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UK-based Unily, a platform helping companies like McDonald's, British Airways, and Mars to deploy intranets, extranets, and customer portals, raises $68M (Jessica Clark/CityAM)

{$inline_image} Jessica Clark / CityAM: UK-based Unily, a platform helping companies like McDonald’s, British Airways, and Mars to deploy intranets, extranets, and customer portals, raises $68M  —  Jess Clark is a City A.M. news reporter covering private equity and investment.  —  Follow Jess Clark UK-based Unily, a platform helping companies like McDonald's, British Airways, and

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Bunnie Huang Talks Manufacturing And Component Choices During Hackaday Prize Mentoring Session

Andrew “Bunnie” Huang’s mentor session for the Hackaday Prize shows off the kind of experience and knowledge hard to come by unless you have been through the hardware development gauntlet countless times. These master-classes match up experts in product development with Prize entrants working to turn their projects into products. We’ve been recording them so

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    • Dell software designed to protect you from vulnerabilities has another vulnerability

    Dell’s SupportAssist software, a Windows toolkit designed in part to protect your computer from security vulnerabilities, has yet another vulnerability of its own that makes running older versions of the software a risk to your system. As noted by Gizmodo this morning, this new vulnerability was discovered by security researchers at SafeBreach and disclosed on

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    • Readly, a Sweden-based magazine subscription app available in Europe and the US, raises ~$17M, bringing the total raised to $47.8M (Mary Loritz/EU-Startups)

    Mary Loritz / EU-Startups: Readly, a Sweden-based magazine subscription app available in Europe and the US, raises ~$17M, bringing the total raised to $47.8M  —  Since being founded in 2012 in Växjö, Sweden, Readly has led the market for digital magazine subscriptions, providing users with unlimited access … Readly, a Sweden-based magazine subscription app available

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    • YouTube can’t remove kid videos without tearing a hole in the entire creator ecosystem

    As a federal investigation into YouTube’s problems with children enters its late stages, the platform needs a solution. But as YouTube struggles to find a fix that addresses policymakers’ concerns, it’s left with a major roadblock: children have become integral to the overarching creator community. Whether it’s six-year-olds reviewing toys and landing on YouTube’s Trending

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    • YouTube confirms it is testing hiding comments under its videos by default, and only showing them when users click on a "Comments" button (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

    Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: YouTube confirms it is testing hiding comments under its videos by default, and only showing them when users click on a “Comments” button  —  YouTube’s comments section has a bad reputation.  It’s even been called “the worst on the internet,” and a reflection of YouTube’s overall toxic culture … YouTube confirms

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    • Review of documents from CBP hack shows that sensitive info, like DHS handbooks, detailed schematics and plans for border surveillance network, also leaked (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

    Drew Harwell / Washington Post: Review of documents from CBP hack shows that sensitive info, like DHS handbooks, detailed schematics and plans for border surveillance network, also leaked  —  Far more information was taken in the hack of a Customs and Border Protection contractor than U.S. officials have acknowledged. Review of documents from CBP hack

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