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Safari will reportedly no longer accept new HTTPS certificates that are valid for more than 398 days beginning on September 1, down from 825 days — Keep your crypto below 398 days after September 1 and you're all good — Safari will, later this year, no longer accept new HTTPS certificates …
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| John Thornhill / Financial Times: |
Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt raised over $10M in 2019 to operationalize Solid, an open source project to decentralize the web and give users control of their data — Sir Tim Berners-Lee's start-up Inrupt to expand operational team and launch pilot projects — Inrupt, the start-up company founded …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Sony unveils Xperia 1 II 5G flagship with a headphone jack, wireless charging, 21:9 6.5-inch 4K HDR OLED display, 8GB RAM, and a 4,000 mAh battery — Now featuring a headphone jack and wireless charging — One year after the debut of its super-tall Xperia 1, Sony is back with a successor, the obscenely titled Xperia 1 II.
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Survey of 979 tech experts: 49% say tech will “mostly weaken” democracy between now and 2030, 33% say it will “mostly strengthen” democracy, 18% see no change — About half predict that humans' use of technology will weaken democracy between now and 2030 due to the speed …
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| Laurens Cerulus / Politico: |
EU Commission tells staff to use end-to-end-encrypted messaging app Signal, saying it was selected as “the recommended application for public instant messaging” — The move is part of EU's efforts to beef up cybersecurity, after several high-profile incidents shocked diplomats and officials.
Tweets: @laurenscerulus and @anshelsag
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
eMarketer estimates Twitch will have 37.5M monthly active viewers in the US this year and is on pace to surpass the 44M mark by 2022 — Twitch, the Amazon-owned streaming service for gamers, is poised to surpass 40 million monthly active viewers in the U.S. as of next year, according to a new forecast from eMarketer out on Thursday.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Intuit is nearing a deal to buy personal finance portal Credit Karma for about $7B in cash and stock; the deal could be announced as soon as Monday — Acquisition would be Intuit's largest ever and the first sizable transaction under CEO Sasan Goodarzi
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Irish DPC report: 6 inquiries into multinational tech companies' GDPR compliance were opened in 2019, bringing major cross-border probes to 21, but no decisions — The lead European Union privacy regulator for most of big tech has put out its annual report which shows another major bump …
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| Elise Reuter / MedCity News: |
Boston-based IntelyCare, whose app matches nurses with open shifts at nursing homes and assisted living facilities, raises $45M in equity and debt financing — IntelyCare, a healthcare staffing solution for post-acute care, raised $45 million in equity and debt financing.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
CB Insights: fintech startups across the world raised $33.9B across 1,912 deals in 2019, which is down from $40.8B raised across 2,049 deals in 2018 — Financial services startups raised less money in 2019 than they did in 2018 as VC firms looked to back late stage firms and focused on developing markets, a new report has revealed.
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CB Insights, Modern Markets, Business Insider, and Business Insider
Tweets: @cbinsights, @cbinsights, @cbinsights, @cbinsights, and @trengriffin
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's BharatPe, which helps merchants take digital payments and secure working capital, raises $75M Series C valuing it at $400M+, after 2019's $50M Series B — BharatPe, a New Delhi-based startup that is enabling hundreds of thousands of merchants to accept digital payments …
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The Economic Times and KrASIA
| Privacy International: |
Tests find Facebook's Download Your Information tool gives users an incomplete and inconsistent list of advertisers who have uploaded their data to Facebook — In 2018, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook announced the “Download Your Information” feature allowing users …
Tweets: @privacyint, @wolfiechristl, @privacyint, and @micronauta
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