TechCrunch
APRIL 19, 2022
It’s a story as old as time: Pull CO 2 out of the air, wave your magic chemistry stick at it and bottle it as vodka and perfume. The planet wins carbon sequestration points, and you can stumble home at the end of a night reeking of self-congratulatory smugness and anyone who kisses you that night can taste how much you care about the environment.
DevOps.com
APRIL 19, 2022
Encore has made generally available a namesake backend development engine for rapidly building scalable distributed IT environments across multiple cloud platforms. Fresh off raising $3 million in seed funding, Encore CEO André Eriksson said the Encore platform analyzes source code to eliminate the need to manually configure, connect and set up portable cloud computing environments. […].
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TechCrunch
APRIL 19, 2022
Flutterwave CEO Olugbenga Agboola has, for the first time, addressed financial and personal misconduct claims leveled against him and the company this month, according to an email to employees obtained by TechCrunch. “I’m writing today because I want you to know how concerned I am about the impact that reading the false allegations against our company has had on you all,” he wrote.
DevOps.com
APRIL 19, 2022
The interest in Web3 is heating up. We’ve seen major excitement around blockchain and new Web3 protocols that are poised to reinvent the web as we know it. But it’s hard to hide the skepticism and the suspicion that there are ulterior motives behind large cryptocurrency coin fundraisers. There’s no doubt that there are benefits […].
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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.
TechCrunch
APRIL 19, 2022
One of the biggest challenges enterprises face is processing all the data that they gather, and — by extension — deriving insights from that data. According to a 2018 Gartner report, 87% of organizations have low business intelligence and analytics maturity. The situation hasn’t changed much in recent years, even as companies invest greater amounts of capital in data initiatives.
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TechCrunch
APRIL 19, 2022
I’ve got to admit, the respective pedigrees of Glacier’s founders are a bit unexpected for a recycling robotics company. Areeb Malik used to be a software engineer at Facebook, and Rebecca Hu worked at Bain and Company. “While working at Bain, I found myself developing dual interests in industrials and consumer goods,” Hu tells TechCrunch. “Recycling automation is uniquely positioned at the intersection of those two industries — we’re building infrastructure to hand
Dzone - DevOps
APRIL 19, 2022
DevOps is a working methodology widely used today, combining good development (Dev) and operations (Ops) practices to deliver value to customers continuously. Adopting this methodology generally requires a multi-level restructuring (human, process, and technological). To promote its adoption and implementation, it is essential to consider some crucial points in the DevOps transformation of your company.
TechCrunch
APRIL 19, 2022
Playbook, a startup that describes itself as a “creative file manager for designers” where “Pinterest meets Dropbox ,” has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. CEO Jessica Ko was inspired to start the company after her experiences as a designer at Google and Opendoor. She realized that her teams were spending about 90% of their time digging around Dropbox looking for assets.
DevOps.com
APRIL 19, 2022
I’m an engineer, not a security professional. I’ve worked at several startups over the years and have discovered ways to shift my engineering mindset to include a security focus and to incorporate security into my coding practice. I’ve found that when you work with others, an engineering organization can significantly contribute to API security. But […].
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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.
TechCrunch
APRIL 19, 2022
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Daffodil Software
APRIL 19, 2022
For technology organizations, cloud adoption is a go-to strategy for cost reduction, risk mitigation, and a more increased scope of scalability. Enterprise-ready cloud infrastructure highlights the maturity of a company's depth of technological prowess. Therefore, it is important to conduct periodic cloud readiness assessments.
TechCrunch
APRIL 19, 2022
How much will the changing valuation profile of software companies impact the highest-flying private unicorns? Also, why hasn’t Databricks gone public yet? The answer to the former might be the answer to the latter. TechCrunch has spent ample time since the end of 2021 tracking changes to the value of software revenues. To catch you up: A number of factors commingled to create a climate in which software companies are worth less now than they were during much of 2021 when valued on a reven
Megaport
APRIL 19, 2022
In November 2018, AWS launched the newest version of its native network routing service: Transit Gateway (TGW). This cloud-based network gateway allows customers to connect Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) across different accounts in a hub and spoke topology, and is the third evolution in this feature set. The release was preceded by Direct Connect Gateway (DGW), which was announced in 2017.
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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.
TechCrunch
APRIL 19, 2022
Only 21% of the 12 million registered vehicles on Nigerian roads have genuine motor insurance, as the rest either have fake certificates (owners are mostly unaware) or are not covered at all. This report also states that a number of car owners holding genuine insurance policies also fail to renew them when they expire, a contravention of the law in Nigeria, which demands that every vehicle must be covered by insurance.
Ivanti
APRIL 19, 2022
Healthcare providers must be extremely vigilant in their cybersecurity defense posture. After all, vulnerabilities in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) cost hospitals nearly $21 billion in 2021. New security discoveries by Ivanti partner Cynerio recently made that statistic personal for many providers. While working with an existing healthcare customer, Cynerio found five zero-day vulnerabilities in Aethon TUG autonomous robots – an IoMT device found in many healthcare facilities.
TechCrunch
APRIL 19, 2022
In an expected move, European music streaming company Deezer announced plans yesterday to go public via a French SPAC. The deal values the company at a pre-money equity valuation of €1.05 billion and at €1.08 billion in enterprise value terms. Notably, those prices are similar to those at which Deezer last raised known external capital , a €160 million round in 2018 at a valuation of €1.0 billion on a post-money basis.
Palo Alto Networks
APRIL 19, 2022
The Unmanaged Attack Surface Continues to Be Persistent and Complex. Seasoned security professionals know that while zero-days get the headlines, the real problems always come from the dozens of small decisions every day inside of an organization. Just one accidental misconfiguration could create a crack in defenses. So the Cortex® Xpanse research team looked at 2021 data (from the beginning of March to the end of September) from 100+ organizations spanning multiple industries to map their unman
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TechCrunch
APRIL 19, 2022
Farmers don’t get embarrassed when the price of corn drops; similarly, there’s no reason for startup founders to lose their joy because publicly traded tech stocks are undercutting their valuations. If making as much money as you can is your primary goal, however, prepare to be disappointed. Accepting a down round or a smaller seed check isn’t a sign of failure — as it says in the Bible: the rain falls on the just, and the unjust.
Cloudera
APRIL 19, 2022
Data holds incredible untapped potential for Australian organisations across industries, regardless of individual business goals, and all organisations are at different points in their data transformation journey with some achieving success faster than others. . To be successful, the use of data insights must become a central lifeforce throughout an organisation and not just reside within the confines of the IT team.
TechCrunch
APRIL 19, 2022
In a bid to position its brand as more tech-forward — and, in the process, foster new culinary innovations — Chipotle today announced the launch of Cultivate Next, a venture fund run by Curt Garner, the restaurant chain’s chief technology officer. Chipotle says that Cultivate Next, which will be financed solely by Chipotle to start, will offer a tranche of $50 million and focus on tech companies in the “seed to Series B” stages. “We are looking to make investm
Synopsys
APRIL 19, 2022
CVE-2022-1271 is a new vulnerability affecting gzip, a widely used open source component for archiving, compressing, and decompressing files. The post CyRC Vulnerability Analysis: CVE-2022-1271 in gzip, but it’s not as bad as it sounds appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.
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TechCrunch
APRIL 19, 2022
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Lacework
APRIL 19, 2022
Machine Learning (ML) is absolutely everywhere. The big three cloud service providers—AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud—have a ton of different machine learning services, with more on the way. You have a feeling that this approach can help you. But where do you start? I had the exact same question. Thankfully, I was able to ask my colleague Nithya Manickam.
TechCrunch
APRIL 19, 2022
GoTo, the combined entity resulting from the merger of Gojek (an Indonesian ride-hailing player) and Tokopedia (an Indonesian e-commerce company), raised around $1.1 billion (IDR15.8 trillion, per the company ) in its public-market debut on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) earlier this month. GoTo most recently raised a $1.3 billion round in late 2021 , in what was then described as pre-IPO funding.
Beyond B2B
APRIL 19, 2022
In business—just like in sports—every so often something comes along that catapults the status quo to a whole new level.
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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.
TechCrunch
APRIL 19, 2022
The autonomous vehicle industry is dominated by talk of robotaxis, self-driving trucks, sidewalk delivery robots and passenger vehicles like Teslas with automated driving functions. You know, the sexy side of autonomy. Not much attention has been paid to the type of autonomy Steer Tech, a Maryland-based AV startup, has been pursuing — something the company’s founder and CEO Anuja Sonalker calls “endpoint autonomy.” Since it was founded in 2016, Steer has focused on providing hi
DevOps.com
APRIL 19, 2022
Quali has added a control plane to its Torque platform to give DevOps teams the ability to consistently provision and orchestrate infrastructure across a heterogeneous distributed computing environment. Amir Rosenberg, vice president of product for Quali, said the control plane allows DevOps team to centrally manage the provisioning of infrastructure via reusable blueprints accessed via […].
TechCrunch
APRIL 19, 2022
Planetary , a Geneva, Switzerland-based food tech company, is tapping into a new $8 million cash infusion to construct an industrial-scale production facility so that its customers leveraging fermentation technology can create and scale their alternative proteins quicker. The seed round was led by Astanor Ventures and followed on by a group of investors, including XAnge, Blue Horizon and Nucleus Capital.
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