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IronNet, founded by former NSA director, shuts down and lays off staff

TechCrunch

IronNet, a once-promising cybersecurity startup founded by a former NSA director and funded by cyber and defense investors, has shuttered and laid off its remaining staff following its collapse.

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What is a project management office (PMO)? The key to standardizing project success

CIO

Project management office (PMO) definition A project management office (PMO) is a group, or functional unit, that sets, maintains, and enforces the practices, policies, and standards for structuring and executing projects within an organization. According to the Project Management Institute (PMI), a PMO is essential for enterprises seeking to centralize and coordinate the management of projects throughout their life cycles.

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Stitch raises $25M Series A extension led by Ribbit Capital, increasing the round’s total to $46M

TechCrunch

Open banking, in which traditional banks release their data via application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable the development of new financial services for their consumers, has been one of the most significant disruptions in global payments over the past decade.

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Lessons from the field: Why you need a platform engineering practice (…and how to build it)

CIO

Platform engineering is a sociotechnical discipline that has gained tremendous attention in the last year in response to the need for organizations to accelerate cloud native app development and management. Platform engineering focuses on the internal application of development and the creation of so-called ‘ Golden Pathways ’ in engineering and development, saving time and creating more space for creativity.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Visa earmarks $100M to invest in generative AI companies

TechCrunch

Visa announced today that it plans to invest $100 million in companies developing generative AI technologies and applications “that will impact the future of commerce and payments.” The investments will be made through Visa Ventures, the card giant’s 16-year-old global corporate investment arm.

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Amid Twitter chaos, Mastodon grew donations 488% in 2022, reached 1.8M monthly active users

TechCrunch

Consumer interest in open source, decentralized social networking isn’t something that was only reflected in news headlines over the past year, it’s also apparent in the financials behind Mastodon.

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How to Stop My Boss from Wasting My Time with Their Bad Delegation

Let's Grow Leaders

You can lessen your frustration and help solve bad delegation by aligning expectations. Why Do I Even Try? Declan paced back and forth, fuming. “I busted by ass to get this done. Made sure it was perfect and met every one of the project’s requirements. I met with my boss today and she blew it off. She’s a poster child for bad delegation.” “What did she say?

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Kenyan legislative committee calls for Worldcoin shutdown in the country

TechCrunch

A Kenyan parliamentary committee formed in August to investigate operations and activities of Sam Altman’s crypto project, Worldcoin, in the East African country, has recommended for it to be shut down.

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Rising Above: The Call for Senior Leaders to Embrace Strategy Over Tactics

N2Growth Blog

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, leaders frequently face various tactical and operational challenges. When it comes to managing day-to-day operations and responding to unforeseen problems, the frenetic pace of the immediate can become a zone of comfort. A significant number of future leaders have gained professional experience and earned their stripes in these trenches, becoming masters of this tactical art.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Elon Musk’s X Corp. faces trademark lawsuit from social media ad agency

TechCrunch

When Elon Musk rebranded Twitter to X this summer, there were concerns that the new company could face trademark lawsuits as there were nearly 900 active U.S. trademark registrations that cover the letter and branding “X” across various industries, according to comments made by trademark attorney Josh Gerben, speaking to the press at the time.

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So We Shipped an AI Product. Did it Work?

Honeycomb

Like many companies, earlier this year we saw an opportunity with LLMs and quickly (but thoughtfully) started building a capability. About a month later, we released Query Assistant to all customers as an experimental feature. We then iterated on it , using data from production to inform a multitude of additional enhancements, and ultimately took Query Assistant out of experimentation and turned it into a core product offering.

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Ousted Flexport CEO Dave Clark strikes back

TechCrunch

Dave Clark, the former Amazon executive who was ousted as CEO of Flexport just a year into the job, fired back at its founder and board, calling recent reporting on the logistics company “deeply concerning.

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4 Ways to Make Work More Meaningful

Harvard Business Review

Curiosity is not just a medium by which we achieve professional success, it’s also imperative to unlocking purpose and meaning at work. Curiosity about ourselves, our work, and our colleagues is the key to unlocking the significance behind our work. Adopting the mindset of curiosity with the intention of discovering purpose is made possible through four simple practices: crafting your work, making work a craft, connecting work to service, and investing in positive relationships.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Queer social app Lex gets a new CEO and $5.6M to grow

TechCrunch

Lex, the app inspired by vintage lesbian personals, just raised $5.6 million in seed funding and elevated co-founder Jennifer Lewis from COO to CEO. As a result, founding CEO Kel Rakowski steps into a new role — chief creative officer, while former Hinge product boss Michelle Parsons joins as chief product officer.

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Operations in an Era of Radical Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

Operations have always been foundational to competitive advantage, but the nature of this relationship is shifting: Historically, the strategic goal of operations was to achieve scale in order to create a sustainable efficiency advantage. In recent years, winners have focused more on ensuring their operations and strategies were adaptive to changing and unforeseen circumstances, with resilience driving outperformance.

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This week in AI: AI-powered personalities are all the rage

TechCrunch

Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning.

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CVE-2023-40044, CVE-2023-42657: Progress Software Patches Multiple Vulnerabilities in WS_FTP Server

Tenable

Progress Software patches multiple flaws in its WS_FTP Server product, including a pair of critical flaws, one with a maximum CVSS rating of 10 Background On September 27, Progress Software published an advisory for WinSock File Transfer Protocol or WS_FTP Server , a secure file transfer solution, addressing eight vulnerabilities. Of the eight vulnerabilities, two are rated as critical: CVE Description Vendor Assigned CVSSv3 VPR* Severity CVE-2023-40044 WS_FTP.NET Deserialization Vulnerability i

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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Fearless Fund barred from awarding grant to Black women founders

TechCrunch

Experts and venture industry insiders following the Fearless Fund case remain dumbfounded as it continues to unfold.

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Tenable Cyber Watch: DHS Tracks New Ransomware Trends as Attacks Drive Up Cyber Insurance Claims, and more

Tenable

Curious about the newest ransomware trends detailed in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s “Homeland Threat Assessment 2024” report? What’s with the surge in cyber insurance claims and what does ransomware have to do with it? Why is CISA warning critical infrastructure organizations about the Snatch ransomware? We’ve got you covered in this week’s edition of the Tenable Cyber Watch, our weekly video news digest highlighting three cybersecurity topics that matter right now.

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Elon Musk is being sued for defamation after falsely claiming a man was a neo-Nazi on X

TechCrunch

Elon Musk has been on something of a suing spree lately, but on Monday Twitter’s new owner was hit with a fresh inbound lawsuit.

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Does Your Hybrid Strategy Need to Change?

Harvard Business Review

Companies continue to struggle to design and implement a post-Covid return-to-office strategy that works for employees. To find the most workable alternative, they should focus on four factors: the needs of the work, the needs of the people, how work gets done, and the new managerial muscle required to manage a hybrid workforce.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Tesla Autopilot arbitration win could set legal benchmark in auto industry

TechCrunch

In a victory for Tesla, a California federal judge ruled over the weekend that a group of Tesla owners cannot pursue in court claims that the company falsely advertised its automated features. Instead, they will have to face individual arbitration. U.S.

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Better Ways to Support a Colleague with Breast Cancer

Harvard Business Review

Chances are, you’ll work with a person who is diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in your career. Do you know how to best support them during one of the most challenging times of their lives? In this article, five women who have undergone treatment describe ways their colleagues did — and didn’t — lift them up through their words and actions, both at the time of their diagnosis and beyond.

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Unitary AI picks up $15M for its multimodal approach to video content moderation

TechCrunch

Content moderation continues to be a contentious topic in the world of online media. New regulations and public concern are likely to keep it as a priority for many years to come. But weaponised AI and other tech advances are making it ever harder to address.

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How to Detect Failed Requests via Web Extensions

David Walsh

One of the best things that ever happened to t he user experience of the web has been web extensions. Browsers are powerful but extensions bring a new level of functionality. Whether it’s crypto wallets, media players, or other popular plugins, web extensions have become essential to every day tasks. Working on MetaMask, I am thrust into a world of making everything Ethereum-centric work.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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How much carbon pollution is in your product? Muir AI raises $3.25M seed to answer that question

TechCrunch

Everything from materials to manufacturing and distribution leaves a carbon footprint, and not all vendors report their emissions.

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Midjourney V5: The Latest Version of Midjourney

Apiumhub

Introduction In the field of artificial intelligence applied to artistic generation, we witnessed a significant milestone with the launch of the latest version of a platform that redefines the boundaries of digital creativity, Midjourney V5. This advanced iteration represents a major leap forward in terms of realism and expressiveness, successfully tackling complex challenges such as the representation of human hands and emotions, as well as incorporating remarkable additional functionalities.

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SBF’s trial promises to be just as riveting as the rest of the FTX drama

TechCrunch

'If the SBF trial starts to look like the crypto equivalent of an organized crime trial, don’t be surprised.