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Persado | March 29, 2016

When McCann Worldgroup holds its new employee welcoming ceremony on April 1, there will be one standout addition to the agency. Along with hiring 11 recent college graduates, the agency will also add AI-CD β (AI-CD beta), the world's first artificial intelligence (A.I.) creative director. I-CD beta will work for McCann Japan and was developed through the "Creative Genome Project," the first project undertaken by McCann Millennials, a taskforce launched last September by agency...

ZDNet | January 14, 2020

DevOps Pulse is an annual analysis of the DevOps industry, conducted by logz.io. Findings from the 2019 version have just been published, and we take the opportunity to share and comment on them with Tomer Levy, logz.io CEO. Levy co-founded logz.io in 2014 and has managed to raise about $100 million and build a team of 250 people to date, on the premise of offering an open-source based solution for log management. The 2019 survey focuses on observability, bringing DevOps engineers' insights ...

VentureBeat | January 13, 2020

Google hopes to tap AI and machine learning to make speedy local weather predictions. In a paper and accompanying blog post, the tech giant detailed an AI system that uses satellite images to produce “nearly instantaneous” and high-resolution forecasts — on average, with a roughly one kilometer resolution and a latency of only 5-10 minutes. The researchers behind it say it outperforms traditional models “even at these early stages of development.” The system takes a...

Microsoft | January 13, 2020

The security team at npm (Node Package Manager), the de-facto package manager for the JavaScript ecosystem, has taken down today a malicious package that was caught stealing sensitive information from UNIX systems. The malicious package is named 1337qq-js and was uploaded on the npm repository on December 30, 2019. The package was downloaded at least 32 times, before it was spotted and today by Microsoft's Vulnerability Research team. According to an analysis by the np...