New Ransomware Attack By Russian Hackers Highlights Cybersecurity Challenges

New Ransomware Attack By Russian Hackers Highlights Cybersecurity Challenges

NBC News reported on Friday that, “A successful ransomware attack on a single company has spread to at least 200 organizations, according to cybersecurity firm Huntress Labs, making it one of the single largest criminal ransomware sprees in history.” The Washington Post later said the attack impacted more than 1,000 companies.

How Salesforce Learned From Microsoft's Mistakes to Dominate in AI

Salesforce.com's (NYSE:CRM) latest earnings report was the best in company history, according to CEO Marc Benioff. Investors didn't seem to disagree, as the cloud services company's stock price jumped 10% the day following the release and has sustained an upward trend since.

Quantum Software Development Is Still In Its Infancy

Quantum Software Development Is Still In Its Infancy

There is a race being run these days, and it features established giants as well as well-funded newcomers. Companies such as IBM, Intel, Google, Honeywell, Xanadu, IonQ, Rigetti and Alibaba are racing to build ever-more-powerful quantum computers. They appear well-justified to do so. Quantum computing promises to dramatically impact numerous fields — from cybersecurity to finance, from supply chain to pharmaceuticals, from defense to weather forecasting.

The Ghost Work Behind Artificial Intelligence

The Ghost Work Behind Artificial Intelligence

An expert on how data and algorithms are changing work responds to Janelle Shane’s “The Skeleton Crew.”

Survey shows many water utilities struggle with cybersecurity

The water industry, like most critical infrastructure sectors, shows a range of cybersecurity preparedness levels, even as threats grow.

How DevOps Is Revolutionizing IT

How DevOps Is Revolutionizing IT

Across industries, IT shops are adopting DevOps methodologies to improve app quality, decrease time to deployment and optimize organizational efficiency. But DevOps requires more than just new tools and processes. A successful initiative will emphasize not only the tools and skills needed to implement DevOps but also the culture change that necessarily comes with the upending of traditional development practices.

Low-Code And No-Code In 2021: Are They As Useful As They Seem?

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, financial services companies were aggressively looking for talent with experience in Business Process Management (BPM) / Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). The need for skilled people was incredibly robust and there were more available roles than potential candidates. Some reports even characterized hiring processes as “trespassers would be recruited.”

The Future of Low-Code is Open

 The Future of Low-Code is Open

The low-code market is seeing meteoric rise across the world, as companies try to keep up with digitization demands and shrinking IT budgets. Even as we witness increasing low-code adoption among professional as well as citizen developers, an intriguing question comes to mind – What lies ahead for low-code, and could it ever become a mainstream approach for modern development teams?

What Artificial Intelligence Still Can’t Do

What Artificial Intelligence Still Can’t Do

Modern artificial intelligence is capable of wonders.

It can produce breathtaking original content: poetry, prose, images, music, human faces. It can diagnose some medical conditions more accurately than a human physician. Last year it produced a solution to the “protein folding problem,” a grand challenge in biology that has stumped researchers for half a century.

When Data Science Met Epidemiology

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many data science and business analytics practitioners have been pulled—mostly willingly—into the field of epidemiology. Large businesses with data science teams wanted to learn as much as possible about the likely course of the infection in the places where they do business.