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Reset your passwordEnter your email address or username and we’ll send you a link to reset your password Check your inboxAn email with a link to reset your password was sent to the email address associated with your account Choose a Reddit account to continueCrowdStrike’s rivals stand to benefit from its update fail debacle The CrowdStrike debacle — a bug in the company’s Windows software that had the disastrous effect of rendering PCs unusable — has disrupted flights , canceled elective medical treatments, and left many an office worker twiddling their thumbs for hours. Unsurprisingly, it’s also tanked CrowdStrike’s stock price , even as the company’s CEO, George Kurtz, promises a fix and systems begin to crawl back online. Rivals stand to gain. While it’s difficult to assess at present the business fallout from what’s being called the worst IT outage in history, investors appear to be sensing opportunity. Stocks in CrowdStrike competitors SentinelOne and Palo Alto Networks climbed by as much as 10% this afternoon. CrowdStrike competes with a number of vendors, including SentinelOne and Palo Alto Networks but also Microsoft, Trellix, Trend Micro and Sophos, in the endpoint security market. Endpoint security tools detect malware on laptops, mobile phones and other devices that have access to corporate networks. As of year-end 2023, CrowdStrike had an estimated 14.74% share of global revenue from security software sales, raking in roughly $2.01 billion, according to data from Gartner. That’s second only to Microsoft, which had a 40.16% share ($5.49 billion) last year; CrowdStrike’s next-largest competitor is Trellix, with a 6.62% share ($906 million) as of 2023. Eric Grenier, cybersecurity threat detection and exposure analyst at Gartner, cautioned that it’s too early to say who the “winners” are in the ongoing CrowdStrike saga. But he told TechCrunch that he often sees Microsoft and SentinelOne shortlisted by the clients he speaks with, and it wouldn’t surprise him if Friday’s events cemented a few C-suite decisions in favor of CrowdStrike alternatives. “I think that there will be some orgs that have zero tolerance for what happened and will look to alternative solutions,” Grenier said. “Every time a competitor’s sales team is in front of a potential customer and competing against CrowdStrike, they can point to this incident as to why you should choose them over CrowdStrike. Long term, I expect CrowdStrike to suffer some loss in business.” Not everyone agrees. Mike Jude, research director at IDC, notes that competitors face essentially the same risks as CrowdStrike in that they’re forced to constantly adjust to a changing threat environment and that this rapid response can lead to critical mistakes. The CrowdStrike bug stemmed from a routine update to the company’s flagship Falcon Sensor product , which conflicted with many Windows installations. “I don’t believe we should think of this outage as a win/lose situation; I don’t think you will find many of CrowdStrike’s competitors celebrating over this outage,” Jude said. “I do think this outage illustrates just how dependent we have become on cybersecurity solutions.” Chirag Mehta, VP and principal analyst at Constellation Research, echoed Jude’s sentiment that rivals dodged a bullet by luck. “Other vendors are fortunate that they were not affected this time,” Mehta told TechCrunch. “They now have the opportunity to evaluate the depth of their integration with operating systems, the methods of air-gapping their updates and their deployment processes. Overconfidence can be dangerous.” In a memo to investors Friday morning, analysts at Goldman Sachs said that it expects to see “minimal share shifts” in the endpoint security market as a result of the CrowdStrike bug. Customers generally understand that it’s a question of when — not if — these incidents will happen, the analysts write, and so they care more about a fix and transparent communication. “In our view, cybersecurity products have to clear a higher bar of reliability and security in customer deployments than other technology products because they are mission critical and actively attacked by adversaries,” the Goldman analysts wrote. “In some ways, we believe this [outage] will reinforce the barrier to entry in the industry and the need for best-in-class update, outage and customer service protocols, ultimately favoring companies with scale.” The analysts cite a case study: the Okta breach. In October 2023, hackers accessed data on all of Okta’s thousands of identity and access management customers. While the hack elongated the deal cycle for some organizations as they looked to ascertain whether Okta’s security protocols had improved (and evaluated other products), it didn’t lead to massive churn. For the most part, Okta customers stayed Okta customers. If anything, says Raj Joshi, SVP for Moody’s Ratings, the wide-ranging effect of the CrowdStrike outage illustrates the precariousness of IT infrastructure today. “This incident calls into question CrowdStrike’s software engineering practices,” Joshi said, “[but] it also underscores growing vulnerabilities in global cloud infrastructure from increasing points of failure.” More TechCrunchGet the industry’s biggest tech news, techcrunch daily news. Every weekday and Sunday, you can get the best of TechCrunch’s coverage. Startups WeeklyStartups are the core of TechCrunch, so get our best coverage delivered weekly. 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About the interviewWe'll reply by email with a link for you to book a 30 minutes interview (mostly non-technical), then a 2 hours technical interview (1h coding + 1h architecture) + 1h of pair-programming. The Unique Burial of a Child of Early Scythian Time at the Cemetery of Saryg-Bulun (Tuva)<< Previous page Pages: 379-406 In 1988, the Tuvan Archaeological Expedition (led by M. E. Kilunovskaya and V. A. Semenov) discovered a unique burial of the early Iron Age at Saryg-Bulun in Central Tuva. There are two burial mounds of the Aldy-Bel culture dated by 7th century BC. Within the barrows, which adjoined one another, forming a figure-of-eight, there were discovered 7 burials, from which a representative collection of artifacts was recovered. Burial 5 was the most unique, it was found in a coffin made of a larch trunk, with a tightly closed lid. Due to the preservative properties of larch and lack of air access, the coffin contained a well-preserved mummy of a child with an accompanying set of grave goods. The interred individual retained the skin on his face and had a leather headdress painted with red pigment and a coat, sewn from jerboa fur. The coat was belted with a leather belt with bronze ornaments and buckles. Besides that, a leather quiver with arrows with the shafts decorated with painted ornaments, fully preserved battle pick and a bow were buried in the coffin. Unexpectedly, the full-genomic analysis, showed that the individual was female. This fact opens a new aspect in the study of the social history of the Scythian society and perhaps brings us back to the myth of the Amazons, discussed by Herodotus. Of course, this discovery is unique in its preservation for the Scythian culture of Tuva and requires careful study and conservation. Keywords: Tuva, Early Iron Age, early Scythian period, Aldy-Bel culture, barrow, burial in the coffin, mummy, full genome sequencing, aDNA Information about authors: Marina Kilunovskaya (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Vladimir Semenov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Varvara Busova (Moscow, Russian Federation). (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Kharis Mustafin (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Technical Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Irina Alborova (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Alina Matzvai (Moscow, Russian Federation). Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Shopping Cart Items: 0 Cart Total: 0,00 € place your order Price pdf version student - 2,75 € individual - 3,00 € institutional - 7,00 €  Copyright © 1999-2022. Stratum Publishing House
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Last week, we launched our Summer 2021 batch here at Y Combinator, the 33rdbatch since our founding in 2005. We are now funding hundreds of companies eachbatch, and I've been reflecting on how we work with those companies during thebatch and afterward, as they build their business.Over the years, I've found that there is a common ...
Paul Graham ( / ɡræm /; born November 13, 1964) [3] is an English-American computer scientist, writer, entrepreneur and investor. His work has included the programming language Arc, the startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store ), co-founding the startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his essays, and Hacker News.
Same here. I find that essay enormously helpful for evaluating one's current living situation and planning your future. Also, it provides a great way for explaining to others why you live where you live. I've been in Salt Lake City for a while now. People's reaction to telling them that typically falls somewhere in that awkward territory between surprise, pity, and condescension. I then tell ...
I wanted to share my favorite essays of Paul Graham. I believe listening and reading advice from experienced people is a way of encoding success into your brain.
I read most of Paul Graham's essays and the core theories I associate with him are: 1: As a founder it is more important to be competent and productive than to seem competent and productive. 2: It is an advantage to trust your own competence and ignore common practices.
Essays on programming I think about a lot. (. benkuhn.net. ) I'm always sad when I find such lists and there's no consideration of Literate Programming as developed by Donald Knuth to create TeX and METAFONT. Before coming across it, I always had a problem when projects transitioned to being in multiple files, or past a number of lines of code ...
by Paul Graham 2/21/2014. I'm delighted to announce that Sam Altman has agreed to become president of YCombinator starting next batch. I'll continue to do office hours with startups,but Sam is going to lead YC.Why the change?
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4 lessons I learned about getting into Y Combinator (after 13 applications) Alex Circei is the CEO and co-founder of Waydev, a development analytics tool that measures engineering teams ...
Listen to essays by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Marc Andreessen, and Sam Altman. Hi everyone! A little background - I'm dyslexic and have always wanted to listen to PG's essays. A month ago, I was testing ElevenLabs and realized TTS had gotten really good. So, over the past month, I spent a bunch of time cleaning essays (removing things ...
Brain does not process information and it is not a computer Essays | Hacker News. Brain does not process information and it is not a computer Essays (aeon.co) 1 point by tambourine_man 46 minutes ago | hide | past | favorite | discuss.
"I met the Reddits before we even started Y Combinator. In fact they were one of the reasons we started it," writes PG.
I loved Every Frame a Painting, a series of video essays by Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou that they posted on YouTube. They published a postmortem about the series on Medium when they ended Every Frame a Painting seven years ago:
This essay should be a mandatory reading for all CS students and anyone wanting to call himself hacker. reply. raldi 2 hours ago | parent | next. Yes, and the part about Reagan. reply. qubex 44 minutes ago | prev | next. I've got this in soft-cover. I think I read it back before the turn of the millennium. As a BeOS aficionado I loved the ...
Teachers are using AI to grade essays. Some experts are raising ethical concerns (cnn.com) The future will be teachers using AI to grade essays that students used AI to generate. Actually, an AI grader in student hands would allow them to get continuous feedback on their writing, leading to something that would ultimately grade well if the ...
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CrowdStrike competes with a number of vendors, including SentinelOne and Palo Alto Networks but also Microsoft, Trellix, Trend Micro and Sophos.
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📍 Location: Paris, France (on-site or hybrid, no full remote)\\ 💰 Salary range: ~€75k + 0,25% equity\\ 🏝️ Benefits: ~35 PTO days + typical benefits in France (Lunch Card, 100% Health Insurance coverage, etc.) Role You: 5+ years experience in a startup or leading tech company Open to working full-stack, with a strong expertise on either side Care about Open Source, enjoys ...
Some of these go beyond just advice for programmers. Everyone should reflect on the first point: most authors and essayists are read because they are good writers, not necessarily because they are experts on the subject matter. Take walks! Try different types of work. Learn about other job functions at your company. In big companies in ...
I don't think it is historical data required to make a decision, it is required to store the action for historical purposes in the future. This is ultimately to bill you and to track that a doctor isn't stealing medication, improperly treating the patient, and to track it for legal purposes.
Burial 5 was the most unique, it was found in a coffin made of a larch trunk, with a tightly closed lid. Due to the preservative properties of larch and lack of air access, the coffin contained a well-preserved mummy of a child with an accompanying set of grave goods. The interred individual retained the skin on his face and had a leather ...
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The tech community, led by Sam Altman of OpenAI, has funded programs that give people unconditional cash. Some say it's time to scale up.
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