Instagram rolls out an ‘Add Yours’ sticker in Stories to create threads users can respond to – TechCrunch

Instagram announced today that it’s introducing a new ‘Add Yours’ sticker that creates public threads in Stories. The new feature essentially allows users to respond to other users’ Stories with their own following a prompt or a certain topic. The global launch comes as Instagram initially tested the feature in Indonesia and Japan last month.…

Critical Flaws Uncovered in Pentaho Business Analytics Software

Multiple vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Hitachi Vantara’s Pentaho Business Analytics software that could be abused by malicious actors to upload arbitrary data files and even execute arbitrary code on the underlying host system of the application. The security weaknesses were reported by researchers Alberto Favero from German cybersecurity firm Hawsec and Altion Malka from…

New Zealand-based customer due diligence platform First AML gets $21M Series B – TechCrunch

More of the world’s economy is moving online, and that is underscored by the long list of recent fundings and acquisitions in the digital ID authentication and anti-money laundering (AML) space, including Okta’s $6.5 billion acquisition of Auth0. Today, another startup announced it has raised capital: end-to-end due diligence platform First AML. Blackbird Ventures (which…