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General Atlantic leads $50M Series C into Bold to grow digital payments in Colombia Feb 15, 2024

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Bold provides low-cost payment terminals, called dataphones, that enable small and medium businesses to accept link payments.

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US military notifies 20,000 of data breach after cloud email leak Feb 15, 2024

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The U.S. Department of Defense is notifying tens of thousands of individuals that their personal information was exposed in an email data spill last year.

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Hackers uncover new TheTruthSpy stalkerware victims: Is your Android device compromised? Feb 14, 2024

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A consumer-grade spyware operation called TheTruthSpy poses an ongoing security and privacy risk to thousands of people whose Android devices are unknowingly compromised with its mobile surveillance apps, not least due to a simple security flaw that its operators never fixed.

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Cruise names first chief safety officer following crash and controversy Feb 13, 2024

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Cruise has named its first “chief safety officer” as part of the company’s effort to rehabilitate itself following an incident — and ensuing controversy — last year that left a pedestrian stuck under and then dragged by one of its robotaxis.

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Bugcrowd snaps up $102M for a ‘bug bounty’ security platform that taps 500K+ hackers Feb 13, 2024

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Bugcrowd — the startup that taps into a database of half a million hackers to help organizations like OpenAI and the U.S. government set up and run bug bounty programs, cash rewards to freelancers who can identify bugs and vulnerabilities in their code — has picked up a big cash award.

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Apple defends parts pairing as Oregon mulls right-to-repair bill Feb 12, 2024

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Oregon may soon become the latest state to pass right-to-repair legislation. Last month, Google lent its support in an open letter, calling Senate Bill 1596 “a compelling model for other states to follow.”

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Pinterest announces a new ad deal with Google as it approaches 500M MAUs Feb 12, 2024

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Pinterest announced a new ad deal with Google as the company aims to ramp up its ad revenue. Google is the social platform’s second third-party ad partner after Amazon signed a multiyear deal with Pinterest last year.

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Meta challenges EU’s Digital Services Act supervisory fee as unfair Feb 10, 2024

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Meta is challenging a fee levied by the European Union on larger online platforms under its rebooted ecommerce rules.

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FCC officially declares AI-voiced robocalls illegal Feb 09, 2024

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The FCC’s war on robocalls has gained a new weapon in its arsenal with the declaration of AI-generated voices as “artificial” and therefore by definitely against the law when used in automated calling scams.

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Californian regulator looking into Waymo’s collision with a cyclist Feb 09, 2024

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California’s auto regulator, the Department of Motor Vehicles, is investigating an incident that occurred on Tuesday, where a driverless Waymo car collided with a cyclist, according to a report by Reuters.

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