The Overflow #191: Between product and engineering
Welcome to ISSUE #191 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: I/O-heavy operations on the edge, the earliest programs called AI, and happiness is a developer community called Laravel. From the blog Speeding up the
Read moreNew Research Into South Africa’s SME Tech Landscape
Nearly two-thirds (63%) of South African small and medium enterprises (SMEs) effectively utilize technology, but a notable technology effectiveness gap exists between male and female business owners. This insight is derived from The South African SME Tech Index 2023, which gauges technology efficiency through research conducted by World Wide Worx
Read morePeak XV ramps up dealmaking following Sequoia split
Peak XV Partners has signed over 10 term sheets and executed three exits in the 10 weeks since it announced a split with Sequoia, according to minutes shared by an attendee to a closed-door gathering between the venture firm and its portfolio founders Friday. The accelerated dealmaking comes at a
Read moreKaspersky Bolsters INTERPOL’s Africa Cyber Surge II with Vital Threat Intelligence
Kaspersky played a crucial role in supporting INTERPOL’s Africa Cyber Surge II operation, aiding investigators in identifying compromised infrastructure and apprehending cybercrime suspects. The collaborative effort yielded remarkable outcomes, including 14 arrests and the discovery of network infrastructure linked to over $40 million in losses. Strengthening Cybercrime Departments and Partnerships
Read moreFor climate tech startups, the IRA is starting to pay off
The Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law by President Joe Biden in August 2022, has allocated $400 billion in federal dollars for clean energy projects as the United States aims for up to a 40% reduction in economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. And even startups are beginning to benefit.
Read moreBuild a JavaScript Tool Library That Simulates Interfaces to Generate Random Data
Image generated using MidjourneyWhen it comes to web development, many frontend developers have experienced the waiting process for backend API integration. Initially, when the backend APIs are not ready, many developers are unable to start working and can only do some preliminary preparations, which can feel like a waste of time.Some
Read moreCyber Security Today, August 18, 2023 – CISA urges action on a Citrix ShareFile vulnerability, and more
The CISA urges action on a Citrix ShareFile vulnerability, and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday, August 18th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. A vulnerability in the storage zones controller of Citrix’s ShareFile file transfer application has caught
Read moreWhy generalist investors will always win
Will Robbins Contributor Share on Twitter Will Robbins is a general partner at Contrary Capital. More posts by this contributor In the new normal for VC, builders will win Opportunities (and challenges) in church tech Year after year, vertical-specific investors become increasingly central to the venture world. Andreessen Horowitz’s American
Read moreCommunication using thought alone? Unbabel unveils AI project to give us superhuman capabilities
Sitting in a meeting room in a startup office in Lisbon, I silently typed the answer to a question only the person opposite would know the answer to. What kind of coffee had I asked for when I’d arrived at the office? A short moment later, without even moving or
Read moreDo 5% less
I’ve been thinking about things that were ruined by doing about 5% more than was necessary, like an actor whose plastic surgery looks plastic. Sometimes excellence requires pushing ourselves to do more than we want to do or more than we think we can do. But sometimes excellence requires restraint.
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