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Developers have a problem. Previously, only large companies had to worry about security, but now any startup can hold vast amounts of customer data. This means developers have to worry about platform security across the board, and often struggle with complex tools to manage security. Now, Aikido, a small startup in Ghent, Belgium, thinks it has the answer to that dilemma. It's an open source, developer-friendly, no-nonsense security platform. And the startup just raised $17 million in Series A to further strengthen its product. “Security tools have been around for 30 years, but I think we're the first where the…
British regulator Ofcom is investigating online adult content subscription service OnlyFans for failing to prevent children from accessing pornography through its platform. Ofcom, the UK's official regulator for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries, said it had grounds to suspect that OnlyFans' parent company, Phoenix International Limited, did not have adequate age verification measures in place. The regulator also found that Fenix may have provided incomplete or inaccurate information as part of two information request notices issued by Ofcom, one in June 2022 and one in June 2023. We are also investigating whether there is a sex. These requests were…
Appointment scheduling service Calendly has redesigned its browser extension to improve schedule management capabilities and speed up scheduling. This new extension, available for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Outlook, has a “Meetings” tab that houses your meetings, allowing you to join, cancel, and reschedule them. However, you will only see meetings booked through Calendly. The company said it will consider expanding the extension based on customer feedback. You can also see upcoming meetings with a participant and their meeting history with the new Contacts tab. This extension also allows you to share links to different types of meetings (such as long…
In 2017, Jyoti Bansal co-founded San Francisco-based security firm Traceable with former investor Sanjay Nagaraj. Bansal, who previously co-founded app performance management startup AppDynamics, which he acquired by Cisco in 2017, is using Traceable to build a platform that protects customers' APIs from cyberattacks. It was made. Attacks against APIs (the set of protocols that establish how platforms, apps, and services communicate) are on the rise. According to cybersecurity firm Check Point, API attacks affected nearly a quarter of organizations every week in the first month of 2024, an increase of 20% compared to the same period last year. API…
Venture capital firms in the Midwest may always be looking to catch up to their coastal counterparts, but that doesn't stop some companies from raising significant amounts of capital to support startups in their local ecosystems and across the region. do not have. Investors focused on the coast say money continues to flow into the area, despite being a so-called “elevated city.” For example, he made a $50 million investment in Michigan's Grand Ventures last October. In 2023, Columbus-based Rev1 secured his $30 million third Catalyst Fund aimed at life sciences. Now it's Hyde Park Venture Partners' turn. The Chicago-based…
When Joanna Strober was about 47 years old, she stopped sleeping. Her sleep deprivation is a common symptom of perimenopause, but to get her diagnosed and properly treated, she first traveled to multiple medical institutions, including a 45-minute drive from San Francisco and a $750 fee. I had to go to “I've had this feeling that I've suffered so much unnecessarily over the past year,” Strober said on a recent episode of TechCrunch's Found podcast. “I started talking to all my friends and trying to understand what was going on with them, and what became clear is that menopause and…
Qiao Changpeng, also known as “CZ”, the founder and CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, has been sentenced to four months in prison. Six days ago, the U.S. Department of Justice recommended a 36-month prison sentence for Zhao, which would be “far more than the 18 months stipulated in the plea agreement,” according to CoinDesk. Last November, Mr. Zhao stepped down from his leadership role and pleaded guilty to numerous violations brought through the Justice Department and other U.S. government agencies. At the time, Binance admitted to engaging in “anti-money laundering, unauthorized transfers, and sanctions violations,” in what the Justice Department…
TikTok may be going through the App Store to save on fees. The ByteDance-owned social video app is offering some users a link to a website to buy coins used to tip digital creators, according to new findings. Usually these coins are purchased through in-app purchases and require paying Apple his 30% commission. This feature may be hidden from most users, either by design or only visible to certain groups of users, such as testers or high spenders. Either way, those with access to the new option will be shown a screen prompting them to “recharge”, or buy more coins,…
Twitch will officially roll out a new TikTok-like discovery feed to all users this week, the company announced Tuesday. The new feed launches as a tab within the Twitch iOS and Android apps, allowing viewers to scroll through bite-sized content and discover new streamers. The official launch follows an initial test of Twitch's feed that began in August 2023. With this release, Twitch joins a number of other popular apps (including Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, Uber Eats, and LinkedIn, to name a few) that have launched their own short-form video feeds in response to TikTok's growing popularity. It will be. Discovery…