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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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NASA spots pair of supermassive black holes battling it out as their galaxies collide

TechSpot

At just 300 light-years apart, these are the nearest confirmed pair of supermassive black holes spotted in our local universe using visible and X-ray light observations. While more distant black hole couples have been found before, this one provides an unprecedented close-up look at a showdown that was likely much.

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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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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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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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Get your data AI-ready

CIO Business Intelligence

For most organizations, the effective use of AI is essential for future viability and, in turn, requires large amounts of accurate and accessible data. Across industries, 78 % of executives rank scaling AI and machine learning (ML) use cases to create business value as their top priority over the next three years. Yet, organizations need help in scaling AI and moving applications from pilot to production.

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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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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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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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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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Uber abraza la nube con CPU personalizadas

CIO Business Intelligence

Cuando Uber decidió en 2022 dejar de gestionar sus propios centros de datos, la empresa de transporte y reparto quería un alto nivel de control sobre cómo se ejecutaban sus cargas de trabajo en la nube, hasta el nivel de CPU. Uber, que anteriormente albergaba más del 90% de su infraestructura en sus propios centros de datos, recurrió a Oracle y Google en 2023 para que fueran sus proveedores en la nube en un esfuerzo por alejarlo “todo” de su propia infraestructura local.

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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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Dubai’s AI Security Policy: Paving the way for a digital future

CIO Business Intelligence

Dubai, a global leader in innovation and smart city development, is positioning itself as a pioneer in artificial intelligence implementation. Under the visionary leadership of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the emirate is making rapid strides in digital transformation, with AI playing a pivotal role in these efforts. A core aspect of Dubai’s AI strategy is ensuring the security of AI systems, and the Dubai Electronic Security Center is at the forefront of these efforts.

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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.