whatis.com, Friday, July 14,2023
12 Of The Best Large Language Models
Large language models have been affecting search for years and have been brought to the forefront by ChatGPT and other chatbots. more →
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Monday’s Briefing · July 17
SiliconANGLE , Monday, July 10,2023
Enterprise-Grade Generative AI Automation: Unpacking The Hype, Understanding The Challenges
The recent news about generative artificial intelligence is creating a lot of justifiable excitement around the new possibilities for human-computer interaction. However, as with past AI and machine learning hype cycles, realizing material benefits will be elusive if generative AI is treated as a magic wand, particularly in the context of enterprise-grade automation. more →
The Next Platform, Friday, July 14,2023
Enterprises Are Not Going To Miss The Fourth Wave Of AI
IBM announced its Watsonx software development stack back in May, and today it is starting to ship it to customers. We wanted to know exactly what the heck it is. And so we reached out to Sriram Raghavan, vice president of AI strategy and roadmaps at IBM Research, to get a handle on what Watsonx is and why it will be important for the commercialization of large language models. more →
techradar, Thursday, July 13,2023
Google Bard Can Now Speak Loud And Clear As Update Introduces Speech Feature
Google Bard is saying its first words thanks to a recent update that gives the AI the ability to read out generated responses in over 40 different languages. The newfound language support includes Arabic, Chinese, German, and Spanish. more →
Continuity Central, Wednesday, July 12,2023
Managing AI Risks: The Ethical Imperative
Peter Ruffley explores the ethical issues affecting the corporate adoption of AI, the importance of trust and the need for robust data sets that support robust bias checking. more →
The Register, Tuesday, July 11,2023
Putting LLMs Into Production Is A Monumental Task - Vector Databases Could Light The Way
Last month MongoDB announced its public preview of Vector Search among the updates to its developer platform of its Atlas database-as-a-service. The move means document database MongoDB joins Cassandra, PostgreSQL and SingleStore among the systems supporting similar features as the interest in putting large language models (LLMs) into production gathers pace. more →
LinuxLinks, Monday, July 10,2023
Best Free And Open Source Alternatives To Google Password Manager
Google has a firm grip on the desktop. Their products and services are ubiquitous. Don't get us wrong, we're long-standing admirers of many of Google's products and services. They are often high quality, easy to use, and 'free', but there can be downsides of over-reliance on a specific company. For example, there are concerns about their privacy policies, business practices, and an almost insatiable desire to control all of our data, all of the time. more →
ZDNet, Monday, July 10,2023
Want To Build Your Own AI Chatbot? Say Hello To Open-Source HuggingChat
ChatGPT may be dominating AI coverage but If you're super-geeky, you can build your own chatbot using HuggingChat and a few other tools. more →
Gestalt IT, Monday, July 10,2023
Building Resilient Infrastructure At The Edge With Craig Nunes Of Nebulon
Edge infrastructure is susceptible to many of the same security risks as datacenter and cloud, but is often run in less protected environments. more →
Gestalt IT, Tuesday, July 11,2023
Security Is Not Privacy (27 m)
Modern information security teams have a need for visibility to ensure user safety. Traffic flows and patterns are analyzed for anomalies and polices are put in place to ensure everyone is secure. However, protecting the data that you've collected is an even bigger task. more →
Gestalt IT, Thursday, July 13,2023
Solidigm's P5-D5430: QLC Flash For Robust Scalability And Reliability
Computational innovations in the past few years have revolutionized data processing, with modern applications ingesting and processing astounding quantities of data. more →
Gestalt IT, Wednesday, July 12,2023
The Battle Over Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The Linux world is abuzz with controversy as IBM Red Hat puts the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) behind a paywall, leaving CentOS Stream as the only accessible option. more →
Dataversity, Tuesday, July 11,2023
9 Benefits Of Business Intelligence
Business intelligence (BI) refers to the process of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting business data to unlock business potential. In 2023, business intelligence plays a crucial role in the growth and success of global businesses, providing benefits that help them gain a competitive edge. BI tools assist business leaders in making data-driven decisions and provide them with real-time actionable insights. more →
How to Leverage Threat Intelligence Without Drowning: The Zero Noise Approach
This session introduces the Zero Noise Approach - a methodology for ingesting and operationalizing Cloud TI through attacker-based baselines, continuous feedback loops, and a 'no alert left behind' mindset. more →
Cyber Defense Magazine, Thursday, July 13,2023
Standards? Why Do They Matter A Lot?
Data encryption is essential in today's technologically advanced world to safeguard sensitive information against hacker assaults and data breaches, as an estimated 30,000 websites are hacked each day globally. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a set of recommendations and rules for encryption and cryptography protocols to guarantee high security. These are referred to as NIST Encryption Standards, and they offer businesses a foundation for creating robust security protocols to safeguard their sensitive data. more →
Sectigo, Thursday, July 13,2023
What Is A Digital Certificate?
Learn what a digital certificate is, why it's important, the different types and their use cases, and more. See which digital certificate is right for your organization. more →
Linux Capable, Wednesday, July 12,2023
Curl Command In Linux: 30 Powerful Examples Unveiled
In the vast landscape of Linux, there exist tools that, once mastered, can unlock a new level of productivity and understanding. One such tool is cURL, a command-line utility designed for data transfer across a multitude of protocols. more →
2DayGeek, Monday, July 10,2023
How to map LUN, Disk, LVM and FileSystem in Linux
There are situations where you want to map storage LUN (Logical Unit Number), Block Device, LVM (LV & VG names) and File System (FS) information for FS expansion or Disaster Recovery (DR) operation. more →
ZDNet, Thursday, July 13,2023
Linux Has Over 3% Of The Desktop Market? It's More Complicated Than That
StatCounter says it does, but a closer look reveals old-school Linux desktops are still stuck at a lower number. If you take a broader view, however, Linux is the most popular end-user operating system of all. more →
The Next Platform, Thursday, July 13,2023
Linux Is The Next Platform, But Who Pays To Maintain It?
Red Hat has once again dropped another huge boulder into the normally serene - or at least relatively calm - open source waters. more →
OSTechNix, Friday, July 14,2023
Master The Command Line With Useful Bash Aliases In Linux And Unix
Boost Your Linux Command Line Productivity: Explore the World of Useful Bash Aliases in Linux. more →
You Can't Scale Software Testing with Fragile Automation
In this exclusive webinar, Guy Currier, Analyst at Futurum Group, and Josh Duke, Test Cloud Specialist, at UiPath discuss how teams currently approach software testing and test automation, where they are experiencing the greatest friction, and how they are evaluating AI-powered and agentic approaches. more →
Tech&Learning, Friday, July 14,2023
Cybersecurity In The Classroom: What Teachers Can Do
Teachers can boost classroom cybersecurity with these resources, best practices, and more more →
Tech&Learning, Friday, July 14,2023
The Future Of Generative AI In Edtech
Infusing AI into edtech will open a new world of teaching and learning opportunities more →
Datamation, Friday, July 14,2023
What Is A Hypervisor?
A hypervisor, also known as a virtual machine monitor (VMM), is a type of software used to create and run virtual machines. There are two main types of hypervisors with a wide range of use cases, including consolidating servers by moving workloads to virtual machines, creating isolated environments for testing and development, and facilitating remote desktop access. more →
Building the AI Factory: CI/CD, GitOps, and Delivery for GenAI
Join our expert panel to discover why you shouldn't build a separate AI stack. Instead, learn actionable, engineering-focused solutions to manage GenAI by extending the disciplines you already use, including GitOps, CI/CD, policy-as-code, and declarative delivery. more →
Fortinet News, Thursday, July 13,2023
Career Perspectives Of Being A Woman In Cybersecurity
Fortinet is committed to advancing women with various backgrounds through its Training Institute to create more opportunities for women in cyber, helping to address the cybersecurity skills gap while also diversifying the field. For women thinking of entering the field of cyber or looking to grow in their current careers, we recently spoke with Mouna Skhiri, Systems Engineer at Fortinet, to learn about her experience and advice for women in the field. more →
Fortinet News, Tuesday, July 11,2023
Fortinet To Attend Black Hat 2023 In Las Vegas
Black Hat USA 2023 will again be a hybrid event, featuring an in-person component at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas as well as a virtual experience for those preferring to attend online. Fortinet is proud to be returning to Black Hat USA again this year as a Platinum Plus Sponsor. more →
Fortinet News, Wednesday, July 12,2023
LokiBot Campaign Targets Microsoft Office Document Using Vulnerabilities and Macros
In a recent FortiGuard Labs investigation, we came across several malicious Microsoft Office documents designed to exploit known vulnerabilities. more →
Fortinet News, Monday, July 10,2023
Meet LockBit: The Most Prevalent Ransomware in 2022
On June 14th, 2023, the CISA, FBI, MS-ISAC, and multiple international cyber security organizations released a joint advisory for the LockBit ransomware. This ransomware group has been active since early 2020, targeting organizations across numerous industries, including energy and government sectors. According to the advisory, LockBit was the most active ransomware in 2022. more →
Lenovo News, Friday, July 14,2023
Lenovo Grows AI Infrastructure Revenue to Over US$2 Billion and Brings AI to the Data with Industry's Most Comprehensive Portfolio
Lenovo simplifies deployment for businesses with additional US$1 billion investment in portfolio expansion and one-stop enablement wherever data resides, from the pocket to the cloud more →
Lenovo News, Wednesday, July 12,2023
Lenovo Receives Top-Score As Best Place To Work For Disability Inclusion
Lenovo has been recognized as a best place to work for disability inclusion by the Disability Equality Index (DEI), the world's most comprehensive benchmarking tool for the Fortune 1000 and Am Law 2001. more →
NVIDIA News, Thursday, July 13,2023
AI-Fueled Productivity: Generative AI Opens New Era Of Efficiency Across Industries
A watershed moment on Nov. 22, 2022, was mostly virtual, yet it shook the foundations of nearly every industry on the planet. more →
NVIDIA News, Wednesday, July 12,2023
MosaicML Helps AI Users Boost Accuracy, Cut Costs and Save Time
Startup MosaicML is on a mission to help the AI community improve prediction accuracy, decrease costs and save time by providing tools for easy training and deployment of large AI models. more →
NVIDIA News, Wednesday, July 12,2023
Score! Team NVIDIA Takes Trophy in Recommendation Systems
A five-person global team recounts how it won a prestigious challenge in recommenders, the AI engines of the digital economy. more →
Autonomous Operations Starts with Resilience
In this session, we'll explore how organizations are evolving from reactive operations to autonomous operational resilience: systems that continuously observe application health, understand dependencies, anticipate operational risk, and take intelligent action before users and the business feel the impact. more →
