TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2022
Lightning Labs is building infrastructure that would enable users to send money across the world almost instantaneously and at a low cost through the Bitcoin network. The company just raised funding to support a protocol it has built called Taro, which would allow stablecoins to be transferred on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, Decrypt first reported.
CIO
APRIL 5, 2022
Stay up-to-date with the latest UK CIO and senior IT executive appointments with our revamped and relaunched UK Movers & Shakers noticeboard. The world of the UK CIO is a dynamic one. It’s not unusual to find tech leaders seeking new and challenging roles to which they can bring their experience and digital transformation vision to fruition. Here, we bring you all the relevant announcements from the movers and shakers of the CIO UK community.
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TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2022
Fast, a startup that provided online checkout products, announced this afternoon that it will shut down. The company’s future has been in doubt for days now, after reporting indicated that its 2021 revenue growth was modest, its cash burn high and its fundraising options limited. The Information first reported the company’s conclusion. In a statement, the company said that in the wake of “making great strides on our mission of making buying and selling frictionless for everyone, we have made the
Agile Alliance
APRIL 5, 2022
I am lucky enough to work for Capital One, an organization that believes in not only pushing ourselves to excellence, but also staying in touch with the community to improve the surrounding area. In my giving to the community, I joined a volunteer initiative called Agile for Learners as the Student Lead to bring Agile … Continued. The post Teaching Agile in Schools: The Triumphs and Enlightenments first appeared on Agile Alliance.
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.
TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2022
We’re all guilty of it: sometimes, even when we’re not looking to move, it’s fun to look at home listings on Zillow just to see what’s out there. If that sounds weird to you… I don’t blame you, but I also recommend watching more HGTV. However, if this sounds like a fun way to procrastinate after you’re done playing the Wordle, Quordle, Globle and Heardle for the day, you’re not alone.
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TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2022
Companies are scrambling to participate in the crypto ecosystem, but many of the tools available for them to use are disjointed and not user-friendly, especially for those new to web3. New York-based Starlight aims to simplify the process for onboarding companies into crypto. Its product allows companies to set up a crypto wallet and track and manage their digital assets on an ongoing basis, all in one place, co-founder and CEO Grey Nguyen told TechCrunch.
Xebia
APRIL 5, 2022
Every relationship starts with a rosy-eyed view of the other half, and when the old honeymoon phase subsides, the rosy glasses come off and we’re left with naked truths. With some time now having passed since our companies have joined forces, we thought we’d ask some of our people how they’re experiencing the post-honeymoon phase of our cooperation.
TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2022
Corsha, a Washington, D.C.-based cybersecurity startup, has secured a $12 million Series A investment to bring multi-factor authentication (MFA) to machine-to-machine API traffic. APIs, which allow two applications on the internet to talk to each other, became central to organizations’ digital transformation efforts during the pandemic. This has made APIs a prime target for malicious hackers, with Gartner predicting that APIs will make up the largest attack vector in cybercrime by this year.
Xebia
APRIL 5, 2022
In many organizations, automated testing lags behind and becomes a bottleneck for successful continuous delivery. Either tests do not provide enough confidence or companies take a very traditional approach, resulting in releases either introducing substantial risks or becoming costly. These situations often seem hard to fix and “Fix Testing” becomes a painful epic somewhere in your backlog. .
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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
APRIL 5, 2022
After operating his own ghost kitchen, Keto Kitchen, in Austin for the past year, serial entrepreneur John Meyer saw that fintech resources for the industry were lacking. When Keto Kitchen had good sales in the first quarter, Meyer went to the bank to ask for expansion financing and recalled the banker asking him what a ghost kitchen was. That told him there was an opportunity for a data-driven financing tool for these types of restaurants.
Xebia
APRIL 5, 2022
Gitlab is my go-to place if I want to create and share a repo, setup CICD and create some examples for my Cypress adventures. Being it that I need to create some demo, a Cypress or CICD proof of concept, or just some space where I can share a repo with the world, Gitlab is the place where you can find me hiking a digital trail. Note to self: creating a blog about why I love Gitlab so much.
TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2022
Tinybird has raised a $37 million Series A round led by CRV and Singular Ventures. Your company may have stored a ton of data in a warehouse — everything is in there. But what do you do with it now? Sure, you can generate monthly reports and see how your business is doing. But Tinybird helps companies take advantage of this data in realtime. In addition to the two VC firms leading the new funding round, existing investor Crane Ventures is participating once again.
Xebia
APRIL 5, 2022
Functional monitoring is a crucial part of any successful Continuous Delivery implementation. We often see development teams having difficulty striking the right balance between different kinds of monitoring, focusing on observability primarily in terms of technical metrics like error rate. Technical metrics are helpful but might not tell the whole story.
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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
APRIL 5, 2022
The number of POS terminals in Nigeria grew from 150,000 in 2017 to 543,000 in April 2021, according to Statista. During that period, the volume of POS payments in the country also increased tremendously , hitting more than 500 billion as of May 2021. In Nigeria, POS terminals are used to process card payments at retail locations as well as for agency banking purposes, a branchless banking system where agents act like human ATMs.
Agile Alliance
APRIL 5, 2022
How often have you felt that your organization doesn't understand the role of an Agile leader and the transformation support they require? It is very unlikely that your Agile leaders will simply "figure it out", "get with the program", and learn from "trial by fire". Although few people doubt their importance, many do not understand … Continued.
TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2022
Unless you work in manufacturing or product design, you probably haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about how plastic shapes are made. Look around you — see anything with a plastic casing? It was probably injection-molded, and the tool used to make the plastic was probably a royal pain in the ejector pins to manufacture. Atomic Industries is taking an industry that’s currently part science and part art, powered by skilled artisan toolmakers, and adding a layer of software to
DevOps.com
APRIL 5, 2022
Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) has become a hallmark of quick software release life cycles. Nowadays, many teams support CI/CD pipelines for their software, offering a repeatable pathway to build, test and deploy code. A CI/CD pipeline is necessary to support an iterative, rapid deployment approach—yet, maintaining one is not an easy task.
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TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2022
Austin unicorn Workrise has laid off an unspecified number of employees as it exits several verticals and seeks to divest parts of its business. The company, which has built a workforce management platform for the skilled trades , confirmed that it was laying off employees but declined to say how many. Just last May, TechCrunch reported that the company had raised $300 million at a $2.9 billion valuation.
Aqua Security
APRIL 5, 2022
For the past few years, cybercriminals have been hijacking popular npm packages by taking over maintainers’ accounts. As part of our research at Team Nautilus, we discovered two flaws in the npm platform related to two-factor authentication (2FA). By exploiting these flaws, an attacker can target npm packages for account takeover attacks. We reported these findings to the npm team (GitHub), which quickly fixed the underlying security gaps.
TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2022
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Welcome to the Daily Crunch for Tuesday, April 5, 2022. Today was one of those days reporters love — frenzied writing, source-gathering — all the trappings of a good newsletter! Join us as our fingers dance joyous Lindy Hop routines across our keyboards.
DevOps.com
APRIL 5, 2022
Legit Security today revealed that it discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in GitHub repositories that has since been remediated. Liav Caspi, Legit Security CTO, said the company worked with GitHub to remediate the issue prior to disclosure. Legit Security researchers reported they found hundreds of GitHub instances rated with over 1,000 stars each that could […].
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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.
TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2022
Two-dimensional virtual event platforms such as Hopin, Cvent and Zoom have become staples of virtual events, but these are about consuming content rather than “user activation” for brands. So in the metaverse, brands have turned to platforms like Meta, Sandbox or Decentraland for this kind of interaction. But, again, these are platforms built for consumers, so have limited application in a B2B setting.
DevOps.com
APRIL 5, 2022
ACCEL8 today unveiled the cloud-based ACCELQ Live test automation platform that is continuously integrated with a wide range of low-code and no-code application development and deployment platforms. ACCEL8 CEO Mahendra Alladi said the goal is to make it simpler to run complex tests across a multi-cloud computing environment. Usage of low-code and no-code tools has […].
TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2022
As the boom of the e-commerce aggregator trend continues in Asia, South Korea, the fifth-largest e-commerce market in the world, is rolling up. Wholesum , a Seoul-based e-commerce aggregator, is jumping on the trend of larger firms buying up third-party merchants that would usually sell on e-commerce platforms like Amazon and eBay. The company said Tuesday that it has raised $35 million in debt and $15 million in equity in a Series A round.
DevOps.com
APRIL 5, 2022
Business transformation and disruption is all about data. But it’s not just about collecting huge amounts of data, it’s what you do with that data and how it can enable you to create powerful insights. While many people focus on the cloud unicorns, the reality is that industry incumbents have a huge advantage. These businesses […]. The post IBM z16 Delivers AI and Quantum-Safe Levels of Security appeared first on DevOps.com.
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TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2022
Can’t stop, won’t stop. That’s what early data appears to say about the global venture capital market in Q1 2022. New data released by Crunchbase News 1 this morning paints the picture of a market slowing, but hardly stopped. In comparative terms, the dataset shows that the global venture market in Q1 2022 was in fact larger in dollar terms than its year-ago comp.
David Walsh
APRIL 5, 2022
Every once in a while I learn about a JavaScript property that I wish I had known about years earlier — valueAsNumber is one of them. The valueAsNumber provides the value of an input[type=number] as a Number type, instead of the traditional string representation when you get the value: /* Assuming an <input type="number" value="1.234" /> */ // BAD: Get the value and convert the number input.value // "1.234" const numberValue = parseFloat(input.value, 10); // GOOD: Use valueAsNumber
TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2022
Fast, a one-click speedy checkout platform, is shutting down today. In conjunction with that decision, Fast is giving a “vast majority” of its engineers the chance to join Affirm, a public fintech company in the buy now, pay later space, according to Affirm. Per an email seen by TechCrunch and first obtained by Business Insider, Fast CEO Domm Holland said that his company’s shut down was a result of a lack of financial resources to continue operating the business.
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