CEO Insider
JULY 26, 2022
Organizations are witnessing a record wave of cyber-attacks and whether it’s data breaches, ransomware attacks, fraud or espionage, a common theme seems to be emerging — threat actors are increasingly targeting identities instead of targeting systems. Per the Identity Defined Security Alliance’s (IDSA) latest report, 84% of organizations have experienced an identity-related attack in the […].
CIO
JULY 26, 2022
All successful CIOs know how to instruct, motivate, energize, and even excite their teams. Yet only a relative handful of IT leaders can truly be described as inspirational figures, capable of leading their teams to goals that collegues at other enterprises can only dream about. CIOs who are purposefully positive and responsible, with a focus on integrity, tend to inspire others, says Ola Chowning, a partner at global technology research and advisory firm ISG.
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TechCrunch
JULY 26, 2022
The Fashion Kingdom (TFK), an Egyptian e-commerce marketplace for fashion, beauty and home accessories items, announced today that it has raised $2.6 million in seed funding led by CVentures, a corporate venture capital firm based in Egypt. A15 , an early-stage VC in the MENA region that has backed the likes of Esaal , Paymob and Helios Investment Partners subsidiary, TPay, made a follow-on investment, according to TFK.
CIO
JULY 26, 2022
The PGA of America is building a world-class resort with multiple golf courses and retail shops near Dallas, due to be complete next year. That’s just one major drive under way by the nonprofit golf association, which is also delivering myriad tournaments and events, special services, and classes to its 28,000 members, a roster including celebrities, national golf pros, golf coaches, amateur players, and people who work in the golf industry, says PGA of America CTO Kevin Scott.
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TechCrunch
JULY 26, 2022
Sono Motors unveiled this week the final production design of the Sion EV, a solar electric vehicle that’s been in the making since the Munich-based startup launched in 2016. It’s been a long and bumpy road for Sono Motors, a journey that involved a couple of crowdfunding campaigns, a near insolvency and a debut on the Nasdaq exchange as a publicly traded company.
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TechCrunch
JULY 26, 2022
It seems everything is doom and gloom in the U.S. venture market, between startup layoffs and declining venture deal counts to an essentially moribund exit environment. But there are bright spots, one of which being the Southeast region, which is on track for its best year yet. The Southeast region had its best quarter for funding on record in Q2. More than $5.1 billion was invested across 289 deals during the period, according to PitchBook.
DevOps.com
JULY 26, 2022
When it comes to realizing the promise of 5G, we’re still a few years away. Under the hood, though, the rollout of 5G infrastructure and the new applications 5G will enable—from AR and VR to new drone capabilities and beyond—will drive dramatic changes in infrastructure demands, starting with the public cloud. In the 5G era, […]. The post How 5G Will Change the Public Cloud as We Know It appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
JULY 26, 2022
Butlr , an MIT Media Lab spinout developing sensors that use body heat to estimate office occupancy, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series A round with participation from Carrier Global Corporation (a strategic investor), Tiger Global, Primetime Partners, E14, Unionlabs, Hyperplane and Tectonic Ventures. Co-founder and CEO Honghao Deng said that the proceeds will support product development and expanding Butlr’s 50-person workforce, specifically its go-to-market team.
DevOps.com
JULY 26, 2022
In this week’s The Long View: Herbert Diess is out at VW because software is hard (yo), fiber optic cable is hard to find, and the guy who said LaMDA was sentient is dumped by Google. The post VW CEO Fired for Dev Fails | Fiber Shortage Hits | Google Fires Blake Lemoine appeared first on DevOps.com.
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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.
TechCrunch
JULY 26, 2022
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. What is up, you delightful beings. Today, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about Instagram. Devin wrote about how the platform just keeps getting worse with dark patterns lifted from TikTok , and Amanda made me laugh with her Instagram responds to criticism with shocking revelation that it will ‘continue to support photos’ headline.
Confluent
JULY 26, 2022
Explore GitHub Actions for your Kafka CI/CD pipeline, automate Schema Registry, and transform the development and testing of Kafka client applications.
TechCrunch
JULY 26, 2022
The Latin American startup market, once among the hottest in the world , is cooling. But its slowdown is far from uniform; some countries are surviving the downturn far better than others, data reveals. A few weeks back, this column took an early look at venture capital data concerning LatAm startups and their financial backers, noting that the region was seeing successive quarterly declines that had become more than simply material.
DevOps.com
JULY 26, 2022
California voters passed the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) in November 2020. It replaces the 2018 California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and is often described as a cousin to the EU’s GDPR law. The law applies to all for-profit organizations within the state. It also requires compliance from anyone doing business in California or collecting […].
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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.
TechCrunch
JULY 26, 2022
Hydrogen has been the decarbonized energy sector’s white whale. Wildly abundant and highly versatile, it has long had the potential to decarbonize entire sectors of the economy. From cars and trucks to planes, trains and even household boilers, the universe’s lightest gas isn’t short on possible applications. But it is short on successful applications.
Next Level Blog
JULY 26, 2022
If there’s one topic I hear about all the time from the leaders I work with, it’s the challenge of keeping themselves and their teams focused on what matters most. The long and ever-changing list of things competing for their time and attention can cause a sense of swirl and churn that leaves everyone frustrated and exhausted. A few months ago, I was facilitating a senior leadership team meeting where the focus challenge came up again and, after listening for a while, I drew this grid on the fli
TechCrunch
JULY 26, 2022
Inflation is up and consumer confidence is down, which is why e-commerce startups that hope to weather the ongoing downturn should expand their product offerings. Does that sound counterintuitive? “The more complementary and additive a product is to your catalog, the larger your cart size and the more likely a customer is to return,” says Bennett Carroccio.
The Daily WTF
JULY 26, 2022
I started writing a paragraph about why this code Gilda found was bad, and then I had to delete it all, because I wasn't putting the entire block in context. At a glance, this looks almost fine, but I thought I spotted a WTF. But only when I thought about the fact that this C code runs inside of a loop that I realized the real problem. rsts = get_device_by_id ( movq_p->nxt_device_id, &devc ); if ( ( rsts == CC_VL_SUCCESS ) && ( strcmp ( devc.device_type, SPECIFIC_DEVICE ) == 0
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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.
TechCrunch
JULY 26, 2022
Neon , a startup providing developers with a serverless option for Postgres databases, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series A-1 round led by GGV with participation from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Founders Fund and angel investors. In an email interview with TechCrunch, CEO Nikita Shamgunov, who described the tranche as “oversubscribed,” said it would be put toward growing Neon’s engineering team, bootstrapping its go-to-market team and building develop
Aqua Security
JULY 26, 2022
Today, we are pleased to announce that Aqua Security has achieved the Security Competency in the Compliance and Privacy category in the relaunch of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Competency. This designation recognizes that the Aqua Cloud Native Protection Platform (CNAPP) has demonstrated proven technology and deep expertise in helping customers achieve their cloud security goals.
TechCrunch
JULY 26, 2022
Leslie Feinzaig. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Leslie Feinzaig is the founder and CEO of Graham & Walker. More posts by this contributor. Early-stage fundraising is a tale of two planets. Three ways VC firms can construct sustainably diverse portfolios. People say they love feedback, but the truth is, most times we don’t know what to do with it.
Women on Business
JULY 26, 2022
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TechCrunch
JULY 26, 2022
In 2015, Rex Salisbury was working as a software engineer at now-defunct mortgage startup Sindeo where he built out the back end for fully automated online mortgage pre-approval. At the time, he was working for Andy Carra, who served as that company’s CTO before going on to co-found SoFi. It was Salisbury’s first foray into fintech, and high on the excitement of getting a new product live in a highly regulated industry, he admittedly got bit by the fintech bug.
TechBeacon
JULY 26, 2022
Phishing attacks are proliferating—while getting costlier and more sophisticated. A recent report by KnowBe4 shows that, without employee training, the average business could face a one in three chance of compromise if targeted by phishers.
TechCrunch
JULY 26, 2022
Blair Silverberg. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Blair Silverberg is co-founder and CEO of Hum Capital , a financial services company using technology to accelerate the fundraising process. More posts by this contributor. 8 steps for building a financial model to calculate your fundraising needs. A founder’s guide to calculating CAC and LTV the right way.
Dzone - DevOps
JULY 26, 2022
Kubernetes is a container orchestration platform today adopted by many companies. Its implementation requires a certain understanding of its ecosystem in order to deploy a cluster ready for production. Implementing working principles or tools is therefore essential and requires the work of all teams (operations, development, security, etc.) to promote the detection of anomalies as soon as possible and thus raise the level of security of the orchestrator and its resources.
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TechCrunch
JULY 26, 2022
What do you do when you get pitched a bunch of really nice startups but you think you can do even better? You roll your own, of course. Or, at least, that’s what Struck Capital is giving a whirl with a $15 million fund and a team of experienced company builders, in addition to its existing $220 million AUM funds, with LPs including Leo DiCaprio.
CloudZero
JULY 26, 2022
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TechCrunch
JULY 26, 2022
Krafton, the brand behind some of the world’s most popular video games, says it has already deployed the $100 million it had committed to the Indian market two years ago in the South Asian nation and is gearing up to launch several new titles in the country. The four-year-old South Korean firm, which went public last year, gained popularity with its shooter game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds — commonly called PUBG.
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