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The crucial role of data security management in the digital age

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In today’s digital era, organizations heavily rely on data for their operations. Whether it’s records or customer information, data holds value. However, given the increasing reliance on technology and the growing number of cyber threats, ensuring data security has become crucial. In this post, we will explore the role of managing data security in the landscape.

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Chart: The US grid battery fleet is about to double — again

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Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. The U.S. energy storage industry has its New Year’s resolution ready to go: double the capacity of batteries connected to the American grid.

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The Threshold at Which Snow Starts Irreversibly Disappearing

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If you think it’s bad now, strap in. In January 1995, when The Atlantic published “In Praise of Snow,” Cullen Murphy’s opus to frozen precipitation, snow was still a mysterious substance, coming and going enigmatically, confounding forecasters’ attempts to make long-term predictions.

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Extend Your Visual Analytics with Tableau Viz Extensions

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Kristin Adderson January 8, 2024 - 6:38pm Wilson Po Senior Manager, Product Management, Tableau Jacquelyn Cheng Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Tableau As a part of the Tableau Beta Preview, Tableau has enabled the new Viz Extensions experience for testing—a new capability that will make it possible to load bespoke viz types into your worksheets.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Classification and Regression in Machine Learning: Understanding the Difference

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Last Updated on January 12, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Davide Nardini Originally published on Towards AI. Arguably, one of the most important concepts in machine learning is classification. This article will illustrate the difference between classification and regression in machine learning. Image by Author If you’re new to the field of Machine Learning, you might find yourself a little confused about the distinction between Classification and Regression.

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Facebook bans ads for Votes for Women boardgame, claims "sensitive social issue"

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Votes for Women, the critically acclaimed card-driven wargame from designer Tory Brown, stands to miss out on up to $60,000 of backing for its second print run after Facebook repeatedly banned ads for the game due to it featuring a "sensitive social issue"

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Why Data Intelligence Is Imperative to Achieve a Clean Energy Future

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We should be further along with the consumer adoption of renewable energy. Solar energy has long since emerged as the lowest cost per kWh power source, making it a key puzzle piece in our transition to clean energy. Added to that, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was passed to significantly incentivize private investment into clean energy […] The post Why Data Intelligence Is Imperative to Achieve a Clean Energy Future appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Tabular Data Exploration and Modelling with LLMs

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Last Updated on January 12, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Cornellius Yudha Wijaya Originally published on Towards AI. Exploring the way to perform tabular data science activity with LLMImage developed by DALL.E Large Language Models have been rising recently and will be like that in the upcoming year. The rise could be addressed as a product of the LLM's usefulness in solving many problems.

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A supply chain attack on PyTorch

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Security tends to lag behind adoption, and AI/ML is no exception. Four months ago, Adnan Khan and I exploited a critical CI/CD vulnerability in PyTorch, one of the world’s leading ML platforms. Used by titans like Google, Meta, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin, PyTorch is a major target for hackers and nation-states alike.

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GenAI could make KYC effectively useless

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KYC, or “Know Your Customer,” is a process intended to help financial institutions, fintech startups and banks verify the identity of their customers. Not uncommonly, KYC authentication involves “ID images,” or cross-checked selfies used to confirm a person is who they say they are. Wise, Revolut and cryptocurrency platforms Gemini and LiteBit are among those […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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4 ways the crumbling cookie could improve customer experience

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Well, it’s finally happening. After years of banter, Google began testing a feature called Tracking Protection on Jan. 4. This feature is designed to limit cross-site tracking via third-party cookies. It will be rolled out initially to 1% of all Chrome users, about 30 million people globally, with all users [.

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A Detailed Explanation of Mixtral 8x7B Model

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Last Updated on January 10, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Florian Originally published on Towards AI. Including principles, diagrams, and code. Since the end of 2023, the Mixtral 8x7B[1] has become a highly popular model in the field of large language models. It has gained this popularity because it outperforms the Llama2 70B model with fewer parameters (less than 8x7B) and computations (less than 2x7B), and even exceeds the capabilities of GPT-3.5 in certain aspects.

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I Found David Lynch's Lost 'Dune II' Script

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It was only about halfway done, but the script David Lynch wrote for the sequel to his 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel, "Dune," was still better than "Dune Messiah.

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New NIST report sounds the alarm on growing threat of AI attacks

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released an urgent report to aid in the defense against an escalating threat landscape targeting artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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GPT Store is finally here! Here’s how to use it

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And the day has finally arrived, GPT Store, the marketplace for OpenAI’s popular chatbot ChatGPT is finally available! Move over, Siri and Alexa, the future of AI assistance is here, and it’s customizable. OpenAI, the artificial intelligence powerhouse behind ChatGPT, has opened the doors to its GPT Store , a treasure trove of personalized AI tools just waiting to be unleashed.

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Hertz to sell 20k EVs in shift back to gas-powered cars

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Hertz Global Holdings Inc. plans to sell a third of its US electric vehicle fleet and reinvest in gas-powered cars due to weak demand and high repair costs for its battery-powered options.

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Attack of the Week: Airdrop Tracing

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It's been a while since I wrote an "attack of the week" post, and the fault for this is entirely mine. I've been much too busy writing boring posts about Schnorr signatures!

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A huge battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant

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Hawaii shut down its last coal plant on September 1, 2022, eliminating 180 megawatts of fossil-fueled baseload power from the grid on Oahu — a crucial step in the state’s first-in-the-nation commitment to cease burning fossil fuels for electricity by 2045.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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SEC Says It Has Not yet Granted Approval of Bitcoin ETFs: Gensler blames hack

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission said it had not yet granted approval of spot-Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, and that a post that appeared on the regulator’s official X account was untrue.

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Potent psychedelic drug banishes PTSD

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Military veterans with cognitive and psychological problems saw drastic improvements after a dose of ibogaine. Military veterans with cognitive and psychological problems saw drastic improvements after a dose of the potent drug ibogaine.

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The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit

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The Internet used to be so simple to use that people collectively coined the term “let me Google that for you” to make fun of people who had the audacity of asking other people questions online. In the future I fear that people will have no other choice but to ask people for information from the Internet, because right now it’s all full of AI dogshit.

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A geofence warrant typo cast a location dragnet spanning two miles over SF

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Civil liberties advocates have long argued that “geofence” search warrants are unconstitutional for their ability to ensnare entirely innocent people who were nearby at the time a crime was committed.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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Asking people to "do the research" on fake news makes it more believable

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A new study asked thousands to evaluate the accuracy of news articles — both real and fake — by doing some research online. But for many, heading to Google led them farther from the truth, not closer.

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United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections

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United Airlines has found loose bolts and other parts on 737 Max 9 plug doors as it inspects its fleet of Boeing jets following the Friday rapid depressurization aboard an Alaska Airlines jet of the same make, according to three people familiar with the findings.

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Nvidia Announces New GeForce RTX 4080 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super, RTX 4070 Super

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The new GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER, GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, and GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER graphics cards launch throughout the month, beginning with the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER on January 17th, starting at $599.

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Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Create App Content

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Duolingo Inc., the maker of language-learning software, is cutting some contractors while using generative artificial intelligence to create more content, the latest sign that companies are shifting some tasks typically handled by workers to AI tools.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Shader Printf in HLSL and DX12

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Overall Approach Setting Up The Print Buffer The “Magic” Debug Info Buffer Dealing With The String Problem A Cursed Path Packing It All Into A Buffer Reading Back On The CPU Going Beyond Printf CR LF Unless you’re fortunate enough to to be working exclusively in Cuda, debugging GPU shaders is still very much “not great” in the year 2024.

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FTC bans X-Mode from selling phone location data, and orders firm to delete collected data

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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has banned the data broker X-Mode Social from sharing or selling users’ sensitive location data, the federal regulator said Tuesday. The first of its kind settlement prohibits X-Mode, now known as Outlogic, from sharing and selling users’ sensitive information to others. The settlement will also require the data broker to […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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AMD 8000G APUs launch Jan 31, $329 8700G competes with desktop GTX1650 in gaming

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AMD is launching Ryzen 8000G desktop APU series on January 31st AMD is officially introducing its long-awaited update to Ryzen APU series. The AM5 socket is set to receive an update with the introduction of the new Ryzen CPUs, marking the debut of the first 8000 desktop series.

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Isomorphic labs deals with pharma companies

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Isomorphic Labs, Alphabet’s closely watched AI startup, has signed its first pharma partnerships, and will work with Eli Lilly and Novartis in deals that could be worth $3 billion, CEO Demis Hassabis exclusively told Endpoints News.

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From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.