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Daily Crunch: Today’s widespread internet outage ‘not a result of a cyberattack,’ says Akamai

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for July 22, 2021. Today we have a

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Sophos acquires Braintrace to supercharge its threat detection capabilities

Thoma Bravo-owned Sophos has announced it’s acquiring Braintrace, a cybersecurity startup that provides organizations visibility into suspicious network traffic patterns. Terms of the deal were

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Magic lands $27M Series A for its ‘plug and play’ passwordless tech

Magic, a San Francisco-based startup that builds “plug and play” passwordless authentication technology, has raised $27 million in Series A funding.The round, led by Northzone and with par

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U.S. allegations of China hacking disingenuous and self-defeating

Editor's note : Andy Mok is a research fellow at the Center for China and Globalization. The article reflects the author's opinions and not necessarily the views of CGT

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U.S. allegations of China hacking disingenuous and self-defeating

Editor's note : Andy Mok is a research fellow at the Center for China and Globalization. The article reflects the author's opinions and not necessarily the views of CGT

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Michael Arrington’s next act

As longtime TechCrunch readers know well, Michael Arrington co-founded TechCrunch and Crunchbase, as well as the venture fund CrunchFund, which was later renamed Tuesday Capital. But In 2017, Arringto

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Comparing the two quads: Why's the new one better than the old?

Editor's note: Andrew Korybko is a Moscow-based American political analyst. The article reflects the author's views and not necessarily those of CGTN.Last week saw the

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Comparing the two quads: Why's the new one better than the old?

Editor's note: Andrew Korybko is a Moscow-based American political analyst. The article reflects the author's views and not necessarily those of CGTN.Last week saw the

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Daily Crunch: Jeff Bezos and 3 guests share Blue Origin’s first crewed flight

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for July 20, 2021. The markets hav

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GM confirms a third electric pickup truck is in development

GM will add a full-size electric pickup truck to its GMC lineup, the latest in a string of EV product announcements by the automaker in the past year as it pushes to deliver more than 1 million electr

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Nigerian investment platform Chaka secures $1.5M pre-seed after bagging country’s first SEC license

When Robinhood raised its $3 million seed round in 2013, it was a couple of months old with huge ambitions of democratizing securities access to the underserved and unserved. Robinhood has since taken

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Is the UK returning to a policy of herd immunity?

Editor's note: Freddie Reidy is a freelance writer based in London. He studied history and history of art at the University of Kent, Canterbury, specializing in Russian

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Why is it so difficult to track down racist trolls and remove hateful messages on social media?

A Sky News analysis of racist posts after the Euro 2020 final shows possible links to a white supremacist and a primary school pupil in the UK, as well as numerous overseas accounts including an Azeri bodyguard and a company in Iran.

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Is the UK returning to a policy of herd immunity?

Editor's note: Freddie Reidy is a freelance writer based in London. He studied history and history of art at the University of Kent, Canterbury, specializing in Russian

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Why is it so difficult to track down racist trolls and remove hateful messages on social media?

A Sky News analysis of racist posts after the Euro 2020 final shows possible links to a white supremacist and a primary school pupil in the UK, as well as numerous overseas accounts including an Azeri bodyguard and a company in Iran.

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Teen in space! Dutch student to be youngest person to ever to leave earth's atmosphere

Bezos's Blue Origin craft will have no pilots on board as the systems are completely automated.