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Valor PayTech Appoints Sundar Garg as President of Asia

Valor PayTech has appointed Sundar Garg as the President of Asia.
In his new role, Sundar will oversee Valor's strategic growth initiatives in Asia.
Sundar aims to expand Valor's presence in the region and deliver tailored payment solutions.
Before joining Valor, Sundar led SysArc Infomatix in the Indian lending automation sector.

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FIFO Messaging with Azure Service Bus and Spring Boot

Azure Service Bus is a fully managed message broker that facilitates reliable communication between distributed applications.
Sessions in Azure Service Bus provide an effective mechanism for message processing in a specific order, such as ensuring a First-In-First-Out (FIFO) sequence.
To configure a Spring Boot application to consume messages from Azure Service Bus in FIFO order, sessions on the topic can be used to handle messages with the same Session ID in the correct order.
This approach offers a scalable and resilient solution, ensuring reliable and ordered processing of messages in a multi-threaded environment.

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Resolving a mysterious problem with find

The author encountered unexpected behavior while searching for file names using the 'find' command in a shell script.
By default, the output of the 'find' command contained invisible null characters after each file name, causing issues in subsequent operations.
To fix the issue, the author used the 'strings' command to extract ASCII strings from the input, effectively splitting the string of file names into individual names.
For those without the 'strings' command, the author suggests using 'sed' to replace the null characters with newlines.

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Rest in pieces: Nvidia is finally ditching GeForce Experience for good

Nvidia has officially launched its Nvidia app, replacing the legacy GeForce Experience and Nvidia Control Panel apps.
The Nvidia app allows users to download and install GPU drivers without requiring an Nvidia login.
It also includes features like driver rollback and serves as a hub for other Nvidia tools.
Nvidia has updated and added new features to the Nvidia app, making it a unified app for Nvidia users.

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Box deepens AI integrations with customizable, no-code agent builder tools

Cloud content management platform, Box Inc., has launched two new AI-powered tools- Box AI Studio and Box Apps. Box AI Studio allows companies to create customised Box AI ‘agents’, with the ability to choose from an array of underlying language models. Box Apps is an automated studio enabling the creation of intelligent applications for a range of business processes including: invoice processing, contract management and employee onboarding. Box co-founder and CEO, Aaron Levie, states that the company is aiming to extract greater value from the vast amount (vast majority) of enterprise content through artificial intelligence.
Box AI already works with Microsoft Azure OpenAI, Amazon Web Services AWS Bedrock and Google Cloud Vertex AI and is integrated with existing LLMs. Users will be able to select from a range of specific large language models to create agents for a variety of work-related tasks. The company claims that its ability to mix and match LLMs from different providers is a unique feature. Box Apps will be in beta test mode for the moment, with the package including Box Blaze, Box Forms and Box Doc Gen.
The updates reflect Box’s focus on enhancing its AI-related investments, and helping organisations leverage value that is held within their content. In addition to creating custom agents, users of Box AI Studio can access boxed AI Sales, Marketing, Product and Service agents for common business processes. Box Apps uses metadata to manage “content-centric” business processes to automate at scale. Newly-launched security and compliance capabilities include Box Archive, Content Recovery as well as the new Enterprise Advanced plan for customers.
Box Co-founder and CEO, Aaron Levie said AI was allowing companies to enter a ‘new world of work.’“Most of our content is underutilised. We’re not really tapping into the full value of all this enterprise content… We’re identifying the best language model for the specific work scenario. We’re really able to configure the AI for the specific use case.”
Holger Mueller of Constellation Research Inc. believes Box is tackling two problems at once, allowing users to build their own AI applications that leverage the data in Box while also improving the extensibility of its cloud content management platform with no-code capabilities.
Box’s Enterprise Advanced plan for customers grants access to its full AI-based content management features in one package. Launching in January 2022, the plan will be joined by the Enterprise Plus launch, which will supply organisations with Box AI Studio, Box Apps, Box Forms, Box Doc Gen, Box Archive, and enhanced developer tools.
The combination of AI and Box archive is not just limited to legacy storage, but is also being rolled out to help combat ransomware, where it will provide content recovery to help restore inaccessible content or sensitive data.
IDC analyst Holly Muscolino confirms Box’s updates, stating, “Its ease of use, regional deployments, and strong security capabilities make Box a good option for organizations of all sizes that are looking for a modern SaaS intelligent content cloud services platform”.
Box’s competitors include Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Egnyte, Amazon Do, Synology C2 Storage, iDrive, and PCloud.
Box has posted total full-year revenues of $878.89m for 2021, a YoY increase of 11%, or $87.95m.
Box’s shares last closed at $26.48, up 2.1% following the news. Source: Data from Refinitiv and CNBC

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Observe launches Kubernetes Explorer to simplify cloud-native observability

Observe Inc. launches Kubernetes Explorer, a new addition to its observability platform.
Kubernetes Explorer simplifies visualizing and troubleshooting for cloud-native environments.
The platform unifies fragmented data across metrics, traces, and logs to provide insights.
The service integrates with Observe's AI Investigator to provide custom visualizations and suggestions for troubleshooting.

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Dialpad introduces AI-powered Support platform to optimize contact centers

Dialpad Inc. has launched Dialpad Support, an AI-powered platform designed to transform customer service in contact centers.
Dialpad Support addresses the challenges of long call handle times, understaffed teams, and a lack of visibility into agent performance.
The platform utilizes AI capabilities to automate tasks, provide actionable insights, and enhance agent workflows.
Key features include automated query deflection, real-time guidance, AI-driven analysis of customer interactions, and workforce management tools.

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Amazon attempts to lure AI researchers with $110M in grants and credits

Amazon Web Services has launched a new grant program for AI research called Build on Trainium. AWS will award $110 million total to institutions, scientists, and students researching AI.
AWS will give up to $11 million each in Trainium credits to universities with which it has strategic partnerships, along with individual grants up to $500,000 to the broader AI research community.
AWS is establishing a “research cluster” of up to 40,000 Trainium chips research teams and students can access through self-managed reservations.
Gadi Hutt, senior director at AWS’ Annapurna Labs, says Build on Trainium is intended to furnish researchers with the hardware support they need to pursue their work.
This initiative comes as academic institutions in the AI field lack the considerable infrastructure tech giants have at their disposals.
Although Build on Trainium is advertising for Trainium, it is not clear if it will do much to bridge the gap between AI academia and industry.
Nearly 70% of people with Ph.D.s in AI end up in private industry, lured not only by competitive salaries but access to essential compute and data. The largest AI models developed now come from industry more than 90% of the time.
There’s little reason to think that this will change anytime soon, but efforts are underway to establish the US National AI Research Resource, a $2.6 billion initiative that’d provide AI researchers and students with access to computational resources and datasets.
Researchers have pushed for legal and technical protections to scrutinize AI without fear that vendors will suspend their accounts or threaten legal action.
AWS’ grant selection process is opaque, and the committee of “AI and application practitioners” will review proposals and select “the most impactful and promising projects that will help advance machine learning science forward.

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Nvidia’s RTX 40-series is coming to an end

Nvidia has halted production for most of its best graphics cards to focus on the RTX 50-series.
Only one GPU remains in production, and some highly demanded cards are no longer being produced.
The discontinuation of the RTX 40-series has led to increased prices in the market.
Nvidia is expected to launch the RTX 50-series in January 2025.

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AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud: Which Cloud Platform Best Supports Your Business?

The cloud computing landscape is dominated by three major players: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Each platform offers a comprehensive suite of services, including compute, storage, networking, databases, analytics, machine learning, and more.
Before choosing a cloud platform, it's important to assess your business needs, including existing infrastructure, data analytics and machine learning requirements, scalability and flexibility, security and compliance, and cost-effectiveness.
Azure is suitable for organizations with a strong Microsoft ecosystem, Google Cloud is ideal for data analytics and machine learning-focused workloads, and AWS provides maximum flexibility and scalability with its extensive range of services and global infrastructure.
Factors such as vendor lock-in, community and support, and cost optimization should also be considered when selecting the right cloud platform for your business.

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My quest to fully remove Microsoft Edge is finally complete

Uninstalling Microsoft Edge is not an easy task. But there’s a way to get rid of Edge for good and replace the functions in Windows with a browser of your choice.
To uninstall Edge, some registry edits, a little PowerShell and some upkeep are required. This is a bit of work, but there are people who share scripts to make this easier.
The issue with removing Edge completely is that it disables many features within Windows. Searching will no longer pull up web results, weather in Windows won’t work and widgets will be disabled.
Enter MSEdgeRedirect, one of the more popular options among several apps, that redirects normal Edge functions in Windows to a user’s browser and search engine of choice. MSEdgeRedirect taps into dormant components of Edge that are still buried deep within Windows.
MSEdgeRedirect is simply redirecting Edge requests. It hooks into the “microsoft-edge:” handle and tells Windows to use a different browser instead of Edge.
MSEdgeRedirect also offers the option to redirect Bing Search, MSN Weather, MSN News, Bing Images and Bing Discover to the service you prefer.
MSEdgeRedirect not only removes some annoyances with Windows but also puts users in control of the services they interact with.
If you use MSEdgeRedirect, you can use services you want for Bing Discover, Bing Search, Bing Images, MSN News and MSN Weather. MSEdgeRedirect not only removes some annoyances with Windows; it actively makes them better by putting you in control of the services you interact with.
MSEdgeRedirect uses Google to populate search results in Windows search and also shows Google search history in Windows.
These apps get broken with updates to Windows or Edge, but they’re easy to install and give users control over how Windows works rather than forcing them to use Microsoft's services.

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Menzies Aviation Soars with Cloud HR, Elevates Employee Experience

Global aviation services leader Menzies Aviation is undergoing a cloud-based global HR transformation with SAP SuccessFactors HCM to improve employee experience and achieve greater productivity and business agility.
With over 55,000 employees in 65 countries, Menzies Aviation provides an array of ground and executive services at more than 295 airports worldwide.
To drive safety and trusted aviation services, Menzies now empowers its employees with an improved employee experience, courtesy of SAP SuccessFactors HCM.
The cloud-based solution for Menzies provides employees in 53 countries with opportunities for learning and career development, making Menzies a great place for its employees to work.
The adoption of SAP SuccessFactors HCM helps Menzies gain data-driven insights to achieve organizational agility and global visibility of data, enabling them to pull up information on employee headcount and start to see trends.
Employees will soon enjoy self-service capabilities for all their employment-related information, coming together in an intuitive one-stop point of entry, empowering its HR teams to focus on value-added work.
With consistent and standardized HR processes, role-based authorizations to data access, ease of integration with other HR functions, and worldwide regulatory compliance, Menzies is reaping the benefits of a global solution with local data ownership.
The current solution is also extending to payroll capabilities, already available in the UK for Menzies' workforce and also to be included in Portugal and Hong Kong.
Menzies Aviation's organizational and people strategy relies on three pillars: people, passion, and pride, aiming to offer its employees learning and career advancement opportunities and taking pride in getting the basics right.
Menzies is looking forward to exploring how AI-enabled technologies, such as Joule, SAP's AI copilot, and generative AI, will further support the HR team.

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Akamai rolls out packaged platform for distributed Kubernetes applications

Akamai Technologies has launched Akamai Application Platform, a packaged platform for deploying, managing, and scaling distributed applications.
The platform is built on top of Otomi, a productivity suite for Kubernetes acquired by Akamai earlier this year.
It provides prepackaged templates, customizable frameworks, a self-service environment, and a catalog of templates based on industry best practices.
The platform aims to simplify the management of Kubernetes clusters and offers security and observability features, as well as integration with Akamai Connected Cloud services.

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Microsoft teams up with the Vatican to bring an AI experience of St Peter’s Basilica to the masses

Microsoft has collaborated with the Vatican to create an AI experience of St Peter’s Basilica.
The project uses AI and photogrammetry to preserve the iconic religious site.
The collaboration aims to make the Basilica more accessible worldwide, especially in celebration of the 2025 Holy Year Jubilee.
Visitors can access the AI version of St Peter’s Basilica through an interactive website.

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New 'gold-plated' superconductor could be the foundation for massively scaled-up quantum computers in the future

Scientists have developed a new superconductor material that could enhance the reliability of quantum computers.
The material combines trigonal tellurium with a thin film of gold, resulting in a two-dimensional interface superconductor.
The interface superconductor demonstrates enhanced quantum properties and resistance to magnetic fields.
The material shows potential for producing low-loss microwave resonator components, crucial for reliable quantum computing.

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