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    • Inside Apple's app review unit, where 300+ staffers check every app and update, escalate controversial cases to an executive review board led by Phil Schiller (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

    Kif Leswing / CNBC: Inside Apple’s app review unit, where 300+ staffers check every app and update, escalate controversial cases to an executive review board led by Phil Schiller  —  KEY POINTS  — Every single app and update on Apple’s App Store platforms is approved by an Apple employee working in a division called App

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    • US adds five major Chinese supercomputer developers to the export restrictions list, citing national security concerns (Kate O'Keeffe/Wall Street Journal)

    Kate O’Keeffe / Wall Street Journal: US adds five major Chinese supercomputer developers to the export restrictions list, citing national security concerns  —  Commerce Department puts five Chinese developers on entity list, citing national-security concerns  —  WASHINGTON—The Commerce Department is taking aim … US adds five major Chinese supercomputer developers to the export restrictions list,

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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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