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Kevin Townsend / SecurityWeek: Tel Aviv-based Sweet Security, which offers cloud runtime security tools, raised a $33M Series A, after emerging from stealth with a $12M seed in August 2023  —  Sweet Security announces a $33 million Series A funding round just six months after emerging from stealth with an initial $12 million seed funding.

PlayStation is preparing for its Black Friday sale again, promising huge discounts on games and high-end hardware. The sale begins Friday, November 17 — a weeklong head start that lets you stock up on all your gaming needs for this winter. Sony India seems intent on exhausting its inventory of PS5 Cricket 24 Edition bundles,

Axios: Congressional offices are being flooded with calls from angry constituents following TikTok’s push notification asking users to call their representatives  —  – House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he supported the bill being marked up on Thursday, just two days after it was unveiled … Source link

Apple has modified some of its proposals to comply with landmark EU tech rules after criticism from app developers, including dropping a demand that those who want to create alternative app marketplaces must have a stand-by letter of credit. The company and five other tech giants have to comply by March 7 with the Digital

Jon Porter / The Verge: Apple plans to let EU-based iPhone users uninstall Safari by 2024’s end and is working on a more “user-friendly” way to let them switch to Android by fall 2025  —  Apple is preparing to allow EU-based iPhone users to uninstall its first-party Safari browser by the end of 2024 …

Google has introduced a new feature for Gemini, its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot. The new feature provides users with granular control over the generated response to a prompt and allows them to make changes to a particular portion of the text. Users can regenerate the selected portion, edit its length or get it entirely removed.

Mia Sato / The Verge: TikTok sends US users a push notification saying Congress plans a total ban, with a link to find representatives, after the White House supported a TikTok bill  —  A push notification warns that the move ‘strips 170 million Americans of their Constitutional right to free expression.’ Source link

Google Drive is getting a couple of updates that will improve the usability of the cloud-based storage platform. The tech giant is adding a new transcode to improve the playback speed and rebuffering of videos played within Drive. It is also improving the search functionality on iOS and adding query filters to help users quickly

Paige Smith / Bloomberg: Robinhood says up to 25% of its trading volume is outside of traditional market hours, and investors have traded $10B+ overnight since its 24-hour rules in 2023  —  Why Are Deepfakes Everywhere?  Can They Be Stopped?  —  QuickTake  —  What Is Bitcoin ‘Halving’ and Does It Push Up the Cryptocurrency’s Price?

Instagram recently said that it was testing features to allow users to customise their feeds more. In September this year, it was reported that the company is also testing features that will allow users to choose to share Reels and feed posts with a customised list of profiles. Now, the social media platform has started