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MARCH 8, 2023

Early in her life Ricki J. Koinig saw the immense impact that technology could have on individuals and their ability to move through life. To pay for horseback riding lessons while growing up, Koinig worked in a program for children and young adults with special needs who used assistive technologies. Those early professional experiences in tech ed coupled with an opportunity to move to Europe brought her into the IT realm.

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MARCH 8, 2023

Garin Hess, a tech entrepreneur based in Utah, experienced what he calls the “ demo bottleneck ” at a previous software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup while pitching to potential customers. He theorized that a self-directed interactive demo, personalized to each stakeholder, could not only streamline the process and save time, but also help organically discover and engage other stakeholders who might not normally be reached.

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CIO

MARCH 8, 2023

The pandemic accelerated the urgency for reform in health and social care around the world, which strained resources to unprecedented levels. The effects are still being felt and in Northern Ireland specifically, ongoing political instability is further complicating approaches to digital transformation. Although progress is being made that should be recognized and celebrated, Dan West, CDIO for Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland’s Department of Health, understands that the pandemic still

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Digital mortgage lender Better.com’s SPAC deal with Aurora Acquisition Corp. recently got a new lease on life , extending its timeframe to close the transaction through the end of Q3 2023. Without the extension the transaction would have had to close by today. Further investigation has turned up an interesting fact in the interim: Even if the Better.com SPAC combination closes, the transaction has been all but neutered from a cash perspective.

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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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MARCH 8, 2023

Over the past few years, technological and business advancements have created increasingly grand expectations. Your customers expect an “always on” experience. (Today, you can also add “always fast,” “always intuitive,” “always successful,” and so on.) Fundamentally, if customers find it too difficult to engage digitally with your business, they’ll engage elsewhere.

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MARCH 8, 2023

If digital transformation was about driving fundamental change within the company, then its next chapter will be far more outward-looking. This is about being digital-first: to build digital businesses that are viable and sustainable in the long term. Rather than just leveraging digital technology to seize new opportunities, such organisations are poised to create operating models for meeting evolving customer needs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Happy International Women’s Day! Did you know that the holiday was adopted by the UN 46 years ago? We read the Wikipedia article about IWD , and learned stuff. Try it — you may learn something too! On our Found podcast this week, Darrell and Becca are joined by Matt Rogers, the founder and CEO of Mill, a startup that helps its customers turn their food scraps into

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MARCH 8, 2023

Enterprises driving toward data-first modernization need to determine the optimal multicloud strategy, starting with which applications and data are best suited to migrate to cloud and what should remain in the core and at the edge. A hybrid approach is clearly established as the optimal operating model of choice. A Flexera report found the shift to hybrid infrastructure supported by overwhelming numbers of survey respondents, with 89% of them opting for a multicloud strategy and 80% taking a

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

If you read the startup press, you might think that everyone in tech is still nursing a stiff hangover from the zenith of the 2021 boom. While there is much talk of cutting spending, conserving capital, trimming staff and hunkering down, there’s also quite a lot of good news out there. New data from Battery, for example, details a corporate software spending climate that is far from moribund; for startups that sell software to other companies , this is great news.

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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.

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MARCH 8, 2023

As organizations shape the contours of a secure edge-to-cloud strategy, it’s important to align with partners that prioritize both cybersecurity and risk management, with clear boundaries of shared responsibility. The security-shared-responsibility model is essential when choosing as-a-service offerings, which make a third-party partner responsible for some element of the enterprise operational model.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

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 my options for changing my status from an L-1 visa?

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CIO

MARCH 8, 2023

Pandemic-era ransomware attacks have highlighted the need for robust cybersecurity safeguards. Now, leading organizations are going further, embracing a cyberresilience paradigm designed to bring agility to incident response while ensuring sustainable business operations, whatever the event or impact. Cyberresilience, as defined by the Ponemon Institute, is an enterprise’s capacity for maintaining its core business in the face of cyberattacks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

A steady stream of new startups pitch their ideas, concepts, products and services on a daily basis to TechCrunch reporters: Startups that claim to predict when employees might want to leave for a new job; that think they can detect depression using someone’s voice; that experiment by using chatbots on patients with depression; that scrape the internet for faces to allow police to carry out facial recognition surveillance.

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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.

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MARCH 8, 2023

According to Infosys research, data and artificial intelligence (AI) could generate $467 billion in incremental profits worldwide and become the cornerstone of enterprises gaining a competitive edge. But while opportunities to use AI are very real – and ChatGPT’s democratisation is accelerating generative AI test-and-learn faster than QR code adoption during the Covid pandemic – the utopia of substantial business wins through autonomous AI is a fair way off.

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MARCH 8, 2023

Downshift into get ’er done gear, and you can save a hefty $1,000. How? Simply take decisive action and buy your pass to TechCrunch Disrupt before Friday, March 10 at 11:59 p.m. PST. We can think of a lot of great ways to use an extra grand, and we bet you can, too. Come September 19–21, you’ll join over 10,000 of the global startup community’s best and brightest at Disrupt, the premiere tech startup conference in San Francisco.

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MARCH 8, 2023

ACS (Australian Computer Society) is the professional association for Australia’s technology sector. With 35,000+ members, ACS is dedicated to growing the nation’s digital skills and capacity. ACS members benefit from professional training and skills certification, networking and events, liability insurance cover and access to technology and innovation hubs.

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MARCH 8, 2023

Vantage, a startup that helps businesses better understand their cloud infrastructure spend (and automate their savings), today announced that it has raised a $21 million Series A funding round led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from by Andreessen Horowitz, which led its seed round, as well as Harpoon Ventures, CloudFlare CEO and co-founder Matthew Prince and Glenn Solomon (who is a managing partner at GGV but who is investing personally here).

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“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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MARCH 8, 2023

As companies lean into data-first modernization to deliver best-in-class experiences and drive innovation, protecting and managing data at scale become core challenges. Given the diversity of data and range of data-inspired use cases, it’s important to align with a robust partner ecosystem. This can help IT teams map the right set of services to unique workflows and to ensure that data is securely managed and accessible regardless of location.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Thousand Faces , a web3 community-based investment group, hosted its demo day on Wednesday with the top 10 startups from its Female Founder Accelerator program. The demo day coincided with International Women’s Day and featured women-led businesses focused on sustainable development goals (SDGs). The accelerator program’s first cohort accepted 30 startups from a pool of over 220 applicants across 76 countries.

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Xebia

MARCH 8, 2023

In this blog I will show you how to create and deploy an AWS CloudFormation custom provider in less than 5 minutes using a Python copier template. To create a custom resource in CloudFormation, is really simple. You just implement a create, update and delete method in a Lambda and you are done. But that is the easy part: you still have to create zip files, unit tests, documentation, demo’s, CI/CD deployment pipelines and more.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Last year’s tech-wide reckoning continues. In 2023, layoffs have yet again cost tens of thousands of tech workers their jobs; this time, the workforce reductions have been driven by the biggest names in tech like Google , Amazon , Microsoft , Yahoo and Zoom. Startups, too, have announced cuts across all sectors, from crypto to enterprise SaaS. The reasoning behind these workforce reductions follows a common script , citing the macroeconomic environment and a need to find discipline on a tumultu

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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.

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Sometimes AWS resources are orphaned. This means the CloudFormation stack is destroyed but the resource is retained. This can happen either because the CloudFormation template specified this wish in the DeletionPolicy or after receiving an error from CloudFormation during the destruction and you decided to delete the stack anyway awknowledging that the resource in question will be retained.

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Aqua Security

MARCH 8, 2023

Aqua Nautilus researchers have discovered a chain of vulnerabilities, dubbed CorePlague , in the widely used Jenkins Server and Update Center (CVE-2023-27898, CVE-2023-27905). Exploiting these vulnerabilities could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the victim's Jenkins server, potentially leading to a complete compromise of the Jenkins server.

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Xebia

MARCH 8, 2023

This article was originally published at 47deg.com on September 14, 2020. Here we are again. When you thought that sum and product, in essence algebraic data types, were the final step on the ladder, new names pop up. But why are we so fond of (strong) types in our programs? And what do dependent and refinement types bring to the table? Making implicits explicit One common theme in statically typed functional programming is being explicit about which errors a function may raise.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 8, 2023

The marriage of cloud and software development is arguably the heart and soul of digital transformation. Providing pathways to greater efficiencies, lower costs and greater enterprise performance, the duo is poised to fundamentally transform industries as we know them. The compounding complexities of hybrid cloud operations and software supply chains, however, have led to a […] The post Good Things Happen When DevSecOps and Cloud Collide appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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Xebia

MARCH 8, 2023

This article was originally published at 47deg.com on January 7, 2021. The previous post in this series introduced the constraints we had to obey to use JavaScript as untyped lambda calculus , and then we relaxed some of those constraints via currying (for functions of more than one argument) and translation (to turn const local variables into a combination of functions).

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DataRobot

MARCH 8, 2023

Today, SAP and DataRobot announced a joint partnership to enable customers connect core SAP software, containing mission-critical business data, with the advanced Machine Learning capabilities of DataRobot to make more intelligent business predictions with advanced analytics. Every modern enterprise has a unique set of business data collected as part of their sales, operations, and management processes.

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Xebia

MARCH 8, 2023

This article was originally published at 47deg.com on January 14, 2021. We’re moving fast through this lambda calculus series! In part one, we laid out the foundations for working with JavaScript as a lambda calculus , and, through part 2, we added Booleans and numbers to our repertory. But, let’s be honest, defining addition and multiplication was kind of a magic trick.

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