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Purple Dot, a waitlist and preorder platform for the fashion industry, raises $4M

TechCrunch

Because of the unpredictable nature of the fashion industry, fashion brands often have to “guestimate” demand for their products, and if they get that demand wrong, they have to deal with the wasted inventory. All too often clothes end up being incinerated unnecessarily, adding to their environmental impact.

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CVE-2020-1350: Wormable Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Windows DNS Server Disclosed (SIGRed)

Tenable

Researchers disclose a 17-year old wormable flaw in Windows DNS servers. On July 14, Microsoft patched a critical vulnerability in Windows Domain Name System (DNS) Server as part of Patch Tuesday for July 2020. According to the researchers, the vulnerability has persisted in Windows DNS Server for 17 years. Background.

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When is training ‘old fashioned”?

Rapid BI

What is fashion in the world of L&D It is 1800 and I am on the 1640 train back from Leeds to London after meeting with a potential client. Yes it had the required tables and chairs, windows, space, a rail […]. The post When is training ‘old fashioned”?

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Extra Crunch roundup: Clubhouse UX teardown, YC Demo Day favorites, proptech VC survey, more

TechCrunch

Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). Image Credits: Miguel Navarro (opens in a new window) / Getty Images (Image has been modified). NFTs could bridge video games and the fashion industry.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Why you should go APE, H-1B lottery tips, how to check references

TechCrunch

Image Credits: Iryna Veklich (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Image Credits: Sergei Chuyko (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Squadhelp CEO and founder Darpan Munjal shut down his previous company, a fashion e-commerce venture, after four years of “solid growth.”

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How to make the math work for today’s sky-high startup valuations

TechCrunch

Venture capital price discipline is out the window ; venture funds are looking to make faster, earlier deals; and more unicorns were minted in the last three months than during any quarter in history. LTM stands for last 12 months , indicating in a somewhat slang fashion that we’re not discussing forward numbers.

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Ask Miss O11y: Long-Running Requests

Honeycomb

We in fact have one of those continuous processing services— Beagle , our Service Level Objective stream processor—which we’ve instrumented in this fashion. Any outbound requests that start during that window are parented to the tick root span.

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