Month: April 2023

A look at the impact of TerraUSD and FTX’s collapse on the South Korean crypto industry, as Korean media reports the TerraUSD project had ~200,000 local victims (Emily Parker/CoinDesk)

Emily Parker / CoinDesk: A look at the impact of TerraUSD and FTX’s collapse on the South Korean crypto industry, as Korean media reports the TerraUSD project had ~200,000 local victims  —  The collapse of Terra continues to reverberate in Do Kwon’s homeland, but there are signs of progress, CoinDesk’s Emily Parker reports.

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Hackers reportedly holding Western Digital data hostage

Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Hackers who claim to have breached Western Digital have reportedly stolen around 10 terabytes of data from the company and are holding it hostage. TechCrunch spoke to the hackers who appear to have control over Western Digital’s code-signing certificate, private phone numbers belonging to company executives, stolen SAP

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Making a new business case for cloud computing

It’s a familiar scene in 2023. A CIO nervously presents the cloud migration status to the board of directors. After a quick flip through a dozen or so PowerPoint slides and a review of the budget that supports the projects, a few uncomfortable questions arise: What cost savings is “the cloud” returning to the business?

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Making the most of geospatial intelligence

In today’s data-dependent world, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day. By 2025, IDC predicts that 150 trillion gigabytes of real-time data will need analysis daily. How will businesses keep up with this incomprehensible amount of data and make sense of the vast amounts of data they are dealing with now and for

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What is platform engineering? Evolving devops

Platform engineering is a newer idea that aims to put the lessons of real-world devops into a more concrete, reproducible form. Devops is a powerful trend in software development because it helps to break down barriers in the software development life cycle. Platform engineering can benefit software organizations by improving quality, developer experience, and the

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NYC-based NetBox Labs, whose open-source software helps manage and automate networks, raised a $20M Series A after spinning out of NS1, which IBM agreed to buy (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: NYC-based NetBox Labs, whose open-source software helps manage and automate networks, raised a $20M Series A after spinning out of NS1, which IBM agreed to buy  —  NetBox Labs, a new open source startup spun out of VC-backed network automation company NS1 back in January …

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Spotify brings its “broadcast-to-podcast” tech, which it acquired from Whooshkaa in 2021, to Megaphone, letting publishers convert radio shows into podcasts (J. Clara Chan/The Hollywood Reporter)

J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter: Spotify brings its “broadcast-to-podcast” tech, which it acquired from Whooshkaa in 2021, to Megaphone, letting publishers convert radio shows into podcasts  —  Fox Corp. is one partner using the audio giant’s “broadcast-to-podcast” technology to turn existing Fox radio shows into on-demand podcasts.

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Electric Volkswagen Adds Rooftop Solar

Volkswagen has continually teased the release of a new Microbus in the same way that Duke Nukem Forever strung us all along in the 00s, but unlike the fated video game it seems as though Volkswagen is finally building a hip new van rather than continually teasing its release year after year. With the clunky

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Twitter adds support for tweets up to 10,000 characters in length, with italic and bold text formatting, for Blue subscribers (@twitterwrite)

@twitterwrite: Twitter adds support for tweets up to 10,000 characters in length, with italic and bold text formatting, for Blue subscribers  —  We’re making improvements to the writing and reading experience on Twitter! Starting today, Twitter now supports Tweets up to 10,000 characters in length, with bold and italic text formatting. Sign up for Twitter

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Hacker advocacy group Hacking Policy Council launches to support security researchers’ work; founding members include HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Google, and Intel (Tonya Riley/CyberScoop)

Tonya Riley / CyberScoop: Hacker advocacy group Hacking Policy Council launches to support security researchers’ work; founding members include HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Google, and Intel  —  “There are advocacy groups for reptile owners but not hackers, so that seems like a miss,” said Ilona Cohen of HackerOne.

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