The Parallax

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Did you get hacked in 2017? Step 5: Keep your software up-to-date. Whether you’re using an iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, or Linux device, one of the easiest ways to avoid getting hacked is to ensure that all your software is up-to-date. If you can, segment your home Internet of Things devices on a separate network as well.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 22, 2024

CVE-2010-2568: Windows Shell Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Remote Code Execution Exploited Zero-Day Local Stuxnet High 2010 Why it’s significant: Regarded as one of the most sophisticated cyberespionage tools ever created, Stuxnet was designed to target SCADA systems in industrial environments to reportedly sabotage Iran's nuclear program.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Rahil Sondhi has been coding since he was 10 years old, and even when his career took him in the direction of an engineer, he was still writing a lot of SQL and working with data. That’s when he realized that many of the tools he was using were tedious, clunky and slow — basically none of the traits anyone wants in their software.

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OverOps

APRIL 17, 2019

Earlier this month, Herb Krasner, an Advisory Board member of the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) joined our VP of Solution Engineering Eric Mizell for a webinar examining the cost of poor quality software. Herb’s CISQ report estimates that, in 2018, poor quality software cost organizations $2.8 trillion in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Patil cofounded Backbone, which is based in San Francisco, alongside Rajesh Chandran in 2017. Chandran is an Oracle and NetSuite veteran who’s launched several AI startups, while Patil spent time as a software engineer at Intuit before moving to Heighten, a sales tech company. ” Building a supply chain backbone. ”

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Honeycomb

APRIL 16, 2025

Or they have a very simple architecture, a system that does not change very often, and/or customer experience is not a priority or a differentiator for them. (If Precision tooling for complex systems is not cheap. How can software instrumentation turn into an investment capable of generating returns? Is it worth paying for?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Founders Eric Yu and Peter Zhou met in school and started working on Rutter, which Zhou called “Plaid for commerce,” in 2017 before going through the summer 2019 Y Combinator cohort. After watching them (Rutter) for a few years, it’s clear what they built is powerful: it’s the central nervous system of online commerce,” Xuezhao added.

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O'Reilly Media - Data

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

At Strata 2017 , I premiered a new diagram to help teams understand why teams fail and when: Early on in projects, management and developers are responsible for the success of a project. If this dirty data proliferates and propagates to other systems, we open Pandora’s box of unintended consequences. Then there's real time.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Mascot’s entrepreneurial journey started in 2017, when he helped hospitals digitize records. And so we built the system for them,” said Mascot. Lack of trust due to delays or denial due to the manual processing of claims are also contributing to the low uptake. Insurance companies were losing a lot of money to fraud.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Seeking to bring greater security to AI systems, Protect AI today raised $13.5 Protect AI claims to be one of the few security companies focused entirely on developing tools to defend AI systems and machine learning models from exploits. A 2018 GitHub analysis found that there were more than 2.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

From what we understand, if required due to sanctions, Bosch would put funds into a holding account if needed. A year and a bit ago we thought we would probably build the entire thing and take it to market as a whole system,” co-founder and CEO Stan Boland told me back in 2020. That was a hard truth for Five, too. “A

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

And though Nigeria’s food processing systems have a keen resemblance to the West with respect to big factories and huge economies of scale in high-demand cities, farmers still suffer from poor logistics networks. When the pair started the company in 2017, the idea behind Releaf was not concrete yet as the team, based in the U.S.,

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The Parallax

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Both companies issued software patches in September. Exploiting the vulnerabilities in Avast and AVG’s antivirus products , which are made by Avast Security following a 2016 acquisition , as well as in Avira ’s Launcher and Software Updater, requires a hacker to have administrator privileges.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 6, 2025

Enterprise tech and AI Cerebras Systems : Yes, this one is kind of cheating. national security review on UAE-based G42 ‘s minority investment in the AI chipmaker. SymphonyAI was founded by Romesh Wadhwani , PhD, in 2017. Cerebras should likely already be public. It filed to go public openly in September. That made sense.

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The Crazy Programmer

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

This could be due to the “male geek” concept. Many women could feel unwanted and discouraged due to a lack of senior responsibilities. Megan Smith served in the White House until 2017. This is slowly changing in Asian countries like China and India, where both men and women are in a CS classroom.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2021

The Bunch system also molds its out to a user’s style and leadership goals. Back in 2017, the company was building what we described as “Google Analytics for company culture.” Alomar said that community and peer-review features are coming.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Walther had previously spent three and a half years at Spotify, following its 2017 acquisition of the audio detection startup Sonalytic , which he had co-founded. This can be useful when reviewing the recordings later on, Walther says. The idea for Tape It comes from two friends and musicians, Thomas Walther and Jan Nash.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

According to a 2020 Statista survey , 41% of executives in the automotive and transportation industry alone said their company lost $50 to $100 million due to supply chain issues, a figure which has likely climbed higher since. But according to Komoni, most tracking is done manually via loose systems of emails, spreadsheets and phone calls.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

1: Shared scooters launched (fall 2017). The very first fleet of Bird e-scooters was launched in Santa Monica, California in September of 2017. Vehicle intelligence systems capable of running and reporting millions of autonomous fault checks per day. IP67 or IP68 waterproofing on batteries.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

The startup, which provides software and payments for restaurants and SMBs, had to step up to help the businesses it serves. It also marks San Francisco-based SpotOn’s third funding event since March 2020, and brings the startup’s total funding to $328 million since its 2017 inception. Not only for their sake, but its own. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Two years ago, startups developing software that helps draft, manage and review contracts raised over $70 million in venture equity. Through SpotDraft’s automated approvals system, users can create custom workflows to trigger and automate required approvals based on conditions such as jurisdiction, deal value and entity.

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Tenable

MARCH 10, 2020

Critical unpatched “wormable” remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Microsoft Server Message Block 3.1.1 Successful exploitation of the vulnerability would grant the attacker arbitrary code execution in both SMB Server and SMB Client. Version 1903 for 32-bit Systems. Version 1903 for ARM64-based Systems.

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2022

In 2017, The Economist declared that data, rather than oil, had become the world’s most valuable resource. MIT Technology Review has chronicled a number of failures, most of which stem from errors in the way the tools were trained or tested. In 2014, Amazon started working on AI-powered recruiting software to do just that.

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CIO

JANUARY 13, 2023

All Posts The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has overspent about $15 million on Oracle software over the past five years because it lacked a centralized software asset management practice, according to an audit report published by the space agency’s office of the inspector general (OIG).

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Tenable

AUGUST 30, 2024

And get the latest on AI-system inventories, the APT29 nation-state attacker and digital identity security! Most schools faced astronomical recovery costs as they tried to restore computers, recover data, and shore up their systems to prevent future attacks,” reads a Comparitech blog about the research published this week.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

Intel bought the computer vision company focused on the self-driving sector back in 2017, before which it had been a public concern. In contrast, if Mobileye struggles when it debuts, or its IPO is pushed back due to market conditions, we’ll know that the public markets remain pretty darn closed for unicorns and other late-stage startups.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Skill assessment software has become the new buzzword in the software development industry. Recruiters are looking for highly skilled candidates to handle their software development duties. As a result, the demand for talented software developers is witnessing unprecedented growth.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 11, 2025

Using its enterprise software, FloTorch conducted an extensive comparison between Amazon Nova models and OpenAIs GPT-4o models with the Comprehensive Retrieval Augmented Generation (CRAG) benchmark dataset. This is a crucial requirement for enterprises that want their AI systems to provide responses strictly within a defined scope.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Matt Butcher and Radu Matei worked on container technologies for years, “containers” in this context referring to software packages containing all the necessary elements to run in any environment, from desktop PCs to servers. It’s also more secure, he asserts, because it can safely execute even untrusted code.

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Tenable

JULY 1, 2020

Just as Magento 1 reaches end of life, attackers are exploiting a vulnerability in a Magento plugin from 2017. Magecart attackers inject malicious JavaScript code into legitimate Magento sites in order to steal customer payment card information during online checkout. Site owners should prepare to migrate their stores immediately.

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The Parallax

MAY 3, 2019

Using a $300 software-defined radio , a security researcher says he has figured out how to take control of some of Ford’s newer and higher-end cars and trucks. I’ve never heard of someone using multiple key fobs and manipulating the protocol in the RF spectrum by having the receiving machine reset its rolling codes,” he says.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Covid has also taught us that building a program that is remote and more software based makes YC more accessible to founders around the globe,” the firm said in a statement to TechCrunch. According to some estimates, over $260 billion worth of food is wasted every year due to mismanaged inventory. Snazzy is SmileDirectClub for India.

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CIO

MAY 2, 2024

Siemens Mobility has been on a robotic process automation (RPA) journey for years, growing from five automated processes in 2017 to more than 700 now, transforming the company in the process. There was just one book [on RPA] on the market back in 2017, where today you have hundreds,” says Benjamin Bock, head of RPA at Siemens Mobility. “By

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Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

JANUARY 15, 2019

For lack of similar capabilities, some of our competitors began implying that we would no longer be focused on the innovative data infrastructure, storage and compute solutions that were the hallmark of Hitachi Data Systems. 2018 was a very busy year for Hitachi Vantara. A REST API is built directly into our VSP storage controllers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

Before you can even start to disentangle someone’s genetic code, you have to start with a sample. However, as the authors of a 2020 review paper on the electrowetting industry note, the instrument was “discontinued for undisclosed reasons” in 2017. And that sample has to get prepped the right way.

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Henrik Warne

JULY 10, 2017

Last week I attended a software development conference, QCon in New York. You have a chance to hear what is going on in the field of software development – what are the new techniques and technologies other companies are using. Maybe you will pick up ideas for how you could improve the way you develop and deploy software.

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The Parallax

JANUARY 4, 2018

Solveig-Jalkanen is involved in several European hacker communities under the pseudonym Thomas Covenant , including SHA 2017 , Free Software Foundation Europe , and Amsterdam TechInc. If you look at the justice system, somebody is innocent until proven guilty. “[A] code of conduct is kind of like a New Year’s resolution.

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