How the role of open-source maintainers could be professionalized, as the maintainer who fixed the log4j zero-day says he works on the project in his spare time
Open Source software runs the Internet, and by extension the economy. This is an undisputed fact about reality in 2021.
Rescuers confirm at least six workers died in an Amazon warehouse hit by tornadoes in Illinois as search continues for more trapped workers
Six Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) workers were confirmed dead on Saturday after a series of tornadoes roared through a warehouse near St. Louis …
Narendra Modi's Twitter account was briefly compromised, tweeting that India had adopted bitcoin as legal tender and linking to a sketchy website
The Twitter account of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi was “briefly compromised” on Sunday, his office said.
AWS blames its hours-long Tuesday outage on network devices overloading, plans to revamp its status page to address complaints about updates and support cases
- A major Amazon Web Services outage on Tuesday started after network devices got overloaded, the company said on Friday.
How a bug in Android 10 and above, triggered by the user not being logged in to the Microsoft Teams app, could prevent 911 calls
On the 29th of November, Reddit user KitchenPicture 5849 posted a harrowing story about how their Pixel phone failed to connect to emergency services.
Investigation: a site providing directions on how to die is linked to at least ~45 suicides, as Google and Bing refuse to remove it absent a legal requirement
It has the trappings of popular social media, a young audience and explicit content on suicide that other sites don't allow.
TrueNorth, a logistics service for independent truckers, raises a $50M Series B led by the Altman brothers and former Stripe executive Lachy Groom
Jin Stedge studied aerospace engineering at MIT, but after she found herself at Scotty Labs, an SRI International spin-out focused on autonomous driving …
Instacart president Carolyn Everson says she will step down at the end of the year, less than four months after joining the company
Reveleer, which lets US government-sponsored health care payers analyze member and provider data, raises $65M led by Oak HC/FT
Reveleer, a cloud-based platform helping payers analyze member and provider data, has landed $65 million in fresh capital. — The company allows government … Source: Reveleer .
Analysis of 166 tech IPOs from 2010 to 2019: the 30 most valuable startups raised half as much capital and produced nearly 4X the value as the 30 most funded
Does raising a large amount of capital make a startup more likely to succeed? Is capital a weapon? Do startup founders need to “go big or go home?” Tweets: @micahjay1 , @josephflaherty , @josephflah...
Salesforce Chief Revenue Officer admits the MuleSoft unit is “going through a bit of a rough patch”, amid a wave of high-level departures, sales growth slowdown
- Unit key to company's future ‘Customer 360’ ambitions — Executive says MuleSoft has hit ‘a bit of a rough patch’
Congressional hearings with tech CEOs and execs in the past few years have yielded no new laws amid partisan divides over issues like privacy and misinformation
Holding a hearing that humbles the most powerful business executives in the world is much easier than legislating. Tweets: @ceciliakang , @brandyzadrozny , @colincrowell , @nytpolitics , @nytimesbusin...
Assembly, a new blockchain under the IOTA network focused on DeFi, NFTs, and crypto game development, raises $100M and plans to launch its token next year
Some of the largest Asian venture capital firms and crypto hedge funds will invest $100 million to further develop applications …
Profile of the Coalition for App Fairness, a group launched by Epic, Spotify, Tile, Match Group, and others to fight Google and Apple's app store policies
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ServiceTrade, which offers SaaS applications to commercial service contractors, raises $85M led by JMI Equity
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Tsinghua Unigroup, a heavily indebted Chinese chip conglomerate, says a consortium led by JAC Capital and Wise Road Capital would become its strategic investor
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Brazil's Ministry of Health suffers a major ransomware attack, blocking access to millions of COVID-19 digital vaccination certificates and 50TB of data
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Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.