Thu.Oct 13, 2022

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Implementing Data-Driven DevSecOps

DevOps.com

Right now, the way DevSecOps is typically implemented doesn’t fit with the rapid and agile DevOps CI/CD pipeline at all. It’s like applying 19th-century firefighting methods to a modern forest fire. Back then, firefighters employed a “bucket brigade,” where they would form a queue and pass buckets from one hand to another to put out a […]. The post Implementing Data-Driven DevSecOps appeared first on DevOps.com.

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5 tips for maximizing ROI of IT projects

CIO

One of the most important parameters for measuring the success of any technology implementation is the return on investment (ROI). Providing a compelling ROI on technology initiatives also puts CIOs in a stronger position for securing support and funds from the business for future projects. This compounding effect shows just how imperative it is for enterprise technology leaders to ramp up the ROI from their deployments.

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Orlando has all the ingredients to be the next big startup hub

TechCrunch

There’s much potential for Orlando to be what Austin is to Texas, what Atlanta is to Georgia — a booming hub where startups flock from around the world to dream, innovate and grow. The numbers are already showing potential: New PitchBook data found that in the first half of this year, a little more than $360 million was invested in the Orlando-Kissimmee metro area, way more than the $144 million invested in H1 last year.

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Aflac’s Rich Gilbert on the 7 Cs of top IT leaders

CIO

Rich Gilbert, who joined Aflac in 2019 as chief digital and information officer, now serves as its chief transformation officer and head of individual benefits. The promotion and title are well deserved. Aflac is the leading provider of supplemental health insurance in the United States, and Gilbert has been recognized for his commitment to accelerating the company’s digital transformation strategy.

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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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MoKo, Kenya’s home furniture startup, raises $6.5M

TechCrunch

Kenya has the largest and most thriving furniture industry in East Africa, but the sector’s potential is hindered by several challenges among them production inefficiencies and quality concerns, forcing most major retailers to settle on imports. MoKo Home + Living , a Kenya-based home furniture manufacturer and omnichannel retailer, saw this gap and over several years set out to bridge it through quality and guarantees.

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Uniswap Labs valued at $1.66 billion in $165 million new funding

TechCrunch

Uniswap Labs has raised $165 million in a new funding round as the parent firm of the world’s largest decentralized exchange looks to broaden its offerings. The Series B funding was led by Polychain Capital, the startup said. The news confirms a TechCrunch scoop from late last month that said that Uniswap Labs was looking to raise between $100 million to $200 million and was engaging with Polychain.

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IBM and AWS Partnership Accelerates Cloud Modernization

CIO

A majority of companies are confident in a future built around hybrid cloud, according to a recent poll conducted by The Harris Poll and IBM. What they are less decisive about is how to map the right cloud modernization journey, one that is efficient and secure while delivering business agility and competitive advantage. Modernizing the application estate through cloud migration is a key part of any digital transformation strategy.

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‘Me too’ investing is eating returns

TechCrunch

Alan Feld. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Alan Feld is the founder and managing partner of Vintage Investment Partners. For an asset class that should be reinventing itself all the time, it is surprising to see how resistant some venture funds are to change. As a partner in a fund of funds, I attend a lot of annual meetings, talk with a lot of venture fund general partners and review a lot of investor decks.

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The Race to Data-first Modernization Is On

CIO

Data represents a store of value and a strategic opportunity for enterprises across all industries. From edge to cloud to core, businesses are producing data in vast quantities, at an unprecedented pace. And they’re now rapidly evolving their data management strategies to efficiently cope with data at scale and seize the advantage. … Or are they? Well, some are.

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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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Analytics operating system Redbird makes data more accessible to non-technical users

TechCrunch

Data engineers have a big problem. Almost every team in their business needs access to analytics and other information that can be gleaned from their data warehouses, but only a few have technical backgrounds. Redbird was created to help everyone in an organization create and run analytics without using code, therefore reducing the amount of bottlenecks that data engineers need to deal with.

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Bubble Wrap: How Eurovision Monitors Covid Risk at Events

CIO

While pandemic-driven digital transformation has enabled the media and entertainment industry to stream awesome content 24/7 – digital technology is also safeguarding visitors, performing artist, and crew at the Eurovision Song Contest by monitoring their Covid-19 exposure levels in real time. The Eurovision Song Contest, by the way, is the world’s largest live music event, organized each year in May by the local organizer and the European Broadcasting Union.

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VUZ raises $20 million to scale its immersive social app

TechCrunch

VUZ , a social app that allows users to stream and experience immersive realism in extended reality (XR) and metaverse digital experiences, has raised $20 million in Series B investment. Investors in the round include Caruso Ventures, Vision VC Fund, e& capital, investment pillar of e& (formerly known as Etisalat Group), DFDF (Dubai Future District Fund), WIN (Webit Investment Network), SRMG, Elbert Capital, and Yasta Partners, Faith Capital, Panthera Capital.

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IT Modernization With a Sustainability Edge

CIO

As companies fast-track IT modernization to accelerate digital transformation and gain business advantage, there is an opportunity to rearchitect a greener IT environment and application portfolio that will drive cost efficiencies and contribute to broader corporate sustainability goals. Across industries, companies are modernizing IT infrastructure and wielding digital tools to increase organizational flexibility, agility, and resiliency in their efforts to stay abreast of the competition.

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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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Pitch Deck Teardown: Supliful’s $1M seed deck

TechCrunch

I don’t typically critique decks for fundraises we didn’t cover on TechCrunch, but for Supliful , I had to make an exception because it’s a company that solves a spectacularly interesting problem. Consumer packaged goods companies can churn out products all day long, but marketing is an expensive challenge. Creators produce content all day long but don’t always have an easy way of monetizing their traffic.

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Leadership and Selling Your Expertise with Robert Chen

Let's Grow Leaders

What is the secret to ongoing success in every role whether you’re in leadership, accounting, consulting, investment banking, law, or any other type of professional service? It’s not just knowledge, experience, and unique services that set people apart. Success is achieved by adopting the mindset, mastering the strategies, and employing the tactics at the heart of rainmaking – selling your expertise.

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Open finance startup Ayoconnect’s APIs enable financial inclusion in Southeast Asia

TechCrunch

Focused on Southeast Asia, Ayoconnect ’s APIs make it faster for businesses to launch new financial services, instead of needing to build their own tech infrastructure. It is also licensed by Indonesia’s central bank, enabling it to offer more services. The open finance startup announced today it has closed a $13 million Series B extension round led by SIG Venture Capital, with participation from CE Innovation Capital and returning investor PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus.

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I have my Black Duck audit reports; What’s next?

Synopsys

Get the most out of your Black Duck open source audit by understanding the report components and next steps you need to take. The post I have my Black Duck audit reports; What’s next? appeared first on Application Security Blog.

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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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Zen Educate, a marketplace that matches schools with teachers, raises $21M to fuel U.S. expansion

TechCrunch

Zen Educate , an online marketplace that algorithmically matches schools with the best available teachers, has raised £19.3 million ($21 million) in a Series A extension round of funding. Founded out of London in 2017, Zen Educate is setting out to supplant the traditional approach to recruiting teachers, a system that typically involves third-party agencies and hefty fees.

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Microsoft Expands DevOps Portfolio in the Cloud

DevOps.com

At the Ignite conference this week, Microsoft launched a slew of updates to its DevOps portfolio as part of an effort to make it simpler to build, manage and secure cloud applications. Microsoft is adding Azure Deployment Environments, available in preview, that enable developer teams to invoke a set of best practices to quickly spin […]. The post Microsoft Expands DevOps Portfolio in the Cloud appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Is the venture market slowing or did crossover funds just bounce?

TechCrunch

As third-quarter venture capital data rolls in, the TechCrunch crew is busy parsing the numbers. We’ve looked at fintech results , we’ve touched on the crypto market , and we have a climate startup venture analysis coming this weekend. We’ve also looked at the U.S. venture market and its global analog. The main gist is that while VC investment in the United States is slowing, it appears that the global venture capital market is retarding more rapidly.

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Kill the Password: Google on Board | 4-Day Week Proves Worthy

DevOps.com

In this week’s The Long View: Passkeys is getting another big-tech supporter, and the four-day workweek train picks up speed. The post Kill the Password: Google on Board | 4-Day Week Proves Worthy appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Receptions, parties and more at TechCrunch Disrupt

TechCrunch

Hey, party people! As if you won’t find plenty to keep you occupied at TechCrunch Disrupt — which kicks off in less than a week on October 18–20 — take a look at this list of receptions and happenings that complement and coincide with your Disrupt experience. Note that while some events are open to all, others are invitation-only or role-specific. Nonetheless, these receptions are the perfect way to relax, enjoy a meal or refreshments, meet new people and expand your network.

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GraphQL: Security by Obscurity Just Isn’t Enough

DevOps.com

The debate about how to secure GraphQL rages on. Many organizations are hesitant to adopt GraphQL for public-facing APIs as there is no precise method to handle authorization concerns as of yet. Without a role-based access layer to enable fine-grained permissions for each field (and underlying services that GraphQL might wrap), the query language can […].

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Q3 data reminds us that venture debt is not a Hail Mary

TechCrunch

Venture debt was never meant to be used to bail a company out of financial trouble. And yet, when venture capitalists started to pull back from equity investing earlier this year because frothy market conditions made them realize that valuations were too high, it became a topic of discussion again. Across the industry, from founders to investors to reporters, the rhetoric among many was that we’d see a drastic rise in venture debt this year.

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Cyber Hygiene: Keep Your Business Safe Online

MagmaLabs

Reading Time: 3 minutes In the digital age, we rely extensively on the Internet and storage devices for many aspects of our lives. So, the need to be proactive and vigilant to be protected against cyber threats has never been greater. To achieve security within our digital platforms, we need to adapt a good cyber hygiene strategy. Keep reading to learn the importance, benefits and best practices to secure your data from cyber attacks.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Waste4Change is building a circular economy in Indonesia

TechCrunch

Even the largest landfills in Indonesia are at (or nearing) capacity , and the government has set an ambitious target of 30% waste reduction by 2025. Waste4Change is one of the companies that wants to help by increasing rates of recycling and enabling better waste management. The startup, which currently manages more than 8,000 tons of waste very year, announced today that it has raised $5 million in Series A funding, co-led by AC Ventures and PT Barito Mitra Investama.

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BLOG ON TIME COMPLEXITY OF ALGORITHM

InnovationM

What is Time Complexity? Time Complexity is the time consumed by the algorithm to complete its execution. Time Complexity is measured by summing the time of all the elementary operations. There are many notations to represent the time complexity like:- (1)Big Oh, O (2)Omega, Ω (3)Theta , Θ But, the most commonly used notation for Time Complexity is Big O Notation.

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Nudge Security emerges from stealth to tackle cybersecurity’s people problem

TechCrunch

Social engineering attacks are on the rise. These low-tech but high-impact attacks — where hackers manipulate employees into granting them access to companies’ services and data — increased by almost threefold last year, and have so far this year claimed several high-profile victims, from Twilio and Mailchimp to Revolut , and most recently Uber. As these big names demonstrate, these kinds of attacks can be hard for even the most well-resourced organizations to protect against.

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