Personally identifiable data of 533M Facebook users has been posted online; Facebook says the data comes from a leak that was reported on and fixed in 2019
how to check if your phone number was leaked Christianna Silva / Mashable : Mark Zuckerberg is using Signal, according to phone number leaked in Facebook hack Ankita Chakravarti / India Today : Signal...
Apple announces an event on September 10 in Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park, where new iPhones are expected
its lowest price on Amazon ever Lynn La / CNET : iPhone XR vs. iPhone 8 Plus: Which iPhone should you buy? Bogdan Popa / Softpedia News : Guessing the Meaning of Apple's iPhone 11 Event Teaser Jack Ma...
CERT-Bund discovers a serious vulnerability in VLC for Windows, Unix, and Linux that allows for remote code execution and hasn't been patched yet
but VideoLAN says it is not reproducible Firstpost Tech : VLC media player has a ‘critical’ security flaw that can let the hackers in Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News : Confusion about a rece...
Amazon emails an unknown number of customers disclosing a “technical error” that exposed emails and names, but provides few other details
but doesn't disclose details Lauren Feiner / CNBC : Amazon exposed customer names and emails in a ‘technical error’ Gareth Corfield / The Register : Technical foul: Amazon suffers data snafu days befo...
Study: Facebook lets ads target your account using info given for security purposes, like your phone number, as well as info from your friends' address books
Facebook Is Using Your Private Information … Seamus Bellamy / Boing Boing : Facebook's been caught using their customers' 2FA information to spam them with text ads John Glenday / The Drum : Extent of...
Instapaper says Pinterest will transfer ownership of the service to an independent company owned and operated by the team that has worked on it since 2013
the read-it-later service goes indie again Seamus Bellamy / Boing Boing : Instapaper leaves Pinterest Rob LeFebvre / Engadget : Instapaper buys itself back from Pinterest Ryan Christoffel / MacStories...