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Indian agency searches fintech Paytm, Razorpay and Cashfree offices in Chinese loan apps probe

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India’s financial crime fighting agency searched the offices of fintech unicorns Paytm and Razorpay as well as Cashfree on Friday as part of an ongoing investigation into fraudulent Chinese loan apps, it said Saturday, the latest in a series of probes in recent months. The Enforcement Directorate said its searches at high profile Indian firms and businesses controlled by Chinese personnel were prompted by 18 complaints made to the Cyber Crime Police in Bengaluru.

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How to Defend Against DNS fraud

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As a collective, well-meaning society, we like to think that challenging times bring out the best in us. Unfortunately, where supply chains have become strained, cybercriminals have seen opportunity in domain vulnerabilities.

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Tracking cybersecurity investment during the venture downturn

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Yesterday’s tech stock rout was not evenly distributed ; some companies and technology sectors fared better than others. The same can be said about tech sectors in 2022 more generally. For example, the basket of cloud stocks that we track was off 45% year to date before the open today, while cybersecurity index funds ($IHAK, $CIBR, etc.) are off around 20% apiece, a far smaller decline.

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Advanced search with PHP and MySQL

Php,Mysql,Jquery Tutorial And Interview Question

This tutorial help to create advanced search functionality with PHP and Mysql. We’ll create a PHP form that takes input and search into the MySQL table. Advanced search provides more options to the end user to filter the search result. Steps to implement advanced search PHP mysqli Create a MySQL database and populate it with […]. The post Advanced search with PHP and MySQL appeared first on Phpflow.com.

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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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It’s not just you: The freemium bar is shifting

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Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. In recent weeks, several companies tweaked the free tiers of their products, from Slack and Otter.ai to Google Meet and Heroku. This ties back into a crucial question for freemium businesses: When should you start charging?

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The weakest link: Charting supply chain risk in an era of globalization

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Jag Lamba. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jag Lamba is the CEO and founder of Certa , a no-code supplier lifecycle management platform. It’s not just a feeling: risk across the geopolitical spectrum has been higher than usual in recent years. For businesses with supply chain operations across the world, these risks are hard to avoid. Issues of resiliency and avoiding sanctions are top of mind when it comes to planning out the coming months and years.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Fighting fundraising fears, XaaS CS strategy, the ‘collapse’ of VC

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Ever traveled on a cruise ship? Pre-COVID, most journeys started with a shipwide safety drill where passengers assembled, donned life vests and learned what to do in an emergency. The ocean has an average depth of 2.3 miles, yet these rehearsals were always a calm affair. You’re starting a vacation; what could possibly go wrong? Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

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India’s central bank gives lenders November-end ultimatum to comply with new digital loan rules

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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has given lenders until the end of November to implement adequate systems and processes to ensure that new and existing loans comply with its digital loan rules issued last month. The RBI’s move follows several reports highlighting issues of customers facing torture and abuse from agents of digital loan apps in the country.

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Yes, your 5-year financial projections are going to be wrong. You need them anyway

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When I was an early-stage founder, I bristled at the idea of making a five- or even three-year financial projection of my business. I can promise you one thing: It will be dramatically wrong. But as part of your fundraising, you need to make them anyway, and there are a couple of great reasons for that. VCs understand as well as you do that you can’t predict the future.

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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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This Gen Z founder is pitching hundreds of investors… via Venmo

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My phone buzzes as I get a text from a friend who’s a partner at a VC firm. It’s a screenshot of a Venmo notification that just came in. “My 2 cents on why you should invest in my company,” reads the message she received, along with a $0.02 transfer. I tracked down and emailed the founder who sent the transfer to figure out what they were up to. “In the past two and a half weeks I’ve reached out to over a hundred VCs, angels, celebrities, athletes and influenc

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This startup wants to scale anonymous mental health support – starting with founders

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Nate Tepper first went to Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) , an international program dedicated to helping people recover from alcoholism with a 12-step program, in the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic. He didn’t show his face or share his story, but says that being in the presence of vulnerability was immensely impactful. Following the recommended level of frequency for folks getting into the program, Tepper went to 30 meetings in 30 days.

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Daily Crunch: Nvidia chips become collateral damage in new US sanctions targeting China

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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. Happy Friday! For those of you excited to see us in your inbox for your daily dose of tech news, unfortunately, you will have to wait until Tuesday to hear from us again because Monday is Labor Day in the U.S. We will be out grilling, wearing white for the last time this year and snoozing in hammocks.

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