The San Diego Unified School District says a phishing attack exposed personal info of 500K+ students and staff, including full names, addresses, and SSNs
Student records from 2008 up to the present are impacted, district officials told NBC 7 — 500K Student Records Compromised in SDUSD Data Breach
Facebook suspends five accounts, including one belonging to the head of research firm New Knowledge, for spreading disinformation during Alabama Senate race
Facebook has suspended Jonathon Morgan, the chief executive of a top social-media research firm, after reports that he and others engaged …
A timeline of Facebook's scandals in 2018 lists 31 entries, showing the company faced a major problem, on average, every 12 days this year
Mark Zuckerberg began the year promising that he would fix Facebook. He didn't, and 2018 has only presented more problems.
As social media becomes ever more toxic, Fortnite has become the new social network and a place to hang out where you go to talk to friends
I've played a lot of Fortnite this year, and I was struggling to understand why I liked the game so much. It's fun to play, but usually I get bored …
Facebook has forfeited trust to the point that people see nefarious motives in any misstep, as some overblown reactions to Spotify and Netflix integrations show
Facebook may or may not have lost its handle on our data. But it has definitely lost its handle on the public narrative—and the benefit of the doubt.
ACV Auctions, a Buffalo-based online platform for used car dealers to view, bid, and purchase cars wholesale, raises a $93M Series D led by Bain and Bessemer
Steven Loeb / VatorNews :
More than half of top 50 shows on Netflix, by one measure, are owned by others like Disney, NBCU, and WarnerMedia, which are planning rival streaming services
Fortunately for the streaming giant, its own shows are popular too. — Many of Netflix's most popular shows are owned by companies that plan to compete with Netflix. Tweets: @alexeheath and @someday_...
Inside the cutthroat world of Amazon's Marketplace, where sellers live in fear of getting suspended and use Amazon's rules against each other
“These schemes really require the mind of someone whose depravity knows no bounds.” Tweets: @literallyaking , @garrytan , @dtunkelang , @davidgaughran , @kevin2kelly , and @dcseifert Tweets: Alexander...
Epic Games is facing lawsuits over Fortnite dance emotes, real-life dance moves used in the game, raising questions about whether dance moves are copyrightable
Nick Statt / The Verge :
Sprint to pay $300M in a settlement with New York AG for failing to collect $100M+ in state and local taxes between 2005 and 2014 on some of its wireless plans
Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal :
Self-driving car startup Zoox granted the first permit by California to transport passengers in driverless vehicles in the state as part of a pilot program
for a fast growing startup (that's raised over $800M) most have never heard of...yet. http://techcrunch.com/...
Sources: Microsoft is planning to release 4K webcams in 2019, including one with Windows Hello-based authentication and one that is enterprise-focused
Paul Thurrott / Thurrott :
An overview of the new global and regional satellite navigation systems being built by China, Japan, India, and the EU
Where are you? That's not just a metaphysical question, but increasingly a geopolitical challenge that is putting tech giants like Apple and Alphabet in a tough position.
Friends and colleagues remember Colin Kroll, cofounder of Vine and HQ Trivia, as an inspiring and talented visionary who built products that made millions happy
In his childhood, Colin Kroll imagined being able to interact with all the TV shows he watched. Tweets: @kerrymflynn , @digiday , @digiday , @jaykapoornyc , and @scottrogowsky Tweets: Kerry Flynn / @k...
How Shenzhen-based companies are branching out from making just hardware to making sophisticated products that combine hardware with software and AI
Shenzhen flooded the world with cheap gadgets. Can it now become what Silicon Valley never did—a global hub of innovation, entrepreneurship, and manufacturing? Tweets: @tanayj , @yangyang_cheng , and...
Huawei and UnionPay's mobile payments service Huawei Pay, available only in China, begins international expansion starting with a launch in Russia in early 2019
Jeff Beck / Android Police :
Profile of Epic Systems, a privately held healthcare software company based in Wisconsin that claims to hold medical records for more than 50% of US patients
The engineers at Epic Systems work on a campus full of childish whimsy but also sit in on open-heart surgery. Tweets: @chrissyfarr , @katekelly , @joycenovacek , @fdmts , @nytimes , @stevecase , @davi...
Wikimedia says Facebook, which uses Wikipedia content to provide information on article sources in the News Feed, has donated $1M to the Wikimedia Endowment
Kaitlin Thaney / Wikimedia Foundation :
Inside the bitter fight over a $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract, which Amazon seems set to win: a 33-page anti-Amazon dossier and shady social media campaign
A salacious dossier, a mystery client with an alias, dueling allegations of sexual misconduct.
Chat app Discord has raised a $150M round at a $2.05B valuation and says it now has ~200M users, more than four times what it had a year ago
the gaming chat startup that @KurtWagner8 and I reported last month had hired Qatalyst to explore a sale — says it has raised $150 million in new financing.Round led by Greenoaks Capital and at a $2 b...
A review of websites of the global top 100 companies by market value finds only 5% have listed a CISO or a CSO in their executive leadership pages
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security : Tweets: @briankrebs and @harshilshah1910 Tweets: @briankrebs : Companies like to say they take their customers' privacy/security seriously, blah blah. But very few o...
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