Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Munich-based parcelLab, which helps retailers send automated personalized shipping messages to their customers, raises $112M Series C led by Insight Partners (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Munich-based parcelLab, which helps retailers send automated personalized shipping messages to their customers, raises $112M Series C led by Insight Partners  —  Munich-based parcelLab, which offers a final-mile fulfillment service for online retailers, has closed a $112 million …



9 gadgets that help monitor oxygen levels, sanitise items and more to fight Covid

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Google starts rolling out Dark mode for Search on desktop

Google has started rolling out Dark Mode for Search on desktop. The support is rolling out slowly for both Windows 10 and macOS platforms and we were able to spot it on the latter with version 90.0.4430.212 (Official Build) (x86_64) of the Chrome browser running. https://ift.tt/3y6YZvc

WhatsApp responds: Zoom, Aarogya Setu, Truecaller and these apps also collect same or more data

According to a report in Inc42, the company has filed an affidavit where it says that many other tech companies and apps collect same or more amount of user data. The affidavit responds to a petition filed in the Delhi High Court (Delhi HC) against WhatsApp's privacy policy update. https://ift.tt/3bpFODn

Why Apple employees are ‘unhappy’ over the hiring of an ex-Facebook manager

According to a report by The Verge, a group of Apple employees are not too pleased over the hiring of Antonio Garcia Martinez, a former product manager at Facebook. The problem, however, isn’t that the employee in question is a former Facebook worker. https://ift.tt/3oaOv9L

NetSPI, which provides penetration testing and vulnerability management services to enterprises, raises $90M; NetSPI expects sales of about $50M in 2021 (Neal St. Anthony/Star Tribune)

Neal St. Anthony / Star Tribune:
NetSPI, which provides penetration testing and vulnerability management services to enterprises, raises $90M; NetSPI expects sales of about $50M in 2021  —  It's the second large round of outside investment raised by NetSPI, a provider of cyber security services and tests for businesses and institutions.



Apple says it has parted ways with recent hire Antonio Garcia-Martinez, an ex-Facebook staffer and author, after employee backlash over sexist writings of his (Ina Fried/Axios)

Ina Fried / Axios:
Apple says it has parted ways with recent hire Antonio Garcia-Martinez, an ex-Facebook staffer and author, after employee backlash over sexist writings of his  —  Apple has severed ties with recent hire Antonio Garcia-Martinez, a former Facebook employee and author of the book Chaos Monkeys …



Microsoft is shutting down its Azure Blockchain Service on September 10, six years after initial launch, and no new deployments are being supported as of May 10 (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet)

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft is shutting down its Azure Blockchain Service on September 10, six years after initial launch, and no new deployments are being supported as of May 10  —  Six years after its initial launch, Microsoft's Azure Blockhain as a Service is going to be shut down this September.



Amazon wins $303 million tax case

Europe's second-top court has annulled an EU order to Amazon to pay about €250 million in back taxes to Luxembourg, part of an EU crackdown against unfair tax deals between multinationals and European Union countries. https://ift.tt/3fg6tU6

Biden signs EO to strengthen US cyber defenses, including the development of cybersecurity standards for software companies that sell to the government (Ellen Nakashima/Washington Post)

Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Biden signs EO to strengthen US cyber defenses, including the development of cybersecurity standards for software companies that sell to the government  —  President Biden signed an executive order Wednesday aimed at shoring up the federal government's digital defenses as his administration grapples …



Tuesday, May 11, 2021

A look at the fight over using differential privacy techniques in the US Census, which anonymizes datasets but some argue lowers the quality of the datasets (Todd Feathers/The Markup)

Todd Feathers / The Markup:
A look at the fight over using differential privacy techniques in the US Census, which anonymizes datasets but some argue lowers the quality of the datasets  —  Several years ago, as the U.S. Census Bureau began to prepare for its 2020 count, it was confronted with an existential problem.



Arkose Labs, which is developing a service that detects and mitigates online fraud, raises $70M Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Arkose Labs, which is developing a service that detects and mitigates online fraud, raises $70M Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2  —  Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16.  Register fo r the AI event of the year.  —  Arkose Labs, a startup developing a platform to detect and mitigate online fraud …



Cycode, which focuses on helping enterprises secure their DevOps pipelines, raises $20M Series A led by Insight Partners, bringing its total raised to $24.6M (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Cycode, which focuses on helping enterprises secure their DevOps pipelines, raises $20M Series A led by Insight Partners, bringing its total raised to $24.6M  —  Israeli security startup Cycode, which specializes in helping enterprises secure their DevOps pipelines and prevent code tampering …



Researcher discovers a series of vulnerabilities, known as Frag Attacks, impacting Wi-Fi devices from the past 24 years, even when WEP and WPA are activated (Catalin Cimpanu/The Record)

Catalin Cimpanu / The Record:
Researcher discovers a series of vulnerabilities, known as Frag Attacks, impacting Wi-Fi devices from the past 24 years, even when WEP and WPA are activated  —  A Belgian security researcher has discovered a series of vulnerabilities that impact the WiFi standard, with some bugs dating …



EA signals gaming boom extending run with upbeat annual forecast

Electronic Arts Inc on Tuesday forecast annual adjusted revenue above analysts' estimates, betting that demand for its titles, including "FIFA 21" and "Apex Legends," would stay strong even as COVID-19 restrictions ease. https://ift.tt/3eJLSsx

MediaTek says it has started to use Intel Foundry's advanced chip packaging in addition to TSMC's, as the mobile chip designer bets on AI demand for growth (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia : MediaTek says it has started to use Intel Foundry's advanced chip packaging in addition to TSMC's...