Hacking Humanity

Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: Ohio-based Mezu, which enables P2P payments without sharing any personal information by using one-time, four-digit codes raises $10M Series A  — 

Amir Efrati / The Information: SF-based Skip, a scooter-sharing startup formerly known as Waybots, is raising $25M Series A from Menlo Ventures, Accel Partners, and

Steve LeVine / Axios: A look at one of about a million small retail shops that Alibaba has transformed into a digitized Tmall store equipped

Shana Lebowitz / Business Insider: Cleo, a parenting support app for working parents offered through employers, including Slack and Reddit, announces $10.5M Series A led

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: 17 backdoored Docker images, posted to Docker Hub over the past year and downloaded 5M+ times, removed; some were used

Chris Welch / The Verge: Interview with Sonos CEO Patrick Spence: Google Assistant is coming, Dolby Atmos in current speakers is doubtful, “Works with Sonos”

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researcher details SigSpoof, a recently patched critical flaw in PGP that allowed hackers to spoof digital email signatures, says the

Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: Docker pulls 17 malicious images, which installed reverse shells and Monero miners on servers this past year, from Docker Hub; some

Mark Harris / Wired: Seattle’s dockless bike trial shows 74% of city is in favor of bikeshare even as some complain about clogged streets and

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Amazon ends its Mayday video calling service for customer support for Fire tablets, nearly five years after its high-profile launch  —