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Astro emerges from stealth to connect Latin American developers with US tech companies

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Astro , a startup helping companies to build and manage developer teams with talent from Latin America, today exited from stealth with $13 million in Series A funding contributed by Greycroft with participation by Obvious Ventures and other unnamed investors. million by 2030. based tech companies.

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5 key metrics for IT success

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Rate of change “The most important metric for IT success is rate of change,” says Nicolas Avila, CTO for North America at IT and software development company Globant. Every leader and every team should use rate of change to determine how quickly they can turn around a particular change, Avila recommends. Here they are.

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Rapid Digital Transformation Requires Rethinking of Security Frameworks

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For IT teams, the list of concerns has been magnified by a more dispersed workforce and the need to assess the risks associated with a proliferation of connected devices, the vanishing perimeter and the ever-changing threat landscape. This will prove to be a competitive advantage for all cloud application development going forward.

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Cloud-Native Security Survey: Patterns and Tipping Points in New Report

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As our 2023 cloud-native security survey shows, life indeed moves fast in the cloud. Change also cycles rapidly, particularly with cloud-native application development, where everything from IP addresses to containers is ephemeral. Of 2,500+ survey respondents, greater than 50% represent enterprise-sized organizations.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA and NSA Dive into CI/CD Security, While MITRE Ranks Top Software Weaknesses

Tenable

Plus, check out the 25 most dangerous software weaknesses. Also, what developers like about AI tools – and what they don’t. By exploiting a CI/CD environment, MCAs can gain an entryway into corporate networks and access sensitive data and services.” These weaknesses lead to serious vulnerabilities in software.

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5 ways to improve mental health for software developers

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Lorna Mitchell is head of Developer Relations at Aiven , a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure. I have worked remotely in technology for over a decade, and I’ll share my tips for how fast-paced technical startups can take good care of their software development talent. Contributor.

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Salesforce earmarks $250 million for AI startup investment

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The first, Anthropic, bills itself as an “AI safety and research company,” trying to create more predictable and steerable AI systems, without the unintended consequences and bad behavior of some large AIs. Hearth AI, an agent-relationship management company, is dedicated to creating AI that can understand human social networks.