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Xbox Cloud Gaming lands in Australia: here’s how to sign up

CredAvenue, an online marketplace for companies seeking loans, financial institutions, and investors, raises $90M Series A, India's largest ever, led by Sequoia (The Economic Times)

Apple officially releases SF Symbols 3 and updates for San Francisco and New York fonts

TrialSpark, which wants to leverage its clinical trials management software into drug discovery, closed $156M Series C at a $1B+ valuation earlier this year (Emma Court/Bloomberg)

MiamiCoin, a crypto partnership with CityCoins unveiled in August that automatically allocates 30% of newly minted coins to the city, has made $7.1M for Miami (Dalvin Brown/Washington Post)

A look at the rise of employee dissent at Apple, including pushback against returning to the office, fighting for pay equity, and increasing leaks (Zoe Schiffer/The Verge)

Apple Watch Series 7 rumored to hit stores in mid-October

Zoom says it no longer plans to acquire cloud-based call center software maker Five9, following the FCC's review of the $14.7B deal on national security grounds (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Retailer Neiman Marcus says it notified 4.6M customers that their personal info, including credit card numbers, may have been exposed in a May 2020 data breach (Kim Lyons/The Verge)

9to5Mac Daily: September 30, 2021 – Apple Pay flaw, iOS 15 bugs

Apple releases macOS Big Sur 11.6.1 RC to developers with security fixes

LinkedIn blocks the profiles of several US journalists on its Chinese platform, citing "prohibited content" without specifying what it was (Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian/Axios)

Man arrested for ‘secretly filming female students for TikTok’

Forta, a security service aimed at smart contracts being spun out by blockchain cybersecurity startup OpenZeppelin, raises $23M led by a16z (Alex Wilhelm/TechCrunch)

Apple continues its clever ‘box in a box’ trick for selling the iPhone 13 with EarPods in France

Clubhouse now lets users record streamings, share clips, more

iPhone 12 vs. iPhone 13: Which should you buy in 2021?

Pad & Quill unveils new discreet American leather AirTag keychain case at 15% off

Did you get the iPhone 13? If so, what’s your favorite feature so far?

USB Implementers Forum issues new USB-C certified logos that show if a cable or port supports 60W or 240W, hoping to solve customer confusion (William Gallagher/AppleInsider)

Senators grilled Facebook exec Antigone Davis at a hearing about Instagram's impact on teens and were frustrated by her reticence to answer questions directly (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

TikTok launches Top Moments, an NFT collection featuring six "culturally significant TikTok videos" from creators including Lil Nas X (Aislinn Keely/The Block)

Facebook Files don't show that the company's execs are evil or incompetent, but highlight their hubris in believing they can still get things back under control (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

Users complain about Siri no longer being able to send emails or check call history

Employees at 11 video game companies say their teams had a 4K Switch dev kit, despite sources saying a 4K Nintendo console won't go on sale until late 2022 (Bloomberg)

ViacomCBS-owned Pluto TV will pay $3.5M to settle an FCC investigation that found the video streaming service violated closed captioning rules (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Twitch rolls out the option for streamers to require phone and email-verified accounts in chat, as part of the company's effort to reduce targeted harassment (Ana Diaz/Polygon)

Netflix releases games after gaming company acquisition

Kingston DataTraveler Max review: a small, high-speed 1TB USB-C flash drive

Ninth Circuit court confirms police need a warrant before opening people's email attachments, even if containing potentially illegal content such as CSAM (Jennifer Lynch/Electronic Frontier ...)

Apple reminds developers about changes to subscription payment system in India

iFixit’s iPad mini teardown goes in-depth on ‘jelly scrolling,’ lack of repairability [Video]

Google Maps adds a wildfire info layer, rolling out to Android this week and iOS and desktop in October, expands its Tree Canopy tool to 100 cities worldwide (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica)

AudioFix 2 brings new features for iPhone users and a new macOS app