Test data management (TDM) is a crucial practice for ensuring compliant data and providing uniformity to test data. In the same way testing environments and data models are continuously evolving, test data management practices require ongoing revision. The use of personal data in development and testing environments is a persistent concern for software engineering leaders…
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“The assumption is that the women are going to take care of the social things,” said Juliana Vida, group vice-president and chief strategic advisor at Splunk, as part of the Womxn in Tech panel at Splunk .conf23. “There are norms that are pervasive in our culture, just from decades of how women and men had…
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The IT sustainability tide is moving fast and most industries lack clear guidelines or role models to follow, and new and innovative approaches to recruitment are required to address these complex challenges. Skills-based hiring is serving as an increasingly popular solution to the tech talent shortage as a whole: professionals with fewer arbitrary years of…
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Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has burst into the public consciousness this year, thanks to the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022. In its first six months, it garnered more than 100 million users, while images generated from AI art tool DALL.E were viewed more than 4.2 billion times. Companies are now beginning to figure out…
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Organisations operating in the US will have to get to grips with strict new cyber breach reporting regulations, handed down this week by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The rules will apply to all US-listed companies, including Foreign Private Issuers – bodies primarily organised outside the US but that maintain secondary listings there. They…
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HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has hit back at claims it is wasting taxpayers’ money by not hiring contractors on an outside IR35 basis, after its annual accounts suggested the majority of the temporary workers it used last year were engaged via umbrella companies. According to the government tax collection agency’s 2022-2023 Annual Report and…
Having reviewed and dissected almost a dozen ATX 3.0 power supplies in the last year, thus far we’ve seen an interesting mix in design pedigrees for PSUs targeting the newest power standard. For some manufacturers this has meant bringing up entirely new PSU designs by OEMs new and old, developing fresh platforms to accommodate the…
Sean Green’s career has gone a full circle from IT through marketing, back to IT at his local university, where he is now heading up IT. Before taking up what he describes as a “pretty rounded CIO role”, at the University of East Anglia (UEA), Green had been on a journey through different sectors and…
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Generative AI – including services such as ChatGPT and Google Bard – looks like being the next wave of business automation. In IT, a growing number of suppliers now have some artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) capabilities built into their management tools. Much of the day-to-day work of IT departments can benefit from…
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The proliferation of network-connected products and a competitive industry has flooded the market with unsecure smart devices. Not only does this put the owners at risk, but it also enables the creation of botnets that can be used for malicious activities. There have been numerous examples of the damage that unsecure smart devices can do.…
