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French startup Riot has raised a $12 million Series A round to iterate on its all-in-one cybersecurity awareness platform for businesses and their employees. The startup originally focused on fake phishing campaigns. It now also offers customized educational content that can help grow the cybersecurity culture in your team. While it is still quite difficult […]

Riot prepares your team against highly sophisticated cyberattacks by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

Security researchers have observed the prolific Clop ransomware operation targeting Linux systems for the first time. The good news is that the flawed encryption used by the new variant means it’s possible for victims to recover their stolen files for free. The new Linux variant of the Clop ransomware was uncovered and detailed by SentinelLabs […]

A new Linux variant of Clop ransomware has major flaws, researchers say by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

‘Every company is a fintech company’ is a common adage, but in today’s environment, the shift may be more about survival than serendipity.

Edtech reacquaints itself with fintech by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

Jobber, a startup founded out of Canada that’s built a platform for home services professionals to book customers and manage all of their workload around those jobs, has raised another $100 million, equity funding that it will be using to build out more tools for its users after seeing their ranks double in the last […]

Jobber fixes on $100M as its platform for home services pros hits 200K users by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

As Follow’s creator network grows, users can subscribe to additional creators to better diversity their portfolios.

New social investment platform Follow taps influencers to mirror their investment strategies by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

Google announced today that it will enable its SafeSearch filtering technology by default for all users in the coming months. The filter is designed to help people protect themselves and their families from inadvertently encountering explicit imagery on Search. The search giant says it’s announcing the feature today to mark Safer Internet Day. The setting […]

Google will soon blur explicit imagery in Search results by default by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Nix, the open-source tool for creating reproducible builds and deployments, is becoming increasingly popular among developers, but it’s not always the easiest service to work with. It’s maybe no surprise then that we’re now seeing a new batch of startups that aims to bring Nix to more developers by building the tooling necessary to bring […]

Flox raises $27M to bring Nix to more developers by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The original startup behind Stable Diffusion has launched a generative AI for video What’s happened: Runway, the generative AI startup that co-created last year’s breakout text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, has released an AI…