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Breach Attack and Simulation: A Critical Tool to Test the Efficacy of Security Controls

IDC

Breach attack & simulation (BAS) is a great addition to traditional cybersecurity vulnerability testing. Explore its benefits with IDC's Curtis Price.

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Lambda School lays off 65 employees amid restructuring

TechCrunch

Nearly a year after its last layoff , online coding bootcamp Lambda School just announced more cuts amid a broader restructuring. In a blog post, CEO and founder Austen Allred said that the startup, which raised a $74 million Series C in August, is laying off 65 employees. . The roles that were cut span senior product, engineering, design, community management and instructional staff.

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Juggling Multiple Scrum Teams

Agile Alliance

I can’t juggle. But this post isn’t about me. Instead, let me introduce our latest curated experience report author and Scrum Master juggler Iurii Ilantaskii. In his report, Parallel Juggling while Coaching Multiple Teams, Iurii shares his experiences juggling his duties as a Scrum Master in support of multiple teams. OK, Iurii didn’t have to … Continued.

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Google to offer 40,000 developer scholarships in Africa; continues accelerator program

TechCrunch

Google today announced the launch of 40,000 new developer scholarships in Africa. Google will offer the scholarships — created in partnership with tech talent companies Pluralsight and Andela — to developers spread across mobile and cloud development tracks. According to the statement released by the company, Google will give full scholarships (with certifications in Android and cloud development) to the top 1,000 students (beginner and intermediate developers) at the end of the tra

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Successful Digital Transformation: It’s About Strategy

DevOps.com

While having a mature digital enterprise helped organizations to better survive – and even thrive, in some cases – the pandemic, that’s not the primary reason why organizations will continue to invest in their digital transformation efforts. According to new research from consultancy Deloitte, businesses will continue to invest in their digital transformation capabilities to […].

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How AI email security reduces the burden on human defenders

Darktrace

Traditional email security tools weigh down the teams they were designed to help, with lengthy configuration processes and false positives which keep human operators in the weeds. This blog explains how autonomous AI frees up IT teams, enabling them to focus on what matters.

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MoviePass co-founder’s PreShow Interactive raises $3M to expand into gaming

TechCrunch

PreShow Interactive is giving gamers a new way to earn in-game currency in exchange for watching ads — a concept that’s become familiar in mobile games but hasn’t really made much headway on PCs or consoles. The startup is led by MoviePass’ founding CEO Stacy Spikes. When I spoke to Spikes about PreShow two years ago , he was beta testing an app that provided users with free movie tickets in exchange for watching ads.

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15 SWE Trends Dominating the Tech Industry in 2021

Dzone - DevOps

Software development trends are leading the charters in the tech industry. If you’re a tech professional, you’ll see money-churning ideas abound. However, what about the future stakes remain a million-dollar question. Be it DevSecOps to low-code apps, software development trends are fast as technology itself. So it makes sense that all would be wondering what the latest trends in software development are.

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Here are all the startups pitching today at Venture Day Minsk

TechCrunch

Venture Day Minsk (organised by tech startup hub Imaguru ) is run annually, but because of the pandemic and the political situation in Belarus, it has gone virtual. Even Imaguru itself has had to switch to online-only operations after Lukashenko’s thugs shut down its physical space. If you want to support them, check out their startups, and maybe grab a T-shirt.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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Breaking Through | A New Frontier of Technology and Innovation

N2Growth Blog

We are witnessing the creation of an entirely new paradigm, a fierce wave of technological innovation boosting generations of new businesses and business leaders. Blockchain, machine learning, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, 3D printing, and robotics are among the most important technologies of today’s rapidly changing world. The pace of technological applications and innovations has increased significantly in recent years.

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MagicBell raises $1.9M to build a plug-and-play notification platform for product teams

TechCrunch

One of the key ingredients in effective product development is receiving timely and relevant notifications about customer use, engagement, potential issues and more. Engineers, developers and product managers rely on that flow of information, but it’s typically delivered either via legacy email tools, or through notification systems built into product management dashboards that devs have to hand-code themselves.

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Appen Leads Industry in Creating AI That Works for Everyone

DevOps.com

Appen’s range of AI projects and diverse global contractor network ensure unbiased AI data for fair and equitable AI projects SAN FRANCISCO — April 29, 2021 — Appen Limited (ASX:APX), the leading provider of high-quality training data for organizations that build effective AI systems at scale, is enabling organizations to launch, update and operate unbiased AI models through a range of projects and partnerships.

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Paxos raises $300 million to build a cryptocurrency infrastructure giant

TechCrunch

Paxos has raised a $300 million Series D funding round led by Oak HC/FT. With today’s funding the round, the company is now valued at $2.4 billion. The company has been building infrastructure and white-label services for enterprise clients that want to offer cryptocurrency products to their own customers. In particular, Paxos has partnered with PayPal for its cryptocurrency features.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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The Pandemic’s Impact on Mobile App Security

DevOps.com

Mobile device use has continued to grow throughout the global pandemic, surpassing 5.19 billion mobile phone users worldwide over the past year. As a result, companies have been launching mobile apps at an incredible pace to capitalize on the abundance of potential users. The rapid pace of mobile app development, however, has led to a […]. The post The Pandemic’s Impact on Mobile App Security appeared first on DevOps.com.

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The TechCrunch Survey of Dutch tech hubs: Calling Delft, Eindhoven, Rotterdam, Utrecht

TechCrunch

TechCrunch is embarking on a major new project to survey European founders and investors in cities outside the larger European capitals. Over the next few weeks, we will ask entrepreneurs in these cities to talk about their ecosystems, in their own words. This is your chance to put Delft, Eindhoven, Rotterdam and Utrecht on the TechCrunch Map ! We covered Amsterdam here. 5 top investors in Dutch startups discuss trends, hopes and 2020 opportunities.

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DevSecOps delivers resilience: How to build bridges with your dev team

TechBeacon

The CISO role is filled with contradictions. Secure the corporate infrastructure, but do not slow the business. Work with developers to produce more-secure code, but do not delay development. Often short on resources, CISOs leading the security charge struggle to catch up with daily demands when it comes to overall security issues threatening the business.

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ReleaseHub nabs $2.7M seed to give developers on-demand environments

TechCrunch

Every developer relies on environments like testing, staging and production as they build software, but building them can be a time-consuming operation. ReleaseHub , an early stage startup that was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2020 cohort, wants to change that by providing a service to make environments available on demand. Today, the company announced a $2.7 million seed, and also announced that service is generally available while they were at it.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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JFrog Tightens Integration with Cloud Edition of Jira

DevOps.com

JFrog this week announced that its DevOps platform, delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS), can now be integrated with the Jira project tracking and management application, delivered as a cloud service, from Atlassian. Casey O’Mara, vice president of worldwide business development for JFrog, said this bidirectional integration makes it possible to link a Jira issue, such […].

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Vivid Money raises $73 million to build a European financial super app

TechCrunch

German startup Vivid Money has raised a new $73 million Series B funding round (€60 million) led by Greenoaks, with existing investor Ribbit Capital also participating. Following today’s funding round, Vivid Money has reached a valuation of $436 million (€360 million). Vivid Money could be considered as a Revolut competitor designed specifically for the Eurozone.

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Incident Response Life Cycle – Phases for Effective IR

SecureWorks

Incident Response Life Cycle – Phases for Effective IR Incident Response frameworks highlight the importance of preparation and improvement for improved response outcomes How do you approach incident response? This blog establishes the value of incident response life cycles to guide best practices for effective IR response.

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RapidDeploy raises $29M for a cloud-based dispatch platform aimed at 911 centers

TechCrunch

The last year of pandemic living has been real-world, and sometimes harrowing, proof of how important it can be to have efficient and well-equipped emergency response services in place. They can help people remotely if need be, and when they cannot, they make sure that in-person help can be dispatched quickly in medical and other situations. Today, a company that’s building cloud-based tools to help with this process is announcing a round of funding as it continues to grow.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Flow: From Product to Project and Back Again

Mentormate

When a project comes to MentorMate, we assign staff according to the needs of the project. This includes certain technical expertise, analysts for business and quality, and usually, project management. A project manager works closely with the development team and the product owner to keep everyone moving forward around shared expectations, timelines, and budget.

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Erase All Kittens raises $1M seed round for Mario-style game which teaches girls to code

TechCrunch

Erase All Kittens (EAK) is an edtech startup that created a “Mario-style” web-based game designed for kids aged 8-12. However, the game has a twist: it places an emphasis on inspiring girls to code (since, let’s face it, most coding tools are created by men). After reaching 160,000 players in more than 100 countries, it’s now raised a $1 million seed funding led by Twinkl Educational Publishing , with participation from first investor Christian Reyntjens of the A Black Square family

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With iOS 14.5, Apple shifts peeping apps fight to the OS

TechBeacon

Pay attention: An important trend is hiding amid the fluff and froth of a fanciful “feud” twixt Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg. Ignore the tech soap opera—you need to get ahead of the changes, so read on.

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Wasabi scores $112M Series C on $700M valuation to take on cloud storage hyperscalers

TechCrunch

Taking on Amazon S3 in the cloud storage game would seem to be a fool-hearty proposition, but Wasabi has found a way to build storage cheaply and pass the savings onto customers. Today the Boston-based startup announced a $112 million Series C investment on a $700 million valuation. Fidelity Management & Research Company led the round with participation from previous investors.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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The thin end of the IoT edge

Beyond B2B

In many industries such as IIoT in manufacturing , transportation and logistics , edge computing often takes place on assets located in harsh or low-connectivity working environments; this is where “thin edge” lightweight, low-powered edge devices excel.

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Digital comics startup Madefire is shutting down

TechCrunch

R.I.P. Madefire, a startup that recruited high-profile artists to reinvent comics for new formats and platforms. An announcement on the Madefire website states the company entered into “an assignment of benefit for creditors” (explained as “a state-level insolvency proceeding similar to bankruptcy”) earlier this month, which was then reported this morning in The Beat.

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How We’re Creating Belonging and Opportunity for All

Dell EMC

If the individuals who make up our workforce are to mirror the diversity of our world and our customer base, we must accelerate our progress toward our 2030 goals.

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