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Good afternoon, and welcome to the ultimate week of October! We’re confused how that occurred. Haje is contemplating dressing up as “provide chain disruptions” for Halloween, whereas Christine is considering dressing up as a down spherical. What’s your spookiest startup-themed costume? Tell us on The Twitters! — Christine and Haje

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• On cloud 9: Romain chronicles how pairing up the Logitech G Cloud with cloud computing service Shadow not solely made for a greater gaming expertise, however was additionally “a match made in cloud gaming heaven.”
• In case you like your locks digital…: Then Degree has one thing you’ll want to see. Its new Degree Lock+ with Apple Dwelling Key assist replaces your present lock and allows you to unlock your door and gives you with some exclusivity for now, Darrell writes.
• Serving to hand: Pre-seed startups simply obtained one other investor good friend in Africa. Annie stories that enterprise capital agency Flourish launched Madica, an funding program offering “funding, expertise assist and mentorship to underrepresented founders throughout the continent.”

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Haje was mildly stunned and fairly excited after studying Paul’s story about his favourite podcasting app Pocket Casts going open supply. Paul factors out that it shouldn’t have been that massive of a shock — WordPress makers Automattic purchased the platform some time again, and Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg is a large proponent of open supply. To wit: WordPress is among the many prime open supply initiatives on the planet.

Whereas the general crypto markets have been in a tough spot currently, web3 enterprise capitalists have by no means had extra conviction — or extra funding at their disposal — to again startups and groups constructing within the area, Anita writes. She’s stoked that Chris Ahn, companion at Haun Ventures; Michelle Bailhe, companion at Sequoia; and Tom Schmidt, common companion at Dragonfly will be part of us onstage at TC Periods: Crypto on November 17 in Miami.

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To higher thwart ransomware assaults, startups should get cybersecurity fundamentals proper

Creating techniques which are resilient in opposition to ransomware isn’t prime of thoughts for early-stage startups, however many corporations don’t even observe primary greatest practices, a lot to their detriment.

“Allow multifactor authentication (MFA) on the whole lot you’ve got,” mentioned Katie Moussouris, founding father of Luta Safety. “Allow it on each account that you’ve got.”

Final week at TechCrunch Disrupt, Moussouris and Brett Callow, risk analyst at Emsisoft, spoke about the necessity to make investments early in locking down their techniques, beginning with MFA.

“It’s a matter of stacking safety layer upon safety layer,” mentioned Callow. “MFA at the side of employees coaching — at the side of different issues — all serve to scale back threat.”

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Make like a lobster and get your pinchers prepared — YouTube rolls out a brand new design that options pinch-to-zoom on iOS and Android. Premium customers obtained first dibs on this, and now all customers will begin to see it, Lauren writes. There’s additionally some new issues, together with “ambient mode” and new buttons beneath movies, so head on over there and see for your self.

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