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South African startup Qwili gets $1.2M to scale its app and low-cost NFC-enabled smartphone

TechCrunch

In a statement shared with TechCrunch, Qwili said it would use the investment for app development, new hires (improvement in operations and development capabilities) and hardware production. The company’s hardware is a low-cost NFC-enabled smartphone called Qwili Pula that allows merchants to send and receive payments.

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Why You Need to Monitor BGP

Kentik

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a fundamental part of sending data over the internet. Without BGP, there would be no way to scale the internet or even make it work at all. In this case, you want to be sure that your routes are correctly advertised and reachable following the change. Proactive Monitoring. What Can Go Wrong?

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Using the Service Location Protocol (SLP) to Find Exposed Management Interfaces

Tenable

CISA Binding Operational Directive 23-02 calls for getting them off the internet. federal agencies to get management interfaces off the internet in order to mitigate risk. These are typically connected to an out-of-band network segment, but are sometimes inadvertently connected to the Internet either physically or logically.

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Digital listening reveals 3 leading innovation drivers

CIO

Blockchain Opportunities Decentralization: Blockchain advocates hope to realign control of the Internet by taking away the power held by big technology companies seen as gatekeepers. Metaverse Opportunities Advertising: Advertisers see the metaverse as a powerful way to connect with and reach consumers.

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Web’s most annoying ads no longer welcome in Chrome

The Parallax

Search may be what Google is known for, but advertising has long been how the company makes billions of dollars. Based on surveys of more than 40,000 Internet users in North America and Europe, Chrome will now block several kinds of ads without requiring user interaction or customization with an ad blocker.

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Verizon’s VPN: security boon or privacy boondoggle?

The Parallax

As with any VPN (including that of Avast, which sponsors The Parallax ), Verizon’s new app works by rerouting your Internet traffic to appear to come from another Internet Protocol address. Unlike some other VPNs, including Private Internet Access and NordVPN , it doesn’t work across multiple devices or platforms.

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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

CIO

Analog computing The most common paradigm for computation has been digital hardware built of transistors that have two states: on and off. Physical security of digital systems When most IT people think of computer security, they think of clever hackers who infiltrate their systems through the internet.