intelligence

Los directores de sistemas de información (CIO, en sus siglas en inglés) y los directores de sistemas de seguridad (CISO) operan en entornos muy estresantes que, en ocasiones, pueden provocar una tensión adicional en su relación, alejándoles de la consecución de resultados óptimos. En mi propia carrera, he sido CIO y CISO, así que tengo experiencia de primera mano con este tema desde ambas perspectivas.

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Google is now the world's third-largest data center processor designer

TechSpot

New research published by Tech Insights crowns Google as one of the largest chip designers in the data center world. Leveraging its unique expertise across multiple segments including the semiconductor supply chain and the ASIC market, TI states that Google's market share is comparable to more prominent chipmakers like Intel.

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How Amazon’s new cloud chief Matt Garman will approach the big challenges ahead

GeekWire

Newly named Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman, speaking here at a Madrona Venture Group event last fall, brings years of product and sales experience to his new role. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Three executives from Amazon Web Services were meeting with a top CIA tech leader, trying to come up with a creative solution to an issue that was facing the U.S. intelligence agency in the cloud, when Matt Garman picked up the marker. “Matt is the one that took the whiteboard and started

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Pioneer of minicomputer revolution Gordon Bell dies at 89

TechSpot

The news of Bell's death on May 17 in Coronado, California was shared by his friend John Mashey, a Bell Labs veteran. Mashey paid tribute to Bell as a "famous computer pioneer, a founder of Computer Museum in Boston, and a force behind the @ComputerHistory here in Silicon Valley." The.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Amazon shareholders reject all 14 proposals on issues related to climate, AI, working conditions

GeekWire

(GeekWire File Photo) Investors representing a majority of Amazon’s shares voted against all 14 outside proposals submitted for the annual meeting of shareholders Wednesday morning, according to the company. The announcement of the preliminary results at the virtual meeting followed more than 30 minutes of comments by proponents including Amazon employees, activists, and others on issues such as climate, workers’ rights, racial and gender pay gaps, corporate governance, facial recognition techno

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AMD unveils new Epyc 4004 server CPUs spanning a range of price points

TechSpot

Based on the Zen 4 architecture, the Epyc 4004 processors will offer up to 16 cores and 32 threads. Designed for single-socket operation, the new chips will have a minimum base frequency of 3.7 GHz and a maximum clock speed of 5.7 GHz. They will offer up to 128 MB.

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Seattle peer-to-peer laundry startup Loopie sells part of business to two companies

GeekWire

(Loopie Laundry Photo) Loopie , the peer-to-peer laundry startup that connects people who don’t have the time or desire to wash their own clothes with those who want to earn money doing it, sold its wash and fold business to two companies offering the same services. Co-founder and CEO John Vincent Lee told GeekWire Wednesday that Loopie is transitioning its customer list in Portland to Charlotte, N.C.

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HP introduces Omni and Elite PCs, retires Pavilion, Spectre, Envy, and Dragonfly brands

TechSpot

As part of the plan, HP is scrapping the Pavilion, Spectre, Dragonfly, and Envy brands that denoted the company's budget, prosumer, premium business, and premium consumer lineups, respectively. Instead, the company is introducing the "Omni" brand for its consumer PCs (both desktops and laptops), while its business offerings will now.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.