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Why you can’t ignore cloud security

CIO

But while the cloud provides more flexible and scalable IT services, it’s also introducing new and vexing challenges around cyber security. But the security challenges apparent in the cloud today are quite different to what was imagined in the past. Do you, or are you seeking to have security baked into your cloud provider SLAs?

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Pivot Bio rakes in $430M round D as modified microbes prove their worth in agriculture

TechCrunch

He pointed out the simple fact that distributing fertilizer over a thousand — let alone ten thousand or more — acres of farmland is an immense mechanical and logistical challenge, involving many people, heavy machinery, and valuable time. “We’ve all known microbes were the way to go,” he said.

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Miruku replacing animals with plants to create dairy proteins

TechCrunch

They will help build and repair your body with the same amino acid building blocks that your body uses after you have enjoyed and digested a scrumptious cheese sandwich and they’ll function like real dairy in the making and baking of delicious things like cheesecake or a fine pecorino cheese.”.

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Sourceful grabs $20M to make more packaging less polluting

TechCrunch

Sourceful has chosen to focus on packaging for its initial push to help brands reduce their supply chain emissions on account of the ubiquity of the challenge. Decisions around packaging are also likely to require less lengthy sign-off for brands than environmentally minded design revisions of actual products.). million seed round.

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Strengthening the Nessus Software Supply Chain with SLSA

Tenable

That’s why last year we took on the challenge of implementing the rigorous Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) framework for our Nessus product. Software bill of materials (SBOM): A nested inventory listing the components that make up software. At Tenable, protecting our software supply chain is a top priority.

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This week in AI: Experiments, retirements, and extinction events

TechCrunch

Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. ” Patrick Hymel, an entrepreneur in the health tech industry, wrote about the ways in which GPT-4 makes up references, facts and figures without any identifiable link to real sources. .” Not every video creator can be bothered to write a description.

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MSCHF’s Push Party raises an unconventional seed round at a $200 million valuation

TechCrunch

For the time being, the actual completion of the legal paperwork to cement this valuation seems like a more complex hurdle than the technical challenges of building the app itself. It’s a big button that fires off an awful lot of notifications. There are no friends, no groups, no influencers. million on $10 million.

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