T-Mobile says hackers stole data like names, email addresses, account numbers of about 2M customers; no passwords, credit card or social security numbers stolen
T-Mobile disclosed an “incident" in which hackers accessed “some” customers' personal information—but no financial data or passwords.
Study: IRA-backed trolls flooded social media to amplify online debates about vaccines, often linking messages around vaccines to racial or class disparities
- Russian trolls and Twitter bots amplified online vaccine debates between 2014 and 2017, a new study suggests
New facial recognition technology at Washington Dulles airport catches man trying to enter the US illegally just three days after the tech started being used
An identification card from the Republic of Congo was found hidden in the man's shoe, officials said.
Leaked email: representatives of the top US tech companies are meeting in SF today to discuss their tactics in preparation for the 2018 midterm elections
Representatives from a host of the biggest US tech companies, including Facebook and Twitter, have scheduled a private meeting for Friday …
Amazon's army of fulfillment center employees on Twitter act as “FC ambassadors” to defend against accusations of poor warehouse working conditions
Army of fulfillment center employees jump to company's defense online when it faces a barrage of bad press
The World Bank has priced the world's first public bond issued over a blockchain; the bond will be worth $73M and managed by Commonwealth Bank of Australia
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The World Bank has priced the world's first public bond created and managed using only blockchain in a A$100 million …
Sources: Microsoft is being investigated by the DOJ and the SEC over potential bribery and corruption related to software sales in Hungary
Justice Department, SEC investigation follows similar ones into Microsoft business partners in five other countries
Facebook hires HP's CMO Antonio Lucio as its CMO, replacing Gary Briggs, who said in January he would step down; Lucio will start on September 4
Amidst Facebook's biggest branding crisis, It's just hired a veteran CMO formerly of Pepsi and Visa to boost the social network's external image and cross-promote features inside its apps.
The SEC says it will review the disapproval orders for nine bitcoin ETF proposals from ProShares, GraniteShares, and Direxion, which have been stayed
at least for now Cali Haan / Crowdfund Insider : Surprise! SEC Stays Rejection of Bitcoin ETFs Pending Review Trustnodes : SEC Commissioners to Vote on the Bitcoin ETF Decisions Daniel Cruz / CryptoGl...
NYT article linking Facebook use to hate crimes in Germany was deservedly and widely criticized, but no access to Facebook data makes further research difficult
On Tuesday, The New York Times' investigation of a study into how Facebook promoted anti-refugee violence in Germany galvanized discussion …
23andMe sent an email to developers saying it will disable its API in two weeks; apps will only be able to use the company's generated reports, not the raw data
23andMe, which provides DNA testing kids for consumers, is telling outside app developers that they'll no longer have access to the company's raw genomic data.
Google says it removed 39 YouTube channels, 6 Blogger blogs, and 13 Google+ users, with help from FireEye, tied to Iranian state media misinformation campaign
Sara Fischer / Axios :
Chartbeat study: only a third of 159 publishers that adopted Google's AMP in 2017 saw clear statistical evidence of a traffic increase
Google unveiled its open-source Accelerated Mobile Pages format in 2016 to improve the mobile web by making pages load faster (and match Facebook's own fast Instant Articles format).
HP Inc. beats with Q3 revenue of $14.59B, up 12% YoY, and says its personal systems business, which includes notebooks and desktops, earned $9.4B, up 12% YoY
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Indonesia-based P2P lending platform KoinWorks raises ~$16.5M Series A
Juliet Shwe Gaung / DealStreetAsia :
VMware's Q2 results beat estimates with $644M net income, up 58% YoY, and total revenue of $2.17B, up 13% YoY, on cloud services growth and Pivotal investment
Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet :
Microsoft says subscribers to its Xbox Game Pass streaming service spend 20% more time playing games than they did before subscribing and play 40% more games
On its surface, Xbox Game Pass seems like a sort of Netflix for video games. The Microsoft-run service charges players a monthly fee … Tweets: @beastfiretimdog Tweets: @beastfiretimdog : It was just ...
Alibaba's Q1 revenue beats estimates, rising 61% YoY to ~$12.2B, but net income falls 41% YoY to ~$1.27B
Catherine Cadell / Reuters :
Datally, Google's Android app for data management, updated with “Emergency bank” to save data for emergencies and a “Bedtime mode” to stop overnight data drain
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
A look at how FireEye helped Facebook identify Iran-linked fake accounts, after working on the DNC hack in 2016
The Washington Post Kate Fazzini / CNBC : FireEye stock pops on news of Facebook, Google findings Slate : Social Networks Aren't Telling Us Enough About Election Meddling Tweets: Barry Ritholtz / @rit...
Armory, an SF-based startup whose platform, which is built on Netflix's OSS project Spinnaker, helps companies deploy software faster, raises $10M Series A
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
Interview with Stephen Gillett, CEO of Alphabet's Chronicle, on its plans to offer “planet-scale” security analytics using Google's AI and infrastructure
Kate Fazzini / CNBC :
Leaked docs and sources describe Facebook's content moderation apparatus and the logistics of trying to moderate billions of posts a week in 100+ languages
tasked with enforcing values for the whole friggin' world—have a McDonald's level turnover rate https://motherboard.vice.com/ ... Mathew Ingram / @mathewi : As this Motherboard piece makes clear, tryi...
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