Noor Zainab Hussain / Reuters: Filing: cybersecurity company SentinelOne will sell 32M shares at $26-$29, aiming for a $7B+ valuation and raising $928M at the top end, when it floats on NYSE  —  (Reuters) - Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne Inc, backed by billionaire investor Daniel Loeb´s hedge fund Third Point …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Facebook rolls out Live Audio Rooms, available to verified public figures and select Groups, and its podcast service, available to select partners, in the US  —  In April, Facebook announced a series of planned investments in new audio products, including a Clubhouse live audio competitor as well as new support for podcasts.

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Wristcam, which makes a $299 Apple Watch band with a camera capable of taking 4K images and recording 1080p video, raises $25M led by Marker LLC  —  Last week word got out that Facebook was taking another big step into first-party hardware with the planned launch of its own smartwatch.

Matt Dougherty / KHOU-TV: Some power companies in Texas are remotely adjusting the smart thermostats of users enrolled in their energy saving programs to reduce strain on power grids  —  Some said they didn´t know their thermostats were being accessed from afar until it was almost 80 degrees inside their homes.

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: Pandemic boosted the “phone-ization” of PCs, which are adopting power efficient CPUs and thin designs, a trend which will accelerate with broader adoption of 5G  —  Apple is dragging Microsoft, Google and the entire PC industry into the 21st century

Betsy Ladyzhets / MIT Technology Review: An analysis of the usage of COVID-19 contact tracing apps in 25 US states and DC finds that only 13 have enough usage to benefit from exposure notification  —  A year ago, engineers built apps to track potential virus exposure.  Our research shows the impact has been mixed—but there´s still potential.

Chuq Von Rospach / 6FPS: Apple, whose arrogance and sense of entitlement let it treat developers as a hassle for two decades, will find few allies as it fights looming regulation  —  6FPS V3#6 - Photography and More A Newsletter by Chuq Von Rospach  —  Welcome to the new issue of 6FPS.  —  If this issue seems late, believe it or not, it´s not.

Todd Feathers / VICE: Some US unemployment applicants say facial recognition models used by ID verification service ID.me are failing to identify them, locking them out of benefits  —  ID.me´s CEO says unemployment fraud is costing taxpayers $400 billion, but his own company is denying claims because of problems with its tech, users say.

Financial Times: South Korea has become a global center for digital sex crimes as cases of illegal filming and distribution of images rose to 7,000 in 2020, up 70% from 2019  —  South Korea´s cutting edge technology has abetted a wave of digital sex crimes targeting young women and girls.

Ryan Browne / CNBC: Dealroom: European startups have raised €43.8B in the first six months of 2021, surpassing the record €38.5B raised in 2020  —  - European start-ups have raised 43.8 billion euros ($60.9 billion) in the first six months of 2021, figures from Dealroom show