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10 Key Trends of Digital Transformation in Healthcare in 2022

OTS Solutions

The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally altered healthcare in 2020. Still, in 2021, a new set of problems has emerged, including more potent COVID-19 variations and overflowing hospitals attempting to treat both people with and without the virus. Technology has proven important in maintaining the healthcare industry’s resilience in the face of so many obstacles.

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To better manage cybersecurity risk, extend zero-trust principles to third parties

TechCrunch

Saket Modi. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Saket Modi is the co-founder and CEO of Safe Security, a cybersecurity and digital business risk quantification platform company. Today’s cybersecurity landscape requires an agile and data-driven risk management strategy to deal with the ever-expanding third-party attack surface. When a business outsources services by sharing data and network access, it inherits the cyber risk from its vendors across their people, processes, technolog, and that vendor’s

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Solving the Speed Paradox With Open Source PaaS

DevOps.com

The number of DevOps tools keeps growing, as does the number of cloud resources and options to manage those resources. On EC2 alone, AWS offers nearly 400 instance types across storage, networking and operating systems. Complicating this further is that users can choose from machines located in 24 regions and 77 availability zones. This proliferation […].

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This is not (just) another roundup of tech layoffs

TechCrunch

After a month that saw nearly 16,000 tech workers lose their jobs, June is off to a similar tumultuous start. Startups across all sectors, from healthcare to enterprise SaaS to crypto, are laying off portions of staff and citing, seemingly, from the same notes: it’s a tough market, a time of uncertainty, and a correction toward sustainability is needed.

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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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5 Testing Strategies For Deploying Microservices

DevOps.com

With rigorous development and pre-production testing, your microservices will perform as they should. However, microservices need to be continuously tested against actual end-user activity to adapt the application to changing preferences and requests. This article will cover five deployment strategies that will help developers and DevOps teams when releasing new features or making changes to […].

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Contrast Security Adds Free Code-Scanning Tool

DevOps.com

Contrast Security this week made available a free security tool that enables developers to scan their code using the same core engine used by the cybersecurity team within their organization. Steven Phillips, vice president of product marketing for Contrast Security, said while there is no shortage of free tools for scanning code these days, the […].

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The delivery market is coming down from its pandemic highs

TechCrunch

During the pandemic, delivery startups — whether focused on groceries, essentials, or takeout — became the darling children of venture capital firms. Early on, mandates and closures put up barriers to physical shopping, but as time went on, customers became more used to the idea of shopping for everything from toilet paper to rotisserie chicken online.

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Security Advisory: CVE-2022-26134 RCE in multiple Atlassian products

Lacework

Summary. On Jun 2nd Lacework Labs was made aware of CVE-2022-26134 , a critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability within Atlassian’s Confluence Server and Data Center products. This vulnerability was originally discovered and reported to Atlassian by Volexity , during an incident response investigation. While Atlassian reported active exploitation in the wild, there is currently no publicly available exploit. .

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SEO tool Ahrefs invests $60M in building creator-friendly search engine, ‘Yep’

TechCrunch

Well, this is straight from the desk of “didn’t see that coming,” but search engine toolkit company Ahrefs just told me they’ve been working on their very own search engine on the sly, plowing $60 million of resources into its own search engine, called Yep. It’s a unique proposition, running its own search index, rather than relying on APIs from Google or Bing.

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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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Orca Security Adds CLI to Improve Cloud Security

DevOps.com

Orca Security has extended its cloud security platform via a command-line interface (CLI) that makes it simpler to integrate with a wide range of DevOps tools. Rather than relying on agents, the Orca Security platform creates a risk profile using read-only access to block storage accessed via a runtime hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), […].

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Daily Crunch: Tesla shares drop after leaked CEO email reveals hiring freeze, plans to cut 10% of staff

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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 Fri-yay the 3rd of June 2022. Or, as this cursed pandemic is still doing its thing, perhaps it’s March 824, 2020, who knows. Whatever is happening in your world, we hope that you are experiencing peace and that you know the source of peace.

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AppSec Decoded: Security at the speed of DevOps

Synopsys

Learn about today’s DevOps challenges and what organizations can do to improve security in their processes without compromising speed. The post AppSec Decoded: Security at the speed of DevOps appeared first on Application Security Blog.

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Agtech robotics firm FarmWise just raised another $45 million

TechCrunch

The rest of the startup universe may be struggling to bring in funds, but it’s still a good time to get a robotic raise. Agtech is high on that list. The median age of farmers is 55 years old in the United States, and finding human help is increasingly more difficult of late. FarmWise has been at this for a while, deploying its autonomous weeding robotics at farms in California and Arizona for the last few years.

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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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10 Great Tech Solutions for Small Nonprofits

TechSoup

Small nonprofits are often the lifeblood of their communities, providing essential services on very limited budgets with only a few paid team members. Investing in technology can be difficult when time and money are short, but it's important to equip your team with robust tools in order to work towards your mission securely and efficiently.

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Black Founders Matter presses VCs to pledge commitment to diversity

TechCrunch

As a child, Marceau Michel always asked for a quarter. He knew if he kept asking for a quarter, he’d have a dollar one day. Then he’d be well on his way to having two — a slow but purposeful build toward amassing his own little fortune. Today, at the helm of the Black Founders Matter venture fund, Michel has kept that mentality. The fund announced today the formation of the 25 by 25 Pledge , which encourages venture capitalists to commit to investing a quarter of their funds into BIPOC w

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Security Tools to Protect Your Nonprofit

TechSoup

From accidental data loss, to viruses that can destabilize your systems, nonprofits are more susceptible than they might think to cybersecurity threats. Make sure you identify the weaknesses in your systems and invest in training and tools to reinforce them. All organizations need reliable data backups, antivirus software, and education for their staff on spotting and mitigating an attempted attack.

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Armed with experience, insurtech MGAs are paving the way for insurtech 2.0

TechCrunch

Dave Wechsler. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Dave Wechsler leads insurtech investing for OMERS Ventures. After serving as the VP of Growth at Hippo, Dave is one of the first insurtech operators to become a full-time investor. Just over five years ago, the insurance industry entered the crosshairs of the tech world. Despite serving as the backbone of global growth, insurance lagged the pace of technology adoption enjoyed by other industries.

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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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Continuous Delivery: Create Products Faster with Lower Risks

Dzone - DevOps

DevOps methodology continues to strengthen its position in programming. So-called “continuous” tools are among the most commonly used in the field. Such practices as Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery allow you to constantly keep your code delivered into production as soon as any changes are made. This makes it possible to add new features in progress and fix the bugs on the go, as you work with small chunks of code, which are easy to operate.

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How Olive pivoted 27 times on its way to a 4 billion valuation

TechCrunch

Olive is a homegrown Columbus, Ohio unicorn; hear from the CEO and lead investor how the company was founded and grew into an industry leader. Sean Lane co-founded Olive in 2012, and signed on Chris Olsen from Drive Capital as the company’s first investors. Now, nearly ten years later, Olive raised $856.3 million on its way to being a driving force in using artificial intelligence in the health care industry.

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CVE-2022-26134: Zero-Day Vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center Exploited in the Wild

Tenable

A critical vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center has been exploited in the wild by multiple threat actors. Organizations should review and implement mitigation guidance until a patch becomes available. Update June 3: Atlassian has updated its advisory with patch details. The FAQ has been updated to reflect the availability of patches.

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As the downturn hits crypto, a key startup investment source may slow

TechCrunch

While the 2021 venture cycle was still booming , every startup sector felt hot. Every geography set records. Founders ruled supreme, venture capitalists lined up to pay steep prices for startup shares, and new business models flourished. Now, halfway through 2022, we’ve seen a bracing reversion to the mean. Most startup sectors appear to be busier digesting last year’s excesses than attacking the future, while geographic startup investing trends have reversed.

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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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How To Optimize Your Reserved Instances For Maximum Cost Savings

CloudZero

Companies of all sizes can take advantage of AWS Reserved Instances (RIs) to save money on the price of standard Amazon EC2 On-Demand instances. To receive the discounted rate associated with AWS Reserved Instances, you must commit to a year or three years of usage.

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Reco raises $30M to prevent sensitive data leaks

TechCrunch

Reco , a company using AI to map a company’s data sharing, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Insight Partners, with participation from Zeev Ventures, BoldStart, Angular Ventures, Jibe Ventures, CrewCapital and Cyber Club London. CEO Ofer Klein said the proceeds will to toward product development and supporting the company’ go-to-market efforts.

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Appery.io Unveils a New and Improved Low-Code Testing App and a Live Debug Feature

Exadel

Appery.io, a low-code mobile application development platform , has recently released a new and updated version of its Tester App. The app has been a fan favorite and has served as a handy tool in low-code testing. The newest version has been adapted to be more user-friendly and to streamline the app testing process to save customers time and effort.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Optimizing dev teams, O-1A visa criteria, growth’s golden metric

TechCrunch

All startups must grow, but as markets contract, conserving resources is a higher short-term priority. Crypto exchange Coinbase is in the headlines this morning after news broke that it is rescinding some candidates’ outstanding job offers. Yesterday, we reported that IRL, a social app, was laying off 25% of its staff a year after raising a $170 million Series A, even though it has enough cash to operate for another two years.

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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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Why Enterprises Need to Prepare for Russian Cyberattacks – and Four Ways to Do It

Ivanti

The invasion of Ukraine has been difficult to watch, and unimaginable to live through. While the primary global focus is, as it should be, on peace and safety, it’s also critical for enterprises to prepare for the likely inevitable Russian cyberattacks. Why? Russia’s offense strategy includes both cyber and kinetic warfare.?Before the ground offensive started, Russia allegedly took steps to invade Ukraine’s digital infrastructure, with potentially catastrophic and chaotic impacts on critical sys

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Funding radical startups addressing climate change with Natel Energy and Breakthrough Energy Ventures

TechCrunch

Gia Schneider raised $65 million on the road to unlock distributed hydro resources. In July 2021, Libby Wayman from Breakthrough Energy Ventures led Natel Energy’s $20 million Series B, and on June 8, 2022, the two industry leaders are speaking on TechCrunch Live. We’ll take a look at Natel Energy’s early pitch deck, and hear how Schneider won over Wayman’s firm.

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The Power of Exploratory Data Analysis for ML

Cloudera

Data scientists and machine learning engineers in enterprise organizations need to fully understand their data in order to properly analyze it, build models, and power machine learning use cases across their business. Due to the lack of tooling specifically designed for data discovery, exploration, and preliminary analysis, this presents a significant challenge for these teams. .