Vanta’s Christina Cacioppo takes the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

Christina Cacioppo, CEO and co-founder of Vanta, will be on the SaaS Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 to reveal how Vanta is redefining security and compliance automation and driving innovation through AI.  Under her leadership, Vanta has achieved a $2.45 billion valuation in just five years and has scaled rapidly to serve over 8,000 companies, … Read more

Astro Bot sounds as great as it plays

Image: Team Asobi / Sony Astro Bot is a game I cannot help but to evangelize, raving about its cute characters, its bright and varied level design, and its short but dense 8–10 hour runtime. But perhaps the biggest element contributing to the game’s joyousness is its sound design, which makes Astro Bot something that … Read more

Fortinet confirms customer data breach

On Thursday, cybersecurity giant Fortinet disclosed a breach involving customer data.  In a statement posted online, Fortinet said an individual intruder accessed “a limited number of files” stored on a third-party shared cloud drive belonging to Fortinet, which included data belonging to “less than 0.3%” of its customers. The company said that the incident “did … Read more

US takes aim at Shein and Temu with new import rule proposal

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images The Biden administration is addressing the “de minimis” exemption that it says some Chinese e-commerce companies “abuse” to ship products under $800 to US customers without tariffs. New rules proposed on Friday subject certain shipments from China to closer inspection and tariffs — a move that will … Read more

Understanding the Basics of Customer Churn

Churn and Customer Lifetime Value In this series of articles, I am going to shed some light on churn prediction and customer lifetime value usage through the following topics: Introduction to churn-a high-level overview of what it is, its common applications, and how you can easily calculate it. Introduction to LTV (customer lifetime value). An … Read more

Meta reignites plans to train AI using UK users’ public Facebook and Instagram posts

Meta has confirmed that it’s restarting efforts to train its AI systems using public Facebook and Instagram posts from its U.K. userbase. The announcement comes three months after Facebook’s parent company paused its plans due to regulatory pressure in the U.K., with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) raising concerns over how the company might use U.K. user data … Read more

Crypto After All These Years: What Keeps Us Hooked?

tl;dr People come for the long-term vision but stay for the short-term gains. Success is measured only by how good your NGU algorithm is: Number Go Up. A vaporware product with good marketing can go the distance until it memes into existence. There is a lot of cynicism and politics behind open doors. Intelligent and … Read more

How Binius Reduces Computational Complexity with Towers of Binary Fields

Reducing computational complexity has always been one of the primary goals of blockchain technology. One effective approach to achieving this is by reducing the bit width of the computation field. For example, SNARKs based on elliptic curves perform arithmetic operations in fields with bit widths of 256 or higher, while STARKs have evolved from using … Read more