Kargo, which powers supply chain visibility with smart loading docks and data, raises $25M
News March 23, 2022
Did you miss a session at the Data Summit? Watch On-Demand Here. Kargo, a company that promises freight and logistics companies full visibility into their operations, has raised $25 million in a series A round of funding. Founded in 2019, Kargo has developed a SaaS-based hardware and software platform... Read more
James Martin/CNET YouTube is adding thousands of episodes of TV shows available stream free with advertising, as it continues to court you to spend more time glued to YouTube on connected televisions. The shows are licensed “catalog” programming that are usually available to stream free with advertising on a bunch... Read more
Did you miss a session at the Data Summit? Watch On-Demand Here. Despite an investigation being launched into the breach of a third-party Okta provider on January 21, Okta did not receive a report about the incident until March 17, Okta chief security officer David Bradbury said in a post... Read more
A special kind of lettuce could help anyone headed to Mars stay healthy. Sciepro/Science Photo Library The year 2030 might mark when humans finally take their first steps on Mars — per NASA’s timeline, that is. Elon Musk’s recent estimate falls one year earlier, in 2029. But regardless of... Read more
Okta says that it is contacting customers who may have been impacted. On Tuesday, though, companies including the internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare raised the question of why they were hearing about the incident from tweets and criminal screenshots rather than from Okta itself. The identity management company seems to... Read more
Did you miss a session at the Data Summit? Watch On-Demand Here. The world is a large village, and no one attempts to understand this more holistically than Omnipresent, a 2-year-old startup that provides a human resource/onboarding SaaS service designed to help companies hire remote-working local teams worldwide. One... Read more
James Martin/CNET Microsoft confirmed Tuesday that an attack connected to the Lapsus$ hacking group gained “limited access” to a single account, adding that its security teams interrupted the effort. The revelation comes after the South American hacking group, which has been linked to data breaches at Samsung and Nvidia,... Read more
Sky-High Gas Prices Push Europe’s Gig Workers to Strike
News March 22, 2022
A year ago, Anna (not her real name) would spend eight hours a day driving for food delivery platforms Just Eat and Deliveroo to earn £150 ($200 USD) a day in her home city of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Now to get close to that figure, Anna says she has... Read more
Trustworthy AI: How to ensure trust and ethics in AI
News March 22, 2022
Did you miss a session at the Data Summit? Watch On-Demand Here. A pragmatic and direct approach to ethics and trust in artificial intelligence (AI) — who would not want that? This is how Beena Ammanath describes her new book, Trustworthy AI. Ammanath is the executive director of the... Read more
A relatively new entrant to the ransomware scene has made two startling claims in recent days by posting images that appear to show proprietary data the group says it stole from Microsoft and Okta, a single sign-on provider with 15,000 customers. The Lapsus$ group, which first appeared three months... Read more