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To get a roundup of TechCrunch\u2019s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, <\/em>subscribe here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n It\u2019s Friday, and we\u2019re slumping back in our office chairs with a hot cup of coffee after a week that\u2019s been as slow as mid-winter molasses.<\/p>\n For Black History Month, we are in awe of the story of Sojourner Truth, who was an American abolitionist and women\u2019s rights activist. Born into slavery, she escaped with her infant daughter and became the first Black woman to successfully sue for a family member\u2019s freedom in 1828. To learn more about her, this Ted-Ed mini documentary is a great place to start<\/a>, and if you want to go deeper, don\u2019t miss the stirring biography<\/a> by Patricia and Frederick McKissack.<\/p>\n \u2014 Christine<\/a> and Haje<\/a><\/p>\n It\u2019s been a pretty slow day on the news front today \u2014 I think everyone has a case of the Fridays today. Here\u2019s a few of the stories worth taking a closer look at, though:<\/p>\n Image Credits:<\/strong> Aleksandr Zubkov (opens in a new window)<\/span><\/a> \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Every early-stage startup relies on third-party vendors to handle some aspect of their operations: No one wants to build a shopping cart, credit card processing or ID verification app from scratch.<\/p>\n But now that third-party data breaches are a regular occurrence, teams need to make managing that risk a part of their day-to-day operations, writes Jon Siegler, co-founder and chief product officer of LogicGate.<\/p>\n \u201cNo matter how well you clean things up, the reputational hit to your organization will continue to cost you in lost business down the road,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n Three more from the TC+ team:<\/p>\n TechCrunch+<\/em><\/a> is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack.<\/em> You can sign up here<\/em><\/a>. Use code \u201cDC\u201d for a 15% discount on an annual subscription!<\/em><\/p>\n Connected automotive company Otonomo is being acquired by Urgently<\/a> in a reverse merger, Ingrid<\/a> reports. Otonomo went public in a 2021 SPAC, at the time valued at $1.4 billion, but that has since dipped to $70 million. Ingrid writes, \u201cIt\u2019s been a bumpy road for smart mobility technology \u2014 with macroeconomic pressures, the slower development and rollouts of next-generation technology like autonomous systems and the cooling tech investing market all making it harder for younger businesses to sustain and grow their businesses. Otonomo is perhaps the latest casualty in that pile-up, but it may not be the last.\u201d<\/p>\n If you\u2019re into classic games, one of our popular stories from late yesterday was Sarah<\/a>\u2019s about a remastered, free-to-try version of Myst arriving on iOS<\/a>.<\/p>\n And we have five more for you:<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe TechCrunch Top 3<\/h2>\n
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