Thu.Aug 04, 2022

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AI for Time Travel? Well, Almost

Dataiku

AI predictions compress time: Reduce credit card refunds from 60 to 30 days or time to detect chip manufacturing problems from 36 hours to zero. Increasingly, companies are going beyond zero and using AI to detect things before they happen: identifying the purchase of a large screen TV with a stolen credit card hours before it happens, replacing an airplane valve days before it fails, and flagging semiconductor manufacturing defects an hour before they’re produced.

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The Right Stuff: The Role of MLOps in AI Success

CIO

Great teams incorporate a variety of skill sets. For example, a football team consisting of 11 quarterbacks would get crushed in a game against talented linemen, running backs and receivers. It’s no different when building a team for an enterprise AI project; you can’t just throw a bunch of data scientists into a room and expect them to come up with a revenue-generating or efficiency-improving project without support from other members of the enterprise.

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Rill wants to rethink BI dashboards with embedded database and instant UX

TechCrunch

The founders of Rill first got into databases a decade ago when they started a company called Metamarkets, which was eventually snapped up by Snap in 2017. While at Metamarkets, the company built a database, based on the open source Apache Druid project. The Metamarkets team later refined their approach at Snap, while helping Snap employees build dashboards more easily.

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AI Adoption Trends and Lessons Learned: An Expert Q&A

CIO

Over the past six years, NVIDIA DGX Systems have helped power artificial intelligence projects across enterprises both large and small. I recently spoke with Charlie Boyle, the Vice President and General Manager of DGX Systems at NVIDIA, about the big AI trends he has seen and what’s coming next. Q: Have you been surprised by the growth in AI adoption and how it’s being used?

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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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Pitch Deck Teardown: Glambook’s $2.5 million seed deck

TechCrunch

There’s around 250,000 hair and beauty professionals working across the U.K., and Glambook wants to be the sharing economy platform that takes care of them. The company recently raised $2.5 million at a $12 million valuation , and I managed to talk it into letting me share its pitch deck with you to see how the company wove its story to its investors.

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Armed with $19.5M, LiveEO plots a big data course between satellite geospatial information and industry

TechCrunch

When it comes to geospatial and mapping data and how they are leveraged by organizations, satellites continue to play a critical role when it comes to sourcing raw information. Getting that raw data into a state that can be usable by enterprises, however, is a different story. Today, a Berlin-based startup called LiveEO , which has built a satellite analytics platform to do just that, has raised €19 million ($19.5 million) on the back of strong demand for its tech from companies working in tran

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Thank YOU for an Awesome Agile2022 Conference!

Agile Alliance

Managing Director Teresa Foster reflects on her experience at Agile2022, highlighting some things that made the conference great, and thanking those that made it all happen. The post Thank YOU for an Awesome Agile2022 Conference! first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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3 steps tech companies can take to avoid ‘greenwashing’ accusations

TechCrunch

Marjella Lecourt-Alma. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Marjella Lecourt-Alma is the CEO and co-founder of Datamaran. Tech companies have historically been viewed more positively than other sectors when it comes to ESG issues, but over the past 24 months, impending climate-related regulations , and the rapid move toward greater accountability has meant that many tech companies are left exposed.

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How To Keep Your Application Process Mobile Friendly

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Mobile phones are no longer just a ‘telephony device’ used for communicating with your friends and family. It has transformed into a robust channel that helps in accomplishing a wide array of tasks in a multitude of domains. This includes something as conservative and traditional as the hiring domain. Businesses across the globe are switching to mobile-friendly application processes because it helps them reach the ‘unreachable.

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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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Pakistan central bank orders fintech Tag to refund customers

TechCrunch

The State Bank of Pakistan, the South Asian nation’s central bank, has ordered fintech Tag to “immediately” refund all funds to customers citing violation of regulatory requirements and “other concerns,” posing existential questions on the startup’s future. The regulatory action follows a months-long probe into Tag, which offers banking and financial services to users in Pakistan.

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Business Intelligence tooling showdown

Xebia

Recently, I tried out different tools in the Business Intelligence (BI) space in order to find one that suited my needs. I’d like to share this journey, and while it’s not intended to be the most thorough research, it may save you some time. Before getting into the tool specifics, let’s talk a bit more about my intended usage – since the tool that works for me, might not work for you.

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Play now, pay later: Halliday bags $6M seed round led by a16z

TechCrunch

Blockchain-based games have seen a surge in popularity, but playing them is getting expensive. Play-to-earn games like StepN require players to purchase an NFT before they can participate, while other crypto video games offer users pricey upgrades such as virtual avatars and distinctive skins or costumes. Halliday , a startup founded last November by Akshay Malhotra and Griffin Dunaif, is building a “buy now, pay later”-style financing product targeting gamers who want to pay off in-

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A Concise Guide to DevSecOps and Their Importance in CI/CD Pipeline

Dzone - DevOps

Leveraging continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), many businesses today automate the software development life cycle. CI/CD is a part of the DevOps process, which aims to accelerate software development while minimizing errors. Continuous delivery automates the entire software release process up to production, whereas continuous integration produces and tests code automatically.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Mosey secures fresh capital to help companies comply with payroll rules

TechCrunch

It’s clear that remote and hybrid work are here to stay — the pandemic forever changed the way many companies do business. But it’s introduced roadblocks from an HR perspective. For example, for payroll, businesses with employees in multiple states face barriers to opening the necessary accounts for disbursements. Others — fearful of the consequences from noncompliance — are letting vague regulations dictate day-to-day operations.

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GitHub Adds Tools to Simplify Management of Software Development

DevOps.com

GitHub has made generally available Projects powered by GitHub Issues, a set of tools for managing application development projects based on a spreadsheet interface. Mario Rodriguez, vice president of product management at GitHub, said these tools enable DevOps teams to more easily filter, sort and group issues and pull requests. That capability makes it possible […].

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6 first-time fund managers detail how they’re preparing to thrive during the downturn

TechCrunch

Until a few months ago , the venture market was on a historic bull run that lasted for the better part of a decade. Many new investors and funds entered the fray, but the last few years also saw a proliferation of new venture firms. That trend came to a peak in 2021, when 270 first-time funds raised a collective $16.8 billion, according to PitchBook data.

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CyRC Vulnerability Advisory: Local privilege escalation in Kaspersky VPN

Synopsys

CVE-2022-27535 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Kaspersky VPN Secure Connection for Microsoft Windows. The post CyRC Vulnerability Advisory: Local privilege escalation in Kaspersky VPN appeared first on Application Security Blog.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Axio lands $23M to help companies quantify cyber risk

TechCrunch

Axio , a platform for cybersecurity risk evaluation, today announced the closure of a $23 million Series B round led by Temasek’s ISTARI, with participation from investors NFP Ventures, IA Capital Group and former BP CEO Bob Dudley. Axio CEO Scott Kannry tells TechCrunch that the proceeds — which bring New York–based Axio’s total capital raised to $30 million — will be put toward product and engineering team development and supporting go-to-market functions and expanding

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Article: Talking About Sizing and Forecasting in Scrum

InfoQ Culture Methods

Scrum Teams can use different approaches to size the effort to deliver a Sprint/Product Goal. The forecast will be wrong. We're moving one Sprint at a time, and refreshing forecasts frequently. Some would say, "Discover and deliver capabilities—review outcomes with the customers and end-users. Learn what can be learned. Act on what we have discovered.

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Ghost Security emerges from stealth to defend APIs and apps from attackers

TechCrunch

Ghost Security , which its founders describe as an “app security” company, today emerged from stealth with $15 million in combined funding from 468 Capital, DNX Ventures, and Munich Re Ventures at a $50 million valuation. CEO Greg Martin said that the capital will go toward expanding the team, building Ghost’s product, and launching pilots with potential customers.

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Recession! DevOps Hiring Freeze | Data Centers Suck (Power) | Intel to ‘be’ Wi-Fi 7

DevOps.com

In this week’s The Long View: Engineer jobs are being cut, cloud infrastructure is using too much energy, and Intel’s 802.11be silicon is alive. The post Recession! DevOps Hiring Freeze | Data Centers Suck (Power) | Intel to ‘be’ Wi-Fi 7 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy backs Terabase’s robot-built solar farms

TechCrunch

Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a climate-focused VC firm linked to some of Earth’s wealthiest individuals, has joined a $44 million bet on solar startup Terabase Energy. Terabase aims to rapidly build new solar farms “at the terawatt scale,” CEO Matt Campbell said in a statement. The startup claims its automated, on-site factory can already speed up plant construction and cut costs by employing robotic arms that lift and connect heavy solar panels to sun trackers.

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Protecting Workloads Against Real-World Attacks With Ease

Aqua Security

One team without runtime protection for their cloud workloads is too many. Attackers are sophisticated, there is always a lag between zero days and mitigation, and production workloads are critical. So why is the adoption of runtime security for cloud native applications still lower than shift-left security practices for the same applications?

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Found’s Swathy Prithivi and Atomic’s Jordan Kong on TechCrunch Live

TechCrunch

Swathy Prithivi started Found with the goal of improving the journey of weight loss. The company quickly discovered a huge demand and rapidly scaled its operations and expanded throughout the United States. The company’s story started in an Atomic incubator. On this episode of TechCrunch Live , we hear from Found’s co-founder and COO Swathy Prithivi and Atomic’s Jordan Kong on raising capital and scaling to meet demand.

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The Everything-As-Code Revolution and the OWASP Top 10

DevOps.com

After years of stagnation, the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top 10 list finally saw some shakeup. Most notably, insecure design debuted on the list as the number four security risk to web applications. “If we genuinely want to ‘move left’ as an industry, it calls for more use of threat modeling, secure design […]. The post The Everything-As-Code Revolution and the OWASP Top 10 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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Daily Crunch: Kurtosis raises $20M Series A to give web3 developers ‘a place to play around’

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Haje and I are swapping places for the next two days while he gets some much-needed rest. While he’s away, please enjoy his latest Pitch Deck Teardown on Glambook. In the meantime, TechCrunch Disrupt is coming closer: Meet the final five Disrupt Audience Choice roundtable winners , and if you are a student, enter our video competition for a chance to win a free pas

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SRE: From Theory to Practice: What's Difficult About Incident Command?

Dzone - DevOps

A few weeks ago, we released episode two of our ongoing webinar series, "SRE: From Theory to Practice." In this series, we break down a challenge facing SREs through an open and honest discussion. Our topic this episode was “What’s difficult about incident command?” When things go wrong, who is in charge? And what does it feel like to do that role? To discuss, Jake Englund and Matt Davis from Blameless were joined by Varun Pal, Staff SRE at Procore, and Alyson Van Hardenburg, Engineering Manager

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Argentinian fintech infrastructure startup Geopagos leaves the boot straps behind with $35M funding round

TechCrunch

Geopagos , a payments infrastructure startup based in Buenos Aires, has raised $35 million in a round led by Riverwood Capital. The financing marks the company’s first ever institutional funding. Founded in 2013, the Argentinian startup serves as a white label infrastructure software provider, with the aim of giving businesses the ability to launch financial services.

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