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Dry powder versus wet powder: The numbers have spoken

TechCrunch

Welcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Lux Capital partner Josh Wolfe predicted that “dry powder” would prove to be “wet powder ” as venture capital funds opt to support existing portfolio companies through rough times over making new investments.

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Shaky Twitter Two-Factor Authentication Interaction

Martin Fowler

Accessing Twitter this morning, I was greeted with a prompt saying that they were getting rid of text messages as a form of two-factor authentication unless you subscribed to Twitter Blue. I thought “fine”, because I don’t use text messages for that, preferring a one-time code managed by 1Password. I clicked through and it told me it had removed the text message two-factor that I didn’t have, and would I like to set up something using a one-time code or hardware dongle?

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iOS gains new emoji, Showtime joins a pricier Paramount+, and Instagram launches Channels

TechCrunch

Hey, TechCrunch besties. After a week in Korea and the Philippines, it’s great to be back in the States — and slightly more tan (i.e., burnt) than before. Massive thanks to Henry, who was forced to step in over the past two weeks thanks to my failing to realize that Korean Air does not offer in-flight Wi-Fi. Talk about a good sport. If you’re wondering about Greg’s status, not to worry — he’s due to return from a well-deserved parental leave in a month and cha

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LTSC2022 images for Sitecore containers released: what does it mean to me?

Perficient

Exciting news! Sitecore kept the original promise and released the new ltsc2022 container images for all the topologies of both the 10.3 and 10.2 versions of their platform. The biggest benefits of new images are improved image sizes – almost 50% smaller than ltsc2019, and support for running Process Isolation on Windows 11. You can check it yourself: Official Sitecore Images List Sitecore compatibility table So, what does that mean for developers and DevOps?

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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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Tech’s next great mafia? Laid-off talent

TechCrunch

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. After tech’s massive exodus of talent, we’re starting to see laid-off talent start companies that are ambitious and aspirational in aim. I’m talking about the legal analyst who got let go from Better.com starting a legal tech startup, or the head of safety at Twitter starting a Twitter rival with safety at the core

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Queens of the Entrepreneurial Jungle: Harnessing the Power of a Legit Mindset

Women on Business

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Using AI: Examples of How to Optimize Artificial Intelligence in Business

TurnKey Labs

The future of tech companies isn’t just about adding new features to their products – it’s about making their products smarter too. And Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the key to unlocking a more powerful and efficient model for companies that want to upgrade their current offering.