Forecast For Reality: Run Your Pipeline Like A System

Hold 30- to 60-minute one-on-ones every other week or monthly. Start with the largest late-stage deals; spot-check a handful of the rest to keep the pipeline honest. Inspect each priority opportunity ...
Security Boulevard

Attestation-Based Identity: How It Works and Why It Matters

Instead of just trusting the token's signature, attestation-based identity adds an extra layer of security. It cryptographically verifies that the workload is running exactly where and how it's ...
Consumer Reports

Consumer Reports investigation uncovers Kroger’s widespread data collection of loyalty program members to create secret shopper profiles

John Marshall, Capital Strategies Director at UFCW 3000, a union representing retail workers across Washington state, north-east Oregon, and northern Idaho, said “It’s concerning when huge ...
Reuters

a16z-backed data firms Fivetran, dbt Labs to merge in all-stock deal

Merger creates $600-million-revenue data infrastructure company Fivetran CEO Fraser to lead combined company Deal highlights AI-driven data infrastructure demand Oct 13 (Reuters) - Data startups ...
TechCrunch

While OpenAI races to build AI data centers, Nadella reminds us that Microsoft already has them

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Thursday tweeted a video of his company’s first deployed massive AI system — or AI “factory” as Nvidia likes to call them. He promised this is the “first of many” such ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Microsoft Forecasts Show Data Center Crunch Persisting Into 2026

Microsoft Corp.’s data-center crunch will continue for longer than the company has previously outlined, underscoring the software giant’s struggles to keep up with cloud demand. Many of Microsoft’s US ...
Columbus Dispatch

Data centers create jobs in central Ohio, but not in ways you might expect

As central Ohio's data center industry keeps booming, critics often lament that the gigantic server warehouses directly employ only several dozen people. But while the number of employees collecting a ...
WGNO

Drone manufacturer to open Lafayette factory, expects to create over 500 new jobs

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) – A leading manufacturer of drones plans to build some of them in Lafayette, officials said. Louisiana Economic Development has announced DMR Technologies will establish its ...
Ars Technica

UK once again demands backdoor to Apple’s encrypted cloud storage

The UK government has issued a new order to Apple to create a backdoor into its cloud storage service, this time targeting only British users’ data, despite US claims that Britain had abandoned all ...
dbta

Snowflake Unites Industry Leaders with the Open Semantic Interchange Initiative to Create a Universal Semantic Data Framework

Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, is partnering with leading industry players and ecosystem vendors, including Salesforce, BlackRock, dbt Labs, and RelationalAI, to lead the Open Semantic ...
The Daily Dot

“Swolecialism”: Gym bros are building an “alt-left pipeline” on TikTok to counter the alt-right

Dudes on TikTok are taking the alt-right playbook and switching things up to try to sway young people towards things like empathy and critical thinking in what they’re calling the “alt-left pipeline.” ...