TechCrunch
DECEMBER 30, 2022
The biggest news last week wasn’t another of Elon Musk’s Twitter tantrums, but the announcement that scientists had finally cracked one of fusion power’s biggest challenges — successfully getting more energy out of a controlled fusion reaction than they had put in. Fusion power, which has always seemed like science fiction and just about as plausible, suddenly took a very tangible step toward reality.
CIO
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Covid-19 had an instant impact on London’s West End, and the Royal Opera House (ROH) was no exception. In March 2020, the company took the decision to close the building in Covent Garden and approximately 163 shows were cancelled in the first year of the pandemic. So when James Whitebread joined in June 2021, he could’ve been forgiven for wondering what kind of future lay ahead.
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 30, 2022
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. Welcome back to your daily digest of TechCrunch goodness. It is my last day with you (you’re welcome!), so Christine will be back in the Daily Crunch seat on Tuesday. Haje will not be back just yet because he is heading to Vegas as part of the team covering CES.
Xebia
DECEMBER 30, 2022
The AWS Transfer Server provides a SFTP as a service. If you want to migrate from an existing SFTP server, you can add your own host keys. Unfortunately, host keys are not supported with Cloudformation. This custom provider add host keys and allows you to define the set of active keys of the server. Add transfer server host key To add a Transfer Server host key in your AWS CloudFormation template, use the following syntax: TransferServerHostKey: Type: Custom::TransferServerHostKey Properties: Se
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Securing funding is a stressful endeavor, but it doesn’t have to be. We recently sat down with three VCs to figure out the best way to go about spinning up an investing network from scratch and negotiating the first term sheet. Earlier this week, we featured the first part of that conversation with James Norman of Black Operator Ventures, Mandela Schumacher-Hodge Dixon of AllRaise and Kevin Liu of both Techstars and Uncharted Ventures.
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Despite, well, everything, the U.S. is still the best place in the world for Black startup founders to raise money. The check sizes are bigger, the market more mature, the ambition oversized. There are more funds, more options, more opportunities, more, more, more. It’s quite easy to harp on the dismal funding and often discriminatory treatment that Black founders receive in the U.S.
David Walsh
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Reacting to events with JavaScript is the foundation of a dynamic experiences on the web. Whether it’s a click event or another typical action, responding to that action is important. We started with assigning events to specific elements, then moved to event delegation for efficiency, but did you know you can identify elements by position on the page?
CloudZero
DECEMBER 30, 2022
As technology improves and customer demands change, many companies must provide fast, engaging, and secure services. Developers rely on platforms that support sub-millisecond response times to power these capabilities in their applications.
Perficient
DECEMBER 30, 2022
As organizations look toward their next Sitecore upgrade, many will be considering the implications of moving to XM Cloud. For their marketing teams, a big question is going to be how that will affect their personalization strategies. Will they have to invest in CDP and Personalize or will the embedded out of the box personalization and testing capabilities offered within XM Cloud be sufficient to at least get them started on the new platform?
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IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d
Dataiku
DECEMBER 30, 2022
“First, we need clean and centralized data” is probably the one sentence responsible for the most failures of large-scale data initiatives (close second to “we’ll figure out how to deploy once we have models”). In helping organizations around the globe set up and implement their data science and AI strategies, we often hear teams say that they’re waiting to figure out their data first before beginning to generate value with advanced analytics and AI — whether they’re referring to data quality, d
Perficient
DECEMBER 30, 2022
2023 is almost here! New goals, new projects, and technological advancements are right around the corner. But before we look forward, we should reflect on the past year. There has been some great insight posted by my Perficient colleagues that can be great resources for managers, analysts, and administrators within the Enterprise Management Performance space.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Ten picks from one of HBR’s most popular newsletters.
Kaseya
DECEMBER 30, 2022
When there are signs and symptoms of a potential economic downturn, many business leaders struggle to make budgetary decisions. In some cases, it could mean tightening the purse strings for certain business departments. . When there are signs that the economy may be slowing, marketing is one area that managed service providers (MSPs) and other business leaders may want to consider doubling down on.
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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.
Capgemini
DECEMBER 30, 2022
AWS for advertising and marketing helps Capgemini deliver innovative advertising solutions Neerav Vyas 30 Dec 2022. The changing privacy and marketing technology landscape continues to create more uncertainty in measuring marketing ROI. Coupled with the deprecation of cookie-based ad technology, advertisers will no longer be able to target, re-target, model, and analyze campaign performance to make informed decisions – unless they future-proof their systems and processes.
Successful Software
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Easy Data Transform and Hyper Plan Professional edition are both on sale for 25% off at Winterfest 2022. So now might be a good time to give them a try (both have free trials). There is also some other great products from other small vendors on sale, including Tinderbox, Scrivener and Devonthink. Some of the software is Mac only, but Easy Data Transform and Hyper Plan are available for both Mac and Windows (one license covers both OSs).
Altexsoft
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Online travel agencies or OTAs earn most of their money on distribution services. They help hotels, airlines, car rental services, and other suppliers sell inventory to end customers — and charge fees for this mediation. Though the business scheme is quite straightforward, the same can’t be said for the financial calculations behind it. A big effort needs to be put into setting and finetuning profitable prices.
Strategy Driven
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Security is crucial for commercial business premises. Even if the business is located in a low-crime area, it is important to secure the premises out of hours, and if you operate in a sensitive field, 24/7 security might be needed. There are lots of options to consider, depending on how much security you need. Read on for a guide to the main things to look at.
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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.
Dzone - DevOps
DECEMBER 30, 2022
DevOps, as initially conceived, was more of a philosophy than a set of practices—and it certainly wasn't intended to be a job title or a role spec. Yet today, DevOps engineers, site reliability engineers, cloud engineers, and platform engineers are all in high demand—with overlapping skillsets and with recruiters peppering role descriptions with liberal sprinklings of loosely related keywords such as "CI/CD pipeline," "deployment engineering," "cloud provisioning," and "Kubernetes.
Gitprime
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Cloud-native enterprises are organizations using the benefits of the cloud to innovate and improve apps faster and more efficiently than ever before.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Generative AI is coming for videos. A new website, QuickVid , combines several generative AI systems into a single tool for automatically creating short-form YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat videos. Given as little as a single word, QuickVid chooses a background video from a library, writes a script and keywords, overlays images generated by DALL-E 2 and adds a synthetic voiceover and background music from YouTube’s royalty-free music library.
Mobilunity
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Did you know that cyberattacks and breaches affect thousands of businesses every year? Major breaches have affected even large businesses such as Facebook, and Yahoo. As a result, it’s critical to know that your data and computers are safe. If you have an IT team, keep in mind that they don’t always have time to conduct a comprehensive cybersecurity assessment because they are already overwhelmed with day-to-day tasks.
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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
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Lukas Gentele. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Lukas Gentele is the CEO of Loft Labs , which builds open source developer tooling for Kubernetes. Kubernetes is a wonderful but complex software that can present significant “Day Two” challenges when put into production. Developers who are new to Kubernetes — and most are — face a large knowledge gap when they look to sustain and optimize Kubernetes clusters.
Tenable
DECEMBER 30, 2022
As 2022 ends, we highlight important data points that shine a light on the trends, challenges and best practices that matter to cybersecurity leaders eager to boost their exposure management and reduce their organizations’ cyber risk. . Dive into six illuminating cybersecurity research findings of 2022. 1 – Log4J’s Log4Shell: Emblematic of VM complexities .
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