Fri.Mar 18, 2022

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Defending Your Organization from Cybercrime

TechSoup

Cybercrime poses an increasing threat to all organizations, and nonprofits can be more vulnerable than most. To keep your organization and clients' information safe, it's important to be vigilant and proactive in defending your data from cyberthreats. Cyberattacks can disrupt your operations and prevent you from fulfilling your mission.

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Series B is the attention-seeking middle child of financing rounds

TechCrunch

?. Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week our comrade Mary Ann was off, so Natasha and Alex teamed up with Grace on the dials to chat through the week’s biggest news. Here’s what our dynamic duo got into: Webflow’s new round: Nine-figures of capital at a revenue multiple north of 40x?

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A Closer Look at Azure DevOps

DevOps.com

Microsoft’s Azure DevOps Server is emerging as one of the most popular cloud application development environments. Like most continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms, it provides features such as version control, reporting, project management, automated builds, and testing. It covers all aspects of the application life cycle and enables DevOps.

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Sleek wants to be the last shopping check-out form you ever fill out

TechCrunch

One-click checkout continues to stretch out its moment, and Sleek is the latest startup to get in on the venture capital action, where similar companies like Ownit , Bolt , Checkout.com , OurPass and Rapyd have collectively raised over $3 billion in investments within the past 18 months. Toronto-based Sleek, which was part of Y Combinator’s summer 2021 batch, is developing a browser extension enabling one-click checkout and cash-back savings.

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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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Secure Software Summit: Applying Chaos Engineering to Software Security

DevOps.com

Today’s software systems are, essentially, controlled chaos—and lightly controlled chaos, at that. This makes it exceptionally challenging to model the behavior of those systems. Our systems are quickly becoming larger and larger, with more and more moving parts. It is not uncommon for enterprises to have over 1,000 microservices and millions of containers running thousands […].

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A Two-Way Street: AI and Data Governance

Dataiku

Before we begin, let’s do introductions. In our recent Product Days session, AI / Governance: A Two-Way Street , our host François Sergot, Product Manager at Dataiku, had the opportunity to meet with Aaron Kalb, Co-Founder and CDAO at Alation to discuss a hot topic in the data science community — AI and data governance. This blog will recall the key takeaways and insights from the presentation.

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TechCrunch Experts: 3 articles on growth marketing and software development

TechCrunch

TechCrunch Experts continues to gather and share authoritative advice for founders who need help with growth marketing and software development. Here are a few related articles we’ve run in recent weeks: Growth marketing. (TechCrunch+) Tap your community and the K factor to drive viral growth: To uncover some insights into driving viral growth, John Biggs interviewed: Mariusz G?

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AWS Budgets Vs. AWS Cost Explorer: The Ultimate Comparison Guide

CloudZero

AWS currently offers over 200 services. Some of those make up the AWS Cost Management suite. This group comprises AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR), AWS Budgets, AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Cost Categories, and AWS Cost Anomaly Detection.

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Learn how to land your first investor from Sequoia’s Jess Lee at TC Early Stage

TechCrunch

Tapping personal savings or invoking the friends and family plan are signature hallmarks of fledgling startup finance. Eventually though, the majority of early-stage founders will leave their bootstrapping days behind and turn to institutional investors for the capital infusion they need to grow. It’s not easy for inexperienced, first-time founders to attract and secure their first investor.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

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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What’s the top barrier to cloud maturity?

Gitprime

Pluralsight’s Drew Firment, who holds a patent for measuring cloud maturity, offers insights on what’s required to overcome the biggest ROI blocker: skill gaps.

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Hence secures $1.8M seed to grow its legal services sourcing technology

TechCrunch

Hence Technologies , a Kigali and London based startup that uses data and AI to match companies with external legal service providers is set to scale its precision matching engine after raising $1.8million in seed funding from various institutions and angel investors. This brings the total amount raised by the startup, so far, to $2.6 million. The startup, which was founded in 2020, uses data from various sources to match the internal legal teams of its client companies with external legal servi

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Rethinking Recycling

Dell EMC

Getting back as much as we produce takes rethinking recycling and changing customer behavior.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: eVTOL takes off, pivoting with agility, when to hire a lawyer

TechCrunch

“Where’s my flying car?” is a staple of Gen X humor, since it reaffirms the cynical viewpoint that technology frequently fails to deliver on its lofty promises. Until recently, electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles were largely consigned to our imaginations. I can name more movies that feature flying cars than I can eVTOL companies, but that’s changing.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Article: What Leaders can Learn from Computer Games

InfoQ Culture Methods

Has the question ever crossed your mind why computer games are often more successful than leaders? Probably not, as this comparison may sound a little strange and provocative at first. However, when you hear the answer, this comparison will make much more sense to you, especially since it reveals a significant success factor for leadership, as well as for agility.

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Survival tips for startup founders living through their first market correction

TechCrunch

Navin Chaddha. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Navin Chaddha is managing partner at Mayfield , an inception and early-stage investor with more than 50 years of a people-first investing philosophy. More posts by this contributor. What is happening to risk-taking in venture capital? Biology as technology will reinvent trillion-dollar industries. For founders, especially those starting companies for the first time, the gyrations of the stock market, the resulting correction in public market tech sto

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ng2 datepicker with example Using Angular 9

Angularjs | Reactjs | jQuery | Nodejs tutorials

This tutorial help to implement datepicker into your angular 2+ application. I’ll use ng2-datepicker component to integrate datepicker with the angular application. ng2-datepicker The ng2-datepicker is simple and minimal Angular datepicker component. It is fully customizable.You can get more options such as minDate, maxDate, format date etc. How To Install ng2 datepicker Let’s run the […].

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The Expert jumps into home goods e-commerce

TechCrunch

The Expert started out in 2021 as a way for anyone, regardless of budget, to get a one-hour video consultation with some of the top interior designers in the world. Now, buoyed by $12 million in Series A funding, the one-year-old company is expanding into e-commerce to become what co-founder Leo Seigal referred to as “Farfetch for home.”. We profiled the company when it launched with a $3 million round , with Seigal saying at the time, “We were able to attract a crazy roster of designers partly

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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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Semi-Supervised Learning, Explained with Examples

Altexsoft

As it sometimes happens, when one approach doesn’t work to solve a particular problem, you try a different one. When that approach doesn’t work either, it may be a good idea to combine the best parts of both. At least that’s often the case with technology tasks. Machine learning is no exception. You’ve probably heard of two main ML techniques — supervised and unsupervised learning.

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Study: 30% of Log4Shell instances remain unpatched

TechCrunch

Mehul Revankar. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Mehul Revankar is a cybersecurity professional with over 15 years of experience in vulnerability management, policy compliance and security operations. He leads the product management and engineering functions for VMDR (Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response) at Qualys. On December 9, 2021, a critical zero-day vulnerability affecting Apache’s Log4j2 library, a Java-based logging utility, was disclosed to the world and broke the internet.

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Critical Infrastructure Security

Dots and Bridges

On March 17th the IoT Smart Infrastructure Working Group, “Critical Infrastructure Security: A Game of Chess” with John Walsh and Pete Tseronis , will talk about protecting our Nation’s most critical infrastructure sectors. How can we win this game of chess? It requires joint collaboration with Government and Industry to defend our critical infrastructure and deploy technologies and systems that provide threat visibility, indications, detection, and warnings that facilitate response capabilit

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When raising at a 40x multiple makes sense

TechCrunch

Webflow, a well-funded no-code startup that helps customers build websites, raised a new round of capital this week. Per Forbes reporting , Webflow landed $120 million in fresh funds at a $4 billion valuation. Forbes also writes that the company will reach the $100 million annual recurring revenue (ARR) mark shortly, has more than 200,000 customers, and currently earns around 8% of its total top line from enterprise customers.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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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Getting on the Path to K-12 Interoperability

PowerSchool

The post Getting on the Path to K-12 Interoperability appeared first on PowerSchool.

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What Shift’s acquisition of Fair says about the online used car market

TechCrunch

Used car e-commerce platform Shift has acquired some of competitor Fair Technologies’ technology, allowing Shift to become the Amazon of the used car marketplace, a platform that displays third-party listings from dealers alongside the company’s own inventory. . The deal is a nod toward the direction the online auto market is moving, where even the sale of used cars will require a first-class, seamless user experience.

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Announcing Multicurrency Support in Beam

Nutanix

Rein in Cloud Cost: Nutanix Announces Multicurrency Support in Nutanix Cloud Manager - Cost Governance

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Volta Labs grabs $20 million to address a growing genomics bottleneck

TechCrunch

Twenty years ago, getting a human genome sequenced was a billion-dollar, international project. Today, you can get your dog’s genome sequenced by the end of the month for a few bucks. It speaks to the speed with which genetics has permeated our lives, but despite massive improvements to the technology, the process can still be a bit clunky in the lab.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

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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Daily Crunch: Porsche announces plans to build a global network of EV charging stations

TechCrunch

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. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Friday, March 18, 2022! Another week is behind us, which means that it’s time to sit back and read the last tranche of startup and technology news. For those of you building, we just announced that Sequoia’s Jess Lee is coming to Early Stage to chat about landing your first investor, and we’ll have a bevy of VCs at our mob

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ClearBank, a UK banking rails provider, raises $230M from Apax to expand into Europe and the US

TechCrunch

ClearBank — a UK fintech that has built a new set of cloud-based financial rails that allows banks and other customers real-time clearance on payment transactions and other financial services — has closed a big round of funding, money it will be using to take its services beyond its home market and move into newer areas such as cryptocurrency exchanges.

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