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Daily Crunch: Bing allows users to generate images using ‘very latest DALL-E models’

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. Happy Tuesday Crunch, you beautiful, strong, and smart people. So glad to have you with us! Let’s get to it! — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Image prompts : Microsoft is enabling Bing users to tap into their most creative selves — through AI, of course, via the use of OpenAI’s DALL-E image creator, Frederic reports.

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Awareness of Software Supply Chain Security Issues Improves

DevOps.com

A global survey of 167 software professionals suggested that, while there is a lot more awareness of application security issues, the adoption of DevSecOps best practices is still not pervasive. The survey, conducted by Chainguard, the Eclipse Foundation, the Rust Foundation and the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), found that just over half (51%) of […] The post Awareness of Software Supply Chain Security Issues Improves appeared first on DevOps.com.

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‘Graceful way out’: Investors propose some struggling founders close shop and return funding

TechCrunch

A growing number of investors have begun suggesting that certain venture-backed startups that have yet to find so-called product-market fit throw in the towel. Their argument is that some startups simply raised too much, at valuations into which they will never grow, and that clean, well-planned exits are better for everyone than messy ones. After all, the money could be invested in something more impactful.

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Why Observability is Important for Development Teams

DevOps.com

Observability, which allows development teams to understand better how their systems behave in production, is critical to successful software delivery. According to Gartner, by 2026, 70% of organizations that successfully applied this practice will achieve shorter latency for decision-making, enabling competitive advantage for target business or IT processes.

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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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Making more mammoths with Ben Lamm from Colossal

TechCrunch

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Becca are joined by Ben Lamm , the founder and CEO of Colossal , a genetics startup that looks to bring extinct species back to life to help with environmental conservation efforts. Ben talked about how he got to this point in his career after starting numerous other companies in the AI, gaming, and space sectors.

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Everything you need to know about accelerators and incubators

TechCrunch

Early-stage founders need mentorship and support to build a successful startup, and conventional wisdom says, “Get thee to an incubator or an accelerator!” However, the two programs are not interchangeable — they serve very different purposes — and there are roughly 500 accelerators and 1,400 incubators in the U.S. alone. Which type of startup program do you need, and how do you find the right fit?

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Modernizing the WAN from Client to Cloud

Arista

The evolution of WAN architectures has historically paralleled that of application architectures. When we primarily connected terminals to mainframes, the WAN architecture was largely point-to-point links connecting back to data center facilities. As traffic converged to remove OpEx-intensive parallel network structures, the WAN evolved to architectures that enabled site-to-site connectivity in a full mesh or configurable mesh and then enabled multi-tenancy for carrier cost optimization.

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Even the hottest startup categories are not immune from the venture slowdown

TechCrunch

Upstart tech companies delivering their product or service via an API raised mammoth amounts of capital during the final year of the 2021-era startup boom. Things have slowed in the intervening quarters. New data indicates that while the group of companies raised more capital in 2022 than in 2020, a downward trend in fundraising activity throughout the last calendar year shows that no startup cohort is immune from the venture capital slowdown.

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HPE to Acquire OpsRamp to Gain AIOps Platform

DevOps.com

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) this week revealed it is acquiring OpsRamp to gain access to a platform for embedding artificial intelligence in IT operations (AIOps). Latha Vishnubhotla, chief platform officer in the office of the CTO for HPE, said the company would embed the machine learning technology developed by OpsRamp across its entire portfolio in addition […] The post HPE to Acquire OpsRamp to Gain AIOps Platform appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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SaaS is still open for business, but it’s going to take longer to buy and sell

TechCrunch

Ryan Neu Contributor Share on Twitter Ryan Neu is the founder and CEO of Vendr, a SaaS purchase platform. Previously, he was a B2B SaaS sales leader at both InVision and HubSpot. More posts by this contributor Surviving the SaaS tsunami: Optimize your tech stack to reduce risk and free up cash flow The “Great Restructuring” continues and Layoffs.fyi tracked 80,000 lost jobs in tech in January 2023.

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How to Maximize Telemetry Data Value With Observability Pipelines

DevOps.com

The software landscape has shifted significantly in recent years as companies digitize their operations and adopt cloud and microservices technologies. The complexity of modern software systems has led to an increasing need for real-time visibility into their performance—resulting in an explosion of telemetry data that is stretching IT budgets and outpacing engineering teams’ ability to […] The post How to Maximize Telemetry Data Value With Observability Pipelines appeared first on DevOps.

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Nvidia launches new cloud services and partnerships to train generative AI

TechCrunch

At its annual GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia announced a set of cloud services designed to help businesses build and run generative AI models trained on custom data and created for “domain-specific tasks,” like writing ad copy. Under the brand Nvidia AI Foundations, each individual cloud service — Nvidia NeMo for language models and Nvidia Picasso for image, video and 3D content generation — includes pretrained models, frameworks for data processing, APIs and support f

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Understanding CNAPP: 3 questions we believe the 2023 Gartner® Market Guide for CNAPP can help security leaders answer

Lacework

Security leaders don’t want to waste their time juggling multiple security tools and piecing together a comprehensive view of their security posture. Meanwhile, developers need tools that help them quickly prioritize and understand security risks in their cloud environments.

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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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TechCrunch+ roundup: Big Data’s cloud backlash, CVC pitch tips, de-risking hardware startups

TechCrunch

For most of the Information Age, companies that wanted to scale invested in server farms and hired teams to keep them running. At one of my first startup jobs, I walked in one day to find two sleeping co-workers who’d spent the night configuring servers at a co-locating facility 60 miles away. Soon after, when I worked at a publicly traded company, our on-prem data center was resilient enough to operate through a moderate earthquake.

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DevOps for Developers: Continuous Integration, GitHub Actions, and Sonar Cloud

Dzone - DevOps

I first ran into the concept of Continuous Integration (CI) when the Mozilla project launched. It included a rudimentary build server as part of the process and this was revolutionary at the time. I was maintaining a C++ project that took two hours to build and link. We rarely went through a clean build, which created compounding problems as bad code was committed into the project.

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This VC built a lab to make building biotech startups easier

TechCrunch

When you think of life sciences and biotech hubs in the U.S., where do you travel to in your mind? Boston? The Bay Area? Texas? Portal Innovations , a biotech VC firm based in Chicago, is trying to broaden everyone’s horizons and give opportunities to biotech startups growing out of labs in Chicago, Atlanta, and hopefully beyond. “I founded Portal Innovations really to address emerging needs for life sciences companies, particularly in ecosystems, like Chicago, that don’t yet have th

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Building Microservice in Golang

Dzone - DevOps

Microservice architecture is a popular software design pattern that involves dividing a large application into smaller, independent services that can be developed, deployed, and scaled autonomously. Each microservice is responsible for a specific function within the larger application and communicates with other services via well-defined interfaces, often leveraging lightweight communication protocols such as REST or message queues.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Sifflet raises cash to expand its data observability platform

TechCrunch

Organizations dealing with large amounts of data often struggle to ensure that data remains high-quality. According to a survey from Great Expectations, which creates open source tools for data testing, 77% of companies have data quality issues and 91% believe that it’s impacting their performance. In light of that, unsurprisingly, business has been quite healthy for vendors that sell data observability services and software, which help an organization understand the health and state of th

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Webinar: Beyond DORA Metrics

LaunchDarkly

DORA metrics changed the way a lot of engineering organizations viewed their productivity, but there’s a risk in getting hung up on moving faster just for the sake of it.

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Kakao Mobility picks up ‘super app’ startup Splyt, once backed by SoftBank and Grab

TechCrunch

Kakao Mobility , the ride-hailing subsidiary of South Korean messaging and internet giant Kakao, has made its first acquisition as it looks to raise its international profile. It has acquired Splyt , a startup out of London that works with apps in areas like travel, ride-hailing and finance to help them build out “super app” strategies by integrating other services.

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Analyze Source Code Using PMD in FlexDeploy

Flexagon

PMD is a static source code analyzer. It finds common programming flaws like unused variables, empty catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and so forth. PMD supports languages such as XML, XSL, Apex, VM, JavaScript, JSP, Salesforce VisualForce, Maven POM, and Modelica. Source code analysis makes any remediation process faster and easier by pinpointing the exact location of vulnerabilities in program code.

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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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Two is bringing a consumer-like experience to B2B payments

TechCrunch

When individuals make purchases online, they place items in the digital shopping cart and use a credit or debit card to complete the transaction instantly. Businesses operate differently, typically looking to pay later at some agreed upon time frame between one week and 90 days. Most of these types of net transactions continue to be handled manually via paper invoices.

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Kickstart Your Digital Initiatives with Versatile AI Foundations

Dell EMC

Deploy AI initiatives and metaverse models with the latest PowerEdge server available today and new innovative NVIDIA GPU accelerators.

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Mecanizou, now with $14.5M, plans to expand auto parts marketplace in São Paulo

TechCrunch

If you’re a car maintenance do-it-yourselfer in the United States, it’s pretty easy to find auto parts with a simple internet search or of an auto parts store’s database. However, in Brazil, the experience is not the same. Mecanizou is out to change that. The São Paulo–based startup is infusing data intelligence into the auto parts market to create a database connecting mechanic shops and resellers to automotive parts suppliers.

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Stories from the Cyber Trenches: Walking Right Into a Password Manager’s Master Vault

SecureWorks

Type: Blogs Stories from the Cyber Trenches: Walking Right Into a Password Manager’s Master Vault We’re kicking off a new series with the story of a recent Secureworks® penetration testing engagement How Secureworks penetration testers can track down password manager gaps and improve your cybersecurity.

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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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Dragonfly, a startup developing a ‘drop-in’ replacement for Redis, raises $21M

TechCrunch

Oded Poncz and Roman Gershman experienced the pain of managing and scaling Redis, the open source database, in their previous engineering roles. The pair worked together both at Google and Ubimo, and Roman was a principal on Amazon’s ElastiCache service. “Developers are fed up with hand holding their infrastructure,” Poncz told TechCrunch in an email interview. “For the database industry, the primary challenge is keeping pace with the performance demands of modern applica

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2023 Gartner Market Guide for Innovation Management Tools

Planbox

Planbox is recognized in this report for the sixth consecutive time. Wilmington, Delaware — Planbox, the pioneering agile innovation management platform, has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the 2023 Gartner Market Guide for Innovation Management Tools for the sixth consecutive time in a row. Planbox’s end-to-end platform was mentioned among 13 innovation management software vendors that correspond with Gartner’s market definition: “Innovation management tools market help organizat

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Solving the Kubernetes Security Puzzle

Dzone - DevOps

The benefits of adopting cloud-native practices have been talked about by industry professionals ad nauseam, with everyone extolling its ability to lower costs, easily scale, and fuel innovation like never before. Easier said than done.