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Irrigation tech startup led by farming experts blossoms with revenue growth and new cash

GeekWire

David was previously a senior data scientist with Amazon Web Services, while Connor, FarmHQ’s chief technology officer, worked in science and technology roles. FarmHQ Photo) The tech: Smaller farms have historically irrigated using labor-intensive, manually operated systems. Revenue is up fourfold.

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North Korean Threat Actors Targeting Healthcare Sector with Maui Ransomware

SecureWorld News

So, why would a cybercriminal use manually operated ransomware? This can show "good faith" from the ransomware group by allowing targeting and recovery of just sensitive files and not having to rebuild the entire server if the Operating System files are encrypted as well.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse. This benefit is available to Microsoft Volume Licensing customers with SQL Server licenses covered by active Microsoft Software Assurance contracts. CTO - Amazon.com. The software that powers todayâ??s blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

Steve Grobman, CTO with Intel’s security group had this to say: CNBC: Yeah, so I think that nothing is ever impossible. But I think we also need to understand that the transportation industry, especially the aviation industry, is world class in setting up their systems for redundancy for security.

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- My Biggest Failure – Consolidation

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

I am writing about my biggest failure as CTO, hoping there is a lesson here for others. In 2005-2006 we tried to partially consolidate information technology in the City of Seattle. We did not get a consultant. Yes, there are many jokes about consultants. And good organizational consultants are expensive.

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Finding my way to tech entrepreneurship: An immigrant’s perspective

GeekWire

As a black entrepreneur and CTO in this fast growing healthcare technology space, I have often found myself in spaces where I am usually the lone black person at the table. I have since realized how grossly underrepresented black CEOs, CTOs or other C-Suite executives and founders of VC-backed startups are in this space.

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Will FirstNet become the next Healthcare.gov?

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

Also in the 1980s a Harvard drop-out named Bill Gates purchased a piece-of-crap operating system named 86-DOS and used it to build a powerhouse company, Microsoft, which today still dominates the desktops of the entire world. And, of course, there could be protests after the contract award is announced, lengthening these times.