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TechCrunch+ roundup: Pricing strategy, technical due diligence, pitch deck appendix fever

TechCrunch

” Until you’ve conducted extensive research on your users and competitors, there’s no way to know whether your services are priced improperly. For years, conventional wisdom said it was a useless evolutionary holdover, but we’ve since learned that it helps strengthen the immune system. Here’s why.

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Research: How Ratings Systems Shape User Behavior in the Gig Economy

Harvard Business Review

Incremental rating systems, employed by platforms like TaskRabbit and Airbnb, offer a detailed view by listing and often providing insights into every individual review score. Averaged rating systems, used by platforms such as Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash, present an overall score that aggregates all individual ratings.

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Thousands of NetSuite stores leak sensitive data due to access control misconfiguration

CIO

Researchers have found that several thousand Oracle NetSuite customers are inadvertently leaking sensitive data to unauthenticated users through externally facing stores built with NetSuite SuiteCommerce or NetSuite Site Builder.

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Australia pushes for AI rules, focusing on oversight and accountability

CIO

The guidelines include provisions to “enable human control or intervention” within AI systems to ensure meaningful oversight and to inform end-users “regarding AI-enabled decisions,” interactions with AI, and AI-generated content. First, the time required for human review can be substantial,” Kawoosa said.

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Revere is creating a ratings system for the venture capital industry

TechCrunch

The startup, launching publicly today, is building a rating system for the venture capital industry. Using data provided by an emerging venture firm, Revere uses 20 categories to verify, aggregate and research into the quality of the firm across 5 areas: sourcing, team, value add, track record and firm management.

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This week in AI: Amazon ‘enhances’ reviews with AI while Snap’s goes rogue

TechCrunch

So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of the last week’s stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. This week in AI, Amazon announced that it’ll begin tapping generative AI to “enhance” product reviews.

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Unveiling the risks of OT systems and how to secure them

CIO

When we consider what security means for an organization, most think of needing to secure systems and devices like cloud computing instances, servers, employee workstations, and other tech commonly seen in the workplace. To address this, attack surface management (ASM) offers a lifeline for organizations to secure their OT systems.