After a decade of online identities coming under increasingly centralized control, online anonymity is starting to look like a threatened privilege than a right (John Herrman/New York Times)

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Qualtrics to acquire Virginia-based Clarabridge, which offers AI-powered customer experience management tools, for $1.125B in stock (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

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SolCyber, which offers endpoint detection and response services, comes out of stealth with $20M Series A led by ForgePoint Capital (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

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FRISS, which provides automated fraud and risk detection technology for property and casualty insurance companies, raises $65M Series B led by Accel-KKR (Vishal Singh/Silicon Canals)

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Replicated, which sells tools that help software makers create and deploy on-premises versions of their applications, raises $50M Series C led by Owl Rock (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Cyolo, which is developing zero trust security tech to enable users to securely access their organization's apps, servers, and files, raises $21M Series A (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

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Medical imaging startup Exo, which aims to commercialize its AI-powered point-of-care workflow software and handheld ultrasound device, raises $220M Series C (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)

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Mercury, which offers banking services to startups, raises $120M Series B, including a $5M allotment for crowdfunding, led by Coatue at a $1.62B valuation (Joe Burns/FinLedger)

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Rey, which uses VR-based tools powered by OxfordVR to provide on-demand mental health care services, raises $26M Series A, three months after launching (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

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The perfect storm striking World of Warcraft All of a sudden, WoW players are in revolt, and its competitors are having a boom. August 01, 2021 at 04:48AM

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Microsoft is avoiding antitrust scrutiny by rebranding itself as nice and boring, even as it reverts to some of the behaviors that led to prosecution the '90s (Molly Wood/The Atlantic)

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Many viewers are experiencing the Olympics primarily through TikTok, with some of the most-watched videos coming not from NBC but from athletes themselves (Tatum Hunter/Washington Post)

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How Apple became an "antifragile" company, by building a diverse portfolio of products and performing even stronger during the pandemic than it did before (Josh Centers/TidBITS)

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UK's CMA launches an inquiry into Facebook's acquisition of Kustomer, investigating whether the deal violates the UK's Enterprise Act 2002 (Jaime Llinares Taboada/MarketWatch)

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Australia-based IntelligenceBank, a marketing software provider for brands, raises $37M from Five Elms Capital to help speed up its expansion in the US (Paul Smith/Australian Financial Review)

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Metaverse, as Zuckerberg and others imagine, is an odd vision built from a compendium of juvenile fantasies, perceived market opportunities, and overt dystopias (Brian Merchant/VICE)

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Riskified, an Israeli e-commerce fraud protection company, began trading on the NYSE on Thursday after raising $363M in its IPO, at a valuation of $3.3B (Shiri Habib-Valdhorn/Globes Online)

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Digital bank Monzo reveals a loss of £130M on £66M revenue for the year ended Feb. and says UK FCA is investigating it over potential money laundering breaches (Nicholas Megaw/Financial Times)

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B2B commerce and financing startup OfBusiness raises $160M led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a valuation of $1.5B, becoming the 18th Indian unicorn for the year (Digbijay Mishra/The Economic Times)

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Vietnam-based VNLife, the parent company of VNPay, which helps banks provide mobile payment apps and other digital services, raises $250M at a valuation of $1B+ (Nikkei Asia)

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Educational publisher Pearson says it is switching to a subscription model for all of its 1,500 titles, available for $14.99/month through its new Pearson+ app (Financial Times)

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The Justice Department says 27 US Attorney offices had at least one employee's Microsoft email account breached by Russian hackers from May 7 to Dec. 27, 2020 (Associated Press)

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Home car charger owners urged to install updates Security vulnerabilities in two domestic electric car chargers were discovered by researchers. July 31, 2021 at 07:13AM

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Wyze Labs, which makes devices like smart security cameras, robot vacuums, and smartwatches, raises $110M Series B led by Marcy Venture Partners (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire)

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Owners of home car chargers urged to install updates Security vulnerabilities in two domestic electric car chargers have been discovered by researchers. July 31, 2021 at 05:54AM

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Elon Musk: 'I don't want to be CEO of anything' Elon Musk reiterated on Friday that he doesn't want to be Space X or Tesla boss. What's going on? July 31, 2021 at 06:09AM

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Google contract workers in Pittsburgh have ratified a three-year deal with their employer HCL, for higher wages and more, nearly two years after unionizing (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

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A look at Intel's dismal 2020, which saw the delay of its 7nm architecture, Apple's switch to Arm-based chips, and the departure of Jim Keller and other execs (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)

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Telegram's latest update adds group video calls of up to 1,000 users with 30 simultaneous broadcasts, video messages, screen sharing during video calls, more (Telegram)

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Modern Animal, a pet care service offering 24/7 telemedicine and a more "intelligent" labor model for veterinarians, raises $40M Series B led by Founders Fund (Igor Bosilkovski/Forbes)

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How US sanctions forced Chinese companies to develop key tech themselves, aligning the companies' incentives with China's goal of economic self-sufficiency (Dan Wang/Foreign Affairs)

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As Southeast Asian governments introduce "fake news" laws to fight COVID-19 misinformation, conspiracists thrive on Telegram and other non-public platforms (Peter Guest/Rest of World)

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Deliveroo says it plans to pull out of Spain, citing limited market share; Spain unveiled a "rider law" in March to reclassify couriers as employees (Jasper Jolly/The Guardian)

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[Thread] Facebook's future prospects remain strong as the secular rise of digital advertising blunts any headwinds from regulators, Apple, critics, and others (Eric Seufert/@eric_seufert)

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China's top court issues new guidelines that hotels, airports, and other commercial venues must get consent from customers to use facial recognition from Aug. 1 (Eva Dou/Washington Post)

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Safari's extremely slow pace in adopting popular features and fixing showstopping bugs, and refusal to engage with contentious API proposals, is harming the web (Tim Perry/HTTP Toolkit)

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Germany to allow institutional funds, which currently manage a total of ~$2.1T, to hold up to 20% of their holdings in Bitcoin and other crypto assets (Stephan Kahl/Bloomberg)

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A US company has turned a former coal plant into a gas-fired Bitcoin mine Environmentalists have criticised the gas-fired mine but the company says it offsets its emissions. July 30, 2021 at 04:30AM

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Amazon predicts slower sales growth as Covid boost eases The tech giant says third quarter sales growth will be slower as customers return to physical shops. July 30, 2021 at 03:11AM

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Scarlett Johansson sues Disney over streaming of Black Widow The star says box office takings for Black Widow were hit when it was streamed at the same time. July 30, 2021 at 02:48AM

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48 civil rights and advocacy groups join in asking the FTC to ban corporate facial surveillance technology, continuous corporate surveillance of public space (Edward Ongweso Jr/VICE)

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Snap says a technical issue has impacted some Snapchat users after ~125K reported problems on Downdetector, adds that it is working on a fix (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Didi: Chinese ride-hailing giant denies plans to go private Didi shares surged by almost 50% in pre-market trade after a report that it planned to go private. July 30, 2021 at 09:10AM

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Source: NSO Group has temporarily blocked several government clients globally from using its technology as the company investigates their possible misuse (Daniel Estrin/NPR)

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Amazon Kindle devices with built-in 3G won't be able to download e-books via cellular connection in the US starting in December as carriers switch off 2G and 3G (Ian Carlos Campbell/The Verge)

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A look at the fallout from the Activision Blizzard suit, as the company confirms it fired WoW lead for misconduct last year and hires "union-busting" law firm (Nick Statt/Protocol)

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Profile of Israeli surveillance startup Paragon, funded with $5-10M from US-based Battery, which sources say allows police to hack encrypted messaging apps (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

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Researchers detail a never-before-seen attack against Iran's train system and transport ministry from a new threat actor using a reusable wiper called Meteor (Jonathan Greig/ZDNet)

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Canada proposes the creation of a digital safety commissioner role to oversee violations of new harmful online content rules and issue penalties to platforms (Kieran Leavitt/Toronto Star)

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The fungus and bacteria tackling plastic waste Bacteria, fungus and enzymes can all digest plastic, but can they work at a useful commercial scale? July 30, 2021 at 04:34AM

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