Tuesday, June 7, 2022

A profile of Chipper Cash, an African cross-border payments services provider valued at $2.2B in November, which had $75M+ in revenue in 2021, up over 4x YoY (Jeff Kauflin/Forbes)

Jeff Kauflin / Forbes:
A profile of Chipper Cash, an African cross-border payments services provider valued at $2.2B in November, which had $75M+ in revenue in 2021, up over 4x YoY  —  A pair of twentysomethings from Uganda and Ghana thought there was a fortune to be made bringing transnational financial services to Africa's 1.2 billion people.



EU lawmakers reach an agreement on legislation that will mandate USB-C on smartphones and other electronic devices, starting in fall 2024, to reduce e-waste (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Jon Porter / The Verge:
EU lawmakers reach an agreement on legislation that will mandate USB-C on smartphones and other electronic devices, starting in fall 2024, to reduce e-waste  —  A major blow to Apple's Lightning port  —  European Union lawmakers have reached an agreement on legislation that will force …



How Ukrainian civilians are helping the army using apps, blurring the lines between civilians and soldiers, raising questions of international humanitarian law (Lukasz Olejnik/Wired)

Lukasz Olejnik / Wired:
How Ukrainian civilians are helping the army using apps, blurring the lines between civilians and soldiers, raising questions of international humanitarian law  —  In Ukraine, civilians are valiantly assisting the army via apps—and challenging a tenet of international law in the process.



An in-depth look at attempts by the US to prosecute hot-headed coder Joshua Schulte, who allegedly leaked the CIA's hacking arsenal, ahead of his June 13 trial (Patrick Radden Keefe/New Yorker)

Patrick Radden Keefe / New Yorker:
An in-depth look at attempts by the US to prosecute hot-headed coder Joshua Schulte, who allegedly leaked the CIA's hacking arsenal, ahead of his June 13 trial  —  A hot-headed coder is accused of exposing the agency's hacking arsenal.  Did he betray his country because he was pissed off at his colleagues?



How to disable Windows services and speed up your PC

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CybSafe, which uses behavioral science and data analytics to help businesses improve security, raises a $28M Series B, bringing its total funding to $40M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE:
CybSafe, which uses behavioral science and data analytics to help businesses improve security, raises a $28M Series B, bringing its total funding to $40M  —  Behavioral security and data analytics startup CybSafe Ltd. has raised $28 million in new funding to accelerate its product development …



The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5K workers at its Staten Island warehouse; Amazon plans to appeal (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

Greg Bensinger / Reuters : The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5K workers at its ...