TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT , can now browse the internet — in certain cases. OpenAI today launched plugins for ChatGPT, which extend the bot’s functionality by granting it access to third-party knowledge sources and databases, including the web. Available in alpha to ChatGPT users and developers on the waitlist , OpenAI says that it’ll initially prioritize a small number of developers and subscribers to its premium ChatGPT Plus plan before rolling out larg

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CIO

MARCH 23, 2023

IT services and consultancy firm Accenture said it would lay off 19,000 staffers, or 2.5% of its workforce, over the next 18 months to reduce costs amid uncertain macroeconomic conditions. “While we continue to hire, especially to support our strategic growth priorities, during the second quarter of fiscal 2023, we initiated actions to streamline our operations and transform our non-billable corporate functions to reduce costs,” the company said in an Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Sanjay Reddy Contributor Sanjay Reddy is a co-founding partner of Unlock Venture Partners, a firm focused on early-stage technology investments in Los Angeles and Seattle. More than 102,000 workers in U.S.-based tech companies have already been laid off in mass job cuts in 2023, according to Crunchbase. Yet for early-stage startups, the outlook isn’t as bleak as the headlines make it out to be — conversely, there’s a huge opportunity for scrappy founders in a downturn.

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CIO

MARCH 23, 2023

By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax It’s high time to treat HR as every bit as important to your company’s artificial intelligence strategy as IT. Alongside all the evidence that getting your developers working on AI is good for your business, there’s mounting proof that even providing the opportunity to work on—and work with—AI has a positive effect on job satisfaction, recruitment, and retention.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

The funding environment for startups across the globe has been challenging for the past year, but some sectors are still attracting checks as if it was 2021. In Asia, one such sector appears to be the luxury fashion resale market, particularly for platforms that are seeing an uptick in users and sales. Kream , a reselling platform that lets people buy, sell and trade luxury goods like handbags, clothing and accessories, has raised a $168 million (220.6 billion won) in a Series C round that value

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Last year’s techwide 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 tumultuo

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CIO

MARCH 23, 2023

Staying in control and securing your data has never been more important! As data privacy regulations continue to evolve, businesses have had to adapt how and where they store data. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been the most newsworthy, requiring all businesses that operate in or have customers in the EU to change how they handle personal data.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

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. Hello, and welcome to your Thursday — aka, the day the TikTok CEO went in front of Congress. Our team has been working hard all day to keep up with everything going on there, and you can read the fruits of their labor in the Big Tech section.

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CIO

MARCH 23, 2023

Companies around the world are being urged to close the digital gender gap, especially after International Women’s Day. Although progress has been made, the gap remains in many countries, prompting questions about whether those in the industry are doing enough to address it. The development of new technologies has created demand for specialized workers with specific training, but women still face more challenges than men in this field due to the persistent gender gap.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

The current slowdown in e-commerce growth, and in some pockets straight declines in spend , might not seem like the most opportune time to build an e-commerce tooling startup, let alone invest in one. But a startup out of Poland with a platform for front-end developers to build composable e-commerce sites has just raised $20 million on the back of strong interest in the market.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

Imagine this: You went to a restaurant for lunch. There is a 30 min wait period and you decide to wait since you heard great things about their food. After 45 minutes, you get a table but there is no waiter in sight to request a menu card. A waiter finally comes up to you, looks disinterested in taking your order, and doesn’t even get you a water bottle.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

In emerging markets like Africa , offline channels dominate retail sales, which are often driven by informal trade and cash transactions. This makes sourcing data on markets, consumer behavior and products a herculean task. Yet, local and international brands require data about market size and value, consumer profiles and their purchasing power, and penetration of their competitors’ products to establish their presence or expand into such markets.

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Xebia

MARCH 23, 2023

This article was originally published at 47deg.com on April 13, 2021. In a previous blog post about Functional Domain Modeling in Kotlin , we discussed how we can use data class , enum class , sealed class , and inline class to describe our business domain as accurately as possible to achieve more type-safety, maximize the use of the compiler with our domain, and thus, prevent bugs and reduce unit testing.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

The natural world has produced many of our most important medicines, but instead of looking under a leaf or rock for the next big cancer drug, Pragma Bio is searching within the human body — its swarm of resident microbes, to be precise. With its novel approach and a fresh $10 million in funding, the startup hopes to embark on the first part of a 10-year plan.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 23, 2023

Vulnerability is the New Black: How to Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve (Without Getting Stains on Your Shirt) at Work “Hey Karin, I’ve read the research on being vulnerable, I’ve listened to Brenè Brown and all that stuff…I’ve watched some of your “Asking for a Friend” videos on authenticity. I believe it CONCEPTUALLY, but it’s NOT MY JAM.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Workera , an upskilling platform geared toward enterprise customers, today announced that it raised $23.5 million in a Series B round led by Jump Capital with participation from existing investors NEA, Owl Ventures, the AI Fund and Sozo Ventures. The company’s CEO, Kian Katanforoosh, says that the fresh capital will be put toward expanding its product offerings and growing the size of its developer team.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 23, 2023

GraphQL is an open source query language developed by Facebook that provides a more efficient, powerful and flexible alternative to traditional REST APIs for fetching and manipulating data over the web. It allows clients to specify the shape and structure of the data they need and receive exactly that, no more and no less. Unlike […] The post GraphQL Documentation Generators: How They Work and Why They Matter appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Many companies are struggling to get funding these days in an increasingly tight investment environment. It seems the days are gone when VC firms approach promising startups about funding instead of the other way around, but Hex , a data collaboration startup, has defied the odds. Company co-founder and CEO Barry McCardel says he wasn’t looking for funding when Sequoia came knocking on his door.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 23, 2023

Data is the currency of business in today’s digital economy, with organizations collecting mountains of data from their customers, products and services. Enterprises are increasingly turning to data warehouses to store this valuable enterprise data and to make it useful and actionable. Data APIs–both GraphQL and REST–are emerging as a tool to power frictionless and […] The post Data APIs: Realizing the Future of Data Warehousing appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Indian edtech giant Byju’s said on Thursday the firm and any of its subsidiaries are not engaging with rival Unacademy to explore an acquisition or merger, refuting a media report at a time when weakening global market conditions have sparked several consolidation plays in the industry. Indian news outlet MoneyControl reported earlier that Byju’s physical tutor unit Aakash is in talks to acquire Unacademy.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 23, 2023

Dylibso today made generally available a system of record for tracking, investigating, searching and validating modules built using the WebAssembly (Wasm) binary instruction format. Fresh from raising $6.6 million in additional funding, Dylibso CEO Steve Manuel said Modsurfer exposes the internal contents to enable developers to debug Wasm modules and ensure compatibility with runtime environments. […] The post Dylibso Releases Tool for Tracking and Validating Wasm Modules appeared first o

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TechBeacon

MARCH 23, 2023

Penetration testing is a critical cybersecurity and compliance tool, but it's one that is greatly misunderstood. With so many different implementations and uses of pen tests, the term can be more confusing than illuminating.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 23, 2023

A survey of senior IT leaders suggested the level of confidence in application modernization projects that many organizations initially had is now starting to wane. The survey polled 200 senior IT leaders at organizations with more 1,000 employees and was conducted by Global Surveyz Research on behalf of EvolveWare, a provider of platform for automating […] The post Survey Surfaces Application Modernization Challenges appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Openxcell

MARCH 23, 2023

Earlier humans were the only ones who had the potential to learn from their past experiences. But with technological progress, machines also evolved their competency to learn from experiences. This buzz about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning must have amused an average person. But knowingly or unknowingly, directly or indirectly, we are using Machine Learning in our real lives.

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Perficient

MARCH 23, 2023

Real-time data processing is a critical need for modern-day businesses. It involves processing data as soon as it is generated to derive insights and take immediate actions. Databricks Streaming and Apache Flink are two popular stream processing frameworks that enable developers to build real-time data pipelines, applications and services at scale. In this article, we will compare Databricks Streaming and Apache Flink to understand the underlying architecture, performance, scalability, latency a

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Dell EMC

MARCH 23, 2023

Whether it’s hybrid, remote, flexible or in-office, how we work and where it happens today is different for everyone.

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Dzone - DevOps

MARCH 23, 2023

Security in one's information system has always been among the most critical non-functional requirements. Transport Layer Security, aka TLS and formerly SSL, is among its many pillars. In this post, I'll show how to configure TLS for the Apache APISIX API Gateway.

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Palo Alto Networks

MARCH 23, 2023

Today’s ransomware gangs are constantly evolving their tactics to pressure organizations to pay ransoms. These tactics often use multi-extortion techniques. Based on extensive research from the Unit 42 threat intelligence and response teams, the 2023 Unit 42 Ransomware and Extortion Report exposes how active ransomware groups are increasing the pressure on targeted organizations.

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