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The Best Christmas Ads on Social Media of All Time; Get Festive!

Data Matters

It’s the holiday season once again and brands are launching their campaigns for the occasion. Here are some of the best Christmas ads and campaigns on social media that you can take inspiration from for your own promotions. Best Christmas ads on Twitter: Marks & Spencer “Two Fairies” Magic was the theme of British clothing […]. The post The Best Christmas Ads on Social Media of All Time; Get Festive!

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Spreading OpenText cheer: Germany

OpenText Information Management

The holidays are fast approaching and our colleagues are starting to get festive in their offices around the world! In this post, OpenText employee, Nadja Trützschler, shares her favourite customs and traditions that take place in Oldenburg during the holidays. What’s it like in Germany over the holiday season? Drizzle, rain, fog, and gray skies … The post Spreading OpenText cheer: Germany appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Northern District of California Enjoins LinkedIn from Preventing Scraping of Public User Profiles

Data Matters

In a decision that may have profound implications for social media companies, the big data industry and website terms of use everywhere, Judge Edward Chen of the Northern District of California granted hiQ Labs’ motion for preliminary injunction on August 14, 2017, enjoining LinkedIn from “preventing hiQ’s access, copying, or use of public profiles on LinkedIn’s website.” hiQ Labs, Inc. v.

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Tech Can't Solve the Opioid Crisis on Its Own

WIRED Threat Level

A Health and Human Services hackathon produced smart ideas for the fight against opioid addiction—but can only do so much in the face of a collapsing health care system.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Q&A: Cloud Providers and Leaky Servers

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The nonprofit GDI Foundation has tracked close to 175,000 examples of misconfigured software and services on the cloud this year. As more and more organizations are moving to the cloud, the number of leaky servers is increasing. We have seen several AWS data leaks this year – from Booz Allen Hamilton to the WWE – that have left millions of private records exposed.

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Fixing Data Breaches Part 5: Penalties

Troy Hunt

In the first 4 parts of "Fixing Data Breaches", I highlighted education , data ownership and minimisation , the ease of disclosure and bug bounties as ways of addressing the problem. It was inevitable that we'd eventually end up talking about penalties though because the fact remains that although all the aforementioned recommendations make perfect sense, we're still faced with data breaches day in and day out from companies just not getting the message.

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The CNIL Serves Formal Notice to WhatsApp Regarding Sharing Data with Facebook

Hunton Privacy

On December 18, 2017, the French data protection authority (“CNIL”) publicly announced that it served a formal notice to WhatsApp regarding the sharing of WhatsApp users’ data with Facebook Inc. (“Facebook”). This decision, dated November 27, 2017, follows the CNIL’s investigations regarding Facebook’s 2014 acquisition of WhatsApp. In 2016, WhatsApp updated its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy to reflect the sharing of information with Facebook.

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2018 IT Security Employment Outlook: Which Security Skills and Certs are Hottest?

eSecurity Planet

The cyber security skills shortage remains unfilled, so security pros can expect good pay and opportunities for the foreseeable future.

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UK: GDPR and the Public Sector – PPN on Changes to Data Protection Legislation

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The Crown Commercial Service (“ CCS “) has this week published a Procurement Policy Note (“ PPN” ) explaining how upcoming changes under the General Data Protection Regulation (“ GDPR “) and the proposed Data Protection Act 2018 (“ DPA 2018 “) affect contracts for goods and services entered into by public bodies.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.

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First Impressions Matter Now More than Ever

Dark Reading

The idea that first impressions matter is a cliche, but it’s a cliche for a reason. While it may seem outdated to judge a person solely on their appearance and the initial meeting, business persons have long memories, and any biases after the first contact may well linger for a long time. And now, in a world where anybody can start their own business and entrepreneurs can come from all walks of life, it is more important than ever that you can make an excellent first impression when it comes to

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Trust in the digital economy

MIKE 2.0

As the year wraps-up, it is the season when we feel good will towards all. I am reminded that our economy works because of the trust that we each have in each other. The information economy has enabled us to interact with a wider range of parties than ever before and, more importantly, develop a level of trust in those relationships. In the past, companies offered a huge range of services because it was their brand that provided trust.

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Quote of the Day

Dark Reading

The concept of risk and risk assessments has a long history. More than 2,400 years ago the Athenians offered their capacity of assessing risks before making decisions. From the Pericle's Funeral Oration in Thurcydidas' ‘History of the Peloponnesian War’ (started in 431 BC), we can read: We Athenians in our persons, take our decisions on policy and submit them to proper discussion.

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Make Your Email Campaigns Intergalactic!

OpenText Information Management

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…people didn’t have Smartphones, laptops, or even desktop computers. It was a period of slow communication. Rotary phones only later to be replaced by portable phones, and then later still replaced by…pagers (yes, pagers), didn’t relay messages in lightsaber speed. Kids played the Oregon Trail on giant computers; parents had to entertain said kids with (gasp) toys rather than gadgets.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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e-Records 2017: Video and Wrap Up

The Texas Record

To close out this year’s e-Records Conference coverage, here is a listing of all the session recaps and a video produced by TSLAC’s Communications team. We hope you enjoyed the conference and look forward to next year! Presentation materials from the conference are available on the e-Records 2017 website. Information Governance: Take Control and Succeed.

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Lessons Learned from the OPM Breach

eSecurity Planet

VIDEO: Michael Daniel, President of the CTA and former official in the Obama Administration, provides insight into what went wrong at OPM and why encryption isn't enough.

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5 Key Trends to Shape Your 2018 Information Management Plans

Docuware

I spend a lot of my time writing and speaking about trends in the content management marketplace. As many of you know, I regularly blog under the Digital Landfill title, and I’ve also been fortunate to be invited as a guest columnist on the DocuWare blog from time to time.

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Analytics Firm Antuit Launches AI Threat Intelligence Division

eSecurity Planet

Antuit's new cybersecurity unit, joins a growing number of companies that are using artificial intelligence to prevent data breaches.

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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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Cartographic’s Favorites of 2017

Unwritten Record

Co-written with Amy Edwards. The Cartographic Branch holds a wide variety of materials. While working with these documents for reference requests, projects, or research room requests, our staff comes across some very cool and significant documents. Today, we are featuring a few of our favorite records that we’ve come across this year. We hope that you enjoy them as much as we do!

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A Growing Need for AI: Security Pros Waste 10 Hours a Week Due to Inadequate Software

eSecurity Planet

More than 90 percent of IT pros who use AI say it has improved their cyber security operations.

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2017: End-of-year review

Archives Blogs

As 2017 draws to a close its time to review our user statistics recording visits to our archives reading room and enquiries received about our collections. In the year that the University of Stirling celebrated its 50 th anniversary its fitting that our own institutional records were our most popular, well-used collection. The University Archives was delighted to be able to support the fantastic range of events and exhibitions which took place during the institution’s golden anniversary (includ

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E-Commerce Holiday Planning with Pricing Tips

TAB OnRecord

Christmas is here! It’s the busiest time of the year, but also the most important and stressful for the e-commerce market. Sales figures increase dramatically as people buy gifts, decorations, cards, food, and more. For example, in the U.S., about 25% of all personal spending occurs in the holiday shopping season starting in October and lift up significantly on Black Friday and Cyber Monday in November.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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The Minutes of the Faculty Senate

Archives Blogs

DigiNole: FSU’s digital repository recently ingested the minutes of Florida State University’s Faculty Senate. These documents, including not only minutes but reports of committees, senate rosters and other materials about the business of the Senate, start in 1952 and go up through 2017. Page from the April 20, 1, 66 Faculty Senate Minutes.

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3 Hiring and Talent Management Trends for 2018

MIKE 2.0

The hiring landscape constantly evolves to meet the demands of today’s job seekers – and throughout the next year, hiring and talent management will experience continued change. With U.S. unemployment at a 16-year low and job seekers having countless job opportunities at the tips of their fingers, it’s critical for businesses across industries to adapt to the latest trends in order to secure top candidates.

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Leading Global Beverage Company Transforms Accounts Payable Process with Kofax Solution

Info Source

Irvine, CA, December 20, 2017 – Kofax ® , a leading provider of software to simplify and transform the First Mile™ of business, today announced the successful deployment of a Kofax accounts payable automation solution at a top-selling global beverage company’s shared services center. The unit delivers finance, accounting, business process management and supply chain services to the business, processing approximately 360,000 invoices annually.