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Takeaways: Theransomware attackon Colonial Pipeline on May 7, 2021, exemplifies the huge challenges the U.S. faces in shoring up its cyber defenses. The private company, which controls a significant component of the U.S. energy infrastructure and supplies nearly half of the East Coast’s liquid fuels, was vulnerable to an all-too-common type of cyber attack. The FBI has attributed the attack to aRussian cybercrime gang. It would be difficult for the government to mandate better security at private companies, and the government is unable to provide that security for the private sector....

What the hell is a Chief Meeting Designer? Digging into the crazy jungle of startup job titles Why on earth would a startup need a Chief Meeting Designer? “The title actually came about because of the mantra we’ve had since the very early days of Slido. Focus on the success of the client and everything else will follow: growth, revenue, and so on,” Holub tells me from his home in Slovakia, where Slido is headquartered....

What the hell is a minimum lovable product? And why should designers care? What is an MVP? A minimum viable product is a version of the product with just an essential level of functionality that helps creators validate their hypothesis about its utility. Product teams build a solution, which can be anything from an early prototype to a full-fledged product , and test it with their target audience, i.e., early adopters and/or potential customers....

What the hell is an AI factory? What is the AI factory? The keyAI technologies used in today’s businessare machine learning algorithms, statistical engines that can glean patterns from past observations and predict new outcomes. Along with other key components such as data sources, experiments, and software,machine learning algorithmscan create AI factories, a set of interconnected components and processes that nurture learning and growth. Here’s how the AI factory works. Quality data obtained from internal and external sources train machine learning algorithms to make predictions on specific tasks....

Fervent proponents ofcryptocurrencies and the blockchainsthey run on have promised a lot. To them, these technologies represent salvation fromcorporate power over the internet,government intrusions on liberty,povertyand virtually everything else that ails society. But so far, the reality has mostly involvedfinancial speculationwith popular cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and dogecoin, whichsoar and plungewith alarming regularity. So what are cryptocurrencies and blockchain good for? Calling all Scaleup founders! Join the Soonicorn Summit on November 28 in Amsterdam....