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India is reportedly looking to ban 275 more Chinese apps — including PUBG

Last month, India banned 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, WeChat, and UC Browser after tension between both nations at the border. The country’s government is now inspecting to ban 275 more China-originated apps including popular battle royale game PlayerUnknown’s BattleGround (PUBG) and ByteDance‘s music app Resso. According to a report from the Economic Times, government officials

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Seoul-based Riiid, which uses AI to offer personalized study plans to students in its test prep app Santa, raises $41.8M, bringing its total raised to $70.2M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Seoul-based Riiid, which uses AI to offer personalized study plans to students in its test prep app Santa, raises $41.8M, bringing its total raised to $70.2M  —  Riiid, a Seoul, South Korea-based startup developing AI test prep solutions, today closed a $41.8 million pre-series D financing round … Seoul-based Riiid, which

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A look at the rise of "solo capitalists", micro VC funds, and AngelList's Rolling Venture Fund product that lets users subscribe and invest on a quarterly basis (Biz Carson/Protocol)

Biz Carson / Protocol: A look at the rise of “solo capitalists”, micro VC funds, and AngelList’s Rolling Venture Fund product that lets users subscribe and invest on a quarterly basis  —  Hello and welcome to Pipeline.  This week: The art of Twitter VC bios, hypocrisy at Carta, and how to raise a VC fund

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Audit finds six election boards in MI, MO, ME, NH using a buggy version of email software Exim, which the NSA says has been targeted in attacks by Russia's GRU (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: Audit finds six election boards in MI, MO, ME, NH using a buggy version of email software Exim, which the NSA says has been targeted in attacks by Russia’s GRU  —  Six jurisdictions used software that Russian spies have targeted in cyberattacks  —  Many of the thousands of county

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Facebook hired StopFake in Ukraine to flag Russian disinformation, but critics accuse the fact-checking group of ties to the far right and of bias in its work (Anton Troianovski/New York Times)

Anton Troianovski / New York Times: Facebook hired StopFake in Ukraine to flag Russian disinformation, but critics accuse the fact-checking group of ties to the far right and of bias in its work  —  Facebook hired a Ukrainian group battling Russian disinformation to flag misleading posts.  But critics say the fact checkers’ work veers into

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Digital banking app and tech unicorn Dave confirms a security breach after a hacker published personal information on 7.5M+ of its users on a public forum (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

{$inline_image} Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Digital banking app and tech unicorn Dave confirms a security breach after a hacker published personal information on 7.5M+ of its users on a public forum  —  Dave user data is now available for download on a public hacking forum.  —  Digital banking app and tech unicorn Dave.com confirmed today

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Digital banking app and tech unicorn Dave confirms a security breach after a hacker published personal information on 7.5M+ of its users on a public forum (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Digital banking app and tech unicorn Dave confirms a security breach after a hacker published personal information on 7.5M+ of its users on a public forum  —  Dave user data is now available for download on a public hacking forum.  —  Digital banking app and tech unicorn Dave.com confirmed today …

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Arsenal.gg: in Q2 Facebook Gaming grew 75% QoQ and reached 334M hours watched in June 2020, up from 111M YoY; Twitch dominated with 5B+ hours watched in Q2 (Chase/StreamElements)

Chase / StreamElements: Arsenal.gg: in Q2 Facebook Gaming grew 75% QoQ and reached 334M hours watched in June 2020, up from 111M YoY; Twitch dominated with 5B+ hours watched in Q2  —  Livestreaming has been on the rise for years, but the pandemic definitely supersized the amount of streamers and content being watched. Arsenal.gg: in

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