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London-based Vita Mojo, which makes restaurant software for digital ordering and kitchen management, has raised $30M led by Battery Ventures (Megha Paul/Tech.eu)

Megha Paul / Tech.eu: London-based Vita Mojo, which makes restaurant software for digital ordering and kitchen management, has raised $30M led by Battery Ventures — UK-based platform enables digital ordering in restaurants and more efficient kitchen and delivery operations through its software https://bit.ly/3ydlj7l

How El Salvador President Nayib Bukele weaponized bitcoin to whitewash his government's growing authoritarianism on the world stage and spread local propaganda (Nelson Rauda Zablah/New York Times)

Nelson Rauda Zablah / New York Times: How El Salvador President Nayib Bukele weaponized bitcoin to whitewash his government's growing authoritarianism on the world stage and spread local propaganda — SAN SALVADOR — Bitcoiners — enthusiasts of the world's most popular cryptocurrency — aren't supposed to trust government. https://bit.ly/3Ny1b5C

Sources: at least 24 Azure data centers are operating with limited server capacity amid the global chip shortage that has made it harder to get new hardware (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)

Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: Sources: at least 24 Azure data centers are operating with limited server capacity amid the global chip shortage that has made it harder to get new hardware — In March 2020, Microsoft's Azure cloud buckled under the strain of companies around the world shifting to remote work … https://bit.ly/3bN0Oqr

Google plans to auto-delete user visits to medical facilities like abortion clinics, domestic violence shelters, and weight loss centers from location histories (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Google plans to auto-delete user visits to medical facilities like abortion clinics, domestic violence shelters, and weight loss centers from location histories — Along with visits to other potentially sensitive locations — Google says it'll start automatically deleting visits to abortion clinics … https://bit.ly/3OYgd5O

Apple will face a full trial in the UK after failing to limit a consumer claim that it breached competition law by taking a 30% cut on app and in-app purchases (Jonathan Chadwick/Daily Mail)

Jonathan Chadwick / Daily Mail: Apple will face a full trial in the UK after failing to limit a consumer claim that it breached competition law by taking a 30% cut on app and in-app purchases — - The Cupertino tech giant's attempt to have a legal claim dismissed was refused — Policy to take up to 30% commission on transactions is ‘unjustified’, claim says https://bit.ly/3OGKdDq

Voyager Digital temporarily suspends trading, deposits, and withdrawals citing market conditions, after issuing a default notice to 3AC in June on a ~$650M loan (Michael McSweeney/The Block)

Michael McSweeney / The Block: Voyager Digital temporarily suspends trading, deposits, and withdrawals citing market conditions, after issuing a default notice to 3AC in June on a ~$650M loan — - “This was a tremendously difficult decision, but we believe it is the right one given current market conditions,” CEO Stephen Ehrlich said in a statement. https://bit.ly/3Aox5hV

In a letter to nine GOP senators, TikTok says China-based employees who clear internal security protocols can access certain information on TikTok's US users (Alex Barinka/Bloomberg)

Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: In a letter to nine GOP senators, TikTok says China-based employees who clear internal security protocols can access certain information on TikTok's US users — TikTok, the viral video-sharing app owned by China's ByteDance Ltd., said certain employees outside the US can access information … https://bit.ly/3R1hg6F