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The cyber pandemic: AI deepfakes and the future of security and identity verification

CIO

In fact, Gartner estimates that by 2026, nearly one-third of enterprises will consider identity verification and authentication solutions unreliable due to AI-generated deepfakes. First, you’ll need to understand exactly how bad actors use AI deepfakes to attack your systems.

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a16z, NFX back Latitud’s effort to become ‘the operating system for every venture-backed company in LatAm’

TechCrunch

When he sold Brazilian online real estate marketplace VivaReal for $550 million several years ago, he had to pay more than $100 million in capital gains taxes due to incorporation errors made early on. It started by documenting the process to create Latitud. “We Serial entrepreneur Brian Requarth learned his lesson the hard way.

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Smile Identity expands African footprint with acquisition of Appruve to strengthen ID verification services

TechCrunch

On the other hand, Appruve, which provides an API that verifies user identity, fraud detection and digital documentation, primarily focuses on new datasets that enable or complement traditional government data such as international passports and national IDs. We want to add that depth in more markets, and Appruve gives some of that.”

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pdflayer API Review – HTML to PDF Conversion API for Developers

The Crazy Programmer

This makes the platform most productive, reliable, and cost-effective for developers to process a large number of documents in a shorter span of time. pdflayer combines several powerful PDF engines based on browsers running stalwart operating systems. What makes pdflayer discernible from other APIs? Robust PDF Engine.

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The Hidden Gem of Savings in the Software Delivery. And no, it’s not AI

CIO

It will improve project management, help with requirements creation, assist developers with coding, cover the system with auto-tests, report defects, and improve deployment. Example 1: major outage after a core system update A large broker-dealer updated its core system and immediately ran into a catastrophic failure.

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Runway raises $2M seed, launches its ‘air traffic control’ system for mobile app releases

TechCrunch

Interdisciplinary teams consisting of engineers, product, marketing, design, QA and more all have to keep each other updated on their own part of the app’s release process — something that’s still often done using things like shared documents and spreadsheets.

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Not-so-Portable Document Format

The Daily WTF

Adrian worked for a document services company. Adrian's boss, Lester, was too busy "developing high-end printing solutions on a Unix system" to spend any time in that sub-sub-basement, and instead embedded himself with the client's IT team. "It's "The high speed printer is a Unix system, you know this."

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