Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Microsoft agrees to commission an independent human rights review of its law enforcement and government contracts, in response to a shareholder proposal  —  After shareholder proposal, Microsoft to commission independent report on company´s contracts.  —  Microsoft Corp. …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Hibob, which offers cloud-based HR tools, raises a $150M Series C, reportedly at a $1.65B valuation, led by General Atlantic  —  On the heels of Personio raising a big round yesterday, one of its competitors and another big startup in the area of HR has also picked up some fundning.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Stockholm-based Funnel, which makes a no-code tool to organize and create reports from marketing data, raises $66M, says it is planning for an IPO in Sweden  —  The world of marketing has become a world of marketing tech.  But marketers are not necessarily engineers, so working with the terabytes …

The Economic Times: ReshaMandi, an online B2B marketplace focused on silk products in India, raises a $30M Series A, a mix of equity and debt, led by Creation Investments  —  ReshaMandi, a business-to-business marketplace focused on silk products, has raised $30 million, or about Rs 225 crore, in Series A funding round led by Creation Investments.

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Waze announces a “Drive with Headspace” feature, letting users choose from five “moods” and an accompanying custom Spotify playlist with content from Headspace  —  Daily commutes to the office can be exhausting and, depending on the amount of traffic you´re dealing with, very stressful.

Ellen Cushing / The Atlantic: Slack has changed corporate culture, acting as a Trojan horse that flattens the communication hierarchy, largely to the benefit of employees  —  In 2014, the executives at a brand-new start-up called Andela made a decision whose consequences they would only understand much later.

Mariella Moon / Engadget: 1Password launches Psst!, which lets users share login credentials with just a link  —  Even those who don´t have a 1Password account.  —  Password sharing in the workplace and at home is a common practice, but doing so securely can be tricky.  1Password aims to address that with its new feature …

Eli Tan / CoinDesk: UK Gambling Commission is investigating soccer NFT trading service Sorare for failing to obtain licenses; Sorare says it does not offer “regulated gambling”  —  The United Kingdom Gambling Commission wrote that Sorare may have to register as a licensed gambling operator.

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: Microsoft makes a preview version of Windows Subsystem for Linux for Windows 11 available in the Microsoft Store, decoupling the app from the Windows image  —  Microsoft is taking the first step toward making WSL available as a decoupled app available via the Microsoft Store via a first preview release.

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Microsoft and Nvidia claim to have trained the largest and most capable AI language model yet, containing 530B parameters  —  The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility.  Register now!  —  Microsoft and Nvidia today announced …