TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Comcast has confirmed that hackers exploiting a critical-rated security vulnerability accessed the sensitive information of almost 36 million Xfinity customers. This vulnerability, known as “CitrixBleed,” is found in Citrix networking devices often used by big corporations and has been under mass-exploitation by hackers since late August.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Hackers stole the sensitive personal information of more than 14.6 million Mr. Cooper customers, the mortgage and loan giant has confirmed.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2023

That included everything from downplaying the real-world impact of spills of personal information and failing to answer basic questions. Last year, we compiled a list of 2022’s most poorly handled data breaches looking back at the bad behavior of corporate giants when faced with hacks and breaches. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The recent 23andMe data breach is a stark reminder of a chilling reality – our most intimate, personal information might not be as secure as we think. DNA companies should receive the death penalty for getting hacked Personal data is the new gold. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Thousands of exposed servers are spilling the medical records and personal health information of millions of patients due to security weaknesses in a decades-old industry standard designed for storing and sharing medical images, researchers have warned.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2024

Roughly 72 hours after a prominent startup customer complained that Carta was misusing information with which it was entrusted — scaring many of Carta’s tens of thousands of other customers in the process — Carta is exiting the business that landed it in trouble with the customer.

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MAY 14, 2024

This first installment describes how asynchronous queries can be wrapped in a handler to provide information about the state of the query. In this article he describes patterns for how single-page applications fetch data.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2024

The first of its kind settlement prohibits X-Mode, now known as Outlogic, from sharing and selling users’ sensitive information to others. Federal Trade Commission has banned the data broker X-Mode Social from sharing or selling users’ sensitive location data, the federal regulator said Tuesday. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The Information first reported the news. SpaceX is known for its vertical integration, but one component it’s been outsourcing is parachutes — until earlier this month, when the company quietly acquired parachute vendor Pioneer Aerospace after its parent company went bankrupt. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2023

drugstore giant’s “reckless use of facial surveillance systems” left customers humiliated and put their “sensitive information at risk.” Rite Aid has been banned from using facial recognition software for five years, after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) found that the U.S. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The government of Maine has confirmed over a million state residents had personal information stolen in a data breach earlier this year by a Russia-linked ransomware gang. The hackers used […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The maker of the popular optimization app CCleaner has confirmed hackers stole a trove of personal information about its paid customers following a data breach in May.

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TechEmpower CTO

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This has significantly reduced the time team members spend searching for information, enabling them to stay focused on their core tasks. For businesses, this means tapping into a broader informational spectrum without the need for manual data entry or updates. or "How can I modify my direct deposit account?"

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

More than two million people across the United States will receive notice that their personal and sensitive health information was stolen earlier this year during a cyberattack at Postmeds, the parent company of online pharmacy startup Truepill.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Reuters and The Information first reported last week that several OpenAI staff members had, in a letter to the AI startup’s board of directors, flagged the “prowess” and “potential danger” […] © 2023 TechCrunch. Has OpenAI invented an AI technology with the potential to “threaten humanity”?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

This gives search engines a lot of power over the data that might inform web-connected language models’ answers. ” But the company also says that it’s “implemented several safeguards” informed by internal and external red teams to prevent this. Time will tell whether they’re sufficient.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2023

TechCrunch has learned that MarketForce’s super-app dubbed RejaReja, which enables informal retailers (mom-and-pop stores) to order fast moving consumer goods (FMCGs) directly from distributors and manufacturers […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Good data governance has always involved dealing with errors and inconsistencies in datasets, as well as indexing and classifying that structured data by removing duplicates, correcting typos, standardizing and validating the format and type of data, and augmenting incomplete information or detecting unusual and impossible variations in the data.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Anil Goel, the CTO of Byju’s, is leaving the edtech giant, he informed some colleagues amid a broader restructuring at the Bengaluru-headquartered startup as it looks to pare down costs and unify many of its businesses. Jiny Thattil is replacing Goel as the CTO, according to an internal communication.

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

However, even data that is specific to an organization is seldom timeless; it is simply a snapshot in time that can become outdated, resulting in information that loses context. Protect sensitive information. Without high-quality organization-specific context, genAI may produce outputs that lack coherence, relevance, or diversity.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The Information first broke the news. Navan, an expense management startup once known as TripActions, has laid off 5% of its staff, or 145 people, a spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch today.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

MobileCoin confirmed the information in a statement sent to Bloomberg and ABC7 News. On Tuesday morning, at 2:35 a.m., the San Francisco Police Department responded to a report of a stabbing near the 300 block of Main Street in SoMa. He was taken to a hospital but succumbed to his injuries.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Descargue el informe completo aquí Las tres crisis de productividad de las empresas (y cómo abordarlas) Las nuevas tecnologías han elevado las expectativas de las empresas en torno a lo que pueden ser capaces de lograr para sus negocios. Descargue el informe completo aquí En colaboración con Ricoh España

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CIO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In investigating this phenomenon, Ng found the practice is becoming increasingly common, especially at large companies and in sectors requiring high skills, such as information technology. Enter Ghost Jobs.” Why is it so hard to find a job? Interestingly, according to Ng, ghost offers are also an element of intra-company games.

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Martin Fowler

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

They describe how GenAI's ability to process unstructured information makes it much easier to build a capability map of a legacy system, tying the capabilities of a system to the relevant parts of the source code.

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CIO

AUGUST 21, 2024

A recent Forrester study shows a growing number of companies feel their workers spend too much time looking for information they need – 40% today vs. 19% just five years ago. Users can get business-specific answers, not generic answers like with consumer large language models, to make better-informed decisions.”

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CIO

OCTOBER 1, 2024

With all these areas spreading their poised feet into the digital era of human transformation, the number of vulnerabilities and open doors to bypass the devices to reach the backend servers, manipulate data, exfiltrate information, compromise systems and harness all the critical information spread across the deep and dark web becomes prominent.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The integration also lets them share and sell products, share invoices/receipts, record sales, store buyers’ information and request payments on the Bumpa app while it reflects on their customers’ Instagram DMs. All these transactions occur without the merchants leaving Bumpa and the buyer leaving Instagram. “We

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

While LLMs are trained on large amounts of information, they have expanded the attack surface for businesses. Threat actors have their eyes set on AI-powered cybersecurity tools that gather information across data sets, which can include confidential information. Take for instance large language models (LLMs) for GenAI.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

They also allow enterprises to provide more examples or guidelines in the prompt, embed contextual information, or ask follow-up questions. For example, an application that uses gen AI to write marketing letters can pull relevant customer information from a database, allowing the AI to have access to the most recent data.

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