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Survey: C-Suite Execs Trust AI’s Potential but Face Challenges in Strategy, Execution, and Reliability

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A new survey of C-suite executives and AI leaders shows while enterprise decision-makers trust the potential of AI, many lack confidence in their company’s strategy to execute as well as the data readiness to ensure reliability of AI outputs. Moreover, 7 in 10 executives say their AI strategy is not fully aligned to their business strategy today.

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Effective Prompting with A Handful of Fundamentals

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Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same

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Over the last two years, a series of updates to Google Search amount to a dramatic upheaval to the Internet's most powerful tool, complete with an unprecedented AI feature.

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Majorana, the search for the most elusive neutrino of all

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Neutrinos may be even stranger than they seem, if indeed they are the only fermions (particles of matter) that are their own antiparticles. Proof would be a rare form of radioactive decay called neutrinoless double-beta decay, which could only be seen if there’s virtually no background interference. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR now under construction at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in the Black Hills of South Dakota aims to prove these near-perfect conditions can be met.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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Male birth control breakthrough safely switches off fit sperm for a while

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A non-hormonal, reversible and non-toxic male birth control could be a step closer, with scientists successfully targeting a protein that's crucial in making fertile sperm. Knocking this protein out for a period of time would give men control over their protection window, much like oral contraceptives for women – but without other side effects and no long-lasting fertility issues.

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People spend more when prices end in.99 (2018)

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I once worked at a company that priced everything with a.95 ending. The bestselling software package was $999.95. Add-on products were $9.95, or $19.95, or $49.95. Everything ended with a.95. It had been this way for more than twenty years.

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Rootless Docker in a multi-user environment

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After several months of working with rootless Docker, I think I came up with an approach to implement it in a convenient way that feels just right, and want to share it with you in this short guide.

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Talos – An Immutable OS for Kubernetes

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Talos is an operating system for Kubernetes. It is designed to be lightweight, secure, and easy to use. In this article, I will introduce Talos and its features.

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The error term isn't Pareto distributed

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You're probably familiar with the 80-20 rule: when 80% of the X stems from only 20% of the Y. For example, 80% of your revenue comes from only 20% of your customer, or 80% of the logs that you're storing are generated from only 20% of the services.

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The future of foundation models is closed-source

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if the centralizing forces of data and compute hold, open and closed-source AI cannot both dominate long-term

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Cannabis Use Linked to Epigenetic Changes, Study Reveals

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Using cannabis may cause changes in the human body's epigenome, a study of over 1,000 adults suggests.

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'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'

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Live facial recognition is becoming increasingly common on UK high streets. Should we be worried?

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When Open Source turns sour: A brush with mistaken identity

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Public shaming is common online, but in Open Source the reliance on reputation and collaboration makes it especially damaging to contributors.

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Lessons from the Trenches on Reproducible Evaluation of Language Models

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Effective evaluation of language models remains an open challenge in NLP. Researchers and engineers face methodological issues such as the sensitivity of models to evaluation setup, difficulty of proper comparisons across methods, and the lack of reproducibility and transparency. In this paper we draw on three years of experience in evaluating large language models to provide guidance and lessons for researchers.

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The Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report

Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) are changing how software teams work by moving development to the cloud. Our Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report gathers insights from 223 developers and business leaders, uncovering key trends in CDE adoption. With 66% of large organizations already using CDEs, these platforms are quickly becoming essential to modern development practices.

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The Route of a Text Message (2019)

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[Note: Find the more polished, professionally illustrated version of this piece at Motherboard|Vice!] This is the third post in my full-stack dev (f-s d) series on the secret life of data.

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The Fall of the House of Etsy

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The beloved marketplace set out to disrupt the monotony of home goods gifting. Now its platform no longer feels differentiated. What happened?

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UltraNet: Revisiting Ultrasound

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Imagine a world where all the intelligent devices around you could seamlessly link together, sharing skills and distributing workloads through ultrasonic waves inaudible to humans. A decentralized cloud of ambient intelligence, woven into the fabric of our surroundings yet fluidly reconfigurable. This is the idea of UltraNet.

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How the Guinness Brewery Invented the Most Important Statistical Method in Science

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The most common test of statistical significance originated from the Guinness brewery.

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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Last Hours of an Organ Donor

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In the liminal time when the brain is dead but organs are kept alive, there is an urgent tenderness to medical care

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Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search

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Google’s AI Overview launch showcases that the race for AI domination is perilous.

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Phobos photometric properties from Mars Express HRSC observations

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This study aims to analyze Phobos' photometric properties using Mars Express mission observations to support the Martian Moons eXploration mission. We analyzed resolved images of Phobos acquired between 2004 and 2022 by the HRSC and the SRC cameras on board the Mars Express spacecraft. We performed photometric analysis using the Hapke model for both integrated and disk-resolved data.

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Abusing Go's Infrastructure

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I apologize if this information is already known, but I couldn’t find any references about it and I wanted to understand what was going on and share with you because I think there is some value doing it. In case this wasn’t known, I apologize to the Go team for not talking to them first and jumping the full disclosure gun (I don’t think it’s that severe).

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Introducing CDEs to Your Enterprise

Explore how enterprises can enhance developer productivity and onboarding by adopting self-hosted Cloud Development Environments (CDEs). This whitepaper highlights the simplicity and flexibility of cloud-based development over traditional setups, demonstrating how large teams can leverage economies of scale to boost efficiency and developer satisfaction.

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Archaeologists Found an 'Anomaly' Near the Pyramids – May Reveal Ancient Portal

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New findings beneath the desert floor hint at entrances to long-lost chambers.

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The new visa fees for foreign artists are out. This is not good

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When an artist wants to tour the US, they need to apply for a special visa. That application has to be made weeks and months in advance.

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`tmux` is worse is better

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tmux (short for “terminal mux” (short for “multiplexer”)) is i3 for your terminal. Oh, it’s so much more than that, and I recently discovered with some joy that it is installed by default on OpenBSD, but its fundamental value add to any programmer who has to SSH into servers more than once a week is it allows you to split your screen up into multiple independent shells without needing a graphical environment at all.

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Hacking phones is too easy. Time to make it harder

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Regulators have avoided the problem for too long

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Kombucha-associated microbes alter host metabolism & suppress lipid accumulation

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Author summary Kombucha is a popular fermented tea that has been purported to have many human health benefits, including protection against metabolic diseases like diabetes and obesity. These health benefits are thought to be conferred by the probiotic microbes found in Kombucha Tea, which includes both bacterial and yeast species, that may be able to colonize the human intestine and alter host physiology.

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Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included

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A terminal workspace with batteries included

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Mistral Fine-Tune

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Contribute to mistralai/mistral-finetune development by creating an account on GitHub.

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The Algorithm Behind Jim Simons's Success

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Reflections on a Wall Street legend.

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.