CIO

DECEMBER 14, 2022

CIO Ted Ross believes the honeymoon is over for breakneck productivity when it comes to hybrid work, and he’s not the only one. Tech employees at the City of Los Angeles IT agency who were forced to work remotely in the early pandemic days were very efficient, Ross says. “Fully into the pandemic we had a 34% increase in project delivery,” he adds. But since then, productivity and innovation have waned, in part because of fading relationships between once in-person teams, along with a slew of new

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Agile Alliance

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Learn how to sell yourself to organizations that don't understand the value of coaches or that might be looking to do away with them when times are tough. The post What’s the value proposition of coaches? first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The conversation in startup land has shifted from building in public to, hey, maybe let’s just figure things out internally before we scream to the masses. At least that’s what I’m gleaning from the growth story of Murmur , a startup that wants to make decision-making easier for private companies. Built by entrepreneur Aaron Dignan , Murmur launched its closed beta in 2021 with a vision to create a public forum of private work agreements so companies could scale remote policies faster.

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Agile Alliance

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In this fishbowl session, Jessie Shternshus answers questions about using improve and Dana Pylayeva answers questions about using games. The post Fishbowl with Jessie Shternshus & Dana Pylayeva first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Heather Gantt-Evans. Contributor. Heather Gantt-Evans , M.S., CISSP is chief information security officer at SailPoint. Carrying out the mandate of the chief information security officer (CISO) has never been easy, but today’s increasingly fraught digital landscape has made it even more difficult. What’s more, new and complex compliance requirements have opened the door for potential personal criminal liability in the event of a data breach or other cyber incident.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

VCs continue to bet big on legal tech. According to Crunchbase, firms have invested more than $1 billion in legal tech companies, an uptick from the $512 million invested last year. Contract management vendors have benefited in particular as contracting workloads increase; contracting teams at large organizations now manage an average of 19,000 contracts a year while the busiest organizations manage more than 50,000, according to a 2021 EY survey.

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Xebia

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In this blog post, we will take a look at how to use the new proposal const in Typescript to get literal types for objects but now inside functions. We will also discuss how to use generics to create more dynamic and powerful types for our objects, and how the upcoming Typescript 5.0 release will make this even easier to do. First, let’s take a look at how we can use as const to get literal types for our objects.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

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Aqua Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Dirty Pipe ( CVE-2022-0847 ) proved that there is a new way to exploit Linux syscalls to write to files with a read-only privileges. The fact that someone can write to a file regardless of its permissions is a big security threat. An application of this vulnerability would be to write on the host from an unprivileged container. Keep in mind that this vulnerability is a kernel vulnerability which makes it hard, or even impossible, for user-mode runtime monitoring programs to detect this sort of f

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It’s commonly held that solar panels need as much sun as they can get. That’s true, but only up to a point, as heat and other hazards can become a serious problem beyond that point, and solar panels can degrade pretty quickly. SmartHelio wants to help prevent that from happening. The startup uses AI tech to measure live data (current, voltage, weather parameters) from solar plants and offers suggestions for fixes when a solar array starts underperforming. “Every summer, my pare

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CEO Insider

DECEMBER 14, 2022

“You suck at innovation.” I unfortunately have to tell corporations this all the time. Why is it that a corporate employee can come up with an innovative idea and get nowhere with it? Despite having an abundance of resources, the corporate innovator is often left begging for time, talent, and treasure. Why is it that […]. The post Why Are Big Companies Losing to Startups?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It may seem like SaaS is everywhere, but there’s one sector that’s been slow to adopt it — manufacturing. By itself, manufacturing drives almost 11% of the U.S. economy, contributing $2.77 trillion to GDP as of Q2 2022. All that activity also uses a lot of energy and produces a lot of greenhouse gasses. But if manufacturers could wring out extra production from their existing factories, they could go a long way to trimming the sector’s carbon footprint.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Building software with strong security can no longer be an afterthought for organizations. The need for a reliable cybersecurity posture has proven vital amid the constant attacks we’re seeing across industries, all over the world. Product-specific security is top of mind for most companies, and a successful product security practice requires integrating with the ethos […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Bondaval , the London-based B2B insurtech that gives credit teams assurance that customers will fulfill their financial obligations, has raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Talis Capital. The round included participation from returning investors Octopus Ventures, Insurtech Gateway Ltd, Truesight and Expa, and new investors FJ Labs and Broadhaven Ventures.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A few years ago, I had an idea about how to make publishing recipes on the internet more accessible and profitable. As a front-end engineer-turned-product manager, I could write code as long as it involved JavaScript. But I needed someone who could handle the whole stack, especially the back end—you can’t build a platform with […]. The post From Frontend to Full Stack: How I Leveraged Modern Dev Tools to Make the Leap appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Deepika Padukone’s skincare startup 82°E, pronounced Eighty Two East, said Wednesday it has raised $7.5 million in seed funding, as the Bollywood star makes further push into the startup world. DSG Consumer Partners and IDEO Ventures are among those who backed 82°E , said the startup, which began offering self-care products such as moisturisers and sunscreen drops to consumers in over 30 countries last month. 82°E says its products are formulated in-house by R&D experts and feature 

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 14, 2022

ActiveState today announced it is making all tiers of its ActiveState Artifact Repository service available for free for a limited time. The move aims to enable organizations to better secure open source software components incorporated within applications. Loreli Cadapan, vice president of product for ActiveState, said the ActiveState Artifact Repository exposes a set of curated […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In 2005, three entrepreneurs — Vadim Vladimirskiy, Stuart Gabel and Niall Keegan — co-founded Adar, a Chicago-based company providing “streaming IT” and IT-as-a-service products mainly to small- and medium-sized businesses. Just over a decade later, Adar created an internal division, Nerdio , focused on helping other managed service providers move their customers to the cloud.

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The Daily WTF

DECEMBER 14, 2022

We've recently discussed how bit masks can confuse people. Argle 's in a position to inherit some of that confused code. In this case, Argle's company inherited some NodeJS code from a customer who was very upset with the previous development team they had hired. It was a mix of NodeJS with some custom hardware involved. Like many of us, the first thing Argle's team did was just pull up the code and skim the documentation.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

According to Grand View Research, the global sports betting market is expected to grow to $182.12 billion in revenue by 2030, up from $76.75 billion last year. So we are seeing a number of startups throng around this market. Thus, HotStreak , a web3 platform for daily fantasy sports (DFS) contests, is betting that a decentralizing payments is an ideal solution for DFS platforms.

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Kaseya

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Businesses of all types are facing an increasingly challenging prospect when it comes to cybersecurity. Bad actors don’t discriminate, placing small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in just as much danger as large companies. Not only do SMBs offer threat actors a prime hunting ground for sensitive data and potential ransom payments, but many also serve as exploitable conduits into the networks of larger businesses as key components in the supply chain.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

EnCharge AI , a company building hardware to accelerate AI processing at the edge , today emerged from stealth with $21.7 million in Series A funding led by Anzu Partners, with participation from AlleyCorp, Scout Ventures, Silicon Catalyst Angels, Schams Ventures, E14 Fund and Alumni Ventures. Speaking to TechCrunch via email, co-founder and CEO Naveen Verma said that the proceeds will be put toward hardware and software development as well as supporting new customer engagements. “Now was

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Companies are awash in people analytics — but that data rarely translates into trustworthy markers of performance.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The SPAC route to listing on public markets was incredibly popular in 2020 and 2021, but many companies that took this avenue didn’t exactly fare well after going public. So why did consumer car rental marketplace Getaround decide to list by merging with a blank-check company ? To answer that question, we need to take a step back and look at the bigger picture.

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CloudZero

DECEMBER 14, 2022

We see it often. Too many companies struggle to optimize their cloud costs — whichever platform they use, from Microsoft Azure to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

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: How do tech layoffs impact PERM and the green card process?

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

DECEMBER 14, 2022

To grow your team’s rising stars, make sure you step back, give them room to grow, and reward their performance accordingly. . Your rising stars are in that upper right quadrant of the leadership matrix. You don’t put in a lot of time and energy, but you get great results out of them. The issue with rising stars is they want to advance and they can get bored along the way if they don’t have opportunities to grow.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Singapore-headquartered startup Plugo has secured $9 million in a Series A funding round. The company offers a complete spectrum of e-commerce support services for direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands, from making a website, setting up a payment system, and managing marketing to handling shipping, warehousing, and logistics. In other words, Plugo enables D2C merchants to focus on their products and supports other processes.

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