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    • A look at STOP ransomware, which has been one of the most actively distributed ransomware in the past year, according to the ID Ransomware database (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

    Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: A look at STOP ransomware, which has been one of the most actively distributed ransomware in the past year, according to the ID Ransomware database  —  Have you ever heard of the STOP Ransomware?  Probably not, as few write about it, most researchers don’t cover it, and for the most part

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    • Sources: anti-Amazon "grass roots" non-profit FFMI, which actively lobbies and influences media op-eds, is funded by Walmart, Oracle, other Amazon competitors (James V. Grimaldi/Wall Street Journal)

    James V. Grimaldi / Wall Street Journal: Sources: anti-Amazon “grass roots” non-profit FFMI, which actively lobbies and influences media op-eds, is funded by Walmart, Oracle, other Amazon competitors  —  Walmart, Oracle and mall owner Simon Property Group are secret funders behind a nonprofit that has been highly critical of the e-commerce giant Sources: anti-Amazon "grass

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    • New data from Kruze Consulting finds 60% of funded startups paid for Slack, while only 12% paid for the Office software bundle that includes Teams (Rani Molla/Vox)

    Rani Molla / Vox: New data from Kruze Consulting finds 60% of funded startups paid for Slack, while only 12% paid for the Office software bundle that includes Teams  —  Nearly 60 percent of funded startups pay for Slack — much higher than the rate for Microsoft Teams.  —  Slack is still king at startups.

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    • Singapore-based AI startup Advance.ai, which helps banks and other clients with fraud detection and credit scoring, raises $80M Series C to fuel Asia expansion (Sharanya Pillai/The Business Times)

    Sharanya Pillai / The Business Times: Singapore-based AI startup Advance.ai, which helps banks and other clients with fraud detection and credit scoring, raises $80M Series C to fuel Asia expansion  —  SHARANYA PILLAI hspillai@sph.com.sg @SharanyaBT  —  LOCAL artificial intelligence startup ADVANCE.AI has raised US$80 million … Singapore-based AI startup Advance.ai, which helps banks and other

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