Mon.Oct 18, 2021

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TripleBlind secures $24M for a new approach to enterprise-level, privacy-preserving data sharing

TechCrunch

Organizations that have made the leap into using big data to drive their business are increasingly looking for better, more efficient ways to share data with others without compromising privacy and data protection laws, and that is ushering in a rush of technologists building a number of new approaches to fill that need. In the latest development, a startup called TripleBlind — which has devised a way to encrypt data so that it can be shared without ever being decrypted or even leaving the

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Humans and AI: Bargaining Power

DataRobot

I have a confession to make—I’m a back-seat driver! When sitting in a taxi, I can’t help but grumble when the ride isn’t smooth, or the driver chooses the slowest lane of traffic. I have to fight the urge to take control. When it comes to shopping, I passively accept what is offered for sale. But my wife, who grew up in Asia where haggling is part of the culture, is different.

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With customers like Coinbase and Shopify, remote hiring startup Deel raises $425M at a $5.5B valuation

TechCrunch

As more people continue to work remotely, organizations globally have had to adjust — particularly when it comes to onboarding new employees and figuring out how to pay them, in some cases, across borders. As a result, Deel — a San Francisco-based startup which provides payroll, compliance tools and other services to help businesses hire remotely — has seen a massive surge in demand.

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Ransomware's evolution: 6 key trends to watch

TechBeacon

Ransomware has become a global menace, that costs organizations billions of dollars in extortion payments, and even more in downtime. The NCC Group reported a 288% increase in ransomware attacks from the first quarter to the second quarter of this year, due in part to the shift to remote work.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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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OfficeRnD, a SaaS for managing hybrid workplaces, grabs $10M

TechCrunch

The decentralized reality of office work after the COVID-19 pandemic continues to drive plenty of startup activity. To wit: OfficeRnD , which makes workplace management software that’s increasingly geared toward helping businesses provide a “hybrid office” model — meaning they’re offering flexible work spaces to staff who want to spend some of their time working out of a shared physical location, not just dial in and work remotely from home.

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Aiven snags $60M investment on $2B valuation, up from $800M in March

TechCrunch

Aiven , a Finnish startup that helps companies combine various open source technologies with public cloud infrastructure resources, announced a $60 million investment on a $2 billion valuation today. The news follows a $100 million investment in March at an $800 million valuation, a hefty increase in such a short time. World Innovation Labs and IVP co-led the round with participation from Atomico — all existing investors.

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Our 2021 Data Impact Awards Finalists

Cloudera

It’s that time of year again… Award season! We are thrilled to announce the finalists of the 2021 Data Impact Awards. This year’s entrants have excelled at demonstrating how innovative data solutions can help solve real-time challenges and positively impact people around the world. . The entries are some of the most remarkable we’ve seen, giving our judges the tough task of selecting an award worthy shortlist.

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Limbix releases clinical trial data on a self-guided mental health app for teens

TechCrunch

In October, Limbix, a company creating digital therapeutics for adolescents, released data from a trial on its new product: SparkRx. SparkRx is a self-guided therapy program for teens run entirely on a phone. . Limbix was founded in 2016, and has about 30 employees, with plans to add 30 more by the second quarter of 2022. So far the company has raised $9 million in Series A funding, which closed in May 2020.

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Welcome to the New Field of Software Supply Chain Management

DevOps.com

Supply chain management is the newest ‘shiny object’ in both the DevOps and DevSecOps communities. But what does it mean in relation to software development? Historically, supply chain management is a commerce term that refers to tracking the logistics of goods and services moving between producer and consumer. This would include the storage and flow […].

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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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Challenger bank N26 raises $900 million at $9 billion valuation

TechCrunch

Fintech startup N26 has raised a $900 million Series E round at a $9 billion valuation. That represents a big jump from the company’s Series D valuation of $3.5 billion. The Berlin-based startup operates a digital bank with 7 million clients across 25 countries. Third Point Ventures and Coatue Management are leading today’s round. Dragoneer Investment Group and some of N26’s existing investors are also participating.

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Making Process Work Intrinsically Valuable

BPM

Every two years APQC conducts a survey that explores process frameworks. Overall, the applications and implementation of frameworks is static. There is an array of ways that organizations use process frameworks. But typically, they use a framework to help them understand and codify their processes—usually to create standardization and a common understanding of what each process means.

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Scribe launches knowledge-capturing software that gets employees on the same page

TechCrunch

Employees come and go, often taking their knowledge with them. There are also times when just a handful of employees know how to do something and don’t have time to provide a mass tutorial. That’s where Scribe comes in. Its software records movement and clicks and converts them into a step-by-step guide in less than a minute with screenshots and text that is editable and shareable.

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What Is Mature MLOps? A Perspective

Dataiku

On a recent webinar with Jim Kobelius of TDWI (that you can watch below), we talked about mature MLOps. You can watch our presentations, but I thought it would be helpful to summarize some of the concepts based on over ten years working with machine learning and, over the last three and a half years, specifically focusing on MLOps.

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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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Deep tech startups in need of funding should consider federal grants

TechCrunch

Xipeng Shen. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Xipeng Shen is a professor at North Carolina State University and ACM Distinguished Member, focusing on system software and machine learning research. He is a co-founder and CTO of CoCoPIE LLC. Our team of researchers started CoCoPIE to solve the chip shortage crisis. We’re a group of Ph.D.s who aim to power next-generation technology without the need for expensive hardware that takes billions of dollars to develop and years to deploy.

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4 Signs Your Cloud Cost Strategy Isn’t Working (And How To Fix It)

CloudZero

Flexibility is one of the cloud’s biggest benefits, but also one of its biggest challenges. When you have different teams using resources in the cloud and deploying instances at the click of a button, your cloud environment could easily become chaotic. Without a definitive plan governing your cloud operations, your costs will inevitably spiral out of control.

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Inside Expensify’s IPO filing

TechCrunch

Expensify filed to go public late last Friday, adding its name to the growing roster of technology companies looking to list during this period of hot valuations and strong recent debuts. GitLab, for example, went public last week. The devops giant raised its price range, priced above that interval , and then shot higher once shares began to trade. It’s a great time to go public for tech companies with growth stories.

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Splunk Donates eBPF Telemetry Data Collector to CNCF

DevOps.com

Splunk Inc. announced during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference that it donated a data collector to the OpenTelemetry project run by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Splunk’s data collector runs as a sandbox-level program at the kernel of a Linux operating system and takes advantage of extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) technology […].

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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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Builder.io aims to make developers happy with its no-code approach to digital storefronts

TechCrunch

Any e-commerce business has to constantly change its digital storefront to ensure accurate inventory is represented. But to launch a new product or test a homepage placement often requires the need to tap busy developers for guidance, slowing down the process. Builder.io believes customers should be able to create the kinds of commerce experiences they want, like a drag-and-drop system, that they could plug into their tech stock without that developer support.

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Creating a New Normal? Try a Human Approach.

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

People are more likely to embrace organizational change when their leaders show them empathy. Today’s guest post is by Zina Sutch and Patrick Malone, the authors of Leading with Love and Laughter: Letting Go and Getting Real at Work (CLICK HERE to get your copy). There’s no doubt about it, organizational change can be frightening. Yet – change is constant and it is imperative that organizations continue to evolve in order to meet the complex challenges of a modern world.

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Crossing Minds brings in new capital to provide recommendations that don’t require identifiable information

TechCrunch

Most of our media and shopping worlds involve the little boxes below what we are looking at that offer up other shows to watch or items to buy that are either similar or that other people also bought. Consumers also have expectations that websites will be more personalized, which means that websites need to know something about you in order to show you things you want to see.

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Kafka Connect and Elasticsearch vs. PostgreSQL Pipelines: Final Performance Results (Pipeline Series Part 9)

Instaclustr

In Part 6 and Part 7 of the pipeline series we took a different path in the pipe/tunnel and explored PostgreSQL and Apache Superset, mainly from a functional perspective—how can you get JSON data into PostgreSQL from Kafka Connect, and what does it look like in Superset. In Part 8 , we ran some initial load tests and found out how the capacity of the original Elasticsearch pipeline compared with the PostgreSQL variant.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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Leveraging customer feedback and data to iterate on your product

TechCrunch

How to iterate on product has always been one of the top concerns at startups. But while they previously had to rely solely on customer feedback and instincts, they now also have a trove of data to balance. This dynamic creates new opportunities but also requires a new kind of arbitrage. We discussed this new context during TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 in a panel conversation with Jean-Denis Grèze of Plaid, Stephanie Mencarelli of InVision and Pete Thompson of eBay.

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Harvester: Nation-state-backed group uses new toolset to target victims in South Asia

Symantec

Previously unseen attack group targets victims in the IT, telecoms, and government sectors in espionage campaign.

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Equity Monday: Welcome to bigtech hardware week

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets.

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Delivering AI at the Edge

Dell EMC

Living on the edge is not recommended for most, but when data resides there and insightful actions are needed fast, there’s no other place to be.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Save 25% with TechCrunch+ Group Membership

TechCrunch

We’re excited to announce Group Membership for TechCrunch+. The feature allows you to easily manage seats and payments for your team through a self-service interface. If your team joins through Group Membership, you’ll also save 25% or more on annual pricing. You must have at least 5 users to take advantage of Group Membership. TechCrunch+ Group Membership can be found here.

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Top 10 Spring Security best practices for Java developers

Synopsys

Spring Security enables developers to build secure Spring applications. Get started with our top 10 Spring Security best practices. The post Top 10 Spring Security best practices for Java developers appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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What you should know about prepping your startup for the public markets

TechCrunch

It’s been an active four quarters for technology IPOs. If you rewind the clock to Q4 2020, we’ve seen megawatt public debuts from tech shops of all sorts. Airbnb recovered from COVID-19-induced lows to list, while Roblox delayed its IPO and went out with a direct listing. DoorDash went public. C3.ai had an explosive offering late last year as well.

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