Wed.Nov 30, 2022

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CIO Carissa Rollins reimagines Illumina IT for business impact

CIO

Seemingly since the beginning of time, CIOs have been working to change their IT organizations from “order takers” into “business partners.” They have established business relationship management functions , developed “we are the business” rallying cries, and built leadership development programs emphasizing influence, courage, and business acumen. These efforts have had a positive impact, but an incremental one.

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ResortPass, backed by Jessica Alba and Gwyneth Paltrow, lands $26M so you can take a daycation

TechCrunch

Have you ever looked longingly at the website of a posh hotel or resort and thought, “Man, I wish I could hang out there.”. Well, thanks to startup ResortPass , that might not be as out of reach as you might think. The six-year-old company gives people the option to purchase day passes to more than 900 hotels and resorts — think Ritz Carlton, Four Seasons, W Hotels, Hyatt Hotels, Fairmont and Westin — around the world.

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What the expanding role of the CIO means to Lenovo’s Arthur Hu

CIO

Global PC manufacturer Lenovo has upward of 70,000 employees worldwide, delivering round-the-clock IT services, and Arthur Hu, the company’s SVP and global CIO—and as of April 2022, also the Services & Solutions Group CTO—is in a constant state of getting the most out of related teams, management and himself to cement partnerships, and achieve optimum performance.

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Natives Rising wins backing to help Native Americans into tech and startups

TechCrunch

According to the National Center for Education Statistics , Black, Latina, and Native American women represent approximately 16 percent of the total US population, but make up only 4 percent of students obtaining bachelor’s degrees in computing. On this trend, women of color receiving computing degrees will not double until 2052 — by which time they would be an even smaller proportion of all graduates.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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Make Smarter Enterprise Purchasing Decisions With Continuous Monitoring Tools

CIO

Companies today face disruptions and business risks the likes of which haven’t been seen in decades. The enterprises that ultimately succeed are the ones that have built up resilience. To be truly resilient, an organization must be able to continuously gather data from diverse sources, correlate it, draw accurate conclusions, and in near-real time trigger appropriate actions.

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CIO Leadership Live with Ty Tastepe, CIO at Cedar Fair Entertainment

CIO

Ty Tastepe, CIO at Cedar Fair Entertainment, joins host Maryfran Johnson for this CIO Leadership Live interview, jointly produced by CIO.com and the CIO Executive Council. They discuss digitizing guest experiences, data-driven pricing decisions, innovation partnerships and more.

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Indian agritech DeHaat tops $700 million valuation in $60 million funding

TechCrunch

DeHaat, a startup that offers a wide-range of agricultural services to farmers in India , has raised $60 million in a new funding round as it looks to deepen its penetration in the country and reach break-even profitability within two years. Sofina Ventures and Temasek co-led the Patna and Gurgaon-headquartered startup’s Series E funding, it said, at a valuation between $700 million and $800 million, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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Importance Of Online Proctoring In University Hiring

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

What is online proctoring? Online proctoring is a way to administer exams remotely using a computer and webcam. The proctor (a person who supervises an exam) can watch and listen to the exam taker and even record the session. Some online proctoring services also use biometric data (fingerprints, iris scans) to verify the identity of the person taking the exam.

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Airbnb is helping find renters an apartment so they can Airbnb it

TechCrunch

Airbnb really wants you to Airbnb an apartment. So its latest step is to find renters a place, which they can also list on the travel booking platform. Today, the company introduced a new program called “Airbnb-friendly apartments” in the U.S. It allows renters to find an apartment in more than 25 markets — including Austin, Houston, Phoenix, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Miami, San Diego, Sacramento and Tampa — where they can Airbnb a spare room, or the whole apartment while they’

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

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

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Implementing Shift Left Security in the Cloud

DevOps.com

While ransomware has been the leading concern for enterprise security teams over the few past years, software vulnerabilities are nipping at its heels. The boom in cloud-based apps and services and increased digitization of work have been a boon for hackers, who are taking advantage of developers’ and DevOps teams’ attempts to work faster and […].

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SBF claims massive ignorance on obvious conflicts in FTX downfall

TechCrunch

“I didn’t ever try to commit fraud on anyone, I was shocked by what happened this month,” Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the founder and former chief executive of the fallen FTX, said at The New York Times’ annual DealBook summit in an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin. One of the biggest questions around this debacle is if there was any misuse of funds between Alameda and FTX.

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Stream Processing, CEP, Event Sourcing, and Data Streaming Explained

Confluent

What is stream processing, or complex event processing (CEP), and how does it work? Learn about real-time data and event stream analytics in this tutorial.

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Here’s your chance to show off your expertise at TechCrunch’s founder summit

TechCrunch

Do you have what it takes to present at TechCrunch Early Stage on April 20 in Boston, Massachusetts? We’re looking for trendsetting, game-changing, later-stage startup founders and ecosystem experts — of every stripe — to apply for the opportunity to share their hard-won expertise at our annual founder summit. An entrepreneurial bootcamp experience, TC Early Stage connects people in the beginning or early stages of their startup journey with top industry experts for hands-on training.

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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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CodeSOD: Common Variables

The Daily WTF

It's important to be prepared- but not too prepared. A common trap developers fall into is "premature abstraction"- trying to solve the general case of a problem when you only need to solve a very specific case. Frequent contributor Argle sends us some very old BASIC code. The task was to convert this ancient language into C#. Someone decided that, instead of waiting to learn specifically what variables they'd eventually need, they'd just declare all the variables they could

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CommonGround raises $25M for immersive video avatar technology that doesn’t rely on VR gear

TechCrunch

The trials and tribulations that a giant company like Meta (née Facebook) has been facing in overcoming skepticism , creating user interest (let alone revenue) and building quality experiences for its all-in metaverse vision highlights just how much work lies ahead for any company working in mixed reality. Today, a startup in that bigger ecosystem, which believes it can fix one aspect of how this works — how we ourselves appear — is announcing some funding along with a beta of its li

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Faster and Better Testing?

DevOps.com

The whole concept of Agile and DevOps was to iterate development faster and deliver results in a more timely manner. As we learned more about both methodologies, processes and policies were put into place that improved the quality of what was created. Early ideas of quality like, “We can just do another iteration,” still exist, […].

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Frequent conflict is a new requirement for startup leaders

TechCrunch

Tech has a homogeneity problem. Karla Monterroso — a longtime leadership coach, racial equity advocate and the founder of Brava Leaders — jumped on Equity last week to talk about how that issue was complicated by a bull cycle that saw power in visionary pitches — something now tested by a bear market in which talent is constantly turning over and founders have to make critical decisions with second- and third-order effects.

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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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CyRC Vulnerability Advisory: Remote code execution vulnerabilities in mouse and keyboard apps

Synopsys

CVE-2022-45477, CVE-2022-45478, CVE-2022-45479, CVE-2022-45480, CVE-2022-45481, CVE-2022-45482, CVE-2022-45483 are remote code execution vulnerabilities in three popular mouse and keyboard apps. Overview The Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC) has exposed multiple vulnerabilities in three applications that enable an Android device to be used as a remote keyboard and mouse for their computers.

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Spend management platform Teampay expands partnership with Mastercard, raises $47M

TechCrunch

In 2016, Andrew Hoag, formerly a senior manager at Verisign and a web project lead at NASA’s Ames Research Center, founded Teampay , a platform that attempts to automate the software purchasing process for companies. Hoag’s insight was that the way businesses spend money is changing, particularly as they embraced digital transformation , and that visibility into — and control over — spend was becoming increasingly important with the economy’s ups and downs.

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Testing React components with Cypress

CircleCI

This tutorial covers: Creating and setting up a React application. Using Cypress to test React components. Automating component testing for React. Components are reusable bits of code that, most of the time, work and function independently. If you want to be confident that components are working properly, you need to test them. Conveniently, Cypress.io has designed their testing framework to include component testing.

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StartupOS launches what it hopes will be the operating system for early-stage startups

TechCrunch

Running a startup can be a chaotic time; a million things need to be built, done, tracked, analyzed, considered, reported and validated. Keeping an overview of it all can be hard, and there’s always a threat of something (maybe something important?!) slipping through the cracks. StartupOS today launched a platform to bring some sanity to it all in a bid to help founders stay on track.

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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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Improving Incident Management with Automation

xmatters

Incident management is your organization’s first line of defense. When incidents occur, internal teams must be ready to respond quickly. While incidents can happen anytime, it’s unrealistic to expect incident managers to be prepared to perform manual root cause analysis. Manually monitoring and analyzing applications on multiple servers is extremely difficult, which is why human reaction times have traditionally limited the speed of incident management.

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Daily Crunch: Music fans revisit their year in music with Spotify Wrapped 2022

TechCrunch

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. Heeeeeey! Couple of fun things we have in the pipeline at the moment…. Did you know we’re looking for you and your expertise for our TechCrunch founder summit ? Join us for a free, one-hour webinar on Thursday, December 8 and learn about “Building a Compensation Plan for Better Retention,” where we’re talking with two of the top folks at BambooHR, who’ll be offerin

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Teradata Recognized as a Designated Member of the Amazon SageMaker Ready Program

Teradata

Teradata has joined the Amazon SageMaker Ready Program which differentiates Teradata as an AWS Partner Network member with a product that works with Amazon SageMaker & fully supports AWS customers.

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Series A rounds are looking a little crunchy in the United States

TechCrunch

Earlier this month, TechCrunch argued that startups looking to raise a Series C round were facing a uniquely difficult fundraising threshold. As Series Cs can be considered the first “late” startup stage, companies looking to raise the particular tranche appear to be running into backwash from the public markets, where tech valuations have come down sharply and IPOs are moribund at best.

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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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Protection Against Accidental Deletion of Kubernetes PVs and Namespaces

Dzone - DevOps

Accidental Kubernetes PVC delete or namespace delete can cause the Persistent Volume to get deleted. Such volumes lose their data, and the stateful applications lose their state. By using Persistent Volume TrashCan, users can get a grace period to undo such unintended delete operations. This talk will showcase how to overcome one of the admin’s pain points involving accidental deletions of PVCs by using advanced storage management solutions in Kubernetes.

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Dear Sophie: How should I prepare for my visa interview?

TechCrunch

Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: Are there any visas or green cards I can get on my own?

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Bad Data Is Sapping Your Team’s Productivity

Harvard Business Review

Mislabeled, missing, or incorrect information creates more work for everyone.

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