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Polygon founder raises $50M for emerging markets-focused web3 venture fund
Ethereum layer-two scaling platform Polygon raised $450 million earlier this year in its first major financing round. Now, the protocol’s co-founder Sandeep Nailwal is launching another project,
Zilliz, the startup behind the Milvus open source vector database for AI apps, raises $60M, relocates to SF
In 2020, Chinese startup Zilliz — which builds cloud-native software to process data for AI applications and unstructured data analytics, and is the creator of Milvus, the popular open source ve
As digital tracking wanes, companies turn to online communities for direct access to customers
We spoke to a number of industry experts to get their take on community building and what it means for SaaS companies as they look for growth opportunities in a changing privacy landscape.
DuckDuckGo removes carve-out for Microsoft tracking scripts after securing policy change
A few months on from a tracking controversy hitting privacy-centric search veteran, DuckDuckGo, the company has announced it’s been able to amend terms with Microsoft, its search syndication par
Protestware on the rise: Why developers are sabotaging their own code
Ax Sharma Contributor Share on Twitter Ax Sharma is a security researcher and reporter. His areas of interest include open source software security, malware analysis, data breaches and scam investigat
CircleCI partners with GitLab
CircleCI, the popular continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform, today announced a partnership with GitLab, the popular DevOps platform that also offers an integrated CI/CD service. That ma
GitHub slows hiring for certain roles as it prioritizes ‘strategic hires’
GitHub appears to have pulled back on hiring across certain parts of the organization, becoming the latest tech giant to refactor its recruitment strategy in anticipation of an economic downturn. Acco
Medusa’s open source e-commerce tool for JavaScript developers aims to take on Shopify
Medusa aims to offer APIs beyond the standard marketplaces ones for merchants to build more advanced features like fulfillment, subscriptions or a wholesale channel.
Open source developers urged to ditch GitHub following Copilot launch
Software Freedom Conservancy, a not-for-profit organization that provides support and legal services for open source software projects, has called on the open source community to ditch GitHub after qu
Security-as-code startup Jit comes out of stealth with $38.5M in seed funding
Jit, a startup that helps developers automate product security by codifying their security plans and workflows as code that can then be managed in a code repository like GitHub, today announced that i
Amazon launches CodeWhisperer, a GitHub Copilot-like AI pair programming tool
At its re:Mars conference, Amazon today announced the launch of CodeWhisperer, an AI pair programming tool similar to GitHub’s Copilot that can autocomplete entire functions based on only a comm
Copilot, GitHub’s AI-powered programming assistant, is now generally available
Last June, Microsoft-owned GitHub andĀ OpenAIĀ launched Copilot, a service that provides suggestions for whole lines of code inside development environments like Microsoft Visual Studio. Available as
DX exits stealth mode looking to help developer teams be more productive
DX is now emerging from stealth with 5,000 developer teams from companies including Chime and Upwork on board.
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GitHub sunsets Atom, the software dev environment it launched in 2011
GitHub today announced that it will sunset Atom, the text editor for software development that the company introduced in 2011. In a blog post, GitHub said that it will archive the Atom repository and
GitLab-spinoff Meltano raises another $8.2M for its open source DataOps platform
Almost exactly a year ago, GitLab spun out Meltano, an ELT (extract, load, transform) service that is now setting its sights on becoming a more fully featured “DataOps” service. At the tim
AppOmni raises $70M to find and secure vulnerabilities in SaaS app stacks
As more enterprises migrate apps and workloads into the cloud, so grows the need for more sophisticated tech to secure that activity. That’s resulted in a strong run of funding rounds for startu
Application security testing platform Code Intelligence raises $12M Series A
Code Intelligence, an automated application security testing platform based in Bonn, Germany, that focuses on fuzzing, announced today that it has raised a $12 million Series A funding round led by To
4 ways to make your engineering team more productive
Improving the efficiency of your software engineering team has many advantages, prime among which is the ability to make up for problems in other areas.
Copilot, GitHub’s AI-powered coding tool, will be free for students
Last June, Microsoft-owned GitHub and OpenAI launched Copilot, a service that provides suggestions for whole lines of code inside development environments like Microsoft Visual Studio. Available as a