Information Week

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Advanced AI tools are revolutionizing not only how we see the Earth but also delivering actionable insights to help us take the necessary steps to improve it.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The Coca-Cola Company released three new AI-generated Holiday ads inspired by the beverage giant’s classic 1995 “The Holidays Are Coming” commercial. Produced entirely with AI video models like Runway and Luma Dream Machine, this represents a step forward in photorealism for AI-generated video.

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Information Week

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Plastic waste is one of today’s most complex environmental challenges, and people are putting AI to work to understand it and solve it.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

New shopping "holidays," including Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday, have added to the Black Friday craze. That's why ensuring your IT infrastructure is ready for the holiday onslaught is so important. Experts weigh in on how you can prevent a tech blackout and keep your holidays happy. The post How to Avoid a Tech Blackout on Black Friday appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The German government has blamed an act of sabotage for the cutting of two important undersea fiber optic cables, one connecting connecting Finland and Germany, and the other linking Sweden and Lithuania, on Sunday and Monday. The first cable break happened at around 8 a.m. GMT (3 a.m. EST) on Sunday in the 135-mile undersea link between the Swedish island of Gotland and Lithuania, Lithuanian operator Telia Lietuva said.

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Information Week

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

What role does AI have in the current state of cloud? What types of cloud systems and resources stand to benefit from, or need to adapt to, AI?

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Network World

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Secure access service edge provider Cato Networks today announced it added transport layer security inspection capabilities to its SASE platform to enable customers to inspect TLS traffic more easily and quickly. Cato Safe TLS Inspection is part of the Cato SASE Cloud Platform, and it provides customers will the ability to fully inspect TLS traffic flows — which only 45% of 2,500 Cato customers currently do, Cato found in its Q3 Cato CTRL SASE threat report.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Many organizations are mortgaging their futures by reallocating IT resources from long-term projects to achieve short-term wins, according to a recent survey of CEOs. Two-thirds of CEOs surveyed by the IBM Institute for Business Value acknowledge raiding long-term IT projects to achieve short-term goals. At the same time, the CEOs surveyed see a focus on short-term performance as the top barrier to innovation.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Immersion cooling in the data center space gets a lot of positive attention for the formulations that enhance thermal performance, material compatibility, and durability. CompuZol™ Immersion Fluid Solution, for example, comes with best-in-class material compatibility, durability and dependable thermal performance. Most notably, immersion cooling has been found to reduce power consumption by up to 30% compared to air-cooled systems and, because it is a single-phase system, it uses less water t

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Atom Computing is working with Microsoft on fault-tolerant quantum computers. (Atom Computing Photo) Microsoft and Atom Computing say they’ve reached a new milestone in their effort to build fault-tolerant quantum computers that can show an advantage over classical computers. Microsoft says it will start delivering the computers’ quantum capabilities to customers by the end of 2025, with availability via the Azure cloud service as well as through on-premises hardware. “Together

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Network World

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

IBM is expanding its AI accelerator options for enterprise users of its cloud service. AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators are now available as a service on IBM Cloud, the vendors announced. With 192GB of high-bandwidth memory, the MI300X accelerators are equipped for large AI model inferencing and fine tuning. Their large memory capacity can help customers run larger models with fewer GPUs, potentially lowering costs for inferencing, according to AMD.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

From obscurity to ubiquity, the rise of large language models (LLMs) is a testament to rapid technological advancement. Just a few short years ago, models like GPT-1 (2018) and GPT-2 (2019) barely registered a blip on anyone’s tech radar. But with the advent of GPT-3 in 2020, LLMs exploded onto the scene, captivating the world’s attention and forever altering the landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), and in the process, becoming an essential part of our everyday computing lives.

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Tech Republic Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Security-conscious Mac users may need more protection than their built-in tools provide. Learn about the extra features and functionality offered by the best free antivirus software providers for Mac in 2024.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly emerging as a game changer for enterprises, but turning its potential into measurable value remains a significant challenge. According to a recent IDC study (Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 4, IDC, April 2024), companies are conducting an average of 37 GenAI proofs of concept (POCs), with only five advancing to production.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Getting started on the Linux command line might seem overwhelming at first, but the many commands you need to use will fall into place more quickly than you might imagine. Let’s start with some introductory but very important commands. First, when you open a command terminal or log into a remote Linux server, you will be sitting at the command prompt.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

La mayoría de los ejecutivos de TI y de negocios reconocen la necesidad de una alineación estrecha. Entienden que sus estrategias, capacidades, recursos y sistemas de gestión deben configurarse para respaldar el propósito y los objetivos generales de la empresa. Pero el desafío que enfrentan muchos ejecutivos es que tienden a centrarse en cómo su área en particular se alinea con los objetivos generales, excluyendo otras facetas de la organización.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella directed the company’s security team to boost a bounty program for AI and cloud bugs during one of Microsoft’s weekly Secure Future Initiative meetings. (GeekWire File Photo) If security is really more important than everything else, will it be in the keynote? Microsoft, under intense pressure to better protect its systems and customers from cyberattacks, will answer that question by giving its top security execs a prime spot on stage Tuesday morning at it

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

All industries and modern applications are undergoing rapid transformation powered by advances in accelerated computing, deep learning, and artificial intelligence. The next phase of this transformation requires an intelligent data infrastructure that can bring AI closer to enterprise data. The challenges of integrating data with AI workflows When I speak with our customers, the challenges they talk about involve integrating their data and their enterprise AI workflows.

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Information Week

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The social media giant’s acquisition of WhatsApp is facing growing antitrust scrutiny over data sharing between its other applications.

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Tech Republic

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Dell announced new AI and cybersecurity advancements at Microsoft Ignite, including APEX File Storage and Copilot services for Azure.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

As enthusiasm for AI and generative AI mounts, creating a winning AI strategy to help reduce operating costs and increase efficiency is easily topping the priority list for IT executives. There’s little question businesses are ready to reap the rewards of AI. Gartner projects that spending on AI software will grow to $297.9 billion by 2027, with overall market growth accelerating from 17.8% to 20.4% in the same timeframe.

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Tech Republic

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Protect your business from VoIP fraud. Learn how to recognize the most common types and harden your phone system security.

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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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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

(CoMotion Photo) Plug and Play , a Silicon Valley-based group that operates innovation programs in more than 60 locations worldwide, is coming to Seattle. The organization will run two new annual accelerator programs in the Seattle region. One will be located at the University of Washington in Seattle, in partnership with CoMotion. Plug and Play will have 10-to-15 startups based at the UW’s Startup Hall each year.

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Tech Republic

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Microsoft Ignite 2024 unveils groundbreaking AI, security, and Teams innovations, shaping the future of enterprise tech and digital transformation.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

WTIA CEO Michael Schutzler speaks at a recent WTIA FullConTech event in Seattle. (WTIA Photo) Michael Schutzler , CEO of the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA), is retiring at the end of this year after more than a decade leading the group. Kelly Fukai , WTIA’s current COO, will take over as CEO. Schutzler is a veteran of the tech industry who has worked as a founder, entrepreneur, investor, and advisor.

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Tech Republic

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Find out what remote access software is, how it works, and why you should consider it for you and your business.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Bling Capital’s Ben Ling (left) and Kyle Lui. (Bling Photos) Bling Capital has raised $270 million for its fourth fund as the 6-year-old venture capital firm looks to invest in more early stage tech startups across enterprise software, fintech, marketplaces, healthcare, and consumer software. Ben Ling , a former general partner at Khosla Ventures and early backer of Lyft and Instacart, founded Bling in 2018.

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Tech Republic

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

NVIDIA reveals cutting-edge AI and supercomputing innovations at SC 2024, highlighting partnerships and new breakthroughs in HPC and AI-driven research.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Muchas organizaciones están hipotecando su futuro reasignando recursos de TI de proyectos a largo plazo para lograr objetivos a corto plazo, según una encuesta reciente a directores ejecutivos. Dos tercios de los directores ejecutivos encuestados por el IBM Institute for Business Value reconocen que se dedican a proyectos de TI a largo plazo para lograr objetivos a corto plazo.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

For those who used to enjoy them, LAN parties are a fond memory: everyone crowded into one room, wires and empty pizza boxes all over the floor, the smell of snacks, soda, and sweat. Staying up to the small hours of the morning playing the likes of Quake, Starcraft, Return.

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Financial institutions must navigate a complex web of policies, procedures and regulations to ensure compliance and manage risk. When Hellenic Bank, a leading retail lender in Cyprus, set out to transform its procurement operations, it needed more than just software deployment. It required a partner that would help embed its intricate buying processes — with all its validations, risk assessments and tiered approvals — into a unified system.

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