Sprinklr, a U.S. firm offering a customer experience management platform to global brands, has laid off about 3% of its workforce — around 116 people — to realign its customer operations team, the company confirmed to TechCrunch in a statement. The new job cuts come over a year after the company cut about 4% of its headcount in February last year. The New York-headquartered company, which counts … [Read more...]
Backend Authentication: The Role of Access and Refresh Tokens
OAuth 2.0 is the industry standard for delivering sensitive authorization-related information across the web, typically in the form of a JSON Web Token(JWT).It uses two tokens—Access Token and Refresh Token. These tokens help securely manage access to protected resources without users needing to keep logging in repeatedly. Let's now delve deep and understand what and why these tokens are … [Read more...]
Despite recent successes, IPO market still won’t fully open until 2025
This year already proved that startups are willing to go public in a less-than-ideal market — and get rewarded for it, too. But bankers, lawyers and investors said the recent IPO successes aren’t enough to foster more than a dozen tech IPOs this year. “I don’t think we will have the floodgates open like I might have thought,” Greg Martin, co-founder and managing director at Rainmaker Securities, … [Read more...]
Redfall’s two DLC heroes are still MIA a year later
As Microsoft tries to beef up its in-house Xbox studios, it may want to be more careful about leaving a trail of broken promises when things don’t go as planned. A year after the hyped vampire shooter Redfall landed with a thud, a Kotaku report highlights how players are still waiting for the advertised post-launch DLC they already paid for.Redfall’s Bite Back Edition is a $100 collector’s variant … [Read more...]
Instagram's 'Add Yours' sticker now lets you share songs
Instagram just announced some new features coming to Stories, including a suite of interactive stickers. The music one is perhaps the most interesting, as it's an extension of the pre-existing Add Yours feature. The Add Yours Music sticker lets users share their favorite songs, along with a prompt for followers to get in on the fun by sharing their own related tracks. Of course, the song has to … [Read more...]
6 reasons AMD is better than Intel for the average gamer
In the world of computing, there's always been a pretty big war between Team Red and Team Blue. Until recent years, you'd have been forgiven for saying that Intel was better for gamers; after all, pre-Ryzen 5000 series, it was. Games simply ran better on older Intel CPUs, and AMDs multithreading-focused FX CPUs didn't really offer much in terms of tangible performance benefits. Even early Ryzen … [Read more...]
EQT snaps up API and identity management software company WSO2 for more than $600M
WSO2, a company that provides API management and identity and access management (IAM) services for enterprises, has been acquired by Swedish investment giant EQT. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but TechCrunch has learned via sources that the deal values WSO2 at “more than” $600 million, with EQT attaining a “significant majority” stake for the price. WSO2’s products include an open-source … [Read more...]
GitHub announces new updates to improve supply chain security
GitHub has released two updates designed to help secure software supply chains. The company announced a public beta of Artifact Attestations for GitHub Actions, which makes it easier for companies to verify where software components came from, and announced that Dependabot can now be run as a GitHub Actions workflow. Artifact Attestation allows maintainers of open-source software to easily … [Read more...]
Microsoft Overhauls Cybersecurity Strategy After Scathing CSRB Report
In the wake of a scathing US government report that condemned Microsoft’s weak cybersecurity practices and lax corporate culture, security chief Charlie Bell is pledging significant reforms and a strategic shift to prioritize security above all other product features. “This is job number one for us,” Bell said in his first public comments since Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) called public … [Read more...]
Tesla’s Supercharger layoffs couldn’t have come at a worse time
a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray">Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty ImagesBounced emails. Stalled projects. Delayed adapters. These are the immediate effects … [Read more...]
New Windows 11 beta lets you duplicate your File Explorer tabs
The week may be almost over, but Microsoft is sending us off into the weekend with a neat little feature for Windows Insiders on the Beta channel. The company is rolling out a new update for this channel, which brings the OS build number to 22635.3570, and it comes with a single major addition, that being the ability to duplicate tabs in File Explorer. Source: xda-developers.com … [Read more...]
10 years in the making, retro game emulator Delta is now #1 on the iOS charts
Video game emulator Delta’s decade-long struggle against the iOS app store began with a school-issued TI-84 calculator. When Riley Testut was a sophomore in high school, he showed his friends how to load illicit software onto their bulky graphing calculators. Such behavior was generally discouraged at school, but he wasn’t plotting to cheat on a test. He was simply traversing the Viridian Forest, … [Read more...]
Helldivers 2 will require Steam players to link to a PSN account
a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray">Image: Arrowhead Game StudiosAttention, Democracy Defenders: Helldivers 2 will soon require players on Steam to link their account to a … [Read more...]
Climate tech investment roars back with an $8.1B start to 2024
Climate tech startups raised $8.1 billion in the first quarter, near record amounts of money that suggest 2023’s quite close might have been little more than a blip than the sign of a protracted downturn. The figure, contained in a new report from PitchBook, shows that climate tech hasn’t succumbed to the same slowdown that has dragged on the rest of the venture community. While the number of … [Read more...]
Allozymes puts its accelerated enzymatics to work on a data and AI play, raising $15M
Allozymes’ ingenious method of quickly testing millions of bio-based chemical reactions is proving to be not just a useful service, but the basis of a unique and valuable dataset. And where there’s a dataset, there’s AI — and where there’s AI, there are investors. The company just raised a $15 million series A to grow its business from a helpful service to a world-class resource. We first covered … [Read more...]
Cloud revenue accelerates 21% to $76 billion for the latest earnings cycle
Last year’s doldrums are in the rearview Ron Miller 7 hours If you were concerned about slowing cloud infrastructure growth for a time in 2023, you can finally relax: The cloud was back with a vengeance this quarter. The market as a whole was up a healthy $13.5 billion to $76 billion, up 21% of the first quarter in 2024, per Synergy … [Read more...]
Apex Legends is getting a solo mode for the first time in five years
Apex Legends will soon offer a Solos mode for the first time since 2019, even though developer Respawn Entertainment said earlier this year it had no plans to let players run amok in the battle by themselves again. When the next season starts, Solos will replace the Duos mode for six weeks.The game is designed and tuned for squads of three, but Respawn recently told reporters that it "wanted to … [Read more...]
Hands-on: This app makes Windows games playable on macOS without the hassle
Apple is really trying to improve the stature of macOS as a gaming platform for the first time in years, adding crucial porting frameworks like the Game Porting Toolkit and user-facing features like Game Mode. However, the best Macs still aren't all that great for gaming. Power isn't the issue anymore, because even low-end Apple Silicon laptops and desktops are capable of playing many AAA titles … [Read more...]
Hisense is launching a $999 CanvasTV as a cheaper rival to Samsung’s Frame
a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray">Image: HisenseHisense is launching the CanvasTV, a matte television designed to display artwork and photos, letting it blend in with the … [Read more...]
NIST GenAI program launches to study how to distinguish AI-generated and human-generated content
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced a new pilot evaluation program, NIST GenAI, to help assess whether content — text, image, video, or audio — was generated by a human or AI. One of the goals of the study is to use the results to assist people in making these determinations in their day-to-day lives. The results of the study could also be used to create … [Read more...]
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