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Edge Impulse announced the closing of a $15 million Series A investment round led by Canaan Partners with Acrew Capital, Fika Ventures, Momenta Ventures, and Knollwood Investment Advisory. This funding will support the company's mission to democratize ML for millions of developers and engineers deploying to billions of edge devices.

With an overwhelming majority of software engineers expressing a preference for remote work, it's no wonder that more employers are making commitments to expand their remote workforces. Some employers jumping into remote hiring aren't aware of the challenges in auditioning their software engineers remotely.

Though most of the EO is aimed at government agencies, vendors and developers will have to design all of their products with a greater focus on security, according to Finite State. With ransomware attacks increasingly impacting businesses, government agencies and critical infrastructure, President Joe Biden last week signed an executive order designed to shore up the nation's cyber security.

Sentry announced new and enhanced platform capabilities designed to improve developer workflows and productivity by making it easier to find and resolve the issues that really matter, faster. Sentry solves for this challenge by helping developers understand the impact of code in real time, and by delivering context into their workflows to save hours, or even days, resolving issues.

LogDNA launched a new browser logging capability, which makes it easier for full-stack and frontend developers to ingest frontend log data in LogDNA to more efficiently debug web applications. LogDNA's new Browser Logger addresses this need by automatically capturing errors and logs occurring in the user's browser and allowing dev teams to centralize those errors alongside server-side logs.

Google this week announced that it is introducing a new policy for the Google Play app store, requiring all developers to provide information on their data collection practices. Planned as a safety section in Google Play, the change is expected to "Help people understand the data an app collects or shares, if that data is secured, and additional details that impact privacy and security."

Veriff launched a private beta programme for the Verification Tool, a version of its identity verification software tailored for external use. As the global identity verification market is booming, businesses are investing in the enhancement of their identity verification practices as advanced fraud prevention solutions become an operational requirement.

WALLIX announced the expansion of its channel team with the appointment of Yoann Delomier as Operational Technology Business Developer. In his new role, Delomier will be responsible for helping WALLIX to raise its presence in the industrial space.

Storj announced a new multi-tenant, S3-compatible gateway that enables developers to easily take advantage of the unsurpassed privacy and security benefits of Storj DCS. The new Storj DCS product replaces the company's Tardigrade offering and delivers a new onboarding experience, lower pricing, and added features so developers can start building on the decentralized cloud with ease. The update also includes new features like multi-part upload that improve performance when storing large objects on Storj DCS. "Developers love the simplicity of the cloud but are increasingly finding themselves conflicted with the privacy and security shortcomings of centralized cloud storage providers," says Ben Golub, Storj Executive Chairman and CEO. "New technologies and approaches like decentralization and the Storj DCS multi-tenant gateway mean developers can have better ownership and control of their data at a lower cost and without any extra effort, so they can build more secure and private applications."

Password specialist 1Password has acquired SecretHub, a secrets management platform aimed at IT engineers, and made a new service called Secrets Automation, previously in beta, generally available. Secrets Automation uses a Connect Server, delivered as a Docker container, which users deploy in their environment.