Wed.Sep 18, 2024

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The Trouble with AI and Identity

Dataversity

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has earned a reputation as a silver bullet solution to a myriad of modern business challenges across industries. From improving diagnostic care to revolutionizing the customer experience, many industries and organizations have experienced the true transformational power of AI. However, that’s not the case for the masses.

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Unleash Your Innovation: Announcing the Databricks Generative AI Startup Challenge with Over $1 Million in Credits, Prizes, and Potential Venture Funding

databricks

The Databricks Generative AI Startup Challenge offers $1M+ in prizes for innovative startups building Generative AI use cases on Databricks. Apply by November 1, 2024!

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Routed Optical Networking Continues to Transform the Industry

Cisco Wireless

Learn why Cisco Routed Optical Networking has been deployed by more than 200 customers who have increased capacity, reduced energy consumption, and lowered network costs complexity, and footprint.

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Inference-Friendly Models with MixAttention

databricks

Transformer models, the backbone of modern language AI, rely on the attention mechanism to process context when generating output. During inference, the attention.

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Cloudera Evaluates Integrated Data and AI Exchange Business Line to Optimize Data-Driven Generative AI Use Cases

Cloudera Blog

According to recent survey data from Cloudera, 88% of companies are already utilizing AI for the tasks of enhancing efficiency in IT processes, improving customer support with chatbots, and leveraging analytics for better decision-making. More and more enterprises are leveraging pre-trained models for various applications, from natural language processing to computer vision.

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Security best practices for the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

databricks

At Databricks, we know that data is one of your most valuable assets. Our product and security teams work together to deliver an enterprise-grade Data Intelligence Platform that enables you to defend against security risks and meet your compliance obligations. In this blog, we'll explain how you can leverage our platform's security features to establish a robust defense-in-depth posture that protects your data and AI assets from risks.

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Article: Embracing Reactive Applications on JVM: A Deep Dive Into Modern I/O Models and Vert.x

InfoQ Articles

This article discusses the shift from blocking to non-blocking and asynchronous I/O models, highlighting their role in modern software development. It focuses on Vert.x, a toolkit for building reactive applications on the JVM, featuring the Multi-Reactor Pattern, Event Bus, and Verticles. Vert.x is ideal for cloud, Big Data, and IoT, as shown through benchmarks and real-world examples.

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Through the Looking Glass: More Metaphors and LLMs

TDAN

Part I When I finished my last article, “Metaphors, Meadows, MUNCH, and Models of the Large Language Kind,” I stated my intention to follow up with Part II. I would cover whether a knowledge graph’s vocabulary of “triples” relates to metaphoric thinking.

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Hybrid Cloud Journey using Amazon Outposts and AWS Local Zones

AWS Architecture

This post was co-written with Amy Flanagan, Vice President of Architecture and leader of the Virtual Architecture Team (VAT) at athenahealth, and Anusha Dharmalingam, Executive Director and Senior Architect at athenahealth. athenahealth has embarked on an ambitious journey to modernize its technology stack by leveraging AWSs hybrid cloud solutions. This transformation aims to enhance scalability, performance, and developer productivity, ultimately improving the quality of care provided to its pa

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D2DO251: AI For the Rest of Us – New Conference Alert!

Packet Pushers

AI is everywhere. So are questions about AI’s value, how it really works, and how it will affect technology. Hannah Foxwell aims to demystify AI via a new conference, AI for the Rest of Us, taking place October 24-25, 2024 in London. Hannah hopes to create a collaborative learning environment. In today’s Day Two DevOps. Read more » AI is everywhere.

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Cato CTRL Threat Research: CVE-2023-49559 – gqlparser Directive Overload DoS Vulnerability 

CATO Networks

Executive Summary The Cato CTRL and Cato Application Security Research teams recently discovered CVE-2023-49559 , a directive overload Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the gqlparser library, which is a crucial component in the development and running of GraphQL applications. The vulnerability is of medium severity (CVSS score of 5.3). The gqlparser library is an integrated component of the gqlgen Golang GraphQL server, widely used in web applications to handle GraphQL queries.

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Charting a Course Through the Data Mapping Maze in Three Parts

Dataversity

Companies are dealing with more data sources than ever – sales figures, customer profiles, inventory updates, you name it. Data professionals say, on average, data volumes are growing by 63% per month in their organizations. Data teams are struggling to ensure all that data hangs together across systems and is accurate and consistent. Bad data is bad […] The post Charting a Course Through the Data Mapping Maze in Three Parts appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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How to Build a Robust Data Architecture for Scalable Business Growth

TDAN

In the digital age, businesses rely on high-quality, easily accessible data to guide all manner of decisions and encourage growth. However, as a business grows, the way the organization interacts with its data can change, making processes less efficient and impairing progress toward business goals.

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Data Crime: Your Phone Isn’t Here

TDAN

I call it a “data crime” when someone is abusing or misusing data. When we understand these stories and their implications, it can help us learn from the mistakes and prevent future data crimes. The stories can also be helpful if you must explain the importance of data management to someone.

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Legal Issues for Data Professionals: Current Leading U.S. AI Laws

TDAN

There is no nationwide federal law in the U.S. that specifically regulates the development, deployment, and use of AI in the private sector. (This contrasts with AI use in U.S. federal agencies, as discussed below.) This absence of such a federal law contrasts with the recently enacted AU AI law. Instead, in the U.S.

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Data Quality: The Hidden Cornerstone of Digital Transformation Success

TDAN

As organizations rush headlong into digital transformation initiatives, a critical factor often gets overlooked: data quality. In the race to implement cutting-edge technologies and overhaul business processes, many companies fail to recognize that the success of these efforts hinges on the accuracy, completeness, and reliability of their underlying data.

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Combat Governance Dilution: The CGO Solution

TDAN

The term “governance” has become so widely used that it has lost much of its impact and precision. Originally, governance referred to the frameworks and processes for formalized and effective organizational control and accountability.