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Dash CEO placed on ‘indefinite administrative leave’ as the Insight-backed startup carries out financial audit

TechCrunch

Boampong founded the Ghanaian fintech in 2019 and is one of Africa’s well-known serial entrepreneurs after co-launching OMG Digital , a YC-backed Ghanaian media startup, in 2016. The seed round, which according to sources, valued Dash at slightly over $200 million, was the second-largest deal of its kind after PalmPay’s $40 million in 2019.

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Recycling robotics firm Glacier emerges from stealth with $4.5M

TechCrunch

The funding will go toward increasing headcount and accelerating the system’s commercial deployment. Founded in 2019, Glacier has run a number of pilots. More recently, it launched its first commercial system at a facility in Los Angeles. The trio participated in the startup’s just-announced $4.5

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Agentic AI design: An architectural case study

CIO

Just a few short years ago, models like GPT-1 (2018) and GPT-2 (2019) barely registered a blip on anyone’s tech radar. An agent is part of an AI system designed to act autonomously, making decisions and taking action without direct human intervention or interaction. Let’s start with the basics: What is an agent?

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What is COBIT? A framework for alignment and governance

CIO

The ISACA announced an updated version of COBIT in 2018, ditching the version number and naming it COBIT 2019. This updated, and most recent, version of COBIT is designed to constantly evolve with “more frequent and fluid updates,” according to the ISACA.

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Autonomous flight startup Merlin Labs nabs $105M and US Air Force partnership

TechCrunch

Roughly a year ago, Boston-based Merlin Labs emerged from stealth with an autonomous flight system designed to be installed in existing aircraft. While Merlin told TechCrunch at the time that it had “hundreds” of test flights under its belt, the company’s system lacked certification from the U.S.

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Four short links: 11 June 2019

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Ethnographic study that's super useful for systems designers who aren't South Asian women. Continue reading Four short links: 11 June 2019.

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How to Prepare for Your DevOps Interview

Dzone - DevOps

For system administrators, operations engineers, and others with strong systems and software backgrounds, there’s perhaps no better time than the present to transition into DevOps. As of August 2019, there are currently over 50,000 LinkedIn DevOps job listings in the United States alone.

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