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Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, Shaun White, Shawn Mendes get behind Shelf Engine

TechCrunch

Shelf Engine ’s mission to eliminate food waste in grocery retailers now has some additional celebrity backers. The company has already helped retailers divert 1 million pounds of food waste from landfills, Stefan Kalb, co-founder and CEO of Shelf Engine, told TechCrunch. This includes a $12 million Series A from 2020.

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Off-the-shelf RATs Targeting Pakistan

AlienVault

The process flow found in the scene seems to exploit CVE-2016-7255. This vulnerability became very popular on November 2016, after hacker group APT28 used it to perform targeted attacks. We’ve identified a number of spear phishing campaigns with Pakistani themed documents, likely targeting the region. be and careers.fwo.com[.]pk

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Singapore’s Neuron is taking the slow and steady approach to micromobility

TechCrunch

” Since its founding in 2016, Neuron has expanded internationally to 26 cities, with sizable market dominance in Australia , where the operator can be found on the streets of every capital city in the country. Singapore’s Neuron Mobility has raised a $43.5 million Series B round, bringing its total capital investment to $77.7

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Daily Crunch: In latest earnings release, Twitter admits to miscounting users for the second time

TechCrunch

We kicked off a series of pitch deck teardowns, and we are looking for startups that want to have their pitch decks reviewed. More news than you can shake a cap table at: Shuffle off your mortal oil : BlocPower wants to evict fossil fuels one building at a time , replacing them with greener alternatives. Friday tomorrow, woohoo!

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Microsoft’s latest OpenAI investment opens way to new enterprise services

CIO

The company has been a supporter of OpenAI’s quest to build an artificial general intelligence since its early days, beginning with its hosting of OpenAI experiments on specialized Azure servers in 2016. Microsoft stands to benefit from its investment in three ways. The deal, announced by OpenAI and Microsoft on Jan.

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Open source the secret sauce in secure, affordable voting tech

The Parallax

SAN FRANCISCO—The fastest, most cost-effective way to secure direct-record electronic voting machines in the United States, according to cybersecurity experts, is to stop using them. Switch to paper ballots and apply risk-limiting audits to ensure that vote tallies are conducted properly. You don’t have anything to go back to.”. Adida said.

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CIOs Have To Learn To Invest In IT In Order For Their Company To Succeed

The Accidental Successful CIO

In the early days of the PC revolution IT firms went out and purchased their computers and software off the shelf. In the early days of the PC revolution IT firms went out and purchased their computers and software off the shelf. In 2016 approximately 24% of a company’s net income went into proprietary IT.