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TechCrunch+ roundup: Technical due diligence, web3’s promise, how to hire well

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One of my favorite examples is in the first Harry Potter movie, when Hagrid takes Harry to Diagon Alley, the magical shopping district that introduces him (and us) to the world of wizarding. 8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence. Tomorrow, we’ll run his detailed TDD checklist.

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5 steps for making tech ethics work for your company

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Generative AI breakthroughs over the past year have crystalized a significant issue that IT leaders have long been aware of but few have addressed programmatically: tech ethics. Confronted with the prospect of destroying civilization, tech leaders have proposed two paths: moratoria on development or legislative regulation.

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The new CIO mandate: Selling AI to employees

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But 45% also said they feared that AI will make their work less relevant to their employers, and 43% said they fear the loss of their jobs due to AI. CIOs should work with their organizations’ HR departments to offer AI training, Chandrasekaran recommends. CIOs should be “change agents” who “embrace the art of the possible,” he says.

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Google expands program to help train the formerly incarcerated

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Last April, Google launched Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry, a program created in partnership with nonprofits to offer job readiness and digital skills training for formerly incarcerated individuals. Inmates can go well over a decade without access to technologies like smartphones and only limited familiarity with the internet.

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IT leaders uplift women to fill tech talent gaps

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The problem: She had no formal training and experience in computer science. As companies scramble to find qualified IT talent, they are struggling to achieve greater female representation in their technology ranks, particularly in key areas such as software engineering and cybersecurity. Frederick “Flee” Lee, CSO, Gusto.

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V7 snaps up $33M to automate training data for computer vision AI models

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It’s only as good as the models and data used to train it, so there is a need for sourcing and ingesting ever-larger data troves. But annotating and manipulating that training data takes a lot of time and money, slowing down the work or overall effectiveness, and maybe both. V7 even lays out how the two services compare.)

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4 hidden risks of your enterprise cloud strategy

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And those massive platforms sharply limit how far they will allow one enterprise’s IT due diligence to go. When performing whatever minimal due diligence the cloud platform permits — SOC reports, GDPR compliance, PCI ROC, etc. When Blauner worked at Citi, for example, that MVP was international funds transfers. “If