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Infield wants to make open-source dependency management trivial

January 16, 2024

Virtually every application today relies on dozens — and sometimes hundreds — of open-source components. Many of those get updated at a rapid clip in order to introduce new features and to fix security issues (or the maintainers stop updating them, leaving security holes unfixed), but that also often means that they introduce breaking changes. […]

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Connect with FYELABS, Skillcloud Consulting Group and Wiggin and Dana LLP at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024

January 16, 2024

Startup magic doesn’t just happen. It takes talent, skill, experience, hard work and more. The same is true for creating TechCrunch Early Stage 2024, a world-class startup conference taking place on April 25 in Boston, Massachusetts. We partner with some of the startup world’s leading companies to create that magic — and give new and […]

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Snyk acquires Helios to bolster its AppSec platform

January 16, 2024

Snyk, the well-funded developer-focused security company, today announced that it has acquired Helios, a Tel Aviv-based startup that helps developers troubleshoot and understand their microservices in production. Snyk will use Helios to bolster its recently launched AppRisk service, its application security play, and to provide them with a better overall security service both at build […]

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Hackers begin mass exploiting Ivanti VPN zero-day flaws

January 16, 2024

Malicious hackers have begun mass-exploiting two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti’s widely-used corporate VPN appliance. That’s according to cybersecurity company Volexity, which first reported last week that China state-backed hackers are exploiting the two unpatched flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure — tracked as CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2024-21887 — to break into customer networks and steal information. […]

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EV charging startup Electra secures $330 million

January 16, 2024

It’s not often that you see a $300 million+ Series B round that is entirely in equity. And yet, Paris-based startup Electra just raised a a $330 million (€304 million) Series B round. Electra is an electric vehicle charging company building a network of charging stations in France and in other European countries. Right now, […]

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