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As Deezer goes public via SPAC, is the blank-check boom really over?

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So-called blank check companies, which take a skeleton corporation public with the aim of later merging with a private entity, can offer a quick path to the world’s stock markets. But while SPAC might as well be a bad word in the United States today, there is blank-check activity elsewhere that’s worth our attention.

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ZeroFox goes public in $1.4B SPAC deal

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ZeroFox , an enterprise threat intelligence cybersecurity startup that helps companies detect risks found on social media , has announced plans to become a publicly traded company via a merger with blank-check company L&F Acquisition.

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SPACs keep rolling as autonomous vehicle startup Aurora targets blank-check debut with $13B valuation

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Securities and Exchange Commission. The trio have formed three SPACs, or blank-check companies. Under the terms of that acquisition, Aurora did not pay cash for Uber ATG, a company that was valued at $7.25 billion following a $1 billion investment in 2019 from Toyota, DENSO and SoftBank’s Vision Fund.

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CIOs not entirely sold on generative AI copilots

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AI tools can help coders clean up logic and coding errors and find security problems, and they may also help to accelerate programmers’ skills, cutting the sunk cost of internal training, he suggests. The fear of the blank page Many of those surveyed by Microsoft aren’t paying the bill, however.

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CIOs in financial services embrace gen AI — but with caution

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It’s really good at summarising, filling in blanks, and connecting dots, so generative AI is fit for purpose,” says Brian Baral, global head of risk at Genpact. We’ve started an ethical AI committee that consists of the legal, compliance, technology, and cybersecurity teams,” says Cugini.

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How We Leveraged the Honeycomb Network Agent for Kubernetes to Remediate Our IMDS Security Finding

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The security team shoots you a message saying the latest pentest or security scan found an issue that needs quick remediation. This provides you with a wealth of information, from things like ‘what VPC is this instance in’ all the way to ‘provide me security credentials for the role attached to this instance.’

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Cram downs are a character test for VCs and founders

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Steve Blank. Steve Blank is a founding faculty at the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford University, an adjunct professor at Stanford and a senior fellow for innovation at Columbia University. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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