TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested by The Royal Bahamas Police Force following reports that the United States filed criminal charges against the founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX , and is likely to request his extradition. The Office of the Attorney General of the Bahamas issued a statement today, which was reported by BNO and other news outlets , that it would hold Bankman-Fried in custody until “a formal request for extradition is made.”.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Microsoft has signed a 10-year deal with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) that calls for the software giant to buy a 4% stake in the exchange in order to jointly develop new products and services for data and analytics. Microsoft will buy the stake from a Blackstone and Thomson Reuters consortium, which previously sold the financial data company Refinitiv to LSEG for £22bn (US$26.9 billion) in 2021.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Individuals or businesses buying furniture in Africa can purchase from local furniture stores or global furniture retailers like IKEA. But both options have pros and cons; for the latter, local furniture stores may lack the quality that clients need, while global retailers, in addition to taking several months to ship their products to Africa, can be too pricey. .

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2022

It’s human nature — as well as the nature of this magnificent planet — that change is constant. But sometimes, change can be perceived as bad. We see and feel this in the form of climate change, supply chain issues, and sustainability challenges, just to name a few. But are these problems insurmountable? No. Rather, we see these as opportunities to innovate and make positive changes.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

HR organizations are faced with a widening skills gap, economic headwinds and changing expectations around work. It’s no surprise, then, that burnout and exhaustion are widespread in HR, with one survey finding that 42% of teams are struggling under the weight of too many projects and responsibilities. Change starts with personnel and management, some might argue.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Mark Munroe. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Mark Munroe is a long-time SEO veteran and the creator of technical SEO monitoring tool, SEORadar. He was most recently vice president of SEO at Nuvolum. We all know that content is king when it comes to SEO. However, winning SEO strategies today demand more than just good textual content. Good content today also includes video.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Practical Tips to Help You and Your Team Heal. After a Heartwrenching Layoff. My LinkedIn feed and email inbox are filled with news of layoffs and reorganizations causing unexpected career turbulence. And I’ve had more than a few phone calls from really talented human-centered leaders hurting for the team members they’ve had to lose and deeply concerned about those who remain after the layoff.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Nimantha Siriwardana. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Nimantha Siriwardana is the co-founder and CTO of Metacask , the marketplace for spirits-backed NFTs. Nim has over 20 years of experience in delivering technology solutions and previously worked for Goldman Sachs and Source Capital AG. There’s no way for blockchain-based businesses, financial service providers or banks to bypass Know Your Customer (KYC) processes.

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The Crazy Programmer

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The base class pointer can point to both base class & derived class objects. Although, it cannot change the values present in the derived class. Let us see some code examples for the explanation. Code: #include<iostream> using namespace std; class Base_Class_Details{ public: int age; void setAge(int myage){ age=myage; } int getAge(){ return age; } string name; void setName(string myname){ name=myname; } string getName(){ return name; } void showDetails(){ cout<< "The age of t

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2022

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. It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Of course, we are referring to that time of year when all the startup chaos continues apace, and we are just hanging on for dear life to see how it all ends, clinging to our cups of hot chocolate, as holiday-appropriate music is wrapping around us like a warm blanket.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Although we discuss infrastructure automation often, the fact is that a lot of manual processes still exist throughout DevOps. Whether it’s rewriting scripts to spin up new servers, updating cloud-native policies or configuring computing environments, manual toil is an all-too-common reality. To make matters worse, engineers commonly create lengthy scripts that work in isolation but are […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The correct amount of money to raise for your startup is “as much as you need to hit the milestones to raise your next round of funding.” It isn’t rocket science, and yet, the vast majority of founders I talk to are very fuzzy about exactly how much money that is, and there are a lot of misconceptions about how you figure out how much you need to raise.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 12, 2022

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to serve our audience better. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent […].

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

TechCrunch noted a week ago that an investor in Coupa was sounding the alarm that the software company might be sold to private equity for a price below what the money manager felt was fair. The plea went unanswered, with Coupa selling for a discount to what the investor had demanded as a minimum, we reported this morning. That the deal happened so quickly after the warning is not surprising.

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The Daily WTF

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Today's anonymous submitter sends us a pile of code that exists to flummox us. It's consfuing, weird, and I don't understand it, even as I understand it. So we're going to walk through this packet of Python in steps, to see if we can understand what's going on. First is this handy helper function, to turn a value into a number: def to_number ( s ): try : if not s: return 0. number = float (s) return int (number) if number.is_integer() else number except (TypeError, ValueError

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

For businesses, protecting trademarks is often a lengthy and expensive process, especially if they have multiple brands. Digip digitizes much of the process, helping its customers file trademarks by themselves instead of going to law firms. The Stockholm-based legaltech startup announced today it has added $1.3 million to its seed round, bringing the total to $3.4 million.

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Tenable

DECEMBER 12, 2022

CVE-2022-42475: Fortinet Patches Zero Day in FortiOS SSL VPNs Fortinet has patched a zero day buffer overflow in FortiOS that could lead to remote code execution. There has been a report of active exploitation and organizations should patch urgently. Background. On December 9 Olympe Cyberdefense published a brief summary of a vulnerability affecting several versions of Fortinet FortiOS used in its FortiGate secure socket layer virtual private network (SSL VPN) and firewall products.

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Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Dan Roy, a former software engineer at Delta, says he witnessed firsthand the challenges companies face when making the shift from an on-premises model to a software-as-a-service business. Accucast, where he served as CTO after leaving Delta, struggled with this as it pitched software and services for email marketing. The solution, he came to believe, was a hybrid approach — one that directly accesses brands’ first-party data instead of relying on cloud data syncs.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 12, 2022

An analysis of nearly 2,000 software packages published by Endor Labs found 95% of all application vulnerabilities can be traced back to a transitive dependency created when a developer used an open source component. The study, conducted by the Station 9 research arm of Endor Labs, a provider of a platform for identifying software dependencies, […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Nillion, a web3 startup aiming to build a non-blockchain decentralized network, closed an oversubscribed round of more than $20 million, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. “Nillion is a deep technology infrastructure project,” Andrew Yeoh, the company’s founding chief marketing officer, told TechCrunch. “While blockchains decentralize finance, Nillion aims to decentralize everything else and the rest of data.”.

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Lacework

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The Lacework Polygraph® Data Platform provides our customers with a variety of ways to manage your cloud security. From our command-line interface (CLI), to language software development kits (SDKs), to infrastructure-as-code (IaC), security engineers and site reliability engineers (SREs) have numerous options to automate cloud security management. To help your teams work quickly and securely, we provide Terraform modules to help you use automation to manage every facet of our platform as code.

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As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Financial institutions are waiting for the SEC and other regulators to pass rules about how to disclose emissions from their portfolio companies. Until then, many are following the standard set by the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF). Pathzero helps them with a platform to exchange carbon information securely and analyze it. The Sydney, Australia-based startup announced today it has raised $8.6 million AUD (about $5.3 million USD) for its Series A+ round, which brings its tota

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

DECEMBER 12, 2022

When it comes to innovation, focus is way more important than creativity. Today’s post is by Alex Goryachev, author of FEARLESS INNOVATION: Going Beyond The Buzzword To Continuously Drive Growth, Improve The Bottom Line, And Enact Change (CLICK HERE to get your copy). I often hear that innovation is primarily about ideas and creativity. With over 20 years of speaking with top innovators around the globe, I am biased to disagree.

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Flexagon

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Businesses using Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) often operate in highly complex environments. Their systems might include hundreds—or even thousands—of customizations. As a result, these enterprises tend to struggle with manual processes, keeping up with growth, and modernizing to the cloud. These customizations, which organizations need to fulfill their unique business needs, are implemented with Java, SQL, forms, reports, concurrent programs, and many other types of components.

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Palo Alto Networks

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Organizations are evolving to meet the demands of cloud and hybrid work, but this acceleration leads to an expansion in their unmanaged attack surface. Certain industries, including healthcare and insurance, saw a 20-25% increase in new risks on their unmanaged attack surface every month, according to the 2022 Attack Surface Threat Report. No industry showed a reduction in attack surface risks.

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Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs. Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy fo

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Wolk Software Engineering

DECEMBER 12, 2022

It blows ? my mind to think that my #opensource project InversifyJS has reached over 100 MILLION DOWNLOADS on npm. InversifyJS is a lightweight (<50KB) but powerful Inversion Of Control (IoC) container for #JavaScript applications powered by #TypeScript. It is used to implement Dependency Injection (DI) in thousands of applications, including high-profile products like Microsoft Sway and over forty thousand open source repositories on #GitHub and over two thousand open source packages on #npm

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Gitprime

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Technical writers play a key role in software development. We chat with Pluralsight Sr. Technical Writer Danielle Vansia to learn more about her path into tech.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 12, 2022

“My project is not ready to move away from webpack and deal with migration issues just yet.” “I want to speed up my project builds without having to completely uproot webpack.” If either of the statements above apply to you please consider esbuild-loader plugin for webpack. This nifty little plugin essentially utilizes the amazing transpilation speeds that esbuild offers. esbuild-loader is a direct replacement of (babel-loader/ts-loader) in your webpack build pipeline.

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