Canadian-based gold miner among the latest MOVEit data breach victims
One of the biggest gold and copper miners in the world is among the latest companies to be listed as victims of the vulnerability in Progress Sofware’s MOVEit file transfer platform, according to a cybersecurity researcher. Brett Callow, Canadian-based threat researcher for Emsisoft, tweeted today that Barrick Gold Corp. of
Read MoreBuilding a Sync Bridge
Adapting event-driven APIs to Promises in JavaScriptEvent-driven architecture (EDA) is a powerful way of building loosely coupled, performant, scalable apps on the web. It enables rich experiences like push notifications, collaborative editing and multiplayer, and other real-time interactions, and encourages modularity.But sometimes the model is inconsistent with what we as
Read MoreCrypto funding drops for fifth straight quarter as investors continue to pull back
Funding for crypto startups continues to grow more scarce. Venture capital flowing into the industry dropped for the fifth consecutive quarter since Q1 2022 to $2.34 billion globally as investors withhold their checkbooks, fearing risks from a severe regulatory stance and an uncertain economy. The second quarter’s $2.34 billion tally
Read More75+ Handpicked Programming Articles Across Medium (April-June 2023)
Better Programming Issue #93Welcome to the latest issue of Coffee Bytes, a newsletter featuring a diverse set of programming stories across Medium to help you get inspired and code throughout this week.This edition spans from Mojo, the buzzing new programming language that seemingly everyone is talking about, to the latest goodies announced
Read MoreOpenAI is forming a new team to bring ‘superintelligent’ AI under control
OpenAI is forming a new team led by Ilya Sutskever, its chief scientist and one of the company’s co-founders, to develop ways to steer and control “superintelligent” AI systems. In a blog post published today, Sutskever and Jan Leike, a lead on the alignment team at OpenAI, predict that AI
Read MoreAstra establishes subsidiary for spacecraft engine business
Astra is carving out its spacecraft engine business as a wholly owned subsidiary, a corporate restructuring that will provide greater flexibility in hiring and financing, according to documents viewed by TechCrunch and a person familiar with the matter. The new subsidiary, Astra Spacecraft Engines, Inc., was incorporated in Delaware on
Read MoreJudge silences White House social media talks in lawsuit that departs from reality
Over the July 4 holiday, it emerged that a judge in Louisiana had issued an injunction preventing the White House from speaking to social media companies in certain ways. The lawsuit this decision is part of, it must be said, is quite mad. Robert F. Kennedy Jr swallowed the Twitter
Read MoreGfycat, the Snap-owned GIF hub, shuts down on September 1
Gfycat, the Snap-owned GIF-hosting platform, announced that it’s shutting down on September 1, pulling its full archive of GIFs offline. Users have two months to save content before it leaves the platform forever. “The Gfycat service is being discontinued,” a message on the website writes. “Please save or delete your
Read MoreBill C-18: Government of Canada to suspend advertising on Facebook and Instagram
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez announced in a press conference today that the federal government will be suspending advertising on Meta’s Facebook and Instagram as a response to Meta’s decision to block news content following the passing of Bill C-18. Rodriguez referred to Facebook’s decision to end news content in Canada
Read MoreAnnouncing the SaaS Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has become something akin to the default model for software distribution. But it’s more than a business model. It’s also a way of developing and managing software throughout its life cycle — and that means its underpinnings are forever changing. We decided to host a special SaaS Stage
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