Forrester IT
OCTOBER 29, 2024
AI and, most recently, generative AI (genAI) have uncovered the true power of automating tasks that previously were tedious to complete or difficult to improve the efficiency of the work within a singular domain of the business.
All Things Distributed
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
On AWS Lambda's 10th anniversary, I'm publishing the internal PR/FAQ that helped launch this groundbreaking service. This document provides insight into the customer problems we observed in the early 2010s and our vision for serverless computing. Readers will find annotations throughout, offering a glimpse into how our long-term thinking has influenced Lambda's evolution over the past decade.
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Information Week
OCTOBER 15, 2024
The next major moves in quantum computing are expected to take technology on a generational journey, though it will still be some years before tangible results emerge.
Network World
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Touchdown! More than 70,000 fans celebrate the Carolina Panthers’ first points in Munich’s Allianz Arena on Nov. 10, and they can rewatch the action via instant replay on large video screens. The USA’s National Football League is visiting Munich. While the fans cheer, the faces of Anish Patel, director of stadium & wireless engineering at the NFL, and Aaron Amendolia, deputy CIO of the NFL, slowly relax.
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Tech Republic Security
OCTOBER 4, 2024
Check Point documented 5,000 spam emails coming from legitimate-looking domains as fake Microsoft application alerts. Real links complete the trap.
GeekWire
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Kyra Wilson, left, University of Washington doctoral student in the Information School and Aylin Caliskan, a UW assistant professor in the iSchool. (UW Photos) As employers increasingly use digital tools to process job applications, a new study from the University of Washington highlights the potential for significant racial and gender bias when using AI to screen resumes.
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Tech Republic
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation assert that C, C++, and other memory-unsafe languages contribute to potential security breaches.
TechSpot
OCTOBER 26, 2024
Researchers at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab have developed a new type of optical memory that stores data by transferring light from rare-earth element atoms embedded in a solid material to nearby quantum defects. They published their study in Physical Review Research.
Vox
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Sam Altman. OpenAI, the company that brought you ChatGPT, just sold you out. Since its founding in 2015, its leaders have said their top priority is making sure artificial intelligence is developed safely and beneficially. They’ve touted the company’s unusual corporate structure as a way of proving the purity of its motives. OpenAI was a nonprofit controlled not by its CEO or by its shareholders, but by a board with a single mission: keep humanity safe.
Tech Republic Big Data
AUGUST 13, 2024
On August 6, 2.7 billion records from National Public Data, including social security numbers, were leaked on a dark web forum.
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Forrester IT
JULY 3, 2024
I’m pleased to announce the publication of the second of my two APAC generative AI (genAI) B2C marketing reports, Generative AI Marketing Use Cases In APAC (client-only access).
Dataconomy
OCTOBER 25, 2024
OpenAI is set to introduce Orion, its latest model, by December, according to The Verge. Unlike previous releases, Orion won’t be immediately available to all users through ChatGPT. Instead, OpenAI plans to give priority access to its close business partners, who will use Orion to build their own tools and features. OpenAI might release Orion by December OpenAI is aiming for a more controlled rollout, allowing for better integration and customization by trusted partners before making it wi
Information Week
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Generative artificial intelligence is falling victim to hype -- and so are the companies that invested in it. Here’s what needs to change to turn the situation around.
Network World
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Cisco’s Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (URWB) hardware has been hit with a hard-to-ignore flaw that could allow attackers to hijack the access points’ web interface using a crafted HTTP request. Identified as CVE-2024-20418 , Cisco said the issue affects three products : the Catalyst IW9165D Heavy Duty Access Points, the Catalyst IW9165E Rugged Access Points and Wireless Clients, and the Catalyst IW9167E Heavy Duty Access Points.
Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.
Tech Republic Security
OCTOBER 9, 2024
On average, it takes adversaries just 42 seconds and five interactions to execute a GenAI jailbreak, according to Pillar Security.
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
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 31, 2024
While lawyers argue in the WP Engine versus Automattic litigation whether the hyperbole should be believed, the continuing battle of words, almost all nasty ones, is starting to raise doubts how much an enterprise should rely on open source. And even if open source can be avoided at all in late 2024. The latest legal documents came from Automattic, which argued that its people did nothing wrong and that the blame lies solely with WP Engine.
Tech Republic
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
About a year after Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, the company released VMware Tanzu Data Services to make connections to some third-party data engines easier.
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TechSpot
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Getting a PlayStation 5 for its suggested retail price was a near impossibility in 2020 and 2021. Scalpers and scalping companies unapologetically bought the consoles in their thousands to sell at massively marked-up prices, making purchasing one at its MSRP from a retailer a near impossibility.
Vox
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
In August, the Oakland Unified School District became the first major school district in the country to electrify its entire bus system. | David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Riding an electric school bus seems like it would be an uncanny experience. As a kid, I remember the bus being a loud and smoggy place that left me smelling like diesel.
Tech Republic Big Data
JULY 9, 2024
Nearly 10 billion passwords have been leaked on a popular hacking forum, according to Cybernews.
Forrester IT
AUGUST 15, 2024
For a time, it appeared that the reach of serverless platforms had exceeded their grasp. After some notable success stories like the high-profile “serverless-first” Capital One strategy, hype appeared to be dying down.
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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.
Dataconomy
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Gemini 2.0 leaked this week, sparking anticipation for Google’s latest AI model release. TestingCatalog identified a model titled Gemini-2.0-Pro-Exp-0111 on the Gemini web app, available only to select users under the Gemini Advanced section. This discovery has heightened speculation about Gemini 2.0’s potential capabilities and suggests Google may be gearing up for a public launch soon.
Information Week
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Artificial Intelligence Applied to Cybersecurity - The Convergence of AI and Cybersecurity and the Transformative Role of Artificial Intelligence
Network World
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Two of six critical vulnerabilities in Palo Alto Networks’ Expedition Migration tool, which the company patched in October, are being actively exploited according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. CISA has now added the two vulnerabilities — CVE-2024-9463 and CVE-2024-9465 — to its known exploited vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, putting CISOs who ignored last month’s warnings to patch the Palo Alto flaws on notice that their systems are now under threat.
Network World
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Supermicro have separately announced new liquid cooling products to keep up with the heat generated by large-scale AI deployments. In the case of HPE, it showed off a design that offers direct liquid cooling without an expensive component: the fans. Liquid cooling is done through one of three ways: chillers, or coolants that cool the pipes as the hot liquid travels through it; fans that blow on the pipe but don’t produce cold air, which is lower power but als
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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.
Network World
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Fortinet has expanded the reach of its AI-powered security assistant that uses genAI techniques to simplify and automate security analyses. The company is adding new components to Fortinet Advisor (FortiAI), its natural language, AI-based security assistant that promises to help customers better handle security operations and network management. The FortiAI assistant initially was part of Fortinet’s FortiSIEM security information and event management platform and FortiSOAR security orchestration
Network World
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
IBM launched its most advanced quantum computer yet last week at its inaugural quantum developer conference. It features nearly twice the gates of last year’s quantum utility demonstration – and a 50-fold speed increase. Last year, in a paper published in Nature, IBM announced a breakthrough demonstration of quantum computing that can produce accurate results beyond those of classical computers.
Network World
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
As network environments become more complex, network teams struggle to gain visibility across internet and cloud components, citing blind spots and a lack of skilled workers as contributing factors to slow problem resolution, according to a Broadcom report. Broadcom’s research found that 98% of companies use or plan to use cloud infrastructure and 95% support remote workers—two factors that contribute to network complexity.
Network World
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
The open source Wireshark network protocol analyzer is among the most widely used technologies by networking professionals. Version 4.4, which became generally available on Aug. 28, has a number of new features aimed at making it even easier to use and better understand what’s running on a network. The improvements include: Enhanced graphing dialogs (I/O graphs, flow graph, TCP stream graphs) Automatic profile switching based on display filters Improved display filter functionality New protocol
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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