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PE firm EQT AB agrees to acquire compliance software provider Avetta from Welsh, Carson, Anderson, & Stowe, sources say at a ~$3B valuation, including debt (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

EQT Said to Near $3 Billion Deal for Compliance Risk Firm Avetta
EQT AB is nearing a deal to acquire Avetta LLC in a transaction that would value the compliance software provider at about $3 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter.

Artificial intelligence for context-aware visual change detection in software test automation
Milad Moradi, Ke Yan, David Colwell, Rhona Asgari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00874

Artificial intelligence for context-aware visual change detection in software test automation
Automated software testing is integral to the software development process, streamlining workflows and ensuring product reliability. Visual testing within this context, especially concerning user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) validation, stands as one of crucial determinants of overall software quality. Nevertheless, conventional methods like pixel-wise comparison and region-based visual change detection fall short in capturing contextual similarities, nuanced alterations, and underst…

TIL: Run #libvirtd in #distrobox
https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/

“The backdoor highlights the politics, governance, and community management of an ecosystem exploited by massive tech companies and largely run by volunteers.”
https://www.404media.co/the-xz-backdoor-highlights-the-vul…

The Xz Backdoor Highlights the Vulnerability of Open Source Software—and Its Strengths
The backdoor highlights the politics, governance, and community management of an ecosystem exploited by massive tech companies and largely run by volunteers.

PE firm EQT AB agrees to acquire compliance software provider Avetta from Welsh, Carson, Anderson, & Stowe, sources say at a ~$3B valuation, including debt (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

EQT Said to Near $3 Billion Deal for Compliance Risk Firm Avetta
EQT AB is nearing a deal to acquire Avetta LLC in a transaction that would value the compliance software provider at about $3 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter.

Amazon has launched a new
“one-click to quit the union” tool,
and they’re relentlessly pushing it to every worker in their Coventry warehouse.
The QR code for the tool is displayed on each table in the canteen, in every meeting and training room, in every hallway, and every toilet, as well as shown every five minutes of the working day in screens at the centre of the warehouse.
If a worker scans the QR code and clicks the link, Amazon’s software automatically generates…

Legal challenge to Amazon UK's new "one-click to quit the union" tool - Foxglove
Following the news that Amazon warehouse workers in Coventry will soon get to vote on Trade Union recognition, Foxglove is supporting five workers at the Amazon UK Coventry warehouse to launch a legal challenge of Amazon’s latest union-busting tactic.

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Last Call Requirements Engineering: mit 5 Webinaren mehr Erfolg in IT-Projekten
Vom 13. März bis 10. April 2024 erklären Veikko Krypczyk und Elena Bochkor, wie RE zum Gelingen von Softwareentwicklungs-Projekten beiträgt.

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"WTF are we software people doing as an industry that makes us consume so many resources?"
https://fosstodon.org/@jbqueru/112194344328428626

GitHub announces Copilot Workspace, a dev environment using "Copilot-powered agents" to help devs brainstorm, plan, build, test and run code in natural language (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/29/copi

Copilot Workspace is GitHub's take on AI-powered software engineering | TechCrunch
GitHub's new Copilot Workspace brings AI-powered assistive software engineering tools front and center.