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After criticism, PayPal says its policy update about a $2,500 penalty for “the sending, posting, or publication” of misinformation was “incorrect information” — PayPal Holdings Inc. said it has no intention of fining customers for spreading misinformation …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube announces “handles”, letting creators identify their channel using the @username format across channel pages, video descriptions, comments, and Shorts — YouTube is making it easier for creators to direct viewers to their channels. The company today announced “handles …
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| IDC: |
Global PC shipments fell 15% YoY to 74.3M units in Q3 2022; Lenovo, HP, and Dell declined YoY by 16.1%, 27.8%, and 21.2%, respectively, as Apple grew 40.2% YoY — Declines continued for the traditional PC market as global shipments totaled 74.3 million units during the third quarter of 2022 …
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| Zi Wang / Decrypt: |
Days after Celsius shared all its users' names and crypto transaction histories in a bankruptcy filing, a new website shows who allegedly lost the most money — Using data likely pulled from its bankruptcy filing, a new tool now shows exactly how much different users lost following Celsius' collapse.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Fortinet confirms a critical remote authentication bypass vulnerability in FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager is being exploited; a patch is available — Fortinet has confirmed today that a critical authentication bypass security vulnerability patched last week is being exploited in the wild.
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| Jahnavi Sen / The Wire: |
Source: Instagram removed 705 posts without oversight in India in September, after being flagged by Amit Malviya, the head of BJP's IT Cell, as part of XCheck — Seven posts by satirical account @cringearchivist were removed without any verification because the head of the BJP's …
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| Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World: |
WhatsApp users in India say the service, which has ~550M users in the country, has become overrun by spam from brands, some using WhatsApp's business tools — Revenue pressures forced WhatsApp to turn to e-commerce, and now the company is contending with a plague of spammers. — • BENGALURU, INDIA
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Endor Labs, which helps businesses select, secure, monitor, and maintain their open-source software dependencies at scale, emerges from stealth with a $25M seed — An increasing percentage of the code that companies use to develop software is open source. In a 2018 survey by Tidelift …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Airwallex, which provides cross-border banking and other financial services for businesses, raised a $100M Series E2, bringing its total funding to over $900M — The economy may be showing many signs of contraction right now, but many companies still need to do business internationally.
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Australian Financial Review, Bloomberg, and Airwallex
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: BeReal has passed 53M installs, its MAUs are up 2,254% since January 2022, and ~9% of its active Android installs opened the app every day in Q3 — Gen Z social media app BeReal encourages its users to take a photo every day — a format designed to create a daily habit.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Trendsi, which helps sellers and manufacturers predict demand, raised a $25M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to $30M — In the traditional business-to-business world, sellers often don't know how much of a product they should order.| Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt: |
European Parliament's economics committee approves Markets in Crypto Assets bill, which limits stablecoin token issuance, regulates mining, and more — The Markets in Crypto Assets regulation bill (MiCA) is one step closer to being put into law. — Europe is one step further on its way to regulating the crypto industry.
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