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54gene valuation slashed by over $100M amid job cuts and CEO exit

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In August, it sacked 95 employees , mostly contract staff (in labs and sales departments) hired to work in 54gene’s COVID business line launched in 2020. In September, co-founder and VP of Engineering Ogochukwu Francis Osifo left the company. It’s been a strange couple of months at African genomics startup 54gene.

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Super raises $50M to cover home repairs and maintenance via a subscription model

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CEO Jorey Ramer, who co-founded the company with Ryan Donnelly (VP of engineering), also said that another part of the investment will be used to enhance the AI tech that underpins Super’s service and pricing plans. Hover secures $60M for 3D imaging to assess and fix properties. More on that below.

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Versa raises $120M for its software-defined networking and security stack

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Networking and cybersecurity firm Versa today announced that it raised $120 million in a mix of equity and debt led by BlackRock, with participation from Silicon Valley Bank. Versa’s large round suggests that, despite the market downturn, VCs haven’t lost faith in cybersecurity vendors yet. billion in 2021).

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Apiumhub supports Craft Conference one more year

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Listen to more than 70 speakers coming from the biggest companies like Ebay, Google, Spotify, IBM and NASA introducing you to some exciting topics, like: Software Design Open Source Security Architectural Design Service Mesh Apache APISIX. that can be successfully leveraged by individual engineers. Check out the speakers!

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Attackers Pounce on Unpatched Vulns, DBIR Says, as Critical Infrastructure Orgs Benefit from CISA’s Alert Program

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“While the adoption of artificial intelligence to gain access to valuable corporate assets is a concern on the horizon, a failure to patch basic vulnerabilities has threat actors not needing to advance their approach,” Chris Novak, Verizon’s Senior Director of Cybersecurity Consulting said in a statement this week. 1, 2022 to Oct.

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DevOps influencers to follow this year

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You can find a lot of useful information about DevOps and related technology topics in his Twitter account. John is a consultant and helps companies with Devops, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, etc. Andrew is a contributor to DevOps.com, also he is a notable authority on IT security. Bridget Kromhout . John Arundel.

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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

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Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” If you have a high-risk project, it’s very convenient to go to the security blanket of putting your top engineers on it,” he says. From Wijegunawardena’s standpoint, those two things are not orthogonal at all. “If