TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2023
Bob Lee , the chief product officer at MobileCoin, was killed in a fatal stabbing in San Francisco. On Tuesday morning, at 2:35 a.m., the San Francisco Police Department responded to a report of a stabbing near the 300 block of Main Street in SoMa. He was taken to a hospital but succumbed to his injuries. Shortly after, NBC Bay Area reported that the victim of the stabbing was Bob Lee, 43.
CIO
APRIL 5, 2023
You heard about a nightmare scenario playing out for peers at other companies and hope it doesn’t affect yours. Trouble tickets are rolling in, and there’s a lack of qualified people to address security alerts and help desk issues right when customer demand, supply shortages, and potential threats are at their peak. Even with flexible remote work policies, the most seasoned employees in roles such as customer support, data science, business analysis, and DevSecOps move on to greener pastures and
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TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2023
It’s usually third-world countries that frequently say they’re experiencing a “brain drain” — the bleeding of talent to other countries or parts of the world. But it seems now the United States is the one seeing talent fleeing to other parts of the world, at least as far as blockchain developers are concerned. The number of blockchain developers in the U.S. has declined every year since 2017, according to a recent report by Electric Capital.
CIO
APRIL 5, 2023
Traditional IT security methods are increasingly flawed and the volume and sophistication of threats continue to increase. According to NETSCOUT , one DDoS attack occurs every three seconds, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency recently added 66 new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, with new common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) growing over 25% year-over-year in 2022.
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TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2023
As generative AI proliferates, it’s beginning to reach the ads we hear on podcasts and the radio. Startup Adthos this week launched a platform that uses AI to generate scripts for audio ads — and even add voiceovers, sound effects and music. Customers can optionally go in and edit the ads using a browser-based, multi-track editor, yielding a “fully produced” ad that can be played out via integrations with radio automation systems and ad servers.
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TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2023
Today, Y Combinator’s latest startup cohort will kick off a two-day presentation cycle. The Exchange loves a demo day, so we keep an eye on accelerators as best we can. We recently covered the latest concerning YC’s rival group Techstars’ geographic footprint as well. As we wait for the first presentations to begin, this is a good time to take a quick look at the early-stage venture market that companies from accelerators of all stripes will operate in this year.
Xebia
APRIL 5, 2023
I heard multiple times that AWS scans public GitHub repositories for AWS credentials and informs its users of the leaked credentials. So I am curious to see this for myself, so I decided to intentionally leak AWS credentials to a Public GitHub repository. And show you the steps I took and how I got informed about the leaked credentials. Setting up the credentials I created a IAM user in my AWS account named test-user and generated an access key and secret for this user and attached a very limite
TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2023
Lux Capital, known for investing in life science and frontier tech startups, is back in the market to fundraise for its latest vehicle — but this time without a dedicated late-stage entity. The firm is targeting over $1 billion for Lux Ventures VIII, according to meeting materials from the New Mexico State Investment Council (NM SIC) for March 28, which committed $62.5 million to the fund.
CIO
APRIL 5, 2023
At Choice Hotels , cloud is a tool to help the hospitality giant achieve corporate goals. That can include making progress on immediate objectives, such as environmental sustainability, while keeping an eye on trendy topics such as the metaverse and ChatGPT. “We’re investing in technology, we’re investing in leveraging the cloud to do meaningful things while we figure out what does tomorrow look like?
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TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2023
Indian electric mobility startup Magenta Mobility has closed a $22 million Series A1 round, backed by $11 million each from Morgan Stanley India Infrastructure and BP Ventures. Magenta will use the all-equity investment to boost its existing logistics and last-mile delivery fleet operations. The Navi Mumbai-headquartered startup has a fleet of 800 three-wheeled electric cargo trucks with which it delivers goods in seven cities across the country — specifically Bengaluru, Delhi, Mumbai, Mys
CIO
APRIL 5, 2023
“Doing Something Meaningful.” The term is instilled in employees at Dutch health, nutrition, and bioscience company Royal DSM N.V. (DSM), a Heerlen-based organization committed to improving global health by setting ambitious environmental, social, and governance (ESG) targets. It’s a lofty ambition in a volatile era in which global businesses are impacted by ongoing inflation and restrained economic growth.
TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2023
French startup Forest Admin is launching a cloud-based version of its product. The company helps you create flexible back-end admin panels for operations teams. Essentially, Forest Admin helps development teams spend less time on back office tools so that they can focus on the actual product. With the cloud version, companies just have to integrate the service with their own SQL database.
CIO
APRIL 5, 2023
You’ve had a great CIO career filled with transformational triumphs and award-winning projects and teams. What’s next for your career before you retire? Board service, of course! With cybersecurity keeping CEOs up at night and digital transformation all the rage, the number of CIOs on corporate boards is increasing. For experienced IT leaders looking to get out of operations and into the Socratic world of private or corporate boards, this means serious opportunity, as corporate boards are keen
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As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo
TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2023
Venture capital has traditionally been an industry that revolves around relationships. VCs invest in a startup’s idea but their conviction stems from the folks behind it. This largely makes sense because investing in a startup also usually entails entering a years-long relationship. But backing companies based on the allure of the founder hasn’t always worked out.
Xebia
APRIL 5, 2023
Perhaps you recognize it, formatting in a document that keeps jumping, tabs or spaces that don’t line up correctly, etcetera. This month, Google Workspace is rolling out the new feature to view non-printable characters in a Google Document, a kind of underwater screen (formatting marks). By using this functionality it is possible to make non-printing characters such as line breaks, section breaks, tabs and spaces visible in the document.
TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2023
Y Combinator, the startup accelerator that has launched the likes of Instacart, Stripe and Airbnb, has broadened its investing lens in recent years, backing companies all over Africa and India, and beyond. As the tech downturn has continued, though, Y Combinator has shrunk its cohort size, stepped back from late-stage investing, and brought on a new chief executive: entrepreneur and co-founder of Initialized Capital, Garry Tan.
Xebia
APRIL 5, 2023
Recently a customer reported several incidents with a scheduled data transfer task , causing the business to complain about the lack of fresh data. Sadly, the scheduled task failed randomly. We were missing crucial insights to fix the scheduled task and/or inform the business of an incident. Therefore, the first step was to monitor the scheduled task status using Google Cloud Monitoring.
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Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.
TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2023
Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor Ask Sophie: What to do if selected/not selected in H-1B lottery?
DevOps.com
APRIL 5, 2023
Every open source project hopes to achieve escape velocity, attracting enough users and contributors to become a successful, sustainable project that expands over time. But how do you attract developers and create the cycle of adoption that can lead to a thriving ecosystem? It obviously starts with building a great product that developers love to […] The post Creating a Growth Loop for Your Open Source Project appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2023
The global medical imaging market was valued at a touch over $28 billion in 2021 , and is only expected to rise with an increase in demand for early-detection services as well as lifestyle and age-related conditions. Yet at the same time as demand for radiology services is increasing, the number of available radiographers is decreasing. In the U.S., almost half of radiographers are approaching retirement age and there are fewer residents lining up to fill their soon-to-be vacancies.
DevOps.com
APRIL 5, 2023
This is perhaps the toughest issue for all of us to acknowledge: The longer you are in the space, the more skills you have filled out on LinkedIn (or wherever you are tracking your career for HR reps to look at) but the skills you possess today are, by definition, a subset of the skills […] The post Things We Should Acknowledge, Part Two: Skills Are Less Relevant appeared first on DevOps.com.
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The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.
TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2023
Spencer Levitt and Austin Pager met early on as classmates at Northwestern University and spent the next several years building apps powered by a wide range of APIs. After developers kept tapping them to help with API integrations, they set out to build a tool for “API-first” companies to offer simpler integration experiences. “During Y Combinator, which we participated in after graduating from Northwestern a year early, an early adopter started using our tool to aid their sale
Confluent
APRIL 5, 2023
All the best data streaming resources, tips, and guides to help you learn introductory concepts, streaming architecture basics, common tools and technologies, and more.
TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2023
Construction insurance company Billy announced today the closing of an additional $2.5 million led by Entrada Ventures and MetaProp, bringing its total funding to $6.7 million. Nyasha Gutsa and Grant Robbins started the company in 2020 as a pandemic project. Gutsa combined his background in construction product management with Robbins’ decade of experience running a construction business to launch Billy, which digitizes and streamlines the construction compliance management process.
The Daily WTF
APRIL 5, 2023
Francisco 's co-worker needed to populate a dropdown with three items: "--All--", "Accepted", and "Pending" Unfortunately for this co-worker, a basic understanding of "array literals" or "lists" or, well, any collection type was slightly beyond their grasp. Instead, they chose to do what many a developer who doesn't understand the date/time functions of their languages does: ask the database for help: select '--All--' union select 'Acce
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Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.
TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2023
Several years ago, Jonathan Dambrot, a partner at KPMG, was helping customers deploy and develop AI systems when he started to notice certain gaps in compliance and security. According to him, no one could explain whether their AI was secure — or even who was responsible for ensuring that. “Fundamentally, data scientists don’t understand the cybersecurity risks of AI and cyber professionals don’t understand data science the way they understand other topics in technology,&
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
APRIL 5, 2023
Regular measurement of goal achievement helps you make adjustments to your plans. Regular measurement of goal achievement helps you make adjustments to your plans. Clearly define the metrics you’ll measure, the data sources you’ll use, the measurement methods, and measurement frequency. One retailer I worked with had an online, a store, and a catalog channel.
InnovationM
APRIL 5, 2023
Generating a PDF file can be a useful and necessary task in many software applications. PDFPro is a powerful tool that can be used to create PDF files programmatically. In this blog post, we will explore how to generate a PDF file using PDFPro with code, as well as the API that can be used to perform this task. 1. Installing PDFPro: Before we can start generating PDF files using PDFPro, we need to install the library.
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