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Marketing Velocity Central Toolkit: Empowering Partners to Save Time and Money

Cisco Wireless

Discover Marketing Velocity Learning: Empowering partners with essential tools and bite-sized courses for seamless co-marketing campaigns, personalized learning paths, and efficient asset customizationaligning with Cisco's strategy for impactful results.

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PowerShell 101: Creating a Real-World Module: Scaffolding Functions

ATA Learning

Learn how to create powerful PowerShell modules from scratch by building a computer inventory tool. Perfect for sysadmins who need custom automation solutions.

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Always On at Nexo: Assuring Resilience and Scale with CockroachDB

Cockroach Labs

When crypto prices rise, the fortunes of this dynamic sectors service providers also increase. However, industry upswings have a hazard: Rapid growth can mean outgrowing your database.

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Allium and Confluent: How to Build a Foundational Data Platform for Blockchain

Confluent

Allium provides real-time, accessible blockchain data for analytics and business teams with the help of data streaming. Learn how here.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Andre commented on Disable connected experiences that analyze your content in Microsoft 365 (MS Office)

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A warning is circulating on social media regarding Microsoft utilizing customer data from its Microsoft 365 applicationssuch as Word, Excel, and Outlookfor tr

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OpenFGA for Python Flask Applications

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In this post, we will focus on adding fine-grained authorization to your Python Flask application using OpenFGA.

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Master Your Application Portfolio & Unlock Budget for AI Innovation

EA Voices

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Michael Pietroforte posted an update: The Industry Reacts to DeepSeek R1 - "Beginning of a New […]

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The Industry Reacts to DeepSeek R1 – “Beginning of a New Era”

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What Is Server? Types, Functions, and Why They Matter

Geek Flare

Discover what a server is, how it works, its types, and its role in IT. Learn about server examples and why they are crucial in today's digital world. The post What Is Server? Types, Functions, and Why They Matter appeared first on Geekflare.

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Markus Elsberger wrote a new post: File compression in Windows Server 2025

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Windows Server 2025 offers built-in file compression for the ZIP and 7z formats. Additionally, you can create TAR balls from File Explorer.

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

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.

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Turning Vulnerability to Cyber Threats into Industrial Grade Resiliency in the Manufacturing Industry

EA Voices

From Architecture & Governance Magazine By Reidar Boldevin, Consulting Manager Security at Columbus Abstract Manufacturing has been the most cyberattacked industry for three consecutive years.

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Michael Pietroforte commented on Disable connected experiences that analyze your content in Microsoft 365 (MS Office)

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A warning is circulating on social media regarding Microsoft utilizing customer data from its Microsoft 365 applicationssuch as Word, Excel, and Outlookfor tr

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RWO wins ‘next generation’ data centre work

DCNN Magazine

North East engineer, RWO , has won work to support the development of the first of a new generation of data centres, strengthening its position as a growing provider of services to the sector. The Newcastle-based firm is providing an undisclosed package of civil, structural and geo environmental engineering services for the Latos Data Centres hyperscale data centre in Cardiff, a Tier III asset designed to meet the needs of the most demanding global technology companies.

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Surender Kumar posted an update: Microsoft: Exchange 2016 and 2019 reach end of support in […]

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Microsoft: Exchange 2016 and 2019 reach end of support in October Microsoft has announced that both Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019 will reach the end of their extended support in October 2025. Exchange 2016 has already been out of mainstream support since October 2020, while Exchange 2019’s mainstream support concluded on January 9, 2024. After October 14, 2025, Microsoft will no longer provide any technical support, bug fixes, or security updates for these versions, which raises potentia

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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How LinkedIn Scaled User Restriction System to 5 Million Queries Per Second

ByteByteGo

Disclaimer: The details in this post have been derived from the LinkedIn Engineering Blog. All credit for the technical details goes to the LinkedIn engineering team. The links to the original articles are present in the references section at the end of the post. We’ve attempted to analyze the details and provide our input about them. If you find any inaccuracies or omissions, please leave a comment, and we will do our best to fix them.

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Surender Kumar posted an update: Microsoft confirms Outlook crashes when emailing, replying […]

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Microsoft confirms Outlook crashes when emailing, replying or forwarding, issues workaround – Neowin Microsoft has addressed a crash issue in Classic Outlook, which affects users on Windows Server 2016. The problem manifests when users attempt to create a new email or reply to or forward existing emails, resulting in an APPCRASH error. Microsoft identified the issue in an updated version, specifically Version 2412 (Build 18324.

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Poor data quality the top obstacle to AI success, report says

DCNN Magazine

The Ataccama Data Trust Report 2025 has identified poor data quality as a critical obstacle to AI adoption. The report states that despite AI’s transformative potential, its success depends on trusted, reliable data. A lofty 68% of Chief Data Officers (CDOs) cite data quality as their top challenge, with only 33% of organisations making meaningful progress in AI adoption.

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Surender Kumar posted an update: Microsoft fixes Windows Server 2022 bug breaking device […]

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Microsoft fixes Windows Server 2022 bug breaking device boot Microsoft has addressed a significant bug affecting the startup process of Windows Server 2022 systems utilizing two or more NUMA (non-uniform memory access) nodes. This architecture is essential in high-performance computing environments, improving the interaction between CPUs and memory by allowing processors to access local memory faster than remote memory.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr

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DeepCoolAI and Sanmina partner to scale AI infrastructure

DCNN Magazine

DeepCoolAI , an expert in AI infrastructure (including liquid cooling and high density solutions), and Sanmina Corporation, a specialist in advanced manufacturing, have announced a strategic partnership that seeks to revolutionise AI-driven data centres. Together, the companies are striving to set new standards in efficiency, flexibility and sustainability, catering to the ever-growing demands of AI-driven, high-performance computing environments.

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Surender Kumar posted an update: Microsoft released Windows 11 24H2, 23H2, 22H2 […]

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Microsoft released Windows 11 24H2, 23H2, 22H2 KB5050119/KB5050200 recovery updates – Neowin Microsoft recently deployed its January 2025 Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 10 and Windows 11, identified as KB5049981, KB5050008, KB5049993, KB5050013 for Windows 10 and KB5050009, KB5050021 for Windows 11. It also issued recovery updates addressing the persistent installation bug from KB5048239 through a new update, KB5050411.

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Healthcare organisation reduces storage costs with DS3 platform

DCNN Magazine

Cubbit , a geo-distributed cloud storage expert, has announced that ASL CN1 Cuneo, a North Italian healthcare public service organisation, has reduced its storage costs by 50% thanks to Cubbits fully-managed S3 cloud object storage, DS3. ASL CN1 Cuneo now stores all of its 110 TB of backup data on Cubbit as part of its 3-2-1-1-0 backup strategy orchestrated via Veeam.

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Surender Kumar posted an update: Terraform Fork OpenTofu Adds Provider Iteration and […]

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Terraform Fork OpenTofu Adds Provider Iteration and Exclusions – InfoQ OpenTofu has released version 1.9.0 of its infrastructure-as-code tool, which offers significant new features. One major addition is the provider iteration capability with the for_each meta-argument, facilitating easier multi-zone and multi-region deployments. For_each can be applied to modules and resource types, allowing users to create separate instances for each element in a map or string set.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack and global DDoS trends for 2024 Q4

CloudFaire

Welcome to the 20th edition of the Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report, marking five years since our first report in 2020. Published quarterly, this report offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolving threat landscape of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks based on data from the Cloudflare network. In this edition, we focus on the fourth quarter of 2024 and look back at the year as a whole.

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Surender Kumar posted an update: OpenAI's agent tool may be nearing release | […]

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OpenAI’s agent tool may be nearing release | TechCrunch OpenAI is reportedly close to launching a new AI tool known as Operator, which is designed to autonomously manage tasks on users’ PCs, including writing code and booking travel. This development comes from insights shared by software engineer Tibor Blaho, who revealed hidden options in the ChatGPT macOS app for controlling Operator.

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AI Actions prompt: Competitive intelligence tables for effortless product launch tracking

Effective Software Design

Market Intelligence AI Actions prompt: Competitive intelligence tables for effortless product launch tracking Stay on top of your competitors' product launches with a little help from AI With AI Actions , Competitive Intelligence analysts can quickly extract and format critical product launches amongst their competitors into easily digestible tables.

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Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update: Unsecured Tunneling Protocols Expose 4.2 Million Hosts, […]

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Unsecured Tunneling Protocols Expose 4.2 Million Hosts, Including VPNs and Routers Recent research has identified significant security vulnerabilities in various tunneling protocols, which could be exploited by attackers to conduct a host of malicious activities. According to a study conducted by Top10VPN in collaboration with researcher Mathy Vanhoef, many internet hosts do not verify the sender’s identity when accepting tunneling packets, posing a risk for hijacking and facilitating anon

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology

Engineering at Meta

Were sharing details about Strobelight, Metas profiling orchestrator. Strobelight combines several technologies, many open source, into a single service that helps engineers at Meta improve efficiency and utilization across our fleet. Using Strobelight, weve seen significant efficiency wins, including one that has resulted in an estimated 15,000 servers worth of annual capacity savings.

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Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update: CrowdStrike outage prompts businesses to overhaul supply […]

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CrowdStrike outage prompts businesses to overhaul supply chains The CrowdStrike outage in July 2024 has prompted a reevaluation of technology supply chains, with organizations globally aiming to bolster IT resilience and reduce risk. Research by Adaptavist indicates that many companies are moving away from single-vendor models due to diminished trust, as only 16.25% of surveyed professionals reported satisfaction with their current vendors.

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Article: A Framework for Building Micro Metrics for LLM System Evaluation

InfoQ Articles

LLM accuracy is a challenging topic to address and is much more multi-dimensional than a simple accuracy score. Denys Linkov introduces a framework for creating micro metrics to evaluate LLM systems, focusing on goal-aligned metrics that improve performance and reliability. By adopting an iterative "crawl, walk, run" methodology, teams can incrementally develop observability.

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Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update: Windows 10 is getting a new Calendar UI feature, but […]

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Windows 10 is getting a new Calendar UI feature, but taskbar clock will lose seconds Windows 10 has not introduced any new features recently, but this may change in an upcoming Optional update. A new Calendar update was discovered in the latest Release Preview build, which might be added to the stable version next month. The update enhances the Calendar section that appears when selecting the date and time icon in the system tray, displaying calendar events alongside standard UI elements and inc

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs. Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy fo