Sunday, October 24, 2021
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India-based Groww, which lets users invest in mutual funds, gold, stocks, and more, raises a $251M Series E led by Iconiq Growth, tripling its valuation to $3B (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
India-based Groww, which lets users invest in mutual funds, gold, stocks, and more, raises a $251M Series E led by Iconiq Growth, tripling its valuation to $3B — Groww has tripled its valuation to $3 billion in just six months as the Indian fintech startup looks to broaden its offerings …
ProtonMail's parent company wins a Swiss court appeal confirming email services are not considered telcos and thus not subject to data retention requirements (Michael Shields/Reuters)
ProtonMail's parent company wins a Swiss court appeal confirming email services are not considered telcos and thus not subject to data retention requirements — Geneva-based Proton AG, the company behind ProtonMail and ProtonVPN, has won an appeal regarding its treatment under Swiss law …
Brazil-based Hash, which develops white label payment infrastructure for non-financial B2B companies looking to offer banking services, raises a $40M Series C (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)
Brazil-based Hash, which develops white label payment infrastructure for non-financial B2B companies looking to offer banking services, raises a $40M Series C — Hash, a payment infrastructure fintech, announced today that it has raised $40 million in a Series C funding round co-led by QED Investors and Kaszek.
Citizen Lab: the iPhone of Ben Hubbard, an American reporter for NYT, was hacked in 2020 and 2021, likely by Saudi Arabia using NSO's Pegasus; NSO denies claim (Ben Hubbard/New York Times)
Citizen Lab: the iPhone of Ben Hubbard, an American reporter for NYT, was hacked in 2020 and 2021, likely by Saudi Arabia using NSO's Pegasus; NSO denies claim — Invasive hacking software sold to countries to fight terrorism is easily abused. Researchers say my phone was hacked twice, probably by Saudi Arabia.
Tesla rolls back its FSD beta from version 10.3, which improved many items like brake light and turn signal detection, to 10.2 after "seeing some issues" (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
Tesla rolls back its FSD beta from version 10.3, which improved many items like brake light and turn signal detection, to 10.2 after “seeing some issues” — Elon Musk didn't specify what issues the company found — Tesla's decision to test its “Full Self Driving” …
Tesco, UK's largest supermarket chain, was targeted by hackers on Saturday, halting orders on its app and website through Sunday (Julia Kollewe/The Guardian)
Tesco, UK's largest supermarket chain, was targeted by hackers on Saturday, halting orders on its app and website through Sunday — Consumers unable to book or amend deliveries after ‘attempt made to interfere with systems’ — Tesco has been hit by hackers, leaving thousands …
Profile of France-based BlaBlaCar, a long distance carpooling marketplace with 80% of its riders outside of France and 60% outside of Europe (Chris O'Brien/The French Tech Journal)
Profile of France-based BlaBlaCar, a long distance carpooling marketplace with 80% of its riders outside of France and 60% outside of Europe — BlaBlaCar has become an icon of the French Tech ecosystem. But the mobility company that wants to efficiently help people get from Point A to Point B …
Study says tech firms underreport their carbon footprint
Indian startup Clear, which helps individuals and businesses file tax returns and more, raises a $75M Series C from Kora Capital, Stripe, and others (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Indian startup Clear, which helps individuals and businesses file tax returns and more, raises a $75M Series C from Kora Capital, Stripe, and others — Stripe has made its second investment in India, just days after disclosing the first. One of the world's most valuable startups …
Profile of Databricks CEO and co-founder Ali Ghodsi, who turned the data analytics startup into a company worth $28B, on track to reach ~$1B in sales in 2022 (Kenrick Cai/Forbes India)
Profile of Databricks CEO and co-founder Ali Ghodsi, who turned the data analytics startup into a company worth $28B, on track to reach ~$1B in sales in 2022 — Ali Ghodsi was happily researching AI at Berkeley when he helped invent a revolutionary bit of code—and he wanted to give it away for free.
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Researchers detail how hackers are using FiveSys, a rootkit with a Microsoft-issued digital signature, to steal the login credentials of gamers in China (Danny Palmer/ZDNet)
Researchers detail how hackers are using FiveSys, a rootkit with a Microsoft-issued digital signature, to steal the login credentials of gamers in China — FiveSys rootkit somehow used a valid digital signature to help bypass cybersecurity measures in order to steal usernames and passwords from victims.
Saturday, October 23, 2021
Microsoft reverses its decision to remove code editing feature Hot Reload in its upcoming .NET 6 SDK, after backlash from the open source community (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Microsoft reverses its decision to remove code editing feature Hot Reload in its upcoming .NET 6 SDK, after backlash from the open source community — .NET 6 will now include Hot Reload across multiple platforms — Microsoft is reversing a decision to remove a key feature …
US coding boot camp graduates are facing a tough job market due to AI coding tools and mass layoffs; CompTIA: developer job listings are down 56% since 2019 (Sarah Kessler/New York Times)
Sarah Kessler / New York Times : US coding boot camp graduates are facing a tough job market due to AI coding tools and mass layoffs; Com...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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