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Female tech leaders highlight diversity as key to innovative decision-making

The technology industry is becoming more diverse as more women take on key roles and drive innovation.
Diversity in technology leads to creativity, problem-solving, and better solutions that address a wider range of challenges.
Having a diverse set of individuals with different backgrounds, points of view, and experiences is essential for creativity and innovation.
Promoting gender diversity efforts and fostering camaraderie and innovation among female tech leaders is crucial for the future.

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What’s New in Entra ID in January 2025

Microsoft Entra ID, previously known as Azure AD, offers seamless access, easy collaboration, efficiency in IT processes, and improved security and compliance.
Azure AD Graph API service is being deprecated and will affect new and existing applications unless they're configured for an extension.
MSOnline PowerShell module will no longer be supported after March 30, 2025.
Microsoft Entra PowerShell will be generally available to manage and automate Entra resources programmatically.
Improvements in visibility into downstream tenant sign-ins to identify logins associated with partner tenants.
Real-time Password Spray Detection in Microsoft Entra ID Protection is now available, which reduces remediation from hours to seconds.
Protected actions for hard deletions allow configuring Conditional Access policies to protect against early hard deletions of users, Microsoft 365 groups, and applications.
Flexible Federated Identity Credentials extend the existing Federated Identity Credential model by providing ability to use wildcard matching against certain claims.
Elevate Access events are now exportable via Microsoft Entra Audit Logs, which improves logging capabilities that allow visibility into who in their tenant utilized Elevate Access.
Organizations can now manage and customize Lifecycle Workflows using natural language with Microsoft Security CoPilot.

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Grab this Lenovo Legion gaming PC while it’s under $1,000

The Lenovo Legion Tower 5 Gen 8 gaming PC is on sale with a 30% discount, reducing its price from $1,330 to $930.
It features an AMD Ryzen 5 7600 processor, AMD Radeon RX 7600 graphics card, and 16GB of RAM, making it a great option for gaming.
The gaming PC comes with a 512GB SSD for storage and includes three months of Xbox Game Pass.
Limited stocks are available, so interested buyers should act quickly to secure the $400 savings.

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From 220M data points to revenue: How AI is transforming sports entertainment ROI

AI technology is growing important for sports entertainment franchises as they aim to build brand, grow fandom and push up revenues.
Elevate’s new Elevate performance and insights cloud (EPIC) data and AI platform combines consumer insights, ticketing management and property analytics.
EPIC helps organizations with targeted engagement efforts to better understand potential customer personas. The platform has already been used by more than 25 organizations, including the Tennessee Titans.
Elevate already has data for around 220 million people in its system. The company collects first-party data through its client work & relationships.
To fully benefit from modern gen AI, data should be in a vector database format, Elevate contends. Currently, Elevate uses Amazon Sagemaker to make its vectorization work.
At the core of EPIC is the Anthropic Claude Haiku 3.5 large language model (LLM), which has been fine-tuned on Elevate’s data. The system also uses the XGBoost (eXtreme Gradient Boosting) open-source machine learning (ML) library.
Among the early users of EPIC is the NFL’s Tennessee Titans. The team is working with Elevate as it develops a new $2.1 billion stadium set to open in 2027.
With EPIC, the Titans have been able to build out detailed personas for fans to inform targeted marketing strategies, from messaging to premium seating and hospitality offerings.
While there is big money in the NFL, there is also a lot of opportunity (as well as many challenges) at other levels of sports entertainment.
EPIC has provided University of Illinois Athletics with crucial data-driven insights to improve football and men’s basketball ticketing and an annual giving model.

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This Acer Predator gaming PC with RTX 4070 Ti Super is $350 off

The Acer Predator Orion 5000 gaming PC is available at a $350 discount from Best Buy.
The machine is priced at $1,750, down from its original price of $2,100.
The Acer Predator Orion 5000 features a 14th-generation Intel Core i7 processor, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super graphics card, and 32GB of RAM.
The gaming PC offers an obsidian chassis with customizable lighting and optimized cooling system.

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UK confronts Apple with demand for cloud backdoor to users’ encrypted data

The UK government has demanded that Apple creates a backdoor in its encrypted cloud service, challenging Apple's stance on user privacy.
The demand is made under the Investigatory Powers Act and applies to Apple's Advanced Data Protection service.
Apple has previously flagged concerns about the Act, stating it would not build a backdoor and would rather withdraw safety features from the UK market.
The multinational nature of the order may lead to a clash with the EU's agreement with the UK on the free flow of personal data.

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Sorry, you're not getting Microsoft Edge off of your PC, at least according to its new 'uninstall' document

Microsoft Edge's 'uninstall' document compares the browser to Google Chrome instead of providing removal instructions.
It features a checklist of supposed advantages of Edge over Chrome.
There is no official way to uninstall Microsoft Edge, as the control panel only allows for 'repair.'
This move by Microsoft is seen as disingenuous and might push users further away from using the browser.

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Dew Drop – February 7, 2025 (#4357)

Microsoft has released Windows App SDK Version 1.7 Experimental, which introduced the ability to use on-device AI with Windows Copilot Runtime APIs.
Microsoft has announced the release of Windows App SDK 1.7.0 Experimental 3, which introduces an updated version of the Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK NuGet package.
GitHub has unveiled a new AI-powered tool called GitHub Copilot, designed to facilitate developers with suggestions related to coding languages.
Microsoft has improved the networking functionality in .NET 9, which the company claims will provide enhanced TCP/IP stack usage, more scalable asynchronous I/O, and high-performance sockets.
Phi Silica is a new feature in Windows App SDK which has been implemented to enhance the performance in UWP apps.
Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) has been a preferred choice among startups for deploying apps and hosting services. The service provides a platform to manage clusters of virtual machines, which can run containers atop them.
There has been a data breach in PowerSchool, wherein the data of up to 16,000 students from the UK was lost.
Microsoft has released the 1.24 version of Go with some security changes. This release includes support for FIPS 140-2 Level 1.
OpenAI o1, o1-mini, and o3-mini models are now available in JetBrains AI Assistant. The initiative will facilitate the use of their models while developing AI applications.
Mistral has released an AI assistant on iOS and Android that can help users organize their daily routine and make their lives easier by suggesting helpful tips.

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Google Maps turns 20 – here are its most popular locations from the past two decades, plus Google’s favorite hidden tricks

Google Maps celebrates its 20th birthday by listing popular locations on its maps.
Google shares tips and tricks for Google Maps users.
Popular locations include restaurants, parks, monuments, and museums.
Immersive View feature showcases ground-level photography of famous places.

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Nvidia could be drastically reducing RTX 4060 GPU supply right now – another heavy hint that the RTX 5060 is imminent

Nvidia is reportedly reducing RTX 4060 production, hinting at the imminent release of the RTX 5060.
According to rumors, Nvidia is cutting back on chip supply for RTX 4060 graphics cards to its manufacturing partners by at least 60%.
This reduction in supply suggests that the RTX 5060 is expected to launch in March 2025.
Despite the reduction in production, the RTX 4060 cards will still be available, but their availability may decrease as the year progresses.

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From COBOL to chaos: Elon Musk, DOGE, and the Evil Housekeeper Problem

Elon Musk and President Trump’s DOGE is a massive, terrifying problem, akin to the Evil Housekeeper Problem, with huge practical consequences that require extensive planning to deal with.
The addition of accelerationists to government may drive the outright deletion of entire departments. This means that breaking systems until they stop working properly becomes a viable option for some.
Government is built to be stable, but whether they are depends on the people behind them. Technology is merely a tool that humans use for human ends.
Government technologies are often slow or unreliable, and change infrequently if at all. Modernisations are often considered too risky or expensive, making the changes that are deemed important all the more important.
Rules and procedures have been in place to stop the breaking of already fragile government systems for quite some time, making reform and modernisation difficult.
The technology we have is only good as the people who operate and enforce it. If people break those rules even with impunity, there is very little that can be done to stop them.
Unprecedented levels of responsibility have been shown by the administration and its leaders; the current lack of fear means that sensitive systems are subjected to an unacceptable degree of vulnerability.
There is a significant risk to all those relying on functional government technological systems.
Community and networking are essential in the face of potential disasters relating to failure in the federal government.
The challenge posed by the DOGE experiment is a huge, terrifying threat that brings with it the potential for devastating consequences, showing that government technology is the safest form of technology to rely upon.

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AWS Transit Gateway – Solving the Multi-VPC Communication Problem 🚀

AWS Transit Gateway is a solution that allows for simplified and efficient communication among multiple VPCs.
It eliminates the need for manual connection setup by providing a central gateway for attaching multiple VPCs.
Transit Gateway is scalable, capable of handling hundreds of VPCs, and offers more control over VPC communication.
It is a faster and more efficient way to manage VPC communication, eliminating the need for complex peering connections.

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🛡️ Security Measures: Safeguarding Your Codebase 🔒

Protecting your Source Code Management (SCM) system is crucial for safeguarding intellectual property, sensitive data, and the integrity of your codebase.
Implementing robust security measures ensures your development process remains resilient to threats and breaches.
Comprehensive security measures for SCM include managing user access, protecting critical branches, securing secrets and sensitive data, enabling multi-factor authentication, using signed commits, regularly scanning for vulnerabilities, monitoring and auditing repository activity, and updating SCM tools and dependencies.
Implementing security measures for your SCM workflow is vital for protecting your code, team, and users.

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Alphabet Reports Strong Q4 2024 Results Fueled by AI and Cloud Growth

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, reported strong Q4 2024 results, with revenue of $96.5 billion, a 12% YoY increase.
Key drivers of growth were Google Services, with revenue increasing 10% to $84.1 billion, and Google Cloud, experiencing a 30% revenue surge to $12.0 billion.
Alphabet's focus on AI innovation played a significant role, powering features across Google's core products, including search, YouTube, and Google Cloud.
Alphabet plans to invest $75 billion in capital expenditures in 2025 to fuel AI research, expand cloud computing infrastructure, and invest in next-generation computing power.

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Would you use Google Gemini if it fills with ads?

Google CEO Sundar Pichai hints that ads could be introduced in Google's Gemini AI assistant.
Gemini currently does not have ads, but it is expected that advertising will be added to generate revenue.
Google has a history of blending ads into its products, and Gemini may follow the same approach.
Other AI chatbots, such as Microsoft's Copilot and Perplexity, are already experimenting with ads.

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