At least two dozen federal lawsuits have been filed against Equifax in the United States
(Reuters) - More than two dozen lawsuits have been filed in the United States against Equifax Inc (EFX.N) after the credit reporting company said thieves may have stolen personal information …
Russia-linked accounts used promoted Facebook Events to organize anti-immigrant protests in US in 2016; company confirms it shut down several promoted events
Russian operatives hiding behind false identities used Facebook's event management tool to remotely organize and promote political protests …
SoFi CEO and co-founder Mike Cagney to step down following sexual harassment suit; sources say he skirted risk and compliance controls while expanding business
Social Finance, an online lender that has been one of the more prominent financial technology start-ups, said on Monday …
FireEye report says hackers with ties to North Korea have been targeting South Korean crypto-currency exchanges to obtain funds for the Pyongyang regime
Over the past several months, threat actors believed to have ties with North Korea have been targeting crypto-currency exchanges …
KGI's Ming-Chi Kuo says OLED iPhone X production is currently less than 10K units per day, and Blush Gold model may launch later than other colors
even before you get one Chris Smith / BGR : It looks like details on every version of the iPhone X just leaked Patti Domm / CNBC : Apple's new product hype could set the tone Tuesday Bryan M. Wolfe / ...
Regulations should include greater penalties for corporations like Equifax that provide inadequate security for sensitive personal data
Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times :
Sources: Apple working with partners including Stanford and telemedicine firm American Well to test whether Watch can be used to detect common heart conditions
- The company is working on the tests with partners including Stanford and telemedicine company American Well, according to two people familiar.
tvOS 11 firmware leak suggests “Apple TV 4K” name, potential Siri Remote update with haptic feedback, references to “HDR Modes” in settings
Following 9to5Mac's iPhone X feature discoveries from the iOS 11 GM leak we received over the weekend …
Google details plan to distrust Symantec-issued certificates starting with Chrome 66 in 2018
This post is a broader announcement of plans already finalized on the blink-dev mailing list. — At the end of July, the Chrome team and the PKI community converged upon a plan to reduce …
Sen. Orrin Hatch, who chairs the Finance Committee, and Sen. Ron Wyden demand answers on Equifax hacking and when execs who sold stock first knew about it
As Americans scramble to secure their personal … Tweets: Dustin Volz / @dnvolz : NEWS: Senate Finance Committee leaders Hatch and Wyden ask @Equifax CEO for info on hack, including what stock-selling ...
Amid unanswered questions on reach, content of Russian ads, Zuckerberg should testify before Congress on how Facebook can be used to influence political process
Sam Biddle / The Intercept :
Instagram enables sharing other people's Stories through direct messages, rolling out globally today on iOS and Android
Though Instagram's Stories is already more popular than Snapchat, the photo-sharing service won't stop introducing more ways to share them.
AT&T now offers free HBO on its cheaper $60/month Unlimited Choice plan, in addition to its premium Unlimited Plus plan
AT&T announced this morning it's adding free HBO to all customers on its unlimited wireless plans, including both Unlimited Plus and Unlimited Choice.
Equifax's credit report monitoring site, which was set up in the wake of security breach, is vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks
The site has at least one vulnerability that allows a hacker to trick users into turning over sensitive data. — Equifax's site used to set … Tweets: @digiphile . Thanks: @zackwhittaker Tweets: Alex ...
Facebook says it's testing Instant Videos that can be downloaded and cached on Wi-Fi, watched later
Facebook doesn't want you to burn through your mobile data plan just to keep watching its videos. That's why it's testing a new feature called Instant Videos that downloads …
App Annie: Equifax's app disappeared from Apple's App Store and Google Play on September 7, the day it announced the security breach
Cale Guthrie Weissman / Fast Company :
Samsung says Galaxy Note8 preorders reached 650K from about 40 countries over five days, beating the Note7 by ~2.5x
Joyce Lee / Reuters :
Facebook removes Instant Articles feature from Messenger, says it's now focusing its resources on Instant Articles on its core app
While Facebook prepares to offer readers a way to subscribe and pay for news directly from inside its app, the social network continues to tinker with how it presents publishers' content elsewhere.
Amazon reportedly working on new Fire TV models with 4K HDR video at 60 FPS: a Chromecast-like dongle for 2017 and a cube-shaped set-top box with far field mics
HP unveils EliteOne 1000, an all-in-one with replaceable screen, starting at $1,259, and two EliteBook laptops with bright displays and slim bezels for $1,379+
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge :
GM, Cruise announce plans for mass-produced auto with self-driving hardware based on updated Bolt EV platform; no date for car's launch or self-driving feature
Doug Parks, GM's VP of AV @mikeisaac : the subtext over the last few months since lyft started doing its own self-driving development is a slow-growing schism btwn GM and Lyft
Ancestry.com CEO Tim Sullivan steps down and will transition into a chairman role on October 1; Ancestry's IPO is now delayed
Tim Sullivan is stepping down as CEO of geneology site Ancestry.com, which has been gearing up to go public. The company was most recently valued at $2.6 billion.
The notifications Facebook uses to keep people coming back have gotten overt and aggressive
Several months ago, I turned off notifications from Facebook on my phone. Last week, I went ahead and removed the Facebook app from my phone. — Now, I genuinely enjoy Facebook. Tweets: @wolfiechris...
Rackspace acquires Datapipe, one of its largest competitors, which has raised more than $310M in equity funding since 1998
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Xiaomi unveils Mi Mix 2 with Snapdragon 835 and 5.99" display starting at ~$500 in China, alongside a special edition with full unibody ceramic design, 8GB RAM
Sam Byford / The Verge :
Spanish watchdog fines Facebook €1.2M for allegedly misusing data collected on users, says Facebook “privacy policy contains generic and unclear terms”
How blockchains can help resist censorship, and how governments might regulate them via fiat-crypto currency exchanges and securities laws
Kyle Samani / Multicoin Capital :
Adobe unveils new services for autos, including analytics, marketing features, and automated audio ads
Brian Womack / Bloomberg :
Amazon's original boomtown: How the tech giant has transformed and outgrown Seattle
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