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Open Source X rival social network BlueSky has made changes to allow publishers to better track referral traffic that comes from posts on the platform. According to a comment from Bluesky employee Emily Liu, the company currently sends referral traffic through Bluesky's “Go” subdomain, allowing publishers to easily track when visitors to the site come to the site via links shared on social networks. You can see that when you click on a link shared on Bluesky it will easily appear as the “go.bsky.app” URL before landing on the publisher's own domain. This allows the publisher's analytics system to determine…

Hackers are bolstering attempts to exploit Servanno's trio of vulnerabilities a year ago to infiltrate unpublished company instances, security researchers warned this week. Threat intelligence startup Greynoise said in a blog post Tuesday it observed a “salient revival of wild activity” targeting three ServiceNow vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2024-4879, CVE-2024-5178 and CVE-2024-5217. The vulnerability was first disclosed by AssetNote researchers in May 2024 and was patched by ServiceNow in July 2024. Greynoise said all three flaws had been revived last week in an attempt to target exploitation. While it's not exactly clear what's behind this latest wave of targeting, Greynoise says…

Open source data athletics company Airbyte is launching additional connectors to make data better accessible to businesses in the age of AI without eroding data sovereignty. The San Francisco-based startup announced Thursday that it is releasing a number of new features designed to allow customers to safely move corporate data without tapping on SaaS applications. New features include support for transferring unstructured data from applications such as Google Drive and SharePoint, and compatibility with Apache Iceberg, an open source format for large analytics tables. Airbyte also launches connector bundles for enterprise customers, including data connector pipelines for applications such as…

Venture capital investments in European startups exceeded $52 billion last year, reflecting the outsize peaks between 2021 and 2022 (driven primarily by the Covid-19 pandemic), and the market's long-term growth trajectory and gradual stabilization following the slump in 2023, according to a new report. Although political and regulatory disruptions have been seen in 2024, the European talent pool continues to rise even as the European talent pool, which has covered 2024, according to a new “Trade Flow” report from the world law firm Orrick. Last year, an analysis of over 375 VC and growth equity investments in Europe revealed a…

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On Wednesday, Spotify launched a new personalized playlist designed to allow listeners to discover upcoming concerts in their area. The playlist entitled “Concerts Near Concerts” is updated every Wednesday, with 30 artists playing nearby, with full event details and ticket links. Spotify partners with ticketing platforms such as Axs, Dice, Eventbrite and Ticketmaster. Like other personalized playlists on Spotify, such as “Daylist” and various “mixes”, “Concerts Near the Concert” will tailor the user's listening habits to help them discover their beloved artists. To receive the latest show updates, listeners should make sure they share their location through the “Live Events”…

Over the past few years, developers have been complaining more and more about paying Apple or Google about App Store or Play Store Distributions. App makers often say it makes it difficult for both companies to make money outside of the system. New York-based app revenue management platform Adapty wants to change it with a new product called Funnelfox. The idea behind Funnelfox is simple. It helps app makers create quizzes and experiences on the web to attract or mount customers. Also, when customers pay, they get a link to download the app. This means that app makers do not…

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Tiktok is partnering with National Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) to provide real-time Amber alerts directly to users for its US feed, the company announced Thursday. This new feature will activate Amber Alerts by law enforcement and alerts will appear in your feed if you are in the specified search area. A company spokesperson told TechCrunch that Tiktok is identifying whether users are within a specific search through the device's IP address. The alerts include important details available in standard Amber Alerts, including children's photos, descriptions, last known locations, and other important information that will help you search. According to…

Pruna AI, a European startup working on compression algorithms for AI models, has made its optimization framework open source on Thursday. Pruna AI creates a framework that applies several efficient methods to specific AI models, such as caching, pruning, quantization, and distillation. “We standardize the storage and loading of compression models, apply a combination of these compression methods, and evaluate the compression model after compression,” Pruna AI co-fonder and CTO John Rachwan told TechCrunch. In particular, the Pruna AI framework can assess whether large quality losses occur after compressing the model and performance can be obtained. “If I use metaphors,…