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Dark data: Managing the data you can’t see

Dark data endangers an enterprise’s security and compliance efforts, making it important to address the foundational issues that cause it, https://bit.ly/3uel6jk

Databricks summit: New integrations announced for enterprise users

As Databrcks' Data and AI summit comes to a close, here's a rundown of key integrations announced for the lakehouse platform. https://bit.ly/3Nz3eWU

Omeda Studios receives new round of funding led by Haveli Investments

Omeda Studios, a new London based developer, has received a new round of funding for it's third-person MOBA named Predecessor. https://bit.ly/3AmcElX

Immue discovers new vulnerability in Apple’s private relay

Threat actors are taking advantage of the anonymity and web browsing privacy features of Apple’s tech to mask their IPs and launch untraceable attacks. https://bit.ly/3NzZBjw

Report: 37% of ML leaders say they don’t have the data needed to improve model performance

For ML practitioners, data quality is a key factor for success. However, it can also be the most difficult challenge to overcome. https://bit.ly/3OHJYHU

PlayStation Plus adds Crash Bandicoot 4 and Man of Medan in July

PlayStation settles the new PS Plus in July with a new group of free games, including Crash Bandicoot 4 and Man of Medan. https://bit.ly/3IhmTdf

Buy now, pay later: How nextgen financing platforms can survive the new frontier of fraud

Could a well-devised risk strategy, equipped with the appropriate analytic guardrails, help secure the future of the BNPL payment modality? https://bit.ly/3R07Vw7

ReadyUp launches Discord app for event discovery and engagement

ReadyUp, which helps game companies organize fan communities, has launched a Discord app to help companies with customer growth. https://bit.ly/3bEa3JF

Improving digital employee experiences must start with cybersecurity

Ivanti's State of the Digital Employee Experience (DEX) study published this week provides insights into how enterprises move beyond trading off usability for cybersecurity and what's most important to new, more virtual workforces. https://bit.ly/3I1q2gV

Sony Electronics unveils InZone displays and spatial gaming headsets for PC and PS5

Sony Electronics unveiled a new family of InZone gaming monitors and gaming headsets for both PCs and PlayStation 5s. https://bit.ly/3nmIdnM

How DTN scaled weather forecast data to petabytes per day

DTN began as a farm information service in the 1980s. Now, as one of the largest private weather services, it has recently taken advantage of new AWS high-performance compute services to dramatically scale its weather forecasting pipeline. https://bit.ly/3yqlTzW

CISA warns that Log4Shell remains a threat 

CISA's Log4Shell threat advisory highlights that threat actors are still looking for vulnerable systems to exploit. https://bit.ly/3u5o6OI

Orlando will test if a physical city can be the center of the metaverse

Orlando wants to be the center of the metaverse. The Florida city has teamed up with Unity Technologies, the game engine maker, to create a digital twin of the city. The city will be one of the first to test one of the central theories of the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are […] https://bit.ly/3QWs0TO

Chainalysis: Web3 ownership of DAOs is surprisingly concentrated

While DAOs are aimed at decentralizing the web, Chainalysis found fewer than 1% of all DAO holders have 90% of the voting power. https://bit.ly/3OHM1f0

Report: 63% of IT leaders say their orgs lack support for cloud resources

With growing demand for infrastructure automation, leaders must assess how their orgs' vulnerabilities impact access to cloud resources. https://bit.ly/3nDZtFr

Scottish Games Week will debut in October

Scottish Games Week will take place for the first time from October 24 to October 28 to highlight Scotland's game industry. https://bit.ly/3bydZLZ

Why inflation – not the crypto crash – will define Bitcoin

From using it as a store of value to exploring it in international trade, Bitcoin is being pushed to new heights of adoption by inflation. https://bit.ly/3nnD2Ei

AI is transforming medicine: Here’s how we make sure it works for everyone

AI is revolutionizing medicine, but diversity is needed in the data and decision-makers to make sure AI-driven healthcare works for everyone. https://bit.ly/3HWDouL

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II preview — it’s entertainment, not gritty realism

Instead of being edgy, the creators of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II went for an entertainment adventure. https://bit.ly/3mvkO32

8 reasons ERP is back and on the rise

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) first came about in the 1990s. Since, it has become more important than ever. While the name and the goal are the same as they were in the last century, the technology has improved. https://bit.ly/3O8bj5T

Playable Worlds adds Gordon Walton to cloud-native MMO team

Playable Worlds announced it's adding Gordon Walton as Chief Product Officer to the team working on its cloud-native MMO. https://bit.ly/3NyOKHn

Fractal makes it easy to integrate crypto wallet with Web3 games

Blockchain games marketplace Fractal has made it easy for Web3 gamers to sign into their cryptocurrency wallets. https://bit.ly/3H5t9Ea

AppOmni raises $70M to secure orgs’ SaaS apps 

AppOmni announces it has raised $70 million to secure cloud environments with a solution that can discover and monitor SaaS apps. https://bit.ly/3MzhKO1

Regie automates sales and marketing content creation with AI

Regie technology makes use of the GPT-3 natural language model from OpenAI alongside a business user-friendly interface. https://bit.ly/3Q9j119

ESA: 66% of Americans play games and 88% of players say gaming relieves stress

A total of 66% of Americans, or 215.5 million people, play video games and attitudes toward games are more positive in the pandemic. https://bit.ly/3tmqqk9

Backblaze launches ‘cloud replication’ to help companies store and sync data across regions

Data backup and cloud storage provider Backblaze has launched a new "cloud replication" service for syncing datasets across regions. https://bit.ly/3mqzT65

MongoDB’s journey to analytics

MongoDB announced this week that it is beginning to incorporate analytics functionalities within its database offerings. https://bit.ly/3ayCUyh

Castor raises $24M to make data discovery as simple as Google Search

New York-headquartered Castor, a data catalog provider for enterprises, today announced it has raised $23.5 million in a series A round of funding led by Blossom. Modern-day organizations are all about data. They leverage platforms like Snowflake to gather as much information as possible and produce insights to make crucial business decisions. However, as the […] https://bit.ly/3Mpe7dp

Andrew Ng’s Landing AI aims to help manufacturers deploy AI vision systems 

AI in computer vision is no stranger to manufacturing Industry 4.0 or to a number of other markets, such as biomedical and consumer goods. https://bit.ly/3aA9CQc

Virtru launches OpenTDF project to offer orgs zero-trust data controls 

Data encryption provider launches OpenTDF to enable developers to encrypt data traversing through applications. https://bit.ly/38Wg97g

Metaverse shopping: Retailers’ new reality

Successful brands and retailers have a vibrant presence not only in the physical world, but also online, on mobile devices and in the metaverse. https://bit.ly/3GWjaB8

How the privacy and data storage features of Web3 can empower society

The social impact of Web3 fundamentally empowers individuals and, by securing privacy and ownership, we can establish them as the norm. https://bit.ly/38QsUQA

Fortune 500 businesses are verifying billions of location points each day: Here’s why

If location data intelligence is inaccurate, it can lead to major problems for companies. So why do Fortune 500 executives invest in it? https://bit.ly/3xuuGAF

Razer’s going green and wants to bring everyone along for the ride

Razer is committed to an environmentally friendly way of life. It's latest efforts have seen two of its best selling mice meet their target. https://bit.ly/3GVdvv8

For the metaverse to grow, mobile digital identities are necessary

Companies that want to attract users will need to enable them to carry their digital identity across the metaverse regardless of platform. https://bit.ly/3GPfnWb

How the Web3 stack will automate the enterprise

If FinTech blends technology and finance, Web3 is the merging of crypto with the web and Web3 is already having a considerable impact. https://bit.ly/3aqBqGk

Kaser Focus: Resident Fantasy 6

The games industry finally revealed more about RE4-make, Street Fighter 6 and Final Fantasy XVI in an excellent State of Play. https://bit.ly/3zheO5v

Adopting MLSecOps for secure machine learning at scale

If you’re an ML practitioner, the field of MLSecOps is rapidly developing and now is an excellent time to contribute to the discussion. https://bit.ly/3MgRMi4

Before automating your business processes, improve them

Choosing the wrong processes for automation can dismantle your business initiative. To succeed at scale, process excellence must be mastered. https://bit.ly/3GM9r01

Behind WhatsApp’s splashy privacy push

WhatsApp has an opportunity to brand itself however it sees fit, which now includes a nod back to its roots – privacy. https://bit.ly/3GPPntu

Laminar doubles funding for cloud data security to $67M

Laminar said the funding came at a pivotal time, as it continues its first-to-market product within its cloud data security platform. https://bit.ly/3mbxI6d

Resident Evil 4 remake announced for March 2023

Capcom revealed the first footage of the remake of Resident Evil 4 at today's State of Play event, as well as its launch date of March 23. https://bit.ly/3mdIQzE

Automation is not enough: Buildings need AI-powered smarts

The importance of healthy workplaces, security and conservation makes developing reliable AI-based smart building systems urgent. https://bit.ly/3NMPkkA

Game Jolt and LootLocker are announcing the 2022 Together Jam

Game Jolt and LootLocker are announcing the 2022 Together Jam, a game jam utilizing NBCUniversal's portfolio of media properties. https://bit.ly/3ae8otz

Souq raises $3.3M to manage players’ Web3 game assets

Souq raised a $3.3 million pre-seed funding round and unveiled the beta test availability of its portfolio manager for Web3 game assets. https://bit.ly/3ze4JGI

The role of AI in data privacy

AI can help businesses improve customer experience in a way that both satisfies data privacy advocates and makes ecommerce more efficient. https://bit.ly/3NMViSy

Augmented World Expo announces $100K XR Prize Challenge to fight climate change

Ari Inbar, cofounder of the Augmented World Expo , announced that his firm will stage an XR Prize Challenge to fight for climate change. https://bit.ly/3M2PEdT

4D Sight and the new way to advertise

4D Sight is a new advertising platform. The software uses deep learning to put ads directly into games without API access. https://bit.ly/3m2uT7h

Encord tackles growing problem of unlabeled data

Encord claims to have developed the first-ever tool to help address a fundamental, growing problem: human errors in data labeling. https://bit.ly/3NbM6HB

Loupedeck announces the new Loupedeck Live S streaming controller

Loupedeck is launching a new IndieGogo campaign for its brand new auxiliary input device, the Loupedeck Live S. https://bit.ly/3M8gaCo