Monthly Archives: January 2023

How to add new Agents to osTicket

With osTicket deployed, one of the first things you’ll want to do is add Agents. Find out what agents are and how to add them. The post How to add new Agents to osTicket appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Microsoft will lay off 10,000 employees

The tech giant is the latest to make workforce cuts on the heels of similar announcements in recent months by Amazon, Meta, Cisco, Salesforce and Twitter. The post Microsoft will lay off 10,000 employees appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Twitter’s data leak response is a lesson in how not to do cybersecurity

Twitter finally broke its silence over the first security incident of the Musk era: an alleged data breach that exposed the contact information of millions of users. In late December, a poster on a popular cybercrime forum claimed to have … Continue reading

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Fintech in 2022: a story of falling funding, fewer unicorns and insurtech M&A

If you thought the fourth quarter of 2022 felt slow when it came to investment activity in the fintech space, that’s because it was. In fact, the three-month period marked the lowest quarter for U.S. fintech funding since 2018, according … Continue reading

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Zitti soaks up some funding sauce so restaurants can manage their food supply chain

Getting a handle on food costs at an independent restaurant is a constant challenge for owners, and there is a long list of startups, like MarginEdge, OneOrder, TouchBistro, PreciTaste, ConverseNow, Fudo, Owner.com, that have stepped with their solutions. Zitti’s app … Continue reading

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Scenario lands $6M for its AI platform that generates game art assets

Depending on who you ask, generative AI is either massively overhyped or undervalued. Defined as algorithm-driven tech that creates text, art and other forms of media given a prompt, it’s captured the attention of major VC backers who’ve piled hundreds … Continue reading

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Cyber-crime gangs’ earnings slide as victims refuse to pay

New research points to a positive trend with ransomware gangs’ profits dropping 40% in 2022.

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Teach yourself growth marketing: How to boot up an email marketing campaign

Jonathan Martinez Contributor Share on Twitter Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who’s helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups. More posts by this contributor Teach yourself growth marketing: How to launch … Continue reading

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Smores is a music discovery app with a TikTok-like feed

Music streaming platforms all claim to use both artificial intelligence and manual curation to find new songs from emerging artists. But users often have to listen to many songs just to find some likable tracks — that’s because they don’t … Continue reading

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Cheaters Hacked an AI Bot—and Beat the ‘Rocket League’ Elite

Expert players of the popular vehicular soccer game have been caught out by lesser players using a superhuman bot built on cutting-edge machine learning.

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