Thu.Sep 12, 2024

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Seven Ways To Use GenAI For B2B Personalization

Forrester IT

B2B buyers and customers aren’t seeking more content from providers or new ways to see their first name and company used in otherwise generic messaging. Rather, they crave relevance and responsiveness — the right content delivered in the moment of need, specific to their role, in a suitable format.

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Why eBPF is critical and how it’s getting better

Network World

The open-source eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) technology has become one of the most critical foundational elements of networking with Linux over the last decade. Soon that same power will reach out to embrace Microsoft Windows, too. At the eBPF Summit on Sept. 11, users and developers detailed how they are working with eBPF today and where the technology is headed in the future.

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Why You Should Treat The EU AI Act As A Foundation, Not An Aspiration

Forrester IT

The European Union Artificial Intelligence Act is here. It’s intended to regulate a matter of unprecedented complexity: ensuring that firms use AI in a safe, trustworthy, and human-centric manner.

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CIOs of PNC Bank, Bureau of Indian Affairs Talk ‘High-Performance IT’

Information Week

During Forrester’s panel discussion, business leaders were encouraged to rev up their operations and create a true high-performance IT team.

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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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Unlocking The Future Of Mobile Banking: Insights From Forrester’s 2024 European Digital Experience Review

Forrester IT

Read this report to understand where European banks’ mobile banking apps excel, where they fall short, and how to strengthen your own apps.

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8 Things That Undermine Zero-Trust Efforts

Information Week

Zero trust isn’t optional these days, but a lot of companies are struggling with the implementation of it. Taking small steps helps.

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The CISO’s Roadmap to Purposeful Vulnerability Management

Information Week

Massive backlogs of unpatched vulnerabilities leave organizations open to damaging breaches. A take-charge approach is essential to getting enterprises on secure footing.

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The 6 Best Penetration Testing Companies for 2024

Tech Republic Security

Discover the top six penetration testing companies for businesses of all sizes. Learn the pros and cons of pentesting providers like Astra, BreachLock, and Acunetix.

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US Puts Big Bounty Bullseye on Russian Hackers

Information Week

What do big bounties mean for the ongoing battle against nation-states cyberactivity, and how can leaders mitigate the risk of their enterprises becoming victims?

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Google Cloud Strengthens Backup Service With Untouchable Vaults

Tech Republic Data Center

The backup and data recovery service adds an extra layer of protection in case a business encounters an attack or another major problem with Google Cloud storage.

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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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Data centers are now critical national infrastructure, says UK government

Network World

The UK government added data centers to its list of protected critical national infrastructure (CNI) on Thursday, the first change to its CNI list since 2015, when it added the space and defense sectors. “Putting data centers on an equal footing as water, energy and emergency services systems will mean the data centers sector can now expect greater government support in recovering from and anticipating critical incidents, giving the industry greater reassurance when setting up business in UK and

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Bumble Brings AI to Dating; Wayback Machine in Search Results; Fake Tech Interviews Include Malware

IT Toolbox

AI, Big Tech, and Cybersecurity. We like to call those the ABCs of Tech, are we've got the latest on all three in our daily tech news roundup. Here are today's essentials. The post Bumble Brings AI to Dating; Wayback Machine in Search Results; Fake Tech Interviews Include Malware appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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Oracle to offer 131,072 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs via its cloud

Network World

Oracle has started taking pre-orders for 131,072 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs in the cloud via its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Supercluster to aid large language model (LLM) training and other use cases, the company announced at the CloudWorld 2024 conference. The launch of an offering that provides these many Blackwell GPUs, otherwise known as Grace Blackwell (GB) 200, is significant as enterprises globally are faced with the unavailability of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) — a key component used

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Salesforce unveils Agentforce to help create autonomous AI bots

CIO Business Intelligence

Salesforce today released Agentforce, a new suite of low-code tools aimed at helping enterprises build autonomous AI agents for sales, service, marketing, and commerce use cases. Agentforce, which has been in pilot phase for the past six months, combines three major Salesforce tools — Agent Builder, Model Builder, and Prompt Builder — to provide the necessary software development infrastructure to create these autonomous agents, according to the company.

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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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AI-assisted cybersecurity: 3 key components you can’t ignore

Network World

Over the last year, we saw the explosive use of OpenAI’s ChatGPT accompanied by layman’s fears of the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) revolution and forecasted disruptions to markets. Without a doubt, AI will have a massive and transformative impact on much of what we do, but the time has come for a more sober and thoughtful look at how AI will change the world, and, specifically, cybersecurity.

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AI coding assistants wave goodbye to junior developers

CIO Business Intelligence

Despite mixed early returns , the outcome appears evident: Generative AI coding assistants will remake how software development teams are assembled, with QA and junior developer jobs at risk. As AI assistants become better at writing code, CIOs and dev leaders will reshape their teams, focusing on AI specialists and senior developers to oversee AI-generated code, some IT leaders say.

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Starting zero trust without spending a dime

Network World

Changing infrastructure is generally the first draw for any enterprise zero trust initiative, separating resources on the network that traditionally had carte blanche access to anything it could ping. NIST, other government agencies, and industry bodies point towards the policy enforcement point (PEP) as the gateway device or service that performs this separation, gating access based on different authentication and authorization requirements, depending on the sensitivity of the resource.

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The impact of the Supreme Court’s reversal of affirmative action, explained in one chart

Vox

Participants march at a rally protesting the Supreme Court’s ruling against affirmative action on Harvard University’s campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 1, 2023. | <p>Ziyu Julian Zhu/Xinhua via Getty Images</p> New college admissions data for the first group of admitted students since the US Supreme Court sharply limited affirmative action last year suggests that the decision has had a negative impact on Black enrollment at some universities.

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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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Paul Allen estate sells remaining Living Computers artifacts and systems to museum near Atlanta

GeekWire

Living Computers: Museum + Labs on First Avenue South in Seattle opened in 2012. The nonprofit closed in 2020 just before the pandemic and never reopened. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Living Computers: Museum + Labs will live on, in spirit, far from Seattle. The Paul Allen estate announced Thursday that it has sold the remaining historical computing and technology artifacts and systems, storytelling content and exhibits, and educational materials previously housed at LCM to Computer Museum of

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This $2,200 8 TB SSD supports USB 4, active cooling, passkeys, an e-ink screen, and more

TechSpot

Pre-orders are now open for Iodyne's Pro Mini portable SSD, shipping in the first quarter of 2025. The ultra-high-end drive includes an astounding combination of functions that users probably won't find anywhere else. The Verge notes that the upcoming 4 TB and 8 TB variants will retail for $1,500 and.

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How Business Owners Can Evolve with a Changing Technological Landscape

Tech Republic Security

Check out these five course bundles breaking down the most important IT, development, and cybersecurity skills that a business owner can master.

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Ransomware victim paid hacker, but decryption failed

TechSpot

GuidePoint Security recently acted as a "negotiator" between an unnamed company and the group behind the Hazard ransomware. The malware infected the victim's systems, encrypting "important" files and demanding payment to unlock them. The company reportedly felt compelled to pay, but the "decryptor" provided by the Hazard creators didn't work.

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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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6 Critical Things to Know About Your Default Gateway

Tech Republic

Discover the importance of a default gateway in network connectivity and security. Learn how to find yours, what it does, and why it matters.

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Russia is willing to spend some $660 million to bolster internet censorship

TechSpot

Russia's Ministry of Digital Development plans to allocate a significant sum to upgrade the country's internet censorship system, known as Technical Measures to Combat Threats (TSPU). Already deployed across local network service providers, the Kremlin aims to spend nearly 60 billion roubles (about $660 million) over the next five years.

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4 VoIP Codecs to Try If G.711 Won’t Give You Clear Calls

Tech Republic

Discover the best VoIP codecs beyond G.711 for clear calls. Learn about G.722, Opus, G.729, and AMR-WB to optimize call quality.

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iFixit reinvents the soldering iron with portable, battery-powered FixHub

TechSpot

The FixHub portable soldering station is exactly what you think it is: a battery-powered, portable soldering kit. The 55 watt-hour hub can provide up to eight hours of soldering without recharging, and has dual USB-C power delivery ports to connect up to two irons at once (or you could use.

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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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How to Set Up a VoIP Call Center on Time, Under Budget

Tech Republic

Learn my seven-step foolproof process for setting up a VoIP call center as fast as possible without breaking the bank or settling for less.

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AMD Radeon RX 7800M is now official, features 60 CUs and 12 GB of VRAM

TechSpot

The official Radeon RX 7800M specifications recently appeared on AMD's website. The new listing confirms the hardware specifications that manufacturer One-Netbook revealed in late August.

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Three Quarters of Dependency Vulnerability Patches Lead to Breakages, Report Finds

Tech Republic

Minor updates break clients 94% of the time, while version upgrades cause issues 95% of the time, according to Endor Labs researchers.

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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 GPU Benchmark

TechSpot

We've benchmarked Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 with over 40 GPUs to show how your graphics card stacks up. With the Swarm Engine pushing both GPU and CPU to their limits, find out if an upgrade is in order.

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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.