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Teen hacker Bill Demirkapi on finding bugs, that exposed 5M student records across 5,000 schools, in educational software from providers Blackboard and Follett (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Teen hacker Bill Demirkapi on finding bugs, that exposed 5M student records across 5,000 schools, in educational software from providers Blackboard and Follett  —  A FEW SHORT decades ago, the archetypal hacker was a bored teenager breaking into his school’s network to change grades, à la Ferris Bueller. Teen hacker Bill

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QR code payments, which require opening an app, are causing holdups for public transit commuters in China, where 100M+ WeChat users regularly pay with QR codes (Masha Borak/Abacus)

Masha Borak / Abacus: QR code payments, which require opening an app, are causing holdups for public transit commuters in China, where 100M+ WeChat users regularly pay with QR codes  —  NFC availability is growing, but 100 million WeChat users are now paying for public transit with QR codes QR code payments, which require opening

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Profile of WWT, which helps clients including the US federal government procure and install IT equipment; the company reported revenue of $11.2B last year (Lauren Debter/Forbes)

Lauren Debter / Forbes: Profile of WWT, which helps clients including the US federal government procure and install IT equipment; the company reported revenue of $11.2B last year  —  Jim Kavanaugh climbs into a sleek, black-leather-interior Mercedes bus that whisks him away from his company’s new headquarters in St. Louis to a squat, one-story outpost

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Backbone, which provides product lifecycle management SaaS for consumer goods companies, raises $10M Series A extension, closing the round with a total of $18M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Backbone, which provides product lifecycle management SaaS for consumer goods companies, raises $10M Series A extension, closing the round with a total of $18M  —  Boulder, Colo.-based Backbone, a SaaS company that helps direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands get products to market, has raised $10 million as part of an ongoing

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Cisco to acquire Voicea, the maker of a voice assistant called Eva for business meetings; Voicea had raised $20M from investors including GV and Salesforce (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Cisco to acquire Voicea, the maker of a voice assistant called Eva for business meetings; Voicea had raised $20M from investors including GV and Salesforce  —  Cisco Systems Inc. today announced that it’s bolstering its family of collaboration products with the acquisition of Voicea … Cisco to acquire Voicea, the maker

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Swiss startup DeepCode raises $4M seed to expand its AI-powered system for code reviews that is mostly trained using data from open source GitHub repositories (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Swiss startup DeepCode raises $4M seed to expand its AI-powered system for code reviews that is mostly trained using data from open source GitHub repositories  —  We’re fast approaching a point where every company is effectively a software company, a notion proffered by some of tech’s top people such as Microsoft

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Telegram releases new features including sending messages without notification sound, a "slow mode" that restricts group members from messaging too often, more (Telegram)

Telegram: Telegram releases new features including sending messages without notification sound, a “slow mode” that restricts group members from messaging too often, more  —  The previous update brought more movement to Telegram – this one brings more peace of mind. Telegram releases new features including sending messages without notification sound, a "slow mode" that restricts

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Sydney-based Fluent Commerce, which provides cloud-based order management software for retail clients like Target in 11 markets globally, raises $22.4M Series B (Stephanie Palmer-Derrien/SmartCompany)

Stephanie Palmer-Derrien / SmartCompany: Sydney-based Fluent Commerce, which provides cloud-based order management software for retail clients like Target in 11 markets globally, raises $22.4M Series B  —  Retail startup Fluent Commerce has secured a whopping $33 million in Series B funding, led by US growth equity firm Arrowroot Capital. Sydney-based Fluent Commerce, which provides cloud-based

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Nike buys Celect, an AI startup focused on predicting what customers want, allowing better inventory management; Celect had raised over $30M from investors (Lucas Matney/TechCrunch)

Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: Nike buys Celect, an AI startup focused on predicting what customers want, allowing better inventory management; Celect had raised over $30M from investors  —  Nike’s market cap has swollen past $100 billion, but the shoe company still sees potential to learn more about what customers … Nike buys Celect, an AI

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Ezoic, which is developing an AI-powered website optimization platform for digital publishers, raises $33M, bringing its total raised to nearly $40M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Ezoic, which is developing an AI-powered website optimization platform for digital publishers, raises $33M, bringing its total raised to nearly $40M  —  Ezoic, a Carlsbad, California-based startup developing an AI-driven platform for digital publishers, today announced that it’s secured … Ezoic, which is developing an AI-powered website optimization platform for digital

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