• Sara Fischer / Axios: LinkedIn says it will change its algorithm to favor posts that cater to niche professional interests as opposed to elevating viral content

• Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: FTC and DOJ announce their latest crackdown on robocallers, taking 94 actions against several companies and people blamed for a recent wave of spam calls

• Kate Clark / TechCrunch: Cameo, which lets fans pay for personalized videos from celebrities, raises $50M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins; reports suggest valuation is $300M

• Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft announces the OneDrive Personal Vault, which protects a folder with 2FA access, coming by the end of the year   —  Available to everyone by the end of the year

• Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Researchers say hackers have been stealing massive amounts of call records from over ten cell network providers worldwide to conduct targeted surveillance

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• Jon Fingas / Engadget: Amid Huawei ban, FedEx sues US over mandate that it monitor all shipments, saying it violates due process and is unfeasible on the scale the government desires

• Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Orderful, which aims to modernize supply chain management through an API-based cloud service, raises $10M Series A from Andreessen Horowitz

• Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Showpad, a sales enablement platform for presentations and other collateral, raises $70M Series D co-led by Dawn Capital and Insight Partners

• Mathieu Rosemain / Reuters: French digital affairs minister says Facebook has agreed to share with judges the identity of French users suspected of hate speech, claiming it's a world first

• Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: MX, which develops a suite of aggregation and analysis tools for financial institutions, raises $100M Series B led by Battery Ventures

• Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Israeli police arrest two brothers in connection with a multi-year crypto-focused phishing campaign and the 2016 hack of the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange
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• Lane Sainty / BuzzFeed: Australian judge allows man to sue media companies for defamation over Facebook comments written by their readers   —  Former youth detainee Dylan Voller is suing News Corp, Fairfax Media and Sky News.

• Daniel Kuhn / CoinDesk: Crypto exchange Kraken, a regulated platform for spot and futures trading, raises $13.5M from 2,263 participants in an online round at a $4B+ valuation

• Tom Warren / The Verge: iPads have the potential to become serious portable gaming devices, as Apple is adding Xbox and PlayStation controller support to iOS, tvOS, and iPadOS

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• Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: UK-based used car marketplace Motorway raises £11M Series A led by Marchmont Ventures   —  Motorway, the U.K. used car marketplace, has raised £11 million in Series A funding.

• New! Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: A deep dive on which phone vendor may be responsible for a supply chain attack that Google said resulted in pre-installed malware on budget Android devices

• Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: Monzo, a UK-based digital bank, raises ~$144M Series F led by Y Combinator's Continuity fund at a ~$2.5B post-money valuation, about double from October

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• New Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: A deep dive on which phone vendor may be responsible for a supply chain attack that Google said resulted in pre-installed malware on budget Android devices

• 55 minutes ago Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft announces the OneDrive Personal Vault, which protects a folder with 2FA access, coming by the end of the year   —  Available to everyone by the end of the year

• 60 minutes ago Jon Fingas / Engadget: Amid Huawei ban, FedEx sues US over mandate that it monitor all shipments, saying it violates due process and is unfeasible on the scale the government desires

• 1½ hours ago Daniel Kuhn / CoinDesk: Crypto exchange Kraken, a regulated platform for spot and futures trading, raises $13.5M from 2,263 participants in an online round at a $4B+ valuation

• 1½ hours ago Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: FTC and DOJ announce their latest crackdown on robocallers, taking 94 actions against several companies and people blamed for a recent wave of spam calls

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• 2 hours ago Tom Warren / The Verge: iPads have the potential to become serious portable gaming devices, as Apple is adding Xbox and PlayStation controller support to iOS, tvOS, and iPadOS

• 2 hours ago Mathieu Rosemain / Reuters: French digital affairs minister says Facebook has agreed to share with judges the identity of French users suspected of hate speech, claiming it's a world first

• 2½ hours ago Maggie Miller / The Hill: Ten-month-long bipartisan Senate investigation finds many federal agencies, including DHS, left sensitive data vulnerable to cyberattacks over the past decade

• 2½ hours ago Kate Clark / TechCrunch: Cameo, which lets fans pay for personalized videos from celebrities, raises $50M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins; reports suggest valuation is $300M

• 3 hours ago Douglas MacMillan / Washington Post: As states try to bring transparency to the data broker industry, a look at Vermont's law mandating that brokers register but has led to few accurately doing so

• 3 hours ago Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Ocrolus, which uses AI to analyze financial documents with, it claims, over 99% accuracy, raises $24M Series B led by Oak HC/FT   —  Ocrolus, a New York startup …

• 4 hours ago Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Israeli police arrest two brothers in connection with a multi-year crypto-focused phishing campaign and the 2016 hack of the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange
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• 5 hours ago Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Orderful, which aims to modernize supply chain management through an API-based cloud service, raises $10M Series A from Andreessen Horowitz

• 5½ hours ago Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: MX, which develops a suite of aggregation and analysis tools for financial institutions, raises $100M Series B led by Battery Ventures

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• 6 hours ago Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Showpad, a sales enablement platform for presentations and other collateral, raises $70M Series D co-led by Dawn Capital and Insight Partners

• 6 hours ago Sara Fischer / Axios: LinkedIn says it will change its algorithm to favor posts that cater to niche professional interests as opposed to elevating viral content

• 7 hours ago Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: UK-based used car marketplace Motorway raises £11M Series A led by Marchmont Ventures   —  Motorway, the U.K. used car marketplace, has raised £11 million in Series A funding.

• 8 hours ago Lane Sainty / BuzzFeed: Australian judge allows man to sue media companies for defamation over Facebook comments written by their readers   —  Former youth detainee Dylan Voller is suing News Corp, Fairfax Media and Sky News.