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The Future of Low-Code is Open

DevOps.com

The low-code market is seeing meteoric rise across the world, as companies try to keep up with digitization demands and shrinking IT budgets. Even as we witness increasing low-code adoption among professional as well as citizen developers, an intriguing question comes to mind – What lies ahead for low-code, and could it ever become a […].

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In the race for tech talent, the US should look to Mexico

TechCrunch

Gustavo Parés. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Gustavo Parés is CEO of NDS Cognitive Labs , a leader in cognitive computing and AI business solutions. A professor at Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), he's partnered with Microsoft, IBM and Google to deliver digital transformation and cognitive technology services. More posts by this contributor.

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HackerEarth and Lever Join Forces To Step Up The Tech Hiring Process

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

HackerEarth proudly announces the newest addition to its ever-growing list of ATS integrations – Lever! The Lever ATS is scalable, intuitive, and has a clean design. It is easy to use and when combined with the HackerEarth Assessments platform, your tech hiring has the potential to be revolutionary. Benefits of the integration. If your company is already a user of Lever’s ATS, then you can make the most of HackerEarth’s assessments on its platform.

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Don’t tweet about $ASS

TechCrunch

I am not a smart man. Earlier today I tweeted about $ASS , a cryptocurrency named after a dog. In this case, Australian Shepherds. And after doing that obviously stupid thing, my Twitter feed became chock-full of ass-related imagery, memes, and $ASS coin stans breathing on me. It’s all very annoying as I run Tweetdeck on a work laptop which is now very, well, dicey a proposition given what I’m being sent. save me pic.twitter.com/CtmjcfeWdX. — alex (@alex) May 20, 2021.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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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Swimlane and Elastic Partner to Deliver an Extensible Framework for Security Operations Teams

CTOvision

Swimlane, provider of the industry’s leading security automation platform, and Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, today announced a strategic partnership to help global security teams break down silos in their security processes, and provide a force multiplier to security operations teams that are perpetually overwhelmed. his partnership will enhance […].

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Bitcoin Whipsaws Investors in Wild Ride That Crippled Exchanges

CTOvision

Bitcoin took investors on a wild ride Wednesday, plunging as much as 29% before cutting the drop in half in a bout of selling that drew attention across Wall Street and social media. The extreme volatility in an asset known for its swings caused outages on major crypto exchanges and at one point brought Bitcoin’s […].

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Rakuten and Beyond Next invest $1.4M seed funding in farm-to-table startup Secai Marche

TechCrunch

Farmers and food businesses, like restaurants, deal with the same issue: a fragmented supply chain. Secai Marche wants to streamline agricultural logistics, making fulfillment more cost-efficient and enabling food businesses to bundle products from different farmers into the same order. The company is headquartered in Japan, with operations in Malaysia, and plans to expand into Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia.

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The Army Is Testing Arming Its Light Tactical Vehicles With Drones

CTOvision

The U.S. Army is experimenting with launching the Area-I small Agile-Launch Tactically Integrated Unmanned System drone, or ALTIUS, from an ultralight tactical vehicle. The drone has already been launched from Army MQ-1C unmanned aircraft and UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, as well as from an Air Force XQ-58A Valkyrie stealthy unmanned aircraft, but this is the […].

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Mio, a social commerce startup focused on smaller cities and rural areas in Vietnam, raises $1M seed

TechCrunch

Vietnam has one of the fastest-growing e-commerce markets in Southeast Asia, but many major platforms still focus on large cities. This means people in smaller cities or rural areas need to deal with longer wait times for deliveries. Social commerce company Mio is taking advantage of that gap by building a reseller network and logistics infrastructure that can offer next-day delivery to tier 2 and 3 cities.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Tesla may have to hold its big hoard of Bitcoin for decades

CTOvision

Read David Fickling explain why EV car maker Tesla, Inc. and its CEO, Elon Musk could end up hoarding Bitcoin for more than 10 years on Live Mint : Shouldn’t the world’s biggest electric-car manufacturer know how a power grid works? You’d hope so, but Elon Musk’s latest foray into cryptocurrency commentary makes you wonder. […].

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Esper raises $30M Series B for its IoT DevOps platform

TechCrunch

There may be billions of IoT devices in use today, but the tooling around building (and updating) the software for them still leaves a lot to be desired. Esper , which today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B round, builds the tools to enable developers and engineers to deploy and manage fleets of Android-based edge devices. The round was led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from Madrona Venture Group, Root Ventures, Ubiquity Ventures and Haystack.

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Three Ways Machine Learning Can Change Incident Management

DevOps.com

Incident management for important applications has many connotations, many of them negative. Most are well-deserved. Stress, panic, hurry, urgent, drop-everything, all-hands-on-deck, emergency, to name a few. Typically, there is a critical problem, ranging from complete failure to loss of certain functionality or performance. The problem or outage potentially means loss of revenue, loss of customers, […].

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factory14 raises $200M to jump into the Amazon marketplace roll-up race

TechCrunch

It doesn’t feel like a week goes by at the moment that another startup doesn’t emerge armed with a huge wallet of cash to pursue a strategy of consolidating and then scaling promising brands that have built a business selling on marketplaces like Amazon’s. In the latest development, a startup called factory14 is coming out of stealth mode in Europe with $200 million in funding to snap up smaller businesses and help them grow through better economies of scale.

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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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Improving Your Kubernetes Authorization: Don’t Use system:masters

Aqua Security

When you’re operating Kubernetes clusters, an important area of focus is in ensuring your authorization model is correct and provides users with the least privileges needed for them to carry out their roles. As such, blanket cluster-admin privileges should never be used and in particular the in-built system:masters group should be avoided.

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Workrise, once known as RigUp, raises $300M at a $2.9B valuation

TechCrunch

Workrise , which has built a workforce management platform for the skilled trades, announced today that it has raised $300 million in a Series E round led by U.K.-based Baillie Gifford that values the company at $2.9 billion. New investor Franklin Templeton joined existing backers — including Founders Fund, Bedrock Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Moore Strategic Ventures, 137 Ventures and Brookfield Growth Partners — in putting money in the round.

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Our tech empowers customers to instantly fight online fraud

CTOvision

While companies in India continue their digital transformation journey, driven by consumer-driven innovation, Aerospike is fast becoming one of the key technology levers that they are using to accelerate this transformation. Mountain View, California-headquartered Aerospike has been in existence for 10 years globally and for eight years in India. Its revenues and customers have doubled […].

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a16z bets millions on Maven, a platform for cohort-based courses

TechCrunch

Maven , a startup that helps professionals teach cohort-based classes, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The round places a16z general partner Andrew Chen on Maven’s board — and is his latest lead check in a creator-focused company, similarly pouring millions into recent rounds for Clubhouse and Substack. The investment comes seven months after Maven, then nameless, left stealth alongside a $4.3 million round led by First Round Capital, and three months

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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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AXA’s ransomware gambit comes back to bite

TechBeacon

AXA’s Asian arm has been hit by a ransomware attack. The news comes days after AXA’s French HQ said it planned to stop writing cyber-insurance policies that pay out ransoms to hackers.

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Dooly raises $80M more for its AI tools to help salespeople manage their busywork

TechCrunch

Salespeople have more tools than ever these days to help them with their work, whether they are tools to source new leads, keep those leads interested or informed about what’s being sold, track how the sales process is going, manage those relationships once they are secured, or accounting tools to manage how and where sales are actually coming in.

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Elevate Security Launches World’s First Cybersecurity Human Attack Surface Management Platform

CTOvision

-Elevate Security, a leader in human attack surface management, today launched a groundbreaking new platform that addresses one of cybersecurity’s biggest unsolved problems – human error – with an intelligent, customized and automated response to employee risk across an organization. Pioneering a new category in cybersecurity, human attack surface management, the Elevate Security Platform ingests […].

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Pitch, a platform for making and sharing presentations, raises $85M on a $600M valuation

TechCrunch

PowerPoint may still dominate the landscape for presentations in many people’s minds, but some might say that legacy status also makes Microsoft’s software ripe for disruption. Now, a startup out of Berlin called Pitch has just picked up a substantial Series B of $85 million to take it on with what it believes is a more dynamic approach.

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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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8220 Gangs Recent use of Custom Miner and Botnet

Lacework

Jared Stroud, Chris Hall, and Tom Hegel Cloud Security Researchers – Lacework Labs Lacework Labs has recently encountered a cluster of malicious activity based around loader scripts, and delivery of a custom cryptocurrency miner and an IRC bot. Specifically, we’ve identified a new loader script, a custom “PwnRig” miner, and unique Tsunami IRC botnet [.].

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Privacy.com rebrands to Lithic, raises $43M for virtual payment cards

TechCrunch

When Privacy.com was founded in 2014, the company’s focus was to let anyone generate virtual and disposable payment card numbers for free. The goal was to allow those users to keep users’ actual credit card numbers safe while allowing the option to cut off companies from their bank accounts. In an age of near-constant data breaches and credit card skimmers targeting unsuspecting websites, Privacy.com has made it harder for hackers to get anyone’s real credit card details.

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Article: Virtual Panel: How Open-Source is Helping to Change the World

InfoQ Culture Methods

Open-source is not only at the heart of the Cloud and the enterprise as we know them today, it also powers many initiatives around the globe that aim to change how technology is leveraged to solve real-world issues and strive to make it accessible in a more equitable way. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with several companies that are helping make it happen.

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Robinhood’s epic Q1 growth explains its fundraising boom

TechCrunch

An initial analysis of Robinhood’s Q1 2021 payment for order flow (PFOF) revenues sourced from company filings shows that the free-trading unicorn had a strong start to the year. Given the raucous trading activity of the first quarter , that news is not a surprise. The aggregate revenue data helps explain how Robinhood was able to raise as much capital as it did in the first quarter despite running into issues with its technology and the United States government ; the company found itself

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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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Delphix Welcomes DevOps Leader David McJannet to Its Board of Directors

DevOps.com

Hashicorp CEO Brings More Than Two Decades of Cloud, DevOps Software Experience to Delphix REDWOOD CITY, California, May 20, 2021 — Delphix, the pioneer in programmable data infrastructure, today announced the appointment of David McJannet, CEO of HashiCorp and former Executive in Residence at Greylock Partners, to its Board of Directors. “David’s domain expertise with DevOps and multi-cloud infrastructure automation […].

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Ex-Square execs launch Found to help the self-employed, raise $12.75M from Sequoia

TechCrunch

If you’ve ever been self-employed you know what a pain it is to keep up with the hassles of running a business. From bookkeeping to invoicing to paying taxes — it’s one big headache. Freelancers and self-employed people often turn to a number of different solutions to try and address different aspects of running their business. It can be a lot to keep up with.

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This Crypto Subsector Coming for Banks and Fintech, Says Chainlink Founder Sergey Nazarov

CTOvision

The CEO of Chainlink Labs Sergey Nazarov is saying the nascent decentralized finance (DeFi) space could emerge as a primary competitor of banks and financial technology (fintech) firms. In a roundtable discussion at the LendIt Fintech Conference, the co-founder of the oracle solutions provider says that DeFi is not going away and will likely capture a […].

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