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Does this look familiar? It's pretty typical for today's tool storage boxes and bags to turn into a self contained mess of gear
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Many containers on the market simply ...
Tableau update uses AI to increase speed to insight
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Tableau was acquired by Salesforce earlier this year for $15.7 billion, but long before that, the company had been working on its Fall update, and today it announced several new tools including a new feature called ‘Explain Data’ that uses AI to get to insight quickly. “What Explain Data does is it moves users from understanding what happened to why it might have happened by automatically uncovering and explaining what’s going on in your data. So what we’ve done is we’ve embedded a sophisticated statistical engine in Tableau, that when launched automatically analyzes all the data on behalf of the...
Salesforce brings AI power to its search tool
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Enterprise search tools have always suffered from the success of Google. Users wanted to find the content they needed internally in the same way they found it on the web. Enterprise search has never been able to meet those lofty expectations, but today Salesforce announced Einstein Search, an AI-powered search tool for Salesforce users that is designed to point them to the exact information they are looking for. Will Breetz, VP of product management at Salesforce says that enterprise search has suffered over the years for a variety of reasons. “Enterprise search has gotten a bad rap, but deservedly so....
Protocol found in webcams and DVRs is fueling a new round of big DDoSes
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Enlarge (credit: Akamai) Hackers have found a new way to amplify the crippling effects of denial-of-service technique by abusing an improperly implemented tool found in almost 1 million network-connected cameras, DVRs, and other Internet-of-things devices. The technique abuses WS-Discovery, a protocol that a wide array of network devices use to automatically connect to one another. Often abbreviated as WSD, the protocol lets devices send user datagram protocol packets over port 3702 that describe the device capabilities and requirements. Devices that receive the probes can respond with replies that can be tens to hundreds of times bigger. WSD has shipped with...
Just a small project I completed recently
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I had a bunch of long tools scattered around or leaning up against walls. This really helped get them off the floor and ...