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Authentic Artists is building virtual, AI-powered musicians

TechCrunch

Chris McGarry, who previously led music integration at Facebook’s Oculus, is taking a new approach to bringing music into the virtual world with his startup Authentic Artists. ” Authentic Artists is backed by investors including OVO Fund, James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems, Mixi Group and Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park.

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The evolving landscape of network security in 2025

CIO

The distributed nature of todays work environments, fueled by cloud computing, remote work, and the Internet of Things (IoT), presents unprecedented security challenges. Continuous authentication and authorization will be enforced for every user and device, regardless of location, minimizing the impact of compromised credentials.

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Matik raises $20M to automate the process of creating personalized customer presentations

TechCrunch

Matik , which has created automated data-driven software for customizing Google Slides or PowerPoint presentations, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Because the content is dynamic, presentations are “completely editable” after they’re generated, the company says.

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Authentic leadership: Building an organization that thrives

CIO

Leadership styles have traditionally centered their focus on profits, share prices, and productivity, but a new approach increasingly taken up by today’s leaders, known as “authentic leadership,” takes a different spin on the concept. But ultimately, authentic leadership can be viewed as the opposite of traditional leadership in many ways.

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React authentication, simplified

David Walsh

Authentication is one of those things that just always seems to take a lot more effort than we want it to. To set up auth, you have to re-research topics you haven’t thought about since the last time you did authentication, and the fast-paced nature of the space means things have often changed in the meantime. React authentication.

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Authentication in Serverless Apps—What Are the Options?

DevOps.com

However, serverless applications present unique security challenges, one of them being authentication. The post Authentication in Serverless Apps—What Are the Options? They provide a convenient, predictable way to run simple processes like CI/CD builds or automation scripts with no need to stand up infrastructure.

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Rails 8.0: No PaaS Required

Ruby on Rails

Generating the authentication basics Finally, making it easier to go to production also means we ought to make it easy to be secure. Rails has been assembling high-level abstractions for the key components of an excellent authentication system for a long time to bring that ease.