Techmeme: NYC-based Regal, an outbound call and text messaging tools provider to brands, raised a $38.5M Series A led by Emergence Capital at a $350M post-money valuation (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Mia Sato / The Verge:

Roblox plans to add age guidelines to its games and announces a new in-game ads system for brands to advertise via interactive billboards, posters, and more — And it's bringing digital billboards and age guidelines to do it — Roblox rode a wave of pandemic-era growth to a seven-fold value increase …

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Andrew Orr / AppleInsider:

Apple's iOS 16 webpage now lists iCloud Shared Photo library as “coming later this year”; the feature was also removed from the latest iOS 16 betas — Apple announced iCloud Shared Photo Library as part of iOS 16, but it appears that the feature won't arrive in the iOS 16 release on September 12.

More: XDA Developers, MacRumors, CNET, The Verge, Michael Tsai, iThinkDifferent, and iMore

Kenrick Cai / Forbes:

Sources: Stability AI, the startup behind Stable Diffusion, is in talks to raise $100M; Coatue proposed a $500M valuation and Lightspeed offered a $1B valuation — With the image generator Stable Diffusion, you can conjure within seconds a potrait of Beyoncé as if painted by Vincent van Gogh …

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Taryn Plumb / VentureBeat:

Isovalent, the creator of open-source networking and security solution for cloud environments Cilium, has raised a $40M Series B led by Thomvest Ventures — There's no question that Kubernetes has become the new enterprise standard when it comes to building and operating modern applications.

More: FinSMEs, Isovalent, TechRepublic, Isovalent, and CRN. Tweets: @venturebeat

Jody Serrano / Gizmodo:

How Wikipedia's editors worked after Queen Elizabeth II's death, debating what pictures to use and what to call Charles, creating new articles, and more — RIP, Queen Elizabeth II. There are a lot of things to do in the digital realm when a monarch dies, and one of the first places people go when a famous person dies is Wikipedia.

Tonya Riley / CyberScoop:

Some ex-staff say Patreon laid off its entire cybersecurity team this week, raising user concerns; Patreon says the move will have “no impact” on its security — Patreon laid off its security team this week, according to several former employees, sparking cybersecurity concerns among users …

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Matthew Martin / Bloomberg:

Middle Eastern on-demand trucking platform TruKKer, which matches shippers and freight carriers, raised $100M from Investcorp and others ahead of a planned IPO — Middle Eastern logistics startup TruKKer raised $100 million from investors including Bahrain-based asset manager Investcorp …

More: Reuters, Al Bawaba, The National, and Wamda

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Davey Alba / Bloomberg:

Alphabet's Verily raised $1B led by Alphabet; founder and CEO Andy Conrad will become executive chairman as President Stephen Gillett becomes CEO in January — Verily, the Alphabet Inc. life sciences unit that's previously experimented with diabetes-detecting contact lenses …

More: TechCrunch, Verily, Silicon Valley Business …, Insider, Tech News, and PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @businessinsider

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:

NYC-based Regal, an outbound call and text messaging tools provider to brands, raised a $38.5M Series A led by Emergence Capital at a $350M post-money valuation — Getting prospective customers to answer sales calls and texts can feel like a Sisyphean task.

More: Bestgamingpro, FinSMEs, and Regal.io

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Amazon acquires Cloostermans, a Belgian mechatronics company that makes tech to move and stack heavy palettes as well as robotics for packaging product orders — Amazon has made a string of startup acquisitions over the years to build out its robotics business; now, the e-commerce leviathan …

More: About Amazon, Wall Street Journal, D.Cloostermans-Huwaert, SiliconANGLE, GeekWire, The Robot Report, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, CNBC, and Tech News

Tweets: @ingridlunden and @quinnypig

Axios:

One-click checkout service Bolt is no longer buying crypto payments service Wyre; the deal was worth about $1.5B — One-click checkout company Bolt is no longer acquiring Wyre, the crypto payments company that it had agreed to buy for about $1.5 billion back in April.

More: The Block and Reuters

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:

France-based Gravitee.io, a popular open-source API management service, raised $30M led by Riverside Acceleration Capital, bringing its total funding to $41M — Gravitee Topco Ltd., the creator of a popular application programming interface management service, is feeling richer today after closing on a $30 million funding round.

More: FinSMEs, Silicon Canals, and GlobeNewswire News Room

Ornella Hernandez / Blockworks:

Web3 game publisher Revolving Games raised $13.2M+ from Pantera Capital, Animoca Brands, Polygon, and others, bringing its seed funding to $25M+ — - $2.4 billion has been invested in GameFi in 2022 — Web3 devs “should look to build on what has worked for over a decade in Web2,” said CEOs

More: CoinDesk, VentureBeat, CoinJournal, Decrypt, and The Block. Tweets: @polygonstudios

CoinDesk:

Chainalysis says it helped the US government recover about $30M stolen from Axie Infinity by the North Korea-linked hackers Lazarus Group earlier in 2022 — Hackers stole over $600 million from Axie earlier this year. — Crypto analytics firm Chainalysis announced Thursday it helped …

More: Chainalysis, Engadget, The Register, Security Affairs, The Daily Hodl, Crypto Daily, PCMag, The Hacker News, Micky, Crypto Briefing, Reuters, Decrypt, The Record, CryptoPotato, Metaverse Post, CryptoSlate, and The Block

Tweets: @chainalysis and @chainalysis

Carly Page / TechCrunch:

Cisco Talos: the Lazarus group exploited the Log4j flaw in VMware Horizon servers of energy providers in the US, Canada, and Japan from February to July 2022

More: Cisco Talos Intelligence Group, TechRadar, Dan's Stack, ZDNet, SecurityWeek, CNN, BleepingComputer, and The Hacker News. Tweets: @talossecurity

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