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IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?

CIO

Hes seeing the need for professionals who can not only navigate the technology itself, but also manage increasing complexities around its surrounding architectures, data sets, infrastructure, applications, and overall security. These are also areas where organizations are most willing to use contract talent. Tell us a story,' he says.

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Faction raises $4.3M to deploy 3-wheeled EVs for driverless delivery

TechCrunch

Faction Technology founder and CEO Ain McKendrick didn’t have the $1 billion or the time that a typical automotive program might need to design and manufacture an EV that could be used for driverless delivery. “We keep taking legacy vehicles and trying to retrofit them for driverless technologies.

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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower CTO

Exploring new technologies? But hiring a lead developer, or even a VP of Engineering, can create a gap between the founders and the developers. Instead, given a startup project, they’ll default to building everything in-house, using technologies that they’re already familiar with. What does the role demand? It might be.

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Unit 42 Predicts the Year of Disruption and Other Top Threats in 2025

Palo Alto Networks

In 2025, attackers will begin developing and testing generative AI technologies to use over the next 3-5 years. We’ll see more sophisticated tactics from these groups as their profits are used to improve capabilities along every step of the attack chain.

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How genAI is transforming financial services

CIO

By Michael Cullum, VP of Engineering at Bud Financial Generative AI (genAI) is a powerful tool that is transforming the financial industry and empowers financial services professionals. Bud uses advanced technologies like DataStax Astra DB to manage and scale their data operations seamlessly, ensuring high performance and reliability.

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Super raises $50M to cover home repairs and maintenance via a subscription model

TechCrunch

CEO Jorey Ramer, who co-founded the company with Ryan Donnelly (VP of engineering), also said that another part of the investment will be used to enhance the AI tech that underpins Super’s service and pricing plans. More on that below. — Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, San Antonio and Washington, D.C.

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Contentstack raises $80M to grow its headless CMS platform for the enterprise

TechCrunch

“Contentstack empowers marketers and developers to deliver composable digital experiences at the speed of their imagination through automated headless CMS technology,” Sampat said via email. Closing the loop, Contentstack eventually bought the CMS division of Raw Engineering in 2018).