Expired certificate caused Firefox add-ons to stop working on Friday; Mozilla issued a fix for most desktop users, advises others not to try any workarounds
Updates: — Some users are reporting that they do not have the “hotfix-update-xpi-signing-intermediate - bug-1548973” study active in “about:studies”.
After Facebook bans seven extremists, Trump, in a series of tweets, complains about the ban, retweeting extremists' tweets, and issuing vague threats
New York (CNN)Facebook barred seven users from its services earlier this week, citing its policies against “dangerous individuals and organizations.”
Sources: FTC commissioners remain divided along the party lines on whether to hold Mark Zuckerberg personally liable for Facebook's future privacy violations
The F.T.C. chairman seems to have the votes to approve a settlement. One of the biggest issues has been whether to hold Mark Zuckerberg liable for future violations.
Facebook could have limited the reach of Alex Jones and other “dangerous” figures without outright bans, which erode the US' strong free speech traditions
Jack Shafer is Politico's senior media writer. — Free speech took a whacking Thursday as Facebook cited its policies against …
Some Git source code repositories, including at least 392 from GitHub, have been wiped and replaced with a ransom demand in a possible coordinated attack
Hacker wipes Git repos and asks for Bitcoin. Gives victims 10 days and threatens to release the code.
Bitfinex is trying to raise $1B via initial exchange offering of LEO tokens to provide liquidity as it seeks access to $850M it says were frozen by governments
Bitfinex will issue an initial exchange offering (IEO) that aims to raise $1 billion, according to an excerpt …
A look at Dara Khosrowshahi's tenure as Uber prepares to go public; source: CEO decided Travis Kalanick isn't welcome on the NYSE balcony for next week's IPO
The C.E.O. wants to prove that the start-up has evolved past a raucous, and profligate, tech-bro culture. But Uber's past is simply not that far gone.
Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T hit with class action lawsuits for selling customer location data
The lawsuits come after a Motherboard investigation showed AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile sold phone location data that ended up with bounty hunters, and The New York Times covered an instance of Verizon ...
An overview of the debate over breaking up big tech and why antitrust might not be the best concept to address most issues people have with big tech companies
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Ride-hailing economics are more favorable in Southeast Asia than in US; Uber may have left its best growth prospects behind by ceding market to Grab and Go-Jek
Emerging markets outshine the U.S. in ride-hailing, as the burgeoning success of Go-Jek and Grab shows. Tweets: @rmnth , @business , @sub8u , @bopinion , @texastee , @mihirssharma , @clairejiao , and ...
Vulnerability in Dell's pre-installed SupportAssist utility exposes Dell computers to remote hijacks if attacker can get on the same network with unpatched PC
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Virginia-based DivvyCloud, which provides cloud infrastructure automation software, raises $19M, says its client base doubled in the past year to 20+ companies
DivvyCloud, an Arlington, Virginia-based company developing a cloud infrastructure automation platform, today announced …
Innisfil, Ontario, which in 2017 decided to subsidize Uber rides in lieu of a public bus system, has been forced to raise fares and cap rides as adoption grows
Innisfil, Ontario, decided to partially subsidize ride-hailing trips rather than pay for a public bus system. Tweets: @turkernational , @citylab , @nachosbracko , @nqrw , @bdtetlow , @sphillipsluethi ...
YouGov and Cambridge poll of 25,000+ people in 23 countries finds that UK citizens trust social media platforms less than any other nation surveyed
Alex Hern / The Guardian :
A group of YouTube engineers warned IE6 users ten years ago, without permission, that the browser would not be supported, contributing to its demise
Chris Zacharias :
Coinbase says CTO Balaji Srinivasan is leaving; source: Srinivasan was not given enough freedom and had differing visions for the future product roadmap
Frank Chaparro / The Block :
Jack Dorsey has emerged as a lifestyle guru in Silicon Valley, raising demand for near-infrared saunas, meditation retreats, cryotherapy spas, and fasting tools
creating your very own EMF-free ancestral space.” You know, just in case you were wondering how to create the next twitter. http://twitter.com/... Shannon Vallor / @shannonvallor : “Many of the activi...
Researchers link 6 software supply chain attacks, including backdoors in CCleaner and Asus' software update tool, to a group of likely Chinese-speaking hackers
Andy Greenberg / Wired :
UK's tax authority to delete records of ~5M people from its Voice ID biometric voice security system because it did not have clear user consent, violating GDPR
Steve Ranger / ZDNet :
A profile of Lemonade, a millenial-friendly discount insurance startup, which has raised $480M in five rounds, the last one at a $2B+ valuation, says source
Forbes : Tweets: @forbes Tweets: @forbes : Using AI, a mobile app and other tech-centric methods, Lemonade turned the centuries-old business of property insurance into a billion-dollar startup http:/...
Amazon Marketplace lets sellers offer lithium-ion batteries and other products that can cause injuries, causing some to ask who is to blame when things go wrong
Alana Semuels / The Atlantic : Tweets: @alanasemuels , @alanasemuels , and @alanasemuels Tweets: @alanasemuels : Though Amazon has banned the sale of 18650 lithium ion batteries since August, it's st...
Facebook is shutting down Bonfire, its Houseparty clone for group video chat, which the company had been testing outside US since the fall of 2017
Casey Newton / The Verge :
Facebook is taking the same self-assured approach to safety that it has with products, but it is strange to see the company be so proud of cleaning its own mess
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @buzzfeednews , @kantrowitz , @kantrowitz , @melissaryan , and @johnpaczkowski Tweets: @buzzfeednews : Facebook celebrated booting far-right extremists from ...
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