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David Pierce / Protocol : A profile of Discord, which lies at the center of the gaming world with 100M+ MAUs, as it pushes to turn into a communication tool for everyone, not just gamers   —  Most longtime Discord users have a similar origin story.  They liked playing video games, and liked playing with their friends … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/35QYjgq

Christine Hall / Crunchbase News : Cloud video surveillance company Eagle Eye Networks raises $40M Series E from Accel to invest in new AI projects such as license plate recognition   —  Eagle Eye Networks, a cloud video surveillance company, raised $40 million in Series E funding from Accel to advance its platform. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/35QezhD

Nick Greenhalgh / Denver Business Journal : StackHawk, whose tech helps developers find application security vulnerabilities before they get into production, raises $10M Series A led by Sapphire Ventures   —  With a successful beta at its back and paying customers onboard, Denver application security startup StackHawk announced Tuesday … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/34IUACc

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch : Wise, a fintech startup that partners with other companies so that they can offer business bank accounts to their own customers, raises $12M Series A   —  Fintech startup Wise has raised a $12 million Series A round.  The company offers business bank accounts with an interesting go-to-market strategy. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3jMsYAv

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat : Skan, which helps enterprises automate repetitive business processes by combining data engineering with computer vision, raises $14M Series A   —  Skan.ai, an AI-enabled process discovery and operational intelligence platform, today closed $14 million in funding. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3mEqqWP

FinSMEs : DriveWealth raises $56.7M Series C for its digital brokerage services that help broker-dealers and its global online partners access the US securities market   —  DriveWealth, LLC, a Chatam, N.J.-based global digital trading technology company, raised $56.7m in Series C funding. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/34IyZtE

Mark Graham / Internet Archive Blogs : The Internet Archive starts adding banners on some Wayback Machine pages with links that provide contextual information from fact-checking organizations   —  Fact checking organizations and origin websites sometimes have information about pages archived in the Wayback Machine. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2TJwhxv

Nandita Mathur / Livemint : Forty-six top US companies including Apple, Google, and Twitter have filed an amicus brief supporting a legal challenge to block Trump admin's H-1B visa changes   —  - The move comes in the wake of the US administration's proposal to scrap the computerized lottery system to grant H-1B work visas … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3jUch6h

Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu : Odaseva, a France-based data protection services provider for large-scale Salesforce customers, raises $25M Series B led by Eight Roads Ventures   —  French SaaS company Odaseva has raised $25 million in Series B funding to continue growing its data governance platform for enterprise. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3kLXBHf

Elliott Ackerman / Wired : Profile of Shield AI, which raised money from a16z and others to develop autonomous military drones that scan buildings to help soldiers clear them   —  On the battlefield, any doorway can be a death trap.  A special ops vet, and his businessman brother, have built an AI to solve that problem. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/320EYIq

Igor Bosilkovski / Forbes : StrongDM, which grants and mediates user access to enterprise backend infrastructure and logs user actions in video replay, raises $17M Series A led by Sequoia   —  StrongDM, a single sign-on company for backend infrastructure, announced today that it has raised $17 million in Series A led by Sequoia Capital. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3jEVRhS

Monica Chin / The Verge : Intel launches new Iris Xe Max discrete GPU, with first laptops now available from Acer, Dell, and Asus   —  Try out Intel's new discrete GPU  —  Earlier this month, the public got its first glimpse of Iris Xe Max, Intel's new discrete GPU for thin-and-light laptops, at an Acer press event. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3jHYWxz

Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic : How Trump's presidency has changed the internet, from fueling conspiracy theories to forcing social media platforms to reexamine their content policies   —  How the president changed life online—for better and for worse  —  Being online has changed Donald Trump. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3mBQxh9

Lara O'Reilly / Digiday : Interview with Petra Wikström, director of public policy at Schibsted, on joining the Coalition for App Fairness to pressure app store owners to change rules   —  Nordic publishing giant Schibsted became one of 20 new members of the recently formed Coalition for App Fairness earlier this month. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2Je9yaT

New York Times : Misinformation on social media, alongside Trump's lies, is overwhelming local election officials across the US as they shoot down rumors via phone and email   —  From Philadelphia to Sonoma County, Calif., election officials said they were working marathon hours to fight a flood of falsehoods. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/385bCwa

Rest of World : Filipino activists and journalists want Facebook to tackle deadly disinformation coming from the government, resulting in enemies being “red-tagged” and killed   —  Targeted by government misinformation, activists are asking Facebook to do more to tackle a deadly epidemic of “red-tagging.” from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2TEKsE9

Joseph Marks / Washington Post : A look at CISA's wide-ranging operation to secure the 2020 election against hacking, which includes the launch of a 24/7 virtual war room on Election Day   —  A 24/7 war room will operate from Election Day until local officials are confident in the results.  It shows just how far DHS's cybersecurity agency has come since 2016. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/31Z7xWA

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer : CISA, FBI say an Iran-linked APT targeted unsecured state election websites to harvest US voter info used to send threatening emails to some Democratic voters   —  DHS CISA and the FBI today shared more info on how an Iranian state-sponsored hacking group was able to harvest voter registration info … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3eaLL7j

Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat : Hands-on with the Dash Cart at an Amazon Fresh store: cart sensors worked fine, but a two-bag limit, bag fill limit, and real-world hassles hinder experience   —  There were no lines outside Irvine, California's new Amazon Fresh grocery store on its opening day last week … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2HHFSTr

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider : Apple rejects an app designed to verify a person's ballot status in PA, says the app violates its guideline which forbids compiling user data without consent   —  Apple on Friday rejected an app designed to ensure ballots are being correctly counted in Pennsylvania, saying the software violates App Store privacy guidelines. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3kIQcsx

Reuters : Sources: Italy's biggest payments company Nexi is leading negotiations to buy its Nordic rival Nets in an all-stock deal worth around $10B   —  LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Italian payments technology firm Nexi NEXII.MI is leading negotiations to buy Nordic rival Nets in an all-stock deal worth … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3jHeJwM

Bloomberg : Texas jury rules that Apple must pay VirnetX $502.8M for patent infringement, the lastest verdict in a 10-year ongoing legal battle; Apple says it will appeal   —  - Verdict is part of 10-year fight over secure communications  — Jury asked to determine damages on patent infringement from Techmeme https://ift.tt/34JHzZ0

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge : Waymo releases public road testing data on its self-driving operations in Arizona between Jan. 2019 and Sept. 2020, says its cars drove 6.1M+ miles in 2019   —  In its first report on its autonomous vehicle operations in Phoenix, Arizona, Waymo said that it was involved in 18 crashes … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3mEQQYt

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica : Google's Project Zero discloses a zero-day sandbox exploit on Windows 7 and 10; Microsoft says it has no evidence of the flaw being widely exploited   —  Security flaw lets attackers escape sandboxes designed to contain malicious code.  —  Google's project zero says that hackers … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3kHUS1O

Rachel E. Greenspan / Business Insider : Facebook says it will limit the use of the “Save our Children” hashtag after QAnon co-opted the anti-trafficking movement   —  - Facebook will limit the use of the QAnon conspiracy theory's “Save our Children” hashtag, the company said Friday.  — A Facebook spokesperson told Insider … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3oEJGFn