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1 week ago | itprotoday.com | Bob Wallace

After nearly two years of economic uncertainty, enterprises have reopened their wallets, targeting secure access service edge (SASE) architecture to expand their locations and fend off increasingly sophisticated AI-driven attacks. SASE is a cloud architecture that combines network and cloud-native security technologies, delivered as a single cloud service.

1 week ago | itprotoday.com | Christopher Tozzi

The modern large language models (LLMs) developed by OpenAI are noticeably not open source, despite the company's name. Neither are most of the major LLMs from companies like Google or Anthropic. But there's another key player in the AI ecosystem that has placed a major bet on open source LLMs: Meta, which has committed to open source AI by releasing its Llama models to the public. At least, that's how Meta would like to position its AI strategy.

1 week ago | itprotoday.com | Lisa Schmeiser |No Jitter

Anyone who's worried about AI taking their job might consider this good news: Employers want your uniquely human behaviors. As reported in HR Drive:Employers are increasingly focused on soft skills during the job hunt, with 60% saying soft skills are more important today than five years ago, according to a June 9 report from TestGorilla. More than 70% of employers said evaluating the whole candidate — both skills, personality and cultural fit — leads to better results.

1 week ago | itprotoday.com | Grant Knoetze

The backbone of the Linux operating system, for any distribution, is the kernel. The kernel powers everything from smartphones and IoT devices to servers and even supercomputers. With the release of Linux Kernel 6.x in late 2023 and its ongoing updates throughout 2024, the open source community has introduced a host of new features to the kernel, which include performance enhancements and security improvements.

1 week ago | itprotoday.com | Christopher Tozzi

For many businesses, the cloud is amazing. Its flexibility, scalability, and reliability make it the obvious way to deploy workloads. But in other cases, businesses that have moved workloads to the cloud — or that deployed everything in the cloud from the start — may find that the cloud doesn't offer the value they hoped for. It may cost more than they expected. It may not provide the necessary level of control. It might wed them to vendor ecosystems to which they don't want to be locked in.