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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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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.

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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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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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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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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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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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GEP Outlook Report 2025

For years, you and your team have fought an uphill battle. Supply disruptions. Cost pressures. ESG compliance. You name it, and you’ve had to navigate it. In 2025, many challenges will persist, but procurement and supply chain teams have a powerful tool with rapidly advancing capabilities to tackle them — artificial intelligence (AI). The GEP Outlook 2025 report examines the disruptive transformation AI is driving in procurement and supply chains, alongside other key trends and the macroeconomic

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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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Predicting the Future of Sales: How AI and Automation Will Revolutionize Strategies

In this exploration, we're diving into predictions about the future of sales. We're talking about a complete shake-up powered by automation and artificial intelligence (AI). These aren't just fancy tools — they're real game-changers. Automation and AI are here to redefine every interaction, making them smarter, faster, and more meaningful. From personalized customer journeys to streamlined sales processes, the goal is to make every moment count, enhancing both efficiency and connection.

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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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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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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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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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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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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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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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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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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mystery wireless chips uncovered in Apple's latest Macs and iPads

TechSpot

Evidence has emerged that several Apple devices released since last September contain a mysterious Thread wireless chip, as spotted by The Verge. These devices include the M4 iPad Pro, M3 MacBook Pros, M3 iMacs, M2 iPad Air, and more. The presence of Thread was uncovered via FCC filings, which show.

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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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Marvel's Midnight Suns is free on the Epic Games Store

TechSpot

Midnight Suns has been out for a while now, but if you haven't given it a shot, you're definitely missing a treat. Some may find the non-combat sections a bit tedious, but it's still one of the best superhero games ever made.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.