MaestroQA, whose ML-powered software finds customer service interactions that should be reviewed by a manager, raises $25M Series A led by Base10 Partners (Rebecca Szkutak/Forbes)

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Activ Surgical, which makes hardware-agnostic software for minimally invasive surgical systems, raises $45M Series B led by Cota Capital (Emma Betuel/TechCrunch)

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CredAvenue, an online marketplace for companies seeking loans, financial institutions, and investors, raises $90M Series A, India's largest ever, led by Sequoia (The Economic Times)

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TrialSpark, which wants to leverage its clinical trials management software into drug discovery, closed $156M Series C at a $1B+ valuation earlier this year (Emma Court/Bloomberg)

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MiamiCoin, a crypto partnership with CityCoins unveiled in August that automatically allocates 30% of newly minted coins to Miami, has made $7.1M for the city (Dalvin Brown/Washington Post)

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A look at the rise of employee dissent at Apple, including pushback against returning to the office, fighting for pay equity, and increasing leaks (Zoe Schiffer/The Verge)

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Zoom says it no longer plans to acquire cloud-based call center software maker Five9, following the FCC's review of the $14.7B deal on national security grounds (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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Retailer Neiman Marcus says it notified 4.6M customers that their personal info, including credit card numbers, may have been exposed in a May 2020 data breach (Kim Lyons/The Verge)

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LinkedIn blocks the profiles of several US journalists on its Chinese platform, citing "prohibited content" without specifying what it was (Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian/Axios)

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Clean energy from the fastest moving objects on earth Why fusion promises clean unlimited energy and one firm hopes to spark it with high-speed collisions. October 01, 2021 at 04:35AM

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Forta, a security service aimed at smart contracts being spun out by blockchain cybersecurity startup OpenZeppelin, raises $23M led by a16z (Alex Wilhelm/TechCrunch)

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USB Implementers Forum issues new USB-C certified logos that show if a cable or port supports 60W or 240W, hoping to solve customer confusion (William Gallagher/AppleInsider)

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Senators grilled Facebook exec Antigone Davis at a hearing about Instagram's impact on teens and were frustrated by her reticence to answer questions directly (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

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TikTok launches Top Moments, an NFT collection featuring six "culturally significant TikTok videos" from creators including Lil Nas X (Aislinn Keely/The Block)

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Facebook Files don't show that the company's execs are evil or incompetent, but highlight their hubris in believing they can still get things back under control (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

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Amazon settles with two former employee activists, Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, over accusations it illegally fired them for organizing (Karen Weise/New York Times)

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Visually impaired users say that iOS 15 appears to have removed call, email, and voicemail Siri features they relied on (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

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How EA is expanding its footprint on mobile, the fastest growing gaming category, as part of a cross-platform portfolio to reach new consumers (Nick Statt/Protocol)

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Profile of Chinese AI company SenseTime, which has raised $3B+, as it prepares for a Hong Kong IPO and tries to retain support from China, its biggest customer (Financial Times)

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Chainalysis: crypto transaction volume for Central, Northern, and Western Europe reached $1T+ from July 2020-June 2021, comprising 25% of global crypto activity (Sam Bourgi/Cointelegraph)

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Miami's mayor has helped turn Miami into the most crypto-friendly US city, even as Florida's governor appears to object to the idea of an influx of tech workers (Benjamin Wallace/New York Magazine)

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Indian social commerce startup Meesho raises $570M Series F co-led by Fidelity and B Capital Group, doubling its valuation in less than six months to $4.9B (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

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Apple has quietly begun allowing users to rate and review its built-in iPhone and iPad apps in the App Store with iOS 15 (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)

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WSJ publishes six internal Facebook documents it used for its report about Instagram's negative impact on teen girls, after Facebook published two of the docs (Wall Street Journal)

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Buckle, which provides credit and insurance to ridesharing and delivery drivers, raises $60M Series B led by Volery Capital Partners (PYMNTS.com)

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Facebook shares its internal research about Instagram's impact on teen mental health reported on by WSJ, with annotations for context (The Verge)

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Researchers find Apple Pay, Visa contactless hack An attacker could bypass the iPhone lock screen and make large payments above the contactless limit. September 30, 2021 at 06:06AM

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British firm claims quantum-computing breakthrough Two companies are hoping to move the quantum industry in two different directions. September 30, 2021 at 06:05AM

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Employees at 11 video game companies say their teams had a 4K Switch dev kit, despite sources saying a 4K Nintendo console won't go on sale until late 2022 (Bloomberg)

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ViacomCBS-owned Pluto TV will pay $3.5M to settle an FCC investigation that found the video streaming service violated closed captioning rules (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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Twitch rolls out the option for streamers to require phone and email-verified accounts in chat, as part of the company's effort to reduce targeted harassment (Ana Diaz/Polygon)

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Ninth Circuit court confirms police need a warrant before opening people's email attachments, even if containing potentially illegal content such as CSAM (Jennifer Lynch/Electronic Frontier ...)

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Google Maps adds a wildfire info layer, rolling out to Android this week and iOS and desktop in October, expands its Tree Canopy tool to 100 cities worldwide (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica)

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Akamai acquires Tel Aviv-based Guardicore, which protects cloud workloads from cyber threats, for $600M, to help combat ransomware attacks (Eva Mathews/Reuters)

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Google announces online shopping tools, including a Lens upgrade coming first to iOS and Chrome desktop that helps users find products seen in images and videos (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)

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Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith pleads guilty to violating US sanctions law following a crypto and blockchain presentation at a 2019 North Korean conference (Cheyenne Ligon/CoinDesk)

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Google says it is improving Search using the MUM AI model, with features like "Things to know", which gives users additional context about searched topics (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)

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EquityBee, which runs a marketplace with ~12K investors to help startup employees exercise their stock options, raises $55M Series B led by Group 11 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

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AngelList launches AngelList Stack, a set of tools to help founders start and run their companies, including end-to-end incorporation and banking services (Natasha Mascarenhas/TechCrunch)

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FDA clears an AI program from computational diagnostics startup Paige, which can help detect cancerous cells in prostate tissue slides (Conor Hale/FierceBiotech)

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Acceldata, which makes AI-based data observability software for data quality, pipelines, and system infrastructure, raises $35M Series B led by Insight Partners (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

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Stellar Health, whose cloud-based tools help healthcare providers offer value-based care to patients, raises $60M+ Series B led by General Atlantic (FinSMEs)

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CNN restricts access to its Facebook Pages in Australia after a ruling that makes news organizations legally liable for comments on their Facebook posts (Benjamin Mullin/Wall Street Journal)

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Affirm plans to debut a debit card and allow its customers to buy and sell crypto directly from Affirm savings accounts (Jennifer Surane/Bloomberg)

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Tim Sweeney and Epic execs discuss Epic's metaverse plans, contrasting it with Facebook's "manicured" feed, and emphasizing the role of creators (Gene Park/Washington Post)

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CFTC fines Kraken $1.25M for illegally offering margined crypto products from June 2020 to July 2021 and not registering as a futures commission merchant (Turner Wright/Cointelegraph)

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Internal docs show how Amazon's Astro robot decision-making works; sources who worked on versions of Astro describe it as a "privacy nightmare" and "dangerous" (Matthew Gault/VICE)

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Researcher discloses AirTag Lost Mode vulnerability that enables phishing attack; says Apple spent three months investigating and refused basic questions (Krebs on Security)

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Netflix acquires its first game studio, Night School Studio, which was founded by Sean Krankel and Adam Hines in 2014 and is best known for the game Oxenfree (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

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Vaccine passport app Portpass, which has 650,000+ registered users across Canada according to the company's CEO, had a security flaw exposing private user info (Sarah Rieger/CBC News)

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