Salt Lake City-based Zartico, which offers analytics and visualizations to government-affiliated tourism boards, raised a $20M Series A led by Arthur Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
AWS unveils Amazon Security Lake, a service that automatically centralizes an organization’s security data from cloud and on-premises sources into a data lake  —  AWS today announced Amazon Security Lake, a new purpose-built data lake for security-related data.

Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech:
Intel Raptor Lake Core i9-13900K and i5-13600K review: improved V/F curve and more efficiency cores compared to Alder Lake and highly competitive with AMD Zen 4  —  Today marks the release of Intel’s 13th generation Core processor series, codenamed Raptor Lake.

Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware:
Intel confirms their proprietary UEFI code appears to have been leaked by a third party; the Alder Lake BIOS source code was leaked to 4chan and GitHub  —  Hack’s perpetrator and origins remain unknown.  —  We recently broke the news that Intel’s Alder Lake BIOS source code had been leaked …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Taktile, which allows fintech companies to test and deploy decision-making models, has raised a $20M Series A co-led by Index Ventures and Tiger Global  —  The logic behind many fintech companies’ automated decisions — decisions that determine whether a customer is approved for a credit line …

Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch:
Dubai-based baraka, a commission-free investment app for Middle East users to invest in US stocks and ETFs, raised a $20M Series A led by Valar Ventures  —  Stock-trading apps have multiplied over the past couple of years, targeting varying demographics and audiences that they feel need …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Tel Aviv-based Groundcover, a performance monitoring service for cloud apps, raised a $20M Series A led by Zeev Ventures, bringing its total funding to $24.5M  —  Groundcover, a performance monitoring platform for cloud apps, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series A round led …