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2017 in cybersecurity and privacy news

The Parallax

government computers Kaspersky Lab security software, developed in Russia, it took months longer than its predecessors to publicly unveil a computer security stance. The Spanish government, on the other hand, seems to have figured out how to use the Internet against its citizens. Photo by Seth Rosenblatt/The Parallax.

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Why entrepreneurs claim there’s no better place to do business than Puerto Rico

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Lugo founded Internet Vision Development (INVID) to fill this gap, customizing off-the-shelf software for customers. But when Hurricane Maria, a devastating category-5 storm, struck the island in September 2017, Lugo’s business came to a standstill. The island has also hardened its infrastructure substantially since 2017.

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Top 10 cities to hire developers

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

According to StackOverflow , the demand for software developers still outpaces the supply. Unfortunately, businesses in major tech countries such as the US and the UK have long been suffering because of the rapid growth of tech industries and the shortage of talented developers. Top 10 cities to hire developers.

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‘AWS for blockchain’ Alchemy boosts valuation to $3.5B with $250M raise

TechCrunch

Exactly six months after raising $80 million at a $505 million valuation, blockchain and Web3 development SaaS startup Alchemy has raised $250 million in a Series C funding round that values the company at $3.5 Put simply, Alchemy wants to do for blockchain and Web3 what AWS (Amazon Web Services) did for the internet. ??

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Rocket Mortgage lays foundation for generative AI success

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“We have multiple generative AI cases in production today and have for about one year,” says Woodring, noting that the company has one genAI chatbot under development, for example, designed to listen and comprehend as well as it speaks. Today, 60% to 70% of Rocket’s workloads run on the cloud, with more than 95% of those workloads in AWS.

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Top 10 cities to hire developers

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

According to StackOverflow , the demand for software developers still outpaces the supply. Unfortunately, businesses in major tech countries such as the US and the UK have long been suffering because of the rapid growth of tech industries and the shortage of talented developers. Top 10 cities to hire developers.

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

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OpenAI has landed billions of dollars more funding from Microsoft to continue its development of generative artificial intelligence tools such as Dall-E 2 and ChatGPT. Others include BERT and PaLM from Google; and MT-NLG, which was co-developed by Microsoft and Nvidia. Microsoft stands to benefit from its investment in three ways.