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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

New cyber operations in key sectors Historically, Chinese cyber espionage groups have predominantly targeted organizations from the government, technology, and telecommunications sectors and that continued in 2024. They complicate attribution due to the often short-lived nature of the IP addresses of the nodes being used.

Industry 198
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Fintech Roundup: Due diligence makes a comeback and a former Better.com employee speaks out

TechCrunch

Investors appeared to be backing some startups in part due to FOMO, and that’s not necessarily a good thing. It’s an absolutely different environment from Q4 of last year,” he said, “not just in terms of the level of diligence but also, in the access to capital. And in his view, and mine quite frankly, that’s not a bad thing.

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

New cyber operations in key sectors Historically, Chinese cyber espionage groups have predominantly targeted organizations from the government, technology, and telecommunications sectors and that continued in 2024. They complicate attribution due to the often short-lived nature of the IP addresses of the nodes being used.

Industry 147
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Bodyguard is a mobile app that hides toxic content on social platforms

TechCrunch

If you’re somewhat famous on various social networks, chances are you are exposed to hate speech in your replies or in your comments. We have developed a technology that detects hate speech on the internet with a 90 to 95% accuracy and only 2% of false positive,” founder and CEO Charles Cohen told me.

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Infogrid raises $90M for its AI-driven building monitoring tech

TechCrunch

” De Gruchy — who has a fascinating history, having studied cage fighting and served as an army officer before pivoting to a quieter, white-collar career in due diligence analysis — founded Infogrid in 2018. “This trains our AI, which is then refined with user feedback, making it better.”

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#MyTechFrenemy

TechCrunch

Founded by Awodele in 2020, MyTechBestFriend (MTBF) launched to public acclaim, especially within the Black tech community. For a minimum of $3,000, it offers to teach people skills, such as technical writing, and help prime them find high-paying tech jobs. A lot of the people who signed up for MTBF were new to tech.

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Google to offer 40,000 developer scholarships in Africa; continues accelerator program

TechCrunch

Google will offer the scholarships — created in partnership with tech talent companies Pluralsight and Andela — to developers spread across mobile and cloud development tracks. Last year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the first virtual class of Google for Startups Accelerator Africa was launched.