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Does your MSP kind of… suck? (Sponsor)💰 They charge you by the hour for every small change.⛓️‍💥 They treat security as an add-on, not a foundation.😨 They leave you with surprise bills and slow responses.This isn't just the way things go. ThreatSpike Black has taken a solemn oath - to do the exact opposite of all of the above.✔ One fixed subscription covers everything — IT support, cloud, infrastructure, security, compliance, even penetration testing✔ 24/7 global delivery team that works as...

Vanta: Don't SOC-block your best engineer (Sponsor)You need compliance to sign deals. You also need your engineers to build the product.That's a tough choice to make - but what if you didn't need to make it?Vanta uses AI and automation to get you compliant fast, simplify your audit process, and unblock deals. It also helps you build trust with buyers by showing them you take security seriously.Plus, Vanta scales right along with you (with startup-speed support). No need to rip-and-replace...

How Cursor Stops Fake Accounts from Abusing Free Trials (Sponsor)Free trials help AI apps grow, but they also attract abuse. Fake accounts steal tokens, drain compute, and disrupt real users.Cursor, the fast-growing AI code assistant, uses WorkOS Radar to detect and stop abuse in real time. Radar runs silently in the background, using device fingerprinting and behavioral signals to block fraud before it reaches your app.Learn how to protect your app →Read the full story on TLDR

This $1.3T market disruptor just passed $110M in gross profit. Invest before the 9/18 deadline (Sponsor)Pacaso has built a tech platform that simplifies co-ownership of vacation homes — a market worth $1.3 trillion.Their model has:$110M+ in gross profit to date.$1B+ in processed transactions and fees.Just announced further expansion into Italy, the Caribbean, and Mexico.This is a rare SEC-qualified public offering where retail investors can buy early-stage shares alongside the same VCs that...

Microsoft starts testing AI model that could escalate competition with OpenAI (3 minute read)Microsoft has started testing its MAI-1-preview model on LMArena. MAI-1-preview is a foundation model trained end-to-end in-house by Microsoft. The model will be rolled out for certain text use cases within Copilot over the coming weeks. Developers can fill in a form to request early access.Read the full story on TLDR

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Get Audit-Ready Fast with Vanta's Compliance Automation (Sponsor)Whether you're a fast-growing startup or an established security team, Vanta can help you achieve continuous compliance (and more). Join the live demo on Aug 20 learn how Vanta can help you:Streamline evidence collection and audit for frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, CMMC, and ISO 42001Continuously monitor controls to build and reinforce your security foundationScale your program across internal and vendor risk,...

How teams at HubSpot use AI for faster knowledge retrieval (Sponsor)Get an exclusive look into how HubSpot solution engineers use AI to break down information silos and get unified, accurate information from a vast array of internal information sources.HubSpot Solutions Engineers Sebastian Ferreira and York Karsten will join Glean's Bobby Hyam to talk about:HubSpot's experience piloting, rolling out, and working with Glean's unified search and Work AI platformHow conversational search helps...

? Faster mobile releases with automated QA (Sponsor)Manual testing on mobile devices is too slow and too limited. It forces teams to cut releases a week early just to test before submitting them to app stores. And without broad device coverage, issues slip through.QA Wolf'sAI-native service delivers 80% automated test coverage in weeks, with tests running on real iOS devices and Android emulators—all in 100% parallel with zero flakes.QA cycles reduced to just 15 minutesMulti-device + gesture...

After 21 years, Basecamp remains the most refreshingly straightforward way to manage projects (Sponsor)There's big investor money in project management. That's a big incentive to make bloated, barely-useable products — designed to tick boxes in a procurement manager's checklist.Basecamp has been bucking this trend for more than two decades. It's famously no-nonsense, effective, and reliable. It's designed for smaller, hungrier businesses who just need to get things done.And it's still going...