March 2023

Aembit raises $16.6M to bring identity management to workloads

March 20, 2023

Aembit, a Maryland-based security startup that focuses on helping DevOps and security teams manage how federated workloads talk to each other, is officially launching its service today and announcing a $16.6 million seed funding round from Ballistic Ventures and Ten Elven Ventures. In essence, Aembit’s workload identity and access management service applies industry knowledge, from […]

Aembit raises $16.6M to bring identity management to workloads by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Twitch says it will lay off 400 employees

March 20, 2023

Twitch announced plans to reduce its workforce on Monday, demonstrating that even the booming streaming site isn’t immune the reductions that have swept the tech industry in the last six months. The layoffs will affect 400 employees at the company and were characterized as an effort to make Twitch’s business more sustainable. “Like many companies, […]

Twitch says it will lay off 400 employees by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch

Language models might be able to self-correct biases—if you ask them

March 20, 2023
Large language models are infamous for spewing toxic biases, thanks to the reams of awful human-produced content they get trained on.  But if the models are large enough, and humans have helped train them, then they may be able to self-correct for some of these biases. Remarkably, all we have to do is ask. That’s…

AWS takes a hit in latest round of Amazon layoffs

March 20, 2023

When Amazon announced it was laying off another 9,000 employees today, AWS employees were not exempt with Amazon CEO (and former AWS CEO) Andy Jassy announcing the cloud division would be included into today’s round. TechCrunch is hearing that around 10% of today’s total came from AWS. The company would not confirm those numbers instead […]

AWS takes a hit in latest round of Amazon layoffs by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch