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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…

The idea that attackers have all the advantages and that defenders must be passive and wait for something to respond to is practically an axiom of cybersecurity. It is also a lie.

Cybersecurity teams, beware: The defender’s dilemma is a lie by Annie Saunders originally published on TechCrunch

Pinterest said during its latest earnings call that the service now has 450 million monthly active users globally, a 4% jump year-on-year. The company noted that while the user base in the U.S. and Canada stayed at 95 million, growth in other regions contributed to this milestone. The social media company, which debuted a short […]

Pinterest reaches 450 million monthly users, will focus on making videos ‘shoppable’ by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week, OpenAI unveiled a tool that can detect text produced by its AI system ChatGPT. But if you’re a teacher who fears the coming deluge of ChatGPT-generated essays, don’t get the party…

Indians traveling to many foreign markets including the UAE and Singapore may soon be able to use the popular UPI payments to make purchases when they land there. Bengaluru-headquartered fintech giant PhonePe said on Tuesday that it’s extending support for UPI international payments in the UAE, Singapore, Mauritius, Nepal and Bhutan. “Users will be able […]

PhonePe taps cross-border UPI payments in revenue push by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch