Electronic Frontier Foundation: Appeals court reverses a lower court and reinstates a suit challenging constitutionality of sex-trafficking law FOSTA, finding plaintiffs have standing to sue  —  Judges Found Plaintiffs Have Standing to Sue  —  SAN FRANCISCO-A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of FOSTA …

Times of India: India-based Pine Labs, which offers POS services, raises an undisclosed round from Mastercard; source: the $100M-$150M round values the company at $1.5B-$1.6B  —  BENGALURU: Point-of-sales . services provider Pine Labs has raised a new round of funding from the global card network major Mastercard.

Samuel Gibbs / The Guardian: Fossil Gen 5 review: best Wear OS watch yet with clever notification handling, good battery life, but hardware UX is unpredictable and phone can disconnect  —  A day´s battery, solid performance and watch-first design makes Wear OS a much more attractive option

Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: Leila Janah, founder and CEO of Samasource, an SF-based machine learning training data company with a large workforce in East Africa, dies at 37  —  The startup community has lost another moral leader today.  —  Leila Janah, a serial entrepreneur who was the CEO and founder …

The California Sunday Magazine: An in-depth look at facial recognition technology, with a primer on how it works, who is using it in the US, and how to avoid it online and in public  —  The controversial and nearly ever-present technology that could replace the fingerprint  —  From iPhones and Snapchat filters …

Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann launches Byte, a Vine-like short-form video app, on iOS and Android, aims to start its partner program to pay creators “soon”  —  Two years after Vine´s co-founder Dom Hofmann announced he was building a successor to the short-form video app, today Byte makes its debut on iOS and Android.

Tad Walch / Deseret News: Clayton Christensen, the author of the theory of disruptive innovation, dies at 67  —  Apple´s Steve Jobs, Amazon´s Jeff Bezos, Netflix´s Reed Hastings and Intel´s Andy Grove looked to influential management thinker  —  SALT LAKE CITY — Clayton Christensen, whose theory of disruptive innovation …

Matt Perez / Forbes: LA-based esports training platform ProGuides, which offers online classes from popular professional gamers for $7.99 a month, raises $5M seed funding led by M13  —  Topline: Operating as a MasterClass for competitive gaming, Los Angeles-based ProGuides has raised $5 million in seed funding.

Tara Seals / Threatpost: Kaspersky Lab: in 2019, ~30% of all macOS malware detections derived from the Shlayer trojan, an unsophisticated malware that spreads via fake app installs  —  The malvertising-focused trojan known as Shlayer has burbled to the top of the malware heap when it comes to targeting Mac users.

Jessica Lyons Hardcastle / SDxCentral: Security startup Privafy launches with $22M in funding, claims its products protect data in motion across networks, mobile and remote devices, and cloud apps  —  Privafy, a security startup founded by former Verizon executive Guru Pai and NXP Semiconductors CEO Rick Clemmer …