Databricks launches Project Lightspeed, its next-gen Spark streaming engine
At its Data + AI Summit, Databricks today made the requisite number of announcements one would expect from a company’s flagship developer...
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Amazon launches CodeWhisperer, a GitHub Copilot-like AI pair programming tool
At its re:Mars conference, Amazon today announced the launch of CodeWhisperer, an AI pair programming tool similar to GitHub’s Copilot that can...
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Adobe releases open source tools to counter visual misinformation
Adobe has a vision for an internet peppered with photos and videos packaged up with extra data about where they came from. The company’s central...
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Entertainment site Fandom adds long-requested creator features, ‘Interactive Wiki Maps’ and ‘Fandom Trivia’
Fandom, a wiki hosting service and fan platform with over 300 million monthly active users and 250,000 wiki communities, has just announced its...
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Namibian B2B e-commerce retail platform JABU raises $15M led by Tiger Global
More venture capital keeps trooping into Africa’s B2B e-commerce retail, a space where startups are digitizing informal trade to get thousands of...
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Daily Crunch: PayPal Ventures leads $50M Series B for Egyptian fintech Paymob
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Cloudflare heads effort to make JavaScript environments interoperable
Cloudflare announced that it's collaborating with Deno and Node.js contributors to make JavaScript web app environments work seamlessly together.
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Prisma raises $40M for its open source ‘Rosetta stone’ for database languages
When it comes to building databases and other backend software development, different organizations and developers do not always speak the same...
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Why Akamai bought Linode
Akamai announced acquired Linode, the well-loved cloud hosting service, to build out its own cloud and edge computing portfolio.
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Twitter rolls back change, restoring the text of deleted embedded tweets
Twitter quietly reversed a controversial decision the company implemented last week, restoring the text of since-deleted tweets embedded on external...
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Twitter is wiping embeds of deleted tweets from the web
Twitter is hiding the text of tweets that were embedded on websites and later deleted. The change is proving controversial.
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Stackblitz raises $7.9M to bring a better IDE to your browser
StackBlitz, a developer-focused startup that uses WebAssembly and WebContainers to give you a full development environment in your browser, today...
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Mozilla launches paid subscriptions to its Developer Network
Mozilla today launched its new MDN Plus subscription product with features like offline reading, collections and notifications. Paid tiers start at...
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Study: 30% of Log4Shell instances remain vulnerable
Considering recent APT41 attacks, organizations that continue to leave the Log4Shell flaw unaddressed are hitting the snooze button when it comes to...
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China-backed APT41 compromised ‘at least’ six US state governments
The state-sponsored hacking group was discovered stealing credentials.
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Depict.ai raises $17M to give e-commerce sites Amazon-level product recommendation muscle
Amazon rules the roost when it comes to e-commerce, not just because of its size but because of how it uses that to amass large amounts information...
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Voximplant’s service to build voice and video comms into apps comes out of beta
Companies that help businesses integrate voice and video communication into their apps and services have proliferated in recent years, with services...
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3 ways web3 recruiters can improve their hiring game
The internet is undergoing a drastic facelift, but the journey to get to the internet of the future is so complex that companies are struggling to...
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A CISO’s playbook for responding to zero-day exploits
We keep calling every new zero-day exploit a “wake up call,” but all we have been doing is collectively hitting the snooze button.
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FTC warns of legal action against organizations that fail to patch Log4j flaw
The agency warned that the Log4Shell zero-day vulnerability poses a "severe risk" to millions of U.S. consumers.
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Apple iCloud, Twitter and Minecraft vulnerable to ‘ubiquitous’ zero-day exploit
A number of popular services, including Apple iCloud, Twitter, Cloudflare, Minecraft and Steam, are reportedly vulnerable to a zero-day exploit...
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Airplane soars with $8.5M to make creating internal tools less burdensome
With developers in mind, the company gives engineers back the time they were spending building internal tools and away from product engineering.
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Vercel acquires Turborepo
Vercel, the well-funded front-end development platform from the team behind Next.js, today announced that it has acquired Turborepo, a...
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AWS introduces a solution to get customers off their mainframes more quickly
At Amazon’s AWS re:Invent conference this morning, the company announced a new platform for mainframe migration and modernization called simply...
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Microsoft brings JavaScript to Excel
At its Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced an update to Excel that brings a new JavaScript API to the venerable spreadsheet app. With this...
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Technical interview platform Byteboard spins out of Google’s Area 120, takes on new funding
Byteboard, a service designed to replace the pre-onsite technical interview part of a company’s hiring process with a web-based alternative,...
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What3Words sent a legal threat to a security researcher for sharing an open-source alternative
But the company can't point to a single case of copyright infringement.
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Erase All Kittens raises $1M seed round for Mario-style game which teaches girls to code
Erase All Kittens (EAK) is an edtech startup that created a “Mario-style” web-based game designed for kids aged 8-12. However, the game...
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