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Daily Crunch: Thousands of Google Play users download Android banking trojan

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Indeed, data indicates that last year saw a near-record number of new corporate investors joining the startup fundraising fray. TechCrunch dug into the data and is chasing it tomorrow with a pile of notes from active corporate investors. Regardless, it’s out in the market racking up downloads, which is pretty bad.

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Daily Crunch: Months after rejecting a $17B bid, Zendesk sells to private equity group for $10.2B

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CEO Anatoly Yakovenko announced this week that its first product, the Osom OV1, will be an Android smartphone that supports decentralized apps reliant on the Solana blockchain. It’s intended to help create synthetic data for training AI models in situations where real-world data isn’t plentiful.

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Daily Crunch: India’s Central Bank says cryptocurrency ‘may even be worse’ than Ponzi schemes

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We have a busy slate for you today, including news sure to annoy the blockchain faithful, new funds, Facebook’s latest rebrand and more. India continues to debate the fate of cryptocurrencies : A nation’s regulatory and banking bodies debating blockchain technology and its related tokens is a daily occurrence. PST, subscribe here.

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Radar Trends to Watch: December 2022

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SetFit is a much smaller language model (1/1600th the size of GPT-3) that allows smaller organizations to build specialized natural language systems with minimal training data. Starting with a small amount of hand-labeled data, you train a model to label data; use that model; check results for accuracy; and retrain. Programming.

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The Future of Security

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The future of cybersecurity is being shaped by the need for companies to secure their networks, data, devices, and identities. This includes adopting security frameworks like zero trust, which will help companies secure internal information systems and data in the cloud.

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Daily Crunch: Twitter tells GitHub to remove proprietary source code and help them ID who posted it

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He said he noticed a data breach posted on the site did not include ‘one of my old emails,’ which he looked up on the legitimate data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned.” Excel plus snake : Neptyne is building a Python-powered spreadsheet for data scientists, Kyle reports. ” Go get ’em.

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When you gaze into the AI, the AI also gazes into you

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We sigh, as humans spool up to take a break, while the semi-sentient machines continue writing their poetry in their air-conditioned underground data-center homes. Also in India, the IT minister resurrected a previously abandoned data privacy bill and is pushing ahead with it , despite criticism. Fri-yay indeed. this week.

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