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Researchers jailbreak a Tesla, the FCC fines robocallers and WeWork finds itself in trouble (again)

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Welcome, friends, to TechCrunch’s Week in Review (WiR), the newsletter where we recap the week that was in tech. In this week’s edition of WiR, we cover researchers figuring out a way to “jailbreak” Teslas, the AI.com domain name switching hands and the FCC fining robocallers. Now, on with the recap.

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Why IT surveys can’t be trusted for strategic decisions

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One reason is that surveys dominate research into IT practices, and their results generally follow the well-worn template: X percent of Y does or is planning to do Z. Surveys, that is, only reduce our uncertainty about how many people or organizations are doing something we care about (or are supposed to).

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Garner Health raises $45M Series B for ‘totally objective’ doctor review service

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When you shop for a holiday gift, you probably read at least one review. Garner Health’s bet is when you look for a doctor, you’ll want to do the same thing — but you’ll find that existing reviews aren’t enough to go on. . The end result, per Reber, is a “totally objective” review system.

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6 most underhyped technologies in IT — plus one that’s not dead yet

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But with all due respect, AI is hardly the only critical tech in town. Isn’t it time some of those overlooked and underappreciated technologies get their due? Even though many still recognize cloud’s formidable transformational power, research suggests why cloud’s significance gets downplayed. We think so.

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Indonesian consumer research startup Populix gets $1.2M in pre-Series A funding

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Populix wants to make research easier for companies, through a respondent app that now has 250,000 users in 300 Indonesian cities. The company’s revenue grew five times in 2020 and it signed up 52 new enterprise clients in 10 countries, as the COVID-19 pandemic limited traditional forms of consumer surveys, like in-person questionnaires.

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The Significance of Open Source Software in the Digital-First Future Enterprise

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The research, conducted by International Data Corporation (IDC) and commissioned by SUSE surveyed 838 respondents in 11 Asia/Pacific countries across a range of industries such as financial services and insurance, telecommunications, and government. When it comes to container-related technologies, only 30% are using OSS.

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When your AI chatbots mess up

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Barely a year after the release of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools, 75% of surveyed companies have already put them to work, according to a VentureBeat report. AI systems can also overlook complex bugs or security issues that only a developer would catch and resolve. Security guardrails.