Tenable

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

As pandemic restrictions linger, federal agencies are preparing for a rise in classified telework. Here’s why a continued focus on cybersecurity fundamentals is imperative. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the move to remote work beyond all prior expectations. While there were many exceptions to the rule in the early days of the pandemic response, we are seeing those exceptions decrease as the remote work environment matures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In 2018, Carbon , a Nigerian fintech startup, made its financials public for the first time. Although typical for foreign private startups, it’s almost an anomaly in Africa. There have been rare cases in the past, for instance, when Rocket Internet had to include Jumia’s financials in its yearly reports after going public. At the time, the German investment outfit was a founding shareholder in the African-based unicorn.

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Agile Alliance

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday, is Carnival in the United Kingdom. It marks the traditional feast day before the start of lent on Ash Wednesday. The name Shrove comes from the old middle English word ‘Shriven’ Since Lent always starts on a Wednesday, people went to confession on the Tuesday before. This became known as … Continued.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Weights & Biases , a startup building tools for machine learning practitioners, is announcing that it’s raised $45 million in Series B funding. The company was founded by Lukas Biewald, Chris Van Pelt and Shawn Lewis — Biewald and Van Pelt previously founded CrowdFlower/Figure Eight ( acquired by Appen ). Weights & Biases says it now has more than 70,000 users at more than 200 enterprises.

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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

If you’re feeling stuck in a rut, this freaking pandemic might be the perfect time to try something new. You have time to consider what matters most, what lights you up, and how you can add the most value to the world. […]. The post Get Out of the Rut: A Groundhog’s Day Challenge appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In our latest episode of AppSec Decoded, we discuss how manufacturers can secure their IoT devices. The post AppSec Decoded: Manufacturing more-secure IoT devices appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Another hour, another billion-dollar round. That’s how February is kicking off. This time it’s Databricks , which just raised $1 billion Series G at a whopping $28 billion post-money valuation. Databricks is a data-and-AI focused company that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud. News of the new round began leaking last week.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Stanza, an open source log agent developed by observIQ, a provider of an observability platform, has become part of the OpenTelemetry Project for collecting telemetry data. Mike Kelly, CTO and co-founder, observIQ, said Stanza will make it possible to collect log data alongside other telemetry data using a common application programming interface (API) and software […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Popular, highly-scrutinized trading app Robinhood has raised $2.4 billion to its balance sheet from shareholders, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal and then confirmed by the company. The private startup raised $1 billion on Friday , meaning that it has raised $3.4 billion in a handful of days as it seeks to support a flood of retail investors looking to invest in individual stocks on its app – spurred by Redditors investing in GameStop in a effort to frustrate short sellers, in part.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Savvy organizations are using the pandemic to drive innovation by pilot testing DevOps. As health experts brace for an exponential rise in COVID-19 cases across the nation and vaccine distribution ramps up, many states and cities are still implementing significant measures to reduce the virus’s spread. As shutdowns impact cities coast to coast, organizations are […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Kleiner Perkins is one of the most prestigious venture firms in all of Silicon Valley. The firm has invested in startups like Twitter, Google, Square, Peloton, Spotify, Robinhood and many, many more. As such, the folks at Kleiner Perkins know a thing or two about what it takes to fundraise across the various stages of a company. One of the more difficult jumps to make is going from raising a seed round to picking up a Series A.

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Aqua Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

A new severe vulnerability was found in Unix and Linux operating systems that allows an unprivileged user to exploit this vulnerability using sudo, causing a heap overflow to elevate privileges to root without authentication, or even get listed in the sudoers file. In this blog, I’ll go over how this CVE can be exploited, what sudo versions are affected, and how to mitigate the issue.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Nili Metuki. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Nili Metuki is Senior Director of Research at InVision , a platform for inclusive collaboration within digital product design and development. Companies become industry leaders because of sparks: Ideas that lead to innovation, which shakes up a category. Apple changed the world when it realized that people wanted a PC in their pocket and it had to feel and look good.

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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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TechBeacon

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Agile Manifesto, written 20 years ago this month, launched a revolution in the software industry—and beyond.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Nathalie Walton almost didn’t become a mother. Her risky pregnancy caused her placenta to burst during childbirth, almost killing her and her son last year. Walton, who feels lucky to have survived, says the haunting experience made her an example of a reality she had long known: To be a pregnant Black woman is to be at risk , regardless of economic background.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Hey, it's HighScalability time once again! Amazon converts expenses into revenue by transforming needs into products. Take a look at a fulfillment center and you can see the need for Outpost, machine learning, IoT, etc, all dogfooded. Willy Wonka would be proud. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon this Stuff won't happen.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. You can follow the show on Twitter here and myself here — and make sure to check out last week’s main episode and companion chat about Robinhood

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The year 2020 tested the mettle of countless businesses and industries, but those who were able to stay afloat had one thing in common: the ability to adapt to an increasingly digitized world by embracing future-facing technology. For companies already steeped in the tech world, these changes came more naturally, but not all industries were […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In a creator-economy world, if you’re only as good as your last YouTube video, then your next YouTube video had better be bigger and louder than the last. Vibely , a new startup co-founded by Asana alumni Teri Yu and Theresa Lee , wants to turn the constant, and often exhausting, beast of content creation on its head. The startup has created a premium, creator-controlled community platform that allows fans to gather and be monetized in new ways, beyond what is possible on YouTube or TikTok.

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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Did you ever have a boss who overly recited corny slogans? Perhaps outdated clichés? If so, you experienced plenty of awkward moments. It’s a well-known fact, this type of communication makes leaders sound foolish. That’s why authentic communication is one of the most essential skills an executive should improve. Fortunately for us, there are times […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

DesignCrowd announced today it has raised $10 million AUD (about $7.6 billion USD) in pre-IPO funding. The capital will be used on hiring and product development, with the goal of accelerating the growth of BrandCrowd , its DIY platform. The new funding comes as DesignCrowd gets ready for a potential initial public offering on the Australian Securities Exchange.

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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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Kentik

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In the past 24hrs, Myanmar experienced a military coup d’état during which prominent government figures like Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi were detained and internet service was almost entirely disabled. It was a shocking turn to a once-promising story of a country’s journey from pariah state to accepted member of the international community. Myanmar (also called Burma) is no stranger to internet shutdowns.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Many founders only know their own experience fundraising and don’t hear much about what other founders went through. On Extra Crunch Live on Wednesday, we’re going to remedy that. Grafana Labs has raised upward of $75 million since it launched in 2014. Lightspeed Venture Partners, and partner Gaurav Gupta to be specific, led both the startup’s Series A and Series B rounds.

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DXC

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

DXC Vietnam’s commitment to corporate responsibility was very evident in 2020. The most recent of the many initiatives it undertook last year was to provide major relief to two rural districts in Thua Thien Hue central province after a series of devastating floods. In October massive downpours triggered the floods – Vietnam’s most severe in […].

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Deeply funded fintech company Robinhood has been the world’s most discussed startup over the last week. After the discount trading pioneer found itself in the midst of a battle between hedge funds on one side and a slurry of retail and institutional capital on the other, Robinhood’s trading volume spiked last week. But after the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC) raised its deposit requirements before the market open on Friday, Robinhood was forced to restrict trading in

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Arcserve

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

A recent post from Gartner notes that 27 percent of 2020 malware incidents can be attributed to ransomware. Meanwhile, a report from SonicWall says there were 3.2 billion malware attacks in 2020. The math is pretty simple. If either of these stats is even close to accurate, we’re talking more than 800 million ransomware attacks.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Soon all tech news will be fintech news, all fintech news will be trading platform news and all trading platform news will concern the business mechanics of such services. So, after looking into Robinhood’s fourth-quarter payment for order flow (PFOF) revenues this morning, we’re back with a related story. This time, however, we’re talking about Public.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Chaos engineering sounds alluring and exciting—it’s fun to experiment, right? But what some misunderstand about this approach is that it’s not about moving fast and breaking things. It’s about designing and introducing disruptions in the software production process that tests the resiliency of the code, much like crash testing in the automotive industry.

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