Connie Guglielmo / CNET: CNET’s EIC reflects on the outlet’s AI use and lessons learned, like ensuring that bylines and disclosures are visible and plagiarism checks are done properly — New tools are accelerating change in the publishing industry. We’re going to help shape that change.
Daily Archives: January 25, 2023
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The Economic Times: Sources: Accel Partners and Tiger Global are in talks to sell their remaining Flipkart stakes, ~1% and ~4% respectively, to parent company Walmart for ~$1.5B — Happy 74th Republic Day! — Two early backers of Flipkart – venture fund Accel Partners and New York-based investment firm Tiger […]
Anastassia Gliadkovskaya / Fierce Healthcare: Angle Health, a service that helps its clients’ employees navigate telehealth, behavioral, and insurance benefits, raised a $58M Series A led by Portage — Angle Health, a payer serving employers, has raised $58 million to expand to new markets. By bundling telehealth and behavioral benefits […]
Ron Miller / TechCrunch: New Jersey-based AtomicJar, which is building a cloud version of its co-founders’ open-source microservices testing tool Testcontainers, raised a $25M Series A — Working with, microservices-based development environments presents a unique set of testing challenges.
Menghan Xiao / SC Media: Using automation, Trellix patches nearly 62K open-source projects susceptible to a Python path traversal flaw first disclosed in 2007, affecting ~350K projects — The Trellix research team said they have patched nearly 62,000 open-source projects that were susceptible to a 15-year-old path …
Bloomberg: Analysis: SoftBank’s new startup bets hit a record low in Q4 2022, with eight investment rounds totaling $2.1B; source: Vision Fund investments were below $350M — SoftBank Group Corp.’s new startup bets hit a record low last quarter as valuations continued to slide, chilling an already frosty startup winter.
CoinDesk: Report: South Korean prosecutors are seeking the arrest of Bithumb owner Kang Jong-Hyun, as part of a wider probe into the crypto exchange and its affiliates — Kang Jong-Hyun and his sister are under investigation for embezzlement related to tax evasion allegations against Bithumb.
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Meta is paying BuzzFeed to help generate creator content for Facebook and Instagram and to train creators as part of a ~$10M deal reached in 2022 — Partnership marks latest iteration of yearslong relationship between digital publisher and social-media giant
Ian King / Bloomberg: Lam Research, one of the three biggest providers of chip manufacturing equipment in the US, plans to cut ~7% of its workforce, or about 1,300 jobs worldwide — Lam Research Corp., one of the three biggest providers of chip-manufacturing equipment in the US, is cutting about […]
Enlarge Three weeks ago, panic swept across some corners of the security world after researchers discovered a breakthrough that, at long last, put the cracking of the widely used RSA encryption scheme within reach by using quantum computing. Scientists and cryptographers have known for two decades that a factorization method […]