VC Kara Nortman bet early on women’s sports, and now she’s creating the market

When its season ended early this month, Angel City FC finished 11th out of 13 teams, a disappointing result for the Los Angeles soccer franchise that venture capitalist Kara Nortman co-founded in 2020. But the season’s struggles tell only part of a much larger story that’s reshaping how investors think about women’s sports. Despite its […]

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The Accessibility Problem With Authentication Methods Like CAPTCHA — Smashing Magazine

CAPTCHAs were meant to keep bots out, but too often, they lock people with disabilities out, too. From image classification to click-based tests, many “human checks” are anything but inclusive. There’s no universal solution, but understanding real user needs is where accessibility truly starts. The Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans […]

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The best UK Black Friday tech deals at Amazon, Argos, Currys, Very, and more — unbeatable deals on gaming PCs, laptops, monitors, and peripherals

It’s officially Black Friday here in the United Kingdom, and that means retailers have slashed the prices on some of our favourite bits of tech. We’re already hard at work putting together some of our favourites, using the expert knowledge to find the best deals for you to buy over this deal weekend. We’re focusing […]

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Black Friday subscription and streaming deals include huge savings on HBO Max, Apple TV+, MasterClass, Rosetta Stone and more

I love locking in a cheap subscription deal during a discount period like Black Friday or Cyber Monday. It always feels like I’ve gotten away with something — for the rest of the year, I can relax in my Scrooge McDuck money pit while all the other losers are paying full price. On this list, […]

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Shai-Hulud v2 Campaign Spreads From npm to Maven, Exposing Thousands of Secrets

The second wave of the Shai-Hulud supply chain attack has spilled over to the Maven ecosystem after compromising more than 830 packages in the npm registry. The Socket Research Team said it identified a Maven Central package named org.mvnpm:posthog-node:4.18.1 that embeds the same two components associated with Sha1-Hulud: the “setup_bun.js” loader and the main payload […]

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