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Top 5 Trends in Healthcare Cyber Attacks

SecureWorks

Top 5 Trends in Healthcare Cyber Attacks Health systems can continue delivering high-quality care while ensuring the safety of their patients’ data. The five healthcare security trends for 2022 are a wake-up call for health systems. By staying ahead of the curve and preparing for these security threats, health systems can continue delivering high-quality care while ensuring the safety of their patients’ data.

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Networking for Small Offices

TechSoup

As a nonprofit, you likely have many questions about how to properly set up a network for your office and team. What considerations should you keep in mind as you set up your office network? What components do you need? What does each component do, and what considerations should you keep in mind?

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Orkes, founded by the creators of Netflix’s open source Conductor workflow orchestration tool, comes out of stealth with $9.3M

TechCrunch

Netflix helped change the game for microservices when it developed and the outsourced a tool called Conductor, initially built to handle its own extensive, multi-channel on-demand video traffic (and correspondingly complex codebase) globally, and later adopted by companies like Tesla, American Express, Github, Deutsche Telekom, VMware and some 150 other large organizations and others to manage their own services.

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The Most Challenging Person for a Human-Centered Leader

Let's Grow Leaders

To be a human-centered leader requires compassion, empathy, and kindness for someone it’s easy to overlook. If you’re serious about becoming a more human-centered leader, it’s vital to master one specific relationship: the one with yourself. This is a leadership relationship I often overlook. It’s so easy to have compassion and grace for other people while pushing myself for more and holding myself to an unreasonable standard of perfection or achievement.

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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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Lucid rolls back production goals even as demand for luxury EV rises

TechCrunch

Earnings season rolled along today with notes from Lucid Motors’ fourth-quarter results. The company, like other electric vehicle (EV) companies, is nascent in revenue terms, albeit further along than some. The company publicly debuted as a SPAC company in July last year after merging with Churchill Capital IV. The company’s value has had a turbulent day.

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Better Dairy slices into new funding for animal-free cheeses

TechCrunch

Food tech company Better Dairy is closer to getting its aged and hard cheeses into the testing phase after securing $22 million in Series A funding. The U.K.-based company, founded in 2019 by Jevan Nagarajah, is still in the R&D phase of developing animal-free cheeses using precision fermentation. We initially got to know Nagarajah and Better Dairy back in 2020 when the company raised ÂŁ1.6 million in seed funding in a round led by Happiness Capital.

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Acing Google's PageSpeed Insights Assessment

Toptal

Page speed is an important ranking attribute for search engines, making performance optimization a prerequisite for successful sites. Here's how Google PageSpeed Insights can help identify and rectify performance issues.

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BharatPe founder Ashneer Grover resigns from board amid turmoil at Indian fintech

TechCrunch

Ashneer Grover, a founder and the public face of BharatPe, has resigned from the board and left the managing director position he held at the Tiger Global-backed Indian fintech startup following weeks-long turmoil at the firm as it undertakes what it says is an an all-encompassing review of business practices and fraud allegations. On Tuesday midnight (local India time), Grover wrote in a scathing email to the board that he was leaving the firm “effective immediately” following what

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Boosting DevOps Productivity Requires Visibility, Automation

DevOps.com

Engineering teams continue to struggle with roadblocks and bottlenecks during the development process, according to Software’s recent 2021 Code Time Report. The study, which is based on feedback from more than 250,000 developers using the Code Time plugin, found the median code time per developer is 52 minutes per day, or four hours and 21 minutes of […].

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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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Flashfood raises $12.3M to scale its grocery app that helps tackle retail food waste

TechCrunch

Toronto-based Flashfood , a mobile marketplace that provides customers with access to discounted food nearing its best-by date, has raised $12.3 million in Series A funding led by S2G Ventures. The app allows users to browse through available deals at participating stores near them. Customers can also purchase items directly in the app and then pick up their order from the Flashfood zone in their participating store.

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Measuring and managing technical debt with DevOps

CircleCI

Every technical team in the software industry is familiar with technical debt. That is because every software team incurs technical debt along the way. This article answers some critical questions about technical debt. It reviews what technical debt is and what its causes are, why it is essential to address technical debt, and how this debt accumulates.

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Rakuten Symphony acquires Kubernetes platform Robin.io

TechCrunch

Rakuten Symphony , the recently launched telco-focused arm of Japan’s Rakuten Group , today announced that it has acquired Robin.io , a startup that offers a Kubernetes platform optimized for storage solutions and complex network applications. Rakuten Mobile was one of the company’s early customers and Rakuten Capital led Robin.io’s Series C funding round.

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What If You Don't Want To Be a Developer Anymore? w/ CTO Connection's Peter Bell

Dzone - DevOps

It used to be that in order to make your parents proud you had to go into management. Then along came the self-contained IC career path. Today, this dual-track career path remains the unchallenged standard of companies everywhere. Or does it?

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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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Weee! delivers second big funding round in a year, this time backed by SoftBank

TechCrunch

Coming off of a year where monthly active users grew 150% year over year, ethnic e-grocer Weee! secured $425 million in Series E funding toward its goal to be “the primary source for food at home,” Larry Liu, Weee!’s founder and CEO, told me. It’s been a few years since we dug into what the company was doing , but to bring you up to speed, it was founded in 2015 and offers over 10,000 locally sourced and hard-to-find Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Indian and Latin offerings for

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Ransomware Cost Hospitals Nearly $21B Last Year. How Protected Are You?

Ivanti

Today, as computing power and wireless capabilities improve, organizations are increasingly leveraging Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) technologies, such as internet-connected blood pressure monitors, continuous glucose monitors and MRI scanners. These tools, with their ability to collect, analyze and transmit health data, improve efficiencies, lower care costs and drive better patient outcomes.

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Ownit helps brands sell products, at the point of discovery, with one click

TechCrunch

We’ve all seen a product on social media that looks interesting, so you click the “shop now” button and are taken over to a new site. But wait, you weren’t finished on the social media site, and when you go back, everything has refreshed. Ownit unveiled a checkout experience today, after testing with 10 companies, that gives direct-to-consumer brands a way to sell their products without that interruption.

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Daxin: Stealthy Backdoor Designed for Attacks Against Hardened Networks

Symantec

Espionage tool is the most advanced piece of malware Symantec researchers have seen from China-linked actors.

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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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Regulatory scrutiny is good for the future of software

TechCrunch

PV Boccasam. Contributor. PV Boccasam is a partner at Cota Capital. Now that digitization has become the norm, government regulation seems to be following close behind. While many lament government regulation as an infringement on innovation, I believe increased scrutiny is a net positive for the future of the software industry. First, it’s important to recognize that increased regulation is a reflection and acknowledgment of the dramatic impact that software is having on economies and societies

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How to Build an Effective API Security Strategy

DevOps.com

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) enable organizations to grow their businesses and drive innovation. APIs allow applications to easily transfer data to external third-party developers, business partners and internal departments. Since APIs have access to valuable and sensitive data, they have increasingly become a target for cyberattacks. At the API Security Summit, taking place on March […].

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What’s your BNPL startup really worth?

TechCrunch

News that Zip, an Australian buy now, pay later (BNPL) company, intends to buy Sezzle , a U.S. company of similar ilk, caught our eye this morning. Both concerns are public in Australia, which means that the deal provides a fascinating window into the real value of this particular sort of fintech revenue. TechCrunch has covered more BNPL startup funding rounds than I can hold straight in my head.

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How Pfizer Scales AI Ethics With Dataiku

Dataiku

AI is revolutionizing the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry, from drug discovery all the way to clinical decision making in doctors’ offices. However, these algorithms can be complex and even entirely black box, making it hard for us to determine exactly how models reach their unique decisions. As we also become increasingly aware of biases in institutions such as healthcare (e.g., systemic racism, sexism, or intersectional bias), and as we see these biases impact algorithms in this space,

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Leverage early investors when raising a Series A, says DeepScribe’s Akilesh Bapu

TechCrunch

Raising a Series A is a different ball game from raising a seed round, and for Akilesh Bapu, CEO and co-founder of AI-powered medical transcription platform DeepScribe, giving prospective investors a hard deadline while leaning on early investors for support and guidance made all the difference. “We were at this trajectory as a company where we had a semblance of product-market fit,” said Bapu, reflecting on the summer of 2021. “We had proven our product.

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PyTorch Lightning: A Better Way to Write PyTorch Code

QBurst

Scaling machine learning pipelines using PyTorch can be a pain. You typically start a PyTorch-based machine learning project by defining the model architecture. Then you run it on a CPU machine and progressively create a training pipeline. Once the pipeline is done, you run the same code on a GPU or TPU machine for faster […]. The post PyTorch Lightning: A Better Way to Write PyTorch Code appeared first on QBurst Blog.

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The PR boss behind Groupon, Lemonade and Squarespace shares how to land press coverage at TechCrunch Early Stage

TechCrunch

Fledgling early-stage founders need two essentials to get their startups off the ground and onto solid footing — funding and media exposure. Earned media can translate into funding, but it can also translate into more recruiting options for folks who have just fundraised. And, if you place an article in the right publication, it can also grow your customer base.

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Should You Adopt a Zero Trust Network Architecture?

Megaport

As organizations move toward processes and models that support a remote workforce, security should be top of mind. Enter the “zero trust” approach – treating every user as a potential threat until securely proven otherwise. Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) is the functionality at the core of this trend. According to Gartner®, “by the end of 2024, 10 percent of enterprises will replace Network.

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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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The latest list of YC-backed companies worth over $150M is the most geographically diverse yet

TechCrunch

In 2018, Y Combinator released its first mega list of the top companies valued at $150 million or more that have gone through the accelerator. Over the past four years, it’s updated the list to reflect the current status of its most valued companies. Valuation isn’t the best way to measure a startup’s success or real-life value, of course, and YC has always admitted that.

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CodeSOD: It's Not None of Your Business is True

The Daily WTF

Patricia 's employer hired her because she knew Python. They were a Python shop, at least at this point, but they'd never actually hired a developer with Python experience before. At some point, their PHP developer wanted to branch out, and decided to solve a problem using a small Python script. It was very successful, and features got added to it.

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HearHere raises $3.2M to scale its immersive storytelling road-trip app

TechCrunch

Santa Barbara-based HearHere , the company behind an audio entertainment and immersive storytelling road-trip app, has raised $3.2 million in seed funding led by RV and outdoor retailer Camping World. The app aims to foster deep connections and understandings of the places and histories of the land that users are traveling through when on a road trip.

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