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Cybersecurity startup Zafran, which develops risk mitigation services, emerges from stealth with a $25M Series A co-led by Sequoia Capital and Cyberstarts (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjhhpaz10

After fleeing Iran and an illustrious career in Israeli intelligence, Sanaz Yashar raises $30M for cyber start
Zafran, founded in 2022 by Yashar (CEO), Ben Seri (CTO) and Snir Havdala (CPO), develops a risk and mitigation platform to pinpoint the ‘exploitable’ threats in the organization and to mitigate their risk by mobilizing existing security controls

🎈 ‘It’s a net zero cargo solution’: could Victoria become home to an airship renaissance?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/21/flying-whales-airships-helium-object-transport-cargo

As developers we pay Apple 30% to have a great App Store platform that they keep free of garbage...
...after being told what the garbage is by journalists.
https://www.404media.co/apple-removes-nonconsensual-ai-nude-apps-fo…

Apple Removes Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps Following 404 Media Investigation
Apple and Google appear more willing to take action against these apps than they were in the past.

The IRS says it spent $10.5M to develop and $2.4M to run its free tax filing website, used by 140K households in 12 states, and claims high user satisfaction (Julie Zauzmer Weil/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/04/26/irs-direct-fil…

Claiming high user satisfaction, IRS will decide on renewing free tax site
In the first year, more than 140,000 households in 12 states did their taxes with Direct File.

Rose: Efficient and Extensible Autodiff on the Web
Sam EstepCarnegie Mellon University, Raven RothkopfBarnard College, Columbia University, Wode NiCarnegie Mellon University, Joshua SunshineCarnegie Mellon University
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17743

Rose: Efficient and Extensible Autodiff on the Web
Automatic differentiation (AD) has become the backbone for a new wave of optimization-driven domains such as computer graphics and machine learning over the past decade. However, existing AD systems face limitations, either lacking support for in-browser development or failing to harness more recent, compilerbased approaches to achieve both expressiveness and size-preserving differentiation. This work introduces Rose, a portable, extensible AD library that runs on the web. Rose allows users to …

Today's headlines: a #Gentoo developer @… last rites Windows, admitting it's "very old" and "failing to compile with modern GNU Emacs". Poor job, Microsoft.
https://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg99368.html

The Performance Impact of C ’s `final` Keyword for Optimization
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-14ab6c10-155987b90ee0ebdb
The Performance Impact of C ’s `final` Keyword for Optimization In the world of software development the term ‘optimiz…

Filing: Nintendo sues the makers of Switch emulator Yuzu in US federal court, alleging it is designed to circumvent Nintendo's encryption and facilitates piracy (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/27/24085075/nintendo-sw…

Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’
Nintendo has sued the developers of the Nintendo Switch emulator called Yuzu in US federal court, with the intent of squashing Yuzu for good.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16861 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_…

DISL: Fueling Research with A Large Dataset of Solidity Smart Contracts
The DISL dataset features a collection of $514,506$ unique Solidity files that have been deployed to Ethereum mainnet. It caters to the need for a large and diverse dataset of real-world smart contracts. DISL serves as a resource for developing machine learning systems and for benchmarking software engineering tools designed for smart contracts. By aggregating every verified smart contract from Etherscan up to January 15, 2024, DISL surpasses existing datasets in size and recency.

Today's headlines: a #Gentoo developer @… last rites Windows, admitting it's "very old" and "failing to compile with modern GNU Emacs". Poor job, Microsoft.
https://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg99368.html