Wed.Jul 27, 2022

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Top 5 Ways FinTech Uses Biometrics Technologies

Daffodil Software

Increasingly today, Financial Technology (FinTech) companies have been using mobile devices and applications as promotional platforms. Biometrics technologies are a necessary addition to the FinTech domain and have the critical task of enhancing security through the accurate identification and verification of the customer's identity.

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Protestware on the rise: Why developers are sabotaging their own code

TechCrunch

Ax Sharma. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ax Sharma is a security researcher and reporter. His areas of interest include open source software security, malware analysis, data breaches, and scam investigations. If combating attacks and hijackings of legitimate software on open source registries like npm weren’t challenging enough, app makers are increasingly experiencing the consequences of software self-sabotage.

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How a CIO’s approach to cloud, AI and ML is transforming Nigeria’s Dangote Industries

CIO

Prasanna Burri began his career as a mechanical engineer in India but had a secret passion for IT. His endeavour to get into the technology space led him to learn about enterprise application platforms and he eventually started his ERP career at IBM. Later he joined SAP Labs in the US where he was immersed in product management for cloud technology.

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8 fintech investors discuss the shifting investing landscape and how to pitch them in Q3 2022

TechCrunch

Last year, more than 20% of venture dollars went into fintech startups globally, according to CB Insights. Equally notable: One-third of all unicorns created in 2021 were fintech companies. This year, market conditions are dramatically different in every sector, including fintech. But while this year’s pace of funding in the fintech space is noticeably slower — and falling — the fact remains that the sector still accounts for a significant share of venture funding globally.

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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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Qu’est-ce que le leadership transformationnel? Un style de gestion pour susciter l’innovation

CIO

Il s’agit d’un style de gestion où les dirigeants encouragent et motivent les employés à innover et apporter eux-mêmes des solutions contribuant à la croissance et au succès futur de l’entreprise. Pour ce faire, ils donnent l’exemple au niveau de la direction, par le biais d’une culture d’entreprise forte, suscitant la participation et l’autonomie des employés.

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5 Books to Achieve the Mindset of a Software Craftsman ??

Xebia

How do you attain the mindset of a great coder? Reading these five books will give you a great start. Software Craftmanship Requires Reading the Right Books. Great, you’re reading books! Doing so puts you ahead of the game by a mile right there. To have an even more significant impact on your career as a software craftsman, you should not just read; you should read the right books.

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Indonesia’s IDEAL takes the pain out of applying for mortgages

TechCrunch

Applying for mortgages is often a time-consuming and disorganized process, with reams of manual paperwork required. Based in Jakarta, IDEAL simplifies the process with a platform that lets users compare mortgage products and apply for them from multiple banks at the same time. The startup announced today it has raised $3.8 million in pre-seed funding led by AC Venture and Alpha JWC, with participation from Living Lab Ventures and Ciputra Group.

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Applying TestOps to Cultivate a Quality Culture

DevOps.com

Quality assurance is a universal concern, especially when it comes to application development. Enterprise applications are faster and more reliable than ever before. However, in addition to performance, application developers also must consider data security, regulatory compliance and cost-effectiveness, among other things. Organizations are embracing quality engineering (QE) as a foundation to create a software […].

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You can now get startup shares on the cheap

TechCrunch

The worth of startup shares is changing. The latest PitchBook data concerning the United States, for example, shows that the value of the median seed deal in 2022 through the second quarter was $12.0 million — up from $9.0 million in 2021. At the same time, median valuations set by early- and late-stage startup rounds this year are also ticking higher.

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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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RapidAPI Adds Tool to Make Building APIs Simpler

DevOps.com

RapidAPI today added a free RapidAPI Studio offering to its portfolio that makes it easier for developers to build, consume, manage and monetize application programming interfaces (APIs). Wade Wegner, senior vice president and head of product at RapidAPI, said RapidAPI Studio, available in beta, makes it simpler for developers to move between design and development, […].

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Drover AI is using computer vision to keep scooter riders off sidewalks

TechCrunch

Shared micromobility companies have been adopting startlingly advanced new tech to correct for the thing that cities hate most — sidewalk riding. Some companies, like Bird , Neuron and Superpedestrian , have relied on hyper-accurate GPS systems to determine if a rider is riding inappropriately. Others, like Lime , have started integrating camera-based computer vision systems that rely on AI and machine learning to accurately detect where a rider is.

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CircleCI Integrates CI/CD Platform With GitLab

DevOps.com

CircleCI today announced it has integrated its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform with a rival software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering from GitLab. DevOps teams can now, for example, trigger pipelines in CircleCI from GitLab forked merge requests in addition to merging requests and making commits for specific branches. Other capabilities include the ability to access testing capabilities […].

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8 investors discuss fintech’s potential despite the market downturn

TechCrunch

The fintech sector has had its ups and downs as of late, with Klarna experiencing hefty valuation cuts , Fast shutting down and Robinhood and Better conducting mass layoffs. Despite the market turbulence, investors remain bullish on the potential value that financial technology startups can bring worldwide. To understand how fintech startups are preparing to weather the current downturn, we talked to eight investors who shared thoughts on the market as a whole — both today and in the future.

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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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JavaScript Event.defaultPrevented

David Walsh

Whether you started with the old on __ property or addEventListener , you know that events drive user experiences in modern JavaScript. If you’ve worked with events, you know that preventDefault() and stopPropagation() are frequently used to handle events. One thing you probably didn’t know: there’s a defaultPrevented proptery on events!

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Why debt raises might make sense in a down economy

TechCrunch

Debt gets a bad rap. That’s partly because it’s associated with higher risk. For startups, a few missed payments could force them to shutter , depending on the terms of their loan agreements. But despite its reputation, debt isn’t an act of desperation during down times. As my colleague Alex Wilhelm notes, for companies that have high recurring revenue and visibility into future performance, debt historically has been a huge asset.

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Article: Why DevOps Governance Is Crucial to Enable Developer Velocity

InfoQ Culture Methods

The application environment should be managed centrally by the DevOps team. This allows them to better track modifications and changes which would then be swift and transparent to developer teams. By Amir Rozenberg.

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Dear Sophie: Should co-founders on OPT, STEM OPT pursue H-1Bs?

TechCrunch

Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: What are the student and work visa processes for grads?

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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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CodeSOD: Repetition is an Echo

The Daily WTF

Annie works in a bioinformatics department. There's a lot of internally developed code, and the quality is… special. But it's also got features that are on their critical path of doing their jobs. One example is that, based on one input form, the next input form needs to display a drop down. The drop down elements don't change, but the individual item that's selected does.

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Pony.ai forms autonomous truck JV with Sany Heavy Truck in China

TechCrunch

Autonomous vehicle company Pony.ai is forming a strategic joint venture with Sany Heavy Truck, a subsidiary of Chinese heavy equipment manufacturer Sany Heavy Industry, to create an autonomous truck brand. The plan is to combine Pony.ai’s “virtual driver” with Sany’s technical prowess in building heavy-duty trucks to build automotive-grade self-driving trucks with Level 4 autonomy, which means the vehicles can drive themselves in certain conditions without needing a human

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Responsible AI Needs Strong Advocates: Meet Dataiker Triveni Gandhi

Dataiku

It takes a village, or more accurately a diverse group of brilliant advocates and experts to develop a strong approach to governed and safe AI. At Dataiku, we’re lucky enough to have such people in our company, and Triveni Gandhi, Data Scientist and Responsible AI Lead, is one of them. Triveni has recently won the 2022 VentureBeat Women in AI Award in the Responsibility and Ethics of AI category.

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Root Global wants to be the operating system for food carbon neutrality

TechCrunch

Our foodchains are notorious for being not-exactly-amazing for the amount of carbon they crank into the atmosphere. Root Global just raised a round of funding in a bid to become what it calls the ‘carbon OS’ for the food industry. It builds software to help companies up and down the food value chain get to zero emissions. Food production is notoriously complex when it comes to climate change; waste is rife, and greenhouse gas emissions from food production are significant.

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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CapEx Vs. OpEx In Cloud Computing: What’s The Difference?

CloudZero

As many companies shift from traditional IT infrastructure to cloud computing, they are also rethinking how they handle cloud costs — from accounting to tax reporting.

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RPA Supervisor lands cash to help companies manage their various RPA platforms

TechCrunch

Proving that there’s room in the robotic process automation (RPA) market for another vendor, RPA Supervisor today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Dawn Capital with participation from S16vc and existing investor MMC Ventures. The infusion, which brings the startup’s total raised to $25 million, will be put toward product development and growing RPA Supervisor’s overall headcount, CEO Tobias Gundhus told TechCrunch via email.

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Aqua Advantage Empowers Partners to Stop Cloud Native Attacks

Aqua Security

When I was hired by Aqua in February, my charter was to leverage my experience and market knowledge to enhance the existing partner program and to build a team of rock stars to support partners based on the new program construct. What I found when I arrived was a program much like others – focused on partner tiers and lacking real partner-driven feedback and insights.

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It’s the era of at-home health diagnostics and Senzo is finding its flow

TechCrunch

Biotech company Senzo just raised a $2 million round at a $20 million pre-money valuation to further extend options for lateral flow diagnostics. “Lateral flow,” in this case, is the same type of testing you’ve seen from at-home pregnancy or COVID-19 tests. The company is creating a product it calls Amplified Lateral Flow (ALF). For starters, it’s hoping to bring a COVID-19 at-home rapid test through regulatory approval and then to market, but the company has a plethora o

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Saying No

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Strategic focus often involves saying no to intriguing project requests. . One of the shortest words you can say is also the most important. Saying no is about choice. Shifting your mindset from “I have to” to “I choose to” requires saying no to tasks and activities that are off track. There are many reasons why saying no is hard.

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PrivateLoader: Network-Based Indicators of Compromise

Darktrace

This blog explores the network-based IOCs for PrivateLoader, a modular downloader which is increasingly being used by pay-per-install (PPI) providers to deliver malicious payloads.

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Agile Book Club: No Bugs

James Shore

For many people, “quality” means “testing,” but Agile teams treat quality differently. Quality isn’t something you test for; it’s something you build in. Not just into your code, but into your entire development system: the way your team approaches its work, the way people think about mistakes, and even the way your organization interacts with your team.

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