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8 open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter ’22

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Wicked fast VPNs, data organization tools, auto-generated videos to spice up your company’s Instagram stories … Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 open source founders have some interesting ideas up their sleeves. And since they’re open source, some of these companies will let you join in on the fun of collaboration too.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Ocean tech investor survey, AI and PR, L-1 visa options

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.” When it comes to marketing, “false or unsubstantiated claims about a product’s efficacy are our bread and butter,” wrote Michael Atleson, an attorney with the FTC’s Division of Advertising Practices. ” Given the renewed interest, “for companies where AI was previously No. 1 Case study slide No.

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Daily Crunch: ‘Network issue’ causes cloud outage that takes down multiple Microsoft services for 4+ hours

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Image Credits: Jenny Dettrick (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Americans spent nearly $20 billion on pizza deliveries in 2021. The same holds true for machine learning algorithms: Should companies select open source models, license large language models without modifications, or customize them and pay much higher usage rates?

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Microsoft’s October 2020 Patch Tuesday Addresses 87 CVEs including “Bad Neighbor” Windows TCP/IP Vulnerability (CVE-2020-16898)

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CVE-2020-16898 | Windows TCP/IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. CVE-2020-16898 | Windows TCP/IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. CVE-2020-16898 , dubbed “Bad Neighbor,” is a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability within the Windows TCP/IP stack.

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Extra Crunch roundup: NS1 EC-1, Pakistan’s tech ecosystem, SPACs bonanza

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Part 2: Product development and roadmap : experimentation, open-source efforts and expanding beyond DNS. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). “The venture capital market is racing ahead, foot on the gas, middle finger out the window, hair on fire.” The NS1 EC-1.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Automattic TC-1, federal startup grants, ‘getting s done day’

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Our latest long-form look at a notable tech company examines Automattic, “the leading commercial complement to the open source WordPress publishing platform.”. Part 2: There’s nothing Automattic about balancing commercial growth with an open source developer community (open source development).

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Moemate’s AI avatar analyzes your whole screen, with spotty but intriguing results

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One of the more intriguing ones I’ve stumbled upon is Moemate , an assistant that runs on most any macOS, Windows and Linux machine. It can bring your chat window into focus and show the number of subscribers to your channel. Startups, too, are beginning to realize their own versions of more helpful, useful AI assistants.

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