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AI for the People: Improving Governance And Adoption Are Key for Public Sector AI Efforts

Forrester IT

Like the changes wrought by open data and third-party apps in the 2010s, AI will revolutionize the internal workings of the public sector and how it engages with its constituents in the next 5 to 10 years.

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How to Protect Your Enterprise from Deepfake Damage

Information Week

As fraudulent content proliferates, it's important to build a defense and response strategy. Here's how to get started.

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Preview: Technology & Innovation Summit North America

Forrester IT

Technology and data leaders are at a pivotal moment, being pressed to chart a path that capitalizes on new and emerging technology to drive meaningful business results. Learn how Forrester’s annual Technology & Innovation Summit North America can help you get there.

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How Cybersecurity and Sustainability Intersect

Information Week

Cybersecurity and sustainability might have more in common than enterprise leaders think.

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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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Align or Fall Behind: Overcoming Software Strategy Execution Challenges in APAC

Forrester IT

In APAC, the software industry is booming with a growth rate of +10.3% expected in 2024. Yet, mastering a software strategy remains a complex task for many.

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Inside the 'Secure By Design' Revolution

Information Week

More than 100 companies have signed CISA's Secure by Design Pledge. What does this pledge mean for cybersecurity progress?

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Cisco debuts CCDE-AI Infrastructure certification

Network World

Two little letters are dominating Cisco’s annual Cisco Live conference this week in Las Vegas, where the networking giant continues to reveal AI-related product updates as well as a new certification program Cisco says will empower IT pros to design infrastructure for AI and machine learning. The company’s new Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) AI Infrastructure certification is a vendor-agnostic, expert-level certification that will equip IT professionals with the ability to design modern AI/

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Paramount CTO on Shedding Legacy Systems for General Compute

Information Week

Phil Wiser, at a tech showcase hosted by Verizon Business, said such shifts help to move more quickly.

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Buyer’s guide: Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Secure Service Edge (SSE)

Network World

What today is known as secure service edge (SSE) started under a different name — secure access service edge (SASE) — with a slightly different meaning. But both terms are relevant today. In 2019, Gartner created the term SASE to describe a cloud-based service that combines networking and security to give remote workers safe access to internet-based resources. [ Download our editors’ PDF SASE and SSE enterprise buyer’s guide today!

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EPA Puts Teeth Into Water Sector Cyber Efforts

Information Week

The agency plans to get more serious about enforcement as Iran and Russia step up the volume of cyberattacks on water systems nationwide.

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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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Unauthorized AI is eating your company data, thanks to your employees

CIO Business Intelligence

Legal documents, HR data, source code, and other sensitive corporate information is being fed into unlicensed, publicly available AIs at a swift rate, leaving IT leaders with a mounting shadow AI mess.

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GPUs vs. FPGAs: What's the Difference?

TechSpot

Graphics processing units (GPUs) and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are two of the three main processor types for imaging and other heavy calculations. Central processing units (CPUs) are the third type. Let's dig into the key differences between GPUs and FPGAs, their advantages, common use cases, and when to.

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Complaints in EU challenge Meta’s plans to utilize personal data for AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Meta is facing renewed scrutiny over privacy concerns as the privacy advocacy group NOYB has lodged complaints in 11 countries against the company’s plans to use personal data for training its AI models. NOYB has called on national regulators to take immediate action against Meta in 10 European Union member states and in Norway, arguing that changes to the company’s privacy policy due to enter effect on June 26 would permit the use of extensive personal data, including posts, private images, and

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Factory Butte Sunset, Hanksville Utah

Eric D. Brown

Factory Butte, Hanksville, Utah – Golden hour magic. The rugged splendor of Factory Butte becomes truly mesmerizing during the golden hour. As the sun dips below the horizon, the vast desert sky transforms into a canvas painted with vibrant shades of purple and pink. This iconic landscape, with its stark, wind-sculpted buttes, is highlighted by the ethereal glow of the setting sun, making it a photographer’s dream and a nature lover’s paradise.

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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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Responsible AI Institute offers new AI policy template

CIO Business Intelligence

The Responsible AI Institute has launched an AI policy template designed to help enterprises develop their own company-wide responsible AI policies. Some enterprises struggle with executing a critical step in their AI journeys: developing and establishing AI guardrails and ethical policies within their organization, according to the Texas-based non-profit, whose members include Amazon Web Services, Boston Consulting Group, ATB Financial, and Shell.

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Intel launches sixth-generation Xeon processor line

Network World

Intel formally announced the Xeon 6 line of server chips featuring two types of cores and a variety of configurations supporting multiple use cases. But the main emphasis is on AI. In a first for the Xeon line, the processor comes with two microarchitectures: an efficient core (E-core) and a performance core (P-core). Performance cores are larger, more high-performance, and more complex, making them appropriate for high-end compute.

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Key considerations to cancer institute’s gen AI deployment

CIO Business Intelligence

The overhype of generative AI was unavoidable last year, yet despite all the distraction, unproven benefits, and potential pitfalls, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute CIO Naomi Lenane didn’t want to ban the technology outright. It was undeniably groundbreaking, and there could be interesting things the institute’s employees might be able to do with it. But allowing free, unfettered use of the public gen AI platforms was not an option.

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Nvidia surpasses $3 trillion market cap, outshining Apple and elevating Jensen Huang to world's 13th richest person

TechSpot

Nvidia's shares were up another 5% yesterday, closing at $1,224. The company's share price has increased by more than 3,224% over the past five years and 147% this year alone.

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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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Some Generative AI Company Employees Pen Letter Wanting ‘Right to Warn’ About Risks

Tech Republic Big Data

Both the promise and the risk of "human-level" AI has always been part of OpenAI’s makeup. What should business leaders take away from this letter?

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Proposal to bring digital kiosks to Seattle streets raises debate: Public benefit or landscape clutter?

GeekWire

An IKE Smart City kiosk in Miami, where users can interact with a variety of touchscreen apps to learn about nearby businesses or events in the city, get directions, and more. (IKE Smart City Photo) A proposal to bring 30 interactive digital kiosks to downtown Seattle — in the hopes of enhancing public safety, wayfinding, Wi-Fi access, community engagement and more — spotlighted the potential of the devices while raising a number of questions and concerns during a Thursday meeting of the Seattle

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Salesforce updates Sales and Service Cloud with new capabilities

CIO Business Intelligence

Customer relationship management (CRM) software provider Salesforce on Thursday added new capabilities to its Sales Cloud and Service Cloud with updates to its Einstein AI and Data Cloud offerings. The updates to Sales Cloud aim to help enterprises make sales calls more productive, and include a generative AI enhancement to Einstein Conversation Insights, Sales Signals, and Einstein Copilot for Sales Actions.

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AI startup lands $10M seed round from Madrona, Point72 Ventures to automate complex workflows

GeekWire

From left: Ted Kummert, venture partner at Madrona; Steve Singh, managing director at Madrona; Nic Surpatanu, founder and CEO of Tektonic AI; and Henry Huang, partner at Madrona Venture Labs. (Tektonic Photo) A new startup out of Seattle called Tektonic AI has raised $10 million to fuel development of its software that automates business operations with the help of artificial intelligence technology.

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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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Tokyo hopes new Tinder-like match making app will curb population decline

TechSpot

The Asahi Shimbun, one of the largest newspapers in Japan, said the fee-based app will be operated by a private contractor and is expected to launch sometime this summer. The dating app will feature a robust registration process designed to avoid the pitfalls of more casual dating apps.

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Refactoring your IT sourcing strategy for digital success

CIO Business Intelligence

Composing a workforce is like playing chess. When it’s done well, every choice is calculated, made mindfully of both its short- and long-run impacts, and of the delicate balance in which it must hold certain key variables — cost, productivity, digital maturity, and the potential to build capabilities that last. In striking this balance, digital and technology leaders have long optimized for cost, but so rapidly is business evolving that many of them are reconsidering that approach.

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More problems for Humane, company warns Ai Pin charging case poses fire risk

TechSpot

Humane said in an email to Ai Pin buyers that they should "immediately" stop using the charging case that comes with the device following reports of a "charging issue." The company writes that the problem is a quality issue with the battery cell from a third-party vendor. It seems certain.

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Boeing’s Starliner craft docks with space station after dealing with balky thrusters

GeekWire

A view from the International Space Station shows Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft approaching for docking. (NASA via YouTube) Boeing’s Starliner capsule and its two-person NASA crew arrived at the International Space Station today after mission managers coped with some post-launch glitches involving the spacecraft’s propulsion system. “Today’s docking, I think, was challenging,” Steve Stich, program manager for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, told reporter

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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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The FBI has over 7,000 decryption keys to help victims of the LockBit ransomware

TechSpot

From its "ongoing disruption" of LockBit, the FBI has recovered more than 7,000 decryption keys for victims of the notorious ransomware cybergang. According to FBI Cyber Assistant Director Bryan Vorndran, who spoke at the 2024 Boston Conference on Cyber Security, LockBit remains a threat, and the bureau continues to gather.

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Zoho updates its collaboration tools to help with asynchronous work

CIO Business Intelligence

Zoho is updating its extensive range of collaboration products with new AI, workflow automation, and industry-specific functionality to, it said, “promote unified project management and support productive asynchronous collaboration for global businesses whose employees, customers, and partners operate on different timetables.” Four core collaboration tools — Zoho Projects, Zoho Notebook, Zoho WorkDrive, and Zoho Sign — are receiving new features, some of which are industry-specific.

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MediaTek surprises with powerful partnerships at Computex 2024

TechSpot

The approach most big companies take for keynote presentations at tech events is to provide a bit of context and strategy and then dive deep into the inevitable flurry of new product introductions.

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Workplace mentoring startup Chronus acquires employee engagement platform Imperative

GeekWire

Chronus , a Seattle-based mentoring software platform, acquired Imperative , another Seattle startup that builds tools for employee engagement. Founded in 2014, Imperative raised $3 million in 2020 to fuel growth of its platform that helps facilitate conversations between colleagues and boost organizational effectiveness. Imperative was co-founded and previously led by Aaron Hurst , who last year founded Board.Dev, which aims to increase tech representation on nonprofit boards.

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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.