In a blog post, Elon Musk says that he has informed the board that he now believes Tesla should stay public and the board indicated that they agree
- “Although the majority of shareholders I spoke to said they would remain with Tesla if we went private, the sentiment, in a nutshell, was “please don't do this,” Musk said.
Researchers find flaw allowing hackers to brute force T-Mobile account PINs, likely via T-Mobile's faulty API, after initiating purchase on Apple's online store
Mobile account PINs intended to protect T-Mobile and AT&T customers' accounts were exposed by two security vulnerabilities.
Fixed flaw in the Fortnite Installer on the Galaxy Apps store and Epic's site let any app hijack the game download process to install anything on a user's phone
The exact problem we expected to happen, happened. — Google has just publicly disclosed that it discovered …
The YouTube stream for the Logan Paul vs. KSI fight had ~773K viewers, at $10/view, but 1M+ people watched unofficial streams of the fight on Twitch at its peak
Most people didn't pay for the biggest event on YouTube — After months of hype, YouTube superstars Logan Paul …
YouTube will roll out the ability to enable non-skippable ads, up to a maximum length of 20 seconds, to all creators in its Partner Program starting next week
You might soon be seeing less of that “skip ad” button over on YouTube. — In a video titled Want to earn more money from ad revenue? …
An overview of obstacles Alphabet is facing in its efforts to establish a presence in China in search, smartphones, autonomous cars, and more
BEIJING — Google has faced sharp criticism, including from its own employees, for its efforts to rebuild an internet search presence in China …
WeChat and Alipay ban cryptocurrency-related transactions on their payment platforms
Chinese mobile payment platforms WeChat Pay and Alipay are scrambling to keep up with regulators after recent announcements regarding initial coin offerings (ICOs) and cryptocurrencies.
Didi suspends its Hitch carpooling service in China after a driver allegedly raped and killed a carpooling passenger, the second such incident in 2018
Chinese ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing, the $60 billion-valued company that bought out Uber's China business, has suspended its carpooling service …
Sources detail a Ukraine-based hacking scheme that stole press releases from three US newswires over at least five years and made $100M+ via insider trading
At a Kiev nightclub in the spring of 2012, 24-year-old Ivan Turchynov made a fateful drunken boast to some fellow hackers.
A look at IGTV's struggles and slow growth two months after launch as Instagram and content creators try to figure out how to make the longer video format work
‘Everything great starts small,’ says CEO — Instagram has never truly failed at anything, but judging by modest initial view counts … Tweets: @hoandesign , @glenngabe , @kjeldlindsted , @joshconstin...
House Energy and Commerce Committee says Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will testify before it on Wednesday, September 5
Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET :
FireEye: Iran-linked propaganda campaign unearthed on Facebook, Twitter, and Google was mostly about promoting Iranian interests rather than dividing US voters
THEY SET UP phony news sites with stories ripped from other sources, backing up their state-sponsored agenda.
Japan is assembling a government-led group, including Uber, Airbus, and 19 others, that aims to bring airborne vehicles to the country in the next decade
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Survey: more than 50% of US teens say they are trying to reduce phone, social media, and video game use; 57% of parents say they restrict children's screen time
Jingjing Jiang / Pew Research Center :
Airbnb sues New York City over the law, passed in July, that requires it to share hosts' names and addresses with city's enforcement agency on a monthly basis
Shirin Ghaffary / Recode :
Reddit mods have notified Reddit employees since July 2017 of an Iranian disinformation operation on the site to no response; Reddit now says it's investigating
but their warnings were ignored https://www.nbcnews.com/... via @nbcnews Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__ : A group of Reddit moderators flagged Iranian propaganda to the site two dozen times before Fa...
Businesses have been collecting, selling, and reusing personal data for decades; Google and Facebook only made the process more visible via better ad targeting
Google and Facebook are easy scapegoats, but companies have been collecting, selling, and reusing your personal data for decades … Tweets: @patrickmoorhead , @william_partin , @ibogost , @markbartholo...
Instagram is testing a Facebook-like opt-in feature to group student users by college communities, with access to class-based lists
Amazon is rapidly losing global smart speaker market share to Google Home and devices customized for China, where Amazon has little experience and influence
Will Oremus / Slate : Tweets: @carnage4life , @joshconstine , and @willoremus Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Google Home catching up to Amazon Echo in sales, on path to surpassing it.Most us...
China is establishing a digital totalitarian state that minutely tracks its citizens' lives by relying on a combination of surveillance, AI, and big data
Christina Larson / MIT Technology Review : Tweets: @dirkmessner , @mrpropagande , @jilm , @ehooge , and @larsonchristina Tweets: Dirk Messner / @dirkmessner : Big data - governance algorithms - the C...
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