TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Revel , an NFT or “social collectibles” platform, raised $7.8 million in seed financing led by Dragonfly Capital, the startup’s CEO, Adi Sideman, exclusively told TechCrunch. “One way to describe Revel is a cross between Instagram and Robinhood, wrapped in social game economics,” Sideman said. Instagram is known as a social media platform while Robinhood is known as an investing and trading platform.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2022

By Chet Kapoor, Chairman & CEO of DataStax Enterprises have been talking about digital transformation for quite a while. It’s about rethinking how we use technology to drive new or improved strategy, people, and operations to meet changing business and customer needs. But what does digital transformation mean for the CIO? How has their role evolved through the three stages of transformation, and what does this mean for the future?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Viva Republica, an operator of South Korean finance super app Toss , has finalized a $405 million Series G funding and it says it is now valued at 9.1 trillion won ( $7 billion), up from 8.5 trillion won in June 2021, when it raised $410 million in pre-Series G funding at a $7.4 billion (8.5 trillion won) valuation. (South Korea’s currency has depreciated against the dollar this year.).

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The all-encompassing digital workplace platform Work as we know it has changed in the past few years coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Communications and collaboration technology were critical to that shift. As a result, we have witnessed the evolution of communications and collaboration suites to UCaaS platforms that are now evolving into fuller all-encompassing digital workplace platforms with deeper integration with CCaaS and strategic lines of business applications.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The bad blood between tech boot camp MyTechBestfriend and many of its former students is anything but finished, according to nearly a dozen people who spoke to TechCrunch. In November, TechCrunch detailed the fallout between Mary Awodele, the founder of the Texas-based MTBF, and her students. Students accused Awodele of bullying and harassment while alleging that the MTBF program, which cost up to $6,000, consisted of plagiarized courses that could be found online for a more affordable price.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

A few bright spots remain in the autonomous vehicle industry even amid macroeconomic headwinds that have nearly shut off the spigot of venture capital and led to further consolidation. Helm.ai, a startup developing software designed for advanced driver assistance systems, autonomous driving and robotics, is one of them. The Menlo Park, California-based startup recently raised $31 million in a Series C round led by Freeman Group, just one year after it snagged $26 million in venture funding.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Indeed it’s true that 2020 was a tough year for the whole world to handle. However, the adverse effect of the pandemic also created new opportunities for people. It changed the way companies work. Remote working suddenly became the talk of the town. Even after the pandemic, the craze of remote working only kept growing. There are plenty of benefits and flexibility that remote work provides employees and companies with.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 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. December is getting long in the tooth, there’s Christmas music on every radio station, and the poinsettias are in full bloom. It looks like the year is getting close to the end, and we, for two, are perfectly happy to see the back of it.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 19, 2022

DevSecOps is a software development methodology that merges development (Dev), security (Sec) and operations (Ops) into one team that integrates security throughout the entire software development life cycle (SDLC). The goal is to deliver high-quality applications quickly and securely. The traditional software development life cycle introduces security in the late phases of the SDLC.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Ever needed to read your credit card information on the phone to make a massage appointment? The process is annoying, and it makes you wonder how safe it is to give a stranger your personal details. That’s why Los Angeles-based Mangomint built a SaaS tool that strives to streamline the booking experience for the beauty industry, which includes everything from spas and massage parlors to piercing and tattoo studios.

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Lacework

DECEMBER 19, 2022

G2 has once again named Lacework as a G2 Leader in five categories and awarded 16 badges in the G2 Winter Reports. We are grateful to our customers for sharing their reviews showcasing their experience with the Lacework® Polygraph® Data Platform. It’s a great way to launch the New Year. Helping our customers navigate the complexities of the cloud is our passion.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Christopher P. Willis. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Christopher P. Willis is the chief marketing and pipeline officer at Acrolinx and has over 20 years of experience growing companies in the technology sector. Content is the core of customer experience. A company’s product or service can be phenomenal, but if the enterprise content — marketing, messaging, customer service communications, product documentation or even brand voice and style — is poorly written or unfocused, you’ll have a difficu

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Dzone - DevOps

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This article explains how to build a secure platform using HashiCorp’s stack; many of the steps are well documented, but we missed hints to iron out the wrinkles found in the process; here, we want to show how to glue together the whole procedure. We will highlight in detail the most critical parts explaining where we found issues and how we solved them, and leave references on the official tutorials, if sufficient, to prevent this article from getting too long and difficult to follow.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

“Passion investments” can sound like an oxymoron: What do feelings have to do with optimal returns? Yet, from art and cars to StockX , collectibles are a fixture in rich people’s portfolios. Not wanting to put all eggs in one basket is not a new impulse. But while it is easily forgotten in good times, a recession is a great recipe to put diversification back on the agenda.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Organizations of all sizes are feeling the pressure to introduce more aggressive sustainability measures to combat climate change. For example, most cloud service providers have announced significant climate pledges to either reduce or offset their carbon emissions. But these initiatives can only go far to move the needle—it’s up to individual companies and departments to […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Though inflation appears to be dropping, economic conditions remain uncertain, and the overall fundraising climate is reverting to pre-pandemic levels. For Black founders, who have rarely received more than 1% of total venture capital invested in startups, 2022 wasn’t kind, and 2023 doesn’t look promising given how things are going. To find out how Black founders are planning to manage their time, money, and expectations for the upcoming months, TechCrunch+ surveyed three founders.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It’s safe to say our colleagues around the globe are committed to giving back to the communities in which they live and work. So much so, that we even have a dedicated Perficient Giving Employee Resource Group , which aims to make an individual and collective impact on the world. From volunteering at local food banks , teaching the next generation of AI leaders , or collectively raising over $10,000 for animals in need , you can count on our colleagues to make an impact in their communitie

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Life as a startup founder is never dull. That’s doubly true for Black founders, who routinely struggle to raise funds, be noticed and get their fair share of attention. For the new year, TechCrunch+ conducted a mini-survey to found out what Black founders are expecting in 2023. All three founders brought up the same concerns — the economy, the environment, and equality.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 19, 2022

A Retrospective: Santa’s Big Leadership and Culture Change. Is there anyone more beloved than Santa Claus? Today, the North Pole is a paragon of human-centered leadership and culture. But it wasn’t always that way. In fact, Santa has a lot to teach us about leadership. You might have a fantastic personal brand and a world-renown altruistic mission, but that doesn’t mean you can ignore your leadership and culture.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Rezilion has updated its open source MI-X vulnerability discovery tool to include mitigation and remediation recommendations. In addition, the tool can now produce machine-readable output in either a JSON or CSV format. Finally, the company added Windows support for Heartbleed and SpookySSL vulnerabilities in Windows environments. MI-X makes it possible to use a command line […].

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Netlify

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Insights from the Jamstack Community Survey data show us what trends are evolving for frontend web developers in 2023.

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CEO Insider

DECEMBER 19, 2022

There’s conflict in change. And right now, we’re going through a large change, composed of many smaller transitions. Whether we’re talking about national politics, social and economic models, individuals or companies, so much of our world is in transition…and conflict. When trying to better understand how these transitions and conflicts work, I find the 3 […].

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Dataiku

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For all the talk about how AI is the future of data management, it can sometimes be hard to keep things in perspective. Yes, the future is bright; but it won’t arrive on its own. From industry to industry, and from company to company, everyone from data scientists to IT managers to line-of-business managers needs to be aligned on what it will take to turn that future into a reality.

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MagmaLabs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Digital Era, a Competitive One. The digital era is a competitive one for a number of reasons. One of the main is that the internet has made it easier for businesses to reach a global audience, which means that there is more competition for customers. Additionally, the proliferation of technology has made it easier for startups to enter the market.

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The Daily WTF

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Conditionals are hard. So are data structures. And today's anonymous submission gives us both of those. var myParent = this.Parent; bool parentRemoved = false ; if (myParent is SomeClass asSomeClass) { myParent = myParent.Parent; myParent.Children.Remove(asSomeClass); parentRemoved = true ; } if (!parentRemoved) { myParent.Children.Remove( this ); }.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Leadership Driven Method to Performance Management can help senior leaders in the public and not-for-profit sectors make informed decisions and meet their strategic goals. . Today’s post is by Bryan Shane and Patricia Lafferty, authors of THE LEADERSHIP-DRIVEN METHOD TO PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT: The How-To Book on Improving Performance Measurement In The Public And Not-For-Profit Sectors (CLICK HERE to get your copy).

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Joel on Software

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents published on the web are in HTML. HTML has a little bit of structure, for example, “here is a paragraph” or “emphasize this word.” Then you stir in some CSS, which adds some pretty decorations to the structure, saying things like: make those paragraphs have tiny gray sans-serif text!

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Toptal

DECEMBER 19, 2022

SolidJS is a blazing-fast framework that dodges virtual DOM manipulation. Let’s see how it compares to React, the industry standard, when it comes to components, performance, and developer productivity.

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