Techmeme: Strata Identity, which helps unify identity management in multi-cloud environments, raises $11M Series A led by Menlo Ventures (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

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Trend Micro details an unpatched remote code execution bug in the Android version of SHAREit, an app with 1B+ Play Store downloads that lets users share files — The vulnerabilities impact SHAREit, an app used for sharing files between users and their devices.

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Investigation finds ten websites offering fake Amazon reviews from £5 each; five of the websites claimed to have 702K+ “product reviewers” on their books — Fake reviews for products sold on Amazon's Marketplace are being sold online “in bulk”, according to Which?

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Some AI researchers are increasingly worried about the lack of ethical oversight, with the job often falling to peer reviewers, a stark contrast to other fields — At artificial-intelligence conferences, researchers are increasingly alarmed by what they see.

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Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:

Personetics, which uses AI to help banks issue personalized advice and insights to customers, raises $75M from Warburg Pincus — Personetics, a data-driven platform that uses AI to help banks issue personalized advice and insights to customers, has raised $75 million in funding from private equity firm Warburg Pincus.

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Matillion, which provides enterprise cloud data integration tools, raises $100M led by Lightspeed Venture Partners — As enterprises build their modern data stack, preparing the data to be used has become an increasingly resource-intensive problem. To move faster, these companies are searching …

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Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:

Strata Identity, which helps unify identity management in multi-cloud environments, raises $11M Series A led by Menlo Ventures — Strata Identity, a self-proclaimed “identity orchestration” platform for multi-cloud environments, has raised $11 million in a series A round of funding led by Menlo Ventures.

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