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AMD Acquisitions Focused On Strengthening AI

Forrester IT

AMD’s acquisition of ZT Systems is the most recent of multiple acquisitions that are part of a strategic effort to strengthen end-to-end AI capabilities. It comes on the heels of acquisitions of Nod.ai (completed Oct 23) and SILO AI (completed Aug24). The acquisition of Nod.ai provided open-source AI software capabilities, while SILO.

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Why Every IT Leader Needs a Team of Trusted Advisors

Information Week

Sooner or later, every IT leader runs into a virtual brick wall. That's when it's helpful to have some trusted colleagues to turn to for advice and support.

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Consumer Spending Trends And What They Mean For Your Brand

Forrester IT

My colleague Jitender Migliani and I have just published a report (Consumer Spending And The Economy Grow Despite Persistent Pessimism) based on the H2 2024 US macroeconomic trends and consumer behavior data that we’ve collected and analyzed.

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MS Intune Multi-Admin Approval Expands Support to Mobile Non-Windows Devices Policy

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 MS Intune Multi-Admin Approval Expands Support to Mobile Non-Windows Devices Policy appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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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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Fraud Management in APAC: What’s New In 2024?

Forrester IT

Much has changed since I last analyzed the fraud management landscape in Asia Pacific (APAC) back in 2022. The persistence of the digital era has transformed digital businesses, making fraud attacks ever-present. In fact, APAC is suffering more than most regions, with fraud attacks rate being above the global average.

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The Growing IT Skills Gap: A Looming Crisis for 2025

Information Week

The 2025 IT skills shortage looms large, threatening growth and innovation due to a lack of qualified tech talent.

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Fujitsu, Osaka University develop quantum circuit generator to hasten pace to commercialization

Network World

Fujitsu and Osaka University have developed new technologies that they said will accelerate the move to practical quantum computing, the next-generation computing paradigm for workloads that increasingly demand more processing power than classical computing can provide. The hardware company and the Japanese university’s Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Biology have co-developed a quantum circuit generator that features two new technologies: one that improves phase angle accuracy during

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Automate Intune Firewall Policy Reports using Graph API and Get exportJobs FirewallStatus UPN Details

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 Automate Intune Firewall Policy Reports using Graph API and Get exportJobs FirewallStatus UPN Details appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides by Sujin Nelladath.

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Report: 80% of AI projects fail, doubling regular IT project failure rates

TechSpot

Companies are investing billions of dollars into AI and machine learning, despite the slow returns and plenty of failures. The RAND Corporation wanted to find out what was behind this high failure rate of 80%, so it interviewed 65 data scientists and engineers with at least five years of experience.

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Cisco’s acquisition history has shaped its evolution

Network World

Cisco is a dominant networking force — arguably the most dominant — but it didn’t get there alone or overnight. In terms of sheer number of acquisitions, technology companies like Google, Oracle and Microsoft may have bigger totals, However, in the networking and data center world, Cisco boasts a long and rich history of acquiring companies that have helped it both solidify its leadership position in some categories and expand into new markets.

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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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How not to hire a North Korean IT spy

CIO Business Intelligence

CISOs looking for new IT hires already struggle with talent market shortages and bridging cybersecurity skills gaps. But now they face a growing challenge from an unexpected source: sanctions-busting North Korean software developers posing as potential hires. North Korea is actively infiltrating Western companies using skilled IT workers who use fake identities to pose as remote workers with foreign companies, typically but not exclusively in the US.

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AMD Ryzen 7 9700X vs. Ryzen 7 7700X: 45 Game Benchmark

TechSpot

Today we'll show you how to boost the gaming performance of your Ryzen CPU by 10% with one simple trick. Sounds too good to be true, right? But somehow, this actually works.

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VMware Cloud Foundation gains AI model store, other updates

Network World

OpenAI nearly imploded last fall when the company fired its CEO and most of its employees threatened to quit, reminding enterprise adopters about the risks of putting all their genAI eggs in one basket. Since then, AI vendors leapfrogged one another in capabilities and features, and a multitude of open-source models hit the scene, offering lower cost or more specialized alternatives.

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Plane English: Sea-Tac Airport turns to pen and paper to replace digital displays after cyberattack

GeekWire

Sea-Tac Airport is resorting to pen and paper to notify passengers about baggage carousel information in the aftermath of a cyberattack that impacted airport displays. Many employees from Port of Seattle who don’t typically work at the airport are there this week helping passengers navigate. Above, Vy Donnelly (left), senior manager of aviation finance and budget, and Eileen Francisco, director of aviation project management.

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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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Elia Group develops future-proof technology to steer decarbonization

CIO Business Intelligence

The transmission system operator Elia Group views itself as a driver of successful energy transition and an agent of change. However, in terms of in-house technology, the Belgian company’s carbon footprint data used to be stored on spreadsheets, while quality control was performed manually, limiting the Elia Group’s ability to calculate the Scope 3 upstream emissions released for all their assets.

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Solar power at night: Startup plans to sell beamed sunlight using space mirrors

TechSpot

The company's founder and CEO, Ben Nowack, recently outlined the ambitious plan at a space energy conference in London. His vision involves a network of 57 small satellites in a sun-synchronous polar orbit, approximately 370 miles above Earth.

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The three-pronged transformation strategy driving innovation at PPG

CIO Business Intelligence

As CIOs know, a highly acquisitive company will reach an inflection point when years of technology proliferation begin to stymie future growth. For this reason, paying down technical debt while innovating and supporting growth is one of the greatest challenges for the modern CIO. Bhaskar Ramachandran, CIO of PPG, which provides specialty paints to a large network of body shops and retail outlets, details how the company uses a platform, consolidation, and cloud-only approach to modernization.

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Inside Seattle Aquarium’s new Ocean Pavilion, a high-tech showcase for the tropical deep sea

GeekWire

The main attraction in Seattle Aquarium’s new Ocean Pavilion is “The Reef,” a nearly-500,000-gallon-habitat filled with tropical species typically only seen in the Indo-Pacific ocean. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Years of construction along Seattle’s waterfront is intended to bring people closer to the water and natural beauty of Puget Sound.

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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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Protecting content in the digital age: Navigating the evolving threat landscape in media publishing

CIO Business Intelligence

In today’s digital landscape, safeguarding sensitive information has become a top priority, especially for media publishing companies where the protection of data and intellectual property is crucial. In this exclusive interview, we sit down with Anoop Kumar, Head of Information Security Governance Risk and Compliance at GulfNews, Al Nisr Publishing, to discuss the evolving challenges of cybersecurity in the media industry.

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What's old is new again: GameStop is opening retro stores at existing locations

TechSpot

GameStop announced the new initiative in a brief post on X. Despite the suggestion that these will be new establishments, the store locator seems to suggest they are existing GameStop locations that are now simply selling retro goodies.

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CIOs listen up: either plan to manage fast-changing certificates, or fade away

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s tempting to view certificates and machine identities as the nuts and bolts of your organization’s tech stack: critical but purely technical functions safely left to IT practitioners. But a string of recent disruptions and upcoming policy changes are forcing a more proactive, agile, and strategic approach from the top to signal the importance of getting these fundamentals right.

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Astronomers make highest-resolution observations ever from Earth's surface

TechSpot

Researchers working with the Event Horizon Telescope program have tested a new method to observe deep space objects, particularly supermassive black holes. By using only a subset of the observatories in the EHT network, astronomers have achieved what is described as the highest resolution ever obtained from ground-based space observations.

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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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Seis conclusiones que todo CIO debería extraer de la debacle de CrowdStrike

CIO Business Intelligence

A principios del año 2000, tras la respuesta eficaz y sin precedentes de las TI al efecto 2000, el mundo hizo una chapuza de revisión a posteriori. Consumidos por la necesidad de tener a alguien a quien culpar, personas influyentes de todo el mundo proclamaron que se trataba de un engaño perpetrado por TI para inflar los presupuestos de tecnología y su importancia percibida.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 PC system requirements revealed ahead of beta

TechSpot

Activision's minimum and recommended specs for Black Ops 6 show that even PCs packing aging hardware aren't excluded. Just an Nvidia GTX 960/GTX 1650 or an AMD RX 470 graphics card will do, combined with at least an Intel Core i5-6600 or AMD Ryzen 5 1400.

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Bilbao, la proyección de una ciudad inteligente gracias a la tecnología con fin social

CIO Business Intelligence

Determinación y arrojo forman parte inequívoca del discurso de Ane Miren Ibáñez Zugazaga, directora de Modernización Digital del Ayuntamiento de Bilbao. “En Bilbao somos y queremos seguir siendo una ciudad inteligente basada en valores, atractiva, un referente en calidad de vida donde vivir, trabajar y crear”. Para lograrlo, el consistorio bilbaíno ha definido un modelo estratégico con el firme propósito de transformar digitalmente la ciudad.

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This YouTube video can help flush water out of your smartphone

TechSpot

Consumers are increasingly turning to YouTube videos that claim to be able to remove water from your device using sound. The idea works much like the water eject feature on the Apple Watch. The YouTube clip plays a specific tone that causes the phone's speaker to move, generating a tiny.

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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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El coste oculto del código inseguro: algo más que filtraciones de datos

CIO Business Intelligence

Cuando se producen filtraciones significativas como las de Equifax o Uber, es fácil centrarse en el enorme daño financiero y para la reputación que suponen todos esos datos de usuario comprometidos. Sin duda, esos costes son enormes. La realidad es que el código de riesgo tiene un segundo coste insidioso más allá de las propias infracciones. Todas esas vulnerabilidades persistentes y las correcciones rápidas hechas bajo presión crean una deuda técnica masiva que sigue acumulándose.

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The Soulscircuit Pilet is a retro-cool modular Raspberry Pi 5 PC

TechSpot

A company called Soulscircuit has unveiled a Raspberry Pi 5-powered portable mini PC with a highly modular design. The Pilet is a small tablet PC compatible with a range of accessories. The company hasn't provided all the details about the device as it is still a work in progress, but.

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Oracle expands cloud infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, boosting the Kingdom’s AI and Digital Economy

CIO Business Intelligence

The new public cloud region in Riyadh is Oracle’s second cloud region in Saudi Arabia and part of Oracle’s US $1.5 billion investment to boost the country’s cloud capacity in line with Saudi Vision 2030 To meet the rapidly growing demand for its AI and cloud services, Oracle announced the opening of its second public cloud region in Saudi Arabia. The new Riyadh cloud region will help public and private sector organizations migrate all types of workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), givi

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Wyze’s new AI feature lets users search across footage from security cameras

GeekWire

Wyze says its new video search feature works with a wide variety of queries. (Screenshot via Wyze video) Wyze Labs is rolling out a new feature that uses artificial intelligence to let users search via text for specific moments in their security-camera videos. The Kirkland, Wash.-based company is releasing the AI video search feature Wednesday for customers on its $9.99/month Cam Unlimited plan.

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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.